THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 1, 1938
WITHDRAWAL OF SPAIN "VOLUNTEERS" TO COST TWO MILLIONS STERLING
London, To-day.
If the non-intervention committee's plan for with- drawal of foreign volunteers from Spain is car- ́ried out, it will cost the participating countries
approximately £2,250,000.
This was revealed at yesterday's meeting of the sub-committee, which dealt with the financial aspect of the proposed withdrawal.
estimated
The sub-committee that the cost of collection, tran- sport and maintenance of volunteers in camps would be between £1,000,- 000 and £1,500,000, while the cost of sea transport of volunteers to their homeland would reach £750,000.
SOVIET DEFINES POSITION
London, To-day.
It was proposed yesterday that the cost of collection and main- tenance be borne equally by the
The Chairman's sub-committee five great powers participating in
of the Non-Intervention Commit- non-intervention, while the cost of
tee met at the Foreign Office yes- sea transport be borne proportion-terday afternoon and received a ately by the countries whose volun- teers are repatriated.
SOVIETS OBJECT Lord Plymouth, Chairman of the committee, said that Britain was willing to contribute.
The German and Italian repre- sentatives undertook to refer the
statement giving complete and comprehensive details of the cost of the scheme for the evacuation of foreign. volunteers in Spain to which all representatives, with the exception of the Russian, gave their approval at the meet- ing last Thursday.
matter to their governments, but After Lord Plymouth had intimat- the Soviet representative declared led that His Majesty's Government that the cost of transport and
were prepared to maintenance of volunteers should be providing the necessary funds, borne by the countries who had volunteers in Spain. Reuter.
Trans-Ocean adds that the next session of the non-intervention committee has been convened for Thursday. By that time the answers from the various Govern- ments to the volunteers withdrawal plan will presumably have been received.
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on
condition that other governments also participated the representa- tives agreed to refer to their Gov- ernments the documents concerned.
SOVIET STAND
The Soviet representative, how- [ever, after re-stating that attitude of his Government on the with- drawal proposals, said the Soviet Government would be prepared to consider contributing, in common with other governments, to the cost of establishing and maintaining the Commissions-- which- are -to go to Spain to ascertain the number of foreign vol- unteers and supervise their with- drawal, but that the Soviet Govern- ment would not contribute to that part of the cost of the scheme which included expenditure on the No last-minute inspiration could transport of volunteers since Mon- be got from yesterday's racing, ex-sieur Kagan maintained that there cept perhaps for Scottish Union, were no Russian volunteers. since the French importation, It is understood that the, estim- Michoumy, from the same stable,ated cost of the evacuation scheme. won the Craven Plate.
is between £1,000,000 and £1,500,- Gördon Richards, riding for the 1000 which included the work first time for a week, failed even the Commissions and expenditure to get a place, which does not au-on bringing together the volun- gur well for the chances of Pasch. teers, maintaining them in camps Although the weather is showery, and transporting them to ports dull and windy it is expected that for evacuation to their own coun- the Downs will be thronged to-day. [tries. -Reuter.
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It is contemplated that this cost should be borne in equal shares by the five non-intervention Powers represented on the Chairmans sub- London, To-day. committee. The Governor of Jamaica has cabled the Colonial Office stating that the improved situation on
From June 1 onward, the Gov- Inquart, will himself take over the the island has been maintained. sub-committee will meet again on ernment of the Austrian province office of Minister of the Interior
Strikers at Kingston have return Thursday, but is not known whe-of the Reich will be simplified un- and Education, ed to works though there has not ther the instructions of Govern-der the terms of a decree issued by yet been much work done on sugarments on the questions which the the Reich Governor of Austria,
The Ministry of Economy and plantations.
representatives agreed to refer to Doctor Seyss-Inquart.
Labour as well as the Ministry of Dr. The Governor has accepted the them will have been received by
Pinetica: will be confided to recommendations of the Board of then, and it is in any case pro- Conformably with the decree Fischboeck, while the engineer, Conciliation regarding the question, bable that there will be another the Government of Austria will Herr Reinthaler, was been appoint- of minimum wages for public works meeting early next week. British henceforth consist of the Reiched Minister of Agriculture-Trans- employees. Reuter.
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