GERMANY AND REPARATION.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17120, 15 April 1921, Page 7

GERMANY AND REPARATION.

BXPOBT TAX A TWO-EDGED WEAPON. (By Cable—Pre*. Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N.u. Cablq Association.) (Received April 15th, 10.50 p.m.) PARIS, April 13. All the speakers in the discussion in the Chamber of Deputies on the Bill providing for a 50 per cent, tax on German exports, criticised the measure on the ground that either French business men would have .to pay the tax, or, if . they refused to buy German goods, they would be obliged to. purchase the goods they needed from other countries whose rate of exchange was against France, for instance England, wnich would profit greatly. The speakers said that while they intended to vote for the measure as a question of sanctions, they hoped that imposition of the tax would not be necessary in view of the, measures to be taken on May Ist. CAMPAIGN AGAINST VON SIMONS. (Received April 15th, 11.40 p.m.) BERLIN, April 13. Herr von Simons, Minister of Foreign Affairs, hurriedly returned to Berlin in consequence of the decision of Stinnes People's Party to attack him. The "Frankfurter Zeitung" urges von Simons, despite the outcries of the Junkers and the Stinnes Press, to formulate new conciliatory proposals.