Naval officials and _diplomatists meanwhile conferred here regarding the inauguration of neutrality measures. The Soviet fleet, it was sugested, should patrol the section of the Bay of Biscay coast which now under the control of the Spanish Nationalists. Te" was" recommended One of the destroyers was en route to Malta at the time of the incident, which happened outside Spanish ter: ritorial waters, and the other was on fits way to the eastern Mediterranean.
Protests have been lodged with the Spanish insurgent authorities Palma and Salamanea—Reuter.
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