DANGER OF WAR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18257, 28 November 1933, Page 9

DANGER OF WAR

PORTENTS IN EUROPE CIVILIANS IN UNIFORMS SYDNEY, Nov. ,17. Air. C. A. Weston, a Sydney barrister. who, with his wife, returned to Sydney by the Strathnaver, from a holiday tour through America and Europe, expressed a serious view of tli(> international situation, which, he said, possessed all the possibilities of a world war. He, said that the failure of the Disarmament Conference and of the World Economic Conference, the fierce fight for trade, and the emergence of Hitler as a world figure, had created a situation of extreme and imminent danger. Germany, and in a less degree, Austria and Italy, were thinking of war. The extent to which marching civilians were seen in Germany was remarkable, and in all those countries civilians appeared in uniform. “Some think,” said Air. Weston, “that Hitler is only waiting until lie has consolidated his position in Germany before pressing, even to the point of conflict, his demands . for equality, or even for territorial adjustments. ' If so, it is obvious that ho cannot be relying upon the old methods of warfare, and it would seem that he will wage war from the air. ’ ’ Mr. Weston found that in England concern at the comparative weakness of the Empire’s air and sea forces had given place to acute alarm, not lessened by recent English air and sea manoeuvres. This, coupled with the growing discontent among the Con-

servatives, might lead to a roeonstruc tion of the Government.