ARMS AND MEN FOR SPAIN

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21992, 16 January 1937, Page 13

ARMS AND MEN FOR SPAIN

GERMAN AND ITALIAN

ATTITUDE

INO FURTHER SUPPLIES

GENERAL IRAN CO BELIEVED '' STRONG ENOUGH TO WIN (UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION" - COI'VUKJiIT.) (Received January 15, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 14. " rp he Rome correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says that it is believed that Italy and Germany have decided against the dispatch of further volunteers and munitions to Spain, but if the future shows that France and Russia are continuing to send help to the Spanish Government Italy and Germany will reconsider their decision. It is thought in Rome that General Franco's offensives should result in sweeping the Government forces from all parts of Spain, except perhaps Catalonia. It is understood that both General Goering and Count Ciano have reaffirmed that it is contrary to Italian and German interests to permit bolshevism to take root in Spain. General Goering gave an assurance that Germany had no territorial aims anywhere in the Mediterranean. Signor Mussolini emphasised that the English and Italian Mediterranean agreement does not interfere with Germany's colonial aspirations, since the colonies on which Germany has set her eyes are not near the Mediterranean. An earlier message from Rome stated that General Goering was offusively welcomed on his arrival by Signor Mussolini, the Foreign Minister (Count Ciano), Signor Achilla Starace, Secretary-General of the Fascist party, and many other high authorities. A Black Shirt guard of honour was mounted inside the beflagged station, and a band played the Italian and German national anthems. Cheering crowds outside, shouted "Heil, Hitler," as General Goering drove off to the historic yilla Madama, where he will stay. The Rome correspondent of the "Morning Post" says it is believed that Genertal Goering intends to discuss the Italian viewpoint on the possibility of an understanding between. Germany and Britain on the lines of the recent assurances exchanged by Britain and Italy about ' the Mediterranean.

i . ACTION BY FRANCE

■( PROHIBITING ENLISTMENT OF VOLUNTEERS

(Received January 15, 9 p.m.) PARIS, January 14. , M. Leon Blum (Prime Minister of France) has introduced a bill authorising the French Government by decree to prevent the enlistment of volunteers for Spain, or their passage via France. It will be effective for six months from the date of the international agreement.

PORTUGAL READY TO COOPERATE

WATCHING ACTION OF OTHER POWERS I (Received January 15,; 7 p.m.) \ LISBON, January 14. The Portuguese reply to Great Britain regarding the prohibition of volunteers going to Spain was dispatched within 28 hours of the receipt of the British note. Portugal agrees to participate in the most stringent measures to prevent the enlistment and transmission of volunteers bound for Spain, but it will await the .promulgation of such Measures by other countries in order to draw inspiration tVom them NO VOLUNTEERS FROM RUMANIA (Received January 15, 5.5.p.m.) - BUCHAREST, January 14. • Rumania .has taken steps to prowOK volunteers going to Spain. I SHIP TAKEN IN REPRISAL | v :.'■

GERMANS RELEASE CREW t (Barrisii official wuibless.) : RUGBY, January 14. The crew of the Spanish ship i which was seized by the Navy in reprisal for the - of the German steamer Palos, J*«h was detained as contraband y the Basque authorities, were regjwl to-day. their ship having 1 5 disposed of to the insurgents. *oe crew were on board the GerrealW^ ship ' and > in response to a n£ !u by J he Valencia Governmarift * British destroyer Achates ma" 0 . a , rendezvous with the Ger--1 toriii "r'P ou tside Spanish terriS Scans.y at ?f s ' and took over the ! to iJag sailors, whom it transported :! ' "

? PORT BOMBED 1 \ . | R EPRISAL MEASURES ,4 _ Received January 16, 1 a.m.) '.CASABLANCA, January 15. eive Government aeroplanes to have bombed . \csto s , a reprisal for the bombi * DutnK. Sa. One bomb fell near tr*j9oSS vesscl, killing two