BOMBING DANGER

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 9

BOMBING DANGER

CIVILIANS IN SPAIN

MOVE FOR REDUCTION

OFFER BY BRITAIN ]

(United Press Association—By Electric •'■ Telegraph—Copyright.) ■ ■■{ > , (Received February 3, 10 a.m.)]y LONDON, February 2. . The British Government has ap« proached both sides in Spain and offered its services in any niove to produce "an agreement leading to a reduction of' danger to the civil population from indiscriminate bombing from the air. . "•< I The Foreign Office announces'thalS France is supporting the move. The Basque Children's' Committee considers that the bombing of open towns will make it impossible to send children back from England. Moreover, the parents of most of them are either in France or in ; GovernmentS territory. ' - : (British Official Wireless.) '* ;' ' (Received February 3, 1 p.m.) \ \ RUGBY, February 2. Answering a question in the House of Commons on the sinking of the. Endymion, the Foreign Secretary out* lined steps which have been taken to strengthen the naval patrols in the Mediterranean in agreement with the other Nyon Powers, in view of a t suggestion that they are confronted with a renewal of acts of piracy, which the Nyon arrangement o* last September successfully suppressed. Steps are also being taken to obtain a full report of events in relation to the sinking of the Endymion. When, this is received* the Government will consider action* to be taken. , , : The British ' Government,. said Mr, Eden, was in full aympathy with the1 French desire that some action should be taken in regard vto indiscriminate bombing from the' air in Spain. ", -..

The Chairman's Sub-committee of th« Non-intervention Committee will meet again tomorrow to consider financial aspects of the. proposed .'withdrawal of volunteers from Spain. l