WORK OF LEAGUE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22259, 6 November 1935, Page 13

WORK OF LEAGUE

GENERAL'S BEPOET SAVINGS HANDED OVER FUND TO BUY ARMS GUERILLA WARFARE URGED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received November 5, 6.55 p.m.) Times Cable LONDON, Nov. 4 The Addis Ababa correspondent of the Times reports that General Hawariat, formerly Abyssinian representative at Geneva, addressed the Emperor and notables for two hours. He described the European situation and the work of the Abyssinian delegation at Geneva, and praised Britain's policy. Haili Selassie paid the keenest attention to the address. General Hawariat then took from a pocket several thousand franc notes and landed them to the Imperial treasurer, saying: "Here are all my savings since I began work in Paris. They are but the beginning of what I will give my country. Why keep money and lose our independence?" Turning to the notables, General Hawariat urged them to do the same, exclaiming: "My diplomacy is over. Now I must fight. This money will buy arms." The general concluded with detailed advice about guerilla warfare, emphasising that the Fabian policy of warfare was vital to Abyssinia in order to. prolong the campaign until the next ' rains, when a mass attack will be possible.

LEAGUE'S STRUCTURE

MODIFICATION PLANS N NEW SECURITY SYSTEM GENEVA, Nov. 4 Reports from London of tentative British plans to reform the League of Nations and transfer its more important functions to a smaller and more elastic body composed of the Great Powers are discounted. However, there has been some discussion about modifying the structure of the League, the object being to bring Germany back and to establish a new security system based on French, German and British co-operation.

Supporters of such a project, including Dr. Schacht, German Minister of Economics, emphasise that it is essential that France should not ratify an agreement with the Soviet, as this envisages the ultimate recognition of Germany's rights to expand eastward. BRITISH CABINET FALSE STATEMENTS DENIED NO ULTERIOR MOTIVES British Wireless RUGBY, Nov. 4 In the course of a speech to-day the Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, referred to false statements in circulation regarding the foreign policy of the Government, which he attributed to electioneering tactics. He had, he said, already exposed three baseless stories, namely, one to the effect that the British Government had left the Italians in doubt as to its attitude, another that he and Mr. Eden were not at one in their attitude toward the League, and the third that there was a sinister motive behind his visit to Geneva.

Now there was a fourth story, with which ho must deal, to the effect that the Cabinet was plotting to destroy the League as soon as the election was over and to go back to the system of separate alliances. It was said that it favoured a reformed League which would not be an instrument for preventing or ending war by collective action against an aggressor. " I say with great deliberation that there is not a word of truth in these charges," said Sir Samuel.- " The Cabinet has considered no plan for the reform of the League. It is not sounding foreign nations on the subject. As to the fantastic suggestion that we are determined to deprive the League of its coercive power, what better answer could there be than that Mr. Eden and I have been doing our utmost to strengthen the hands of the League and make its collective action really successful ?"