Just in Time

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 66, 18 March 1936, Page 7

Just in Time

GERMANY ESCAPES NET SOLDIER'S VIEW OF THE DEMILITARISED ZONE . (By Telegraph—Prese Association—Copnijhrf Received March 17, 9.40 p.m. LONDON, March 17. i General Sir lan Hamilton, in a letter I to The Tinies, declares that the Rhineland zone was not demilitarised in I order to prevent an outbrdeak of hos- | tilities, but to ensure that France t would not be delayed at the outbreak lof the next war in striking immediately into the heart of the enemy's I country. He adds: * 4 Czechoslovakia, I under the Franco-Soviet Pact, will become an aerodrome for swarming Russian bombing ’planes. Most soldiers agree that Germany has escaped the net just in time. 77 FRENCH RESOLUTION AT LEAGUE COUNCIL MEETING I GS.JI.IAN INFRINGEMENT OF TREATIES [ British Official Wirel*>j. I RUGBY, Maicii 16. I The reply of ta*e League Council’s Imt nation to tl*c German GuvernI mem to take pan in the work q l • the pic.-cut meeting.- in London was I considered this aiiernoun when the •Juum ii met, first in private, and then in secret, and linuiiy in puutic se.-aion. \V*ieu tile Council met in public at 7.30 p.m. M. Flandin, on ochalf ut tne French and Belgian dv.4eg.it ioos, proposed a resolution declaring: ‘‘The Council finds that the German Government has infringed the 'treaties ot Versailles and I i.«> v a:!io ami rn\ ites the SecretaryI General in the application of Article *4. paragraph to inform at once me I signatory i’owcrs of the Treaties -'I | tue linuing the Council has just | The pre-i itni t Mr. Stanley Bruce» proposed an adjournment of the conI sideration of the resolution, which he I thought desirable in view of the outcome of the discussion at the secret sc.-sion of the German reply to the (Council’- invitation to attend. He announced that a telegram had been | sent to the German Government, which I stated that Germany would “partici paie in an examination by the < oan- ’ til of the question submitted by -jue | Belgian and French Governments on I the r-ame terms as the representatives | of the other guaranteed Powers, whose | situation under the Treaty is the same as that of Germany—that is, with lull : rights of discussion, the votes of the I three Powers not being counted in calculating unanimity. 77 The telegram adds: “In regard to I the second question r;<ised by Ger

I many, that is an early discussion oi j the German proposals as an integral I part of the recent action, it is not lot ! rftc Council to give to the German • Government the assurances it desires. i i'he Council then adjourned till <i.3( to-morrow, when a general discussion j will open on the Franco-Belgian rcso- ■ It is evidemt that there will bp a I welcome for the German repiesenta i live if by that time the German Government has decided tn accept t*k I Council s invitation, hailing that, any i further comniunieatinns from the Gor- ! man Government " ill ■ oino nmb'r < onPOWERS WAITING Ibe l,.’agu-.. ami l.m-aum i'.mti- : an- again a;.ait>fs Heir Hili.'r s I nor.l l bat I. the jm.iti.m to night, tae Assmtatv.i Cre.-.- "a--I that nothin-' but the form of Ihe in Oration t..'’Germany was dismiss 'd at to-'lay\ rfssnms. th- league C"uu- | .ii am idl’d that it was incompetent to deal with the second section ol t.if Get man reply, whieit was a m it- • ter f". t..e l.maiiio I'uuer.s alow. I The British Government is hopeful that H.rr Hitler v. II aicepi the laiI e-t invitation amt bv sending a spieIHi envov protide n ore encouraging L'ireumstam-es for the I." aim, Ponera to discuss his long-term Intoo.'.n neai- proposals. Should G: r 1 mans accept, the position «on!d lie that the ' otes "i lb awe, J: Igium, and Germane as guaranteed roners ! undei I «ould no; . ..ant in .!■ -.i , v Im' < "• ' j.,f Britain and italv as gmii.intor Foiver.i would count. The ciosCat parallel to bringing Gcrmanv before the ‘ ouncil .s me i case of Tne Mogul boundary dispute in' IPTI, when Turkey, men a non--1 member, was assured that there was nr, reason to fear the nature of Iter r.-.i'.tion from the Council. The onlv other feature of the pro- -■ liter was \1 Flandin's formal demand’'hat' the Council record Ger-manv-s nidation of Ixnarno, whereui'o.i Mr. Bru.e .bd.iyed the discus"rhe Times Munich eorre-pondent savs that me censor drastically hand l*j Ib'rr Hitler's Munich speech, a tame version appearing in tie <’Cr-t“-.n piC.-s.