GERMAN NOTE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXV, Issue 8901, 7 April 1936, Page 3

GERMAN NOTE

FURTHER EXPLANATION SOUGHT

NOTE TO RIBBENTROP

WIDE FIELD COVERED

(British Official Wlrp«3ss> RUGBY, April 5

Several members of the German delegation, including Dr. Dieckhovf, of the German Foreign Office, left London on Saturday for Berlin, but Herr von Ribbentrop, with other members of his staff, remain in England for a few days longer. Requests for the elucidation of certain passages in the German Note of April Ist have been addressed to Herr von Ribbentrop by the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden. They are said to cover a wide field. . The suggestion made by Major t. R. Attlee, Labour leader, that other League Powers, as well as the Locarno signatories, should be brought into a conference on the situation resulting from the events of March 7th, and later on the German proposals, met with a considerable measure of support in Parliament. Newspapers state that in Monday's debate Sir Austen Chamberlain and Mr Winston Churchill, among other members, will raise the point. CONFERENCE SUGGESTED

Mr Eden has given careful consideration to the request of the French Government that a meeting of the Locarno Powers should be held next Wednesday, either in Brussels or in Paris. Mr Eden pointed out that in view of the fact that a meeting of the Committee of Thirteen to consider efforts at conciliation in the ItaloAbyssinian dispute was to take place at Geneva and was to be called for Wednesday, an opportunity for an exchange of views between the Locarno Powers could take place there. In these circumstances the proposed meeting at Brussels or Paris seemed inopportune. It is revealed that in an interview with Mr Eden, Herr von Ribbentrop suggested that the General Staff talks must be seriously prejudicial if they took place before the conclusion of new security pacts. Mr Eden reminded Herr von Ribbentrop. that the talks were the British Government's contribution to restore confidence and were all the more necessary since the German Government seemed unwilling to make any substantial contribution for the interim period.