Evening star., 1925-10-17
SECURITY TREATIES
0. KID At LOCARNO
MAKE WAR REMOTE
Statesmen. in Frenzy of Joy,
Unable to Explain Sue
cess of Parley.
DECORUM CAST ASIDE
BY ELATED DELEGATES
All Troublesome Issues Swept
Aside-Good VIII Once More
Reigns in Europe.
Rv the Associated Press.

pv the Associated Press
T.OCARNO. Switzerland October
l. - F,urone's security conference
ended early today literally in hiaEe
az glory. Throughout III" night
there were fireworks. music ana
dancing to commemorate the lnltiai-
iug of five pacts which the allied ana
German statesmen have formulated
with the idea of new Europe arising
from the old slough of discords.
The delegates have shown their be-
lief that real friendship and co-opera-
ton and the burial of past dissen-
sions easily can be achieved by con
tinuing the good spirit which was
given birth in I.oCarno. All the
statesmen are unanimous that the re-
suits attained at the security con
ference exceeded their secret eN-
pectations.
The five treaties are:
The Rhine pact. by which France.
Germany and Belgium agree To re-
frain from attacking one another.
with Great Britain and Italy agree
ing to act against a violator of the
pact.
Arbitration conventions between
Germany and France. Belgium, 20
land and Czechoslovakia.
Germany to Enter League.
In addition there is an understand
ing that Germany shall join the
League of Nations.
I'VE We're carried off our feet and
seemed pushed forward to success by
some mysterious constructive force,
MAS the way one of the delegates de
scrihed the situation.
Dr. Stresemann, the German foreign
minister. Joined NJ. BRAND France 5
foreign minister in declaring that
I.ocarno must mark the beginning of
n new era in the peaceful development
"f the lives of nations, based on mu-
tUal confidence and good will.
Particularly felicitous We're the
speeches of the leading delegates at
III" final conference last night when
adjournment was taken. with the un-
Outstanding that the treaties would he
signed in Lontierf. On December l.
Sees New Europe Arise.
"A new Europe must rise from Lo,
carno" said NJ Eriand. Then, re
forrinG to Germany and France, he
added. Between our two countries
there remain indications of the frC
tiun Of MISUNDERSTANDING. The pac;
signed today must be a balm for these
wounds All difficulties must pass
away.
In addressing the conference before
initiating the pact Dr. Stresemanr
said
I'VE are convinced that only by
the path OF peaceful neighborly life
can the development of states and peo
ples be secured "
NJ Vandervelde. the chief Belgian
delegate. congratulated DR.. Strese
mann on having risen to the defense
of the German people as a whole
rather than yielding to those who
would not forget the past.
German spokesman. alluding To
the question of the ratification of the
Rhine pact. said the final attitude OF
Germany would depend on whether
the expectations Of the German peo
ple We're fulfilled ard whether the
Rhine treaty would be followed by
early leSSenin@ in the strength of the
occupatiOnal forces.
See Cologne Evacuated.
Attention was called to the fact thai
NJ. BRAND recently had qHashed sen
fences imposed upon Germans fol
crossing into occupied territory, anC
that there was expectation that courts
martial in France and Belgium OF
Germans accused of war crimes would
- pressed that the Cologne area will be
evacuated before the security pact is
signed.
At exactly 30 last night the Euro
pean statesmen who made this victory
possible threw open a window or
the second floor of the Palace of Jus
tice and. rejecting decorum, announced
to the waiting multitude that the
Rhine pact and other treaties had beer
formally approved one of their mum
Der held aloft the final protocol bear
ing the signatures of all the delega
, tions al proof that the conference hat
succeeded in its mission.
Instantly the crowd gave vent Il
enthusiasm, rockets were sent into th'
air, their balls of fire narrowly cScap
ing entering the windows and fallins
on the shoulders of the delegates. The
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