FURTHER CONTACTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23648, 4 November 1938, Page 11

FURTHER CONTACTS

BRITAIN AND GERMANY TALKS TO BE RESUMED LONDON, Nov. 2. The Daily Herald says FieldMarshal Goering is likely to visit England shortly for the resumption of the Anglo-German conversations. Both Governments are anxious for further contacts. The Germans realise the possibility of unpleasant incidents if Field-Marshal Goering came to London for conversations at Downing street, and consequently suggested a visit to Lord Halifax in Yorkshire in return for Lord Halifax’s visit to Germany last year. FOUR-POWER CONFERENCE PRELIMINARY STEPS TAKEN LONDON. Nov. 2. The Star understands that Sir Nevile Henderson will return to Berlin with an instruction to follow up the Munich Agreement and to prepare the way for Mr Chamberlain to visit Herr Hitler again, probably before Christmas, as a preliminary to a four-Power conference directed towards peace by way of disarmament, reserving the colonial problem till later for a general settlement. , QUESTION OF COLONIES ONUS ON BRITAIN SYDNEY. Nov. 3. (Received Novi 4, at 1 a.m.) Herr Schwartz von Berk, a German journalist who is at present touring Australia, stated during an interview to-day that the colonial question would not be settled in New Guinea, Australia, Tanganyika, or any other part of the British Commonwealth of Nations, but in London. “ The difficulty is not on Germany’s side, but the onus is on the British Government to decide which colonies shall be handed back. lam certain that the British Government is willing to finish the Versailles Treaty. To this solution belongs the colonial question. There cannot be a real agreement between Germany and Britain if it omits the colonial question. I believe we will find general agreement in Europe, including disarmament, guarantee of European frontiers, and colonial and trade agreements.”