POWERS AGREE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 110, 5 November 1937, Page 9

POWERS AGREE

REMOVING VOLUNTEERS

MATTER OF URGENCY

BRITAIN ASKED TO FORWARD

PROPOSALS

(British Official Wireless.) (Received November 5, 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, November 4. As a result of a plenary session of the Non-intervention Committee, the chairman, Lord Plymouth, is communicating to the British Government proposals in accordance with the resolution agreed upon at the last meeting of the Sub-Commit-tee for transmission to the two parties in Spain. Before adjourning, the Committee agreed to his asking the British Government to treat the matter as one of urgency. The Full Committee approved the resolution submitted to it by the SubCommittee, but the Soviet Ambassador, as before, abstained from voting in respect of those parts of the texts relating to belligerent rights. The resolution provides for immediate approach to the . Spanish parties to secure their concurrence in proposals, first, for ■ the withdrawal under international supervision or all non-Spanish combatants; second, for the dispatch to each side in Spain o! two commissions to estimate the number of volunteers, to concert withdrawal arrangements with the Spanish authorities, and to carry out in a manner determined upon by the Nonintervention Committee the withdrawal from both sides in accordance with the proportions of those serving on each side. CONFERRING OF BELLIGERENT RIGHTS. In seeking the parties' concurrence, the chairman" will inform them that each of the non-intervention Powers will grant them belligerent rights according to the British plan—that is, after withdrawals have made substantial progress and are proceeding satisfactorily. The resolution further provides, first, that as from a date to be determined by the Non-intervention Committee shortly before the withdrawal of non-Spanish nationals begins, observation on the Franco-Spanish and Portuguese-Spanish frontiers should be restored and strengthened simultaneously with the adoption of measures to strengthen the sea observation

scheme; and second, that each of the participating Governments should reaffirm its existing engagements not to permit the dispatch from or transit through or over its territories of arms or war material covered by the Nonintervention Agreement or of nonSpanish nationals proposing to proceed for the purpose of taking part in the conflict. PROBLEM OF RUSSIAN ABSTENTION. The Committee also agreed today, pending replies from the Spanish parties, that the Sub-Committee should continue the examination of concrete questions in connection with the proposals, and also the question of the situation arising from the abstention of. Russia from the acceptance of that part of them referring to belligerent rights.