WARNING TO BELGIANS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 5, 7 January 1944, Page 3

WARNING TO BELGIANS

Keep Off the Roads

Rec. J.45 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 6. The 8.8.C. broadcast today the following warning to the Belgians at .the request of the Allied High Command:— "In the event of military operations, on no account take flight along the roads. If you are on roads you will obstruct the Allied air forces' activities." The Belgians were advised to stay in their homes and get into reinforced cellars if possible.

California to China and including the Pelews, the Carolines, the Marianas, and the Marshall Islands. Many observers believe Australia and New Zealand will offer whole-hearted support to this reported Cairo conference plan of a broad American-held belt between them and Japan. REGIONAL CO-OPERATION. More than concerning itself with actual defence matters, the pending meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Ministers is also regarded here as the first important step in a broader policy of regional co-operation. Following the Australia-New Zealand meeting, the Commonwealth proposes to call a conference of all the Powers concerned in the South-west Pacific. These are expected to include the United States, Britain, France, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Portugal. Other subjects to be considered at the Ministerial talks may include the complex problem of immigration, particularly of coloured immigration. Australians believe it to be essential that both Dominions should be free to develop as great white countries and bastions of British civilisation in the Southern Pacific, says the Sydney "Daily Mirror" editorially. To do this they must have the strength that comes from numbers of people, from high standards of living, and from an expanding industrial economy." ! DOMINIONS AND AMERICA. Viewing closer Australia-New Zealand co-operation as a preliminary to greatly widened Commonwealth international relations and emphasising particularly the need for close postwar relations with the United States, the "Sydney Morning Herald" today says editorially: "It is not alone for security's sake that we should seek to work in closer association as a regular practice. * "Beyond security, the hopes for the development of a richer life in the post-war world demand the firmest basis of international under-standing and such an understanding, unless continually cultivated, is likely to be as impermanent as any old-time treaty of alliance and friendship.

"Australia and New Zealand may well prove powerful influences in bringing about in the wider world that political co-operation between Britain and the United States which purely European interests have in the past failed to achieve."