THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER & 1937.
BRITAIN PRESSES ITALY FOR REPLY TO SPAIN NOTE 'Grave View Would be Taken of Unfavourable Answer
FORECAST INDICATES ROME REJECTION OF PROPOSALS
London, To-day.
Instructions have been sent to Lord Perth, Bri- tish Ambassador in Rome, to call at the Italian Foreign Office with a request for a reply to the re- cent joint Anglo-French Note proposing a tripar- tite conference with a view to making non-inter- vention in the Spanish Civil War more effective.
It is understood that the French Charge d'Af- faires received similar instructions.
It is known that the Note laid particular stress on the necessity for progress in the question of the withdrawal of non-Spanish participants from both sides in Spain.
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"Le Matin" comments in
Speaking in the sixth committee sures have already been prepared ad- of the League Assembly last week, whereby the balance may be the French Foreign Minister spoke justed.”
much of negotiations that were in train to end the abuses of the non-inter-the same strain, saying that in the vention agreement and said if theyjevent of Italian refusal to consider should fail the situation must in-withdrawal of volunteers, both the ex-British and French Governments are evitably be submitted to amination.
prepared.-Renter. Mr. Walter Elliot who followed him, for Great Britain, observed thai if breaches of the non-intervention agreement were intensified from any quarter the policy itself might be doomed.
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Britain And France On Spain
London, To-day.
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REJECTION
Milan, To-day.
An authoritative forecast
of the Italian reply to the joint Anglo-French. Note on
Spam is published in Signor Mussolim's newspaper "Popolo d'Italia."
The forecast says the reply contains three points:
-Firstly, Italy will not parti- cipate in any meeting to which Germany is not invited,
Secondly, the system of partial discussions proposed can only lead to new com- plications, and
Thirdly, the problem could be discussed as a whoe by the London non-intervention - committee.--Reuter.
non-intervention effective but they could not conceal from themselves the disappointing results The post- tion, he told the delegates was seri- Foreign intervention continu- ed in Spain..
ous.
TWO INCIDENTS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
London, To-day.
Two "incidents" occurred in the Mediterranean yesterday, involving two British vessels and one Italian ship.
First was the capture, news of which was received by the Admir- alty yesterday, of two British steam- fers, Fork Brook and Dover Abbey, by a Spanish Nationalist trawler.
The capture, which took place off the north coast of Spain, was not observed by British warships.
SEAPLANE ATTACK
The second "incident occurred when an Italian steamer, the Ettore, was attacked by a seaplane between Spain and North Africa.
According to a message received in London, the steamer was not dam- aged, while the nationality of the seaplane was not identified
FAIR
Reuter.
WEATHER
Shallow depressions are situated Eastern over Manchuria and the Sea, both moving east.
Local forecast:-E. winds, light;
The Royal Observatory reported this morning that the anti-cyclone. He spoke also of the embitterment is moving into the Pacific to the
Since those speeches were
Informed quarters in London de-of the relations of Europe which NE of Japan; pressure is relative- there have been reports of the in-clare that the parleys between the intervention had caused and the ly low in a trough extending from in the way the Southern Philippines to the tensification of aerial activity in French Ambassador, M. Charles Cor- difficulties it raised Spain of a kind suggestive of the bin, and British Cabinet Ministers, of real progress towards a general Carolines. arrival of reinforcements and other yesterday, show that the British and settlement.--British Wireless.
in com- events of a character inconsistent French Governments are with the urgency in the minds of both plete agreement regarding further the British and French Govern-handling of the Spanish question.
and ments of securing progress by It is declared that Britain means, if possible, of tripartite dis-France will regard any Italian sug- cussions, from which, in an improv gestion for referring of Spain ed atmosphere due to the Italian the non-intervention committee, ori participation in the Nyon arrange-convocation of a four-Power confer
ence, as equivalent to rejection of ment. much could be hoped.
Therefore, the Italian reply to the Anglo-French Note to Italy.
It is expected that the Italian re- the invitation is eagerly awaited, but there is no attempt to conceal in ply will be handed in the London and British official circles that should Paris either to-day or to-morrow.
unfavourable
Trans-Ocean. it
the reply prove would create a most unfortunate im- pression and the resulting situation would be one of which the British Government would take 2 grave view.-British Wireless.
FRENCH COMMENT
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Paris, To-day.
EMBITTERMENT OF RELATIONS
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London, To-day. At the Conservative gathering, Lord Plymouth, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the International Non-Intervention
The British and French Gov- Committee, said that Great Britain
ernments have instructed their had diplomatic representatives in Rome to press for a reply to the joint Anglo-French Note on the subject of Spain.
From Rome it is authoritatively stated that the Italian reply to the Anglo-French invitation for a tri- partite conference on Spain, will be delivered to-day or to-morrow (Saturday).
A stronger note is observed the French press.
"Le Petit Parisien" says that while the Qual D'Orsay is prepared for any reasonable suggestion for a ter-1 mination of the present situation, it ↑ will not be inactive in the face of Italian refusal to cooperate. Mea-
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