THE SECURITY PACT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19498, 5 June 1925, Page 9

THE SECURITY PACT

FORTHCOMING LEAGUE CONFERENCE. MR CHAMBERLAIN AND M. BEIAND TO CONFER. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 4. (Received Juno 4, at 8 p.xn.) The Arthcoming meeting between Mr Austen Chamberlain and M. Briaud in expected to he the most significant feature of the thirty-fourth session of the Council of the League of Nations, which opens ’at Geneva on Monday. The session will probably continue for four days. The only items on the agenda are the unending squabble between Poland and the free city of Danzig and the question of the treatment of minorities in the little States created by the 'Treaty of Versailles. It is understood that Mr Chamberlain would not have attended the session but for the opportunity of conferring with M. Briand regarding the terms of the French reply to Germany’s proposals for a security pact. The French press affirms that Mi* Chamberlain and Mr Baldwin are willing to bind Britain to give military support to France and Belgium in the event of German aggression, but they are unwilling to pledge themselves concerning Poland and Czecho-Slovakia. This is, however, not confirmed by London in such an explicit form.—A. and N.Z. Cable.