GENEVA ISSUES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 240, 7 September 1928, Page 7

GENEVA ISSUES.

RHINELAND EVACUATION.

GERMANY’S RESTLESSNESS.

(Australian Press Association.) GENEVA, Sept. 5,

Following a ninety-minutes’ conversation between M. Briand and Dr. Mueller, M. Briand gave the following statement to the Press: “No Rhineland negotiations occurred. Germany, by virtue of the provisions of the ersailles Treaty, has a perfect right to seek negotiations on this question. Had she done so to-day I would have replied that it was a question that France could not discuss, except in the presence or at least with the consent of the three other nations concerned, namely, Britain, Belgium and Italy. M. Briand added that further conversations were probable. The German delegation issued the following statement: ‘‘The object of the conversations was the discussion of various problems interesting both countries, including the Rhineland evacuation. but the meeting was merely of a preliminary character. Both M. Briand and Dr. Mueller are hopeful that the conversations will be taken Geneva by the nations concerned.”

BRIAND-MUELLER MEETING

BRIEF GERMAN STATEMENT.

(Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Sept. 6. Publicists and the Press throughout Europe are closely watching Germany s restlessness' over the Rhineland occupation A deep significance in the meeting of M. Briand and Dr. Mueller at Geneva is seen. . A hundred and fifty journalists waited in tlie hall of tho Hotel des Bergues to hoar Dr. Mueller s version from his own lips, but Dr. Mueller, instead of taking the lift as wasi expected walked down tlie staircase out of the hotel and had reached his motorcar and gone before the journalists grasped the situation. Therefore only a brief statement was available from the German delegation. It is learned that M. Briand intends to return Dr. Mueller’s visit. It is regarded as certain that Dr. Mueller will now acquaint Lord Cushendun, Signor Scialoja and M. Hyams with the German viewpoints while M. Briand is communicating with Paris.

PLEAS FOR PEACE.

CHINA’S ASSURANCE

(Australian Press Association. —United Service.) GENEVA, Sept. 5.

At the League Assembly meeting today, Dr. Wang voiced China’s keen desire’ to co-operate with the League toward securing peace on the basis of Western civilisation, and his statement was valued as an assurance that China’s stability was within measurable distance. China wished to remove all barriers to full concord in the world, and on this point some revision of treaties was desired. Herr Unden (Sweden) vigorously expressed disappointment that, despite the Versailles and Locarno Treaties and tlie Kellogg Pact, they were unable to assure impatient peoples that a sufficient degree of security had been achieved to tackle disarmament, to which the ever-increasing obstacles were exasperating. Herr Unden hoped that the Assembly would bend its energies toward their removal. Jonkeer van Blokland (Netherlands) though that the League should be gratified with the Kellogg Pact and the Fran co-British naval agreement. They would enable the League to approach disarmament in an atmosphere devoid of scepticism.