NEW FEELING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 230, 29 September 1931, Page 7

NEW FEELING.

FRANCE AND GERMANY

Co-operation in Solving Each

Other's Problems.

ECONOMIC UNITY AIMED AT,

("Times" Cables.)

(Received 1 p.m.)

BERLIN, September 28,

A Franco-German communique announces that a mixed commission, beginning immediately, has been empowered to sit in both countries in order to examine Franco-German economics, not losing sight of the interests of other countries. This necessitates international co-opera-tion.

A few hours after ills arrival in Berlin, the French Premier, M. Laval, had taken an important step toward a Franco-German economic agreement by arranging the appointment of the committee whose object is to seek to lessen the competition between the French and German maritime and aerial companies, to examine the extension of the present industrial cartels, and the formation of holding companies to encourage the investment of French capital in German industry.

Dr. Bruening, German Chancellor, stated that currency must remain intact. The Government, in conjunction with the Reichsbank, would do everything in its power in the way of protection.

The French Ministers are protected by the strongest police guard since the late Russian Czar's last visit. Sentries and police dogs guarded the railway line from Cologne to Berlin.