FOREIGN HELP FOR SPAIN

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20670, 8 March 1937, Page 9

FOREIGN HELP FOR SPAIN

PLANS FOR NAVAL CONTROL HAMPERED BY DEBATES IN COMMITTEE REPORTS OF MOVEMENTS OF ITALIANS British Official Wireless (Received March 7, 6.30 p.m.) RUGBY, March 5. It is unlikely that the full scheme for the supervision of the application of the Non-Intervention agreement will be known until after the Plenary Committee meeting, probably on Monday. Control of Frontiers It is expected the administration 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 the representatives of the five principal Powers among the twentyseven States participating in the NonIntervention agreement. Observation of the PortugueseSpanish frontier will be watched by an international body of observers, numbering 130, and five observers will exercise similar control along the short Gibraltar-Spanish frontier. Naval Observation The scheme for naval control will require, it is estimated, about 550 observing officers who will travel on the ships of participating Powers. They will visit Spain, and supervise unloading, to ensure that the ships do not carry arms, war material or volunteers. As there are no relevant precedents for a control scheme of this kind, it will not be 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; right of inspection and of examining documents relating to particular consignments and travellers’ passports. CONTROL NOT ENFORCED DELAYED BY DELIBERATIONS OF COMMITTEE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright (Received March 7, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 6 The international supervision of Spain, which should become operative at midnight, is at present not being introduced, owing to the details not being settled by the Non-Intervention Committee, which sat all day, and agreed to naval and land control, also other matters, but some technicalities are outstanding. SITUATION IN MADRID ANOTHER OFFENSIVE THREATENING United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph —Coovrieh t MADRID, March 5. Street vendors returned to the capital and are plying a busy trade in the shattered streets, apparently indifferent to the insurgents massing outside the capital, indicating that a big offensive is imminent. Government aircraft are reported to have successfully bombed and driven off the insurgent cruiser Almirante Cervera, while attempting to capture a merchantman off the coast of Catalonia. SHIPS TO AVOID MINES DANGER OFF SPANISH COAST United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, March 5. The P. and 0., Orient, and several other Lines have instructed masters proceding to and from French Mediterranean ports to sail a course eastward of the Balearics for the purpose of avoiding mined waters off the Spanish coast. RECRUIT FROM AUSTRALIA FORMER CONSUL LEAVES AUSTRALIA United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, March 6 Don Pedro de Ygual Y. Martinez Daban, former Consul-General for Spain, left Sidney yesterday to Join the forces of General Franco. Spanish representation in New South Wales has ceased. Before sailing, Don Pedro said: “With my country torn by war and Consular affairs at a standstill, I felt that I could not stay here.” MORE ITALIAN TROOPS GRIM EVIDENCES OF ACTIVITIES United Press Association—Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 7, 6.30 p.m.) NAPLES, March 6 An Italian hospital ship landed 540 Italians, including fifty stretcher cases, who were wounded recently in Spain. A Gibraltar message states that an additional 2500 Italians have been landed at Cadiz.