ANTI-WAR PACT

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1928, Page 2

ANTI-WAR PACT

AIR KELLOGG’S SIGNATURE. Australian Press Assn.—United Service LONDON, Aug. 21. Air Kellogg, on bis disembarkation at Havre on Friday, will be presented by the Mayor with a massive gold pen, with which lie will sign the Pact. The pen is engraved with olive leaves and the thirteen Americans stars, while the case bears a device in Latin, “If you wish for peace, for peace prepare.” Air Kellogg will travel to Paris by a special train and proceed to the American Embassy. He lias arranged to leave Havre with Air Cosgrave on the 29t.1i, aboard the United States' cruiser Detroit for Cork, and to leave liUland at the end of tlie week, in the Detroit for England. N.Z. PRIMATE’S APPEAL. AUCKLAND, August 22. . Au appeal to all men of goodwill to mark by prayer and thanksgiving, the signing at Paris next week of Die Kellogg Peace Pact, is made by tlie Primate, Archbishop Averill. In tlie course of a letter to the “ Herald ” ho says: “ I venture to appeal to all men of goodwill to offer thanksgiving and prayers to Almighty God on Sunday, August 26tli; Tuesday, August 28th ; and Sunday, September 2nd, (I) for the measure of agreement which has been reached by the great nations of the earth on this allimportant question of the outlawry of war; and (2) for Divine blessing upon the practical outcome oT the Treaty, •j lie spirit behind the League of Nations Covenant and the Locarno Treatf is focussed in this all important step to he taken at Paris on August 28th, and it behoves all who realise the importance and force of spiritual, moral and humanitarian sanctions to express their sympathy with this splendid development in international relationships. From every point of view it seems to me to he our bounden dutj to do all wo can to eliminate Ifrom the minds of men the overhanging dread and baneful shadow of an impending next war. Alay our hearts express themselves in thanksgiving and pravei for the happy .consummation of this very real step toward universal peace.”