London, Sept. 2.
The reply of the Burgos authorities to the Non-Intervention Committee's plan for the withdrawal from Spain of non-Spanish conibatants was the subject of further exchanges of view at the Foreign Office today, when Lord Plymouth, Chairman of the Committee, received separately, the Italian and Soviet Ambassadors and the German and Portuguese Charge d'Affaires—Wireless through Reuter.
In conversation with a representative of the "North China Daily News" at a small reception given in his honour on Friday evening, Mr. Chirgwin mentioned that just before leaving London he attended a gathering at which Mr. Edwin Howard, formes editor of the "North China Daily News" spoke on the Sino-Japanese situation, and among the audience was the Rev. H. G. Newsham, former minister of Union Church, Shanghai, who has now been appointed to the Congregational Church at Wilmslow, a suburb of Manchester.
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