BUSY PILGRIMAGE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 71, 24 March 1926, Page 9

BUSY PILGRIMAGE

-♦ —— .. : OF EUROPEAN CAPITALS

. TREATY-MAKER AT WORK

NINCHITCH AND A BALKAN PACT.

(United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Reuter's Telegram.) ;' (Beceived 24th March, 11 a.m.) PARIS, 23rd March. The Jugo Slav Foreign Minister, M. Ninchitch, recently on a busy pilgrimage to a number of European capitals, left Paris, after what the newspapers term "interesting conversations." M. Ninchitch previously negotiated with the Italians at Rome and Geneva, where according to the French newspapers the Italians sought a bilateral treaty, supplementing the existing Italo-Jugo-Slav pact of friendship, but M. Ninchitch desired the inclusion of France therein. He is now taking back an offer,of M. Briand for a treaty of friendship designed to be colateral to any agreement subsequently concluded between Belgrade and Borne. This, if adopted, will place France in the same relationship to Jugo-Slavia as she is to Czechoslovakia with the obligation of mutual assistance. The fact, that M. Ninchitch has other irons in the fire was disclosed by art interview with the Greek Foreign Minister, M. Bouphos, at Belgrade,_ who said that the position was so satisfactory that he expected to see a complete agreement reached by the two States. He added that though at present it was premature to talk in concrete terms of a Balkan Pact, he was convinced that all outstanding questions between the two States would be settled.