Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-13
BIG SIX" DISCUSS
RHINE EVACUATION
Meeting Called Hopeful. y
Delegates Will Assemble
Again Sunday.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, September 13.-What one
of the participants described as "a hope
full meeting" of the "big six" to discuss
Rhineland evacuation was held today.
1t was brief, but it adjourned with an
agreement to sit again Sunday morning.
1t was officially stated that several
points arose which require further elu-
citation. 1t is believed that these had
to do with a French plan for new provi-
sions for security In the Rhineland from
tier zone In case troops are either re-
duced or withdrawn entirely in accord
ance with German demands.
BRAND Goes to Paris.
Aristide BRAND, French foreign min
lister, presented the ideas at today's con-
ference. He departed for Paris immedi-
ately after the meeting had adjourned
in order to attend a cabinet conference
there which is to fill the vacancy Gre
ated by the accidental death of Maurice
Bokanowski He announced, however,
that he would return to Geneva in time
for the parley next Sunday.
Besides NJ. BRAND the participants
in today's conversation" were LORD
Cushandun for Great Britain, Chancel-
lor Hermann Mueller for Germany
Baron Moncheur for Belgium In place
of Paul Hymans, who was obliged to re-
turn to Brussels; Vittorio Scialoja for
Italy and Mineaicho Adachi, japanese
Ambassador to France. The latter, as
in the case of the first conference on
the subject. attended as a representa-
tive of the ambassadors VINO are
charged with watching over the carry
inc. out of the Versailles peace treaty.
japanese statesmen said that all as
poets of the problem were reviewed at
the brief session. When asked II the
Sunday gathering would be held before
or after church, Baron Moncheur ex-
claimed, During church!"
Demand Investigation Rights.
Pointing to the meager results of the
League of Nations investigation into
the gun-running incident on the Aus
tro-Hungarian frontier when two car
loads of munitions were seized, the
French insist more effective and es-
pecially more speedy operation of the
fright of investigation" by League COM
missions is needed for the Franco-Ger-
man border. The investigation system
functions when complaints are filed
that fcr~'Hr enemy countries are vio-
lating disarmament terms OF the
peace IS.
The FG.nch proposal follows the regu-
lar foreign policy of that government OF
throwing everything pertaining to peace
treaties into the League, which it re-
CARDS as bulWark against violence.
The French explain that If the plan
were adopted and an investigating COM
mission had made its report the League
machinery of penalties against agrees
sor nations would start into motion,
provided the investigators had found
conditions which threatened the peace
of Europe. This machinery would turn
against the French or the Germans III
accordance with the nature of the in
yestigating report after the latter had
been approved by the League council.
France, in other words, wants the
Rhineland frontier zone made stronger
than is possible under existing treaties.
The Germans, on the other hand. say
they would resent any new form of Sc
curity as offensive to German pride and
prestige.