CONVENTION ENDANGERED

Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1933, Page 7

CONVENTION ENDANGERED

FRENCH AND GERMANS CLASH. “GRAVE POSITION” AT GENEVA. ' By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright, Rec. 8 p.m. London, May 1. “The disarmament clash between France and Germany has produced a situation of the utmost gravity,” says the Geneva correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. “Unless something can be done quickly hope for a convention on the basis of the British plan must be abandoned. A meeting between Mr.-R. A. Eden, Herr Nadolny and Mr. A. Henderson during the week-end did not persuade the Germans to give way on any major point.” German amendments to the Bntisn draft convention were presented yesterday, declaring that the attainment of equality should receive practical application in the convention, Germany being allowed all weapons considered necessary- to A defence by other nations and calling for a more drastic abolition of aggressive weapons'than the British plan provided. M. Ma^sigli (France) declared that if the amendments represented Germany’s last word there was no hope of any disarmament convention.