The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-10-19

specting report
published abroad,
declaring sit is COM
go pletely false to say
Germany demands
STANLEY arms equality with
BALDWIN France after five
years. Germany demands after five
years only the further disarmament
of other countries. As to weapons,
for training purposes, all discrimi.
nation must now cease. But Ger
many does not demand the same
number of weapons as others pos
sess."
France, represented by Premier
Daladier, replied to the German
statements by repeating it's plan for
four year trial period during
which all armies would be bound
not to augment ornaments, fol-
lowed by destruction Of offensive
weapons. Daladier said: mo one
contests Germany's right to live the
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Of humiliating Germany"
The British were growing impa-
tient over the deadlock, and Stan.
ley Baldwin, lord president of the
council and probably the country's
foremost statesman, uttered a stern
warning in an address at Birming-
ham. %SsE .: .,..... ~. .
when speak Of disarmament
convention" he said, II do not mean
disarmament on the part Of this
country and not on the part of any
other. mean a limitation Of arma-
ments that is a real limitation.
"If q convention Is signed, the
nation which breaks 1t will have
no friend in the civilized world"
DUPLICATION In Moscow OF
charges that Japan Is plotting to
seize the Russian controlled Chinese
Eastern railroad in Manchuria and
of documents allegedly supporting
the accusations brought relations
between Japan and Russia to the
breaking point. The Japanese deny
the tale in toto and are very angry,
but observers in Tokyo do not be-
lieve the government is ready to
go to war just yet.
ok Latin American republics
- have signed at Rio de Janeiro
a pact outlawing aggressive war,
forbidding forcible acquisition Of
territory and setting up machinery
for Cancellation, complementing the
Kellogg-Briand pact. The signatory
nations are Argentina, Brazil, Chile.
Mexico, Uruguay and Paraguay.
CHANCELLOR HITLER'S gov.
~ eminent has put an end to the
freedom Of the press In Germany.
A new law, drafted by Minister OF
Propaganda Goebbels, declares edi-
tors and members Of editorial stats
of newspapers, periodicals and news
agencies must uphold unreservedly
the rightness of the present regime.
It holds newspapers no longer
are to be organs of free opinions,
but must be classed with the radio,
theaters and schools as public In.
stitutions spiritually influencing the
nation. The decree establishing the
first six sections of the law was fol
lowed by one prescribing the death
penalty, or, alternatively, fifteen
wears Imprisonment for anyone who
imports or disseminates periodicals
classed as reasonable.
THE United States and eight 9TH
i er nations have protested to the
German government because OF at
lacks on their nationals by Nazis
who never are punished for the as
saints. Apologies from Berlin are
declared insufficient. Thirty Ameri-
cans have been assaulted since
April II, usually because they did
not salute the Nazi flag.
PHILADELPHIA police broke up
l what they say was plan OF the
.Khaki Shirts Of America" to
march on Washington and install
President Roosevelt as dictator
under a Fascist government. The
leader, Art ]. Smith, was not ap
pretended, and his aids now accuse
him of decamping with about S25,'
600 of the organizations funds.
When the headquarters of the
"Shirts" was raided a collection OF
small arms and other weapons was
found. The whole scheme seemed
so extravagant that the authori,
ties in Washington were not per
turbed.
q. 1888. Western Newspaper Union