The Archive · 1936

Rebel Threat to Mine Coast

Teneriffe, Dec. 4.

Gen. Francisco Franco, the insurgent leader, has announced that mines will shortly be laid in the Mediterranean to block Government ports, according to a broadcast statement here to-day.

All "Marxist" boats found in. Spanish territorial waters will be bombed, it 1s added—Reuter, London, Dec. 4.

Gen, Franco has issued' a warning to British and other foreign shipping In Spanish waters that he intends to bombard the area between Cope San Antonio, near the northern tip of the province of Alicante, on the cast coast of Spain, and Marbella, seaport in the province of Malaga, on the south coast of Spain—Reuter,

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