The Archive · 1936

UNEASY NEUTRALS

Nov. 26.

The Non-Intervention Commitice's task is no enviable one. Three of the members, at least, make no secret of their sympathies toward one or other of the contending parties to the Spanish Civil War. Charges made by Russia against Germany and Italy of having infringed the principle of intervention are rebutted by the accused with counter-charges against the accuser. The Spanish Government has made a statement officially and category cally detailing certain alleged incidents which are mentioned to prove that German warships have acted as screens for insurgent naval action and, in referring specifically to Sunday's submarine attack on the! cruiser Cervantes at Cartagena, the Valencia authorities declare that the torpedo fired is not of Italian or Spanish make and add that a German warship was seen in the neighbourhood of the harbour on Sunday morning. This has been partly denied by the German Government, Dut at the same time British reports. appear to have confirmed one point of the Spanish story by asserting. that a German warship was seen off Cartagena on Sunday morning.

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