Paris, Mar. 28.
Grave views regarding the recent. ly "concluded. Customs" agreement between Austria and Germany, were voiced in the Senate to-day in the course of a debate on the foreign Affairs estimates, 'MIN, Briand, the Foreign Minister, declared that the announcement of the "agreement had given him a disagreeable shock. The agreement, said, was in itself a grave matter but the procedure by which it was reached was cause for still graver concern as. the methods Employed lay outside the policy of ce-operation which he bad been suggesting.
other Senators expressed inion that Great Britain's hesitancy in regard tothe atte ment was comparable to her hesita. tion in 1914" which cost a cruel tice, The agreement, it was stated,
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