17 OCTOBER 1925, Page 1

The special correspondent of the Tilling at Locarno days that

it is expected that when the Western Pact has been signed Great Britain and France will be able to make an agreeable announcement to Germany. The speedy evacuation of Cologne will probably be promised and the armies of occupation will be reduced to (at the Most) the number of the Rhineland garrisons before the War. There is certainly one good reason why France should be ready to make these concessions ; the armies of occupation have swallowed up a considerable pro- portion of the money paid to France in reparations. M. Caillaux needs money badly, and one could hardly have a more vivid illustration of the truth that it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good than the manner in which the French financial crisis, and the troubles of France in Morocco and Syria, have been steadily working for peace in Europe.

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