ANTI-WAR PACT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 18 July 1928, Page 5

ANTI-WAR PACT.

BRITISH REPLY READY

(Australian Press Association —United Service.) LONDON, Ju.y 16.

Tne reply of übe IU.-t.is'.n Government, to tlie anti-Wiir pact- proposal; 1 , will, it l.s antioiapted, be sent on Wi&daesd'a.y. This announcement was made -in tne Mouse oi Commons this evening bv Sir Austen Chamberlain. in reply to a question. He s«kl that -the Government's views had now been communicated by cable to tno Governments of the Dominions and India, and he hoped to be in a position to hand the .reply to the American Cl La. ii*© d’Affaires on Wednesday. The replies of the Dominions and Ind-.Oi would, mo doubt, be imblisht'd by those Governments in due course. In 'die meantime he could make no statement in regard to them. he Irish Free State has uncondiitionallv accepted the invitation to .sign the oact. it has been announced, in Washington, where the State Department Inns issued the Irish Note, which states that the effectiveness of the- proposed treaty a-n an instrument for the suppression of war depends to a great extent upon it® univerisa-li application. For tit’s reason the Free. States hope® the treaty will eventuniHy bo accepted by nations which so. Jar are not included in Ihe negotiations.

WAR DEBTS

FINANCIAL PEACE SUGGESTED

BERLIN. July 17

It is believed that when the pact i-s signed the United States will take the ■initiative in an endeavour to reach financial peace, calling ail international ronfcrence to consider wan* debts, reparations? and cognate matters. The French uoply points out the proposal that Locarno signatories tslhfiiH sign neutrality treaties which shall* also bn omn to other States confers tiipon live proposed pact a wider isoope, fitting in entirely with French views. France is hanpy to see the proposed treaty in keeping with her obligations •••rider existing' treaties, to which she isi compelled to adhere loyally. Therefore she os most prepaid to sign forthwith a. pact .so entirely in agreement with the dee-p aims, and ambit ions ot the American and French peoples.