DANGERS OF WAR

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1934, Page 7

DANGERS OF WAR

GERMAN INTENTIONS'. WRITERS EXPRESS FEARS RECRUITING FOR THE SAAR WAR OFFICE CRITICISED APPEAL TO KING URGED By Telegraph-Press Assn .-Copyright. Rec. 8.5 p.m. London, Nov. 12. Newspapers take advantage of the Armistice Day celebrations to emphasise war dangers in Europe. The Weekly Dispatch, under a streamer “Trembling on the Brink of War; even our War Offley is driving us,” says that the War Office is recruiting Britons for the special Saar police, which Mr. G. G. Knox, chief of the Saar Governing Commission, has requested. “All was done secretly,” says the Dispatch, “and successful applicants were paid at the rate of £6OO per year and guaranteed compensation in the event of death or injury.” Mr. Robert Blatchford, journalist and novelist, in an article in the Sunday Chronicle says: “I am convinced that Germany again means war, which she will prosecute with Satanic hatred and ferocity. Though the hatred is directed against France, sooner or later Britain will be forced to fight for her liberty and life.” The Sunday Times’ Berlin correspondent says: “Whatever is the result of the Saar plebiscite on January 13, Germany intends to be the unquestioned master of the Saar. The German Government apparently means to treat those working against Germany as guilty of high treason directly the plebiscite is over.” ATTITUDE OF BRITAIN. The Daily Mail says it understands the British attitude regarding the Saar has not been fully revealed. Well informed diplomatic quarters believe it was Britain who originally asked France whether she was willing to provide troops because it was believed Mr. Knox’s life was endangered. Britain sent four members of Scotland Yard to guard Mr. Knox. Mr. R. A. Eden, Lord Privy Seal, speaking at Stratford-on-Avon, urged the •widest possible general disarmament by international convention, but he deprecated the undue weakening of Britain’s defences. Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary, broadcast, a talk to America emphasising the urgent need for peace and advocating Anglo-American co-operation. The Archbishop of York denounced the treaties of Versailles and the Trianon as a prolonged act of warfare. He said their revision was an indispensable preliminary to genuine peace. Christians must aid in the progress to international law from the boasted international anarchy in which the world lived. They must renounce their claim for absolute external sovereignty and not demand in the last resort to judge their own case. They must bind themselves to accept the judgment of an international authority equipped to settle international disputes. If an international force were known to be sufficient it would probably never need to be used.

The Rev. J. T. Rhys, of Bermondsey, has suggested an impressive deputation to the King imploring him to launch a world effort to abolish war.