ITALO-GERMAN TREATY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 31 December 1926, Page 9

ITALO-GERMAN TREATY.

Signed by Mussolini.

“NO SECRET CLAUSES.” By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Australian and. N.Z, Cablo Association. ROME, Dec. 29. Signor Mussolini and tho German Ambassador signed an Itnlo-German Arbitration Treaty. It does not contain secret clauses. INTEREST IN EUROPE. TERMS OP TREATY EXPLAINED. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. (Received 9.50 p.m., Dec. 30.) LONDON, Dec. 30. Chief interest in foreign affairs centres around the Italo-German agreement. There is widespread speculation as to the effect of the agreement. Certainly there is no attempt on Italy’s part to minimise the importance of the event. Signor Mussolini and the German Ambassador were filmed in the act of signing in Chigl Palace. The agreement will be registered with the League of Nations. It extends over ten years. It provides for a permanent commission of arbitration, numbering five, of whom Italy names one, and Germany another, the remainder being named conjointly by Italy and Germany, among three neutral countries. Any dispute between tbe two countries can be submitted to a Commission, whose report thereon Is not binding, but the signatories must accept or reject It within three months. In the case of rejection, the dispute will be referred to the Judicial Arbitration Court, or to the Hague Tribunal. The agreement also applies to cases in which a third power is involved, but does not apply whenever rights or obligations resulting from the Locarno Pact are affected. One report says that Tyrol is also excluded.

GERMAN PRESS ATTACK,

MUSSOLINI ROUNDLY TROUNCED By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.50 p.m., Dec. 30.) BERLIN, Dec. 29. Coincidently with the signature of tho Italian Treaty, several newspapers make a bitter attack on Signor Mussolini. The “Vossische Zeitung” accuses Signor Mussolini of playing France against Germany, and vice versa, offering each a treaty, against the other. “Vonvnerts” declared the treaty as especially necessary, owing to Italy’s belligerent tendencies, but political co-operation is “only possible when Italy returns to a civilised regime. Every document signed by Signor Muissolmi savours of blood, force and barbarism.”