SPANISH WAR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22671, 8 March 1937, Page 11

SPANISH WAR

NON-INTERVENTION SUPERVISION OF PLAN OPERATION DELAYED DIVISION OF THE COST'. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received March 7, 7 p.m.) LONDON, March G The international supervision of Spain should become operative at midnight, but at present it is not to be introduced owing to details not having been settled by the Nonintervention Committee. The Committee sat all day and agreed upon naval and land control and other matters, but some technicalities were left outstanding. The supervision along the Spanish coasts and frontiers will cost £900,000 for a full year. Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Russia would each, be responsible for 16 per cent, while the remaining 20 per cent would be distributed among 22 other countries.

A message from Valencia says the Spanish Government has intimated its willingness to accept the withdrawal of foreign volunteers from Spain provided that this applies also to the rebels.

DETAILS OF SCHEME TASK FOR OBSERVERS NO PRECEDENT AS GUIDE (Deceived March 7, 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY. March 0 It is not likely that the full scheme for the supervision of the application of the non-intervention agreement will be known until after a plenary meeting of the Committee, probably on Monday. It is expected that the administration of the supervision will be entrusted by the Committee to another committee or board, which probably will consist of a chairman nominated by the main Committee and representatives of the five principal Powers among the 27 States participating in the non-intervention agreement.

Observation on the PortugueseSpanish frontier will be organised outside the general scheme.. The FrancoSpanish frontier will be watched by an international body of observers numbering 130, and five observers will exercise similar control along the short Gibraltar-Spanish frontier. The scheme for naval control will, it is estimated, require about 550 observing officers who will travel on ships of the participating Powers visiting Spain and supervise unloading to ensure that they do not carry arms, war material or volunteers. As there are no relevant precedents for a control scheme of this kind it will not be surprising if it proves necessary to inaugurate it by stages. The observers along the FrancoSpanish and Gibraltar-Spanish frontiers will have full facilities, including the right of free entry into dock and railway warehouses and depots and the right of inspection and of examining documents relating to particular consignments and travellers' passports.

MADRID'S PERIL REBELS MASS OUTSIDE MADRID, March 5 Street vendors have returned to the capital and are plying a busy trade in the shattered streets, apparently indifferent to the fact that the insurgents are massing outside the city, indicating that a big offensive is imminent. Government airmen were reported to have successfully bombed and driven off the insurgent cruiser Almirante Cervera while she was attempting to capture a merchantman off the coast of Catalonia. The P. and 0., the Orient and several other lines have instructed the masters of vessels proceeding to or from French Mediterranean ports to sail a course eastward of the Balearics for the purpose of avoiding mined waters off the Spanish coast. TO JOIN INSURGENTS CONSUL LEAVES SYDNEY SYDNEY, March 6 Don Pedro do Ygual y Martinez Daban, formerly Consul-General for Spain, left Sydney yesterday to join the forces of General Franco. Spanish representation in New South Wales has ceased. Before sailing Don Pedro said: "With my country torn by war, and with consular affairs at a standstill, I felt I could not stay here."