Belgium Adds Influence to Franco-British Demarche London, Feb. 4
The Spanish Republican Government has banned big air raids on Nationalist cities, pending the outcome of the negotiations initiated by ihe British and French Governments io bring to an end the air-bombing vendettas in Spain. it is reported today from Barcelona. The Republican: have limited operations of their force, for the time being, to co-opera tion with the Army.
The Belgian Chamber o^ Deputie has adopted a Socialist motion, which the Belgian Government subsequently accepted, that the Government should associate itself with the Anglo-French demarche over the bombardment of civilians in Spain In the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, said he would prefer te await the result of the approach to the two parties in Spain before making any further statement. Reports from Brussels and Paris, he added, indicated how fully public opinion on the Continent shared the dismay aroused in Britain by recent accounts of air raids in Spain and the desire to see an end put to the terrorization of civilian populations behind either-side of the Spanish fronts.—Reuter.
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