SECURITY PACT

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 June 1925, Page 5

SECURITY PACT

GERMAN REPLY READY.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.>

LONDON, June

Berlin reports state that the cabinet has submitted to President Hindenburg for his signature a memor.andum setting out the German Government’s views,on the matter of the Pact. It is understood that tne Cabinet are unanimous in the matter of retaining a free hand towards me States not included in the Pact. The “Daily Express’s” Berlin correspondent says : —The German memorandum will assert that the French .policy is one imposing unbearable burdens, and actually sabotages German’s original proposal. It will al,°o point to the British Dominions’ opposition to the French proposals.'

EVACUATION OF RUHxu.

LONDON, June 27

A Cologne message states t-irt Marshal Petain has arrived at Dusseldorf. It is understood that he mis come for the purpose of arranging for beginning iii a few days the evacuation by the French forces of the Ruhr. THE BRITISH CASE. LONDON, June 28. M. Garvin, writing in the “Observer,” commenting on Mr Chamberlain’s -speech on the Pact says: The difficulty remains and it is nnoertant that Paris should not be misled. Nothing on earth will induce us to become sponsors for Polish Czech alliances, to which we were no party, nor run the risk of being •dragged into any war against our own will and judgment.

EX-KAISER’S MESSAGE.

BERLIN, June 28.

The ex-Kaiser, in a message to the Brandenberg peasants, celebrating the ?ld time victories agaipst the Swedes, ■.aid :—“Only the return of the Prusian victories can free us Gpm the mur. levers and slavery. Info the dust with .11 foes of Brandenberg.” The ex-Crown Pr’nce has written a book entitled “I Teach Truth,” with he object of proving the war guiltlessness of Germany a and the’ Hoherizol■erns. ... , , ,7