MILITARY ALLIANCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 85, 11 April 1935, Page 7

MILITARY ALLIANCE

FRANCE AND RUSSIA REPLACING EASTERN PACT LAVAL GOING TO MOSCOW i [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) r Received April 10, 9.40 p.m. f PARIS, April 9. ’ | It is understood that M. Laval J and the Soviet Ambassador, M. - Potemkin, have agreed in prin- - eiple on a Franco-Russian pact 1 for signature when M. Laval goes s to Moscow on April 24. The con- ■ vention is designed to replace the e Eastern Pact if Germany and Poland refuse to sign it. i Le Journal says the pact will t ulitmately take the form of a mili'r tary agreement attached to revised mechanism of the League. e - DEFINITE FRENCH PLAN ALLIANCE TO PRESERVE PEACE. Received April 10, 11.5 p.m. LONDON, April 10. ; Mr. Ward Price, in the Daily Mail, , says that M, Laval, at Stresa, will place [ a definite plan before the Anglo-Italian Governments. He is convinced that the - peace of Europe is impossible without 3 Franco-German reconciliation, but will not suffer Germany’s infraction of the 1 Versailles Treaty to pass without a t protest, otherwise the breach might be 1 repeated. t France favours the formation of a t group of Powers pledged through a ■ military alliance to preserve peace, a - place therein being reserved for Germany whenever she feels disposed to accept the engagements involved.