GERMAN REPLY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 122, 16 February 1935, Page 7

GERMAN REPLY

Proposals By Britain and France DESIRE FOR PEACE Adoption of “Positive Attitude” BANISHING WAR DANGER By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received February 15, 10.00 p.m.) London, February 15. The “News-Chronicle’s” Berlin correspondent says that a semi-official statement declares that Germany’s reply to the Anglo-French proposals shows that Germany adopts a “positive attitude” to efforts to prevent an armaments race and banish all danger of war. ’• It emphasises Germany’s desire for peace and pays a warm tribute to Britain’s endeavours to achieve a settlement » Baron von Neurath. Foreign Minister, personally explained Germany’s views to Sir Eric Phipps and M. Poncet, British and French Ambassadors, and handed them an aide memoire which is understood to be a brief document of only two typewritten pages, the contents of which are, in French opinion, favourable to the initiation of negotiations. ARMAMENTS TRADE American Convention ADOPTION AT GENEVA (Received February 15, 5.5 p.m.) Geneva, February 14. Discussions on disarmament were resumed after the recess when, the Committee on Trade Manufacture of Arms, as a basis of discussion, adopted an American draft convention giving Governments full control of the private manufacture and trade in arms in their own countries.