GUNS AT GIBRALTAR
SIR C. HARINGTON’S BELIEF GENERAL FRANCO ACQUITTED OF HOSTILE INTENT. HOWITZERS REMOVED MONTH’S SINCE. By Telegraph—Press Associal ion—Copyright (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, February 15. General Sir Charles Harington. who was Commander-in-Chief at Gibraltar, 1933-38, addressing the Empire Society said: "I don’t believe General Franco installed guns with hostile intent against Gibraltar. There never were over four twelve-inch howitzers in the vicinity and these were removed months since.” He added that during the crisis there were four antiaircraft guns at Gibraltar, but things were vastly different now.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1939, Page 7
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91GUNS AT GIBRALTAR Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1939, Page 7
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