“BIG THREE” SATISFIED

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 539, 17 December 1928, Page 9

“BIG THREE” SATISFIED

MEETING AT LUGANO RAPPROCHEMENT POLICY British Official Wireless Reed. Noon. RUGBY, Sunday. A joint statement from Sir Austen Chamberlain, M. Briand and Dr. Gustav Stresemahn was issued at Lugano yesterday as follows: “The session of the Council of the League of Nations has enabled us to resume personally the meetings which have been interrupted for some time, and to proceed to a very useful exchange of views. “These conversations have had tho effect of confirming our view, that the policy of conciliation and rapprochement followed by our respective Governments is the best policy to assure peace. We remain faithfully attached to that policy. “In this spirit we will continue the negotiations begun in virtue of an agreement being arrived at in Geneva on September 16 by the six interested Powers. We are determined to do everything in our power to arrive as soon as possible at a final settlement of the difficulties arising cut of the war, and thus assure upon a basis of mutual confidence, a happy development of the relations between our respective countries.” VERY POOR RESULTS BERLIN VIEWS THE SESSION fAustralian and N.Z . Press Association) (United Service) Reed. Noon. BERLIN, Sunday. The Nationalist newspapers regard the results of the Lugano Conference as extremely poor, it being clearly proved that the unbridgeable guly continues. The “Kreuz Zeitung” says not the slightest progress has been made on the subjects of reparations and disarmament. and the promises of a future solution are worthless. The “Deutsche Zeitung” considers that Dr. Stresemann is politically dead, as he has sacrificed the German policy to bottomless illusions.