’PLANES RETURN TO BASES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 59, 10 March 1936, Page 7

’PLANES RETURN TO BASES

NEWS CAUSES JUBILATION SAID TO HERALD PEACE WITH CONQUEST ITALY WILLING TO CONSULT THE LEAGUE (By T«i«r*ph—Pr«oa Association —Copyright) Received March 9, 9 p.m. ASMARA, March 9. Italian bombing- planes scouring the interior of Abyssinia were recalled by radio while in mid-flight to-day and ordered to return to their bases. The wireless flashed the news that Signor Mussolini had accepted the Geneva proposals for negotiations to end the war, and orders were given to cease bombardment and operations actually in course of execution. Marshal Badoglio has returned to Asmara. Scenes of jubilation were witnessed when the news became known. Marshal Badoglio was cheered by the elated crowd and the news was taken to herald peace with conquest.” NEWS CAUSES GREAT SURPRISE IN BRITAIN. I.' '. r ived March 9. 9.45 p.m. LONDON, March 9. News from Asmara reporting an order to suspend the operations of Italian aircraft came as a surprise to wellinformed diplomatists in London. No intimation of such intention on the part of the Italian Government had been given, either from Italy or from the theatre of war. The decision is generally regarded as indicating that Italy regards the new situation in Europe as having an importance overshadowing the dispute with Abyssinia. Italy has accepted in principle the appeal of the League of Nations Committee of Thirteen, which has invited the belligerents to enter into negotiations within the framework of the League and in the spirit of the Covenant, with a view to a prompt cessation of hostilities and the final restoration of peace. The Committee will meet on Tuesday to consider the replies of Italy and Abyssinia. The Manchester Guardian’s Geneva correspondent says that there is reason to believe that Herr Hitler told Signor Mussolini in November that Germany would help him if he held out until the spring. Germany’s present action seems to be the fulfilment of a promise that there will be a tendency to say that the Abyssinian dispute must be concluded at all costs in face of this new menace to the peace of Europe. Moreover, Italy will be unlikely to lose any opportunity of blackmailing the other Powers. The Daily Mail’s Rome correspondent says that while it is denied that Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini arranged a denouncement of the Locarno Treaty, Italy is delighted, believing that Herr Hitler’s action will greatly strengthen Italy's position, because France will increasingly value her .h ndshio and will not wish to do anything to offend her.

MAY BRING PEACE SIR PHILIP GIBBS HOPEFUL BRITAIN’S DIFFICULT TASK BERLIN SOLIDLY BEHIND HPILE LONDON. March 8. Ardent pacifists like Sir Philip Gibt and Mr George Lansbury believe tha Herr Hitler’s action will possibl bring peace. Sir P. Gibbs, writing i the Sunday Chronicle, says: “Herr Hi ler gives a new hope to humanity. Hi seven points are inspired by the mo: generous spirit of peave. If accepts thev will blow away the dark tea: haunting The world’s soul. Rpfnsf would be a criminal act against hi inanity.” The Sun-Herald Service says tha the consequences of Herr IL tier’s a tion cannot thus far, even dimly, h foreseen. The situation to-day is thn London is cool, Berlin is solidly behin Herr Hitler, Paris is planning the nex move for Geneva, New York is detei mined to “keep out of Europe’s mess,’ and the other European capitals ar anxiously awaiting the lead from Lor don and Paris. All reports from Par s agree tha France will demand international sain tions against Germany at the Lvagu Council. This will pla*-e Britain in a unenviable position, having led th ** ITALY’S ACCEPTANCE ETHIOPIANS SUSPICIOUS. LONDON, March S. The Times’ Addis Ababa corrcspu: dent say* that iSignor Mussolini > a< ceptance of the pea. e proposals h: aroused suspicion, because the neg, tiations will obviously break dow owing to the divergence of the Italia and Abyssinian views. It is felt tha Signor Mussolini either wirhes to ii? the interval to press on into Abyssink which does not perturb Haile Selassi because the deeper the penetration Im foie the rains i •• bett< r for the «!• fenders, or realises Haile Selassie difficulty in imposing an armistic upon the widespread guerillas, wh were s<» long restrained before the were allowed to fight.

TROOPS ON THE RHINE CITIZENS THROW FLOWERS CTRASSBOURGEBS STAND SILENT. BERLIN, March s. « xiizens at Karlsruhe threw fit L. n • betore the battalion of German troop: ’ entering the town. | Two companies marched into Aix-la Chappell e. A crowd packed the ok •Aerodrome at Frankfort-on-Main wher troops arrived with an anti-aircrafl gun. Storm troopers lined the route of th-; infantry at Saarbrucken, and detach ments of the German Air Foret inarched into Mannheim only 201 Keieh>wehr men occupied the Keh bridgehead. Hundreds of Stiaf.s bourgers stood silently at the Freud i end of the bridge. Germany’s War Dead. | Herr Hitler, members of the Cabinet I and diplomatists attended the unnua. • memorial service for the World Wai | dead held at the State Opera House. | Berlin. I General von Blomberg sa Whether there is peace or war does not I depend on Germany. Herr Hitler’. ; Get many is stronger than ever in unit} and strength of will.” He expressed thanks to the army for the restoration I of German military sovereignty to the Rhineland. Germany in making herself strung had only followed the I example ox other and could not I be blamed for the rise in armaments. ■ He appealed to the statesmen of othei i countries for consideration of Herr I Hitler’s proposals on reason, not pas- • sion. Hitler Will Visit Rhine. | Herr Hitler will shortly visit U.K j Rhineland and inspect the newly gar I riconed towns, as he did the Saar. The new election law is gazetted depriving full-blocdcd Jews of voting | in the Reichstag elections, but citizens , with only two Jewish grandparents art i enfranchised. ARCHBISHOP THANKFUL. COLOGNE, March 8. Cardinal Schulte, Archbishop of Cologne, has telegraphed his thanks tc Herr Hitler for sending troops to the ! Rhineland.