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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 5, 1937.

LORD PLYMOUTH TO APPROACH WARRING PARTIES IN SPAIN Non-Intervention Draft Resolution Adopted

SOVIET ABSTAINS ON BELLIGERENT

RIGHTS

ISSUE

London, To-day.

CONFIDENCE INTERNATIONAL RETURNING

IN SWATOW

Swatow, To-day.

The situation at Swatow – is much easier following the long immunity of the port from - Ja-- panese attentions and confidence is rapidly returning to the busi ness community.

A full meeting of the non-intervention com- mittee yesterday approved the draft resolution on the subject of the withdrawal of volunteers and the grant of belligerent rights to both parties in Spain. ference Our Own Correspondent.

The meeting also approved the recommenda-

Foreign shipping is now enter ing the port freely without inter-

POLITICAL GAME OF BLUFF

London, To-day.

Great Britam's strategic position

in the Mediterranean was debated in the House of Lords yesterday

Lord Strabolgi (Labour) said that our position in the Mediter

tion that the chairman be authorised to approach PITAIN'S NAVA ranean was extremely strong,

the two parties in Spain.

Although the draft resolution was adopted by all representatives in the committee, M. Ivan Mai- sky (Russia) maintained his abstention on the question of belligerent rights.

The

PACTS

come

London, To-day. Instruments of ratification of the Anglo-German and Anglo-Soviet na- committee unanimously out, in a manner determined by non-val agreements of July last were adopted the sub-committee's two intervention committee, the with exchanged yesterday at the Foreign

accor-Office The agreements will recommendations authorising the drawal from both sides in chairman forthwith to approach dance with the proportions of the into force immediately. the two parties in Spain, and pro- numbers serving on each side. viding for continuance of examina tion of methods for applying the resolution pending replies from the two parties and consideration of measures to meet Soviet absten- tion Benter.

GRANDI'S EXPLANATION

BELLIGERENT RIGHTS

exchange Lin regard to ion British

while Italy's was extremely weak, because of her forces in Libya and Abyssinia, but Gibraltar to day was not as vulnerable as was once

BRITAIN BLUETED

He added that internation ties was like a game

Britain had been bluffed fully all along the

The Marquis of Ava, replying for the said that the sole

(as

which

Rent

These bilateral treaties run par- allel to the London Naval Treaty of 1936 and provide for qualitative wa limitation and In seeking the parties' concur-of information rence, the Chairman will inform future naval const them that each of the non-interven-wireless. tion Powers will grant them belli- gerent rights according to the Bri- tish Plan of July last-that is, after Apa London, To-day. the withdrawals have made sub- Yesterday's full meeting of the stantial progress and are proceeding non-intervention committee, which satisfactorily. lasted 21⁄2 hours, was opened by The resolution further provides, Lord Plymouth, the chairman, re-first, that as from a date to be viewing the commitee's achieve determined by the non-intervention ments since July.

committee, shortly before the with-

PREMIER CALLS ON KING BORIS

London, To-day.

way,

of the joint

STATUS OF NURSES

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that the

The Prime Minister called on King Athlone has consented Count Grandi (Italy) explained drawal of non-Spanish frontiers Boris of Bulgaria at the Ritz hotel Chairman of the Committee why it had been impossible to should be restored, and strengthen-yesterday afternoon. British Wirequire into the status and

-British make headway until the Russian ed, simultaneously with the adoption less. attitude over belligerent rights had of measures to strengthen the sea been clarified.

observation scheme; second, that Dr. Woermann (Germany) en- each of the participating Govern- dorsed Count Grandi's remarks, ments should reaffirm its existing en- and promised Germany's full sup gagements not to permit the despatch port providing that all outstanding from or transit through or over its questions, including that of belli-territories of arms or of war ma gerent rights, were cleared up.

CONTROL AND VOLUNTEERS

M. Corbin (France) drew atten tion to the connection existing be- tween control and the volunteer question.

terial covered by the non-interve tion agreement or of non-Spanish nationals proposing to proceed to Spain for the purpose of taking part in the conflict.

RUSSIA'S POSITION The Committee also agreed, pend He assured the committee of replies from the Spanish par- France's intention to continue ties, that the Chairman's sub-com- strict control of the Pyrenees from-mittee should continue an examina

tion of concrete questions in con tier as long as progress was being registered in the matter of tion with the proposals and also the question of the situation aring foreign volunteers.

The British plan was then put from the abstention of Russia-from to the vote and adopted. Ocean.

TWO-COMMISSIONS

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EXPULSION OF SPANIARDS

Paris, To-day.

An order for the expulsion of 80 foreigners residing in France was made yesterday.

Most of the foreigners are re- from Spain, who, accord- the French press, are of General Franco's spy ion which is operating

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