"BRINK OF WAR."

Auckland Star, Volume LVX, Issue 268, 12 November 1934, Page 7

"BRINK OF WAR."

DANGERS OF TO-DAY.

Many Observers See Conflict In Near Future. GERMANY AND THE SAAR. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 12 noon.) LONDON, November 11. Newspapers take advantage of the Armistice Day celebrations to emphasise war dangers. The "Sunday Dispatch," under a streamer heading, "Trembling on the Brink of War," states that "even our War Office is driving us there," and says the War Office is recruiting Britons for the special Saar police which Mr. G. Knox, the Saar commissioner, requested. All has been done secretly. Successful applicants are paid at the rate of £600 a year with guaranteed compensation in the event of death or injury.

Robert Blatchford, the veteran journalist, in an article in the "Sunday Chronicle," says he is convinced Germany again means war, which she will prosecute with satanic hatred and ferocity. Though her hatred is directed against France, Booner or later Britain will be forced to fight for liberty and life.

The "Sunday Times" Berlin correspondent says that whatever is the result of the plebiscite, Germany intends to be the unquestioned master in the Saar. The Government apparently means to treat those working against Germany as guilty of high treason directly the plebiscite is over. The Rev. J. T. Rhys of Bermondsey, suggested an impressive deputation to His Majesty King George, imploring him to launch a world effort to abolish war.

Mr. Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal, speaking at Stratford-on-Avon, urged the widest possible general disarmament by international convention, but deprecated undue weakening of Britain's defences.

Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary, in a broadcast talk to America, emphasised the urgent need of peace and advocated co-operation between Britain and the United States.

The Archbishop of York denounced the treaties of Versailles and Trianon as a prolonged act of warfare. He said their revision was an indispensable preliminary to genuine peace. Christians must aid in the progress to international law from the boasted international anarchy in which the world now lived. "We must renounce our claim to absolute external sovereignty and not demand, in the last resort, to judge our own case," he said, adding: "We must bind ourselves to accept the judgment of an international authority equipped to settle international disputes. If international force were known to be sufficient, it would probably never need to be used."

OMINOUS OUTLOOK.

Lloyd George Sees Ferocious

Grin on Horizon.

WHY HE TOLD THE TRUTH.

LONDON, November 11

At the opening of the "Daily Express'" exhibition of pictures depicting the horrors of war Mr. Lloyd George said: "I do not believe that war is imminent, but there is a ferocious grin just above the horizon. That is why I decided to tell the truth in my memoirs to a generation almost ignorant of war. We must educate them regarding its horrors.

"Such knowledge will not prevent them if necessary from being willing to defend a noble cause, but it must be certain that if the calamity conies again it must be for an adequate cause. Frightfulness was not particularly German. It is an integral part of war which means killing, mutilating, drowning shattering, and starving.

"In the next war children will he in the front line. The same bombs and the same gas will kill and strangle them as it did their parents. Humanity must not be rushed into war for motives of ambition, racial hatreds, and racial jealousies." "POPPY DAY." WELL PATRONISED IN LONDON (Received 2 p.m.) RtteßY, November 11. Armistice Day is usually set aside as an occasion for the public sale of artificial poppies made by wounded exservicemen in aid of the funds of their organisation. Poppy Day took pl ace yesterday and many thousands of voluntary workers were in the streets to sell the emblems, which were universally worn.