SEA SUPERVISION

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 9

SEA SUPERVISION

THE WAR IN SPAIN

RUSSIA'S EIGHT

NOT TO BE AVAILED OF AT

PRESENT

(British Official Wireless.) (Received February 27, 11 a.m.) ': RUGBY, February 26. The Chairman's Sub-committee of the International Non-intervention Committee today had under consideration technical problems cl the application of the scheme for supervision of vessels having the-right to fly the flags of the participating countries proceeding to Spanish ports, and agreed that the representatives of the maritime countries should be asked to arrange for official Government experts to attend a meeting in London on March 3.for the purpose of reach- . ing decisions on the technical questions concerned. According to a communique, after considering further the land supervision scheme the representatives undertook to communicate a request for immediate instructions thereon. The Committee passed then to consideration of the naval supervision scheme. ' i The Russian representative stated that in view of the fact, that it had now been agreed in principle that any Government party to the agreement ' had a right, should it so desire, to participate in the naval supervision scheme, the, Russian Government did not claim at present to make actual use of this right, as it was not interested either politically or otherwise in the presence of its naval forces in the Mediterranean Sea or in the Atlantic Ocean, at a great distance from its own naval bases. ; PORTUGUESE VIEW. ' The Portuguese representative recalled that, his'1 Government had always favoured the naval supervision scheme being entrusted to four Powers—the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Italy—and stated that it would , not desire to participate, in the scheme so long as it was confined to these four Powers.

The representatives of the four Powers agreed to submit to their povernments a scheme for naval supervision by the four Powers which has already been prepared by the Technical Advisory Sub-committee, with a view to settling technical problems involved in its application.

The Committee will meet again on Monday.. .