TRICKERY DENIED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 July 1938, Page 8

TRICKERY DENIED

ITALY AND WITHDRAWALS FROM SPAIN SIGNOR GAYDA’S ASSERTION BARCELONA PLOT FORESEEN By Telegraph —Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 11.25 a.m.) ROME, July 12. The Press denies the Spanish Ambassador’s story cabled yesterday. Signor Virginio Gayda declares that Italy foresaw that after an agreement had been reached in London for the withdrawal of volunteers, this Barcelona plot would be hatched to strike at Italy in order to prevent the execution of 'he plan and embroil her regarding British policy. Simultaneously with the publication •f the evacuation scheme (a cablegram from London yesterday stated) the Spanish Ambassador in London handed the Foreign Office a Note alleging that it was proposed, as a result of conversations between General Franco and Italy, to transfer to Italy 10,000 men, mostly incapacitated and sick, and incorporate the remainder of the Italian troops in Spain into a Spanish Foreign' Legion, hs volunteers wearing the Spanish uniform and passing as Spaniards under assumed names, Italian General Staff advisers remaining in Spain to wear mufti. The Ambassador explained that these reports emanated from sources considered reliable.