ALLEGED PACT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 52, 2 March 1929, Page 9

ALLEGED PACT.

CONFERENCE MINUTES Meeting Of French And Belgian Military Staffs. BFUBIOUS DOCUMENT? (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 11.80 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, March 1. In to-day's evening edition of the Utreeht newspaper "Dagblad" are published what purport to be the complete minutes of a conference between the French and Belgian general staffs said to have been held from September 7 to 12 last year. A full page is occupied by the matter, which is printed in the French language and headed "Strictly confidential." The names of the participants in the conference are given as Generals Debeny, chief of the general staff, Bineau, deputy chief, and Blasier, attache to the Brussels Embassy, for France, and Generals jGallet, chief of the general staff, Michem, chief of the third section, Van den Bergen, chief of the first section, for Belgium. Colonel Estientie, commanding the Grenadiers, Brussels, is named as the secretary. The first five articles of the treaty given in the minutes are on the lines already published; the others are secret. General Michem is alleged to have envisaged the aid of British troops, which suggestion General Debeny proposed to include in the draft report to the King of the Belgians. The published documents include a table of the Belgian mobilisation They bear the signatures of Generals Debeny and Gallet and the endorsement: "Seen and approved by the Ministry of National Defence. Chevalier do Brocqueville. Certified as agreed, Michem."

COMPLETE FORGERY.

Insulting Campaign To Dishonour Belgium. ALLEGED FRENCH TREATY. (Australian Press Assn.—United Swviee.) (Received 9 am.) BRUSSELS, March 1. Official circles declare that the newspaper "Utrechtsch Dagblad's" "revelatione," that the documents supposed to be a military treaty between France and Belgium, were the minutes of a meeting of military experts at Brussels', written above Belgian Departmental seals, complete the forgery charge. The Premier, M. Jaspar; speaking last night, said that his heart was rent by the drivelling and insulting campaign carried on in an effort to dishonour Belgium, which is a thing they would never permit.

GERMAN VIEWS.

Some Insist That Agreement Is Genuine. PHOTOGRAPHIC PRODUCTION. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 1. The latest war pact disclosures from Amsterdam were received in London too late for inquiry or comment in the Press, Which has hitherto refused to treat the matter in a sensational manner and has accepted the official assurances. A message from Berlin says the German Government has instructed its Ambassadors at Paris and BrusseJr make diplomatic representations, and in doing so has yielded to the clamour of the Press and politicians. The Nationalists especially insist that the agreement is genuine. They say.it was concluded after Locarno and describe it as "another bankruptcy ot Her,- Stresemann's policy of reconciliation." The Amsterdam correspondent of the "I/y Herald'' says it is understood that, if the Belgian denials of the authenticity of the pact are repeated, the "Dagblnd" will provide a photographic reproduction of original documents.