The Archive · 1937

Made for H.M.S. Hunter Explosion

London, July 28. T["HE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, told the House of Commons this afternoon that he had no evidence whatever to substantiate the pre s reports that Italian generals and Italian troops had arrived in Spain durin g the last few days. He understood that between July 23 and July 25 certain Spanish vessels had arrived at Cadiz from the we The First Lord of the Admira Mr. A. Duff-Cooper, said in a reply this afternoon, that the Government was very fied with the manner in which His Mi ships were carrying out their most arduous and difficult duties of patrol off Spain.

Mr. Eden then stated that the Admiralty was satisfied that a claim for the mining, of H.M.S. Hunter should be made to the Spanish Nationalist authorities. The British in London agrees to withdraw foreign combatants from the war, he remarked, it must do so by a system of proportion. Volunteers are much more numerous in the Nationali. ranks than in the Republican.—Havas.

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