WORLD UNREST

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19894, 25 May 1936, Page 5

WORLD UNREST

THE FEAR OF WAR. RESTRICTION OF TRADE. ‘ ___. ECONOMIC CONFERENCE URGED.‘ i a..." ‘ United Press Assn—Eiec. Tc]. Copyright-o LONDON, May 23. The annual report of the Interim-i tional Labour Organisation is the mosti outspoken ever issued. It points out that. much or the remarkable increases‘ in the output of pig-iron and steel and the activity in the chemical, motor—car and coal industries in Germany. Japan. Italy, Britain, Czechoslovakia end elsewhere is due to rear-moment. Therefore, it is sinister that many countries have cut down their imports of materials required for normal economic activity. _ Unemployment has not decreased in France, Holland or Switzerland. Even in Britain and America it exceeds that of the [ire—depression level. Interna—tional trade is still perilously restricted. The greatest obstacle to the restora—tion of confidence now is not economic but political. The fear or war has become almost panic. The report urges a new Economic Conference. ARABS AND JEWS. .__, MANY SHiO-OTING AFFRAYS. PEOPLE INJURED BY BOMBS. United Press Assn —Eler Te: Copyright. JERUSALEM. May 24. Following upon the Arab raid on a food convoy at Haifa, which was re—pelled yesterday, an attempt was made to set fire to the Levant Fair. It is understood that emergency measures are to he introduced for the control of all traflle. Seaforlh High—landers are guarding the main points in the lloly Cit) and the police are patrolling the streets wearing steel heli‘nets. Emir Abdullah has rebuffed the Arabs' overtures for his support and has deprecated violence and advised the acceptance of the proposed Royal Commission. The authorities are tightening up ,measures for dealing with the tension between the Arabs and the Jews. They have prohibited the Arab strike lead« lers leaving towns in which they reside. ,interdicled a conference or Aral) Mayors tat Ramoilah and also prohibited motor—ists without permits using the roads in order to prevent terrorists carrying tout motor raids. The consequence is that all road traffic at present is convoyed by troops. iThe train services have been reduced, night trains have been cancelled and all .trains carry military escorts. i Many shooting affrays are reported from various parts of the country. Incendiarlcs set fire to a cricket pavilion lat Nazareth. ‘ A bomb was thrown at an open-air icinoma at Halls and two people in the audience were injured. The Arab hoaimrn at lliiifa have struck. | There are 5000 British troops in ,Palcstinc. including a tank corps. RIOTs IN AUSTRIA. ‘ i RAID 0N STARIIEMBERG‘S CASTLE. ONE NAZI KILLED, SEVERAL liUllT. United Press A:sn.—~FJ>-~- Tr": .'uo\""ir"-! VIENNA, May 28. One Nazi was killed and several ‘others were injured, one fatally, in a ‘raid at Prince Starhcmberg‘s castle at VVa-chsherg. The police had been forewarned of ithe plot and arrived simultaneously with the Nazis. A flame tight ensued. i The motive of the Nazi‘s apparently ;was to capture it quantity or lleiin—iwehr arms stored in the castle. Prince iStarhle-inbrrg was not present at the time. ‘ The attack on the castle has aroused ifears of renewed Nazi violence. The police in t'pper .\ustria have been ordiered to rcnndn permanently on alarm Iduty to prevent trouble arising from the incident or lleiniwehr demonstrat—‘lions. .\i'incd guards have been Stiltionrd at l’i‘inrr Stitrheniherg‘s I‘.‘ other castles in Upper Austria. ‘ So far 28 arrests have been made in connection with the afi'i‘iiy at \\'achs—berg, in which the police state -t0 to .30 Nazis attacked with revolver tire. The polirc replied with rillcs. The lighting raged for 15 minutes [in darkness, The ringleader oi‘ the ;Nazis and the others escaped to [tizechoslovuliia l lt is believed that several of the raiders were former members of [Prince Starhcmbcrg‘s bodyguard, one int \vhnin rcvenied the plot.