WATCH ON SPAIN

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 172, 17 April 1937, Page 9

WATCH ON SPAIN

Oneration of Control Scheme START NEXT WEEK Appeal to Nations For Spirit of Goodwill QUESTION OF VOLUNTEERS (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, April 15. •rhe chairman’s sub-committee of the Non-Intervention Committee sat for three hours to-day and decided that the scheme of control in Spain should come into operation at midnight next Monday, April 19-20. The chairman appealed to the representatives on the committee to bring a spirit of goodwill to the solution of the problems with which they were faced, and the Italian representative said be was prepared to resume discussion of the withdrawal of volunteers from Spain. The Russian representative, in the same spirit, did not insist on discussion of the proposals he had made at the last plenary session. The committee agreed to appoint a technical advisory sub-committee to prepare a scheme for the withdrawal from Spain of all persons now engaged, either directly or indirectly, in the present conflict in that country who are not of Spanish nationality or who were not of Spanish nationality on July 18, 1936, and for the effective supervision of any such scheme of withdrawal. Before the committee adjourned the Italian representative announced that he proposed at once to submit proposals for the extension of the NonIntervention Agreement to the prohition of entry into Spain of all persons of non-Spanish nationality whose activities were calculated to prolong or embitter the present conflict. REBELS CAPTURE SHIP “Potato” Jones May Run Bilbao Blockade London. April 15. The correspondent of “The Times” at St. Jean-de-Luz says it is reported that the Spanish rebel warship Espana captured a merchant ship, apparently Norwegian, en route to Bilbao, and took it to Ferrol. A message from Casablanca states that the insurgent gunboat Dato attempted to stop a French vessel, the Roxane, firing two shots. The Roxane sent a radio message to a French patrol and continued on her course. The correspondent of “The Times” at St. Jean-de-Luz says that three or four merchant skippers in port are named Jones, and therefore, in order to avoid confusion, they have been nicknamed in accordance with their cargoes. "Potato” Jones, “Ham and Egg” Jones, and “Corn Cob” Jones. “Potato” Jones may have the the honour of first running the rebel blockade. To-day, when a gale which last night caused the destroyer Beagle to drag her anchor to within a few inches of the destroyer Blanche and finally to take to the open sea for safety, had somewhat moderated, “Ham and Egg” Jones, in the Saraspone, and “Potato” Jones, in the 900-ton Mary Llewellyn, of which he is part owner, put to sea. “Ham and Egg” Jones received orders from his owners to abandon the attempt to reach Bilbao, and accordingly sailed for Bordeaux. “Potato” Jones first eteamed on the same course and then turned and finally disappeared over the horizon toward Spain. His

vessel carries no wireless and will be unable to summoij help when out of sight of a British patrol. CHARGE AGAINST FRANCE Sending Munitions and Volunteers (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, April 15. Asked whether he was aware that French volunteers and munitions of war were still being sent to Spain to assist the Valencia Government, Lord Cranborne. Foreign Under-Secretary, told the House of Commons that the Foreign Secretary had received no official reports whicli would confirm these allegations. He added in reply to another question that so far as he was aware no communication alleging violations of the Non-Intervention Agreement by either France or Russia had been made to the International Committee by the Italian Government. H.M.S. HOOD AT LA ROCHELLE La Rochelle. April 15. H.M.S. Hood has arrived, and ViceAdmiral Blake has proceeded to Hendaye to see the British Ambassador.