ALLIED CONFERENCE.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1924, Page 2

ALLIED CONFERENCE.

[Reuters Telegrams.] l.I.oYI) GEORGE'S REQUIOST. LONDON. August (1. Mr Lloyd George has requested further information in connection with a number of serious points at tlie intciAllied Conference, and notably whether tlie report was true that France would remain in the Ruhr for two years. He declared it was important to know, not only whether we were going to evacuate Cologne, but whether another Power was going to send troops llieie and make matters much worse. He asked whether France still claimed the right to tako separate actual. Mr MacDonald replied that lie would consult Parliament in the event of any serious question arising at subsequent sittings of tlie Allied (ontcreurc, hut lie anticipated that no serious question won .1 arise. He also said that any agreement reached would be one that must, be acceptable to Pailiament. Consequently the House might go on its holidays and leave the Allied (.011ferones to do its work. He argued that the safeguards wore so complete, that if the stage of the sanctions were reached, there probably would be unanimity upon the use. ot those sanctions. As regards the military evacuation of the’ Ruhr he did not Isolievo that French public opinion would he blind to the obligations that were placed on it liv the declaration of their own Government, Ho declared that no British soldier would remain in Cologne one minute longer than was necessary to carry out the obligations imposed on ns by tlte Peace 1 rettty.