LEAGUE POLICY

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 152, 29 June 1935, Page 9

LEAGUE POLICY

SUPPORT IN BRITAIN

AN OVERWHELMING VOTE

IDEALISM TRIUMPH Ouitcd Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 28. . Ten thousand people tumultuously cheered Lord Cecil's announcement at a mass meeting at the Albert Hall that nearly twelve million votes had been cast throughout Britain in answer to each of six questions in a peace ballot organised by the League of Nations Union, of which he is president. The ballot overwhelmingly favoured Britain remaining in the League, also a general reduction of armaments and prohibition of the manufacture of arms for private profit. Ten million supported economic non-mili-tary measures and six and three-quar-ter million advocated military measures in international combination to nullify one nation's insistence in attacking another. Lord Cecil moved that the Government carry out a policy of peace and disarmament through the League of j Nations. The Archbishop of Canterbury paid a tribute to the intelligent vote in affirming that the League must stand. Sir Walter Citrine, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, hailed the ballot as a triumph for idealism which the Government would ignore at its peril. The motion was carried with acclamation. The "Manchester Guardian," in a leader, says that the peace ballot will profoundly strengthen at home and abroad the hands of any British Government determined to maintain the League collective system. A PARAMOUNT ISSUE HOPE OF DISARMAMENT DEPUTATION TO GOVERNMENT (Received June 29, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 28. Referring to the peace ballot, Mr. Arthur Henderson,, president of the World Disarmament Conference, addressing the National Peace Congress, attended by a thousand delegates representing 350 organisations, declared, that the ballot was distinctly valuable as a magnificent expression of the views of Britons in a paramount issue. He thanked Lord Cecil and his collaborators for the immense success of the national declaration. Lord Cecil expressed the belief that 'disarmament, with Government support, would still succeed. Lord Cecil subsequently announced that a declaration committee would wait as a deputation on the Prime Minister (Mr. Stanley Baldwin) and ask the Government genuinely to support the League, restart the Disarmament Conference, and urge proposals for the abolition of air attack and the private manufacture of arms. 1 dangefTof war . INCREASED, BY BALLOT (;a socialist booby-trap" . (Received June 29, 11 a.m.) LONDON, June 28. " The "Daily Mail," in a l|ader, contends that the peace ballot, in the face of Continental defence expenditures, can do nothing but mischief. It is a Socialist booby-trap for Cpnservative voters, and will increase the danger of wars because Britons .would be.sent in battle, at the League's bidding, to fight for blockading Japan or closing the Suez Canal against Italy. a spuFthreatened COMMERCE CONFERENCE CURRENCY STABILISATION PARIS, June 28. Anglo-Saxon countries gained a preliminary victory in. a serious divergence of views on currency stabilisation which threatened to split the chambers of commerce conference discussions. American mediation and British good will effectively worked on an Australian draft resolution affirming the imperativeness of .stabilisation on a gold basis accompanied by a modification of policies threatening permanent stability. I , ■ The Australians, instead of demanding an international monetary conference, suggested consultations as more effective. It is understood that the French delegates will submit, this for ratification on June 29. VILLAGES TERRORISED — » ( , MARAUDING TIGERS PANIC-STRICKEN INDIANS : CALCUTTA, June 28. Over 100 persons have been killed by; tigers which are terrorising villages near,. Berhampur, Orissa Province. The marauders daringly enter houses in daylight and seize sleeping children. They are ; carrying off labourers in the fields and killing women drawing water at wells. Peasants are panicstricken. ' ;,.&■ , . A reward of £15 has been offered for each tiger killed.' ' LOST AIR MAIL ■ ■, ■. '■ i* :i ' ■ - NO COMPENSATION TO SENDERS ' ■' ■ '■■■' ; " ' v SYDNEY, June 28. The Postal Department here dis^ claims liability and has refused'compensation to senders of registered letters which were lost on the Southern Cross's Jubilee air mail flight., The Department has replied to several applicants, for compensation deeply regretting the loss of the mails, which was "due to happenings beyond the Department's control." SAVINGS IN AUSTRALIA : ■ ♦ '. CANBERRA, June 28. Savings banks deposits in Australia increased during the past twelve months by £7,698,000. The international cablo vows appearing in this Issuo ts published by arrangement with the Australian Press Association and tlio "Sun," ."Herald/' News Office, Limited.