ANGLO=FRENCH AGREEMENT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 8 October 1928, Page 5

ANGLO=FRENCH AGREEMENT.

LEAKAGE OF CORRESPONDENCE. BRITISH VIEW UNALTERED. (Au.-aru.Lu Press Association—United Serviced LONDON, Oct. G. Downing Street regards the “Echo de Paris” disclosures regarding the nature of the Anglo-French disarmament notes as an inexplicable leakage. It appears to be a substantially accurate summary, but does not affect the British view regarding the proper time to issue the documents over which negotiations are still proceeding. Commenting on the disclosures 1 , the “Daily Telegraph’s” diplomatic observer says it will be seen that French military authorities are also concerned in a discussion which must have been conducted simultaneously. “The most striking feature of the correspondence is that the British Government’s standpoint on the question of military reserve was an integral part of the naval agreement, not a separate, independent, unconditional concession. “It is gratifying, in view of this bargain,” says the writer, “that there is now no valid reason why the military side of the agreement should stand now that America’s opposition has killed the naval side.”