BRITAIN AND FRANCE

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 30 January 1926, Page 7

BRITAIN AND FRANCE

SUBSTANCE OF POURPARLER: ' WIDE RANGE OF TOPICS. ;,0 YAL COLLABORATION. sV CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGU T. Received Jan. 30, 2 p.m. PARIS, Jan. 29. According to newspapers, M. Briand a;ui Sir Austen Chamberlain, ill their conversations, dealt with the date of preparatory disarmament conference, die reduction of the Allied forces in the Rhineland, Mosul, Morocco, Egypt, and the Chinese crisis and certain class of the Italian Governent with regard to territories bordering Abyssinia and tile Red Sea. The possibility of postponing the disarmament conference until Germany fulfilled her risarinanient obligatins was also considered. Al. Briand wil Jsubm-it the question of a reduction of the Allied forces in the Rhineland to the Military Council, '.including Marshal Foch and General Retain. M. Painleve, writing in the Excelsio.r, remarks: “ft would be natural enough ii Britain sought to enlist the eventual support of Italy for its policy i-i the Near East if only to give the Turks something to think about. But no Mediterranean agreement is possible without France. Therefore M. Briand and Sir Austen Chamberlain approached the questions of Morocco, Egypt-. Syria and Mosul in a spirit of loyal collaboration. A HALS CON FEHENCE. AAIEBJCA WILL BE THERE. Received Jan. 30. 2.10 p.m. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. A favourable report on the appropriation for American participation in the preliminary arms conference at Geneva has been ordered for Friday by the Foreign Relations Committee. Mr Davis (Secretary of War) announces that Congressional .sanction to the appropriation of 50,000 dollars to defray the expenses of delegates was completed when the Senate approved of a resolution passed by the House. — Reuter.