DELAY SERIOUS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 194, 15 August 1936, Page 9

DELAY SERIOUS

Non-Intervention In Spain ATTITUDE OF POWERS No Reply from Germany or Italy PACT BEING HELD UP IMPRESSION IN LONDON |By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) Received Aug. 14, 10.10 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 11. Neither Italy nor Germany yet has replied to the French appeal lor non-intervention in Spain and the delay is causing grave anxiety in London, says the .'iorning Post’s diplomatic correspondent. It seriously is feared that if the negotiations fail M. Limn will be unable to resist pressure from his own supporters and will be forced either to sanction aid for the Spanish Government or resign in favour of a more extreme .Ministry. The last hope of a non-interventio.i policy would then vanish and Spain would openly become the battlefield ot rival European policies. The British Government is doing its utmost to avoid such a development. The Berlin correspondent of the Times says it seems clear that the German attitude regarding non-inter-vention has stiffened, partly owing to reports of French assistance to the Madrid Government and also because there apparently is little confidence in the sincerity of the Trench proposals. The Paris correspondent of the Times says that though the Trench Cabinet yesterday decided to continue its efforts for a non-intervention pact, there was also general agreement that France cannot continue indiiinitely to present a self-denying ordinance regardless of the attitude of others. If for example, it is established that delaying tactics and not honest objections arc holding up the agreement the Government will certainly resume its liberty of action. Moreover, any substantial additions to the already material assistance received from abroad by the insurgents might have the same effect. The Manchester Guardians diplomatic correspondent says the impression is deepening in London that both Italy and Germany are holding up non-intervention while aiding the rebels in the hope that they will be able to win decisive victories in the near future. Relieved Effort >. A later Paris message states that both sides arc making renewed efforts for foreign support. President Azana told French journalist that France’s frontier now v -' as . the Guadarrama. If Fascism wins it will hold the Pyreness and France must also ask herself who will hold Morocco, the Balearic Islands, and the Mediterranean and African communications. Two hundred Liberals from most of the European countries, including Viscount Churchill and Sir Norman Angell, met in Paris and passed a resolution stating that any neutrality in the fact of the situation was suicidal and tantamount to strengthening Fascism. NEUTRALITY PROPOSALS GERMANY’S REPLY &ELEASF OF PLANE DEMANDED LONDON, Aug. 13. The Times’ Paris correspondent »ays that Germany’s reply to France s neutrality proposals has now been received. It accepts the plan, but adhesion will not become effective until I he Spanish Government has released the Gorman bombing ’plane and its occupants which landed earlier in the week at Azurga, in the province of Badajoz, and was almost certainly bound for insurgent territory. It is understood that the Spanish Government is holding an inquiry, and France i« pressing for the handing over of the machine without delay in v .he interests of European peace. Messages from Rome indicate in-, sistence of a ban on subscriptions and; volunteers. French circles are hopeful of a compromise, but M. Dclbos told Cabinet that a delicate dual ion had been created by the enlistment of natives, in French Morocco in response to the insurgents’ offers of attractive pay and bonuses. Cabinet has decided to Stop recruitment. NEW COMPLICATION SPAIN IN MOROCCO AIUORS FORMING NATIONAL FRONT. Received Aug. 14. 11.15 p.m. TANGIER, Aug. 14. The civil war is introducing fresh complications in Morocco, where the tribesmen are forming a national front to expel Spain from the soil of Islan. General Franco s expectations that the Moors would flock to his banner have been disappointed and the discipline among such natives as have joined him has been affected by irregularity of payments of wages. rloEgcd round the fleet, to live or die, Vas sailor-luck in days Rone by. Jeel-hauling. too, from side to side. 'Proved deadly in a freez.ng tide. Flogged round the fleet, half-nude and blue. Disposed to what we now call “ ’flu.” Raw “ration-ruin” restored life's zest— JJow, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure proves