BRITISH STEAMER HELD UP
BY ARMED SPANISH VESSEL. RESCUED BY WARSHIP. (Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, March 17. The warship Sussex radioed the Admiralty that in response to an SOS, she went to the assistance of the freighter Stanhope, which was held up by an armed Spanish merchant ship outside territorial waters. She freed the Stanhope, which is en route to Gibraltar. ANOTHER SHIP SEIZED. INSIDE TERRITORIAL WATERS. (Received This Pay, 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, March 17. The Admiralty has announced that a Spanish warship stopped the British steamer Stangate inside Spanish territorial waters. A Barcelona message states that the Stangate, which is a sister ship of the Qtnnhnno ic Rpincr inlrpn tn Pnlmn.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1939, Page 6
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