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THURSDAY, MARCH

19, 1936.

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FRANCE FORCES

DECISION

DECISIVE MEETING

ANTICIPATED

VIEWS OF POWERS ON TREATY VIOLATION

London, March 18.

While the divergence of British and French views on the Rhineland crisis still persists, it is stated in French circles that to-night's conference of the Locarno signatorics will be decisive.

No indication of a decision either way has been given by M. Pierre Flandin, the French Foreign Minister, but he made it quite clear that a definite result would be obtained. Whatever decision is reached, he said, would be entirely under reserve and subject to the approval of the French Government.

At 4 o'clock, the Locarno Powers, after a brief luncheon adjournment, resumed their search for a formula to circumvent the conflicting French and Ger- man viewpoints. As a temporary measure, during the negotiations, Great Britain has proposed, first, that a zone on both sides of the French and German frontier, be policed by international forces, as was the Saar during the plebiscite, and, secondly, that, the Franco- Soviet Pact should be referred to The Hague for a ruling as to whether it violated the Locarno Treaty.

It is taken for granted that a Western-European Air Pact will be included in the peace structure at any subsequent negotiations, but at present it has not entered the stage.-Reuter.

Eden's Appeal

London, Mar. 18.

Council

The League of Nations' met at 4 o'clock this afternoon to dia- cuss the Franco-Belgian motion con- demning Germany for the infringe- ment of treaties and Mr. Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Minister, reiterated

that

incontestable an breach of the Vereailler Treaty had occurred. It was therefore right that the Council should come to conclu-| sion and convey it to the other sign- atorics:

The structura of security and con fidence had been seriously shaken, ho naid. And then naked: "How is it to be reconstructed". That could only be achieved through a fuller under standing of the things foremost in the thoughts of each nation.

Germany would surely recognise that couldents depended upon" the belief in the sanctity of treaties and unilateral repudiation could naliify the objects they envisaged.

only

MANNING

FRENCH FRONTIER

!

MAURIN REQUIRES

MORE MEN

CONFERENCE IN LONDON

(Special to "Telegraph”)

Paris, Mar. 18. Mr. Eden said he welcomed the The French War Minister, General wise and courageous, declaration of Louis Maurin, has urged the Army the Belgian Prime Minister, M. Paul Commission to call a fresh class to van Zeeland, who had asserted that the colours on the ground that the despite what had happened an effort French troops on the German frontier must be made to reconstruct inter are insufficiently numerous.-United

national life.

Io hoped the Council's collective wisdom might suggest a course which would

socure the maintenance

of

peace on a foundation of respect for Low Britain, he promised, would play her full part in the organisation

of security in Western Europe.

Italy Still Faithful

"Italy is fully conscious of its res-

Press.

NEAR BELEAGUERED

MAKALE

Italian troops on the march to the fighting lines near the Ethiopian city of Makate, now in Marshal Pietro Badoglio's hands, but reportedly closely surrounded by an army of fierce warriors. The communications between the city, now a veritable fortress, and the Italian main camps, are con stantly threatened and the supply trains-harrassed by marauding bands of Ethiopian tribesmen. The garrison of Makale is said to be suffering fram all manner of privations and planes have been dropping supplies to them with parachute attachments.

Explosion

On Board

Destroyer

ONE KILLED AND TEN INJURED

WOUNDED AT GIBRALTAR

LABOUR VIEWS CRISIS

NEARLY ALL WORLD REPRESENTED ́

London, March 18. The executives of two Labour organistilonu, tho International Fedoration of Trade Unions"and" Labour, and the Socin! Federation, are meeting in London to discuss the international situation,

London, Mar. 18. The Admiralty

that announces while the destroyer, H.M.S. Westcott, was carrying out exercises an plosion occurred, resulting in death, of one able-bodied seaman,

Aflor separate moetings, the two One warrant officer and nine ratings executives will hold a meeting to were injured, but they are in no im-gether to-night-Reuter's Bulletin | mediate danger.

The Injured men were fanded at Gibraltar and taken to hospital-

With the exoption of Germany, ex-Russia and Italy, almost every country the is represented.

Router's Bulletin Service.

ADMIRALTY STATEMENT

London, Mar. 18.

The Admiralty issued the following į statement this evening on the ex- plosion in a British destroyer in the Mediterranean:"The Admiralty e gret to announce while His Majesty's ship Westcott was

out exer- carrying cises an explosion occurred which re- sulted in the death of one nåle bodied seaman. One warrant officer and] nine ratings were injured, but are in no immediate danger."-British Wire. lean.

ELECTION IN FRANCE

PARLIAMENT RISEŚ

TO-DAY

Paris, March 18. The French Parliament rises to- inorrow and will not again meet until after the election, the first ballot of which takes place on April 26.

MILITARY CONFERENCE

London, Mar, 18.

The results of the London confer- General Schweingut, of the French onces will be read In the House, but General Staff, had arrived in Loudon no debate theroon will be held to discuss with the British military Reuters Bulletin Service..

authorities questions with regard to provisional arrangements on the fron- tier.

There is a divergence of views bo- ponsibilities and remairis faithful to tween London and Paris, due to the its Locarno engagements" declared Signor Dino Grandi, the Italian British wish that a demilitarisation diplomat, in his first public doctarrangement apply to both sides of tion in the prosent crisis.

the frontler, while the French insist it should only apply to the Rhineland and zone demilitarised by Treaty Router Special

Service.

NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL

SIR D. SOMERVELL APPOINTED.

London, Mar. 18. Sir Donald Somervell, O.B.E., K.C,, has been appointed Attorney General in succession Sir Thomas Inskip, who has been appointed Defence Co- ordination Minister.

The new Attorney General has been Solicitor General since 1933. He was educated at Harrow and Magdalen College, Oxford, and is a `Fellow of All Souls College. He served throughout the European War Reuter.

NAVAL PARLEY, PROGRESS

London, Mar. 18. Excellent progress has been made with the drafting of the agreements reached in the Naval Conference, covering the definitions and qualitative limitation, Hopes are entertained that the texts may be finally approved carly next week-British Wireless.

NEW BATTLE PLANE'S

WONDERFUL DISPLAY

Roosevelt

Appeal To Industry

MOVE TO ABSORB UNEMPLOYED

RELIEF FUNDS

REQUIRED

Washington, Mar. 18. President Roosevelt has asked Con- gress to appropriate $1,500,000,000 for relief work for the financial year beginning July 1.

|

FEARFUL FLOOD TOLL IN U.S.

THIRTY-FOUR NOW KNOWN DEAD

ENORMOUS AREA BURIED BY RISING RIVERS

New York, March 18. The flood disaster in Pennsylvania grows worse hourly.

The rapidly rising waters, which are already over 18 feet deep in Johnstown, scene of the flood terror in 1889 when 2,300 lives were lost, have invaded the much larger and more.important city of Pittsburgh.

The famous downtown section, known as the "Golden Triangle" is deep in water and 700,000 persons are virtually isolated and without food and good water. The waters of the Alleghany River have risen to the unprecedented height of forty-four feet and fire has added to the confusion and danger, Fire-fighters have to battle the rising flood water as well as the flames in their efforts to save immensely valuable factories from destruction.

The death roll is mounting hour by hour, and thousands of terror-stricken people of the metropolitan area of Pitts- burgh have been rendered homeless.

Fire have also broken out in factor-control and relief gangs are fes of Etna and Lawrenceville follow.organisedt-United Press,

ing explosions caused by the flooding

of beller rooms and furnaces, The

oil tanks of the Waverly Oil Works

{at Lace, which have been

afire,

being

Pittsburgh Inundated

Pittsburgh, Mar. 18.

business blocks

Fifty downtown with a deafening roar to-day and blazing oil is spreading on are inundated by the flood from the the flood, causing the fear of stili Ohio, Monongahela and Alleghany more frightful destruction and loss Rivers. The Golden Triangle here, of life-Reuter.

where these three rivers convorge; is eighteen feet under water.

Worst In Century

into

Business is paralysed and damage New York, Mar. 18. estimates run as high as $100,000,000. The President stated that the trend The flood disaster is the worst of of re-comployment in upward, but the its kind in the United States in the been controlled. The stock exchange Two dangerous fires havó finally present rate of progress is inadequate. past century. Thousands of square is suspended and theatres are closed. Therefore, he appealed to private miles in the Eastern states are sub- business to extend its operations in merged and the damage runs

At noon the river stage was forty- order to absorb an increasing num countless milions of dollars.

three foct compared to the normal ber of unemployed.

eighteen feet, and flood level of AL least thirty-four are dead,

twenty-five feet. The previous In In addition to the sum mentioned, twelve of them Pennsylvania

cord was thirty-seven feet,, over a thousand million dollars will which in the worst hit state. be spent from the Treasury in the

The plant and Three quarters of the great Bethle-Post Gazette ware flooded. The plant press of the next financial year as a result of previous appropriations, while the hem Steel works is under water,

published three newspapers-United Budget contains over six hundred

Prons. million dollars for various public work-Reuter Special.

SHANGHAI MARKET

IS PLACID

UNMOVED BY CRISIS IN EUROPE

Ohio River Rises

At Wheeling,

Virginia, 30,000 persons are homeless as a result of the sudden rising of the Ohlo River

rc-

Steel Plants Flooded

Pittsburgh, Mar. 18. This famous steel manufacturing

which reached the highest flood level centru is seriously affected by the

in

The

history,

Dam

flood

floods, which have raised the Qucahoning

in heights of the Alleghany waters to Pennsylvania is leaking badly and is twenty-seven feet.

likely to broak, at any moment. This would be a horror

and he

Hundreds of houses are isolated and of the Worst many are on fire. description for it would allow millions Oil tanica at the Waverly · 011 of gallons of water to rush into the Works in Lawrenceville have expled- valley lands and add to the weighted, and the flaming oil has set fire

the Susqu

to the Pittsburgh Spring Steel Com- Susquehanna River is in spate pany buildings. and thousands of people are leaving The swellen waters of the Potomac their homes in the Binghampton area River cover Hancock, Maryland, to a after fruitless efforts to stem the depth of nearly five feet. The river rising tide with sandbags. Men are|is ́stili rising threo feet hourly, and

sands of them trying to barricade A wirelors message slates that their homea against the water, work-Ithaca, in New York State, is isolated. ing feverishly without intermission Telophones, and telegraph services In a hopeless endeavour to save their have been broken down by the flooda properties.

and dozens of buildings. have been awept away at New Hartford, Con- necticut, by the collapse of a dom. Reuter Special.

STRENGTH OF working along the river, thou-there is no light.

SILVER

Shanghai, Mar. 18. The publication, Finance & Com morce in its review of the exchang market for the wook onded March 24 inter alia, states:

Waters Receding

American Navy Needs Men

Ordered To Leave

Everyone has been ordered to leave! "The alarming European news has Farmington Valley, Connecticut failed to disturb the plavidity of the where the danger of the flood is local exchange markat. Such a scato growing more pressing. a year ago would have been the pre-

Many localities ludo to very wide fluctuations, but Vermont and the Connecticut River are isolated, in last week its influence on the market is transformed into a raging torrent was negligible.

"There was a marked advance in and is still rising. A huge ice fee is jammed against the Vermont Dam the quotations of some commodities, giving rise to the fear that it may bub as far as buktion brokers were burst-Reuter.

(Special To "Telegraph”) concerned, there was not the slightest (SPECIAL TO “TELEGRAPH”)

jaign of "any momentous decisions

Washington, Mar. 18, Admiral Adolphus Andrews, acting pendling. The introduction of man

Secretary of the Navy in the absence, London, Mar. 18.

"god

currency wod the absence of speculation appear to be making The first good news from the flood Swanson, sold to-day that with the

sick Joavo. of Mr.

Cinudu A wonderful display of aerobatics was given to-day at the Shanghai almost impervious to outside area comes from Johnstown, where launching of the alreract carrford Hayes (Middlesex) Aerodrome by a new Fairey battle" conluss they are directly the water are reported to be receding. Yorktown and Enterprise, the heavy

connected with money values." machine which is described as the Royal Air Force's fastest "The dooture of the past week has bodies are expected to be discovered Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Boint, Two are known to be dead and other cruiser. Vincennes, the light cruisers been the fairly general tendency to later. single-engined bomber.

thres submarinos, mine destroyers and soll sterling and buy American "dol- Damage is unofficially estimated thirty-six other craft, in 1937, an in- The speed of the plane and its almost be manoeuvred as an intercoplars, Siver during the period under at 335,000,000.

As crease in the Navy's personnel would

"At present. It was planned to ha boch

a alight but steady upward the inhabitants were warned in time to crease the personnel by 80,000 men CAMG Of Workness was the political Franco-Humlan pact, like the Larong of leaving Hayes it could fly tror the Tho wings are fitted with night trend in London which is to go to the high lands In the roeidential that numbe, he held to be insuficient basis of the Locarno Pack In conse Treaty, did not include Poland, but it south coast about forty-five miles landing lamps, and bombs are cuti-China's avantage as far as the good distele otherwise the death roll iba gol is 68,000 at the camd of the quences of the Geneva decisions in had not modified Poland's obligations away.

Onlarly slung inside the wings. tion of confidence in concerned, would have been counted in hundrede, 1085 flaca years and 200,000 at the connection with the Italo-Ethiopian (Continued:on Fage 15)

The machinó la all metal and can! Reiter Special..

Reuter

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He added, however, it could not be expected that Italy would join in the application of measures to which the Italians themsolvo ware 'subfecbod. He emphasised Italy's perfect under dispute. Locarno was built on the standing of France'a and Holgium's principle of solidarity of the Westem legitimate anxieties.

Powers, he concluded, and the Euro- ›› He deplored the violation of the Locarno, l'act all the more because it methods of preserving it must be in pean peace is indivisible and the was made, by a great power whose divisible, otherwise Europe would be co-operation was essential to the come an armed fortress. maintenance, of peners SEMOVE

“Our duty is to see that the unity

of the Locarno Powers is undlyidod

and unwankered," assorted Signor

Poland's Attitude

Colonel Josef Bock, the. Polish

Johnstown, Mar. 18, :

on

hors-power are kept secret, but it tor fighter. It has an automatic pilot review has remarkable strength. Ploneers said the flood is worna be required. C Grant. One Incontestably clear Prime Minister recalled that the was indicated that within ten minutes to rellove the ordinary allot when In With the of one day, there than that of 1889 and that it is lucky i

'flight, IRON