Oct. 8.
German correspondents at Lo-came assert that Herr Luther and Briand discussed Article 16 of the Covenant to-day.
The "Lokalanzeiger's" _correspondent says it appears possible that a formula will be found. in-have even gent a prominent Reichstag supporter to Locarno, apparently to apply a restraining influence on the actions of the German delegates if it should be [deemed desirable.
Reuter's Locarno correspondent snys that the German delegates are prepared to accept the clauses dealing with general arbitration on all Franco-German questions France's Desire Of Reconciliation Paris, Oct. 3.
Painlevé in an important speech at Nimes to-day declared that France's foreign policy to Miberate and reconcile" was still France's ideal, but reconciliation in order to become possible in Europe must be first realized on the Rhine.
Franco-German reconciliation, M. Painlevé said, was the corner-slone of European civilization, and such reconciliation wag possible, in spite of century-old grudges, if the two peoples would wipe out mistrust and believe mutually in each other's sincerity. It was in this spirit that the French Government, as a faithful interpreter of the nation, was about to make at Locarno the most enterprising attempt at real pea e which anyone had dared since the armistic Referring to Morocco Mf Painlevé declared that the French zone had been brutally invaded, but France in a loyal accord with' Spain would be very generous to the Riffs, who have "been promised complete autonomy, within the limits of the treaties, but to grant complete independence would be merely to reopen the dangerous question of Morocco as a European problem and to make Riff the happy hunting 8round of international adventurers.
'M. Painlevé then read, the Franco-Spanish agreement signed on July 18, which had been communicated to Abi-el-Krim, guar anteeing autonomy and offering to negotiate on a basis of mutual amnesty, delimitation of boundaries, "appointment of a police force, prohibition of trafic in arms and demarcation of a sector of the coast to be occupied by Spain. He said that Abd-el-Krim''s agents refused to consider the terms and in. sisted on absolute independence. This necessitated a joint Franco. Spanish action, terpreting the the article so as to meet Germany's objections to some extent; the paper also says that question of France guaranteeing the projected East European Arbitration treaties was also discussed.
The "Tageblatt" learns that ind dropped the French claim in respect of a one sided guarantee of
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