HEATED DEBATE ON SPAIN EXPECTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 138, 14 June 1938, Page 7

HEATED DEBATE ON SPAIN EXPECTED.

COMMONS QUESTION.

Incessant Bomb Attacks On

British Ships.

MINISTER PREFERS SILENCE. t British Official Wireless.) (Received 1 p.m.) RUGBY, June 13. The House of Commons will tomorrow consider the question of the bombing of British ships in Spanish waters, which will be raised by a private notice question from the Labour Leader, Mr. C: R. Attlee. "

The Press generally expects tlie debate to be heated, for the bombing has continued incessantly since before the Commons adjourned for the Wliitsun recess.

The Minister for Co-ordination of Defence, Sir Thomas Inskip, speaking at Hatfield, referred to the attacks on British ships in Spain. He said that there was not very much that he thought it right to say for the reason that the matter was in the capable hands of the Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, and the Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax.

"Any fool can make trouble out of the situation," lie said, "but it requires great qualities, of which we have not been disappointed, to preserve our rights without, I hope, any interference or the alteration of the policy, which we have deliberately adopted, of non-intervention in Spain.

know, it is difficult to provoke the British nation," he went on. "All I can say is that anybody who is inclined to try had better not."

A cable from Gibraltar states that Captain Scott, master of the British steamer Stancroft, who was detained at Gibraltar on May 25 on a charge of carrying a prohibited article to Spain, pleaded not guilty to the charge.

The prosecution alleged that prohibited articles found on the Stancroft included cases of empty shells and nine aircraft engines

DOOMED CITY. Castellon Surrounded bj' Rebels. OUTSKIRTS PENETRATED. (Received 2 p.m.) MADRID, June 13. General Araiulas' troops have encircled the doomed city of Castellon, and have penetrated the outskirts, where savage street lighting is proceeding. Thousands of refugees are pouring to Valencia and Madrid. The Loyalist resistance to the rebel advance is only sporadic. Eighteen Junkers aeroplanes bombed 2S houses in Castellon to fragments and machine-gunned the streets, says a message from Barcelona. "BABY KILLING." N.Z. ASKED TO PROTEST. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON", this (lny. The Xcw Zealand Spanish, Medical Aid Committee received a cable from Barcelona commenting on the bombing of l'igucras. and concluding:—"Wc ask von to raise high your voice of protest in your own country and send cables protesting against the slaughter of innocent babes and youngsters to the International Children's Congress being celebrated this week-end in Frankfurt-on-Main."