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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1937, Page 9

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DANGER OF DELAY

MOVER WARMLY CHEERED

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received March 11, 12.30 p.m.)

RUGBY, March 10.

Lord Plymouth, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and chairman of the International Non-intervention Committee, was warmly cheered in the House of Lords on rising to move the second reading of the Bill imposing a legal obligation on British shipping bound for Spanish ports to comply with the procedure of the system of supervision established by. the 27 Governments participating in the Nonintervention Agreement.

It was obvious, Lord Plymouth said, that any' delay in bringing the system into force would be very dangerous, and some untoward incident might undo the work so painfully accomplished. He explained that if the international staff of observers witnessed any apparent infringement of the agreement by British ships they would inform the Board of Trade, which would consider what proceedings should be taken.

The second reading of the Bill was unanimously agreed to:. In reply to the debate, Lord Plymouth, referring'to a point raised by. the Labour Peer, Lord Strabolgi, regarding the laying of mines, said that the British Government's view was that such laying was not justified except where proper and adequate notice had been given. Sir Henry Chilton had been instructed to protest to General Franco against the failure to notify the laying of mines at places remote from Spanish ports.