FULL-DRESS CEREMONY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 438, 21 August 1928, Page 9

FULL-DRESS CEREMONY

Signing of Peace Pact

KELLOGG ON WAY TO PARIS

Chamberlain’s Goodwill Message

British Official Wireless.

Received 11.15 a.m. RUGBY, Monday OX liis departure from New York for Paris, where he will si<rn the Peace Pact on behalf of the United States. Mr. P. B. Kellogg: received many messages of goodwill, including: one front Sir Austen Chamberlain, expressing: bis best wishes for’*a safe and enjoyable journey.

“It will ever be a source of the keenest regret to me,” wrote Sir Austen, “that the state of my health prevents my being associated with you and the the plenipotentiaries of the other signatory nations, in the signature of the treaty, which will mark a signal advance toward the goal of universal peace. I am confident that the world will owe much to your initiative.” Mr. Kellogg has sent from the liner lie de Prance a wireless message to Sir Austen Chamberlain. The American Secretary of State expresses deep appreciation of Sir Austen’s message, and adds: “I share your belief that the treaty for the renunciation of war will mark a signal advance toward the goal of universal peace, and it would have been a great personal satisfaction to me if you could have participated personally in signing it. I hope you will soon be completely restored in health.” British correspondents in New York state that Sir Austen Chamberlain’s message to Mr. Kellogg is the subject of very appreciative comment in the American Press, and the view is generally expressed that, the interchange of greetings between the Foreign Secretaries of Britain and the United States creates a highly favour-

able atmosphere for the signing of the peace pact. PACT SIGNATORIES The signing will take place in the afternoon of August 2S in the Clock Hall at the Foreign Office on the Quai d’Orsay. The signatories will be as follow: For Britain, Northern Ireland, and such parts of the Empire as are not separately represented on the League of Nations, Lord Cushendun, actingForeign Secretary; for the United States, Mr. F. B. Kellogg: for France, the Foreign Minister, M. Aristide Briand; for Germany, the Foreign Minister, Herr Gustav Stresemaan; For Australia, Mr. A. J. McLachlan. Honorary Federal Minister; for Canada, the Prime Minister, Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King; for South Africa, the High Commissioner, Mr. J. S. Smit; for New Zealand, the High Commissioner, Sir James Parr; for the Irish Free State, the President of the Executive Council, Mr. W. T. Cosgrave; for Belgium, the Foreign Minister, M. Paul Hynians; for Japan, Count Oshida; for Poland, the Foreign Minister, M. August Zaleski; for Czecho-Slovakia, the Foreign Minister, Dr. Eduard Benes.

Italy alone has not yet notified who her representative will be.