SAFETY ZONE FOR SHIPPING

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 4, 29 September 1939, Page 10

SAFETY ZONE FOR SHIPPING

Pan-American Proposal

FALKLAND ISLANDS INCLUDED

Bi' Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received September 28, 9.30 p.m.)

PANAMA, September 28.

The text of the proposal for a safety zone lor shipping made at the Pan-American Conference by the United States Assistant-Secre-tary of State, Mr. Sumner Welles, reveals that a zone is suggested extending over 300 miles from the Atlantic and Pacific, coasts of the Americas and including the Britishowned Falkland Islands, which Argentina also claims.

The line proposed for the zone will start off I’assamaquoddy Bay, go southward along the sixtieth degree of longitude to a point off southern Florida, thence south-east to the twentyfourth degree of longitude off St. Paul Isle, southward along the twentyfourth' degree of longitude to Trinidad Island, south-westerly to a point off Cape Horn, thence follow the fiftyeighth parallel of south latitude to the eightieth degree of west longitude, taking in all Tierra del Fuego, north-west to the ninety-seventh degree of longitude at the Equator, including the Galapagos, north-westerly to the hundred and twentieth degree of longitude at the fifteenth parallel of north latitude and along the one hundred and thirty-sixth degree of longitude to a point off the American-Canadian border.

NEUTRALITY ISSUE

U.S. Administration’s Plans

Defended

(Received September 28, 10.15 p.m.)

WASHINGTON, September 28.

The chairman of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Pittman, broadcasting to the nation, defended the Administration’s neutrality proposals as a fair and intelligently contrived plan to keep the country from war. The present statute, he said, was far from neutral. He denied that the repeal of the arms embargo would place the United States in the position of helping Britain and France, since Germany’s allies, Italy and Russia, had not. been declared belligerents and could import whatever they desired. The Washington correspondent of the Associated Press of America said that opposition to a prompt approval of t lie Administration’s Neutrality Bill by the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate faded, when Senator Borah, one of its strongest, opponents, said that he expected the measure would be reported to the Senate today, permitting the opening of the debate on Monday. Senator Borah explained that the Opposition would make its main attack on the floor of the Senate on the proposed repeal of the embargo. Mrs. Roosevelt’s Views. Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the President, declared that the United States would be in a better position to help to make “lasting peace if its fighting forces were not involved.” Peace must not sow the seeds of the next war.

“It gives me a horrible sinking feeling,” she said, “to hear people say: ‘Let them stew in their own juices,’ just so that we can keep out. IVe can’t go scot free. It just doesn’t happen that way, but I hope and pray that we can keep out of war.” The American Legion, though continuing to stress that America must avoid war, today demanded that ilia Government should adopt immediately a programme to provide raw materials sufficient to maintain an army and navy of at least 1,900,000 men for at least a year. It asked for an immediate increase in the regular army to its full peace-time strength of 280.000, and of the National Guard to 486,000, and the subsequent removal of these numerical restrictions.

Because she Hew in the neighbourhood of the White House dropping pamphlets urging that Congress should remain in session through the war and that there should be no hasty action in repealing the arms embargo, the civil aeronautics authority ordered Laura Ingalls, noted airwoman, to show cause why her licence should not be revoked.

RAID BY JAPANESE

American Offices In

Tientsin

(Received September 28, 10.30 p.m.)

TIENTSIN, September 27,

Six armed .Japanese plain-clothes men raided the office of the United Press of America in mi American radio service building. They ransacked the files, read letters and slapped a Chinese employee. They also raided the office of the radio service, which lias been sending American commercial messages since the establishment of the Japanese censorship and also uncensored Press messages operating under a British concession licence with the co-operation of tlie American Chamber of Commerce. The intruders drew gnus when the proprietor, Mr. W. A. B. Nichols, ordered them off the premises and prevented them seizing a batch of incoming messages. The Japanese remained till the arrival of the concession chief of police. Both officers reported the incidents to the British and American Consulates.