GERMANY'S RESTLESSNESS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 290, 7 September 1928, Page 11

GERMANY'S RESTLESSNESS

WATCHED BY PUBLICISTS AND PRESS THE BRIAND-MUELLER MEETING (Australian Press association.) (Rec. September 6, 11.10 p.m.) London, September 6. Publicists and Press throughout Europe are closely watching Germany s restlessness over the Rhineland occupation and saw a deep significance in the meeting of Al. Briand and Herr Mueller at Geneva. Curiously, M. Brhiud was at pains to deny that the Rhineland negotiations had been begun, but in a statement to the Press he admitted that the Rhineland was naturally mentioned among the questions being preliminarily reviewed as possibly arising between France and Germany. Curiously also u British official wireless message circulated after the interview referred to the interview only as a process of arranging, but seized upon the exact argument regarding the evacuation which M. Briand used. A hundred and fifty journalists waited in the hall of the Hotel des Bergues to hear Herr Mueller's version from his own lips, but Herr Mueller, instead of taking the lift as expected, walked down the staircase out of the hotel, ".nd had reached his motor-ear and gone before the journalists grasped

the situation. Therefore only a brief statement was available from the German delegation. It is learned that M. Briand intends to return Herr Mueller's visit. A remark by Herr Mueller after the interview makes it clear that he is hopeful that a round-table meeting will ultimately be hold, attended by himself. M. B land and representatives of Britain. Belgium and Italy. In view of the British official wireless message and M. Briand’s statement, it would appear that the matter rests with Belgium and Italy. It is regarded as certain that Herr Mueller will now acquaint Lord Ciishendun. Signor Scia lo, ja and M. Hymns with the German viewpoints, while M. Briand is communicating with Paris.