CRITICAL DELAY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 231, 16 September 1935, Page 7

CRITICAL DELAY

ACTION BY LEAGUE

LLOYD GEORGE’S VIEW

Laval’s Commitment Obscure

DICE “WITH BARED TEETH”

Europe is Not Deceived

(By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received 16, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 15.

“I would have been better pleased if the e had not been such a diversity of interpretation of M. Laval’s meaning,” said Mr. Lloyd George at Llandrinded Wells. “With peace jeopardised and the cause of international right and the League imperilled, it is preeminently a case where his meaning should not be doubted. Yet the speech by the leader of one of the greatest nations of the world, which momentarily holds the key to the position, causes some to say that M. Laval supported Sir Samuel Hoare and meant sanctions, and others, equally honest, to say that he carefully refrained from discussing sanctions.

“I ask: Have the Powers an understanding regarding what will happen if conciliation fails 1” continued Mr. Lloyd George. “Signor Mussolini has not deceived Europe. He always meant to invade Abyssinia. “Why didn’t the League act promptly when it saw the situation working up! Why, when Signor Mussolini, with teeth, is intending shortly to bury them in the Ethiopian throat, is the League tentatively hanging back

MTt LLOYD GEOBOE, photographed with his daughter.

while we place an embargo on everything enabling the Abyssinians to defend themselves!

“Soon sanctions, if devised, will be worthless, because Signor Mussolini will have in Africa everything necessary for the conduct of a most ruthless massacre of helpless people. “Another danger is the attempts to force on Abyssinia a compromise which is practically a surrender to Signor Mussolini. “If the League must die, let it die reputably, remembered at worst for its harmless ineptitude, and not abhorred for turpitude.'* FIERCE THREATS Mutilation of Invaders ABYSSINIAN MOBILISATION (Received 16, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON. Sept. 13. “The Times” Addis Ababa correspondent, in a copyright message, says •_ “Two thousand itinerant merchants assembled in Saint Giorghi’s Square with rifles and cartridge-belts, listened to fiery speeches and to the palace prior to mobilisation. The Emperor promised to redress their grievances regarding Government posts, and received a promise of full military support, after which grandees administered the oath of loyalty amid ferocious threats of mutilation snd death to all invaders.” MALTA PRECAUTIONS To Prevent Scaremongering (Received 16. 11.30 a.m.) MALTA. Sept. 13. Ordinances promulgated to prevent scaremongering include a month’s imprisonment for the spreading of false statements Powers are taken to suspend newspapers and prohibit the importation of seditious books and newspapers. WILL NOT INTERVENE Germany’s Attitude (Received 16, 9.30 a.m.) BERLIN, Sept lb An officially-inspired ne«s agones declares that Germany is neither will ing nor in a position to use het in fluence to improve the European situation in any way other than completio her own reconstruction on a peaceful fo. ,g with her neighbours in th- -aim self-ussnrance oi her regained fAam.