THE SPANISH STRIFE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 246, 15 September 1936, Page 7

THE SPANISH STRIFE.

NON-INTERVENTION WORK. PROGRESS IN LONDON. (British Official Wireless.) Received September 15, 11.55 a.m. lUJGBY, Sept. 14. Speakers during the week-end included Air C. R. Atlee, wlm, at a public meeting at Cornwall, said lie believed the decision taken by the Trades Union Congress with regard to Spain was absolutely right. It required a great deal of courage to take that decision. He was convinced that nonintervention was the best that could be done in the circumstances, provided it could he made effective—and his party would exercise the utmost vigilance* to see it was made effective. The second meeting of the International Committee for the application of the agreement regarding non-inter-vention in Spain was held at the Foreign Office. The meeting was attended by 5 representatives of 26 countries. * The committee had under consideration certain questions relating to the scope of the agreement, and the delegates undertook, where necessary, to obtain instructions of their Governments at the earliest possible moment in regard to the questions submitted. The committee reaffirmed the resolution adopted at its first meeting that the proceedings at its meeting should be treated as strictly confidential, subject to the issue of an agreed communique at the conclusion of each meeting. After a general exchange of views it was agreed to appoint an informal sub-committee to assist flic chairman in the day-to-day work of the committee, and that this sub-committee should be composed of the representatives of Belgium, the United Kingdom, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, ancT Russia. The first meeting of this sub-committee will he held at the Foreign Office to-morrow afternoon.

The committee took note, with satisfaction, that the majority of the representatives had already furnished to the sej-etariat copies of the legislative and administrative measures adopted in accordance with their agreement for non-intervention. It was arranged that the documents so submitted should be collated as soon as possible for consideration bv the committee.

WOMEN AND CHILDREN

ACCORDED CONSIDERATION

MADRID, Sept. 14

The Chilean Ambassador (M. Morgado), after an interview at the Government headquarters at Toledo, obtained an undertaking that women and children would be permitted to leave the besieged Alcazar and take refuge iu convents under the Chilean flag. This was communicated to the commander of the garrison with the result that a priest was admitted on Sunday to administer the Communion and baptise two newly-born babies, whose mothers were famished.