ALLEGED TRICKERY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 July 1938, Page 8

ALLEGED TRICKERY

BY ITALY AND GENERAL FRANCO MOCK WITHDRAWAL PLANNED ACCORDING. TO SPANISH GOVERNMENT (Recd This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, July 11. Simultaneously with the publication of the evacuation scheme, the Spanish Ambassador in London handed the Foreign Office a Note alleging that it was proposed, as a result of conversations between General Franco and Italy, to transfer to Italy 10,000 men, mostly incapacitated and sick, and incorporate the remainder of the Italian troops in Spain into a Spanish Foreign Legion, as volunteers wearing the Spanish uniform and passing as Spaniards under assumed names, Italian General Staff advisers remaining in’ Spain to wear mufti. The Ambassador explains that these reports emanate from sources considered reliable. THE WITHDRAWAL PLAN TIMES & NUMBERS OF MEN LAID DOWN. TASK OF A HUNDRED DAYS. (British Official Wireless.) (Recd This Day, 1.33 p.m.) RUGBY, July 11. The plan of evacuation from Spain (reported in an earlier cablegram) contemplates that foreign volunteers will be transferred to the evacuation areas at a steady rate of not less than 2.000 men daily, each party to undertake that on the day on which the actual withdrawal starts, and on each subsequent day thereafter, there shall be not less than five days’ quotas of foreign volunteers already withdrawn from the battle area and available for transfer to the evacuation areas. The timetable for effecting withdrawals provides that daily quotas of foreign volunteers will be transferred by the Spanish parties concerned to the evacuation areas on the forty-sixth day after the final adoption by the International Committee of the resolution. On the 101st day from the final adoption of the resolution, or on such earlier day as the withdrawal of foreign volunteers who are neither sick nor wounded, nor prisoners of war, may have been completed, the Spanish parties concerned will begin the transfer to the evacuation areas of sick, wounded and prisoners of war, and finally of any women foreign volunteers, in daily quotas to be agreed upon between the commissions and the Spanish parties concerned. On the 101st day, the commission will begin the task of verifying that no foreign volunteers remain unevacuated. The whole of the expenditure involved in carrying out the withdrawals will be tendered, on behalf of the participating governments, by the Non-Inter-vention Board. DRIVE ON VALENCIA REBELS CLAIM PROGRESS (Recd This Day, 1.20 p.m.) BURGOS, July 11. The rebels claim that they have reached the first line of the loyalist fortifications round Sagunto.