FEARS OF WAR

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21734, 17 March 1936, Page 11

FEARS OF WAR

CHOICE I'OH BRITAIN MO V fcMKNT OF TROOPS IN Kill N HI. AM) ( ■ ti-i :.Ul‘ N- > urvni'.li’l .) (.Received March Hi, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 15. Tne "Sun-Herald” Nows Service K vj that the British Foreign Office inevitably carrying considerate weight, is that the public is unable to grasp rcuhties and is probielv not as pro-German as is widely sisgim-d. The Foreign Office feels that ;f f v.crr Hitler's coup de force is allowed "o succeed, war will occur within, a few months. The Foreign Office is feus endeavouring to bring the Cablet to this v.ewpoint, saying that Bnla.n must either support France iir.d Belgium or break her pledges, ••waning the immediate death of the . of Nations and collective security,’ witii Hie reintroduction of •'< .■’iijci’ g alliances and war. ‘ ih,. ,■ .. respondent of "The Times” r bli... burg says that tension -e i:.. u ■' oig. oiiuough it is slated err.riai envies tiiat tiicre is no ;r:von for alarm. No new events arc ;r .cipoted before next week. Never••.ciri., the British Consulate has xen warned to be prepared for a.rv eventuality. A message from Metz stales that ;■ reported that Germany, far from withdrawing forces from the Rhineland, is increasing them. From Saarbruckcn it is reported that fur*ner detachments of heavy artillery rave arrived. Dispatches from Loorrach ?ay that the garrison was re•nferced by a regiment of artillery m Sunday. From Frankfurt-on-Main comes tne news that a big parade of Rhineland troops, which was intended to ,be held cn May Hi, has been abandoned. The troops will merely be [inspected in barracks. It seems possible that the cancelling of the jparade may be regarded as a symbolic concession to French opinion. The parade had been planned ‘or a grand scale. Several thousand flroops from other garrisons besides Fraakfort-on-Main would have participated. BRITISH ATTITUDE DESIRE FOR GERMAN ATTENDANCE . a jt ;. v,;uu.bs-s.i I (Received March Hi, 3 p.m.) ; RUGBY, March 15. ■Mr R. a. Eden (British Foreign Secretary) spent considerable time to-day with officials at the Foreign Office, but there were no formal Ministerial talks of any kind. It is Known that a British member of the '■'iunm] was one of those who gave strongest, support at yesterday’s private meeting to the proposal that * special invitation should be ad-'hx-ssed to the German Government hike it:-; part in the examination N the matter which has been fraught before the league by the French and Belgian Governments, j hj i; understood that Hie British j -•R'bassador m Berlin (Sir Eric j nmppsj uofoi mecl tilt.* German Gov-j 'fnment of the great importance j X'Mch the Brit is i, Government att., ;!,i ,jgance of this in* station as faciiitntmg difficult negoand showing an earnest deiirt f f >r an amicable settlement, ■wws of the receipt of the German •*ply has therefore been eagerly •vailed m L'>j.d"ii all day. CEIOIAN economic POLICY p OSITiO.\ OF DR. SCIIACHT ‘Received March Hi, 3.50 p.m.) LONDON, March 15. t Berlin • orrespondent of the Daily Telegraph” says the differ- *** between Dr. li. Schacht (Preyjdent of tin; Reiehsbank) and Dr. e Pplcr, Hci i Hitler’s personal eco-advr-er. we re brought to a by (hr. funoer'.-; letter sever- , € relations with Dr. Kepplcr. It WneraHy felt dial if it comes to Hon- Hiller will retain Dr. ” 1, ' * ias ? * IC support Mie tb» bV- w^ 1k !Unv stronger since Rhineland occupation.