THE RUHR

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 June 1924, Page 5

THE RUHR

AI. HERRIOTT IN LONDON. HIGH HOPES ENTERTAINED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. PATHS, June 21. ■ The new Premier (AI. Herriot), accompanied by the Permanent Secretary of Foreign Affairs, has arrived in London for the conference with the British Premier (Mr Ramsay MacDonald) at Chequers. There are high hopes that the conference will prove tiie first step towards a settlement of Europe’s outstanding problems. AI. Herriot, in an interview, expressed the greatest faith in the Entente, and declared that close Franco-’Britishi relations were essential, both now and in the future, for the peace of the world. PEACEFUL DEVELOPMENTS. GERMANY’S EXPECTATIONS. PLEDGE BY PRANCE, Received June 23 , 9.40 a.m. LONDON, June 22. The Berlin correspondent to the Times says that Germany undoubtedly intends to pin AI. Herriot to. the promise that the military evacuation of the Ruhr will commence as soon as the experts’ report is actually put into operation. Speaking at Dessau, Herr Stressemann said lie welcomed AI. Herriot’s declaration, which would mean the restoration of the status quo if simultaneously other areas occupied in contravention of the Versailles Treaty were also evacuated. If to this were added the restoration of the economic and financial sovereignty of Germany, the door between occupied and unoccupied Germany would be opened once more and the unity of the Reich, for which Germany had been struggling ever since the conclusion of would be preserved. Germany, in return, would give a fair performance of the conditions ’attached to the experts report. if France was willing to live side by side with Germany as a. peaceful neighbour, everybody' in Germany would welcome this as a necessary preliminary to the peaceful development of Europe.—Times.