INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19702, 1 February 1926, Page 7

INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS

ANGLO-FRENCH CONVERSATIONS. SEVERAL ISSUES DEALT WITH. (Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) PAMS, January 29. ■Recording to the newspapers XI. Briand’s a:;I Sir Austen Chamberlain’s conversations dealt with the date of the preparatory disarmament conference, the reduction. of the Allied forces in the Rhineland, Mosul, Morocco, Egypt, Syria, the Chinese crisis, and certain claims of the Italian Government in regard to the territories bordering on Abyssinia and the Red "Sea. The possibility of postponing the disarmament conference until Germany had fulfilled her disarmament obligations was also considered. M. Briand will submit the question of reduction in the Allied forces in the Rhineland to a military council, including General Fooh and General Retain. M. Painleve, writing in the Excelsior, remarks that it would he natural enough if Britain sought to enlist the eventual support of Italy for its policy in the Near East, if only to give tiro Turks something to think about, but no Mediterranean agreement is possible without France, and therefore M. Briand and Sir Austen Chamberlain approached the questions of Morocco, Egypt, Syria, and Mosul in a spirit of loyal collaboration. Reuter. GENEVA CONFERENCE. AMERICAN PARTICIPATION. WASHINGTON, January 29. A favourable report on an appropriation for America in participation in the preliminary arms conference at Geneva has been ordered for Friday by the Foreign Relations Committee. ~, m , . jilr Davis, Secretary of the War Debt, announces that Congressional sanction to an appropriation of 50,€00 debars to defray the expenses of the United States delegates to the Geneva Arms Conference was “completed when the Senate approved of the resolution passed by the House. Reuter.