The Archive · 1938

Apology to France

Paris, Juno 14.

'The Burgos Nationalist Spanish Government expressed regrets today over a recent Incident which drew a protest from France, The incident Involved a Nationalist airplane which few over St. Jean de Luz, Burgos explains that the craft was' a tourist plane piloted by certain South American visitors who crossed the Spanish frontier by mistake-—Havas, Soviet Envoy Recalled every province in Nationalist Spain as soon as the city was captured.

'A tour of Castellon revealed that] the port was honeycombed by elaorale subterranean air-raid shelters, in which the inhabitants had hitherto Jed a troglodyte existence.

In preparation for the Nationalist capture of the port, many women assed their time in altering the red, yellow and purple of the Republican fag to the red, yellow and red of Gen, Franco's colours.—Reuter,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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