GRAVE SITUATION

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19662, 23 August 1935, Page 7

GRAVE SITUATION

ACTIVITY IN BRITAIN. CONFERENCE OF MINISTERSWILL CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, Aug. 21. Activity at 10 Downing Street continues. Mr George Lansbury, Leader of the Labour Party, conferred with Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. On arriving from Lossiemouth, Mr Ramsay MacDonald said the position was the gravest we have had to faoe since 1914, When Mr Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, arrived, a meeting with Mr MacDonald, Sir S. Hoare, Mr R. A. Eden, Mr Neville Chamberlain, and others was held immediately. Well-informed opinion states that the Government has no Intention of suggesting an emergency meeting of the League of Nations, but will continue diplomatic negotiations i until the Geneva meeting on September 4. INSTRUCTIONS TO DELEGATES. i EXPORTATION OF ARMS. (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 21. It is anticipated that at to-morrow’s Cabinet meeting the report on the Paris conversations will be discussed and a general discussion of the situation will follow. (Further meetings of the Cabinet will be found necessary for formulating instructions to the British representatives at the League Council meeting on September 4-, and for the question of the export of arms to Italy and Abyssinia. THE DOMINIONS CONSULTED. GREAT GRAVITY OF SITUATIONFULL STORY OF PARIS FAILURE. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, Aug. 21. To-day’s meeting of the British and Dominion representatives was the forerunner of a number that will be held before September 4 . regarding the Abyssinian situation. It was hi Id principally with the object of imparting the full story of the Paris failure to the ■ Dominions, also In accordance with the established principle of a close liaison with the Dominions when a decision on international policy is pendingSir Samuel Hoare and Mr R. A. Eden left Hie High Commissioners in no doubt regarding the extreme gravity of the situation. The Dominion representatives were offered an -opportunity of expressing their tentative views, but pending tomorrow’s Cabinet meeting, the consultations have not reached a stage at which Britain will take soundings of the extent to which moral and material support might be expected from the EmpireTile Cabinet’s own decision cannot bo made until the sanction and antisanction elements in it are reconciledIt will probably be a week before the High Commissioners arc in a position to seek instructions. While there is ample evidence of interest In the situation by all the Dominions the Australian Associated Press loarns that none has yet expressed an opinion to Whitehall. THE NAZIS' GRATIFICATION. COLLAPSE OF THE LEAGUE. EXTREMISTS WELCOME WAR. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, Aug. 22. The Berlin 'Correspondent of ,llie Times states that although the official German attitude is non-committal, Hie Nazis’ satisfaction at the imminent collapse of the League of Nations system is undisguised. The extremists believe a war would further their plans. Although the “fire-eaters’ ” expectation that it would enable Germany to -occupy Austria before December is not likely to be realised, it is generady accepted that a struggle, -whatever fho outcome, would weaken Italy and fully occupy Britain and France, possibly loading Britain to abandon Hie collective system in disgust. GENERAL MOBILISATION. RECRUITING SPEEDED UP. DIVISIONS SENT TO FRONTIER. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright LONDON, Aug. 21. The Daily Mail’s Addis Ababa correspondent says it is ur.-durslood that ,i meoling of Ministers ami Irikt’ chieflams ii. ciiled on general mobilisation. IKvruiiing lias he u. speeded up, and two liir'lKT divi.-d .;i„ i-ove been sent (o Hu: iiaiian i'ronti:r. ITALY’S GOLD RESERVE. l’.ic. DROP REPORTED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, Aug. 21. The Daily Telegraph's Home correspondent says a Treasury slalunient reveals that Hie gold reserve lias fallen by another 0,11 IO.OOii and has readied a new low level of t!Si,OOO,-