AGGRESSION IN EUROPE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22226, 28 September 1935, Page 13

AGGRESSION IN EUROPE

ATTITUDE OF BRITAIN FRENCH INQUIRY ANSWERED (Reoeived September 27,-8.25 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 27 Tho British Government's reply to the French Government's inquiries regarding any act of aggression in Europe was handed to-day, to the French Am-

bassador to Britain, 11. Corbin. The text will be published after the French Government has received it, probably some time next week. The Daily Mail says it understands the British reply will elaborate passages in Sir Samuel Hoare's speech of September 11 and that it will reiterate the British Government's intention of taking the same line should there be an act of aggression in Europe as is being followed in connection with the dispute between Italy and Abyssinia. IL DUCE'S ACTION MR. CHURCHILL SURPRISED DEFIANCE OF THEj WORLD LONDON. Sept. 26 Mr. Winston Churchill, in the course of an address at the Carlton Club said: "I am surprised that so great a man as Signor Mussolini is willing, even eager, to put Italy in such an uncomfortable military and financial position. To cast the flower of Italian manhood on a barren shore at the end of a drainpipe like tho Suez Canal ,is to give hostages of fortuno in a manner unparalleled in history. " I cannot understand Signor Mussolini embarking on a campaign against the opinion of the whole world, in regions which conquerors for 4000 years have not thought it worth while to subdue. Italians ought to be grateful to Britain for endeavouring to keep them out of the trap."