FALSE REPORTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 June 1924, Page 9

FALSE REPORTS

1 MACDONALD AN D HER RIOT. PURPORT OF CONSERVATIVES. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received June 27, 12.45 p.m LONDON, June 20. In the House' of Commons, Mr MacDonald was questioned in reference tort statement attributed to M. in an interview with the independence Beige, and which had aroused a. furious controversy in the E i a neo-British press., that in the event of a premeditated German attack he liad received a firm promise that Britain, as in 1914, would he on the side or Francet and Belgium, and he had the assurance of a, firm pacg binding the three countries. He complained that his conversations with M. Herriott had been .grossly misrepresented, -and falsified in certain newspapers. His communique of June 22 and his statement of June 23 covered the whole ground of the conversations. The reports in question were based on either confusion or imagination. There was absolutely no kind of understanding as regaids a defensive military alliance so far as the conversations with M. Herriot were contjerned. —Reuter.