LEAGUE MUST DOMINATE

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 219, 16 June 1925, Page 9

LEAGUE MUST DOMINATE

ANY ANGLO-FRENCH PACT OCCUPATION OF COLOGNE A .DANGER TO PEACE LLOYD GEORGE PLEADS FOR JUSTICE Mr. Lloyd George says the League of Nations must dominate any Anglo-French pact. He considers the continual occu< pation of Cologne a .danger to peace. Bi Tei.egraph—Press Association COPYRIGHT. London, June 11. Mr. Lloyd George, addressing a Methodist gathering at Scarborough, said the British Umpire must not . march through the ages bearing the brand of Cain. It was odd that he had begun to plead for Germany, but he was pleading for justice and fairness, which was the British way. The continual occupation of Cologne was a danger to peace. The German breaches of the disarmament conditions which France has discovered were insufficient cause for non-evacuation. The present pedantic, illiteral, inequitable, and oppressive application of the Treaty of Versailles was another peril. There were a dozen other European disputes that might lead to war unless the League of Nations was strengthened. The League must dominate any AngloFrench pact.—Reuter. FRANCE’S PROPOSAL LEAGUE TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST ASSAILANT London, June 14. Mr. Roland Atkinson, the “Sunday Times” correspondent in Paris, says that France’s proposal is so to guarantee peace in both the East and West, bv arbitration treaties, that in the contingency of a German violation not France only but the League of Nations will take action against the assailant. Britain’s liability would be limited to the obligations already undertaken under the Covenant of the League of Na-, tions.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ‘ BOLSHEVIST CHIEFS ALARMED GERMANY’S INCLINATION TO COME TO TERMS London, June 14. The Riga correspondent of. “The Times” says the Bolshevist chiefs are showing fresh alarm at what they describe as Germany's growing inclination to come to terms with the Allies. .The Soviet Press is daily admonishing Germany not to join the League of Nations or to subscribe to the pact, winch “will be tantamount to subjecting herself to Britain and repudiating her friendship to Russia.” She is warned that if she does not follow Moscow’s advice the Soviet Government will seek alliances elsewhere.—" The Times.” i