SECURITY PACT.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18404, 10 June 1925, Page 9

SECURITY PACT.

ALLIES AGREED ON TERMS. GUARANTEE LIMITED TO WEST. C»T CABLE—PBESB ASSOCIATION— COPTSIOKT.) (EHI/TZr's TBLEGBAasJ GENEVA, June 3. Mr Austen Chaml>erlain (British Foreign Secretary), who has been conferring with 31. Briand (French Foreign Minister) prior to the meeting of the council of the League of Nations, confirms the report that tho Allies hare reached a complete agreement regarding the proposed Security Pact. (Received June 9th, Bi3o p.m.) Mr Chamberlain refused to discuss rlotails. Ho said the agTeemont would be embodied in a Note which France would .-send to Gcrmauy in reply to the letter's pact proposals. Tho Note, which would go as the French reply, was couched in the most friendly and courteous terms, and ought to lead to successful negotiations. Nothing in the agreement was likely to cause Poland disquiet.

EASTERN SAFEGUARD.

FRANCE ALLOWED TO USE THE RHINE ZONE. (AU3TRALIAS AKD S.Z. CAULK ASJOCUTIOH.) (Received Juno 9th, 8.30 p.m.) PARIS, June S. The Havas Agency's Geneva correspondent claims that he is authorised to declare that under the agreement Britain undertakes to guarantee the Rhino frontier, as fixed by the Versailles Treaty, with her cntiro naval, military, and air forces in the event of German violation of. the territorial or military clauses relating thereto. Tho guarantee does not extend to the frontiers of Czccho-Slovakia or Poland, which remain under the protection of the League of Nations, but in the event of manifest aggression against France's Eastern allies, the agreement authorises France to use the demilitarised. Rhine' zone as a field, of operations for the purpose of aiding her attacked ally. It is also agreed that Germany cannot be admitted?to the League of Nations until she has signed the Security Pact entirely conforming to the conditions enumerated.

NOT BINDING, i

PARL]iAMENTS MUST

APPROVE.

PROLONGED NEGOf lATIONS

LIKELY.

CAUST*AUA|f "AOTJ K«. CA?t« ASBOOIAtiOjif.)

(Received June 9th, 11.30 p.m.)

LONDON, Juno 9.

A careful review of the messages from the most reliable London corfesr pondents at 6en,eva and the cornijents of diplomatic writers suggest that judgment should be withheld regarding Geneva developments until the terras of the French Note to Berlin, beeft published. , . '

is considered nnjikely that the Note •frill b6 of such a nature that in the .dually nhlikely event of Gfermaay's immediate and unqualified acceptance of it, Britain* France, and Belgjum wotild all bp fully committed to' its ternisi On the eOntrary, tho Note is l|kply to in prolonged negotiations, and obviously the fhaa.! plan must tie approyed by the Fa.jr}ismonts concerned, tkoae of the i>6miiions.

One dipjqmatic correspondent emphasises that Britain so far has «i v « 4 no absolutely building pledges, bnt has been content to make a tentative offer, accompanied by pfadticpl suggeitions, aupjeet to thp endorsemeAt of the Emr pire as a whole* So far as the terms of the agreement between Mr Chairibe'rlaiu and M. Briand are c-oncqrned, the Ministers jointly rer eeived Press representatives, bnt wbil* stressing their hope of a most favourable iaijue, resolutely lefiWed to discuss the propps&ls, saying it was not customary tP discus? the contents of a Nhte until it had reached its destination.

Meantime the "Baily statos:' The Rhine becomes the British frontier. This ia a sensational and historical change in British policy.

The "Daily Herald's" diplomatic correspondent calls the agreement a •'blood pact." Other papers withhold their comment.