ANXIETY ABOUT EUROPE

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21461, 1 May 1935, Page 11

ANXIETY ABOUT EUROPE

(• ( HOUSE OF COMMONS ' ' QUESTIONS

' jFEW ANSWERS GIVEN IMI'OIMANT DEBATE TO-UUUROW f':'{!.:<..ci'/cd Api'iJ 30. 5.5 p.m.J RUGBY, April 20. ArriH:'.' ,!huui the international aif.yiit:'oii" wa.< revealed £>t question f-nv: to-'.i.'.iv m the House of ComflMtu on ii: reassembly after the Easter recess, and it became clear thai the debate on foreign affairs on Thursday v.iii be invested with Kiuich importance. Sir John Simon (Foreign Secretary), when asked for a statement on' the international situation, recalled the Prime Minister's statement to i'M: House on the Stresa Ccnference. and said the results of the recent meeting of the League ■Council had been fully reported in the pre» and would no doubt be referred to during the debate. Later he was asked whether he fcsd been informed that the German Government had issued orders for laying down a number of submarine* and for the reopening of the Submarine School at Kiel, and what steps he proposed to take in view of {his further flagrant: violation of the Versailles Treaty. Sir John replied that the German Government had intimated that orders had been given for the construction of 12 250-ton submarines. The matter, he added, was now under consideration. No such official intimation had been made regarding the Kiel Submarine School. Replying to Sir Austen Chamberlain (Conservative), who asked when the intimation regarding the submarines was made to the Government, Sir John Simon, speaking from memory, said it was on April 25 . • Captain Sidney Herbert (Conservative) asked if the Government proposed to take steps to bring this further violation of the Versailles Treaty to the notice of the League ct Nations, and whether it proposed to proceed with the arrangements tor the Anglo-Gecman naval conversations. Questions Not Wanted Sir John Simon, after remarking that, as its gravity obviously justified, the matter was now under consideration, expressed the hope that he would not be pressed for further answers to-day. Mr Will Thome (Labour) asked *\;\re you satisfied now that Ilerr Hitler "told you the whole truth in ifcrJin?" Captain Sidney Herbert: "Does not the- determination to build submarines constitute proof of German watai'dment, particularly as directed jKgainst Great Britain?" Sir John Simon made no reply. Mr Vyvyan Adams (Conservative): "Before it is too late, will yon lay to act in concert with the other Stresa powers and Russia in measures to check this one-sided, dangerous, end persistent repudiation of treaties?''' Sir John Simon did not reply. A question about the procedure In the debate on Thursday was addressed by Sir Austen Chamberlain to the Prime Minister (Mr Ramsay Mac Donald), who said the usual course of first consulting the Oppoajifon would be followed. Mr George Lansbury said the Opposition took it for granted that the debate would open with a statement' from the Government. He hoped the debate would be as broad as possible. The Prime Minister said these re-' quests would certainly be complied With. In reply to Mr Winston Churchill, ivho asked for an assurance that as almost every day counted now the second foreign affairs debate would take nlace before the middle of May, the Prime Minister said the Government had no defere to delay the debate unduly. t

HITLER TO MAKE STATEMENT •*0 NAVAL DISCUSSION'S IN ■ f MEANTIME pr I Mtw;:u'ed April 30, 10.16 p.m.) LONDON, April 30. The diplomatic .correspondent of tec 'Daily Telegraph" learns that Kerr Hitler proposes to issue an important statement on foreign policy tbout May 15 and does not wish a naval delegation to go to London vntii after that date

INVITATION DECLINED m-:kman ambassador in LONDON '• Received April 30, 9.4 p.m. J LONDON, April 30. The German Ambassador. Kenton Moesch, lias declined an invitaiwa hi the Lord Mayor's Easter k&!>4Uv:i at the Mansion House which 41 members of the Diplomatic Corps will attend. Sir John &«km; will be the principal speaker. ' SIX SL'DMAUINES NOW AFLOAT hwui:: IS LONDON LONDON, April 29. The "Daily Herald" says: "It was Imrnnd in London last night that *us German submarines, half of $Mm to be built in defiance of the Vweailles Treaty, are already afloat 9nd «re complete in every detaii. ' 'ftey are tally manned and are r **W to begin manoeuvres fit k Pllfcintthafen.''