TENSION IN EUROPE

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18947, 17 May 1933, Page 7

TENSION IN EUROPE

BRITAIN WATCHFUL.

OFFICIAL CIRCLES ACTIVE.

GERMANY IGNORES GOLD CLAUSE.

United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, May 15. There was considerable activity yesterday in British official circles respecting the European situation. It is possible that the Cabinet will meet to-day or Us Committee, to which the Foreign Undersecretary, Captain R. A. Eden, will report on his conversations with Herr Nadolnv, chief German delegate to the Disarmament Conference. The Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, is likely to stay In London for the present in case important .decisions become necessary after Herr Hitlers speech in the Reichstag to-morrow. It Is learned in the City that the German Government has deolded to ignore the gold clause in the American issue of the Dawes Loan, besides the Young Loan as previously announoed. The slump in German bonds on the London Stock Exchange continued today. , , , • A message from Berlin rays it is expected that at the ‘foriUcomlng meeting of Germany’s “ standstill ’’ creditors the Reichsbanlc will ask for a transfer of the moratorium. PARIS, May 15.

The correspondent says the French Cabinet to-day will decide on one of three plans for the reorganisation, of the army with a view to rendering it more effective in case of an outbreak of war. Also it will discuss an extension of compulsory military service from a year to 18 months. “ France has not yet made good all her war losses nor has she replaced all her old units, but we are working methodically on a renewal of the whole French Navy,” said the French Naval Minister at St.. Nazaire, at the launching of the new cruiser Emile Bertin. The ship will have a displacement of 6000 tons and a speed of 34 knots. It will be equipped with three six-inch guns; and several anti-aircraft and other guns. It can also be used for mine-laying, and will carry a catapult aeroplane. ’

HERR FRANCK’S SPEECH

AUSTRIA AROUSED

MINISTER ADVISED TO LEAVE

GERMAN PROTESTS',

United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright,

VIENNA, May 16. The German Government instructed its Ambassador in Vienna to protest to the Austrian Foreign Office against the inhospitable reception accorded .to the Bavarian Minister of Justioe, Herr Franck, and other Nazi Ministers on Saturday. . The Austrian Cabinet met at midnight, following upon the receipt of the vigorous German protest. Subsequently it is stated that the Government ordered Herr Franck’s departure. It is officially announced that the German Ambassador called on the Austrian Chancellor, Dr. E. Dollfuss, to lodge the protest. Dr. Dollfuss replied that Austria’s aotion was not against the German Government, but’ asainst Herr Franck personally.

1 It is reported that tho Austrian Minister in Berlin protested to the German Foreign Office against, llerr Franck’s presence in Austria, and particularly against the speech he made at Graz.

The pqlice intercepted Herr Franck as. lie' was motoring from Graz to Saltzberg, and informed him that the Government wished him Is leave Austria at the earliest possible moment. Herr Franck altered his plans immediately and journeyed direct, to Bavaria.

LONDON, May 16

The Daily Telegraph’s Vienna correspondent says Dr. Doilfuss is going to Rome at Whitsuntide to -ign a new Austrian concordat with the Vatican. Probably he will meet Herr Hitler under the aegis of Signor Mussolini, with whom Herr Hitler is due- to hold a conference at the same time. It is learned that Sunday’s disorders in'Austria were worse than was realised at first. There were organised attacks on hupdreds of towns and villages by Nazis) The wounded in the provinces totalled 270.

TROUBLE EXAGGERATED.

SALVATIONIST’S 1 OPINION.

MENACE TO HITLERISM,

(By TolegrapD.—Press association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday.

After 46 years of service in the Salvation Army, including li years in Central Europe, Commissioner Bruno Frlederich, who is German-born, has just retired -from the Salvation Army and Is proceeding to San • Francisco,> en route to Canada, where he will reside. He left Germany last December. “ Elements of war are present In every country in Europe without exception,” said Commissioner Friederioh to-day. “ Those seeds of war may come to very little, hut they are everpresent, and it will require the most tactful diplomacy to avoid war. At the same lime, I must say that neither the German people nor any other people of Central Europe want it." Commissioner Frlederich said he thought “the menace of Hitlerism’’ was to some extent exaggerated. .Most of Hiller’s utterances on international affairs were merely gestures. What Hitler said,' In effect, wa's, “ Germany Is a nation of 04,000,000 people. You cannot always keep it down. If you do not reduce your armaments, then neither will we reduce ours. If you will not come down to our status, pve must,come up to yours. We are surrounded by a ring of enemies, who can invade us within a few days. W; must have the right to defend ourselves and sufficient men to make that right effective.” The persecution of Jews was the work of an extreme section .of Ills following, which Hiller could not control, said Commissioner Friederich.’lt constituted a menace to Hitlerism itself. No one could say that Hitler did nbt lead a moral life) He was a tentperate man, a vegetarian and did not smoke. He had accomplished one wonderful thing in uniting in JO weeks 24 Stales, an aim which others had been trying to realise for the past 10 years. One of the results of: central authority was th’e teaching of English In all schools as the first of the secondary laiminges after German. (Continued in next column.)

GERMANS PERTURBED,

REACTION TO PA-PEN’S SPEECH

WAR TALK DEPRECATED

United I J r(*s<> A«sn. —Elec, Tel. Copyright (Received May 17, 10.30 a.m.) BERLIN, May 10.

The overseas reactions to llerr von Papon’s speech, notably in Britain where It is roaliscd there Is a marked revulsion of feeling, are giving Germans considerable perturbation. The man in the street is unmistakfiably supprisod and horriiled at the talk of the danger of war, and is puzzled why foreigners disbelieve Her Hitler’s dictum that Germany needs peace. Nevertheless there is skilful propaganda describing the adverse criticism as a smoke screen to cover the failure of the Disarmament Conference for which France Is blamed.-