THE HAGUE CONFERENCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 199, 22 August 1929, Page 7

THE HAGUE CONFERENCE

POSITION STILL UNCHANGED. SEPARATIONS PROPOSALS. £ British Official Wireless. J RUGBY, Aug. 20. The situation at The Hague remains substantially unchanged. Experts are continuing their examination of the proposals made to the British delegation on Friday with the object of assessing their precise value. The British delegation considered them unlikely at the best to yield more than one quarter of the annual sum of £2,450,000 required to satisfy the British claim regarding restoration of the Spa percentages. Last evening the political chiefs met again to continue the Rhineland discussion, and according to correspondents the British position was restated to the effect that British troops in any case will begin their withdrawal next month. To-day the heads of delegations were meeting over the luncheon table as the guests of Dr. Van Blokland, Dutch Foreign Minister. A meeting took place to-day at The Hague between Mr Snowden, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, and M. Briand, French Prime Minister. An official communique states that M. Briand, accompanied by M. Loucheur and Mr Snowden, with whom was Mr Keith Ross, took tea in the apartment of Adatchi, the Japanese delegate, and had a general exchange of views, pending a report of the technical experts, with a view to bringing their respective standpoints into closer agreement. In acquiesence with the request of Herr Stressman, German Foreign Minister, a meeting will take place tomorrow between representatives of France, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Japan and Germany.