APPEAL FOR FUNDS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 84, 8 April 1936, Page 7

APPEAL FOR FUNDS

MILLION POUNDS WANTED

AEROPLANES FOR ETHIOPIA COUNTERING ITALIAN RAIDS LONDON, May 6. In consequence of the embargo on foreign loans ami the ineffectiveness of the League’s intervention, the Abvssinian Minister in London intends to make a private appeal by circular for 100,000 subscribers of £lO each to a loan of £1,000.000 to buy aeroplanes with which to counter the Italian air raids. “There will be little difficulty in getting aeroplanes or pilots,” he says, and directs attention to “the dire necessity of protecting the Abyssinians from slaughter.*’ STATEMENT IN COMMONS WHAT COMMITTEE IS DOING [ British Official Wirelera. j RUGBY, April 6. Mr. Anthony Eden will lead the British delegation at the meeting of the Commitlee of Eighteen of the League of Nations on Wednesday at Geneva to receive tke report of the chairman, who, with the becretaryGeneral of the League (M. Avenol), was requested to approach the Italian and Abyssinian Governments in order to enable the Committee to bring the parties together with, a view to the test oration of peace. Another matter upon which the Committee awaits information from JSenor Madariaga has reference to the result of the representations made by him to the Italian Government on the subject of gas warfare. Mr. Eden, in reply to a House of . - the war in Abysrinia, said that recent event* made it rlearlv desirable that the Committee of Thirteen should be called together without delay. suggest t at :i Coni mission snould be appointed to recommend a settlement of the ItaloEthiopian dispute, Mr. Eden recalled that m .September the League’s Committee of Five made a careful and thorough investigation into the origin uf and the issues involved and worked out in great detail a plan for a just and equitable settlement. Mr. Eden said, as to the bombing of open towns, and in view of the importance of guarding against a violalion of the laws and customs of war relating to the protection of non-com-batants the Government was making urgent representations that the complaints of the Ethiopian Government should receive immediate attention from the appropriate organ of the League. He added, in an.-wcr to a further House of Commons question, that the Government desired by every practical means to avert the menace of an attack from the air. In the existing cir- -• ■ ■ , . msidered that this best could be met by the conclusion of an air pact and a limitation of air armaments. Mr. Eden epeated that, whether in conjunction with an air pact or other means, the Government would continue to work for the limitation of national air forces.