Anvils Drown Prayers For Peace

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 31, 6 February 1937, Page 5

Anvils Drown Prayers For Peace

Humanity Looking i To British Empire MR. LLOYD GEORGE’S COMMENTARY. United Press Association—Bv Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Friday, 10.30 p.m. KINGSTON (Jamaica), Feb. 5. I Mr. Lloyd George, on the eve of his departure, said Europe’s prayers for peace had been drowned out by the .ing of anvils in the manufacture of most terrible machines. Tho British J Umpire was the only entity that can save the world and humanity is looking to it to do so. ARMED NEUTRALITY ADVOCATED. Received Friday, 7.5 p.m. WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. Mr. Bernard M. Baruch, an economist of note, appearing before the Housts military affairs committee at the neutrality resolutions hearings 4 said the I United States was trying to travel in opposite directions at the same timo by j endeavouring to build foreign trade through reciprocal agreements and simultaneously voting strict neutrality. He pointed out that this conflict of ideas must make certain countries hesitate , to establish economic relations with the United States when they might be dej prived of vital supplies in time of war. lie advocated strong armed neutrality. I He asked, who can believe that had we , been ready to fight in 1917, we should 1 have been subjected to the English interference and German insolence that finally made us fight? Ho issued a warning that the cutting off of supplies of raw materials from belligerents would result in retaliation depriving the United States of such essential products as tin, nickel and rubber. Senator Pittman, in a statement said: “Reports that Mr. Walter Runciman, when at Washington, received assurances that there would be no interference with shipments to Britain in the event of the latter being involved in war, are in my opinion entirely without foundation. Such au attitude would be inconsistent with tho administration’s policy of non-interferenee in the affairs of other nations.” BELGIUM SEEKS TERRITORIAL SECURITY. i HITLER’S REPLY MUCH TOO VAGUE. Received Friday, 11.50 p.m. BRUSSELS, Feb. 5. The German Government’s reply to the Belgian Note requesting details of Herr Hitler’s promise of guarantee of independence and the territorial integrity of Belgium, refers the Belgian Government to the German Memorandum of March 30, 1936, wherein .Herr Hitler proposed a 25-year non-aggres-sion pact betwoen Franco and Belgium on the one hand and Germany on the other. Belgian official circles corr~\mnt: “This is much too vague.” HITLER WATCHING CROWN PRINCE FURTHER EVIDENCE OF GERMAN REACTION Received Friday, 11.50 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 5. The Herald’s Berlin correspondent says Hitler has ordered a close watch to be kept on the movements of the exCrown Prince owing to alleged secret activities, including numerous meetings with German army generals, somo of whom are known to be luKewas-m towards tho Nazi regime which is caus ing concern in Nazi circles where it is recognised that the Prussian aristocracy would look to the ex-Crown Prince first and foremost if signs developed that Hitler’s grip on Germany was slipping. The ex-Crown Princo was allowed to return to Germany after three years’ exile, on condition that ho did not participate in domestic or foreign politics. He never allied himself to the Nazis except at a brief appearance as a “motor stormtrooper.’*

BRITAIN HAS VESSELS BUILDING LONDON, Feb. 5. Tlie tonnage of vessels under con struction for the Admiralty in private yards in Scotland amount to 65,502 The vessels include three cruisers, 1-J destroyers, and two submarines. Yards in the north-west of England according to information in a Parlia mentary answer, are building 89,31 u tons, including one capital ship, two aircraft-carriers and eight submarines, The Tyneside and north-eastern yard;are executing Admiralty orders totalling 110,805 tons, including one capital ship, one aircraft-carrier, four cruisers and eight destroyers. One cruiser of about 10,000 tons is being built at Belfast, while four destroyers and other light vessels amounting in all to 11,169 tons are under construction in Southampton. Cowes and ether yards in the south. « The Bill also provides for the Governor General to appoint a person to administer the Oath to or arrange with any other Dominion for a collective oat.li “in a form to be agreed upon.”