ANXIETY IN BRITAIN.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17164, 22 March 1927, Page 5

ANXIETY IN BRITAIN.

LONDON, March 20. The "Daily Telegraph's" diplomatic correspondent states: — "It would be idle to deny that acute anxiety has bsen felt in British official circles concerning the situation. Ministers and experts duxung the week-end have beexi busily considering the possibilities on the spot as well as external diplomatic interrention from every conceivahle angle. Belgrade will certainly he invited to meet the d'etails of the Italian charge. Many officials are advocating immedi.\te recourse to the League, followed by the appointment of a commission of experts to proceed to the danger zone. On the other hand others feel that intervention now would merely embitter and xnagnify the feeling apart from the possibility of failure imperilllng the existence of the League. The alternative which «>eems to he' Javoured by British 'diplomacy would appear to be a series of joint concerted despatches from the great Powers, but the assunxption that the Po"j.vers are united as on the occasion of the Bulgar- | Greek quarrel is 1925 may he a dan- ] gerous delusion. ,