FREE STATE ATTITUDE

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 23 August 1935, Page 8

FREE STATE ATTITUDE

Denial of Support of British Cabinet’s Action

INDEPENDENT DECISIONS :" - .. i ' DESIRE TO PRESERVE LEAGUE (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 3 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Aug. 22. The only Dominion reaction to Britain’s stand regarding the Abyssinian dispute comes from Mr De Valera, who denies a report that Mr Dulanty assured the Cabinet that Ireland would support the decision. Mr De Valera says the Dree State will take independent decisions on each point, and its'attitude will be determined by Ireland’s desire to see that the League is preserved as an effective guarantee of peace. The Free State fully sympathised with any effort to prevent hostilities. The stock markets were heartened by Cabinet’s decision to resume the holidays and finished with a better tone.

“The Times” Alexandria correspondent says that heavy selling on the part of Italian residents in Egypt seeking to transfer their holdings to Switzerland and elsewhere has created such a grave situation that the Minister of Finance is taking steps' to limit the daily movement of prices. The “Telegraph’s” Rome correspondent says that while the Cabinet discussions are closely watched by Italy, authoritative sources decline to comment.

Military preparations, however, are being pushed on unceasingly. The air-craft-carrier Meraglia sailed from Naples carrying five bombers, five reconnaissance ’planes and 82 pilots. Baron Falcon! is out of danger. He accidentally sln>t himself when replacing his revolver in a holster,