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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 9 October 1925, Page 5

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LOCARNO CONFERENCE.

COMPLETE IMPASSE. OVER. FRENCH DEMANDS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON. Oct. 8. Despatches from Locarno indicate that the two most crucial questions associated with the pact have already been broached. M. Briand yesterday proposed an amendment giving France the right to cross the neutral zone at the Rhine in the event of Poland' and Ozecho-Slovakia being attacked. Regarding France’s claim to guarantee Eastern arbitration treaties, the Morning Post’s Locarno correspondent says there is a complete impasse.

EASTERN FRONTIERS. IMPORTANT AGREEMENT REPORTED. BERNE, Oct. 7. An evening communiquei says: The Locarno Conference to-day heard the report of the jurists on the drafting work previously entrusted to them. New suggestions were made, necessitat_ ing fresh examination by jurists. The Conference therefore decided to leave the supplementary report for a later meeting. The delegates’ relations were most amicable. Mr. Chamberlain' accompanied Dr. Stresemann and shook hands. The outstanding topic to-day is M. Briand. During the morning he had an hour’s conversation with Herr Luther outside Locarno. The conversation was most secret, but doubtless concerned the eastern frontier.

A Locarno despatch states that M. Briand and Herr Luther reached an important agreement, applying the principle of arbitration to Eastern Europe.