881.00/1800: Telegram

The Ambassador in Spain ( Weddell ) to the Secretary of State

725. My 692, December 2, noon [11 a.m.]. Today’s press published the following communiqué from the official news agency EFE:

By virtue of the law of November 23 which provides that the juridicial regime of Tangier shall be subject to the laws for the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco, the High Commissariat of Spain has assumed charge of the services of police, finance, health, public works and, in short, of all those services up to now dependent on the international administration of Tangier which has thus been replaced in the form foreseen.

Repeated to Tangier.

Weddell