ALLIED GUARANTEES

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 September 1939, Page 7

ALLIED GUARANTEES

RESPECT FOR NEUTRALITY [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. Sept. 7, 1 p.m.). LONDON, September 6. Reports of the violation by aircraft of the neutrality of Denmark and Holland raise a grave question, which is closely examined in the Press. The “Daily Telegraph" says:. “Britain has given the fullest possible guarantees to neutrals, that their territory will be respected. In instructions to airmen, all precautions will be taken against the likelihood of a mistake being made, owing to loss of bearings. In this matter, every interest of the Allies is to avoid any infraction of the law they have laid down themselves. France and Britain have taken up arms on behalf of the independence of weaker Powers, and no thought of military advantage will at any time during the war induce them knowingly to infringe the neutrality of those countries which have chosen to remain outside the conflict. To, Holland and Belgium in particular, it is an essential to their situation that they should not. be made the theatre of any operations, whether by land or air. That fact is recognised by the Allies, -who will, if it should become necessary, safeguard the freedonlof other small n'ations, as. they are endeavouring to preserve'/.hat., of Pdtland.”