The Archive · 1939

Leases Renewable

The land will be leased the for stipulated 20-year period the average price of Y.3. 63 per square metre in the residential area. The leases, which will be accompanied by rights tantamount to outright purchase, will be renewable uncondition ally upon expiration, company officials said.

Rice have received reports concerning pro-Franco activities organized on the island by priests who have been telling the populace that General Franco will re-establish—Spain's supremacy over the island and announcing the forthcoming control of schools by the Church.

No investigation has been opened as yet, but the authorities have sent the reports to Washington.

Franco supporters state he merely wants to re-establish Spain's commercial and cultural influence on the island.—Havas.

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