SPAIN’S FRONTIERS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12306, 21 April 1937, Page 2

SPAIN’S FRONTIERS

•*i Cj&ARD BVgIAXD AiS3i)-HKA :,V p f-: : v ' l-i Rugby, April 19. The scheme Cor the supervision and observation of the non-inter-vention agreement on Spanish land and sea frontiers will come into operation at midnight to-night. By that hour the administrators and observers will be at their posts on the land frontiers in Spain. Simultaneously British, French. Italian and German warships will begin the duty of watching the Spanish coasts. European Governments are taking part in the scheme, which is generally regarded as one of the most' promising international experiments ever undertaken. Coincident with the application of tlje control scheme, Senor Isidor Fabela, Mexican delegate, announced that Mexico would continue to assist the Spanish loyalists. • Vice-Admiral G. Blake embarked in the battle cruiser Hood at La Rochelle on his return from Hendaye, where he had been in consultation with the British Ambassador to Spain, Sir Henry Chilton. An earlier cable message states that in connection with the scheme for control of Spanish coasts and frontiers, which is coming into force at midnight to-night, the Board of Trade is issuing a warning to ships proceeding to Spanish territory thai thev will, within 10 miles of the Spanish coast, be subject to naval observation. They should keep outside 10 sea miles until it is necessary to approacii nearer to enter their port of destination. Ships not bound for Spanish ports should, if possible, keep outside 10 sea miles from the. Spanish coast. Santander, April 19. In addition to the steamer Thorpe Hall, two British merchantmen have arrived at the “blockaded” port of Gijon in the past three days.