NON-INTERVENTION.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 July 1937, Page 5

NON-INTERVENTION.

GERMANY AND ITALY CONSULTING. TRANCE NOT WELL PLEASED. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) Received Thursday, 8.25 p.m. LONDON, July 15. The impartiality of the British proposals must make it difficult for any Government to refuse to treat on that basis, says the Times’ diplomatic correspondent. The British Government is unlikely to be over sanguine, but they will at least not expect them to be rejected out of hand. The Times’ Berlin correspondent says that so far there is no tangible indication of the German attitude, but it is given out that this is to be decided in consultation with Italy. The Morning Post’s Rome correspondent says that newspapers are forbidden-to comment pending an official examination of the British proposals. The Trench Government, according to the News-Chronicle’s Paris correspondent, considers the British plan unduly favours the Italian and German viewpoint. The French view is that belligerent rights should only be granted after all foreigners are withdrawn.

SUITABLE basis fob discussion. . OFFICIAL INTIMATION FROM BERLIN. Received Thursday, 11.20 p.m. ■ LONDON, July 14. It is officially intimated from Berlin that the British proposals are regarded as a suitable basis for discussion. MOLTON MERELY BROUGHT TO. STATEMENT IN COMMONS. (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 15. “Is there no indignity which we will not tolerate,” asked a Labour member in the House of Commons, when LieutColonel J. Gr. Llewellyn, making a statement on behalf of the Admiralty, .mentioned that the Royal Oak had protested against the Almirante Cervera firing a third shot at the Molton. Mr. Arthur Henderson followed up by asking if it were not without precedent in English history for a British warship to stand by and allow a British .ship to be attacked. Licut-Colonel Llewellyn, in his reply, said that the ship was not attacked, but merely brought to. This provoked derisive laughter ■from the Labour members.

COMMENT ON PROPOSALS. FRENCH PRESS MIXED. (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, July 15. The French Press comment on the "British- non-intervention proposals is -decidedly mixed. Le Matin suggests that the plan, embodying as it does the proposals from various countries, will satisfy none. Petit Parisien regards the plan as clever, and adds that Mr. Eden and the •■experts have worked well for a common fgood.' Pertinax prophesies that the plan will have died a natural death within a few hours.

The Echo de Paris and Loeuvre see in the proposals a dexterity designed to prevent rejection and compel discussions, SHIPPING TO BILBAO. GERMAN SERVICE TO RESUME. (Received This Day, 9.20 a m.) BERLIN, July 15. Two shipping lines have decided' to resume the weekly service from Hamburg and from Bremen to Bilbao.