THREE-POWER PACT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 53, 4 March 1925, Page 5

THREE-POWER PACT.

PARTICIPATION OF GERMANY. NO DECISION IN ENGLAND. SECURITY OF EUROPE. (By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, March 3. In connection with rumours arising out of a lengthy Cabinet meeting last evening on questions connected with thu Geneva protocol, that the Cabinet favours the Anglo-Franco-Belgian security pact with, if possible, German participation, it is learned in influential British circles that so far as is known the Cabinet has not reached any decision in this connection.

Many suggestions have been submitted to Cabinet, but hitherto, as far as is asccrtaina'ble, none of these has been adopted.

Consequently statements that certain new proposals are supported 'by the Dominions are discredited.-— A. and X.Z.

HANDS TO PLOUGH.

BISHOP FOGARTY'S ADVICE,

LONDON, February 23.

Commenting on the distress in Ireland, Bishop McNeelly, of Raphoe, condemns the pessimistic propaganda as keeping the people in a ferment of discontent.

Much of the depression, he says, is due to the long spell of adverse weather, but "why sho.uld people faint now who did not lose. confidence in more trying times?"

Bishop Fogarty, of Killaloe, says: "During the Great War, while others were starving, God lavished abundance oil Ireland. We have shown by burning, wrecking and destroying 'the j:ifts of God, in a campaign of crime, Wiiich is an awttil seanciai to the world and a disgrace to our Catholic name.

"If His chastising hand is laid upon us vr' have nobody to blame but ourselves. L'nless Ireland organises her agricultural resources, everything we have to sell will be driven from the market. We shall be left, as we deserve to be, a nation of beggars."