Evening star., 1937-06-24
REICH MANEUVERS
SECUTED BY EDEN.
Urges Warships' Movement
Reports Be Accepted
with Reserve"
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. June 24.-Foreign Secre-
cary Anthony Eden urged the British
House of Commons today to accent
reports OF German Warship move
nents OF Spain with great reserve"
Thus he sought to quiet war fears,
She result of German Italian aban-
donment OF their duties in Europe's
"hands-off Spain patrol and subse-
quent unexplained maneuvers in and
near the Mediterranean by Reich
men-of-war.
Eden said also that neither the Eu-
ropean Non-Intervention Board nor
British patrol ships could confirm re-
ports OF Italian troop landings in
Southern Spain.
Britain Watchful.
Britain was watching anXiously for
new reports of mass German fleet
movements in Spanish waters in the
face OF a warning Britain would re
gard most seriously any act of re-
prlsal against the Valencia govern
ment.
There was an uneasy fear the Joint
1talo-German withdrawal from the
non-interventlon patrol to isolate the
Spanish war presaged a retahatory
attack against Spain as punishment
Tor the alleged effort to torpedo the
German cruiser Leipzig.
This fear was believed to have in
splred the warning of the British Am
bassador in Berlin, Sir Neville M,
Henderson, that his government would
take serious view of any hostile ac-
ton against Valencia
The sudden maneuvering of Ger
man Warships around the Spanish
peninsula puzzled London officials,
who found it hard to reconcile with
Germanys professed eagerness to
prevent further incidents to her ships
Germany and Italy withdrew from
NE 27-nation Hands Off Spain Com
mlttee's patrol yesterday in indigna-
ton at British and French refusal to
grant demands for four-power naval
demonstration in Spanish waters as
a warning against any further attacks
on vessels of the patrol maintained
by the four nations.
They did not, however, withdraw
their Warshlps from Spain Germany,
IN TACT, ordered her fleet in the Medi-
terranean reinforced by the pocket
battleship Admiral Graf Spec. Re-
ports from Rome indicated the COM
manders of the italian and German
fleets were acting in closest co-opera-
ton.
Three German destroyers of the
naval division, headed by the pocket
battleship Admiral Scheer left Lagoa,
IN the extreme south of Portugal. late
yesterday, presumably for the Medi-
terranean, after being refueled by a
German tanker.
Cruisers Expected to Follow.
The Admiral Scheer was expected to
follow them today, with the cruisers
Nurnberg and karlsruhe and trans
port, the other units of the division.
Reports from Gibraltar place the
German Warship concentration in the
vicinity of the straits at is vessels.
Some are near Tangier, International
Zone, while others are already in the
Mediterranean.
The arrival OF the Admiral Graf
Spec will bring the total German
strength to at least 10 war vessels in
the troubled waters-two battleships.
four cruisers, nine destroyers and four
submarines.
A squadron of destroyers, led by
fast cruiser, was said to have been
lying at anchor off the insurgent
port Of Algeciras last night Boats
were reported plying constantly be-
tween the vessels and the beach.
FRENCH FLEET AT ALGERIA.