STRESA CONFERENCE

Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 April 1935, Page 5

STRESA CONFERENCE

ELABORATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT DELEGATES. Press Association ETectrio Tntfiffranh—Copyright (Received Tuesdav, 10.5 a.m.) GENEVA, Monday. Elaborate French and Italian police precautions are being taken at Stresa, including an aeroplane constantly flying over Isola Bella, and a gun mounted nearby, and are justified by a revelation that the Marseilles police on sth April arrested Rodolph Gunschcr and a fcmalo accomplice, Ida Carani. Both confessed to membership of an Italian anarchist group, which intended going to Stresa to murder Signor Mussolini, and later going to Geneva to murder M. Laval.

SUPPORT OF LITTLE ENTENTE. (Received Tuesday, 10.5 a.m.) GENEVA, Monday. M. Laval won the support of the Little Entente for granting larger armies to Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, •with a maximum of 75,000 each, compared with their request for 100,000.

A NEW SYSTEM.

LONDON, Monday

The “Daily Telegraph’s” diplomatic correspondent from Stresa says that the conference was the most important gathering of statesmen held since the war, and laid the foundation of a system whereby Europe from now onward will seek to preserve the peace. The conference is fairly describable as the triumph of British policy, demonstrating the solid basis of friendship and mutual reliance animating Britain, France and Italy. The inescapable fact of German re-armament dominated the conference. Tiio statesmen of the three Pov T ers wero perfectly frank in recognising the great German Superiority in land and air forces over any other European Power. Britain maintained throughout that the solidarity of peace was achievable only by using the powerful machinery existing under the League Covenant. Mr Ward Price, cabling the “Daily Mail” from Stresa, says: The. world is as safe as words’ can make it, but Britons should not delude ’themselves into thinking that three days and a half of word-spinning has changed the facts of the situation. The scene has now shifted to Geneva, where condemnation of Germany’s breach of the Versailles Treaty will formally bo registered, though probably Germany will not be mentioned by name.