CONFERENCE REPLY TO NAZI STATEMENT.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19623, 18 October 1933, Page 7

CONFERENCE REPLY TO NAZI STATEMENT.

CONCISE ELUCIDATION OF ACTUAL POSITION. British Official Wireless RUGBY. October 16. The Disarmament Conference to-day decided on a ten-day adjournment. The Bureau of the Conference will meet again on October 25. and the General Commission the day following. Before adjourning the delegates adopted the text of the reply to Germany’s notification. The reply despatched by Mr Henderson to Baron von Neurath reads as follows : “I have now communicated to the General Commission your Excellency's telegram of October 14, announcing the decision of the German Government to discontinue participation in the work of the Conference for the reduction and limitation of armaments, and indicating the reasons for that decision. The German Government took this step at the moment when the Bureau had just decided to submit to the General Commission a definite programme. This programme, to be completed within a limited period, provided for the realisation progressively in accordance with the resolutions of the Conference, in which Germany herself concurred, of a reduction of armaments, comparable with those contemplated in the Convention submitted to the general Conference. This programme provides also for corresponding measures of security and for the realisation of the equality of right which the German Government always placed in the forefront of its demands. I regret the grave decision, which has been taken by your Government, for reasons which I am unable to accept as valid.”

The representatives of Hungary, Soviet Russia, Poland, and Turkey were the only delegates who refrained from voting approval of the text, the Hungarian representative because he said his country, according to treaty, was in a special position, and had to consider the disarmament problem from a different angle from other countries, and the Russian. Polish and Turkish representatives, because they had not participated in the negotiations referred to in the reply.

WILL HUNGARY ACT? REPORTED WITHDRAWAL PROM LEAGUE. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright BUDAPEST, October 16. Earlier gossip suggested that Hungary would follow Germany's lead If the Trianon Treaty frontiers were not revised, but official and political pronouncements discourage the view as leading nowhere, while influential newspapers urge the seeking of reforms by constitutional means through the League. Struggle Must Continue. "The struggle for disarmament must proceed; the Covenant must not be treated as a scrap of paper,’’ said Mr Henderson, replying to a deputation from last night's international demonstrations "However just its cause and good its intentions, no Government can be trusted to remain loyal to peace if it flouts a collective peace system, to which the world is pledged. As long as each nation remains the judge of its own rights and is free to arm as it pleases, war is Inevitable. The Versailles Treaty is no worse nor better than previous settlements, but typical of what happens when war is employed to redress grievances. The gravity of the present situation does not lessen the necessity for the Disarmament Convention.”

HAS GERMANY WITHDRAWN? OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION NOT AT GENEVA.

Cnlted Pu s* Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright GENEVA, October 16. Germany has not yet forwarded her formal resignation from the League Belief Is growing that Herr Hitler la waiting for the Powers' next move before he commits himself Irrevocably. It is understood that Signor Musso-

lini is doing his utmost to induce him to change his policy. Rift in Lute. The Italians and Hungarians objected to tlie strong reply to Baron von Neurath, drafted at yesterday’s meeting of the Conference. Hungary even threatened to withdraw from the Conference if it were not revised. The ex-Kaiser approves withdrawal as a thoroughly logical view of th# long-drawn injustice in treatment of Germany. He is not returning thither, realising that he had other things to consider than the restoration of the monarchy. Baron von Neurath. expounding to foreign pressmen Herr Hitler's broadcast. broke no new ground. He again charged the Powers with discriminating against Germany. No reply to Mr Henderson's Note was necessary. Germany had said her say. ATTITUDE OK UNITED STATES. WILL REMAIN AN ONLOOKER Called Pres* Association — Be Eiectrlo Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, October 16. The Roosevelt Administration on Monday decided to leave to the European Powers determination whether disarmament etlorts should be continued on a general scale down, and will not be represented at the various Conferences on the ContUient this week.