THE PEACE PACT

Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1925, Page 2

THE PEACE PACT

AUBTHALUN IN It N.Z. OAKL* ASHOCf ATION LIIITAIN’S I’OLICV. LONDON. June 2. The diplotmiiii- correspondent d the ••Daily I’elegraph" says: " Every n.eml'er of the British (internment realises that the public opinion of the British Empire will never agree to a war short of a dire: t foreign attack upon a part <.t the Empire. or hind itsell to go to war except on ht-hall of a cause whic h is i ighteon- an I vitally aliens Kmpire security. These !act-)i- govern British policy in the preset.t security negotiations. Even il the pact i- strictly limiie'l to the nest, it should he strictly mutual, s'; that British intervention would he as-nn.l by a general consensus that the cause is im-t. Neither detailed nor deliuitely himling proposals can he framed without concurrence of the dominions, with which continuous contact and eommunieaticm will he maintained. It i- now a matter ol recon-

ciling France's obligations ol honour to her Ea-tern allies with the two governing principle- ol British policy above mentioned.

•'The task which may well prove to he the crux of the negotiations as to conditions under which the bolted door of the demilitarised zone might he unlocked tor Trance, or, alternatively. for (lermauy. might he accomplished by special conciliation treaties between (iermany and Imr neighhours. or hv special procedure regulating rights and responsibilities of consignatories so that the- key to the zone would not he in tin- hand- ot a single trustee.

It will take several month.- to work

out the new part and. meanwhile, the bi-.-i brains in Imperial and dominion Cabinets and at the T'on-igu (Mlii'O are working out a sc heme.”

BERLIN. .1 fine J. The (let-man Covcrmin'iit- have -e reived the Allied N-'te. D admits that (lermauy is attempting to fill’d Hie re] a rat ions, hut it bluntly and .sternly dm'lares that Cologne c. -1111101 he evacuated unless disarmament i- carried out. It demands the abolition ol the (l-rmaii Ce-ieral Stall’, the reduction of the police from 1 tie hundred and fifty tliou.-aud to thirty thousand, the dissolution of the aggressive Moimrchist organisations, and the discontinuance of I lie housing of the police in the barracks like tlm soldiers.

Thirty | ages are devoted to recounting instances of (lermnny's refusal te disarm.

Hie perusal of the Note has caused wrv laces in the Cabinet. ’1 lie Nationalists rre certain to protest demanding President 11 i ndcnhiirg should resign. rather than cnept what they consider a shameful document.

ANd L( )-F 11 K\Cll DISCFSs I < > N. LONDON. June 1. The meeting of Air Au-teu Cliuntherlaitt and .A!. Briand, Anglo-T renc It Foreign .Ministers, is ex] meted to he it. most significant feature of the 3-ith. session c. f the Council oi Ihe League of Nations opening at (h-neva on Monday. The session probably will continue four days. 1 lie only items on the* agenda being tin- unending squabble between Poland and the Free City of Danzig, and too question 1 I the treatment ol inmeritii*s in little States, created hv the Treaty of Versailles. It is understood Air Chamberlain would lot have attended, hut for an opportunity of a eoul’ereuee with M. Iliinml. Begariling the terms of the Freni ii reply to Uermally’s j rope sals for a se-c-util v pact, the French ) less nliirm that- Mr ( hamberlain and Mr Baldwin are willing to hind Britain to give military suppari to Fra nee n till I'c-lgiuni - n the event ol (lii'man aggression. Inn are nn - ilheg ( 1 | lodge 1 hc-nisc-lve ■ mi; reining I’olaml u * ( '..; ho-''h vaiu.t. This ; f. !1c >vv c-vc-r. nn ec niirmel by l.ondc’ii in i-uch an ex] licit lorm. (;i-’.!!AIAN mSAHAIAAIFNT. PAH IS, June The Allied Note to (lermauy with regard to disaiinament wlil he presented at Berlin on .June •!. 1 1 consists of live pages, with two annexes, the ii Ist setting out what has been done and what, has been Ic-lt undone in the execution of the terms of tin- Versailles Treaty, and laying dour the li-l of what remains 1 11 he carried

The second annexe- gives the text of the Depart ions Commission's Note to the Conference .of Ambassadors, declaring that (iermany is in order as regards the execution of the Dawes plan.

The Note is eonrilintorv in tone, hut it informs (lermany that the Cologne zone cannot lie evacuated until the disarmament eondific-iis of the Treaty have been lullilled.