POWERS IN CONFERENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19144, 9 October 1925, Page 9

POWERS IN CONFERENCE.

PROPOSED SECURITY PACT. IMPASSE ON FRENCH CLAIM. | EASTERN FRONTIER ISSUES. AMITY BETWEEN DELEGATES. ' By Telouraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received 7.5 p.m.) | A. and N.Z.—Reuter. LONDON. Oct. 8. Despatches from Locarno, Switzerland, indicate that the two most crucial questions associated with the proposed European security pact have already been broached. M. Briand, French Foreign Minister, -yesterday proposed an amendment giving France the right to cross the neutral zone on the Rhine iu the event of Poland or Czecho-Slovakia being attacked. Regarding France's claim for a guarantee of eastern arbitration treaties the Locarno correspondent of the Morning Post says there is a complete impasse, A communique issued last evening stated that the conference yesterday heard the leport of the jurists on the drafting work which had previously been entrusted to them. The new suggestions that were made necessitated fresh examination by the jurists. The conference therefore decided to have a supplementary report for a later meeting. The relations between the delegates are most amicable. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, British Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Herr Stresemann, German Foreign Minister, shook hands. The outstanding topic yesterday was that M. Briand had an hour's conversation with Dr. Luther, the German Chancellor, outside Locarno. This conversation was most secret, but no doubt it concerned the eastern frontier. It is stated that M. Briand and Dr. j Luther reached an important agreement !in regard to applying the principle of J arbitration to Eastern Europe.