TENSION IN EUROPE

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 224, 23 August 1939, Page 3

TENSION IN EUROPE

ANGLO-FRENCH CONTACTS PLEA AIAl) El BY BELGIUM EFFORTS TO AVOID CONFLICT' r. ■/.;"* LONDON, Aug. 21. The Prime Aiinister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, and the Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, conversed for JJ hours to-day. A virtually full Cabinet meeting will- be hold to-mor-row. , A message from Paris states that the French Premier, AI. Daladier, and the British Secretary of State for War, Air. L. Horo-Belislia, conferred at the French War Ministry and covered' the international situation in great detail. ■ The French Cabinet also meets tomorrow. 'p

it is reported from Brussels that at a special meeting of the Belgian Cabinet to-day it was decided to propose that the signatories to the Oslo convention, Belgium, Hollard, Sweden, Norway, Luxemburg, Denmark and Finland, should jointly appeal for peace. King Leopold of Belgium is inviting the respective Foreign Ministers to Brussels for a. conference opening on Wednesday. An appeal.will bo addressed! to the great Rowers urging that the utmost efforts be made to avoid war, which would lead to untold sufferings to their own peoples and also to smaller nations not concerned in their quarrels. Norway, Sweden and Denmark have already agreed to attend the conic tcnce.