WATCH ON SPAIN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19267, 8 March 1937, Page 5

WATCH ON SPAIN

FULL SCHEME AWAITED

INTERNATIONAL ACTION

OBSERVERS ON FRONTIERS

NAVAL CONTROL PLAN

(British Official Wireless.)

Ucc. 9.30 a.m. RUGBY, Mar. 6. It is unlikely that the full scheme for the supervision of the application of the non-intervention agreement in respect to Spain will be known until after a plenary committee meeting, probably on Monday.

It is expected that the administration of the scheme of supervision will be entrusted by the international committee to another committee or board, which will probably consist of a chairman nominated by the international committee itself and representatives of the five principal Powers among the 27 States participating in the non-in-tervention agreement. Observation on the Portugucse-Spanish frontier is to be organised outside the general scheme. The Frauco-Spanish frontier will be watched by an international body of observers numbering .130, and five observers will exercise similar control along the short GibraltarSpanish frontier.

The scheme for naval control will require, it is estimated, about 550 observing officers, who will travel in snips of 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 lie surprising if it proves necessary to inaugurate it by stages. Observers along the Franco-Spanish 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.

It is estimated that the cost of the scheme of supervision will be £900,000 for a full year. Britain, Prance, Germany, Italy and Russia will each be responsible for 16 per cent and the remainder is to be distributed among the 22 other countries.

MORE ITALIAN TROOPS

RETURN OF WOUNDED

LONDON, March 0

It is reported from Gibraltar that an additional 2500 Italians have landed at Cadiz.

A Naples message savs that an Italian hospital ship landed 540 Italians, including 50 stretcher cases, who were wounded recently in Spain.