SUBMARINE BASES
DEVELOPMENT BY GERMANS IN SPAIN ATLANTIC AND MEDITERRANEAN COASTS. REPORT BY REPUBLICAN NEWS AGENCY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) PARIS, January 19. German technicians have modernised the Spanish submarine bases, states the Spanish Government news agency. Three are situated on the Atlantic coast, at Pasajcs, Ferrol and Villa Garcia, and two on the Mediterranean, at Seville and Malaga. All arc now capable of sheltering numerous submarines and have fuel depots, repair shops and magazines for torpedoes, mines and ammunition.
It is reliably reported from Toulouse that General Franco is fortifying the Pyrenees against France. Italian and German technicians have planned pill-boxes and machine-gun nests on the Spanish side of the frontier.
ITALY IN AFRICA BOYCOTT OF JIBUTI. OCCUPATION OF FRONTIER WELLS. (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON. January 19. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Jibuti correspondent says the Italians are tightening the boycott of Jibuti Harbour and the French railway to Addis Ababa and have stopped? their weekly air line and also the steamer service between Asmara and French Somaliland.
Native Abyssinian troops have occupied wells on the French frontier.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 January 1939, Page 6
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