MOVED TO VALENCIA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 42, 20 February 1939, Page 8

MOVED TO VALENCIA

REPI blican government MADRID, Feb. 17. The Government has moved to Valencia, and departments are operating from different coastal towns.

PARIS ACTIVITIES

REPUBLICAN leaders I PROTEST BY FRANCO. LONDON, Feb. 17. The Paris correspondent of the British United Press states that. Gen- | eral Franco sent a Note to the Frencn Foreign Office pointing out t'»at the activities of the republican leaders at : the Paris Embassy violated the pnnj ciple of asylum. Seventy-nine republican officers were collectively fined £90,500 for receiving smuggled jewels and gold ! from Spain.

THE REPORT DENIED

Received Feb. 19. 5.5 p.m. PARIS, Feb. 17. The port that General Franco had [sent a note to the Foreign Office is authoritatively denied. FOOD RELIEF SUPPLIES TO CATALONIA. (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Feb. 17. The food situation in the territories recently occupied by the Spanish na- ' tionalists in Catalonia is under the constant consideration of the International Commission for Spanish Child l!:ru”ees, and the chairman of the Commission. Judge Hansen, of Norway, and the food controller for Spain, Mr. Kershaw, of the United States, have gone to Burgos to discuss the provision of supplies with the nationalist authorities. They will also meet the Infanta Beatrice, who is prominently con- ■ nected with the relief organisation jn I nationalist Spain. The Commission has .just arranged I for some 200 tons of condensed milk ' to be sent to Barcelona.

CLOSED BY POLICE

SPANISH CONSULATE IN GENEVA. GENEVA. Feb. 17. Federal police closed the Spanish Consulate-General and sealed the archives. .

RELIEF FUNDS

DONATIONS FROM VARIOUS COUNTRIES. Received Feb. 19. 5.5 p.m. GENEVA, Feb. 17. Donations for relief in Spain organised by the International Commission for Assistance of Child Relief have been received as follows:—Britain, 180,000; Sweden, 110,298: Australia, £2500; New Zealand, £2000; South Africa, £2000; Switzerland. £1175; Norway. £1104; Ireland, £1000; Denmark, £893; India, £750; Belgium, £686; Egypt, £500; France, £300; Italy, £235; Germany, £235; Poland, £196.