The Archive · 1937

Grave Charge Made Against France

Spanish Rebel Leader Says Invasion Planned Salamanca, Mar, 5.

A Note accusing France of planning to invade the Spanish zone in Morocco has been sent by Gen. Francisco Franco,—the Nationalist-Insurgent Jeader, 10 the signatories "of the Algecitas Treaty, according toa statement broadcast from the rebel wireless station here, The French, it is alleged, are engaged in activities in the frontier region of the French Protectorate and Spanish Morocco, "with the alm causing disturbances in Spanish Morocco 30 a8 to provide a pretext for a French invasion.

The insurgent government, it Is added, will ask the signatories of the Treaty to appoint an. international commission to verify the truth of these allegations. Gen, Franco, it Is also stated, will ask the Non-Inter~ vention Committee in London to put an end to these activities, Under the Treaty of Algeciras, signed on April 7, 1900, the Powers entrusted France and Spain with the duty of creating a gendarmerie. and acitying Morocco, "The Agadir In-eident, which during 1911 taxed the sources of European diplomacy, arose from what was alleged to be Practical repudiation by Germany the Algeciras agreement—Reuter,

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