1936-06-05 — Page 11

THE TERRITORIAL SCHUSCHNIGG AS

ARMY

Mr. Duff Cooper's Promise

AN END OF NEGLECT

London, May 20.

AUSTRIA'S SOLE DICTATOR

Absolute Power Under New Law

STARHEMBERG NOT MENTIONED

Mr. A. Duff Cooper, Secretary of State for War, was the principal guest at the annual dinner of the

Vienna, May 21, London Territorial Dinner Club. over which the Lord Mayor pre-

Be a Decres promulgated this morning, the third amiversary" "of sided, at the Mansion House last the foundation by Dr. Bollfuss and night. Members and guests num-Prince Starhemberg of the Fatlier bered nearly 100, and no fewer and Front, Dr. Schuschnigg has than 49 Tert.orial Army forma- established himself as sule Dictator tions and units were represented.

1 Austin The King sent the following

The new law, which message, which the Lord Mayor The Fatherland Front Act," was is called read and cheers:-"Please thankut even submitted to the formality on my behalf the 350 officers of ¦ of approval by any of the Govern the Terri.orial Army dining at the ment's nominated councillors which Mans on House to-hight for their messages of loyalty and devotion. which I very much appreciate."

ernment as an emergency measure

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ADMIRALS APPOINTMENTS

Command Of The Battle Cruisers

London, May 16.

HOW DEMOCRACIES, STRONG IN WAR, HAVE

FAILED IN PEACE ·

Mr. Lloyd George Appeals For Effort To Save Civilisation

The Admiralty announce that the following flag officers' appoint- ments have been approved:-

V.ce-Admiral Geoffrey Blake. C.B., D.S.O., to be Vice-Admiral

London, May 14. Sidney R. Balley. C.B., C.B.E. Mr. Lloyd George described war D.S.O.. to date July, 1935. Vice- as "the worst and the most cruel Admiral Blake will assume com- rel of a savage worship," and,

leve mand in August, when he will re-appealed for the abolition of "hu-

Vice-Adm.ral Sir Forbes, K.C.B. D.3.0., "as Second- day. It was one of the tragedies of Charles man sucriace" in a speech yester-

In-Command. Mediterranean.

the present grave situation, he Rear-Admiral Thomas H. Binney. I said that all the qualities of great C.B. D.SO.. to be 'Rear-Admiral. | leadership were beng displayed by 1936, and to assume duty in August. tion by democracles Firs: Battle Squadron, to date July. dictatorships and all the vacilla- 1936.

EAST INDIES COMMAND Vice-Admiral F. F. Rose. C.B..

replace Parliament, possibly from fear of Heimwehr attempt at cri- ticism. It was defreed, by the Go... who leaves Aden to-day

the P. & O. lner Carthage for home on relinquishing command of the East Indies Station, has held this command since December, 1934.

"Our Glorious Dead." proposed by the Rev. A. E. Wilkinson, Hor.rooking no delay,'' Chaplain to the Forces. Eastern Commar.d.

honoured Was

in silence. A bugle in the gallery sounded Last Post and Revellie.

Mr. Duff Cooper. in submitting

the toast "The Territorial Army in London," paid a tribute to the memory of Field-Marshal Lord Allenby, whom he described as a great soldier, a great leader, and the possessor of a name that would be remembered 13 long as the Great War was remembered. Lord Allenby was typically British-a man of great modesty, of great determination, and great breadth of mind. In the days that followed the War. Lord Allenby performed valuable services to his country, and the work which he had done in Egypt when High Commissioner had never received is full tribute of praise. Lord Allenby went out to Exyp: 'n a 'beriod of great un- qulet and unrest and left Egypt having restored peace, tranquility, and good wil

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THE NATIONAL PRODUCT Referring to a cartoon in this 'week's "Punch," Mr. Duff Cooper said he was proud to find that he occupied the pos.lon of a central fgure. The cartoon represented him endeavouring to water, a pair

and would probably have retained

The Chancellor is given absolute power pver the Frous with the title of Font Leader,“ It is for him to dictate all farther, regulations for at least another year but for governing the Fruit, the anly-health. He is 58 this year, and political body colevated in Austria, in July will have completed 44 and to nominate officers and pro years in the Navy. Vice-Admiral vincial leaders.

Rose first came into public notice as a commander in command of H.M.S. Laurel and a division of the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla in the Heligoland Bight action. He was wounded in both ligs, but remained on the bridge until the evening. displaying great devotion to duty. Since the War he has been Flag- the Mediterranean. Captain in Director of the Operations Division

Dr. Schuschnigg's immediate sub ardinates are constituted into a Front Leaders' Council of 40, whom Dr. Schuschnigg may sum-

or dismiss at will.

The Austrian Dictator will have unrestricted control over the mem bership of State legislative and municipal councils throughout the country. No member of the Front ay sit on any of these without his permission.

Non-members of the Fronty of course, are already excluded from

sort of public fanelion or every employment State hicials and public bodies throughout Austria are ordered to take immediate ac- tion on any complaint or request put forward by members of the Front which has been approved by the Front Leader or the provincial lenelers.

The red-white-red ribbon and the erutch erss are established as the badges of the Front.

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CONTROL OF MILITIA Section 2. gives the new Dictator over the new

of miserable sprouts called "The absolute control Territorial Army" and "The Regs-Front Militia-the successor to lar Army" in something like a the Heimwehr Militia-which is Chelsea flower show, with huge defined as a uniformed voluntary military formation within the plans all round him representing Fatherland Frout." Thus as Front the Italian. the German, and the Leader Dr. Schuschnigg has ab- French Armies. He was made to solute power over the Militia also. say! "i wish I could grow some

norinates the Militia thing which would compare a lttle more with these plants. Our small Armies-the Regular Army and the Terr torial Army-in nurn- hers compared very miserably with sich vast Continental forces. He

He

leader,"

sad kan call cut the militia for service with the roy and dismiss it at will. Members have to take the oath to him and to the Militia Leader.

Dr. Schuschnige is made sole in terpreter of this Militia law also, and will decide which members of the existing Heimwehr and other Fascist furinations should be ac cepted for the Militia.

was, however, devoted to "the vo- luntary principle. and belleved that the voluntary soldier, whether he was called a mercenary or a volunteer, was a better soldier than a conscript. He believed there The law makes Dr. Schuschnigg were no exotic hothouse growths absolute ruler of Austria and re- that could compare with the na- gisters the complete eclipse of tura: product which had its roots Prince Starhemberg, the deposed deep in the soll of its country. Fatherland Front and head of the Vice-Chancellor, leader of the The later would survive everything Heimwehr, who is nowhere met. which was artifically created.

tioned in it. (Cheers.)

We had had some experience of the Vice-Chancellor, Major Baar Dr. Schuschnigg has appointed wariare during the centuries of our

1on Banrenfels, to the post of De- history. We had always been un-

puty-Front Leader and Militia prepared for it and we had never Leader, Prince Starhemberg is left lacked historians to prove to us with the two colourless appoint what a mess we had inade of menta of Sports Leader and Yet in some way, inscrutable, in- | Mothers' Helff Lengue president, explicable, and never explained by By another decree promulgated those historians, we had always to-day Dr. Schuschnigg orders come out victorious. In the end. every employer to take on one ex- But we should be foolish if we re-mber of the Fascist formation for the first six and for every lief upon fortunate results of many

successive 10 employees newly r'sks wrongly taken. He would he engaged. Firms employing more the last to say that because we had than 20 hands must, in addition, muddled through so often we ought at once take on one such person to be able to muddle through a further s Fascist fighter for again. No student of our military every 25 of their present staff history, could read without feel- ing that, the risks often "taker. should never be run again.

belief in the mind of the ordinary man that the Territorial Army was no part of the serious fighting forces of the Crown. They had always laboured under the suspi- cion of being toy soldiers playing at warfare. If anybody though! that now he was utterly ignorant, not only of the defenceless state of

of the Naval Staff, Commodore of

Portsmouth Barracks. and Rear- Admiral of Destroyers in the Me- diterranean.

.NEW SUBMARINE MINELAYER

The keel was laid on May 12 at the Greenock shipyard of the Scotts' Shipbuilding and Engineer Ing Company of HMS. Cachalot, one of the three submarines of the 1935 programme. The

Cachalot

Mr. Lloyd George was making a statement of polley to a conference of Council of Action charmen and other officers of area committees. held at the Central Hall. West-

minster.

Viscountess Snowden, Miss Megan Lloyd George, M.P., and Major G. Lloyd George, M. P. were among the 40 people present,

Mr. Lloyd George said that they had come to discuss the future of

anxious to hear than to speak. the Council of Action. He was more

The national and district execu-

tives of the Council of Action had now associated with them, through- out the country, hundreds of local councils. These local associations had come into existence since the General Elect.on.

Ever since that even the Council had been organising quietly and effectively in

every part of the country.

claim that we have approached the attainment of what is due from a Christian State to a citizens.

"We are non-party, men and women of all parties-and a great many of us not knowing exactly what party.

"Bu; we have felt that while there are several parties there are only two alternative policies; one is the policy of human brotherhood. and the other the policy of Inhu- man selfishness and indifference.

These were the issues we stood to raise in the last election. We raised them in definite form in their bearings on current events.

"Why did we not succeed "In impressing them on the electorate? Largely because they were obscured, not by conditions, but by the ap parent adhesion on the part of all. parties who were running candi- dates, and not mere adhesion but. so far as words were concerned. devotion.

"In fact, during the elecion che human issues were blurred by the Lavish use of soft scap." (Cheers and laughter >

"We are painfully aware of what has happened in Abyssinia-the delays, the fallures, the sham Sanc- tions; the refusal to impose the only Sanctions that would be effective, the infamy of the Hoare-Laval partition of Abyssinia in favour of FEROCIOUS SUPERSTITION

the invader, the poison gas which scorched and strangled thousands "We are making a great human of Innocent men, women and chil- appeal to the electorate of this

dren, and the supply of oll which country on the issues, on the solu-alone enabled the poisoner to scat- tion of which will depend the pro- ter torture and murder over a land gress and the happiness of the

we were covenanted to protect human race," said Mr. Lloyd George.

"One of these Issues is the aboli- dion of human sacrifice as a means of protection against the forces of will be the fifth vessel of the Por- evil that, vide nations. This is poise class of submarine minela- the worst and the most cruel relle yers, two of which, the Porpoise of a savage worship which unhap- and Narwhal, have

been serving pily survives in the form of war, with the Fleet in the Eastern and upon a more tremendous spalc Mediterranean. Dates have not yet than was ever contemplated in the been fixed for the laying down of imagination of our forefathers. the other two submarines of the

"In the last war 10,000,000 were 1935 programme, the Sterlet. to be slaughtered c the altar of this built at Chatham Dockyard, and ferocious superstitution." the Triton. to be built at Barrow by V.ckers-Armstrongs, Limited.

YANGTZE GUNBOATS The following are the revised dates for the gunboats serving in the Yangtze Flotilla to arrive at Shanghai for refit:-HM ships Tern. June 9 (Instead of June 2): Mantis. September 2; Bee, Septem, ber 16; Grat. October 7: Falcon,

October 21; Cricket, October 11: and Scarab. November 25,

The abolition of that was one of the great issues upon which thev were concentrating.

His second thought was the Im- perative need of the reorgan sation of the ample resources of society. in such a way as to ensure a square deal in life for all human beings who conformed to the just rules of a divilised community.

"The distressed areas have been with us so long that we are now taking them for granted," he said, "but the bleak wastes of this coun-

which are scheduled as distressed.

"You will find them in hundreds

THE KING'S TERM-MATES In an article on "King Edwardy are not confined to districts and the Sea" which appears in the May issue of "The Marine Maga- or cities, towns and villages which zine." Journal of the Marine Society. it is recalled that 64 naval cadets entered Osborne College in the same term as the King, in May, 1997, of whom 60 passed out from

At

Dartmouth four years later. the present time about 27 of these oicers remain on the active list. The senior is Captain J. C. Leach M.V.O., late Deputy Director of Training and Staff Duties, and there are five other captains-R.

Portal, D.S.C., of the Naval Air

are not on the list.

fellow-citizens are declared by high "As long as 20 000,000 of our

scientific authorities to be habi- tually under-nourished, no one can

LORD HORDER PLEADS FOR RACIAL CONTROL

Division; C8. Daniel, of the Joint Planning Sub-Committee of the

New York, May 19. Committee of Imperial Defence; P. Lord Horger, lecturing on euge- L. Vian, Commanding the 19th Des-nics before the Academy of Medic troyer Flotilla; E. G. B. Bellars, of ine in New York, said that in Bri- the Tactical Division, Admiralty: tain one person out of every ten is and I. C. A. Bt. J. Curzor-Howe, MV. too dull or too unhealthy to be a., Late of the Royal yacht Victoria absorbed in industry; one out of and Albert. Some cadets went in every 120 is mentally unsound, and for engineering, and the senior of one out of every 300 is certified as those still serving is Commander

insane.

(E) C. A. Shaw, who is supervising Lord Horder described eugenica the building of the new cruiser as the soundest and most profit Glasgow at Greenock. The maga-able foam of preventive medicine. zine is the second of a new series Enorts at attaining biological con- with a striking cover design introl of human development were colour by Mr. Cecil C. P. Lawson, inng overdue, he said,

"The gist of the matter seems to me to be summed up in the ques- tion-Are we going to continue to

PROOF OF PATRIOTISM The Territoral Army in its pre- sent state was a standing proof of the patriotism and military vigour and devation of our people. People said to him that they were surpri- sed that the Territorial Army was so small. He was surprised it was so large. The Territoria Army had the country and of the dangers they believed or presumed that breed and to support a race of sub- survived a great, deal of neglect. that beset it, but of the steps which there would be, if over an emer-men or are we golfig to encourage It was time that they said to this Government were endeavour-gency arose, a breathing space in the elevation of the race and thus frankly; and he hoped he had 'made ing to take to put things in order, which to transfer from recruiting reduce our commitments in the that plain He tried to make On the Territorial Force rested as to war strength, and that there field of what we call social plain this year when he introduced heavy obligations and serious 'rea- would be a rush of patriotic young service?" the Army Estimates, and he in-ponsibilities as upon the other men, who remembered patriotism No one. Lord Horder pointed tended to make it clear that it was fighting forces of the Crown.

the day that war was declared out, questions the wisdom or mor- not going to suffer from neglect Speaking of the anti-aircraft With regard to the anti-aircraft ality of biological control in the any longer. (Cheers.) He could division which the London Terri- division there was only one basis animal and plant worlds, promise them that he would do all torials were contributing to, and of recruiting, and that was war A principle, which is accepted in he could to help the Territorial which they are supporting without strength, because it was realized the case of "our horses, our cattle, Army and to help the country at complaint, cheerfully and willingly, that in that case there would be our dogs, our corn and our cab large to join in the effort. The he said that the Territorial Army no breathing space, and that the bages," he held, should have ceas responsibilities that rest upon that Itself was kept up to recruiting whole of that force would be ed long ago to cause shock when Army were terrific. One of the strength, which was a different needed in order to repel any attack contemplated in relation to human main difficulties to be faced was a thing from war strength, because that might be made.

beings.

"Then came the Inevitable triumph of plunder, barbarism änd savagery. How many of those who

cast their votes on the strength of those exalted and noble declara tions made at the last election are now satisfied with the achieve- ments of those chosen to redeem their professions?

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