SPAIN & PORTUGAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1940, Page 5

SPAIN & PORTUGAL

TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP SIGNED AIM OF NON-AGGRESSION DECLARED. PROVISION FOR MUTUAL SECURITY. (By Telegraph-Press Association—Copyright) MADRID, July 30. A new friendship and nonaggression agreement between .Spain and Portugal has been signed in Madrid. Political circles in Lisbon state that the new agreement is not incompatible with the BritishPortuguese alliance. It is in the form of an additional protocol to the existing Spanish-Por-tuguese treaty of friendship and nonaggression, the object being to provide for a more effective understanding for the purpose of safe-guarding the two countries’ mutual interests. The protocol provides that “if developments occur threatening the inviolability of their territories or imperilling their independence” either party may take the initiative when it is considered to be necessary. The protocol will operate immediately. _ NAZI CONCENTRATION NEAR THE SPANISH FRONTIER. LONDON. July 30. The correspondent of the “Daily Express” on the Franco-Spanish frontier says that more than 600,000 German troops have been shifted into the Biscay provinces adjoining the Franco-Spanish frontier. This contradicts German reports that a nominal garrison of 32,000 men was being maintained between Bordeaux and the Spanish frontier and the German explanation of the presence of the big forces on the border is that regiments engaged in the Battle for France are now resting.