BLOCKADE OF SPAIN

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 377, 8 March 1937, Page 5

BLOCKADE OF SPAIN

NOW OPERATIVE NON-INTERVENTION Naval and Land Control Details. Press Association—Copyright. London, March 6. International supervision of Spain, which should have become operative at midnight to-night, will at present not be introduced owing to the details not being settled by the Non-Interven-tion Committee, which sat all day to day agreed to naval and land control and other matters, but some technicalities are outstanding. Supervision of the Spanish coast will cost £900,000 in a full year, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Rusia are each responsible for 16 per cent., the remainder being distributed among 22 other countries. It is unlikely that the full scheme for the supervision of the application of the non-intervention agreement will be known until after the plenary committee meeting, probably on Monday. It is expected administration of the supervision will be entrusted by the international committee to another committee or board which will probably consist of a chairman nominated by the International committee itself and representatives of the five principal Powers among the 27 States participating in the non-intervention agreement.

Observation on the PortugueseSpanish frontier will be organised outside the general scheme. The Franco-Spanish frontier will be watched by an international body of observers numbering 130, and five observers will exercise similar control along the short Gibraltar-Spanish frontier.