CRISIS IN SPAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 9

CRISIS IN SPAIN

POSSIBLE SOLUTION

SYSTEM OF ZONING

EXTENSION PROPOSAL

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received June 3, 11.30 a.m.)

RUGBY, June 2.

The British Government will continue its close consultation with the other Governments concerned in an endeavour to restore the situation in Spain. .

Examination of a proposal for extension of the system of safety zones in Spanish ports and roadsteads is proceeding and is generally considered to offer a basis of solution which may prove acceptable to all concerned; The principle has already been accepted by General Franco, the rebel commander-in-chief, who some months ago indicated safety zones on the eastern coast of Spain, and the Valencia Government, after the recent Palma air raid, and in response to a British request, agreed to respect the zones. It is not expected that approval to extension of such. zones to cover practical needs in view of the more, recent incident will meet with serious opposition. Although it is expected that some days may lapse before the present difficulties ■ are settled, a more optimistic feeling is present in London in consequence of exchanges of. views which have so far taken place between the representatives in London of the Powers mainly concerned.