SUPERVISION AIM

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19377, 15 July 1937, Page 6

SUPERVISION AIM

NEW PLANS FOR SPAIN REPLACEMENT OP PATROLS BELLIGERENT RIGHTS EXPLANATION OF SCHEME (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 1.15 p.m. RUGBY, July 14. The Government, in submitting its non-intervention proposals in respect to the civil war in Spain, admits that the plans represent a compromise between the varying points of view, and states that unless a greater spirit of international co-operation is evident than has been achieved in the past, the scheme will fail and the nations of Europe will be faced with a new and infinitely more dangerous situation. The outline of the proposals is set out in six parts. The first, dealing with the reconstruction of the system of supervision, provides in regard to traffic entering Spain by the sea, for the system of placing observers in ships visiting Spanish ports to be continued and for the naval patrol system to be discontinued and replaced by the establishment. with the consent of both parties, of international officers in Spanish ports and under proper safeguards. In regard to traffic entering Spain by land it is proposed that the system of supervision on the land frontiers be restored at once.

Rights at Sea

Further measures for meeting the present situation and for fulfilling certain gaps in the supervision system are dealt with in the second part of the plan. They propose that with a view to a more effective application of the policy of non-intervention all the Governments which are parlies to the agreement should recognise the two parties in Spain as possessing a status which justifies them in exercising belligerent rights at sea in accordance with the rules governing such exercise, but subject to the following special conditions: —

Firstly, that the contraband lists adopted by the belligerents shall be identical with the list of prohibited goods adopted by the non-intervention committee. In other words, the Powers would recognise limited contra-band-lists only. This, however, would not preclude them from adding by negotiation certain goods to those regarded as contraband under the nonintervention agreement. Secondly, that as a corollary to the above the two parties will agree, in the exercise of belligerent rights at sea, to allow unmolested the passage of ships carrying observers and dying the non-intervention fiag. This will not apply where a ship is engaged in non-neutral service, such as the carrying of troops, the transmission of intelligence, or a breach of a blockade, which has been duly notified and effectively maintained. Thirdly, that international shipping not be interfered with unless it is engaged in traffic with Spain. Protection of Ships

Fourthly, that any Government or party to the non-intervention agreement will be entitled to protect ships carrying its fiag against the exercise of belligerent rights. In cases where the conditions laid down above are not being complied with, this part of the plan provides that in order to preclude the carriage of arms in ships entitled to have observers on boa - ti the non-intervention agreement would be extended to prohibit the carriage to Spain from any port by ship:; entitled to fly the flag of any of the \ arties to the agreement of goods on the prohibited list. It is also provided that the committee would inform nonmember Powers of their intention to recognise the belligerent status of the two Spanish parties and invite their co-operation. The committee should also further consider the question of the employment in Spain of foreign aircraft which enter under their own power and examine, in particular, the possibility of "equesting the two parties to accept foreign observers in specified aerodromes in Spain. Ban on Foreign Troops The third part of the plan deals witli the withdrawal of foreign nationals and suggests that the committee should pass a unanimous resolution in favour of their withdrawal. It is suggested that commissions be sent out to botii parties in Spain to supervise the withdrawal of foreign nationals as soon as possible, and that all Governments collaborate in the matter.

The fourth part of the plan proposes that the programme be carried out in the following stages: Firstly, the establishment of officers in Spanish ports and the withdrawal of the naval patrol as soon as possible.

Secondly, the establishment of commissions to supervise the withdrawal of foreign nationals. Thirdly, recognition of belligerent rights. In the sixth and final part of the plan it is suggested that the British Government be authorised to enter immediately into discussion with the two parties in Spain on the proposals.

LOYALISTS HALTED

REBEL LEADER’S CLAIM

DRIVE FROM MADRID

DOGGED BATTALIONS

(Reed. July 15, 1.30 n.m.) LONDON, July 14

Reports from Madrid state that the Spanisli rcbei leader, General Franco, claims that his counter offensive has brought the loyalist drive westwards of Madrid to a standstill owing to the doggedness of the rebel battalions, who stood up to wave after wave of onslaughts by the Government troops. The loyalists, however, claim that superior manpower enables them to switch the attacks from sector to sector, but this seems to apply to the north-west rather than to the central portion of Spain.