HITCH OCCURS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 72, 24 February 1937, Page 9

HITCH OCCURS

IN NAVAL SUPERVISION. SPANISH NON-INTERVENTION. RUSSIAN DESIRE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received February 24, 11.40 a.m. RUGBY, Feb. 23. At a meeting of tho chairman’s subcommittee of the Non-Intervention Committee, Lord Plymouth reported that the United Kingdom and Portuguese Governments had reached an agreement regarding the arrangements to be made in respect of the Portu-guese-Spanish frontier. Referring to naval supervision, the chairman said it was clear that all the representatives were prepared, on behalf of their respective Governments, to accept this seneme of naval supervision, except Russia, which was not prepared to accept the particular zone allotted its fleet. The Russian representative undertook to consult his Government further. LOYALIST ADVANCE. INSURGENTS REPELLED. MADRID, Feb. 23. In the course of some of the fiercest fighting of the civil war, the Loyalists are pressing the insurgents along the whole front from north of Cordova to east of Granada. They have succeeded in breaking the insurgents’ front line, occupying strategic points, and have also compelled the > rebels to assume the defensive at Jarama.