EMPIRE VOICE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19340, 2 June 1937, Page 5

EMPIRE VOICE

APPEAL FOR CAUTION

CHECK TO SPREAD OF WAR

CONFERENCE OPINIONS

MESSAGE TO HERR HITLER

(Elec. Tel. Copyright —United Press Assn.) (Reed. June 2, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 1.

Instead of having to await dispatches for the exchange of views telegraphically the Dominion Prime Ministers held a consultation with the Prime Minister of Britain, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, and other members of Ihe British Cabinet to-day, and thus were able to deal with the Spanish crisis on the spot.

At the morning’s meeting of the Imperial Conference it was originally intended to continue the foreign affairs discussion and to deal with the Far East, but the crisis completely altered the situation. Mr. Eden dealt entirely with Spain, explaining the latest situation and outlining the British representations.

Prime Ministers Speak

Each Dominion Prime Minister par tieipated in the discussion.

The Australian' Association Press understands that the delegates of the Dominions fully approved Mr. Eden’s emphasis of the necessity to regard the situation calmly and in conjunction they are appealing to Herr Hitler not to make the situation more grave.

The morning’s discussions provided further opportunity for the 'representatives of the Dominions to indicate in the plainest words the insistence that England and the Dominions must at all costs strive not to be embroiled by such incidents which are not Empire affairs. Nothing has emerged more clearly from the conference than the unanimity of the Dominions on the matter which has been persistently expressed with the greatest forcefulness 'by every Prime Minister.

INITIAL AGGRESSION

GERMAN SHIP ACCUSED

COMPLAINT TO LEAGUE

GENEVA, June 1

The representative of the Spanish Government to tbe League of Nations, Senor Delvavo, reported to the League a statement that on Saturday afternoon two aeroplanes reconnoitring rebel centres at Ibiza were fired on by a German warship. Spanish aircraft Retaliated \by bombing the aggressor, which the Spanish Government immediately announced, whereas the German Government waited for 2A hours to announce that the Deutschland had been bombed. The Note then declares that the bombardment of Almeria was a flagrant aggression and the greatest outrage against a sovereign' State of all the acts of aggression committed by the German fleet since it intervened in Spain. The Note adds that in view of the exceptional gravity of the act decided on by Germany, the Spanish Government, after long deliberation, and also in view of the announcement that Germany is dispatching more warships to Spain, asks that this communication lie transmitted to members of the League.

ABSENT FROM MEETING

GERMANY AND ITALY

LONDON DISCUSSION

(Brltis)i Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, May 31. A press. report issued to-night after tiie meeting of the chairman’s sub-com-mittee of the Non-Intervention Committee states that the representatives of the United Kingdom, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Portugal, Sweden, and the U.S.S.R. were present.

Captain D. Euan Wallace, chairman of the committee, communicated to the sub-committee the text of a letter received from the German representative explaining why, on instructions from the German Government, he would he unable to be present. Captain Wallace added that just before tlie meeting the Italian representative had informed him that for similar reasons lie also would be unable to be present. The representatives present indicated that they proposed l to report to their respective Governments the situation disclosed in the statement made by the chairman. They also requested the chairman to summon a further meeting as soon as he thought this would be advisable.

DISCOVERY IN TUNNEL

MAN WITH EXPLOSIVES

PLOT TO WRECK TRAIN

PARIS, June 1. His presence revealed by the glow of a cigarette, the police arrested an Italian, Guillermo Camterri, aged 38, in a tunnel on the Paris-Barcclonn railway and found him in possession of an abnormally heavy thermos flask containing explosives and clockwork mechanism.

It is believed that his object was to disrupt the tunnel traffic and prevent a French goods train from reaching Catalonia.