Dec. 12.
With the Non-Intervention Committee considerably exercised over the numbers of foreign volunteers who are proceeding to Spain to take part in the fighting on one side or the other, and the suggestion which thas been made that the time is ripe for diplomacy to seek settlement by intermediation, it may not be inapropos to consider the situation as it now exists in that unhappy country. Militarily the position seems to be one of stalemate, for though the insurgents have' undoubtedly made considerable progress, their failure to capture Madrid prevents them from following up their earlier successes to
over, at present little prospect that ultimate vielory, There is, more; they' will be able to take the capital unless there is some astonishing change in the fortunes of both sides, Winter tends to hinder the fighting and there is every' possibility that, the lull which at present exists,
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