GERMAN items

Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1924, Page 3

GERMAN items

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. OAIILE ASSOCIATION. S'RTTLEAIEXT Hi OKI’ ECTS. LONDON, Ainrdi 21 The “Morning J’ost’n" Paris correspondent says that it is expected that too experts will be ready at the end ol March or at the beginning of April. Ho understands that the Reparations Commission lias decided that they he published simultaneously in the Allied capitals at the. moment they are formally received. At a joint meeting of the Commission Committees, Rt Hon B. McKenna's report is equivalent to a full page of the "Morning Post.” Colonel Dawes (American’s) report is much longer. The Daily Telegraph diplomatic correspondent says that a communication front Af. Poincare dealing with the problem of France’s security is expected in London at an early date. The paper’s political observer says MiMac Donald has made good progress in connection with the shaping of a scheme for the final settlement of Lhe problem of Anglo-French relations. It will probably soon he known. . lie places the question of security above that of reparations. He considers the first step is to bring Germany intd the League of Nations. The ideal solution, |fe thinks, is for Britain then to binu herself unequivocally to defend the League covenant by land, sea, and air against any which woufd begin an armed conflict without a previous recourse to the League’s peace machinery, but this at present is only an ideal, difficult of realisation.