BRITISH PEACE EFFORTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 January 1939, Page 7

BRITISH PEACE EFFORTS

GERMANY NOT RESPONSIVE

LIMIT TO CONCESSIONS [by CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] RUGBY, January 19. Mr Oliver Stanley, in a speech, said he did not think anyone could be other than disappointed by the course of events since the Munich Agreement. Germany had not. been responsive during the last two months, and the. people of Great Britain did not want one-sided promises or one-sided agreements. They wore prepared to make sacrifices for peace, and he thought others who desired peace should do the same. “I do not. believe any useful purpose can he served by this country being asked for further concessions unless they are met by concessions on the other side,” he said. In the meantime, they had 1 to be prepared and also combine this preparedenss with a desire for an agreement and an intention to seek peace if peace were possible.

“BULLDOG COURAGE.”

RUGBY, January 19

General Sir Walter Kirke, in a speech, said Britain’s. “Maginot. Line” was not. merely an affair of dug-outs, wire, and concrete, but it was formed by fighting aircraft, searchlights, and guns, and the balloons of the coast and air defences of Britain, manned mostly by volunteers —the Territorial Army and the Auxiliary Air Force. Ho believed 'that if a. trial should come the British people would face it with the “cheerful, uncomplaining bulldog courage” they had displayed in the past.

NEW DESTROYERS

[BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.]

RUGBY, January 20

Two destroyers of the K. class, Kelvin and Kipling, were launched on the Clyde.

At Southampton River, the gunboat, Grasshopper, the latest, example of the type to which the Woodcock and Woodlark, were the first naval vessels to navigate the Upper Yangtze belong, was also launched.