RHINELAND EVACUATION

Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1929, Page 9

RHINELAND EVACUATION

/-H FRENCH , PREMIER’S POLICY > CONFLICT WITH THE ALLIES OPERATION OF YOUNG PLAN By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 10.40 p.m. London, Nov. 11. M. Tardieu’s statement in the Chamber that the Hague agreement for the evacuation of the third zone of the Rhineland had not yet begun to operate and that France is under no obligation to evacuate by June 6, 1930, reads like a repudiation of M. Briand’s pledge, states the diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. M. Tardieu overlooks the fact that, an eight months’ period is the maximum, as the document says the evacuation shall “In any case be completed within eight months,” but there is no reason why the evacuation should occupy eight months, so that even if the putting into operation of the Young Plan is not completed before February the exit of the French troops from the Rhineland by May or June is perfectly feasible. M. Tardieu’s hint that it may be expedient to continue the sole occupation of part of the Rhineland after June 6, says the correspondent, is in direct conflict to ,M. Briand’s speech, which insisted that the evacuation was an inter-Allied affair; otherwise France would single-handed have to re-establish martial Jaw in the Rhineland, as the withdrawal of the British would destroy the legal existence of the InterAllied Rhineland Commission.