LOYAL COLLABORATION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16946, 30 January 1926, Page 13

LOYAL COLLABORATION.

ENGLAND AND FRANCE. RECENT CONVERSATIONS. E’ec. Tel Copyright-United Press Assn. (Reuter's Telegram I (Received January 30. 3 p.m.) PARIS, Jan. 29. According io the newspapers M. Briand and Sir A. Chamberlain’s conversations dealt with the date of the preparatory disarmament conference, the reduction of Allied forces in Rhineland, Mosul, Morocco, Egypt, Syria; the Chinese crisis : and certain claims of the Italian Covermnot in regard io the territories bordering Abyssinia and the Red Sea, and (he possibility of postponing the Disarmament Conference until Germany has fulfilled her disarmament obligations.

Tl is also considered dial Al. Briand will submit the question of Hie reduction of Hie Allied forces in Hie Rhineland To a military Council, including Marshal Foeh and General Retain. Al. Painleve, writing in the Excelsior, remarks that if would lie natural enough if Britain sought, to enlist the eventual support. oE Italy for ils policy the Near East, if only to give the Turks something to think about, but. no Mediterranean agreement is possible without. France. Therefore, M. Briand and Sir A. Chamber!an approached the questions of Morocco, Egypt. Syria and Mosul in a spirit of loyal collaboration.