NYON AGREEMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1937, Page 6

NYON AGREEMENT

SPANISH GOVERNMENT SHIPS NOT PROTECTED. (United Press Association —By Electric' Telegraph—Copyright;. ’ 1 ■ ' (Received this day at 12 noon). LONDON. September 14. The Nyon delegates have signed in alphabetical order. In addition to previous details cabled, England and France will operate as far as the entrance to the Dardanelles. Participants with Mediterranean seaboard are pledged to furnish necessary assistance to operating fleets. M. Del bos said the agreement would ensure the security of the Mediterranean.

M. Maxim Litvinov said that the Anglo-french responsibility for the entire Mediterranean instead of the division of zones overcame Russia’s objections but he regretted that -Spanish Gov eminent ships wore excluded from protection by the agi cement. ITALY’S REPLY NOT DISCLOSED. (Received this day at 12 noon). ROME, September 14. Italy’s reply has been delivered but the contents are not disclosed. ITALY DECLINES. MEDITERRANEAN PATROL. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) ROME, September 14. Italy has officially declined a Mediterranean patrol, and states that the situation is unacceptable, as she is not given absolute parity with other Powers.

Signor Gayda, writing in the “Giornale d’Jtalia,” says the general effect of the Nyon agreements seems to defend Russian transports going to Spain with war materials and to support a. movement, which, if successful, will violently alter the whole Mediterranean system.