Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-07-30 | Page 4 | Rebels Doom 2 Frenchmen

REBELS DOOM 2 FRENCHMEN By Associated Press Two Frenchmen, charged with plotting to spread typhoid and sleeping sickness germs behind insurgent in-surgent lines, were reported quickly quick-ly sentenced to death today by a military court at Pamplona. General Francisco Franco, Insurgent Insur-gent leader, was believed to have ordered sentence stayed until an international in-ternational commission could see what he termed evidence of an in- j ternational achem. a communique saia ns nea notified noti-fied the League of Nations and world capitals of the alleged plot, but French officials reported no formal notice bad reached them. The two Frenchmen, also charged with espionage, were arrested In the north. The insurgents said they smuggled the disesse germs across the border. The trial was at Pamplona. Pam-plona. A member of the French chamber of deputies, whoss name was similar sim-ilar to one announced by the insurgents insur-gents aa part of the ring, said he had never heard of ths two men on I trial Subs Shell Ships In the Spanish war itself, two un-1 Identified submarines rose out of French waters to rake a Spanish government freighter with gunfire I and left hsr biasing with 33 officers and men missing. Captain Obdulie Caste), who reached the shore near Nimes, France, in a small boat with 10 of his crew, described how the sub-1 marines appeared, one at each aide, and for 30 minutes pounded the The ship, the Anduts-Mendi, was ' en route for Marseille to take a load of coal. Two government tankers. La Vs-letta Vs-letta and La Zorrosa, were also shelled by submarines, but were able to continue for Valencia-Viscount Valencia-Viscount Cranborns, British under secretary for foreign affairs, disclosed dis-closed to ths house of commons in London that Italy had renewed her pledge to Great Britain to re-spect re-spect the territorial Integrity of civil war-torn Spain. I Joachim von Rlbbentrop, German ambassador to Britain, accused Soviet Russia of wrecking Great Britain's newest plans for European : neutrality in the Spanish civil war. He declared Germany could not enter further discussions on ths plans because Russia hsd flatly rejected re-jected granting of belligerent rights to the Spanish insurgent cause. Italy Renews Pledge Lord Cranborne's ststement was made during a final debate before the summer recess on ths joint' question of Anglo-Italian relatione in tha Mediterranean and tha on- posits plana sponsored by ths two' - countries to achieve nonintervention noninterven-tion in the Spanish conflict. In answsr to a question from Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Commander Reginald Fletch-1 !er, retired naval officer and la-borite la-borite M. P, Lord Cranborne declared de-clared Italy had renewed her assur- ances to Britain "within ths last! few days." J Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden bluntly rejected a demand by Clement Cle-ment R. Atrtee, leader of the labor opposition, that parliament be re-convened re-convened if the question arose of granting ths Spanish insurgents belligerent rights. . I