GERMAN CLAIMS

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1935, Page 5

GERMAN CLAIMS

GENEVA “CHALLENGE” RESOLUTIONS REJECTED COMMENTS BY THE PRESS THE VOTING ANTICIPATED i MAJORITY VOTE LIKELY By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 10 p.m. Berlin, April 17. German newspapers unanimously reject the Geneva resolutions, which are regarded, as a challenge. “If the League is so arrogant as to claim for itself the role of an infallible judge over a beaten Germany then Germany will find it most difficult to return to Geneva,” says the Volkischer Beobachter. “The time has passed when a great united nation can submit to an arbitrary interpretation of international treaties.” ( Herr Lutze, leader of the Nazi storm troops, states that the new conscription law in no way eliminates the existence or purpose of the storm troops. Nazi youths first passed through the Hitler Youth organisation and then served as storm troops. They would afterwards be drafted to the labour service organisation, which would be followed by the conscription period, after which those who had no vocation for combative life in the Nazi service would return to the storm troops. The London Daily Telegraph’s Geneva correspondent expresses the opinion that the three-Power resolution be passed with perhaps the abstention from voting of Denmark. It is now likely that Poland will vote with the majority. “What is to be done with a State which refuses to give any guarantees for the security of its neighbours?” asked M. Litvinoff (Russia) when resuming the League Council debate at Geneva. There were grounds for apprehension that arms were not intended for defence but for infringement of the rights of others and infraction of the world’s peace, he continued. He likened Europe to a town wherein one aggressive individual insisted on carrying arms and threatening the peace of his neighbours. Mr. S. M. Bruce, supporting the motion, said that for a considerable time there had been a growing feeling, especially in Australia, that the position was deteriorating. LITHUANIANS’ FEARS TROOPS ON THE FRONTIER DEFENCE PREPARATIONS Rec. 10 p.m. London, April 17. Germany is, massing troops on the Lithuanian frontier, according to the Lithuanian Foreign Minister, whp was interviewed at Paris to-day. “The danger is so great,” he added, “that we are making all preparations to defend ourselves."