AIRCRAFT FOR SPAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1938, Page 7

AIRCRAFT FOR SPAIN

PROBLEMS OF CONTROL VERY DIFFICULT QUESTIONS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT'S UNDERTAKING (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 27. Asked in the House of Commons today whether the recent agreement for the evacuation of foreign troops from Spain included measures for the international control of the passage of aircraft and air personnel into Spain, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr R. A. Butler, said that it was extremely difficult to make such control effective. As regards air. personnel, he said, those fell in the category of volunteers whom the countries which were parties to the agreement had already undertaken to prevent from proceeding to Spain. In another answer Mr Butler said that an undertaking already given by the Italian Government that no war material would be sent to Spain would be reaffirmed in a draft resolution now under examination by the Non-Inter-vention Committee. He said that he was unaware that Italian aeroplanes had, as suggested in the question, been travelling from Italian territory to bomb towns in Government-controlled areas. The undertakings to which he already referred undoubtedly covered such activities.