BRITAIN WANTS WITHDRAWAL OF VOLUNTEERS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 142, 3 July 1937, Page 5

BRITAIN WANTS WITHDRAWAL OF VOLUNTEERS

(eRceived 3, 845 a.m,) % LONDON July 2. The Foreign Secretary Mr Authony Edeu, sated in the House of Commons that there was no question of an agreement granting rights to the belligerents in the Spanish civil war, being reqched at the meeting of the . Non-Interventjon Committee to-day. The Government would continue to press for the withdrawal of foreign combatants from Spain. He was not in a position to make a statement of the Government'a policy in the event of the non-intervention breaking down, Mr David Lloyd George: As a most seripus decision vitally affecting British interests may be taken before the House reassejnbles on Monday, will Mr Eden mahe a statement this afternoon? Mr Edeu: If J ean, but I doubt Whether it will be possible tP say anything beyond giving the committee 's communique until -Cabinet eonsiders * the situation, M- 0M'bjn, Freneh Ambassador in London, ;onferred with the Earl of PJyjncmth before the meeting of the Non-Iutervention Committee. The German Ambassador, Herr von Bibbeutrop, was an early arrival at the meeting Of the nonrlntervention Committee, and was aeeompanied by the German Emb&ssy cQunsellor, Herr Wperman, who arrived by air from Berlip with Herr Hitler's instructions from Berlin. • The British Ambassador in Berlin ealled on Baron Von Heqrath, German Foreign MinistgT. The German |iress throws the wholo(

i crisis on to Britain, aceusing her of dynamiting the Non-Intervention Committee, and with threatening to supply arms to the Ked forces ia Spain