FRAYED TEMPERS

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 13 August 1929, Page 9

FRAYED TEMPERS

AT HAGUE CONFERENCE. MR. SNOWDEN’S BITING WORDS. FRANCE SEEKS SATISFACTION i I'uiu-u Pro* AHaooiaUoij—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.; ,Australian Pleats Atstsia-u.i.is;u i Received 2 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Aug. 12. The ‘‘Daily Ghroniole’s” Hague correspondent states that the Entente Cor-d-iate has never -before .been so severely strained as in the violent passage of arms 'between the Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden and M. Cheron. When the conference adjourned tempers were at a fever -heat. A meeting of French, Italian Belgian and Japanese delegates was held-. Seconds in the persons of M. Jaspar and M. Hya.ms were despatched to Air Snowden’s hotel to demand an apology. The British Chancellor was at first inclined to stand by his biting words, but eventually a formula was found whereby France’s honour was satisfied. As the result of an adjournment till Wednesday, the tension was relaxed all round, though there is no very obvious change to justify a better feeling. Evidence that tempers are still somewhat frayed however, was shown by a sharp exchange to-day between M. Briand and Dr. Stresemann. The former referred to the suffering of French troops- in the Rhine last winter, to which Dr. Stresemann replied : ‘‘lf you don’t want your poor troops to suffer the rigours of another German winter, you had better withdraw them.’’ The Rt. Hon. Arthur Henderson threw oi’L on the troubled waters by remarking that he was afraid that the commission was nob making much progress.