EUROPEAN PEACE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXII, Issue 10039, 16 June 1925, Page 5

EUROPEAN PEACE

PLEA FOR GERMANY

LLOYD-GFORGE’S NEW ROLE

COLOGNE OCCUPATION DANGER TO PEACE

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT* IiOSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABXiE ASSN. LONDON, Juno 14. Mr Lioyd-George, addressing the Mbtliodist gathering at Scarborough, said the British Empire must not march through the ,ages bearing the brand of Cain. It was odd that he had begun to plead for Germany, but lie was pleading for justice and fairness, which was the British way. The continual occupation of Cologne was a danger to peace. Tho German breaches of disarmament which France had discovered were insufficient cause for non-evacuation, and the present pedantic, illiberal, and inequitable oppressive application of the Treaty of Versailles was another peril. There were a dozen other European disputes which might lead to war unless the League of Nations was strengthened. The League must dominate any Anglo-French pact.

SECURITY, PACT FRENCH PROPOSED GUARANTEE EAST AND WEST * (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE AS3N.! LONDON, A'une 14. 'The Sunday Times’ correspondent at Paris says France's proposal is scj to guarantee peace, both eastward and westward, by arbitration treaties that in the. contingency of a German violation not France only, but the League of Nations would take action against her assailant Rritain’s liability would be limited to the obligations already undertaken under the Covenant of the League of Nations. “DON'T SUBSCRIBE TO PACT" BOLSHEVIKS’ ADVICE TO GERMANY. (PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES! LONDON, .June IT. The Times’ Riga correspondent says .the Bolshevist chiefs are showing fresh alarm at what they describe as Germany's inclination to come to terms with the Allies. The Soviet press is daily admonishing Germany not to join the League of Nations or to subscribe to a pact which is tantamount to subjection of herself to Britain, and repudiating friendship with Russia. She is warned that if she does not follow Moscow's advice the Soviet Government will seek alliances elsewhere.