London, June 24.
The British Cabinet is pessimistic over the outcome of today's Non-
Intervention Sub-Committee meeting, reliable diplomatic observers now assert, contradicting previous reports.
Efforts are being made, it is added, to convince Signor Benito Mussolini io make substantial unilateral withdrawal of Italian volunteers in Spain irrespective of the non-intervention scheme's materialization:
Various delegations to the Sub-Committee session have made express reservations on certain points of the plan for the withdrawal of the foreign combatants in the Iberian peninsula, it is now learnt.
Therefore, fears are held that these representatives' governments will reject these objectionable parts of the Scheme, thereby hindering the adoption of the whole plan.
Germany is apparently unwilling to shoulder supplementary expenses arising from Russia's refusal to share the costs of instituting naval control over Spain's coastline and from the repatriation of the volunteers, The total expenditure foreseen in carrying out these measures is £2,500,000, and Moscow's refusal to aid would increase considerably the other Powers' shares.
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