WORSE THAN EVER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 142, 17 June 1936, Page 7

WORSE THAN EVER

SITUATION IN EUROPE REFUSING TO FACE FACTS WAR MINISTER’S VIEW [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright j LONDON, June 15. “Nobody with the slightest knowledge will deny that the situation in Europe is far worse than in 1914,” said Mr. A. Duffi Cooper (Minister of War) at a i trade luncheon, “yet we are joking and laughing, refusing to lace ; the facts, and allowing people to | preach that it is wicked to ueicud women and children from gas attacks. We are told that we are frightening people. I think it is the duty of those in authority to frighten people.” FASCIST YOUTH MILITARY TRAINING BIG ISSUE OF RIFLES MILAN, Juno 15. A hundred thousand rilles will be distributed to Fascist Youth organisations to improve their military training. PEACE CONGRESS MESSAGE FROM THE KING [ British Official Wireless. ] Received June 16, 7.50 p.m. RUGBY, June 15. A message from the King to the International Peace Congress at Cardiff, attended by delegates from nearly every part of the world and oiganisea in connection with the Peace Society, now 120 years old, was read at the opening session to-day. His Majesty hoped that the congress would help piomote the 'cause of international peace “which was so dear to His Late Majesty, King George V., and which His Majesty has no less sincereiy at heart.” The Lord President of the Council, Mr Ramsay MacDonald, who spoke, delivered a message from the Foreign Secretary in which Mr Eden said that international peace could be assured only by making the common desire of individuals to live at peace part of the national consciousness of every count ry.