SECRET CLAUSES

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 13, 15 July 1936, Page 11

SECRET CLAUSES

DENIAL BY AUSTRIA

GERMAN AGREEMENT

RELEASE OF NAZIS

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright | LONDON, July 14. The Vienna correspondent o£ the "Daily Telegraph" states that by a secret clause in the Austro-German agreement inserted on Italy's insistence, Austria will have a free hand if Germany is found to be interfering with Austria. A Vienna message states that the Austrian Foreign Office denies that the agreement includes secret military clauses. The "News-Chronicle's" Vienna correspondent says that the first fruit of the alliance was the release of 10 Austrian Nazi Storm Troopers who -were charged with high treason, the court holding that the restoration of friendly Austro-German relations transformed the previous offence into the promotion of such friendship. An emissary of Herr Hitler has instructed Austrian Nazi leaders to refrain from disturbances and to enrol in Dr Schuschnigg's Fatherland Front and attempt to gain peaceful domination. FRANCE VETOES BRITISH PROPOSAL. The "News-Chronicle's" Paris coprespondent asserts that prior to the signature of the Austro-German agreement the French Government vetoed a British proposal, approved by Belgium, that these three Governments should announce their desire to negotiate a western mutual assistance pact embracing all five Locarno signatories and urge Germany's return to the League. France thought it better that the proposal should emanate from the Locarno Powers' conference itself