RHINELAND EVACUATION

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 784, 3 October 1929, Page 11

RHINELAND EVACUATION

FRUITS OF CONFERENCE AT THE HAGUE ARMIES GONE THIS YEAR British Official Wireless ■icd. 11 a.m. RUGBY, Wed. it the Labour Party meeting at Brighton, reviewing the results thieved at the recent conference at lie Hague, Mr. Arthur Henderson, liter a passing reference to the finanlai aspects of the negotiation, said he side it known at an early stage of ■!e negotiations that British public (Pinion has insisted on withdrawal of lie British troops from the Rhineland. French public opinion differed somevnat from British public opinion on ills matter, and M. Briand's part was -riiaps more difficult than his own. M. iiand and Dr. Stresemann (Gerlaay) had worked together so often nt he never doubted an agreement ’Mid be reached. The result, he was Uppy to say, was a combined agreement on the political issue. Immediately he had put his hand to the procol and signed it he dispatched reesentatives of the War Office to -ondon to see the Minister of War, Mr. Tom Shaw, and next day he reeled & telegram in which instruc'ions had been given for a move to be made immediately. The whole of the Mtiah evacuation would be comHoted by December 14. The Belgians ’“Wd to have their troops moved by 'no middle of December, and the Anch hoped to have evacuated their ~M -ompletely during December.