NON-INTERVENTION PACT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19126, 22 September 1936, Page 6

NON-INTERVENTION PACT

ALLEGATIONS OP BREACH CIVIL AVAR IN SPAIN FULL INQUIRY PLANNED (British Official Wireless.) 1 Reed. 1.15 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. 21. A further meeting of the international committee for the application of the agreement regarding non-intervention in Spai n was held at the Foreign Office today. Lord Plymouth presided. The meeting was attended hy representatives of 26 countries. The committee had: before it a question raised by the French representative as to whether the export, of gas masks to Spain should be. regarded as being prohibited under the agreement for non-intervention. All replies so far received have indicated that the Governments concerned were of the. opinion that, the export of gas masks should not lie regarded as being so prohibited. The committee, had also under consideration a complaint respecting an alleged breach of the agreement- for nonintervention. The committee agreed that, in the event, of such a complaint being received, it would certainly he the duty of the committee to examine it with a view to ascertaining the facts, but that a complaint should not be taken into consideration unless it was submitted on behalf of a. Government -which was, a party to the non-intervention agreement, and unless it was regarded by the Government preferring it as of being of sufficient. importance and as being founded on evidence of sufficient weight- to afford a. reasonable presumption that, in fact, some breach of the agreement hail occurred.