The Archive · 1936

Germans Withdraw from Madrid

Berlin, Sept. 1.

'The growing insecurity' In Madrid, trid the foet that the German colony, with a few exceptions, have already loft the Spanish capital, were oftcially given to-day as reasons for the transfer of the German Embassy to the Government-controlled port of Alicante, in southeastern Spain.

The "Diplomatisahe Korrespondenz" refers to the danger that "Germans mniay be harmed by the uncontrolled excesses of fanatical elements, and adds that the transfer was carried out" after the Madrid Government had declared that it had no police oF troops for the protection of the Ger man' Embassy—Reuter,

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