SUB-COMMITTEE MEETS.

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SUB-COMMITTEE MEETS.

retary of the Non-Intervention Board for a report on the observations scheme and for suggestions for restoring and improving the scheme of control. At the beginning of the meeting Lord Plymouth said he was able to record some progress towards the elimination of difficulties in securing the adoption of the British proposals, but unfortunately it was not sufficient to enable the committee to proceed. However, he had found all the representatives equally anxious to avoid a breakdown of the committee’s work, and he thought a report and suggestions of the kind which the committee later agreed to ask for would be valuable. Objection by Russia. While he continued to explore a way out of the difficulties, the Soviet representative intimated his Government’s inability to modify its opinion against the recognition of belligerent rights in favour of the Spanish insurgents. The German representative said unilateral control could clearly not go on indefinitely. In reply to the Russian representative’s request for a specific statement that the German, Italian, and Portuguese Governments agree unconditionally to the withdrawal of volunteers, Senhor Monteiro emphasised the essential interdependence of the British proposals, which the Portuguese Government had accepted in principle as a whole. Count Grandl reiterated that specifically and oategorlcally the Italian Government had accepted the British plan In principle. The committee also heard a statement from the secretary showing that many Governments were in arrears in their payments under the non-inter-vention plan and representatives present agreed to inform their Governments immediately of the situation, with a view to the necessary payments being made. The committee is not likely to meet again for at least a fortnight.

ELIMINATION OF DIFFICULTIES. LORD PLYMOUTH IN ACCIDENT. (Official Wireless.) (Received August 7, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, August 6. Although Lord Plymouth was injured in a taxi-cab accident in London last night, he presided over this afternoon’s meeting of the Non-Inter-vention Sub-committee. His head was cut over the right eye, but after receiving attention at West-

minster Hospital, where several stitches were put In the wound, he was able to proceed home. After sitting for an hour and a-half at the Foreign Office, the Committee decided to ask the chairman and seo-