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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1938, Page 7

MORE TALK

NONINTERVENTION PLANS SOME CONCESSIONS MADE BY RUSSIA. AGREEMENT AND RESERVATIONS. (British Official Wireless.) (Reed This Day. 10.13 a.m.) RUGBY, June 2. The chairman's Sub-Committee of me Non-intervention Committee, at n. eignty-eighth meeting, considered the further revision of the draft resolution providing for the withdrawal of foreign volunteers, for granting in certain circumstances belligerent rights to the two parties in Spain and for observation on the Spanish frontiers by land and sea. The committee examined each ol the outstanding questions, regarding a number of which agreement was (reached. [' The Soviet representative made a ; lengthy statement. Lord Plymouth (chairman) said the situation created by this statement was that as regards the three questions embodied in the recent British proposals, to which the Soviet hitherto had been unable to agree—namely, first, the method to be adopted by the commissions in counting and classifying foreign volunteers; secondly, the date for the restoration of international observation on the Franco-Spanish frontier and thirdly, strengthening the sea observation scheme —the Soviet was prepared now to accept the firs., of these proposals and the second also provided that, if the actual withdrawal of volunteers did not start on the date prescribed in the plan, there would be no further extension of the period in which international observation should be in force on the Franco-Spanish frontier. The Soviet’s agreement to the above points was, however, conditional upon acceptance by the international committee of an arrangement by which international observing officers would be permanently stationed in all Spanish ports where it was possible to unload war material or land troops. The meeting agreed to consider the new situation created by the Soviet’s statement and to meet again on June 10.