MUCH PROGRESS MADE

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 146, 23 June 1938, Page 9

MUCH PROGRESS MADE

NON-INTERVENTION WITHDRAWAL Of ] VOLUNTEERS (British Official Wireless.) , , RUGBY, June 22. The chairman's sub-committee of thev International Non-intervention Committee met today and consider- . able progress was made towards agreement on the plan for the. withdrawal of volunteers from Spain. The chairman reminded the committee that at the last meeting they had discussed three . questions—(l) A method of counting and classifying foreign volunteers; (2) the date of the restoration of international observation; and, (3). the strengthening of 'the sea observation scheme—and that agreement had been reached on t the two first, points, subject to unanimity being obtained later on the third. In the interval he had had further 'discussions with the representatives on certain proposals which he believed would render the sea scheme thoroughly effective,' namely, that arrangements should be.made.for observing officers to be permanently stationed in a limited number at the principal Spanish ports'and that the non-inter-vention board shdulct' 'fee given -the means' of securing' constant ■ supervision of ; Spanish ports engaged in foreign trade' with technical facilities for unloading war materials. All the representatives then intimated that their Governments were prepared to accept the foregoing proposals for strengthening the sea observation scheme, thereby securing complete agreement on the other two ,j questions discussed at the last meeting. , The Soviet ~ representative stated that his Government, while not fully ' satisfied with the latest proposal on sea control, regarded it as a step to- [ wards their point of view and was \ prepared, therefore, in a spirit of compromise, to accept it. ,-. \ The sub-committee then disposed , of all the remaining- questions in the i draft resolution'embodying the . com- ; mittee's plan for the withdrawal of ' foreign volunteers. There was also a ' preliminary exchange of views on the ' finance of the plan, and it is hoped \ that a decision on this question will 1 be reached at Friday's meeting.