THE CRISIS OVER,

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1921, Page 5

THE CRISIS OVER,

ALLIES IN AGREEMENT, DEALING WITH SILESIA. SUPREME COUNCIL MEETS. By Telegraph.—Pres? Assn.—Copyright. Received August 1, 7.55 p.m. Paris, July 31. It is officially announced that the Supreme Council has definitely been convoked for August 8. Belgian representatives will attend. Intense relief was expressed on receipt of the British Note asserting to IL Briand's proposal that the Allied Ambassadors in Berlin should jointly request Germany to prepare to facilitate the transport of troops across Germany in the event of the situation demanding such action. It transpires that the position was regarded so seriously on Friday that a strong section of Deputies flavored the convocation of an extraordinary session of both Houses, which Is only held in a national .crisis, and. 250 put of the three hundred required under the constitution had then signed a petition for the convocation The personal intervention of M. Briand and Lord Hurfcinge (British Ambassador) largely aelounted for the dramatic change for the letter. yThe Supreme Council will firstly desl With the question of sending reinforcements to Silesia and then the delimitation oi the German and Polish fronteirs in Upper Silesia. The technical experts are at grips over the latter problem. They have already traced the frontiers on a map according to the respective French and British views. These suggestions are widely divergent, but Italian suggestions provide a compromise. If the experts fail to agree on a solution it is most likely the Supreme Council will begin by giving Germany and Roland what is indisputably theirs and will then establish a provisional Allied regime over the debated terrtory.— Times Service. Received August 1, 5.5 p.m. London, August 1. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says the Anglo-French compromise on the Silesian deadlock ie welcomed. France admits the cordiality of the British Note. It is expected the Allied Ambassador* will suomit &. joint demand to the Berlin Government to facilitate the passage of Allied troops through Germany when the situation renders it necessary.—Aiu.-N.Z. Cable Assd.