TEMPERS FRAYED

Evening Star, Issue 20252, 13 August 1929, Page 12

TEMPERS FRAYED

ENTENTE CORDIALS STRAINED MR SKCWDEN ASKED TO APOLOGISE Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright. LONDON. August 12. (Received August 13, at 1.30 p.m.) The ‘ Daily Chronicle’s ’ correspondent at The Hague states that the Entente Cordialo has never before been so severely strained as in a violent passage of arms between Mr Snowden and M. Cheron (French Finance Minister). When the conference adjourned tempers were at fever heat. A meeting of French, Italian, Belgian, and Japanese delegates was held, and the seconds, in the persons of M. Jaspar and MHyaras, were despatched to Mr Snowden’s hotel to demand an apology. The British Chancellor was at first inclined to stand by his biting words, but eventually a formula was found whereby France’s honour was satisfied. As the result of the adjournment till Wednesday, the tension relaxed ; all round, though there is no very obvious change to justify the better feeling. Evidence that tempers are still somewhat frayed, however, was shown by a sharp exchange to-day between M. Bnand and Dr Stresemann. T.he former referred to the suffering of the French troops on the Rhine last winter, to which Dr Stresemann replied: “ If you don’t want your poor troops to suffer the rigours of another German winter you had better withdraw them.” Air Arthur Henderson threw oil on the troubled .waters by remarking that he was afraid that the commission was not making .'much progress.—Australian Press Association.