SECURITY PACT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19365, 23 July 1925, Page 5

SECURITY PACT

GERMANY'S REPLY

BRITAIN AND FRANCE PLEASED By Telegraph—Per Press Assit.—Copyright. Received Julv 22. 10.45 p.m. LONDON, July 21. Commenting on the German Note, the Daily Express says: ‘‘lt is courteous in tone, b\it decisive in effect. The Germans have given the Note a polite funeral. The decision delivers the British Empire from a peril which would have ruptured its political and diplomatic unitl. Our young men will not be sent to die in some squabble in the Danzig corridor. Mr Bonar Law declared: ‘We cannot afford to police Europe.’ Let us hope we shall hear no more of the Pact. We can resume, the task of developing the Empire without dread of discord.” The Daily Telegraph's diplomatic qorreA®ndent says: “British circles are reticicnt, but the first impression is favourable. Exception cannot be taken to the tone of the Note. It reflects tactfulness and finnesse which arc Latin rather than Teutonic.” PARIS. Julv 21.

I The reply was favourably received at | Quai D’Orsay. So far as France is concerned, negotiations on the Pact ; will certainly begin, but it may be a 'fortnight before a reply can be framjed. M. Brian*! is optimistic about future negotiations. Paris newspapers insist that the t< of the German Note is conciliatory. ANGLO-FRENCH NOTE GERMANY’S REPLY. Received July 22. 11.30 p.m. (Reuter) LONDON, July 22. The published text of the German reply to the Anglo-French Note regarding the Security Pact confirms the forecast. It points out that the German suggestions do not represent a modification of the existing treaties, although they do not mean the permanent, exclusion of peacefully adapting the existing treaties to future changed conditions. Ac regards the Treaty provisions concerning military occupation, the Not? states that the Security Pact would represent an important innovation, which would be bound to react on the conditions of the occupied territories. 'The Note deals with the question of occupation generally. The Note remarks on th? prominence the Allies assign to the necessity for Germany concluding treaties of arbitration with her neighbours who are signatories to the Peace Treaty. It expresses doubts, and asks for further elucidation in this regard in view of th? possibility that the question of deciding whether a disturbance of the | peace exists, and the application of colercive measures, may be put in the hands of one of the contracting parties. Germany is willing to link up her [membership of the League with the negotiations, but until satisfaction is (given concerning Article 16 of th? Covenant, Germany, unarmed, would be exposed to unlimited danger and in volvement in armed conflicts with third countries.