London, July 4- The tenor of Gen Francisco Franco's reply to the British Note on the bombing of British merchant vessels in Spanish Republican ports was revealed by Sir John Simon, Chancellor of*the Exchequer, in the House of Commons today.
The reply recalls the previous proposal that Almeria. become a neutral Jized port on condition that guarantees are given the Nationalists regarding the goods imported into Republican Spain through that port.
The Chancellor stated that the conversations held between Sir Robert Hodgson, British Trade Agent in Burgos, and the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, had not been conclud-"d, consequently the House could not expect him to do more today than give a summary of the reply Sir Robert brought from the Burgos authorities.
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