IN SPANISH WATERS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 206, 31 July 1937, Page 2

IN SPANISH WATERS

3.45 P.M. EDITION.

POSITION OP BRITISH SHIPS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received July 31, 1.55 p.m. RUGBY, July 30. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr G. H. Shakespeare, Parliamentary Under-Secretarv to the Admiralty,'said that if a British ship went into territorial waters she did so at her own risk. The Government was not prepared to intervene by force to prevent the capture of ’a British merchant ship which voluntarily placed herself within Spanish jurisdiction by entering Spanish waters, provided the capture was made with due regard to the universally recognised rules of naval warfare, which prohibited firing oil merchant ships before they were properly warned.

NON-INTERVENTION. PROGRESS AGAIN HALTED. (British Official Wireless.) Received July 31, 1.55 p.m. RUGBY, July 31. As the meeting of the non-interven-tion sub-committee continued to-day it became clear that before further progress could he made a clarification was necessary on certain points, which the chairman is understood to have again indicated as being the Russian reservation on the general statement of the plan so as to grant belligerent rights and the German and Italian reservation as to the respective timing in the execution of the plan. The Russian representative was again critical of the failure of the German and Italian Governments to accept unreservedly that part of the plan relating to the execution of the plan.