Volunteer Ban Equally Approved

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 41, 18 February 1937, Page 7

Volunteer Ban Equally Approved

Britain Urges Immediate Action l GERMANY TO CONTRIBUTE United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright Received Wednesday, 7.30 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 16. At a full meeting of tho Non-Inter-vention Committee, Herr von Ribbentrop welcomed the Committee’s decision as tho possible turning point. He announced that Germany was prepared to contribute financially to the immediate operation of land and soa control. He hoped Portugal would find its way to collaborate. Lord Plymouth, chairman, urged the necessity of immediate action. The Russian, French and Italian representatives also issued statements expressing satisfaction. The Portugese delegate declared that the dangers confronting Spain menaced tho public order and independence of Portugal. Nevertheless, it accepted the ban on volunteers, while reserving its attitude to the supervision proposals. The Daily Telegraph’s diplomatic correspondent understands that Portugal is willing to accept frontier supervision by Britain alone if other nations raise no objections. BRITISH DESTROYER TO CARRY FOOD (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Feb. 16. The British Government has agreed to provide his Majesty’s destroyer Express to carry food for the relief of refugees in Almeria. The food will be provided by the Spanish Government and will be carried by the destroyer from Alicante to Almeria. STRONGER GUARD ON FRENCH FRONTIER PARIS, Feb. 16. The Government is strengthening the Spanish frontier guards in readiness for the banning of volunteers and foreigners. It is estimated that with General Franco’s forces there axe 30,000 Italiams, 25,000 Germans, 25,000 Moors, and 5000 others, and that the loyalist volunteers include 28,000 Frenchmen, 14,000 Belgians, 11,000 Czechs, Britons, and German and Italian anti-Fascists, and 6000 Russians, mostly technicians. TRAGIC STORIES OF FLIGHT FROM MALAGA. REFUGEES PURSUED BY TANKS. LONDON,' Feb. 16. ~ The Times Almeria correspondent says: The bombing of a children’s isfuge and the killing of 57 was an isolated incident in the long-drawn-out agony of the flight from Malaga, of which a wounded aviator supplies »n account. He was one of three who escaped out of 14. They had flown out in the hope of facilitating the escape of thousands of fugitives, behind whom rebels, in tanks, motor cars and on foot, speeded the flight, while the exhausted crowds were bombed from the sky and fired upon by several of 17 hostile warships, German and Italian ships. ‘‘Twenty-four pursuit planes attacked loyalist aircraft. The hands of one pilot were thrice pierced, but he steered left-hand and alighted on the water near the beach, where the occupants of the plane waded nshnra. carrying two dead comrades.”