The Archive · 1937

GEN. FRANCO TO SUBMIT FACTS TO LEAGUE

Paris, July 29.

Two Frenchmen have been sentenced to death by a Spanish Nationalist court martial at Pamplona, according to "Lo Journal," in a despatch from that town stating that the con-@emned men had been found in possession of glass tubes containing microbes of typhoid fever and sleeping Sickness and that they admitted having received Frs. 100000 to spread these microbes behind the Nationalist lines.

The Rightwing paper, "Lo Journal," adds that Gen. F, Franco had postponed the execution of the two.accused and intends to submit the documents of this case to an international commission as well as to the League of Nations Secretariat, for examination.—Trans-Ocean.

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