SAFETY OF OPEN TOWNS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20720, 6 May 1937, Page 7

SAFETY OF OPEN TOWNS

AERIAL BOMBARDMENT RESTRICTED GERMANY’S SIGNIFICANT OPPOSITION British Official Wireless (Received May 5, 6.30 p.m.) RUGBY, May 4. The Chairman's sub-committee of the International Non-intervention Committee,"at a meeting to-day, had under consideration a suggestion placed before it on behalf of the United Kingdom that an appeal should be addressed to the two parties in Spain in regard to the bctnbtag of open towns. All the representatives said that their Governments shared the hope of the United Kingdom Government that means might be found to humanise the conduct of the present conflict. The opinion was expressed that an appeal might be made to the two parties on a wider basis, by which they would be asked to undertake that the conflict should in future be conducted with 'he utmost regard possible to humanitarian considerations, with a view to reducing the dangers and sufferings to which the civil populations are exposed in time of war. GERMANY’S OPPOSITION TO ANY MOVE WOULD AMOUNT TO INTERFERENCE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received May 5, 7.15 p.m.) LONDON, May 4. The diplomatic correspondent of “The Daily Telegraph” reveals that the German representative, Herr von Ribbentrop at the Non-intervention Committee meeting opposed representations against the bombing of open towns saying that it amounted to interference in internal affairs. He added that from his own experience in the Great War such actions while regrettable, were sometimes necessary. M. Maisky (Russian) said that Herr von Ribbentrop’s attitude suggested that Germany was anxious to prepare the ground for further bombing.