WORKERS' PLEA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 201, 26 August 1939, Page 10

WORKERS' PLEA.

"WAR VERY NEAR." British Labour Message To German People. NOT TOLD THE TRUTH. British Official Wireless. (Received 3 p.m.) • KL'GBV, August 20. "War is very near," says the British Labour party in a message to the German people issued this evening. "If Herr Hitler attacks Poland, it will be war for Germany. not only with Poland, but from the first day with Britain and France also. "Your Government does not tell you the truth," the message continues. "British Labour, which is a friend of the German people, will toll you the truth. Your Government made a pact of non-aggression with Moscow. The Government which for six years you have been told was your major enemy is now transformed overnight into your historic friend."' "British Labour tells you with all solemnity that this pact has made no difference at all to the position of Britain and France. We have no wish to destroy the German people, therefore we do all in our power to serve peace bv telling you the truth now, before it is too late."

An Independent Cable message from London adds that the message says that, if the threat of force were renounced, there could be a just and peaceful solution of international disputes.

"RETURN TO REASON."

Italy To Continue Peace

Efforts.

SHIPS REMAIN IN PORTS

(Received 3 p.m.)

ROME, August 2.3

Signor Mussolini's Press mouthpiece. Signor Gayda, states that Italy has not exhausted her diplomatic moves to avert war. "Italy will continue to operate to the last useful hour for a i etui n to reason and justice,'' he savs.

All Italian line ships are remaining in port. Banks have been banned from cashing sterling cheques, fearing that Biitish banks will not honour them in the event of war.

Ihe Rome Pres« attacks Mr. Chamberlain s speech, which is described as tun of equivocations, deductions and hypocrisy. It repeats that a catastrophe can occur at any moment, and can be avoided only by Poland backing down. °

Two. classes, totalling 500.000, have been mobilised, says a Rome messa-e S&,oto. total ~nder arn,s nc,l, 'r

Another message, however, says that hardly any anti-British feeling* i s e xEV" , Ita J-V ven in the newspapers, in fill Chamberlains speech

The Associated Press Paris correspondent savs M. Picric Laval 1,,= ",Xitr °' '"" ,e ~ rt »'

HOPE AGAINST HOPE. POLICY FORCEIT ON BRITAIN. British Official Wireless. (Received 3 p.m.) RUGB\, August 21 The "Manchester Guardian," „ few months has been forced on this country, because ,we cannot let Europe succumb to force. .Vow we are at the eleventh hour and can only hope against hope that the appeals of King Leopold, the Pope and President Roosevelt will still be hoard. As President Roosevelt says in liis appeal to King Emmanuel, 'The unheard voices of countless millions of human beings ask that they shall not be vainly sacrificed again.'"" FRONTIER OCCUPIED. DANISH REPORT. (Received 3 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, August 25. The newspaper "Politiken," pays the western part of the Danish-German frontier zone. South Schleswig has been occupied on the German side by civilians equipped with military caps and rifles.