London, Nov. 4.
The motion to enforce the Angl Italian Agreement, proposed by th Secretary of State for For Affairs, Viscount Halifax, in the House. of Lords yesterday, was carried by 55 votes (o Oty of Speaking of the el Spanish civil war, Lord Halifax that Signor Mussolini had alw made it plain that he was not pre" pared to see General Francisco Frane defeated.
As long as the war continued, Majesty's Government would relax in any way its interest in non-combatant section of the Span population.
The Government, he went on, now considering what steps it take to ensure the safe passage, into Spain, of provisions to be distribut te non-combatants by approved relief organizations.
The Government was also about double the contribution of £100 which it had made earlier, to International Commission for th relief of Spanish children, He added that, since the beginning of the war, the British Navy had. evacuated 30,000 Spanish refugees, Viscount Halifax declared th since the appointment of the Com mission to investigate aerial bombardments, there had been no air-raids om civilian areas comparable to those! earlier in the war. 1 The British Government had mo intention of relaxing its interest the welfare of the non-combat section of Spain, and, throughoi war, Great Britain had followed line of absolute non-intervention.
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