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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 25, 1988.

LORD HALIFAX ON THE CHOICES BEFORE EUROPE Great Sacrifices To Be Demanded Of People

PURGATORY OF GREAT ARMS RACE

London, To-day.

"We must face frankly the three possibilities the future seems to hold war, armed peace or a peace of understanding," declared the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, at Edinburgh last night.

It was the Foreign Secretary's first speech since the crisis, of which he gave a general review. "We wish to escape the first possibility and achieve the third," he declared, "but it may be that as Dante made his entry into Paradise through a war of purgatory, so we if are to reach true peace, have to pass through the stage of armed peace to get there.

"If this country is to play its full part with others in securing peace, it must be able to speak with its full weight.

"It is recognition of these facts that have inspired in all classes and others the desire to see the State make a greater call upon the service of individuals than it has yet been felt necessary to do.

GREAT SACRIFICE

"If we are to make swifter pro- gress with the re-equipment of all branches of our defence power, it is certain that this could only be achieved by the readiness of all people and interests to make a great

sacrifice to the common end.

SETTLEMENT WAS RIGHT

London, To-day.

"I cannot doubt that the decision to secure a settlement by which war was averted in half the

world was right," Lord Halifax de- clared,

It was, the Foreign Secretary contended, a plain fact no one had ever denied that in war no combin- ation of the efforts of France, Rus- sia and Great Britain could have

Czecho-Slovakia protected

itself from a destruction far more sweep- ing and complete than the sacri- fices Agreement.

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"For some, the sacrifice will be of money, in order to provide fin-refusal to accept defeat. ancial resources for what we need

Perhaps the most remarkable to do.

"Of others, it may be necessary to demand sacrifices in other forms.

THINK TWICE

war.

LORD HALIFAX

BRITAIN'S OBLIGATIONS

Britain had obligations in all

COOLIDGE DISCHARGES HER SILVER

London, To-day. Commenting on the unloading of the silver shipment on the "Presi- dent Coolidge" in Shanghai, the "Financial News" remarks that in- terruption of shipments of silver to the United States would have seri- ous consequences for the Hankow authorities,

However, fairly

large amounts of Chinese Government silver re- main in London, and unless the question of legality of the Hankow Government's ownership intervenes, it is presumably possible for the [Chiang Kai-shek administration to |raise funds by shipping these stocks

to New York.-Reuter.

COOLIDGE SAILS

Shanghai, To-day. The "President Coolidge" sailed for San Francisco via Japan at 9 o'clock this morning, after the shipment of silver worth U. S. $4,- 500,000 had been removed from the holds last night.

Yesterday the American Consul- General, Mr. Clarence E. Gauss, conferred with the Japanese Con- sul-General, Mr., Kidaka, without avail.

demanded by the Munich parts of the world which certainly The customs permit cancellation did not diminish, and in taking the orders, reported to have been sign- debt of gratitude to the Prime Minis-nothing, Lord Halifax insisted, were not withdrawn.

The world owed an incalculable necessary precautions, Britain did ed by the Japanese Commissioner, ter for his unflinching perserver with which others had a right to The silver was returned to the ance in the cause of peace and his reproach it, since Britain did no Chase Bank guarded by U. S. Ma-

rines.-Reuter. more than follow their example.

Defining the ideals on which the crisis was the unanimous revolt of said the world the British people simple folk in all countries at the desired to see was one in which all idea of war, and it was under that nations could exist side by side, impulse that the four powers took their just rights respected by all common action to avoid war and and their differences resolved by had laid, as they might surely hope, free discussion-a world in which a foundation on which they might men, women and children..could build better things.

live decent lives no longer haunted by the dread spectre of war,

thing which had emerged in the nation could unite, Lord Halifax CRETE ESCAPE

MYSTERY-

"I hold that there is a growing

Athens, To-day. sense everywhere that war, quite

The ringleaders of the revolu- apart from its horrors and damage,

tionary Venizelist movement which unsettles more than it settles, and

broke out in the island of Crete last July and who ever since had been accordingly there are strong forces SPIRIT OF DECLARATION

hiding in the mountainous and al- at work which will make any coun-

Analysing the joint declaration

TENDENCY TO BE CURBED most inaccessible region of the is- try think twice before resorting to signed by the German Fuehrer and

land have, it is announced,.now suc- the British Premier at Munich,

If they were ever to realise that ceeded in escaping from Crete, "There are other forces pulling Lord Halifax said there might be state of affairs, the Foreign Secre The whole affair is very mysteri- in a different and more dangerous some disposed to underrate its tary suggested it was necessary to ous. It is not known how the per- direction, and the right conclusion value, but if its spirit could be kept curbs the tendency in certain quar-sons in question made their escape to my mind in the matter of arma-alive and sincerely made the basis ters to interfere in the internal af nor is there apparently any trace ment for national defence is that on both sides of a mutual approach, fairs of other nations.

of their whereabouts. there is a good deal of sense in the so that the German and British'na- It was not a British custom, and Ocean. old-fashioned idea that an umbrella tions really succeeded in reaching so long as others did not interfere often keeps the rain away.

an understanding, it would be the with British affairs, there was no "We must lose no opportunity of strongest guarantee possible desire here to adopt -British helping forward the results of the against the dangers to which the Wireless. personal contacts established be-world had been brought so close.

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tween the four powers at Munich.

· · IMPROVED RELATIONS

What the world was now witness- ing, the Foreign Secretary thought,

was the revision of the Versailles EXCHANGE OF

Treaty, for which provision had

PRISONERS

Paris, To-day.

Trans-

GERMAN-POLISH DISCUSSION

Berchtesgaden, To-day. The German Foreign Minister, Herr von Ribbentrop, received the Polish Ambassador, M. Lipski, here' on Monday for a lengthy conversa- tion.

"Britain wants to improve rela-been made in the League Covenant, tions with all who are willing which never till now had been made to improve their relations with us. effective.

"If the German and British nations

Referring to the negotiations be- British volunteers that had been could really succeed in reaching as tween, the Czecho-Slovak and Hun-fighting on the side of Republican Although Information concerning 'understanding, it would be the garian governments, he said "His Spain and were taken prisoners by the topic discussed is not forth- strongest, guarantee that could be Majesty's Government hoped they the Nationalists were exchanged coming, it is reliably learned that devised against the dangers to which might reach an equitable solution here on Monday for Italian prison-his visit dealt with the present the world was brought so close.”— which would remove or lessen ra-ers. Both parties numbered forty. Hungarian - Czechoslovak: Router.

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