LAY ASIDE ARMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 201, 26 August 1939, Page 9

LAY ASIDE ARMS.

FERVENT APPEAL.

"Danger Is Vast, But There

Is Still Time." POPE'S SECOND BROADCAST. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 10.30 a.m.) SOME, August 25. The Pope, broadcasting a second appeal for peace, said: "A grave hour is striking for the great human family, an hour of tremendous deliberation, wherein our spiritual authority cannot disinterest itself from the task of inducing mankind to return to the path of justice and truth.

"Thus I speak to all of you who carry the weight of such great responsibility, because through our voice you are listening to the voice of that Christ which schooled the world in the higher life, the voice in which millions and millions of souls place their trust in an emergency in which only His words can rise over the thunders of the earth.

"To-day, when the tension seems to have reached such a pitch that we fear the outbreak of a tremendous whirlwind of war, we make to the rulers and peoples our warmest appeal to lay aside the threat of arms, and try to resolve present differences.

"The danger is vast, but there is still time. Nothing is lost by peace; everything is lost by war. With in is the whole of humanity, which looks for the bread of freedom rather than for the sword which kills and destroys. "We invite all men to turn their gaze on high and ask the Lord with fervent prayers that His Christian me rev descend abundantly 011 the tortured world and placate its angers, ami bring the sunshine dawn of a calmer future. In this expectation, in this hope, we impart to all men of heart our paternal benediction." moved to h.q. General Nazi Air Force Staff. ANOTHER ATROCITY REPORT. (Received l. ; ! 0 p.m.) BEISLIN. August, 2">. The general staff of the Air Force has been transferred to headquarters at Gatow. outside Berlin. The newspaper "AngrifT' claim* that 24 of the minority Ccrmati Ukrainian reservists have been machine-gunned and killed at the provisional military camp at Lodz, for refusing to be shifted to Northern Poland. SUGGESTED PACT. NEUTRAL BALTIC STATES. (Received 10 a.m.) KAUNAS, August 25. Lithuania has suggested a military alliance between Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to safeguard Baltic neutrality.