ALLIES FOR PEACE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 256, 30 October 1939, Page 3

ALLIES FOR PEACE

AS WELL AS WAR BRITAIN AND FRANCT;. (Daventry Broadcast.) LONDON, Oct. 27. The Paris Press warmly greets Mr. : Chamberlain’s statement on Herr von ; Ribbentrop’s speech. Le Temps remarks that France and Brita.n are allies for the making of ; peace as well as the waging of war. | Another paper states that all the ef- ! forts made by the Nazi leaders to sepa- ! rate the two Western Powers have •never had, and never will have, any | i result, other than drawing closer the ! ties that unite them. ’ The Paris Soir states that Mr. I Chamberlain’s speech marks the end |of a period of diplomatic manoeuvrI ing. and for Germany sounds the ' death knell of her peace offensive. Herr Hitler is now committed to a war which he himself deliberately provoked and out of which he tried to wriggle at the last moment. < The Petit Parisien describes Mr. Chamberlain’s speech as the speech of ] an honest man sure of his conscience. ’ In the Populaire. M. Blum, the < Socialist leader, emphasises that the aim of British policy since the end i of the war was to alleviate Germany < from the burden of Versailles and re- 1 store her place in the European com- 1 munity. thereby making it. possible 1 for Germany and France jo live together. " I 5 NAZI FINANCES < s INFLATION HARD TO STOP * i Received Oct. 28, 5.5 p.m. LONDON. Oct. 27. The Rotterdam correspondent of c The Times says (hat. according to the 1 Allgemeine Zeitung, the Reich has de- c cided on a policy of taxation to augment the Treasury while simultaneously absorbing Germany’s surplus J purchasing capacity. This is tanta- t mount to admitting (hat efforts to avoid inflation have failed, t Further evidence of the failure to . keep down prices is the authorisation • of the payment, of bonuses for special work. The Government is issuing } 500,000 marks in Treasury bonds to • finance improvement of the German railways. t ] EQUAL TO ANY

i AUSTRALIAN DIVISION .. ’ IF FORCE DISPATCHED MELBOURNE, Oct. 28. The Minister of Defence, Mr, G. A. Street, said the sixth division (second A.1.F.) would be the first body of troops for disnatch overseas should it he decided that an Australian military i force was to be sent abroad. It would ' ' be trained here to a standard equal i to that of any regular division in the I world.