DIFFICULT DAYS IN EUROPE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20512, 2 September 1936, Page 7

DIFFICULT DAYS IN EUROPE

BRITISH CABINET ACTIVE REACTION TO SPANISH REVOLUTION STRONG SUPPORT OF ARMS EMBARGO United press Association—By ffisetrtc Telecrapb—Copyright (Received September 1, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, August 31. Questions arising out o£ the international situation which were examined at the recent meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Cabinet will be reviewed at a meeting of Ministers on Wednesday. It will probably not be a full meeting of Cabinet as some of the Ministers, who are still on holiday at considerable distance from London, are not expected to attend. The meeting is regarded as a preliminary to the resumption of regular sittings of Cabinet. LOCALISING SPANISH REVOLT POWERS SUPPORT NON INTERVENTION United Press association-By Electric Telegraph —Copyright (Received September 1, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, August 31. Replies favourable to the proposals which Britain and France have already associated themselves with for the purpose of keeping the Governments in contact regarding the execution of the non-intervention agreement, have been received from a number of other Powers, including Italy. The projected committee would be purely of an advisory character and would have for its principal function the exchange of information as to the actual measures taken to prevent the export of arms, munitions, and aircraft to Spain in accord with the programme of essentials submitted by France and accepted by other countries. The committee would also presumably consider other points arising from the non-intervention agreement, and it might also serve usefully in connection with the contemplated appeal on humanitarian grounds to all the parties to the Spanish civil conflict to abate the horrors which are reported from all over Spain. The British representatives to serve on the committee have not yet been chosen. The Spanish Embassy at Paris announces that no Government representative attended the "war humanisation” meeting, where the suggestions of the International committee were received in lukewarm fashion, but without actual obstruction. Eleven countries contemplate representation on the committee. EMBARGO ON ARMS PLAN FOR JOINT CONFERENCE APPROVED British Otticiai Wireless (Received September 1, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, August 31. Agreement to impose an immediate embargo on the export of arms and aircraft to Spain, and to a joint conference to consider further problems as they arise, has been notified by several other Powers during the weekend. They include, in addition to those already mentioned, Sweden, Austria, Bulgaria, Albania, Norway, and Latvia. SPANISH ENVOY IN PARIS MOVEMENTS MYSTIFY OBSERVERS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph --Copyright (Received September 1, 8.30 p.m.) PARIS, September 1. Senora Feriburi, known as La Passionaria, among the delegation of four from the Spanish Government, arrived in Paris to-night, and was expected to confer with the Communists and Trades Union leaders, but she drove straight to the Spanish Embassy, and declined to make a statement. PLANS TO HUMANISE WAR POWERS APPEAL TO SPANIARDS United Press Association—Bl Electric Telegraph Copyright LONDON, August 31. A Hendaye message says that the diplomats' plan for humanising warfare has been forwarded to Madrid, where the Foreign Minister promised consideration. The British and French representatives did not participate in the representations, but were kept informed. PORTUGAL’S HOSTILE ATTITUDE FRENCH PRESS CRITICISM United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received December 2, 1.10 a.m.) LONDON, September 1 The Paris correspondent of “The Manchester Guardian" reports that official circles describe Portugal's attitude as intolerable, alleging that large quantities of war material, including tanks, have been shipped to the rebels via Lisbon in Anglo-German ships. It is stated on the best authority that at least 160 Italian and German pilots are attached to the rebels, the Italians wearing the Terclo uniform, and the Germans the white tunics of the Deutsche Fufthansa air line. FOREIGN HELP FOR REBELS OPERATIONS BASED ON PORTUGAL United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 31. The Tangier correspondent of "The News Chronicle” asserts that Portugal is the military and political base of tl»e rebels whose headquarters arc the

Hotel Aviz, Lisbon, in charge of Senor Miguel Franco, a brother of General Franco. They are semi-oflicially recognised and openly supported by the Portuguese Government, and Portuguese newspapers are compelled to be sympathetic towards the rebels. SOME STARTLING ALLEGATIONS GERMANY AND THE REBELS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph- Copyright LONDON, August 31. The correspondent of “The Chronicle" at Seville asserts that German 'planes, with civilian pilots, continue to fly to Spain, where they are taken over by German army pilots, who have travelled overland, and then delivered them to the rebels. PLIGHT OF LONDON RECRUIT SHOT DOWN BY REBELS United PfbbB Association—By Electric Telegraph -Copyright LONDON, August 31. The British United Press Madrid correspondent says that a Londoner, Mr John Wilson, an Oxford undergraduate, aged 21, who left home telling his parents he was going to Folkestone, is now in hospital in Madrid with three bullets in his side, as a result of a battle with rebel aircraft. He was flying a tri-motored Junker with an observer, when three rebel aircraft were sighted. One Capron! flew on either side of Mr Wilson, while a Hawker Fury dived upon him. All three opened up machine-gun fire, riddling the fuselage. ' Mr Wilson shot down the Hawker, and then came down with his petrol leaking, in a ploughed field. Militiamen covered him with rifles, while the observer explained that Mr Wilson was fighting for the loyalists. Mr Wilson collapsed from pain and was sent to hospital.