SITUATION IN EUROPE

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 226, 28 August 1939, Page 3

SITUATION IN EUROPE

BRITISH CABINET PREPARfES ACTIVITY IN LONDON LABOUR MESSAGE TO GERJYLYN PEOPLE Gil AYE PERIL OF. WIDESPREAD "WAR (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Aug. 25. Outstanding in a day of official activity in London directed to putting the. country in a state of preparation for an emergency was a meeting- ot the Committee of Imperial Defence which was attended by all the Defence 'Ministers, and a session of the privy Council held at Rockingham Palace in the evening. At the latter the first regulations were made under •the Emergency Powers Defence Act. The King gave an audience to the H< me Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoard. A meeting of Ministers was held at Downing Stieet at noon. Tim Foreign Secretary, Viscount Hal i lax, received visits from the Fiendi Ambassador, M. Corbin, and the United States Ambassador, Air. J. P. Kennedy. “War is ven near,” says the British Labour Party in. a message to the German . people issued this evening. “If Herr Hitler attacks Poland, it will be war for Germany, not only with Boland blit Ironi the first day with Britain and France also. “Your Government does not tell you the truth. British Labour, which is a friend of the German people, will toll you the truth. 3 our Government made a pact of non-aggression with Moscow. A Government- which, for six veins, you have been told was vour major enemy is now transformed overnight into your historic friend. “The Russo-German pact- has made no difference to the British and 1’ reneli pledges which Labour completely approved. If the threat of force is renounced. there coulu be a just and noacetui solution of international 'disputes.’’ POLISH .IGKEJVJIDN T SIGNED LONDON, Aug. 25. M'lie foreign Secretary, \ iscomu Halifax, and the Polish Ambassador signed an agreement of mutual assistance between the United Kingdom and Poland. The pact consists of eight clauses, making effective the provisional agreement reached during the recent visit to London of the Polish Foreign Minister. Colonel J. Beck.