PLEA REPEATED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19335, 27 May 1937, Page 6

PLEA REPEATED

FOREIGN WITHDRAWAL ACTIVITIES IN SPAIN WORK OE COMMITTEE APPEAL TO COMBATANTS (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 1.45 p.m. RUGBY, May 26. The question of the withdrawal of foreign nationals from the Spanish civil war was again before the international committee in London to-day, and the preparation of the scheme was carried a stage further by the reference of the experts' report to the non-intervention Governments for their comments.

A draft appeal to the two parties in Spain regarding the conduct of the present conflict, was considered and amended, and will come up again for adoption at a further meeting of the plenary committee on Friday. In submitting to their Governments the report of the technical advisory sub-committee containing the plan for the withdrawal from Spain of nonSpanish nationals engaged, either directly (»• indirectly, the. representatives on the non-intervention committee will request them to inform the committee, as soon as possible as to whelhcr the plan commends itself to them and whether they would be prepared to take certain courses of action indicated in the report in the event, firstly, of a general agreement being reached by the international committee as to the nature of the withdrawal plan, and, secondly, of acceptance of that plan by the two parlies in Spain. The replies of a number of Governments to the committee's questionnaire regarding legal and other problems raised by acts of interference by the two parties in Spain with shipping of European countries have not, yet been received.