POWERS' SCHEME FOR NAVAL SUPERVISION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 9

POWERS' SCHEME FOR NAVAL SUPERVISION.

FRAMING DETAILS. i i Russia Not to Use Rights of ■ Party to Pact. I i TECHNICAL PROBLEMS. | — I Hritish Official Wjrilfas. ■ (Ko.fivoil 1J.3-I p.m.) lvl'<ißY, February 2<i. The chairman's siih-eommittpe of! the International Non-intervention: Committee to-day had under con- , sideration technical problems oi the application of the scheme for siipcrvision of vessels having a n-ht to fly rlafjs of participating count ties mid proceeding to Spanish port-. It unagreed tliat representative- of mantime countries should he !i-kcil to arrange lor official < iovcrntneiii experts to attend ;i meeting in Loudon on March ii for the purpose of reaching decisions on technical questions concerned. According to a commiinti|iic. after considering further the land supervision scheme, representatives undertook to communicate a request for immediate instructions thereon.

TJie Russian representative stated that in view of the fact that it had now been agreed in principle that any Government, which was a party to the agreement, had a right, should it so desire, to participate in the naval supervision scht'iiie. tlie Russian Government did not claim tit present to make actual j use of this right as it was not interested. either politically or otherwise, ill the presence of its naval forces in the Mediterranean or in the Atlantic at a great distance from their own naval liases. The Portuguese representative recalled that his Government always favoured a naval supervision scheme being entrusted to four i'nwers. Britain. France, Germany and Italy, and stated that it would not desire to participate in a scheme so 1 >ng as it was confined to these four I owers. Representatives of the four Powers agreed to submit to their Governments the scheme for na\al supervision by the four Powers already prepared by the Technical Advisory Sub-committee with

a view to settling technical problems involved in its application. It is understood tliift putting into force by Britain of the naval supervision plan will require legislation. It will \te necessary to impose a legal obligation on vessels proceeding under the British flag to Spain to conform with the procedure contemplated in such matters as a call at ports or roadsteads specified in the plan for the pufpose of {licking up the International Committee's supervisors. Submission to interrogation by naval pa'.% v »ls of the Powers acting oil behalf of the committee of supervision is to come into operation on Saturday. Therefore, during the next week, as soon as the scheme is finally approved by the committee, the British tiovernment will introduce the necessary legislation to provide Parliamentary time for its passage into law. • STEAMER SEIZED. Dutch Vessel Carrying Alleged War Material. BRITISH HARBOUR BOMBED. (Ret-eiveU 2 p.m.) LISBON*, February 20. Rebels captured the Dutch steamer i Kamboy. allegedly conveying war j material to tile (tovernineut. Several people were killed and much property was damaged by insurgent ' bombinj.' at the British-owned harbour of (iandia, near Valencia. The Spanish (iovernment's sympathy ami concern at the accident to the British warship Royal Oak. a number of whose officers were struck by splinters following a shell explosion on her decks during a rebel air laid on Valencia, was expressed by the Foreign Minister, Senor del Vayo. to the (.'barge d'Affaires, Mr. Ogilvie Forbes, according to a British official wireless dispatch. SHOT BY REBELS. SPANISH FILM STAR AS SPY. (Received i'J noun.) LISBON", February 20. It is revealed that Rosita Din/., the Spanish film star, who appealed with Maurice Chevalier and made film- in Hollywood and Furope. was executed bv Spanish insurgents lust month after h court-martial, in which she was charged with spying.