PROBLEM FOR SPAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1939, Page 7

PROBLEM FOR SPAIN

EXPORTS TO GREAT BRITAIN & FRANCE. EARLY DECISION EXPECTED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright NEW YORK. September 24. Spain is expected' to decide at the earliest possible moment whether tc continue the informal embargo on exports of war materials to Britain and France, says the correspondent of the ■■New York Times" in Vigo. The Ministry of Commerce has delayed giving permits for exports of iron ore and pyrites and most other exports till the situation is clearer. The question principally interest 1 Britain at present since the blockade has cut German and Spanish common ications. Trade between France and Spain has been non-existent for the past two years. France and Britain were formerly heavy buyers of iron ore and pyrites both of which are needed for continuing the war. General Franco’s only public statements were made at the beginning o< the war, when he appealed for it:localisation and enjoined Spaniards tc the strictest neutrality. A decision or dering Spanish ships not to trade with belligerents followed. The delaying of shipments of iron ore and pyrites. Spain’s principal ex ports, is an indication of the length; to which the Government is going tc avoid being drawn into the wai.