CONTROL PROBLEM

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 255, 9 August 1937, Page 5

CONTROL PROBLEM

FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES. NON-INTERVENTION COMMITTEE. CONTRIBUTIONS NOT PAID. k United] Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, August 6 Scepticism regarding non-interven-tion has increased following the disclosure of the financial difficulties at the meeting of the Chairman’s subcommittee when the secretary’s statement showed that many Governments were in arrears with payments. The Associated Press understands that the secretary pointed out that there was very little left in the coffers. Only Britain was not in arrears. The British Treasury was determined not to provide more money until the others paid up both arrears and current subscriptions due on Sunday. This announcement was greeted with polite silence until the chairman (the Earl of Plymouth) pointed out that if the position was not clarified the chairman’s sub-committee might be called next week to consider the finances upon which Ambassadors who fear that their chances of an August holiday will be vanishing, hastily announce that they would approach their Governments and no doubt the money would be forthcoming. The contributions amount to £IOO,OOO monthly. Until these are paid no money will be available for the salaries of 600 international observers, of whom naval observers are most active, but the observers on the France and Portugal frontiers are unemployed. SMALL POWERS PAY. TOTAL DEFICIT LARGE. LONDON, August 7. It is officially announced that 11 small Powers have paid their contributions to the Non-Intervention Committee. Belgium even paid up in advance. A communique states that yesterday’s interpretation of the secretary’s statement arose from a misunderstanding of what he desired! to stress was that Great Britain alone of the five great Powerg had paid up to date, hut as the great Powers contribute 80 per cent., the total deficit is large. WITHDRAWAL OF VOLUNTEERS THE ATTITUDE OF RUSSIA. LONDON, August 6. At the beginning of the meeting of the Non-Intervention Committee the chairman (the Elarl of Plymouth) said he was able to record some progress toward the elimination of the difficulties in securing the adoption of the British proposals, but unfortunately not sufficient to enable the committee to proceed. However, he had found that all the representatives were equally anxious to avoid a breakdown in the committee’s work and lie thought that a report and suggestions of the kind which the committee later agreed to ask for, would be valuable while he continued to explore a way out of the difficultieß. The Soviet representative intimated his Government’s inability to modify its opinion against recognition of belligerent rights in favour of the Spanish insurgents. The German representative said that unilateral control could clearly not go on indefinitely. In reply to the Russian representative’s request for a specific statement that the German, Italian and Portuguese Governments would agree unconditionally to the withdrawal of volunteers, Senor Monteiro emphasised the essential interdependence of the British proposals which the Portuguese Government had accepted in principle as a whole. Count Grandi reiterated that specifically and categorically the Italian Government had accepted the British plan in principle. After sitting at the F’oreign Office for an hour and a half the chairman’s sxib-committee of the Non-Intervention Committee decided to request the chairman and secretary of the Non-In-tervention Board for a report on the observations scheme, and for suggestions for restoring and improving the scheme of control. The committee is not likely, to meet again for at least a fortnight.—British Official Wireless. AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS KILLED. THREE HUNDRED AT MADRID. SALAMANCA, August 6. A captured American student declares 300 Americans in the international brigade have been killed in Madrid since April. ADVANCE BY INSURGENTS SURRENDER OF 2000 LOYALISTS. ■LONDON, August 6. > The Lisbon correspondent of “The Times” says a nationalist thrust on the Tern el sector resulted in an advance of 12 miles on a fifteen-mile front. Two thousand Government troops surrendered owing ot shortage of rations. PAPAL SECRETARY KILLED. MADRID, August 6. The shelling of Madrid resulted in damage to the Papal legation and the lulling of the secretary.