Asked today the legal grounds on which Mr. Melvin Gibbon, the American aviator, had been arrested. the Foreign Office spokesman declined to make a statement. The matter was sub judice, he said, and had nothing to do with the Foreign Office.
Press reports suggest that Gibbon may be detained indi and possibly charged with "embarrassing public safety," under which the maximum purus ent is execution or life imprisonment Two American consular officials were permitted to see Gibbon n his police cell yesterday afternoon.
The police have dropped original mask of cordiality now carrying on gid of the prisoner.
Melvin Gibbon, a American, was detained b; on April 22, on arrival in hama of the Empress of Asia, aboard which he was a through passenger to Vancouver Duke of Bergamo Sails Rome, Apr. 24.
Prince Adalbert, Duke of Bergamo, sailed from Brindisi in the Bende Nere today bound for Tirana where he will attend the nuptials of the Albanian King Ahmed Zoga to the Countess Apponyi of Hungary on April 27. Representing Italy at the oval marriage will be Count Galeazzo Ciano, the Foreign Minister. wth Be odes agenda,
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