HAS GERMANY BACK-SLIDED?

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 3 May 1926, Page 9

HAS GERMANY BACK-SLIDED?

Treaty With Soviet Russia. FOREIGN MINISTER’S WARNING. By Cable—Press Association —CopyrifpiV Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 2, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. April 30. Sir Austen Chamberlain, in a speech at Albert Hall, said that though at present he had not studied the Russo-German Treaty, he hoped to find that the German Ministers’ •who had assured us that they would do nothing inconsistent with the achievements of Locarno, had kept Iheir word. Britain, no less than Germany, had need of peace. Britain, whether in Germany's case, or in the case of others,' had never sought to stir up trouble between the nations. Britain had never jealously viewed or attempted to prevent any possible improvements in other nations’ relations. The fact that Germany had signed a Treaty with the Soviet- seemed perfectly natural, but we had a right to insist that they v .-we loyal to the professed engagements with the partners in Locarno, and do not incur obligations inconsistent with the fulfilment of the Locarno covenant.