Good Relations With France Not Being Impaired St. Jean De Luz, May 5.
Spain's desire to maintain her neutrality in the present war, is emphasised in a memorandum to the Spanish Consul here, The memorandum, emanating from the Spanish Ministry of the Interior, refers to "the absurdity" of recent rumours that German warplanes fiying over south-western France had set out from Spain.
"It is to the vital interests of our Government," it adds, "to frustrate efforts to destroy the harmony of Franco-Spanish relations—all the more se since imperative reasons, owing to our geographical position, oblige us to set aside everything that might endanger the true and sincere sentiments of neutrality animating Spain with regard to the present European London Denies Sinking Of Battleship London, May 5.
The German claim that a battleship of the Queen Elizabeth type, which displace 31,000 tons, was sunk yesterday met with a categorical denial here today. The German claim was term-[#4 a "sheer invention."—Havas,
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