At Fever Heat

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 164, 13 August 1929, Page 9

At Fever Heat

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.

Australian Press Association.

MR SNOWDEN & M. CHERON Apology Demanded From British Chancellor VIOLENT PA5SAGES

fReceived This Day 3 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 12. The Daily Chronicle's Hague correspondent stales tliat the Enfcente Cordiale has never before been so sevrely strained as in a violent passage of arms between Mr Philip Snowden and M. Cheron, and when the conference adjourned their tempers were at fever -heat. j A meeting of the French, Italian, Belgian and Japanese delegates was held and seconds, in the persons of M. Jaspar and M." Hyams despatched to Mr Snowden's hotel to demand an apology. The British Chancellor was at first inclined to stand by his biting words, but eventually a formula wai found whereby France's honour i was satisfied. % As the result of the adjournment | till Wednesday, the tension relaxed j all round, though there is no very obvious change to justify a better feeling.* Fvidence that the tempers are j still somewliat frayed, howe.ver, was ! shown by a sharp exchange to-day between M. Briand and • Herr Stres'emann. : . The former referred to the suffei'ing of the French troops on the •Rhine last Winter, to which Herr Stresemann replied, "If you don't w-ant your poor troops to suffer the rigours of another. German Winter, you had better withdraw thein." Mr Henderson threw oil on the troubled waters by reniarking that he was afraid that the commission was not making much progress .