WIDE SAFETY ZONES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1939, Page 5

WIDE SAFETY ZONES

FOR AMERICAN SHIPPING OFF ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC COASTS. PROPOSALS AT PANAMA CONFERENCES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. PANAMA, September 28. The text of the proposal for a safety zone for shipping made at the PanAmerican Conference by the United States Assistant-Secretary of State, Mr Sumner Welles, reveals that a zone is suggested extending over 300 miles from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Americas and including the British owned Falklands, which Argentina also claims. The line proposed for the zone will start off Passamaquoddy Bay, go southward along the sixtieth degree of longitude to a point off southern Florida, thence south-east to the twentyfourth degree of longitude off St Paul Isle, southward along the twentyfourth degree of longitude to Trinidad Island, south-westerly to a point off Cape Hom, thence follow the fiftyeighth parallel of south latitude to the eightieth degree of west longitude, taking in all Tierra del Fuego, north-west to the ninety-seventh degree of longitude at the Equator, including the Galapagos, north-westerly to the hundred and twentieth degree of longitude at the fifteenth parallel of north latitude and along the one hundred and thirtysixth degree of longitude to a point off the American-Canadian border. NEUTRALITY LAW BROADCAST BY SENATOR PITTMAN. WASHINGTON, September 28. The chairman of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Pittman, broadcasting to the nation, defended the Administration’s neutrality proposals as a, fair and intelligently contrived plan to keep the country from war. The present statute, he said, was far from neutral. He denied that the repeal of the arms embargo would place the United States in the position of helping Britain and France, since Germany’s allies, Italy and Russia, had not been declared belligerents, and could import whatever they desired. FAVOURABLE REPORT. MADE BY SENATE COMMITTEE. (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 28 The Neutrality Bill was reported favourably from the Senate Committee and the debate is expected to start on Monday. The Bill was approved by the committee by 16 votes to 7, after a threehour discussion. It involves a come and get it plan and also curtails the movements of United States shipping, except under special exemption and those of United States air lines operating in belligerent territories in the western hemisphere.