LEAGUE VIGILANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 112, 7 November 1935, Page 9

LEAGUE VIGILANCE

COMMITTEE SET UP

APPLICATION OF SANCTIONS

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received November 7, 11.50 a.m.)

EUGBY, November 6.

Lord Stanhope, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, represented Great Britain on the Committee of Eighteen at Geneva today, when it received reports from several sub-committees which it approved.

The Committee also established a vigilance committee composed of representatives of Great Britain, France, Russia, Spain, Poland, Rumania, Greece, Yugoslavia, and Sweden to observe the application of sanctions by the League Powers* and to receive reports.

One decision reached today exempts newspapers, books, periodicals, maps, and -printed music from the general prohibition of Italian goods which the League States are to enforce after November 18.

The Economic Sub-committee engaged in the co-ordination of sanctions against Italy adopted yesterday the text of a resolution proposed by the Canadian delegation for extending the list of commodities subject to the embargo. The resolution states: —"It is expedient that the measures of embargo provided in Proposal 4 should be extended to the following articles as soon as the conditions necessary to render this extension effective have been realised: Petroleum and its deriyatives, by-products, and residues, pig iron, iron and steel, including alloy steels, coal, including anthracite and lignite, coke, and their agglomerates, as well as fuels derived therefrom."

If the replies received by the Committee to this proposal and the information at its disposal warrant, the Committee of Eighteen will propose to the Governments a date for bringing these measures into force. «