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The Seaforth News, 1928-04-19, Page 7RUSSIAN PEACE GESTURE NOT CONSIDERED SINCERE 'Good Faith In .a Nation Is As Essential As. k The Private Individual an'd Britain Doubts Russia's Faith A THORNY OLIVE BRANCH When twentyfour nations meet at bassador }Thgh Gibson, head of the American 'delegation: "The American Government believes wholeheartedly that a multilateral treaty outlawing war would be wel- comed by, the Whole world, and be - la given point to discuss/disarmament, and the representativie:of one of them submits a comprehensive draft ofa treaty for world-wide disarmament within four years, only to see the inc. heves that • such a treaty' would •be poral raked 'fore and aft, because of more succe'safal 1 nattalning world peace than any scheme' of. disarma- ment. The Russian proposals, 'are totally out of spirit with our work. I. see no reason to vary outs usual Pro- cedure in' order to continuethe Rua Ilan discusslon.' its impracticability, the • Canadian reader of newspaper dispatches from' ,Geneva naturally begins to wonder what this disarmament business Is all about; why the Russian proposal to outlaw war was not seriously con- ,sidered at the meeting: Only Germany and Turkey backed the attempt of Maxim Litvinoff, head of the Soviet power to corrupt the armies and •delegation, to Bemire consideration of navies ,of -other nations; she has done disarmament proposal, we are told her best to sow disaffection and to while representatives of Great Britain and the United States riddled the Rus- promote theu world disarmrevolutament., And' slap proposal with heavy broadsides now Soviet suggests i'ancniameui.:. of verbal slot and, shell, and finally The olive branch would bes .sank it without trace. could coshes she if her vela ea- 'could be sure she did not have a wea- What is the answer? Tlie Soviet pon concealed in the other hand." In .draft proposed that navies be scrap- the opinion of the New York Eveptog ped entirely; that military establish- Post, the Litinoff proposal was "a ments be reduced to purely internal political gesture, by which Moscow Police forces; in short, that land, sea, aimed to enhance its prestige as a and air forces be abolished, This is peace -loving nation," 'The plan bore, the: second time that Russia has made. upon Ito face the marks of sincerity, admits, the Manchester Union, "but the background' from which it came stamped it with hyprocisy, for it is still the plan of Moscow to promote armed insurrection among the nations o ft4 world.' To lay armed' insurrec- tion among the nations of the world.' To lay down arms when such a drive is being planned, declares • the Albany Knickerbocker Press, "would leave the door open to intrigue and disas- ter." In fact, concludes the Lynch- burg News: ' "The Soviet proposal Is fantastic in the extreme. There is no compulsion back of the plan. All nations agree to disarm, and the honest ones disarm, while the dishonest ones do not. The result would then be that the preda- long ago. as 1922, at the first interna- tory nations would- rule the world. tonal conference at Genoa; in which Even if all disarmed, there would be Russia, explains the St. Joseph News -Press, 'has been doing all in her this proposal within the last four months/ and the chief reason it has been unfavorably i'oceived, the ma- jority of English newspaper editors agree, is that Russia's good faith is •questioned. To quote M. Litvinoff: "The Soviet .Government does not .need either an army or navy for ag- gressive purposes, as we desire to re• main at peace with all countries. The ,Soviet Government' has interested it. self In the problem of the establish- ment of peace and the banishment from international life of that scourge of human society, war, ever since it came into existence, "Quite independently of the League of Nations, and on its own initiative, the Soviet Government suggested as HAD TO, WAIT IN IRELAND FOR BETTER WEATHER CONDITIONS The (Ferman Junkers' plaue used by Capt. Koehl and Baron von Huenefeld, which hopped off in secret for a transatlantic flight and reached bre land and awaits ideal' conditions whi ch may come any day, South Africa's Status Debated .ted In Fadi=air rent House Adopts the Report on the Resolutions of the Imperial Conference Cape Town,—Pere South African House of Assembly has unanimously adopted the .report on the Imperial Conference resolutions of 1021, which was moved by Premier 5. B, M. Hert- zog, more than two weeks ago. The feature of the debate was the Pre- mier's declaration that•South Africa hada right to be neutral if Great Bri- tain *ere at war, and the repudiation of this attitude by Gen. San Christian Smuts, former Premier, and also by Col. F. 1--I. P. Creswell, Minister of Defense, a Labor member of the Hert- zog Government General Hertzog's claim -to the right of neutrality was based on what he termed the "Dominion's' new-found in- dependence" and the right of each dominion to be the sole judge as to the extent of its cooperation within the Empire. ' Freedom and Equality. 1Ie asked the House to vote for the Reminiscent of The Scottish Greys RED CAVALRY IS MADE UP OF OLD COSSACK REGIMENTS The uniform is different to tha t which was worn by the czar's forces, but this is a typical Cossack riding scene. The picture was taken Et a gr eat military spectacle in and around Moscow,, celebrating the 10th anniver- sary of the organization of the Red a rmy. The pageant was something grand. it participated, that the first question discussed be that of general disarma- anent. "During its ten years' existence the Soviet Government has never atta-ck- ed any of its neighbors, has declared no war upon anybody, -Mid has taken no part in the warlike adventures of other States. The fact that the Soviet Government, having no obligations whatsoever toward the League, volun- tarily cooperates with this commision, seems additional testimony to its sin- ' cerlty and good faith. "Tho;Sovfet Government declares it is ready to abolish all military forces In accordance with its draft conven- tion as soon as a similar decision is passed and simultaneously carried out by other States." ' Count von Bernstorff, head of the German delegation; also remarked during one of the stormy sessions at. Geneva: "I have been a member of this Com mission: for more than :two years, aced on no les sthan twenty occasions have I heard it asserted here that all our. work would,: be futile because. Russia was not rerpesented; bat now Russia is here, and the Commission decides to do nothing." It remained for Lord Cushendun, formerly Ronald McNeill, Under•Sec• retary of State for Foreign Affairs, as head of the British delegation, to re- ply to the Litvinoff proposal. Said the. successor of Viscount Cecil, in parts 4 "In what spirit aro these proposals made? Our object is to establish world peace on a firm basis, and I assume the desire of the Soviet is likewise. What kind of peace? There are two' ]finds of war; also there are two kinds of peace. There is international war and' civil war. Civil war is the more horrible. 'For years past the Soviet policy ex, pressed by its leaders has been to pro- ' .duce arncd'insurrections in every-na• bort where they can exercise in- fluence, We must have asstiranee given by Nl, Litvinoff that there is a completechange of policy.' Has the Soviet Cloverninent decided no longer to interfere in. the affairs of other na- iions7" As foe the United States, said Am - nothing to keep one nation from mak- ing its police force large enough to overawe those who scrupulously kept their _compact. Where there are: no battleships and submarines or cruis- ers or war -planes, mercant vessels would be as useful in war, if armed, as warships now are, and the nation with the most merchant ships, and unscrupulous enough to 'manufacture arms in secret, would be the nation that would impose its will mien the world, That ,being the case, absolute confidence among all the nations is essential to the success of the Soviet program. And where is that confi- dence? What nation, for instance, would be willing to depend for its existence upon its confidence In a re- juvenated Russia?" Air Mail Service Will Be -Res inked Connections With Liners at Rimouski to Be Increased This Summer Qttawa. .With the opening of navi- gation on the St. Lawrence about the end of this month, the Or mail service from Rimouski will be resumed. Last year the service was confined to Montreal' although one trip was made to Ottawa. This year, however, there wil be an extension and both Otta'v'a and Toronto are included in the air mail program. The flret mail liner of the season is expected at Rimoukl on the night of April 27 or the morning of the 28th. The mail will be put on board the al% plane and brought to Montreal where it will be re -distributed on 'planed' for delivery in Toronto and Ottawa. Further expansion of Canada's air mail service is contemplatednd et - forts may shortly be made to reach an agreement with the united Stator in regard to connecting' up with the trans -continental air lines atAlbany, With tho opening of the St. Law., rends navigation tho winter air mail service to Anticosti and the Magdalen Islands wit bo dlsoontinued. Patriotism . and Buying London Morning Post (Cone,) : The problem of combining patriotism and buying isnot without its difficulties in a land where no tariff imposes suf- ficient preferences to make the pur- chase of Empire products obligatory on all except the rich. Taste in all , its forms gives matter for disputes past ending, and In the case o fartistic products and luxuries which concern the palate the purchaser will, as a general rule, insist on obtaining what he wants with little consideration of its place of origin. If patriotism and palate clash, it is to be feared that given human weakness, palate will win. A contemporary states that there are two Russian lunatics tii'ho think they are Trotsky) It does not say which one of then is right. +mot1on to adopt the report ontheim 'penal conference, not on account o whatt it might mean to any particular person, but because of the unmistak- able language in which It said what it meant, and in "which it declared to us 1 "our freedm"—our freedom and equality, our absolute equality in the freedom to exercise every function, ' every power, every privilege of nation- al life, without owing any sebordina- I tion to any authority outside 0f our- selves," I General Smuts, in opposing the Pre• niter's neutrality stand, declared that "thesame king could not be both at war an dat peace In the same empire." He strongly deprecated the position the Premier had taken on the ques- tion, and said it was one that ought to be looked upon as purely academic. Colonel Creswell could not conceive of South Africa or any other dominion wishing to remain neutral if Great Britain were at war andthere had been previous consultations in the matter between the British Govern- ment and the governments of the Do. minions. e • One a Fake Anyway Diebel, Silesian Miner, Ex. eae 'Audiences With Similar Display BerIln,—seldom have pilgrimages In modern days reached the propor• tions of one visiting the little South German village of ilonnerereuth this Eastertide. A week ago 1t was gen- errlly announced that Theresa Neu- mann, the new noted stigmatic, was bleeding Vlore freely than ever. For a long time Thereon had.not bad her strange visitations and scot fern charged it to the fact that nitwit - needed repairs were being; made to the most impassable roads to the ham• let and tourists were unable to pay their usual visits, However,r, the high- way now is in good condition and jammed with autos, carriages, motor- cyoles,. vans and pedestrians. no p ' How He Trie ce 1 d • Chas been the case with any of the A Bishop from Munich and several f other attempted east•to-west fitghts, aides visited Kenuersreuth last week, The plane has been christened the but faired to reveal their impressions., Arc -en -Orel, Trial flights are to begin f The family still maintains that the within two or three weeks, from tine • girl has not eaten. since Christmas, ) field at Orly, The French govern -1 1820, though during the road building went already has asked the Weather ,period she was reported to have re - Bureau at Washington for Atlantic turned to normal ,health with an ex - ting the flight, though it is believed! e, Mabel, the Silesian the weather and winds over the ocean , miner who displayed similar stigma - will not be suitable for westward fly. tie wonders in the Berlin Winter- gar - lug until atter MaY 1. ten, has • disclosed his secret to the public, c saying that shortly before his Artist (showing friend round his appearance he scratched his flesh studio)—"The trouble is that only i with bee finer nails or a sharp instru-, about one' person in ten knows a good meat, being careful not to cut it. On picture from a bad one iu these days." 1 the stage, by contracting his muscles, Friend—"That's a bit of luck Yorthese formerly invisible lines assumed some of you fellows, isn't it?" i blood -red hue and Wen bled. Five to Attempt Atlantic Flights Westward Soon Tri -Motored Monoplane, Pi- loted by Maurice Drou- hin, Plans Start Early in May Paris.—Undismayed by the failure which has met all aviators who have attempted to span the north Atlantic, at least five expeditions are or soon will.be in preparation to challenge the ocean this spring. • .In several in- stances plans are being made bi com- panies and pilots who wished to at- tempt the flight last year, but were prevented by adverse weather. Most of the expeditions thus far are in the formative stage. One plane, however, already is completed, has been publicly shown, and soon will be- gin trial flights. It is a big tri -motor- ed monoplane; designed and built by the twenty -three -year -cid engineer, Rene Couzinet. Maurice Drouhin, who was engaged to pilot Charles Levine last summer when Levine; was planning to fly home from Europe, has been selected to pilot the plane. Drouhin, known as one of. the most capable of French aviators, lost considerable prestige as a result of, his tilt with Levine, and since has been particularly eager for an opportunify to try the flight. 'Though the crew has not been select- ed, the plane is constructed to carry; in addition to the pilot, a relief pilot, a navigator, a radio operator and one passenger. The plane measures twenty-seven meters from wing tip to wing tip. It is powered with three motors, each of 180 Horsepower, and . each in- cloe.ed in a separate engine room easily accessible from the cabin. The aviators plan to carry a load of 0,000 kilos of fuel and equipment. At present they believe it will be neces- sary to use only two of the throe mo- tors after the starting load has been diminished. A reserve motor, they believe, would make their expedition safer and more certain of success than Fame Doesn't Help DRAMATIST HOME BREAKS UP Mrs. Eugene O'Neill intimates -That she has had enough of the dramatist as a mate and is arranging for a separation. She was his staunch, helpmet when he was in obscurity, Salvagers Using Air to Float Battleship Sunk in Scapa. Flow London.—Salvage work said to be unique in engineering history is being carried :on at Scapa Flow by Cox & Shanke, who, having already raised twenty-six destroyers of the German fleet, are now engaged in the gigantic task of floating the battleship Seyd Litz. The Seydlitz lay upon her side. To turn.her over and raise her upright it has been estimated would have cost more than $300;000—too much to show a\profit on the transaction. The sal- vage engineers, therefore, have work- ed out a plan to float the huge ship, weighing 25,000 tone and having a length of 656 feet, on her side and to tow her in this position to the break- ing -up depot six miles away. She lay at a depth of more than eighty feet - The Royal Oak and the. Two Victims BRITISH NAVY DISCIPLINE MAINTAINED Commander Daniel (1) and Captain Dewar (2) were both relieved of their command temporarily due to their,aotljon to criticizing Itoad Admiral Collard in writing, ° The Admiral was undoubtedly what might be termed a bitty of i'dnk.. Ise used his piaitlon to unduly abuse Commander Daniel and othere, British public opinion; it Would appear, liaa sympathy for the two officers shown above and Admiral Collard'will in the end pay Ole greatest penalty in loss of presttlge:. Mr. Cox, describing the method of operation,,, said: "We work by pumping compressed air into the ship and at the same time filling up with concrete one by one the openings through whldch the air escapes. The biggest opening we have filled' so far measures 44 feet by 6 feet, and required ten tons of concrete." The raising of the whole German fleet, he said, would "probably be more than a life's work for most of us now engaged on it," Golden Rule Taken As Motoring `Guide "Drive as You Would Have Others Drive" Is Slogan of Washington Crusade Washington. -Thousands ot Wash- ington motorists have pledged them- selves to "drive as you would have others drive" as a result o fa Golden Rule crasade for safe driving conduct- ed by the Washington Star. The Golden Rule, the Star points out, "is the one fundamental traftlo law," A gilded automobile cruised quietly through tho city during the crusade week exemplifying the merits of care -1 driving, A feature motion picture starring local children was produced to encourage motorists to drive through residential and school zone dist;itis as though their own children were at play in the vicinity, Golden .pledge cards numbering 50,- 000' 0;000' were distributed to school child- ren who tools them home for parents to sign, Boy Scouts solicited pledges 1 nail of the Government departments. The, crusade was indorsed by promin- ent federal and, District of Columbia officials, vice President Dawes and Iferbel't hoover, 'Secretary of Com-. mercer were among the first . to elms the pledge. The safety division of the Department of Commonde ex. pressed the view that the campaign might well bo taken up by other cities, Great Britain and ypt Even le Ole lengthy negotlatlgne foal, the settlement of the outstanding pointe ht issue between Groatt lBri- tal nand Egypt have not resulted in an agreement, the fact that it has at least been possible to put on paper a draft treaty which can form the baste of for - tiler discussion Is in itself a distinct step in advance, The chief stumbling block on title occasion has once again been the old difficulty of the location of the British troops •deemedessential for the pro. tection of . the Empire's 00nlmunica None through the Suez Canal, Mill- tary opinion in London has hitherto been practically Unanimous that the defense' of the canal could not be or- ganized effectively if the troops were withdrawn from the interior of Egypt. That this view is in process of nodi- !kation is clear frank the fact that the proposed'; treaty contains a provision whereby the location of garrison would ultimately be fixed by the League Council, which' would be under no obligation to uphold the thesis of Brltieh strategists, The control of the Sudan, which is always looked upon as of vital im- portance - by Egyptians, owing to its geographical situation astride of their only water supply, was left tempor- arily emporaarily in abeyance, by the rejected Sur - wet -Chamberlain agreement. This issue was, however. exhaustively dealt with in the preliminary negotiations, whenit was made clear that Sarwat himself believed it would be possible to find a solution. based on some sys- tem of joint control by England and Egypt. The immediate reprecuselons of the: future of the negotiations should not be taken too seriously., The recent riots even do not appear, as had been the case on some previous 'occasions, to have been instigated by leading members of the still dominant politi- cal party, but to have been mainly the work of students acting in 'defi ante of those leaders' advice. While it would be :wise to forecast that a solution Is in sight, the situa- tion would seem to be more'encourag- ing than it has been at any time in the past ten years. It is distinctly- significant istinctlysignificant that the thoughts of edn-, cated Egyptians are said to be 'turn- ing more and snoreto the economic development of their country, and less and less to political acerbities. Al- ready under their first installment of independence the Egyptian Parlia- ment has found a number of .useful outlets for its activities, notably in the direction of improved education for the mosses of the people. There is, however, much still . to be done which can only.be accomplished in friendly collaboration with Great Bri- tain, and it 1n the best interests of both countries to come as.soCi as pos- sible to an amicable arrangement based on mutual concessions.—Edi- torial Christian Science Monitor. Y Why America Prospers Philip Kerr in the London Observer (Ind.) : In Britain, the national mind 1s concerned mainly with politics. In the United States it is concerned main- ly with business. , Oxford and Cambridge have sent their best men into politics, the law, or the Civil Service. The dignity of public life, the world-wide reputation of British justice, the long success of the Civil Service, not only at home, but in In- dia, in Egypt, and In countless Colon- ies and Dependencies, largely result from the best of the younger genera- tion 'seeking their careers in these fields. , - , In the United States the outlook is different. Business comes first, and politics comes second Business, however, has come to have the same kind of significance for the United Stattes that the Empire has for us. It is their kind now Empire- building. For just as the Pax Britan- nica to us spells the establishment of those conditions of individual free- dom, justice, order and peace, without which we believe civilization and self- government elfgovernment to be impossible, so busi- ness spells to the American the applb- nation of energy, initiative. invention' and organizing ability to the end that the standard of living of the individ- ual ndividual may be progressively and infinite - 1y raised. A New. African Empire London Times (Ind.): Taken as a whole, British East Africa, including the mandated territory of Tanganyika, will undoubtedly play a most import- ant part in Imperial offort iu the twentieth century. The peoples Of East Africa differ very widely, There are in Uganda natives with a singular' ly highly developed tribal life of their own which has been Incorporated, like the emirates of Northern Nigeria, into the British scheme; and there are tribes, alike in Kenya and In Northern Rhodesia, who have not only lost any organization they had but who plainly never had much to lose. Between these extremes exist millions of na- tives whose future lies In the hands of servants of the British Crown. '.i'oo Much Navy London Daily Chronicle (Lib.)1 The Navy nolonger possesses its old re- lative importance. The 1{tte War proved it of email tattle ase "sword,' whiel as a "buckler" it has been large. ly stiporseded by her 'warfare, 11 any Oontinelutp4'Power wants iii future tt bring ttti9 Country to Its knees, it will bo by air( 14.90 fly water, that the bis( attempt *At bo Made,