REPORTED DECISION.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 335, 16 January 1937, Page 5

REPORTED DECISION.

DEPENDS ON RUSSIA No Further Assistance For General Franco. Press Association —Copyright. London, Jan. 15. It is believed that Italy and Germany have decided agiainst the dispatch of further volunteers and munitions to Spain, says the correspondent of the Daily Mai! at Rome, but if t he future shows that. France and' Russia are continuing t o send help to the Government Italy and Germany will reconsider their decision* It is thought at. Rome that General Franco’s offensives should result in the sweeping of Bolshevist forces from all parts of Spain, except perhaps from Catalonia. It is understood «hat both General Goering and Count Ciano reaffirmed that it was contrary to Italo-German interests to permit Bolshevism to take root in Spain. General Goering gave assurances that Germany had no territorial aims anywhere in the Mediterranean. Signor Mussolini emphasised that the Angllo-ltal-ian Mediterranean agreement does not interfere with Germany's colonies on which .Germany’s expansion colonists on which Germany has set eye are not near the Medifierrantean..