IN EVENT OF WAR

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 151, 23 March 1925, Page 9

IN EVENT OF WAR

WHAT FRANCE WOULD DO TO ENGLAND A REMARKABLE ARTICLE By Telegraph— "’’n-oq Association Copyright (Rec. March 22, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, March 21. The Paris correspondent of the “Daily Express” says that Captain Serb has a n.markable article in the journal “Guest Eclair” outlining what France would do in the event of war against England. He says that 150 submarines would starve out England, and new French nine-inch guns with a 100-mile range would bombard Portsmouth and shell a cirlce 125 miles in diameter of which London would be the centre, while hosts of aeroplanes would shatter London’s niora.e.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

JINGO SPEECH IN NEW YORK

“ANOTHER WAR INEVITABLE”

(Rec. March 22, 5.5 p.m.)

New York, March 20. One of the most remarkable jingo speeches delivered during recent years was made yesterday at . a public dinnei in New York by Sir Charles Higliani, a British advertising man, who is here on a mission to exp ait the sale of Indian tea in the United States. Addressing the Sphinx Club, Sir Charles •Higliani made tbe serious assertion that another war, possibly within ten years, would develop, with United States and Britain allied against Japan, Germany and other races, unless the Englisa-speaking nations built up air defences to show warlike nations that “they were not going to have any nonsense ” He further claimed that a plan was being formed for the “yellow races' to make an aerial attack on the Panama canal and California, and land in Mexico after they had got rid of the United States defences.” Simultaneously- Germany would attack France. Canada and Australia meanwhile would have their hands full, looking after themselves, while Britain would be handicapped from assisting France. Sir Charles Highan claimed that another war was inevitable, because the Japanese wanted power and great dominions. ‘The United States’ prosperity and unlimited resources,” he said, “make her a tempting morsel for war-like nations of the world, and her very isolation makes the danger greater. She really has. only one great ally, namely, the British Empire, which country, in my opinion with the United States are the only two upprogressivcly keen on war.”

Sir Charles Higham’s remarks are printed to-day at great length in the ‘‘Times” and other papers, though it is a little hard to understand why an advertising man should assume the mantle of a political prophet.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.