The Archive · 1937

French Legal Tangle

Paris, July 25.

The legal tangle about the Spanish freighter Aspe Mandi which is being held in La Rochelle harbour with a cargo of 7,000 cases of valuables and securities from the bank of Bilbao, has been made even more complicate ed by another law suit which the Spanish shipping company owning the ship has entered at the commer-court of La Rochelle; demanding that the ship be immediately placed at its disposal by the harbour authorities as it neither recognizes the order of confiscation by the Valencia Government nor the appointment of a Red officer as captain.—Trans-Ocean. il

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