CERTAIN WAY TO WAR

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 284, 28 August 1935, Page 9

CERTAIN WAY TO WAR

Danger of Single-handed

British Action

MR. HUGHES’S WARNING

Bv Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright,

Sydney, August 26.

Mr. W. M. Hughes, who was Prime Minister of Australia during the war, discussing the Abyssinian situation, declared that the position was extremely serious and pregnant with incalculable consequences. “We are told that the British Government is determined to honour its obligations,” he said. “If this means that, in the event of the League Council deciding that Italy is in the wrong, Britain, single-handed, will attempt to enforce an economic boycott on Italy or to restrain her by direct action, a situation will be created which may .-rarely imperil the existence of the British Empire. Intervention by armed forces composed of quotas furnished by all the members of the League is one thing and action by Britain alone is quite another. Britain is urged to intervene in this dispute between, Italy and Abvssinia in order to maintain peace. No more certain way of loosing the dogs of war for another and still more terrible world conflict can be imagined.” GOING TO GENEVA Sir S. Hoare and Mr. Eden TROOPS LEAVING FOR MALTA' (British Official Wireless.) Rugby. August 26. The Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Iloare, who left London for the weekend, and the Minister for League of Nations Affairs, Mr. Anthony Eden, who has been on holiday in the north, are returning to London to-morrow, and will remain at work at the Foreign Office until they go to Geneva for the League meetings next month. Pressure of business will not allow Sir Samuel Iloare to go to the meeting of the council on September 4, when Mr. Eden will be the British representative, but the Foreign Secretary will reach Geneva in time for the opening of the Assembly, at which, as already announced he will lead the British delegation. In accordance with plans made by the War Office to give effect to the decision to bring the establishments of the garrisons at Malta and Aden into line with modern conditions, announced in Parliament when the Estimates were presented early this year, the transport Neuralia will sail from Southampton next Tuesday wito 1200 troops for Malta. The usual garrisoning arrangements In peace time provide for married men to be accompanied, if desired, by their wives and children, and in the present case about 80 families will sail with the men on the Neuralia. The transport is expected back at Southampton by October 2 to take her place with the other four transports now in the Southampton docks in the trooping season’s normal schedule. VIEWS OF DOMINIONS Australia’s Support For British Peace Policy London, August 26. Whitehall appreciated Mr. J. A. Lyons’s pledge of Australia’s utmost support of the British peace efforts.

While it is understood that individual Dominions’ viewpoints have not yet formally been communicated to the Foreign Office, Mr. Lyons’s statement, following General Smuts’s recent declaration and Mr. Forbes’s unequivocal announcement, is regarded as ensuring that the British line at Geneva will represent the. feeling of the entire Empire.

ARRESTS REPORTED

Indians at Massaua

(Received August 27, 9.30 p.m.)

Aden, August 27.

A message from Massaua state., that fifteen Indians, British subjects, are reported to have been arrested by the Italians because they telegraphed to Aden advising business associates not to-ship further merchandise to Massaua.