ANTI-WAR TREATY

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1928, Page 7

ANTI-WAR TREATY

SIGNATURES CEREMONY INVITATIONS ISSUED Press Association.) (By Cable-Press Assn.—Copyright.) PARIS, August 10. The French Government has issued invitations to the signing of the Kellogg Anti-War Pact for August 27. The number of invitations was fixed in accordance with Mr. Kellogg’s communication on June 23. Not Until the replies are received will the exact character of the ceremony in the Clock Room at the Quai D’Orsay be known. It is hoped that the fact that invitations have been dispatched will put an end to the campaign that is intended to belittle the significance of the ceremony. , . The questions of the uninvited Powers who desire to sign cannot be settled until the invited Powers have signed. The ceremony is expected to be little more than a solemn formality, with congratulatory speeches.

MR. KELLOGG TO ATTEND.

LONDON, August 9.

There is little fear in official circles that Mr. Kellogg will fail to attend the Pact signing. Indeed, officials from Washington visited the Foreign Office to-day, en route to Paris, where they will assist Mr. Kellogg. High-placed personages similarly do not believe that Dr. Stresemann is diplomatically ill. It is understood that the Wilhelmstrasse has been definitely told that the signing of the Pact is not an opportune occasion for a talk on the Rhineland evacuation, which is a better topic for Geneva’s tea tables. In any case, Lord Cushendun would scarcely be able to take up that subject with the same intimacy as Sir Austen Chamberlain. It is noteworthy that the official Pact invitations, which were issued today, omitted Spain and the other Powers that are not signatory to the Locarno arrangement. Britain has deposited her Pact notes at Geneva, with a covering letter reaffirming the opinion that the Pact does not conflict with her League obligations, and asking that these documents be circulated through the League channels. Thus they are certain to crop up at the September Assembly.

LEAGUE MEMBERS TO SIGN.

GENEVA, August 10

League of Nations supporters are frankly delighted at Britain’s action, whereby the Kellogg Pact will come before the League Assembly. ’ It considered most likely that a resolution will be introduced recommending all the members to sign it. NAVAL LIMITATIONS. LONDON, August 9. The “Daily Chronicle’s” diplomatic correspondent states he has been informed that the Anglo-French naval agreement provides that-the cruisers with six to eight inch guns shall be limited in number; secondly, that the cruisers more lightly armed shall be unlimited; thirdly, a limit is placed on the number of submarines of 600 tons and over, with no limit to the lesser craft.