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NEW WAR FRONT WARNINGS
Rome, To-day. The newspapers devote columns to despatches from all over Europe about what their headlines describe as "the threat of war from the Black Sea to the Arctic."
While all newspapers refrain from comment, the impression is created that hostilities may break out at any moment in the Caucasus as well as northern Europe.
Some newspapers prominently display Berlin reports about General Wey- gand's army in Syria and emphasise the vulnerability of the Soviet oil - bearing district.
Cairo despatches stress the collaboration in the Near East between Britain, France and Egypt.
"Tribuna" quotes a statement in an Istanbul newspaper that Turkey will en- ter the war on the side of the Allies on the day that any power marches against the Balkans. - Reuter.
ALLIED RESPONSIBILITY AFTER WAR-NO SCOPE FOR ANOTHER RUN AMUCK
PRISE.TODAY.
“WHEN THE WAR IS' OVER WE MUST SEE THAT FOR A LONG PERIOD AT LEAST TWO GEN- ERATIONS NO STATE IN EUROPE HAS THE POSSIBILITY OF RUNNING AMOK,” SAID COMMANDER STEPHEN KING-HALL, THE POLITICAL COMMENTATOR AND NATIONAL LABOUR M.P., LECTURING BEFORE A FASH- IONABLE FRENCH AUDIENCE HERE YESTER- DAY.
Commander King-Hall continued that the respon- sibility for this rests on Britain and France. "We must create in the minds of our two peo- ples," he declared, "fidelity, loyalty, respect and real affection for a country which is nei- ther French nor British but Franco-British."
ALLIES MUST AID FINLAND
war.
Sacrifice would not end with the The danger was that once peace was obtained, people would exclaim "Let's get back to normal life."
"We must make people under. stand that to get back to normal life is to sow the seade for a third
war,
"We mustn't attempt to solve pro- blems within a national framework. Steps should be taken to establish new departments in the Anglo-French For- eign Ministries, devoted to the task of working out ways and means of An- glo-French co-operation in peacetime.
"I would establish a consultatīva. council, 50 per cent. French and 50 per cent. British.
- MR. HORE-BELISHA London, To-day. That France and Britain should throw all their weight by sea, air and land into the task of helping Finland, was
"This would do for Anglo-French urged by Mr. Leslie Hore-co-operation what the Dominions Of- Belisha, addressing his con- fice does for relations between the stituents at Devonport yes- terday in his first public speech since resigning the War Ministry.
Dominions and Britain."
CENTURIES APART
Asking why Europe afflicted each generation with a major war, Com- mander King-Hall said the reason was that there were two sorts of nations "The Allies have no easy task bé-at a different stage of political evolu- fore them," he declared. "To astion.
sure triumph they must rely not on One group included England, an Internal enemy collapse but a France, Holland and Sweden, who defeat by external force.
#The, continued resistance, land gives reason to believe * Russia's might rests on Insecure
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understood we were living in the Fin-Twentieth Century, the other group that comprised the Russians and Germans, foun- who were still in the Nineteenth pr
Eighteenth Century,--Reuter.
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NERVOUS MISGIVING IN BERLIN
Zurich, To-day.
There is anxiety in Ber- lin as a result of what is described as the activi- ties of the British Navy in northern seas, accord- ing to the Berlin corres- pondent of the "Neue Zurcher Zeitung."
The correspondent says: "Nervous misgivings in Ber- lin concerning the activity of the British Navy in Nor- wegian territory are growing more and more and are deve- Hoping-inta: anxiety, lest. Bri- tain may start a great war offensive, to be launched from the north of Europe.
"The German authorities therefore are trying to give the impression that not a moment will be lost in starting a big offensive before the British Navy or Air Force have launched_these_big_ attacks."—Router.
AVIATION ACTIVITY
Paris, To-day. Last night's French communique said there was some aviation activity on either side.-Reuter.
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