TENSE FEELING IN EUROPE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 30 December 1926, Page 9

TENSE FEELING IN EUROPE.

Echo of Landau Incident.

GERMAN INDICTMENT OF FRANCE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received December 29, 8.30 p.m.)) BERLIN, December 28. Dr. Tbyssen, who drafted the steel trade pact with France, Belgium, and Luxemberg, is resigning from the committee for promoting Franco-Prussian understandings as a protest against the Landau courtmartial. Dr. Thyssen states; "France seemd to believe that everything is permissible towards Germany, f :e cheated her out of the provisions upon' which the Armistice was basedi| then, with the aid of twenty-fout; nations, she disarmed Germanyv while she armed to the teeth. In the>. interests of European peace, I this French belief will soon be stroyed.”

ESPIONAGE IN FRANCE. ARREST OF ALLEGED BRITISH OFFICER. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. ; Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, j (Received December'29, 5.5 p.m.)) , PARIS, December 29. ' Vivian Stranders, alleged to be al former British officer, was arrested on leaving Paris for Germany, and accused of espionage.

Though it occurred on December 21, the arrest tvas only announced after inquiries by the French counter espionage service, who state that Dr. Weber (head of the German Secret Service in France) paid Stranders 1500 gold marks for answers to a detailed questionnaire regarding army, aviation, tanks, and machine gun improvements.

ATTITUDE OF GERMAN PRESS.

LOCARNO SPIRIT SURVIVES.

By Cable —Press Association —Copyright: Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, December 28. Tli© Berlin correspondent of the “Times” says the moderate cress greet tho pardoning in the Landau trials as a sign that the LocarnoTkoiry policy still lives, but, tho Nationalist papers refuse to be satisfied, and demand disciplinary measures against Rouzier. The Entente press insists that the ease proves the necessity for the immediate cos at ion of the occupation of the Rhineland.