PEACE OR WAR?

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 53, 4 March 1939, Page 9

PEACE OR WAR?

WARNING IN OTTAWA SUDDEN ISSUE POSSIBLE CRITICAL WORLD SITUATION (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copy right! OTTAWA, March 2. The Prime Minister, Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, speaking in the House of Commons, warned the House that it may be called upon to decide the issue of peace or war for Canada. A critical world situation still existed. Parliament would be well advised to get on with the business of the country as soon as possible, as it might at any moment be called upon to decide larger issues.

CALL TO SERVICE

ITALIAN CONSCRIPTS ROME, March 2. The order “Call to Arms" was placarded throughout Rome to-day calling to service men of the 1918 class, the first four months of the 1919 class, and certain men of the 1915-17 classes. With the recent partial recall of the classes 1895 and 1901-3, the total number of men called up is at least 305,000. To this total must be added the previous rejects of another three classes who have been found unfit. It is stated that the men affected in the 1918-19 classes, estimated to total at least 185,000, have been called up a month ahead of schedule. Otherwise the call-up is the normal annual conscription. The Minister ot Propaganda states that the call-up is the normal routine, but declines to discuss details of the order.

AMERICA’S FIRST LINE OF DEFENCE

ENGLAND AND FRANCE Received March 3, 11.20 p.m. NEW YORK. March 2. Senator Logan, in an address during the defence debate, giving expression to the extreme co-opera lionist policy, said: “It has been said that the President remarked that France and England were our first line of defence in the event of an attack on the democracies by the dictatorships of Europe. Whether he said It or not, we know it is true. We cannot be attacked by any nation in Europe unless England and France fall. It is important, therefore, that we do what we can to see that England and France do not fall a prey to the dictators. I would furnish England and France with everything they need to fight a defensive warfare. I would also seek to avoid to the fullest extent furnishing anything to Germany and Italy that would enable them to carry on a war of aggression. ’