POWERS' REPLIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 5, 7 January 1937, Page 7

POWERS' REPLIES.

Italian and German Views On " . Volunteer Ban Awaited. PORTUGUESE CAUTION. ... British Oillehil Wireless.'• •. _' ' ■ (Received 1.30 p.m.) :'".'. ,; ...':; RUGBY, January 0. • A sun'miary: of .'the: Portuguese Government's reply to the British. and French Notes regarding volunteers for Spain, was received. in, London yester- ' day. It is described' as non-committal . arid makes any action eventually taken by Portugal conditional upon corresponding action by other Powers. ■.-'■''. Messages from l Berlin: and Rome ,on "the subject of' volunteers arriving in . 'Spain -foreshadow, that'.-'tlfe. replies of the . ijermaii'- ahd : Italian- Governments will be delivered - ' .' '.'..' The "Daily .....Telegraph," 'commenting on recent incidents off the Spanish coast, " says that they afford a broad'., contrast • between German and British methods of handling a dangerous matter of 'inter-. ' : fcr'encc witli'vcsscls..under -their flags. / The British protest against firing upon . a British steamer has been answered by assurances that instructions have been ' -given that will/prevent such incidents in the Gibraltar, area. : Germany, on I the' 'other hand,'haying captured, two ' Spanish vessels as reprisal against the -* holding up' of part of the cargo of the steamer Palos, has delivered-an iiltima- ;'-. .turn calling'for surrender of the detained ' cargo within, three days, and adding a \ threat of "further, measures;" '. ' . : .. There have been such incidents, ;-. says the paper,;-and..it' is- not'without significance that'- .only those 'in- which '--.German vessels are concerned give rise .■to international. 1 , tension!-''•.,...