CHANGE FOR BETTER

Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1933, Page 5

CHANGE FOR BETTER

EUROPE’S AFFAIRS

AVOIDING THE MENACE OF WAR.

(British Offic'%l Wireless.)

RUGBY, March 26,

Mr N. Chamberlain, speaking at Birmingham, said that a great and beneficient change had, in the past week, come over the situation in Europe, the result of British initiative.

■'the interest of this country is now, as it always inis been, in the preservation of peace,” he said, “but it is not enough for us to say that we ourselves do not intend to go to war. “Our interests lie deeper than that. It is our duty, by every effort we can make, and by every influence we can extend, to smooth differences and act as mediators, and to try to devise methods by which other countries may be delivered from the great menace or war.”

difficulties not insoluble

opinion of m. paul boncCur

PARIS, March 27. M. BtirtcOuv addressing the Friends’ Peace Lengtlo Said that, although present difficulties Were not insoluble pence or war was in the balance. It was essential that the Disarmament Conference should proceed during the present month, as a failure of it would set in motion an armament race which would lead to a catastrophe, but pessimism, lie added, would be premature. Referring tB the world economic conference, M. Boncour declared that those nations which do not see the necessity of interdependence of all would perish.

AUSTRIAN UPHEAVAL FEARED.

GOVERNMENT’S STERN ACTION

VIENNA, March 27,

Six thousand police used their drawn sword in order to suppress at tempts made to create serious disorders. This was when the Nazis, the Socialists and the Communists held simultaneous demonstrations.

The police arrested 430. They wounded several.

Many of the Jewish ' shops were closed.

The Government ordered battalions of infantry, and artillery battallions to parade the streets so as to over awe the population.

THE DARDANELLES CONVENTION

(Received March 23 at 10.22 a.hh)

GENEVA, March 2 ?

At the General Commission of the BieMinnammil. Gunfei-ome, • the Soviet supported the Turkish demand for a revision of the Dardanelles Convention attached to the Lausanne Peace Treaty.