The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-24


 l. The nationalists have not single submarine of their own-- that is a subamrine belonging to Spain. -
 2. Pieces of a torpedo which, the statemnet said, damaged the Miguel de Cervantcs, were discovered and proved to be neither of Spanish nor Italian manufacture.
 3. After the attack on the Miguel de Cervantes, a German destroyer which was visible while the ship was being attacked, approached the en- trance to Cartagena port and, after examining the effects Of the ag- gression," went away" 2
 Italian, German Warships
 The declaration charged specific ally that Italian and German war; ships conducted espionage activities and that this alleged service enabled nationalist atrplanes to lombard coastal cities. /.
 It was charged that German war ships intervened when loyalst war ships shelled nationalist ships, wire lessed nationalist authorities the movements, positions and condition of loyalist ships, kept lights on in harbor as beacons for bombing planes.
 It was charged also that cast coast orts had been boinbarded ef- fectively at night recently ,pur. portedly by the nationalist cruiser Canarias. But, 1t was addd:
 "There Is sufilcient reason to be- lievc that these attacks could not have been carried out entirely by this ship. whose presence at points quite different from places where tho attacks occurred can be proved For this reason 1t can be logically inferred that Q large number of these attacks committed under cover of darkness were carried out by foreign boats" s
 Circumstances Of the govern ment's statement made plain the importance attached to 1t. It was drafted at a .long cabinet meeting here at the governments ener- gency capital. approved, and issued as e formal communique.
 Spanish Communiquc .'
 It began:
 "The minister of marine and air air (rndalecio Prieto, socialist lead- er), who left for Cartagena Sunday and returned Monday afternoon, in- formed the cabinet of a strange at tack at the entrance to the Port oi Cartegna, an attack of which various cruisers of our fec were the objects
 Tn addition he exposed the acc tiyity of German and Italian war ships along the Spanish coast al. most from the beginning of the civil war. This expose of the minister of marine and air may be summarized as follows:
 Tt was not necessary to wait for the governments of Rome and Ser, lin to recognize the Franco (nation- alist) government in order to ob- serve that naval boats of both countries, which have been patroll- ing our coast In increasing numbers since July. have been donig work at variance with the duties im- posed by neutrality and devotins themselves to increasing the few naval units of the Spanish fleet re. maining in the hands of the rebels.
 Acted In Concert
 Here the statement detailed in- cidents, raany of which have beer made public incident to the London meetings of the committee on neu- trality as well as in news dispatches in which 1t is held that Italian and German warships acted in concert with the nationalists.
 Then the government got down tc the attack of Sunday in which the Miguel re Cervantes was damaged and, 1t is held, the cruiser Mendes Nunez was fired on.
 "On Sunday at 9 a. m. two oi our cruisers, the Miguel de Ger vantes and Mendez Nunez, together with the battleship Jaime Primerc |