FREE STATE DISPUTE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 279, 28 November 1935, Page 8

FREE STATE DISPUTE

TERMS FOR SETTLEMENT REPUBLICAN BASIS • TREATY WtTH BRITISH COMMONWEALTH Received Nov. 27, 7.10 p.m. DUBLIN, Nov. 27. The Irish Independent understands that the latest proposals for a settlement of the Anglo-Irish dispute include’ a Republican form of government for the Free State and a treaty of association with the British Commonwealth; also a scheme for association between the Free State and Northern Ireland, which it is hoped eventually will lead to a federal association and the creation of a small Free State navy. It is also suggested that the ships, probably about ter, would be purchased from Britain for approximately £5,000,000, alter which Britain would wipe out the debt owing by the Free State and would maintain the warships ..nd train rhe Irish crews to a total of 2000. I’he scheme, it is added, envisages the withdrawal of the British armed forces from the Free State, upon which Mr. de Valera has always insisted as a cardinal point of any settlement. that he failed to watch his step sud fell down a precipice. He was killed in.-Jantl y. The Court is officially in mc-urning I for 1 asu, whose daughter at present I is at Addis Ababa. HALF-STARVED TRIBESMEN •ILL STARTED ADVENTURE London, ». 26. Half-gnu ed lever-stricken tribes •men m British Somaliland are drifting back to the British post at Hargeisa alter deserting from the Abyssinian foices in which they found only dLiHilsionmeiit and misery, says the Daily Mail. Many yvung herdsmen against official advice joined the Abyssinia ns, tempted by offers of 162 pence monthly and prospects for plunder. \fany have been wiped out by disease ami wild annuals. ’!•'<) deserters, -who joined up in •July, said that alter training they were sent south from Jijiga. Nothing happened. They never saw officers and rations soon ceased. They lived for weeks under desert scrub, while Italian planes scouted overhead. The Somalis tell ill with scurvy, and fever reduced them from several thousands to a. few hundreds. “We first saw the Italians at Gorahi a fortnight ago when we saw our own countrymen iu Italian Askari uniforms firing at us. We gave up and fled across the desert. From the day we poined up we have not received any pay.’’ ITALIAN SUCCESSES I REPORT BY COMMANDER ROME. Nov. 26. A communique states that General De Bono telegraphs; “The Danakil col umo has resumed me work of mopping up the eastern edges of the plateau, and are being assisted by several hurdred armed men from Danakil villages, who have recently submitted to us. On the Guiba section of the Somali front General Graziani dispatched a light column to Lammascil, JOO kilometres north of Do’o. where on the 22nd. inst. they surprised an Abyssinian camp. After five hours’ heavy fighting the enemy were completely routed. A hundred dead were counted, including two commanders. Our losses were four de-.d. five wounded, and two missing, ail natives. “A squadron from Somaliland bombed Dagabur fortification*. Our aircraft has flown over rhe citp of Harrar without raking military action. ’ ’ NO MESSAGE SENT MR. BALDWIN’S DENIAL LONDON, Nov. 26. The Sun Herald Service was officially informed alter a consultation with Mr. Baldwin that “No message, written or • erbal. was delivered to Signor Musso lini on Novembef 23 by Sir Eric Drum mond from Mr. Baldwin, and no such message was sent.’* LEAGUE EULOGISED SUPPORT OF BRITISH NATION. SPEECH Bi SIR SAMUEL HOAKE. [ British Official Wireless. I BUG BY. Nov. 26. Speaking at a dinner of i tie Royal vi international Affairs, «t which the Prince of Wales presided. Sir Samuel Hoare said rhe great new feature which had been pro jetted on the international back gtound of Bmish foreign policy was ihe League o£ Nations. Some people had been surprised at ihe eagerness with which British Opinion had rallied io the suppoit uL the League, but the people whine policy was based on a profound instinct for peace rould hardly tail to be attracted to thl- organisation designed to abolish war and remove its causes. The ccuu try was accustomed to exercise certain moderation of statements and the outlook must inevitably support the proc«duie under which the nations had pledged themselves to abstain from extreme courses in their mutual relations. Finally the people accustomed to face big issues must welcome and support this institution, not only inspiring in its conception, but one which with adequate support was capable of dealing with so many of the world's maladies. Bir B. Hoare went on to •peak of the need for a strong and living League of Nations and warned the audience agaiust the inevitable tendency to consider the position of the League solely in relation to some immediate problem. The League had two functions. The first is to prevent wm by removing the underlying causes

which lead to war; the second fuuc non comes into play when war bus broken out. There can surely oe no doubt which function is the constructive one or to which efforts statesmen should be directed. We must never lose sight of the fact that the future of th.? League, the future upon which the hopes of all those who relieve in it as a living embodiment of their ideals are so ardently set. depends upon its ability to perform a construe •tive and statesmanlike part of its task and upon the readiness of its members io use it tor constructive work. The causes which lead to international strife are many and it would be hazardous to forecast the nature of ihe problems with which the League may be concerned in the future, but it seems probable greater use may be made of the resources which the League possesses of considering and dealing with economic questions, and a study spent in considering the ori* gin and means of settlement of economic problems will assuredly no* be wasted. The Foreign Secretary recalled his speech in the League Assembly and his suggestion tor an inquiry into the question of colonial raw materials which, he said, he regarded as an essential contribution to future organisation of peace. In conclusion he spoke of the support and comradship which the great Dominion had so constantly offered to the foreign policy of the Mother Country and which he adduced as proof of the contention advanced earlier in his speech that the British foreign policy is a natural and spontaneous expression of the qualities deepiy inherent in the British race. COLLECTIVE SECURITY GERMAN CONTRIBUTION LONDON, Nov. 26. I'be League of Nations published a copy of a decree Jaw passed by Germany. forbidding the export of raw materials which could assist any country at war. Among rhe banned exports are iron, nickel, tin, and chrome, as well as all waste metals. The documents have been sent to all States. The members of the League and the general opinion in Geneva is said to be that it constitutes a notable contribution by Germany to a system of collective security and to the efforts of the League Powers to apply it. EMBARGO ON EXPORTS INDIA AND IRAQ IN LINE Received Nov. 27. 11.30 p.m. GENEVA, Nov. 27. India and Iraq have informed the League of their willingness to extend embargoes on exports to Italy to include oil, coal, steel and iron.