NOT ACCEPTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 58, 9 March 1936, Page 7

NOT ACCEPTED.

HITLER GESTURE.

Vigorous Refusal by French

Prime Minister,

GERMANY'S BROKEN TREATIES. United I'ross Association.—Copyright. (Received I.SO p.m.) PARIS, March S. Cabinet's refusal to entertain HenHitler's proposals for pacts of peace with European countries is backed by a determination to demand economic and political sanctions against Germany. The Government further considers itself entitled to the immediate assistance of Britain and Italy under the Rhineland pact. A conference of the Locarno Powers will discuss this crucial point in Paris on Tuesday. The Government has asked the League urgently to summon the Council, pointing out that despite Baron von Neuratli's announcement that Germany merely intended symbolically to send small detachments into the demilitarised zone, important forces have already appeared in several localities. M. Sarraut, the Prime Minister, flatly declines to negotiate with Germany, basing his refusal on her two unilateral repudiations of solemn engagements as destroying confidence in 'her offer, also on her unannounced entry into the Rhineland, thus facing Europe with a fait accompli. "International relations could not longer exist," declared M. Sarraut, in the course of a broadcast, "if this method became general. France serves European peace in opposing it. The mere installation of German troops along the Rhine forbids negotiations. "We intend to insist on tlie maintenance of essential guarantees of French and Belgian security which Locarno provides. Strasburg must not fall under the menace of German guns. It is in-

dispensable that the signatories of Locarno must exchange views 011 Germany's denunciation of the treaty. "Our cause is just as strong as Herr Hitler's, who makes the franco-Russian pact the pretext for his action. That is a poor excuse, because the pact is not yet ratified by iTie Senare. His real object in acting now was to choose a time when the French people might be divided by a general election. No Frenchman merits tTic insult that lie will allow internal differences to cause France's enslavement." Probably on the lines of a similar French Note, Belgium will direct the League Council's attention to Germany's violation of Locarno, says a Brussels message. Italian statesmen, says a Rome dispatch, are silent, but the Press insists that Germany would not have acted if British insistence on sanctions had not distracted the attention of the remainder of Europe. A Geneva message gives the official announcement that the Council will meet on Friday to consider France's protest.

JEWS LOSE VOTE

ELECTIONS FOR REICHSTAG. (Received 12.30 p.m.) BERLIN, March 8. A new election law has been gazetted depriving fullblooded Jews of the right to vote in the Reichstag elections. However, citizens with only two Jewish grandparents are enfranchised.