BRITAIN’S SACRIFICES

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1203, 13 September 1927, Page 5

BRITAIN’S SACRIFICES

TOWARDS DISARMAMENT WOULD OTHERS DO AS MUCS? By Telegraph-Press: Assn-Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable). London, Sept. 11. In the course of a. speech at Geneva Sir Austen Chamberlain said .Britain yieldied to no country in its desire, .to see a real and large restriction, in armaments. Its interest in disarmament lay not only in words and speeches, hut in facts. ‘‘For the sake, of peace, to help bring three nations together, and to gibe them security which makes their mutual agreement possible, we have pledged our word once more to do "t in the ease of aggression on those western frontiers, for Germany, 'for France, and for Belgium, as the ease may be. Could not some of you do as much before pressing, us to* go further?”

BRITISH PRESS VIEWS. The Daily Telegraph’s diplomatic correspondent states: Sir Austen ChamberliTin’s speech at Geneva is regarded in, foreign, diplomatic quarts as a, landmark in the evolution of post-war Britain, uttered »•<!* the full weight of authority of the Home Government, and every Dominion delegation. The Daily Express says Sir Austen Chamberlain spoke as a British Foreign Minster The Empire must he paramount and Europe and the League secondary, though great efforts have been made to reverse the order of pneced^jtee. WHAT FRANCE THINKS. Paris, September 12. Sir Austen Chamberlain •s . speech lias aroused some criticism, the newspapers complaining of the socalled narrowness ot Britain’s policy, ‘‘Pertinex” writing in the Echo de Paris translates the tenor of the speech as: IVI ay the League perish rather than the British. Empire.” Libert© says Britain regards the League in the light of a limited liability company. Le Gaulois describes th© speech as “frank to the point of brutality.” Le Matin states that the logic of the utterance is not' comprehensible to the Erench.niind;.