Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-04-14
SINK FOES SHIPS,
|NSURGENTSURGED
BY FASCIST PRESS
lndisCriminate Smelling of
Vessels Advised-Brit-
ain Tainted.
FRANCE is ACCUSED
OF SENDING TROOPS
Baldwin Refusals to Protect
Merchant Craft at Bilbao
Called Surrender"
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Despite the fact several British
merchant DeSSelS haze been fred
on, apparently By the ,Ddrcrdtt OF
Spanish insurgents, the conserpd-
the government OF Prime Minister
Baldwin had refused protection to
ships actually 1Oithin Spanish
U1ters.
Meanwhile ShipoUnerS and lead
ers OF the labor party are intensity
ing attacks on his position. Bald
iDin is supported by Foreign Min
lister Anthony Eden.
ES the Associated Press.
ROME, April 14-Italys Fascist
publicists accused France today oil
sending Algerian troops to fight fol-
the Spanish government. taunteo
Great Britain for her caution at sea
and urged Spanish insurgent Gen
Franco to sink enemy ships at will
Renewing his charges against
France, the authoritative Virginic
Gayda wrote in II Giornale D'Italia:
1T appears that on March 7, Csc
Algerian militiamen left Tangier with
Spanish passports, disembarked at
Marseille and at once proceeded tc
the Red Spanish front.
Between March II and March Is
there also left Tangier for French
ports and Spain another 1000 COM
batants"
This followed upon Fascist slurs on
"Britannia's lost supremacy" at sea.
Lists Alleged Shipments.
Gayda devoted three front-page
columns to long list of alleged
French shipments and other inter-
Vention in Spain. He enumerated
supposed French expectations of mu-
nitions and airplanes, recruiting of
volunteers and training of Spanish
officers and pilots.
French merchantmen bearing war
supplies to the Spanish seat of gov
eminent at Valencia, the writer
charged, sought to escape detection
by painting American Export Lines"
on their sides in large letters.
Italy. Gayda declared, does not in
tend ito draw from these facts any
hasty conclusions which might change
her policy of frank and complete
collaboration in non-intervention, y
but demands that other powers adopt
the same policy.
Eastern Problem Studied.
At the same time, well-informed
and Chancellor Hitler of Germany
were working jointly to barricade their
eastern doors against communism in
order to face the international prob
lens of the Spanish civil war with
more freedom.
The article in the semi official
Fascist organ, II Regime Fascista of
Cremona, sarcastically asserting the
Britannia that once ruled the waves
"can no longer defend her ships" was
considered by informed sources to be
Of considerable Importance.
The paper, generally believed to key
note opinion of the central wing of the
Fascist party, was founded by Ro-
berto Farinacci, former secretary of
the party, who has often expressed II
Duce's point of view and is reported
at present to be on tour of inspection
in insurgent Spain with the mission
Of organizing Italian volunteers in
Frances army.
Pretending" Charged to Britain"
The sharp attack launched against
Great Britain charged the insular
power with pretending" to have re-
solved maritime freedom by refusing
to grant protection to her merchant
men within Spanish waters, blockaded
off Bilbao by the insurgent fleet.
England, however, the paper
charged, was competing with France
and Russia" in supplying the govern
ment forces and ended the article with
an exhortation to the insurgents 80
have no nervousness, then, in launch
Ing torpedoes and sinking enemy
ships"
While Fascist Italy awaited the out
come of the outburst against Great
Britain, persistent reports of a forth
(see EUROPE, Page A-4.)