SPANISH COAST

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 69, 18 September 1937, Page 9

SPANISH COAST

MORE URGENT WORK FOR

DESTROYERS

NYON AGREEMENT EXTENDED TO PIRACY BY PLANES AND SHIPS

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

(Received September 18, 11 a.m.)

LONDON, September 17.

England and France have decided to discontinue the non-inter-vention naval patrol of the Spanish coast, as the destroyers so engaged are needed for more urgent and more important work in combating piracy in the Mediterranean.

The chairman, Lord Plymouth, conveyed this decision to the members of the Non-Intervention Committee in a circular letter ■whjch indicated that control will be continued by observers aboard neutral ships entering Spanish ports, while the French control will be continued on the Franco-Spanish frontier. Portugal has also promised to maintain control of her frontier.

Speculation is now arising whether the abandonment of the patrol scheme means the disappearance of the non-intervention scheme, with the possibility, in view of Signor fylussolini's reported intention to send more troops fo Spain, of France opening her frontier.

It is reported from Geneva that England, France, Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Rumania, Turkey, Russia, and Yugoslavia have signed a new anti-piracy accord extending the Nyon Agreement to" firing on merchantmen by pirate aeroplanes or surface vessels. Italy will be invited to join.

The Nyon Conference has agreed to the text of the annexes relating to naval and aerial attacks and they will be signed this evening.