MORE ACUTE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 91, 17 April 1936, Page 7

MORE ACUTE.

SANCTIONS EFFECT.

League Critics May Have to

Recant.

GROWING IMPETUS. British Official Wireless. (Received 2 p.m.) RUGBY, April 16. The impression of the potential strength of concerted economic action against aggression created by the figures published at Geneva yesterday, showing the first effects of League sanctions on trade with Italy, has increased now that there has been an opportunity to study the report of the experts in detail.

The argument is now heard that critics of the League Powers, who in recent months have declared that the measures so far taken to enforce the 1 Covenant are ineffective, will be compelled to recant.

The incomplete returns for February are most significant for they indicate an acceleration of the fall off in trade as an influence of exemptions allowed to goods in transit.

This cumulative effect, it is pointed out in the Press, is bound to grow so long as existing sanctions are maintained, while the temporary relief obtained by a Covenant-breaking State by means of inflated trade in anticipation of sanctions and before they came into force, must soon be exhausted.

APPEAL TO BRITAIN.

Anti-Gas Equipment for

Abyssinian^.

" APPALLING SUFFERING."

British Official Wireless. (Received 1.30 p.m.)

RUGBY, April 16.

An appeal appears in the Press signed by the Duchess of Hamilton as chairman of the Abyssinian Relief Committee for funds for the purchase, of gas masks, anti-gas medicaments and hospital equipment generally, for dispatch to Abyssinia. The large sums already subscribed by the British public, as well as in other countries, for ambulance equipment in Abyssinia, had less effect than was hoped for owing to the large-scale destruction of stores in Italian bombing raids.

Urgent representations had been received by British societies from Abyssinia as to the need for further and immediate help in the face of appalling suffering resulting from intensification of gas warfare by Italian forces.