DUTCH REVELATION OF SECRET MILITARY TREATY EXPLODED

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6850, 4 March 1929, Page 7

DUTCH REVELATION OF SECRET MILITARY TREATY EXPLODED

Assurances Accepted

STRESEMANN OUT OF FAVOUR WITH BELGIUM AN ARREST MADE. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Monday, 2 a.m. LONDON, March 2.

Tho foreign ministers of tho nations are on their ways to Geneva in readiness for the League Council on Monday. Dr. Stresemann has left Berlin, a sign that he accepts assurances regarding the Dagblad documents for ho has previously declared ho would not go unless tho matter was cleared up. Close friends of Dr. Stresemann say he is specially gratified with his conversation with Sir Hamer Greenwood, of the British Foreign Offiee. The interview with Paris was also cordial but it is believed the interview between tho German Minister and the Belgian Foreign Minister took a stormy course. According to the German version, the Belgian Minister adopted a rather gruff attitude and at last admitted that Belgium’s patience had been sorely tried.

Tho Observer comments that the denials of tho alleged treaty’s authentity are not comprehensive enough to bo accepted but it is unfortunate that disquiet is periodically provoked in Europe by disclosures, which have not been unfounded. Public opinion is rightly on tho qui vive, for secret military committments arc the straight path to another disaster. The Observer concludes by referring to the new Hearst press scare, dealing with an alleged kindred secret understanding which Whitehall has promptly declared to be false as far as Britain is concerned.

Man Arrested for Forgery of Treaty COSMOPOLITAN WITH BAD RECORD. Received Monday, 2 a.m. LONDON, March 2. On the Brussels-Amsterdam express after midnight, a man was arrested, charged with being the author of Dagblad’s alleged secret treaty. It is stated he has a bad record. He was born in 1896 near Brussels of a DutchJewish father and German mother.