PROPOSED PACT.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18407, 13 June 1925, Page 15

PROPOSED PACT.

ITALY MAY STAND OUT.

(by cablx—peess association—coptmoht.) (AUETBALIAN AJfD X.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

ROME, June H

According to the "Meesagero" Italy will not participate in the Security Pact because tlio Brcnner-Alpino frontier is not included.

Tho paper hints that Signor Musso lini will negotiate directly with Ger many.

REPLY TO GERMANY. PUBLICATION NEXT WEEK. (AUSTRALIAN ASD N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received' Juno 12th, 7.20 p.m.) PARIS, Juqo 12. 51. Briand (Foreign Ministor) has communicated to Brussels and Rome the text of tho French reply to Germany's proposals for a Security Pact. If their approival is signified the Note will be sent to Berlin probably early next week. Publication will quickly follow.

FRENCH CRITICISM.

(AUSTRALIAN AND X.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

LONDON, Juno 11.

French newspapers emphasise London's insistence on the bi-lateral character of tho proposed Security Pact. The "Echo de Paris," for example, declares that London wishes to mako no difference between the absurd hypothesis of a Fronch attack on Germany and tho possible one of a German attack 011 Franco. There ia to be no agreement between the British and French military staffs, and if Germany attacks France and- Great Britain comes to her nidi later everything must bo improvised as it was in 193.4.