GERMANY'S NEUTRALITY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18032, 4 September 1920, Page 7

GERMANY'S NEUTRALITY

STATEMENT BY VON SIMONS. PROPOSALS REJECTED. Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. aj j • BERLIN, September 2. miftpf re t S i ing -P • F ° rdsn Affairs Committee, the Foreign Minister, Dr von Simons, said ho had been urged to colkborate with the Bolshevists against the Western Powers and thus break the bonds imposed by the Treaty of Ver- • mature reflection he re- „ t IIS c .°ll se - In view of the defence- • state of the country, Germany would immediately become a theatre of war Jhould^i.k'" 01 ' 6 als ° mado that Germany should make common cause with the Western Powers against Russia, This, however, was also impossible. No Power on defn^' 011 Russia «•"* count r' " * su PP° rt - The statements that Germany would conclude a secret agreement with either Poland or Russia with f' f ?i Se " AU ne gotiations with Poland for the purpose of settling the frontier questions had been made public, but they proved quite fruitless, and a considerable amount of ill-feeling had been generated.—Reuter. S (Received Sept. 3, at 7.55 p.m.) Dr von Simons, speaking in the Reichstag, denied that there was a secret comP wt f h R , u f w - He stated that GerreC0 o ni se General Wrangel, but held that while the Soviet held the reins of power it constituted a de facto Government. Germany would not support any Power warring with the Soviet.—A. and N.Z. Cable