An item referred to the Proceedings dated June 1936 which claimed that according to French sources a German firm under the alias Compania Agricol y Fabrica da Guine was busy with establishing on one of the Bissagos Islands off Portuguese Guinea a naval base for submarines and floating planes. It was suspected that the firm tried to buy the island from the Portuguese government with the intention attacking French troop and stores transports. In the meantime was the island hired for seven years by the firm from Portugal.
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1, Bijagós Archipelago nowadays part of Guinea-Bissau. The islands were annexed in 1936 by Portugal and added to Portuguese Guinea.
