NOT SATISFACTORY.

Wairarapa Age, 20 August 1929, Page 5

NOT SATISFACTORY.

REPLIES TO BRITISH NOTE AT THE HAGUE. ATTITUDE OF THE FOUR POWERS. DELUSIVE CONCESSIONS. Unitca Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, August 17. An authoritative commentary, * issued from the British delegation, contends that the presentation of the four Powers’ written proposals justifies the strong line Mr. Snowden has taken for a whole week. It was his Note to M. Jaspar, which has been called in some quarters an ultimatum, which speeded up the proceedings by producing yesterday’s memorandum, but the British delegation cannot but regard the terms of the reply as unsatisfactory. Its purport appeared to be that Britain was already deriving considerable advantages from the Young "Plan, but the four Powers, out of the generosity of their own hearts, were prepared to make further concessions. Instead of their giving Britain 80 per cent, of the full demand® it was only 20 per cent., and involved no sacrifices on the ''part of the four Powers, but would have been at the expense of the smaller Powers, and Britain was not prepared to accept concessions at tteir “xptnsc. —(Australian 4s aociation —Lilted Service./