AS EQUALS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 65, 17 March 1936, Page 8

AS EQUALS.

GERMANS INVITED. League Council Adjourns ' To Await Reply. SECOND TELEGRAM SENT. British Official Wireless. (Received 2.30 p.m.) RUGBY, March 16. When the League Council met finally in public session at 7.30 M. i riandin, on behalf of the French and Belgian delegations, proposed a resolution, declaring: "That this Council finds that the German Government has infringed the Treaties i .of Versailles and Locarno and invites the Secretary-General, in application of Article 4, paragraph. 2, to inform at once the signatory Powers of these treaties of the find-I. ing that the Council has just reached." The President, sir. Stanley Bruce, proposed the adjournment of consideration of the resolution, Which he thought desirable, in view of the outcome of' the discussion, at the secret session of the German reply to the Council's invitation to attend. He announced that a telegram had been sent to the German Government which stated that Germany would "participate in the examination by the Council of the question submitted by the Belgian and French Governments on the same terms as representatives of other guaranteed Powers whose situation under the Treaty is the same as that of Germany—that is with full rights of discussion, the votes of 'r the three Powers not being counted f.n calculating unanimity." The telegram adds: "In regard to the eccond question raised by Germany, that if, early discussion of the German proposals as an integral part of the recent action, it is not for the Council to give to the German Government the' assurances it desires." The Council then adjourned till 3.30 to-morrow, when a general discussion will open on the Franco-Belgian resolution. It is evident that there will be a welcome for the German representative if by that time the German Government has decided to accept the Council's invitation. Failing that, any further communications from the German Government will come under consideration.