The Indianapolis times., 1935-11-11
ROOSEVELT PLEDGES /. 8.
TO NEW PEACE EFFORTS
IN ARMISTICE ADDRESS
Brist|ing World Pays Lip
Service to Ideal
of Peace.
FAR EAST IN TURMOIL
LIoyds Bets Conflict Will
Come to Europe in
Two Years.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps- Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Nov. IL
The seventeenth Armistice
Day since that which saw Ger
many lay down her arms at
Rethondes, in 1918, finds the
world face to face with a
major crisis.
The Italo-E Ethiopian war in
Africa is marching toward a cn-
max which may involve Europe.
Great Britain and Italy confront
each other in the Mediterranean. A
week from today League economic
penalties are to take effect against
Italy with results which nobody to-
day can foresee.
Nazi Germany is arming, day and
night Scrspping the Treaty of
Versailles, which grew out of the
first Armistice Day, she is building
an army stronger than the one she
had in 1914.
Tory Victory Certain
Great Britain. whose capital is
within an hours flight of Nszl
bombing squadrons, will hold a gen.
eral election Thursday on a plat
form of rearmament A Tory vic
tory is virtually certain. Thoroughly
frightened, their aim is to make
Britain invincible.
In the Far East, Japan is steadily
Tightening her coils about China.
Yesterday 1000 Japanese marines
landed and took possession of sec
ton of Shanghai after the Staying
of one of their number allegedly by
a Chinese.
Japan, Russia Squirm
In North China, Gen. Kenji Dol
hara, one of the secret creators OF
Manchukuo, is demanding that an
independent regime be set up with
Peiping as its capital. That is the
method used to annex Manchuria,
Jehol and part of Inner Mongolia.
In Tokyo the japanese War Office
whose word is now law, SO far as
Nippons Asiatic policy is concerned
has issued statement bristling
with opposition to China's monetary
policy. 1t refers to reports that
Britain is lending China some $50
100000 to aid stabilization, adding
that Japan can not overlook such
an attempt by Great Britain to re-
duce China to a semi-colOnial
status"
Bigger Navies Inevitable
Relations between Japan and
Russia also add to the general
anxiety prevailing in the Western
Pacific. Stronger by far than she
has ever been, and more war-like,
Nippon is reaching out into Outer
Mongolia, seeking a foothold within
striking distance of the Trans
Siberian, the Soviet Unions lifeline
to the Orient. Clash after clash be-
tween armed patrols along the
frontier leads to the belief that a
showdown is merely a question of
time.
Against this same troublous back
ground also a world naval confer
ence is scheduled to meet at Lon
don three weeks from Thursday. 1t
was called by Great Britain largely
because existing naval limitation
treaties stipulteed such a parley.
But nobody expects it to get any,
where. Bigger navies, not smaller,
are deemed evitable-thanks to
the existing world uncertainty.
But Lloyds Bets on War
Seventeen years ago today, on
various battlefields of Europe, there
lay a lot of dead too shattered to
be identifable. From an American
sector one of these was picked up.
In time it was brought across the
ocean to be buried at Arlington
nuder the name of the Unknown
Soldier"
Britain picked up one Of her un-
recognizables and made him her
unknown" So did France and
Italy, Germany, Poland Czechoslov-
akia and many other nations. To-
de-, at these various shrines, states
men are rededicating themselves to
world peace.
But matter fact Lloyd's is bet
ting that within two years or less
new ''unknowns" aplenty will be
scattered over new European bat
tlefields