ALLIES’ DEMANDS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 138, 7 March 1921, Page 5

ALLIES’ DEMANDS

GERMANS’ EFFORTS TO GAIN TIME VON SIMONS TO MAKE FRESH PROPOSALS NEW BASIS OF TAXATION BEING CONSIDERED By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. London, March 4. It is understood that the German Cabinet has decided to make an effort to prevent tho Allies’ sanction, being put into operation; therefore, Dr. von Simons will make fresh proposals on Monday next. One of tho German, delegates states that they are now considering with experts a new basis of taxation in Germany, which it is hoped will enable a better offer to be made. He now frankly admits that the delegation' did not believe the Allies would accept the counterproposals, which were made with a view to maintain faith with the German electors and to play for time. Also, there was some suspicion that the Germans would again raise the Communist bogey to intimidate both the Allies and a certain, section of the German electors, — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE INCREASED TAXATION TO PROVIDE THREE-QUARTERS OF INDEMNITY. (Rec. March 6, 11.5 p.m.) London, March 5. It is understood that Dr. von Simons has received alternative proposals from Berlin for submission to Conference, on Monday, based on increased taxation, which will give the Allies three-quarters of the indemnity demanded, but the German delegates fear that the conditions will make this unacceptable. It is. reported that the delegates are only united in desiring to gain time, otherwise there are sharp divergences in the German Cabinet, which is anxious to confer further with the financial and industrial magnates. . Meanwhile Mr, Lloyd George is consulting with Admiral Beatty, and Marshal Foch has summoned General Degoutte, the Allied generalissimo of the .Rhine forces, to Paris. Mr. Lloyd George refused Dr. von Simons’s request for a private conference with M. Briand and himself prior to Monday’s conference—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DECLARATION BY GERMAN PRESIDENT LLOYD GEORGE’S SPEECH IRRECONCILABLE WITH TREATY. (Rec. March 6, 5.5 p.m.) , Berlin, March 5. All parties except the Independents and the Communists cheered the Reichstag President’s declaration that. Mr. Lloyd George’s speech was irreconcilable . with the Versailles Treaty. Pandemonium succeeded an attempt by Herr Hoffman, the Communist, to demand t'he reading of the whole instead of extracts. from the speech, necessitating the sitting being suspended.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BERLIN CABINET OPPOSED TO PARIS TERMS. (Rec. March 6, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 5. The German delegation has been informed that the Berlin Cabinet is unanimously opposed to the adoption of toe Paris peace terms—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. HAVOC IN NORTHERN FRANCE BROUGHT HOME TO GERMANS BY BRITISH PREMIER’S SPEECH. (Rec. March 6, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 5. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent states that the evening papers featured Mr. Lloyd George s catalogue of destruction in France, bringing home for the first time to many Germans the enormity of the havoc in Northern France—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn. BLOCKADING~oF HAMBURG PREPARATIONS BY FRENCH DREADNOUGHTS. London, March 4. Reuter’s Paris correspondent advises that French Dreadnoughts have taken in coal and munitioned at Toulon, to 'be ready to join tlte British in blockading and occupying Hamburg.—Reuter, SMYRNaTnd" THRACE GREECE OPPOSED TO COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. (Rec. March 6, 5.5 pim.) Paris, March 5. Tho Greek and Turkish delegates attended a conference at St. James s Palace M, Calogeropouloe (Premier of Crteece) announced that the Greek National Assembly had considered ' the Allied proposal regarding a commission of inquiry into the problems of Smyrna and Thiace, and unanimously pronounced against it. The dispatch of a commission would be equivalent to Greece’s surrender of the rights definitely established by the endtess sacrifices of the Greek nation which the Treaty of Sevres consecrated. In® proposal amounts to asking Greece bind herself beforehand. The Turks later admitted that they agreed to an inquiry by the ■ Grand National Assembly. They were to accept other provisions of the treaty of Sevres, provided they are adapted to iSoni indispensable tothe «wtraco of a free and independent Tuiksy. Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.