TO LONDON TO SIGN PACT

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2311, 2 December 1925, Page 7

TO LONDON TO SIGN PACT

LOCARNO SIGNATORIES CORDIALLY WELCOMED “lost Important Step in Life of Nations ” FRANCE DETERMINED TO PAY WAR DEBTS [By Electric Cable —Copyright.) LAust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Tuesday, 7.15 p.ra.) LONDON, November 30. Crowds at Victoria station witnessed the arrival of Herron Stresemann. Luther and Vanderveld, who were most cordially welcomed by Sir Austen Chamberlain and driven to their hotels. Later, M. Briand and M. Benos arrived and walked arm in arm with Bir Austen to their motor-cars. ■M. Briand, in a statement said: “This is a most important step in the life of the nations. There must be a new starting point for Franco-German collaboration. I will also take up with Mr. Churchill the question of the settlement of France's war debt, to which Cabinet i s determined to find a solution.” The “Daily Mail" states that extraordinary precautions were taker to guard the German delegates arriving at Victoria station to sign the Locarno pa«t. Their carriage was slipped outside the station and shunted to a special platform, where Sir Austen Chamberlain and others welcomed the Germans. SIGNATURE AT FOREIGN OFFICE (Received Tuesday, 7 p.m.) LONDON, November 30. Slgnatui es to the Locarno treaties will be made by the plenipotentiaries sitting around a rectangular table in the Foreign Office reception room which before the war was used fot diplomatic receptions. Messrs. Baldwin and Chamberlain will sign for Britain. Behind plenipotentiaries around th e table will bo diplomats representing the signatory powers and British Ambassadors and ambassadors from Paris, Berlin and Brussels, members of Cabinet and the Dominions' High Commissioners. The treaties drawn up at Locarno were typewritten and the Anal drafts signed by the plenipotentiaries wero bound in an imposing cover, which was sewn together with ribbon of Locarno’s heraldic colours, blue ami red, then sealed up with Locarno's city seals. The treaties have since been printed and carefully checked by every Foreign Office concerned and later printed on special treaty paper. SIGNED AND SEALED. (All Rights Reserved.) (Received Wednesday 12.45 a.m.) LONDON December 1. The Locarno pact has been signed.