CONFERENCE OF GERMAN LEADERS.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 104, 3 May 1919, Page 5

CONFERENCE OF GERMAN LEADERS.

RANT^AU'S DEFIANT ATTITUDE

(Received May 3, '9.5 a.m.)

LONDON, May 2. The Daily 'Chronicle's Geneva correspondent learns reliably that a. ix>nfidential conference was held at Berlih on Saturday between the Government and the most influential, leaders of the Assembly, when thsy diseiissed the situation prior to the pe»cc delegation's departure. Herr Rantzau said lie was confident that h© would .secure vital concessions regarding the Saar Valley. He would refuse to sign terms involving its veiled annexation. He stated that the armistice ?iego,tiati«ns with the Russians were progressing favorably. A truce wr.vs ' desirable, thus freeing the. Germans to deal with th«? Poles.

: Herr ltantzau opposed an alliance with Lenin, which wouH <eomm*omke Germany's future. He preferred to establish good relations with the antiBolsheviks by offering more *®eetiv« support than the Entente. .