LEAGUE MACHINERY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 199, 26 August 1935, Page 7

LEAGUE MACHINERY

' HOPES FOR THE GENEVA MEETING EFFORTS TOWARDS PEACE STRONG WORLD SUPPORT [ British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, Aug. 23. After yesterday’s Cabinet meeting on the Italo-Abyssinian dispute it was understood that the Ministers remaining in London would keep in touch with the Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, for consultation, and an informal meeting was held today at. 10 Downing Street, at which Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, who is acting as Prime Minister during Mr. Baldwin’s absence on holiday abroad, the Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, the. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, and the Secretary of State for War, Lord Halifax, were present. Mr. MacDonald is travelling by nigh' train to Lossiemouth. No important developments in the situation arc anticipated before the meeting of tho League Council on September 4, though, as indicated yesterday, the British Government will pursue with tho French Government the policy announced in Paris of seeking through diplomatic channels any opportunity to help the parties to the dispute to solve their difficulties. The expectation in Loncbn is that Italy will attend the council meeting. The hope is expressed in many quarters that she will then make full statement of her case and that the machinery of the League will be given a chance to operate to produce a fair and reasonable settlement without recourse to warlike measuics. It is believed that strong wrold opinion is behind the efforts to secure a peaceful solution, and it is not suppose! that the possibilities of conciliation still open will be set aside lightly by i.ny member of the League. ITALIAN AIR RAIDS ABYSSINIA PREPARING Received Aug. 25, 7.15 p.m. ADDIS ABABA, Aug. 21. The Emperor, Haile Selassie, has ur dcred special measures t'» bo taken in the event of air raids. 'The arrival of enemy aircraft will be signalled bv three gunshots and the ringing of church bells. 'l’he people must leave their houses immediately for shelter under trees or bushes. Where there is no such cover they should disperse into the open spaces until a . ignal of seven shots indicates that it is safe to return to their homes. CALLED HOME BELGIANS AND SWEDES INSTRUCTORS IN ETHIOPIAN ARM Y DJIBOUTI, Aug. 23. Their respective Governments, have ordered Belgian and Swedish instructors in the Abyssinian army to resign and return horn ft.