Show OUR CONSULS I SPAIN Permission Given Them to Leave I They So Desire Washington April Permission has been given by the state department to tho United States consuls In Spain to leave that country If they desire pending the threatened everence of all diplomatic relations between Spain and this country They have not been ordered to leave a such a step i not resorted to except In the case of i rupture between two nations na-tions but they are permitted to exercise their own discretion In the matter The effects of the consulates such for instance in-stance as unimportant papers and furniture I furni-ture was turned over to the representatives representa-tives of some friendly I government As Great Britain has authorized her consular con-sular officers In Cuba to take charge of the effects of alt United States consulates there it Is presmraed like authority will be Spain given to English consular officers In So far as the officers here have been advised ad-vised nono of the consuls has left his post In the peninsula |