TRUCE IN EUROPE

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17460, 22 May 1922, Page 7

TRUCE IN EUROPE

ACCEPTED AT GENOA. STATEMENT BY MR LLOYD GEORGE. | (By Cable—Press Association —CoJ_yi:gibt.) (Australian aud N.Z. Cable Association.) I GENOA, Mar 19j Tne European truce preliminary ta the i non-aggression pact is not a signed document, and is brought into existence by a j solemn declaration on the part of the 'delegations that it will be faithfully observed. This was doi)c at the plenary session of the Conference to-day. The heads of the delegations accepted the truce, rising in token of adherence as Signor Facta called the roll of the nations. The representatives of Japan, Belgium, and France promised to ask their Governments to aocept the pact. Signor Facta said: "All the Governments are considered as having accepted the pact-, which is thus adopted."' Mr Lloyd George said the plenary session of the Conference had been the most remarkable that history had hitherto known. It would remain, however, as an inspiring landmark oil the pathway towards universal peace, although it had not progressed as far as the mostr sanguine had expected. Referring to the pact, Mr Lloyd George said it was only provisional, but once it was established the nations "would not want to go back on it. Its psychological effect upon the nations of the world would prove electrical. Britain and Italy. Mr Lloyd George, speaking at a luncheon with Italian, British, and American journalists after the Conference, thanked Itaiy for the excellence of the arrangements at Genoa. He said it had been the best Conference yet held. It had laid the foundation and erected the pillars of universal peace. "I hope," he said, ''America will help Democracy to complete the Shrine of Peace." . Britain was prepared to extend every facility within her power in order to supply raw materials for Italy. Europe needed a stronger and more prosperous Italy, and British and Italian interests were both for peace. Mr Lloyd George referred to the cordial relations existing between Britain and Italy.. Britain was prepared to assist Italy in every way, especially in securing supplies of raw materials. Mr Lloyd George's recent utterances in Italy indicate the probability of the two countries forming an entente.

LITTLE ENTENTE. A TREATY OF ALLIANCE. (Received May 21st, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, May 20. The "Petit Parisien" states that during his stay at Genoa Dr. Benes, Premier of Czecho-Slavokia, arranged a Treaty of Alliance for twenty years between Czecho-Slovakia, Roumania, and the kindom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (Jugo-Slovia). RUSSIA AND GERMANY. ALLEGED MILITARY CONVENTION (Unites Sctvice.) LONDON, May 19. The full text of the secret RussoGerman military convention has been published by the "Daily Mail." It reveals that the Germans undertake to supply the Bolsheviks with 600, German all-metal aeroplanes, which, the "Daily Mail" declares, are war machines of the most formidable character, thus violating Article 170 of. the Treaty of Versailles.