POLITICAL ASPECTS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1929, Page 9

POLITICAL ASPECTS

EVACUATING RHINELAND

COMBINED AGREEMENT

British Official Wireless. (Received 3rd October, 11 a.in)

KUGBY. 2nd October.

before the Labour Conference tho results achieved at' the recent Hague Conference, Mr. Arthur Henderson, after a passing reference to tho financial aspects of the negotiation's, said that he made it known at an early stage of the negotiations that British public opinion had insisted on the withdrawal of British troops from the Rhineland. French public opinion differed somewhat from British public opinion on this matter, and M. Briand's part was perhaps more difficult than his own. M. Briand and Dr. Streseniann had worked together so often' that he never doubted an agreement would bo reached. '

The result, lie was happy to say, was a combined agreement on the political issue. Immediately he had put his hand to the Protocol and signed it, ho dispatched representatives of the War Office to London to see the Minister of War, and next day he received a telegram in which instructions had been given for a move to b© made immediately. The whole of the British evacuation -would be completed by 14tb' December. The Belgians hoped to have their troops moved by the middle of December. The French hoped to have evacuated their zone completely during December-