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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1928-04-19, Page 6RUSSIAN PEACE GESTURE NOT CONSIDERED SINCERE Good Faith In a Nation Is As Essential As h The Private Individual and Britain Doubts Russia's Faith A THORNY OLIVE BRANCH bassador Hugh Gibson, American delegation: "Tice American Government believes whole-heartedly that a multilateral treaty outlawing war would be wel- comed by the whole world, and be When twenty-four Ytatione meet at a given point to discuss disarmament; and the representative of one of them submits- a comprehensive draft of a treaty for world-wide disarmament within four years, only to see the pro- Heves that such a treaty would be more successful 1 nattaining world peace than any scheme of disarma- ment. The Russian proposals are totally out of spirit with our work, see no reason to vary our usualp - Cedure in order to continue the Rus- sian discussion." Russia, explains the St. Joseph head of the posal raked fore amt aft becau its impracticability, the Canadian reader .of newspaper dispatches from 1 T Geneva naturally begins to wonder ro what this disarmament business is all about, why the Russian proposal to Hope - Flight�errnIny s Ho a For Ocean . seeeseekkessedeeeekeleseeessesseesAeOWOM outlaw war was not seriously con- sidered at the meeting. Only Germany aud Turkey backed the attempt of Maxim Litvinoff, head of the Soviet delegation, to secure consideration of his 'disarmament proposal, we are told while representatives of Great Britain and the United States riddled the Rus- sian proposal with heavy broadsides of verbal shot and shell, and finally sank it without trace. - could be sure she did not have a wea- What is the answer? The Soviet 'pen concealed in the other hand." In draft proposed that navies be scrap- the opinion of the New York Evening ped entirely; that military establish- Post, the Litinoff proposal was "a frig until after May 1. 1 internal � political gesture by which Moscow Cape Town—The South African selves:' 'has been doing all in her News -Press, HAD TO WAIT 'IN IRELAND FOR BETTER WEATHER CONDITIONS • •, Iiuen efeld, which hopped a transatlantic flight aud reached ire land and awaits ideal conditions wh may A Bishop from Munich and several motion to adopt the report on the I'm- has been the case with any of the aides visited Kenner n anti last week, off in secret for The German Stinkers' plane used by Capt. Koehl and Baron voni ch come any day. c One •a Fake Anyway Diebel, Silesian Miner, , plains How He Tricked Audiences With Similar Display Berlin.—Seldom have pilgrimage* in modern days reached the proper+ tions of one visiting the little South German village of Konnersreuth tide Eastertide. A week ago it was gene erally announced that Theresa Neu' mann, the new noted stigmatic, wag bleeding more freely than ever. For a long time Theresa had no$ had her strange visitations and scot- Pers charged it to the fact that much• needed repairs were being made to the most impassable roads to the ham- let and tourists were unable •to pay their usual visits. However, the high, way now is in good condition and jammed with autos, carriages, motor- cycles, vans and pedestrians. power to corrupt the armies and South Africa's ss. navies of other cations; she has done her best to sow disaffection and to promote the world •revolution. And now she suggests disarmament...: The Soviet olive branch would be more convincing if her neighbors Status Debated perial conference, not on account of other attempted east -to -west flights• but failed to reveal their impressions, whatt it might mean to any particular - The plane has been christened that The fancily still maintains that the person, but because of the unmistak- Arc-en-Clel. Trial flights are to begin girl has not eaten since Christmas, within two or three weeks from the 1926, though during the road building field at Orly. The French govern- period she was reported to have re- merit already has asked the' Weather turned to normal health with an ex - Bureau at Washington for Atlantic eellent appetite. weather reports to. be Studied in plot able language in which it said what it ParliamentIn meant, and in "which it declared to us "our freedom"—our freedom and equality, our absolute equality in the House Adopts the Report, on the' Resolutions of the Imperial Conference freedom to exercise every function, Meanwhile, Diebel, the Silesian every power, every privilege of nation- ting the flight, though it is believed miner who displayed similarestigma- al liter without owing any subordina- the weather and winds over the ocean tic wonders in displayed Berlin Winter -i stigma - ton to - any authority outside of our- will not be suitable for westward fly merits be reduced to purely I po ea ____ police forces; in short, that land, sea, aimed to enhance its prestige as a House of Assembly has unanimously General Smuts, in opposing the Pre and air forces be abolished. This is peace -loving nation." 'The plan bore adopted the report on the Imperial mier's neutrality stand, declared that Artist (showing nee rid round his appearance he scratched his fico studio)—"The trouble is that only with his finer nails or a sharp Snatru- on its face the marks ot sincerity, Conference resolutions of 1926, which "the same king could not be both at O was moved by Premier J. B. M. -Bert- war an dat peace in the same empire." zog, more than two weeks ago. The He strongly deprecated the position feature of the debate was the Pre- the Premier had taken on the ques• mier's declaration that South Africa tion, and said it was one that ought had a right to be neutral if Great Bri• to be looked upon as purely academic. tain were at war, and the repudiation 1 colonel Creswell could not conceivemus, "The Soviet Government does not -Lion among the nations of the world. " of this attitude by Gen. Jan Christian of South Africa or any other dominion need either an army or navy for ag- To lay down arms when such a drive . Smuts, former Premier, and also by ; wishing to remain neutral if Great gressive purposes, as we desire to re- is being planned, declares the Albany 11 Minister of Britain were at war " ld leave ten, has disclosed his secret to the public, saying that shortly before his the second time that Russia has made this proposal within the last four months, and the chief reason it has been unfavorably received, the ma- jority of English newspaper editors agree, is that Russia's good faith is questioned. To quote M. Litvinoff. 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 fthe world." To lay armed insurrec- 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, ho Soviet Government suggested as long ago �-, as 1920 at the first interna - Knickerbocker Press, wou 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- tory nations would rule the world. tioual conference at Genoa, in which Even if all disarmed, there would be and there had Col. F. H. P. Creswell, tuber of the -Heft- been previous consultations in' the Defense, Labor me a zog Government I matter betweeu the British Govern- General Hertzog's claim to the right ment and the governments of the Do - of neutrality was based ou what ‘he minions. termed the "Dominion's new-found #n-—•---:�— --- dependence" and the right of each 'r dominion to be the sole judge_ as to Five to Attempt the extent of its cooperation within 1Atlantic Flights the Empire. i Freedom and Equality. He asked the House to vote for the Reminiscent of The Scottish Greys ��N.`<k,�', r'cK`4r,'�s., 's.1Q>".1�2`g�:.tt€�u�:• ,�u.,.''�•'�At''�,'•v��" �i'S`3�z; :::;i�::%,�,':°•? 2S�a RED CAVALRY IS MADE UP OF OLD COSSACK REGIMENTS ing The uniform is iwas iftakent atetha t which was worn by a gr eat military spectacle ineczar'sand around forces, cow, ut this celebr ting the 10th anniver- sary scene. The P of the organization of the Red army. The pageant was something grand. _ • i a - Westward Soon Tri -Motored Monoplane., ThPi- lcted by Maurice ou- 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 by come 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=old 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 about one person in ten knows a good :ment, being careful not to cut it. n picture from a bad one in these days." 1 the stage, by contracting his muscles, Friend—"That's a bit of luck for i these formerly invisible lines assumed some of you ,fellows, isn't it?" ( blood -red 'hue. aud otfen bled. it participated, that the first question discussed be that of general disarma- ment. "During its ten years' existence the Soviet Government has never attack - 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- ed any o s neighbors, E it ighbors has declared ers or war -planes, mercant vessels 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 - upon the seems additional t.estienony to its sin- world. That being the case, absolute cerity and good faith. confidence among all the nations is "The Soviet Government declares it essential to the success of the Soviet is ready to abolish all military forces program. And where is that confl- in accordance with its draft conven- dens? What nation, for instance, tion as soon as a similar decision is would be willing to depend for its existence upon its confidence in a re- juvenated Russia?" • no war upon anybody, and has taken would be as useful in war, if armed, rib 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 passed and simultaneously carried out by other States." Count von I3ernstorff, 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, and on no les sthau twenty occasions have I heard it asserted here that all our work w oftld be futile because Russia was not rerpesented; but 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 part: "In what spirit are 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 ot peace? 'there are two kinds of war; also there are two 'kinds The mail will be put on board the air - of peace. There is internationalwar plane and brought to Montreal where Mad civil war, Civil war 18 the more it will be redistributed on `planes for horrible. delivery in Toronto and Ottawa. "For years ,past the Soviet policy ex- Further expansion of Canada's air pressed by its leaders has been. to pro- mail service is contemplated and et- duce arnied'instirrections in every na• forts may shortly be made to reach tion where' they can e*erelse in- an agreement with the United States fluence. Wo must have assurance in. regard to connecting up with the given by M. Litvinoff thatthere is a trans -continental air lines at Albany, complete change of policy. Has the ,'NS. p Soviet Government decided no longer With the opening of the St. Law - to interfere in the affairsof other na- renee navigation the winter air mail tions?" I service to Anticosti and the Magdalen As for the tufted States, said Am- r islands wil bo discontinued. one of the most capable of French Patriotism and Buying aviators, lost considerable prestige as result of his tilt with Levia ne, and London Morning Post {ConsJ:The sine has been particularly eager for problem of combining Patriotism and .an opportunity to try the flight. buying is not without its difficulties in Though the crew has not been select - a land where no tariff imposes • euf- ed, the plane is constructed to carry, ficient preferences to make the par' In addition to the pilot, a relief pilot, chase ot Empire products obligatory a navigator, a radio operator and one on all except the rich. Taste in all passenger. its forms gives matter for disputes The plane measures twenty-seven past ending, and in the case o fartistio meters from wing tip to wing tip. It is products ,and luxuries which concern powered with three metates, eaoh the palate the purchaser will, as a of 180 horsepower, and each in general rule, insist on obtaining what closed in a separate •engine room it wants f or little patriotism d easily accessible from the cabin. palatea place of origin. tof patfiotiem and The aviators plan to carry a 'load of vnclash, it a be feared that 9,000 kilos of fuel and equipment. At given human weakness, palate will t they believe it will be neces- win. t resen only two of the three rno Air Mail Service Will Be Resumed Connections With Liners at Rimouski to Be Increased This Summer Ottawa.—With the opening of navi- gation on the St. Lawrence about the end of this month, the air mall service from Rimouski will be resumed. Last year, the service was confined to Montreal — although one trip was made to Ottawa., This year, hoi"rever, there wil he an extension and both Ottawa and Toronto are, included is the air mail program. " The first mail liner of the season is expected at;Itlmouski on the night et April 27 or the morning of the 28th. A contemporary states that there are two Russian lunatics who think they are Trotzky. It does not say which one of them is right her London,. ---Salvage work said to be unique in engineering history is being carried on at Scapa Flew by Cox & Shanice, who, having already raised. twenty-six destroyers of the German fleet, are now engaged in the •gigantic task of floating the battleJhip Seyd- 1itz. The Seydlitz upon side. To Tir turn her over and raise her upright it has been estimated would have cost more than $800,0&0 --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, sary t o use j weighing 25,000 tons and having a tors after the starting load has been 'length of 656 feet, on her side and to diminished. A reserve motor, they tow her in this position to the break - believe, would make their expedition int; -up depot six miles away. She lay safer •and more certain of success than at a depth of more than eighty feet• 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 seration. She was his staunohs helpmet P . when he was in obscurity. ' Saiv gers► Using Air to Float Battleship Sunk in Scapa Flow lay The al Oak and the Two Victims 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 ono by one the openings through vehich 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 YouD Would Have Others Drive" Is Slogan of Washington Crusade ;>> Washington,—Thousands of Wash- ington motorists have pledged them- selves to "drive as you would have others drive" as a result o fa Golden Rule crusade for safe driving conduct- ed onducted by the Washington Star. The Golden Rule, . the Star points out, "is the one fundamental traffic law." A gilded automobile cruised quietly through the city during the crusade week exemplifying the merits of care- ful delving. A feature motion picture starring local children was produced to encourage motorists to drive through residential and school zone districts as though their own children were at play in the vicinity. Goldin pledge cards numbering 50,- 000 were distributed to school child- ren who took thein home for parents to sign. i3oy Scouts solicited' pledges i nal' of the Government departments. Tho crusade was indorsed by proniin- ent federal and District of Columbia officials. Vice•President Dawes and $RIT1St# NAVY DISClPLItdS iVIAf N'rAIN'ED' Herbert Itoover, Secretary of Com. re V of their command mmand temporarily due to niorco, were among the first to sign Commander Daniel (Wand C'Rci7i.airl 7,5"�'rr'fr tri rrr.il. both yellow', , : tl 'rim Admiral Wass undoubtedly what might be termed the pledge. The safety division et their action in criticizing Ihis Admiral t l,nrolul hi molter.( ritissh public opinion, it Ike _Department, of Commence ex 'rix ns#tia,ii to r«riflifiy s;,Ifrt�:fs .C.rrlrrrrtsctsllssP' ?iarsiRrl mid tfiirorsi, 11 set pressed the view that the campaign a bully of rank, He used p , above awl Admiral G�tfllard will in the end pay the great multi appear; has sympathytgefor the two afiirsrff c .,i(nrrrr -night well be taken up by other cities. pertalty in 1055 of preattige,