LONDON AGREEMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19269, 5 September 1924, Page 7

LONDON AGREEMENT

OCCUPIED GERMANY, FRANCE RELAXING HER GRIP. Press Aeacoiafton—By Telegraph—Copyright. BERLIN, September o, (Received Sept. 4, at 7.10 p.m.) In accordance with the London Agreement General Degoutte lias issued an order restoring at midnight on September 10 the freedom of wheeled traffic, and abolishing the pass system for persons entering the occupied territory and also the duties levied on goods passing between occupied and unoccupied territory. —Reuter. AUSTRALIAN CONGRATULATIONS. MELBOURNE, August ‘4O. Congratulations upon the agreement reached with regard to. German reparations have been sent by the Prime Minister (Mr Bruce) through his Excellency the Governor-General to the Prime Minister of Great Britain (Mr Ramsay MacDonald). . Mr' Bruce’s message was as follows: ‘‘On behalf of the Government and people of Australia I extend to you and your colleagues warmest congratulations on bringing to a successful consummation tbe long-continued efforts of British and Empire statesmen to effect a settlement of the intricate reparations question. We believe and earnestly trust that this marks the dawn of a new era in Europe and a oetter understanding between the nations of the world.” AGENT-GENERAL OF REPARATIONS. AN AMERICAN APPOINTED. . ’ PARIS, September 6. Mr Seymour P. Gilbert, Under-Secretary to the United States Treasury, has been appointed Agent-General of Reparations. He will arrive in Paris in the middle of September.—Reuter.