GERMAN DISARMAMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 152, 28 June 1924, Page 7

GERMAN DISARMAMENT.

I NECESSARY FOB PEACE. PRIME MINISTERS AGREE. LONDOX, June 27. Statements made by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. Prime Minister of Britain, and M. Herriot, l'remier of France, are re- ; parried as disposing of the story of a ; pact in the event of German aggression. According to Paris dispatches M. Herriot explained that the conversations he had with Mr. Mac Donald at Chequers naturally bore upon the co-operation of Britain in the maintenance of peace, and also upon a guarantee for France in case lof aggression by Germany. Hi' did not 'claim, however, that they came to any i definite conclusion. I M. Herriot added: "There is no question of reducing the security given to j France by the Versailles Treaty. Germany must be disarmed in order that j Europe may breathe freely. Her declarations and promises will not suffice. T 'found Jlr. Mac Donald in complete agreeIment with mc on this point." i Another message from Paris states I that M. Herriot announced in the Chamber of Deputies that the United States !had accepted the invitation to be represented at the London Conference officially on questions concerning the i United States, and semi-officially. as obj servers, on questions interesting to other Allies.—(A. and X.Z. Cable.)