SPANISH WAR

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 9, 9 December 1936, Page 9

SPANISH WAR

FOREIGN ASSISTANCE. GRAVITY STRESSED. COMMITTEE'S INVESTIG AT 1 ON. (United Press Association—By Flcccric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received December 9, 11.7 a.m. RUGBY, Dec. 8. A communique published of the meeting of the chairman's sub-commit-tee have agreed upon the terms ol theii report lor submission to tho main committee in the United Kingdom. the statement remarked that reports were reaching His Majesty's Government that nationals ol foreign Powers were arriving m Spam in acreasing numbers to lake part m the civil war on botli sides. “These reports are of such a nature Lliat ilieir evidence cannot bo ignored. If this practice is allowed to coil ttu no; it must have grave repercussions on international relauons outside Spam, in addition to prolonging the conflict in that country.” The Gorman representative’s statement recalled that trom the beginning the German Government had pointed to the problem of indirect intervention, including volunteers. The Italian representative’s statement pointed out that the recent and continuous llow of Joreigu generals, officers, and volunteers giving theii services to the Spanish Communists had not provoked the slightest initiative until the publication of some news, according to which German volunteers were supposed to have arrived in Spain to light on the side of the Burgos Government. The Italian Government wish to make it clear that they consider it inadmissible that the subject should be examined only in a partial or occasional manner. The examination of possible measures to he adopted must be preceded by a classification of all forms of indirect intervention so as to include simultaneously sending volunteers and political agitators financial assistance, as well as all those further forms of indirect intervention that the committee might deem necessary to consider. Russia’s' statement proposed that tho agreement be extended to cover the question of volunteers. The main committee meets to-mor-row. The six members of Parliament who recently returned from Spain wci« received by the Foreign Secretary, they reported to him upon their visit to Madrid. MOUNTING DEATH-ROLL. ON MADRID FRONT. LONDON, Dee. 8. General Franco is as usual keeping up the hearts of his adherents by repeating his promise of an early fullstrength offensive against the capital. The total death-roll on this front is estimated at 500 a day during the past month. Three Englishmen were killed in last month’s fighting. The members of the House of Commons who visited Spain to investigate conditions there have returned and will seo Mr R. A. Eden (Foreign Secretary) to-day. The Madrid correspondent of the Times says that less than a dozen actual prisoners of war could be mustered at Madrid because those who are not summarily shot are compelled to serve in the Loyalist forces. The Government allowed the members ol the House of Commons to go everywhere, see everything and privately interview prisoners, but the Government, which must maintain the administration while conducting the war against the revolutionaries, dare not risk splitting the Popular Front, the iconoclast section of which is taking advantage of the situation by unjustified arrests and executions, while the lawless militia, who never take a turn in the trenches, murder at will. This hideous feature of the revolution has reached such proportions that it demands not only Government action, but international control.