FRENCH MOVE

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1931, Page 5

FRENCH MOVE

TO HELP GERMANY

(United Press Association.—By Electric i Telegraph.—Copyright.)

BERLIN, September 28. The French Ministers visiting here, M. Laval and M. Briand, are being protected by the strongest police guard since the Tsar’s last visit. Sentries and police dogs guarded the railway line from Cologne to Berlin. A few houra; after their arrival M. Laval had taken an important step towards a Franco-Merman economic agreement, by arranging the appointment that will seek to lessen the competition between the French and German maritime and aerial companies; also the" extension of the present industrial cartels; and the formation of holding companies to encourage investment cf French capital in German industry. GANDHI .IN. LANCASHIRE. > RUGBY, 'September 27. Gandhi’s departure from London for a brief visit to Lancashire excited little notice. At Wilmslow Junction, inear Manchester, a small crowd gathered, hut Gandhi did not leave the coach, which remained outside the station platform. Gandhi came to the window of the carriage, and smilingly greeted the crowd of about a hundred people/ ; who gathered on the. station at Manchester, through which his train passed. It was late at might when his host received him at Darwin.