THE PEACE PACT

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1925, Page 3

THE PEACE PACT

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] ITALY AM) I’ACT. IfO.M If. .June 11. According to the “ Messagero ” Italy will not participate in the pact, because the Urcmner-Alpine frontier is not included. The paper hints that .Mussolini will negotiate direct with Germany. A EREXCIIM AX’S I’ll R RAT. (Received this day at, 10.20 a.m.i PARIS, June 11. The Government is prosecuting Charles Mannas, co-director in the “Action Rrancaise ’’ for publicly inciting the murder of the Minister of the Interior, M. Sehrnmeyk. Maurrns, in an open letter to the “Action Rrancaise ” said: —“At the moment when revolution preparing, analogous with those in Moscow, Munich and Budapest, you are arranging a smooth road for revolt. In return for your threats to deliver the nation to the knives and bullets ol your accomplices, your beloved Moscow bandits, bore is our promised reply. " We will kill you like a dog.” Maurrns is liable, if found guilty, to ten years’ imprisonment. “ECHO DE PARIS’” OPIXIOX. [Received this day at 11.-o a.m.) PARIS. June 11. f The newspapers emphasise London’s insistence on the bi-lateral character of the proposed Security Pact. The “Echo IX' Paris.” for example, declares that London wishes to make no difference between the absurd hypothesis of a Trench attack on Oermany and the possible one of a Berman attack on France. 1 here "ill bo no agreement between the AngloFrench military staffs and it Germany attacks France and Britain comes to the aid of the latter everything must be improvised similarly to 1921.

AMERICAN ATTITUDE. WASHINGTON, June 11. The Government through the State Department has re-iterated informally that it would not l>e a party to the proposed, European security pact, nor responsible for it in any way.