U.S. NEUTRALITY

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 1, 26 September 1939, Page 8

U.S. NEUTRALITY

Important Addition To Bill FINAL DRAFT MADE By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received September 25, 9.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, September 24. The final draft of the Neutrality Bill has been completed by the Democrat members of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate. The chairman, Senator Key Pittman, predicts that the committee will report favourably on it. He says the draft covers President Roosevelt's points and makes an important addition, which he declined to disclose. He claims that it is more neutral than the present Act. It is hinted that the important addition to the Neutrality Bill, referred to by Senator Pittman, strengthens the provision prohibiting American ships from carrying passengers or freights of belligerents. President Roosevelt announced that he will return to Washington tomorrow to assume personal command of the drive for the repeal of the arms embargo. TERRITORIAL WATERS Pan-American Conference Opinion (Received September 25, 10.30 p.m.) PANAMA CITY, September 24. Several delegations to the PanAmerican Conference suggested an extension of territorial waters, only differing on the width of the proposed “primary defence band.” It is reliably stated that opinion is crystallizing in favour of a 300-mile limit. The proposal has not been registered formally, pending the plenary session tomorrow. It may then be advanced jointly by a majority of the delegations. It is explained that it envisages no extension of peacetime jurisdiction bur the creation of an area in which belligerency will be banned. Hr. Sumner Welles will outline the position of the United States at tomorrow’s session. RED ARMY ADVANCE (Received September 26, 12.50 a.m.) MOSCOW, September 25. The Red Army is now in the heart of the Polish, oilfields. A communique adds that in the course of a further advance to the demarcation line and the liquidation of the Polish armies 10,000 prisoners were taken south of Brest-Litovsk. ARAB LOYALTY TO THE BRITISH EMPIRE (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 24. More evidence came today that the Arabs in the Middle East, and specially in Palestine, have ranged themselves completely on the side of the British Empire in this war. The High Commissioner in Palestine reports that be has just been entertained at Beisan by Sheik Mohammad Zanati, who delivered an address of loyalty to the Government and to the Allied cause in the present struggle. The guests, who numbered, 500 to 600, came from all the tribes and villages of the Beisan sub/ districts and included members of municipal councils and other notables.