TREATY TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 28, 2 February 1928, Page 7

TREATY TALK.

FRANCE AND AMERICA

War Outlawry Pact Denied in States. ARBITRATION AGREEMENT. (By Cable.—Pres3 Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, February 1. State Department officials expressed surprise when shown dispatches from Paris crediting Frcnch authorities with a statement that France and the United States would sign an anti-war treaty at Washington this week.

Mr. F. B. Kellogg (Secretary of State) said that no treaty of any kind could be signed before his return from a trip to Ottawa.

It was learned elsewhere that the situation in regard to a war outlawry treaty has not changed since a fortnight ago when it was intimated that the consummation of the project was impossible for several months, if at all.

There is a second treaty of arbitration in negotiation between Paris and Washington, and it is expected this will be signed within a month.

The preamble of the Arbitration Treaty will contain a clause deprecating war as a national policy but the treaty itself cannot be considered as an antiwar pact.