GERMAN AFFAIRS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9853, 4 November 1924, Page 5

GERMAN AFFAIRS.

PRODUCTION OF ARMAMENTS. LONDON, Nov. 2. The Times Berlin correspondent states that the German Government has at last agreed to supply uie* inter-Alhed Military Control Commission with documentary evidence in regard to the production and supply of armaments before and during the war. So far it liad persistently refused.

This is a great help forward towards a final settlement of the question of military control. It is all the more satisfactory since there is a well-grounded suspicion that Germany continues to hide arms and produce new weapons. Even Krupps have been discovered endeavoring to disguise rifle barrels as castings ana tnuncar axles.

THE GERMAN ELECTIONS. NATIONALISTS’ CRAFTY MOVE. LONDON, Nov. 2. The Times Berlin correspondent says that realising, that their election prospects are none too bright, the German Nationalists are attempting to make party .capital out of the British Conservative success. The Nationalist press loudly acclaims the advent of what it calls a strong Nationalist Government in England, and evidently hopes to induce German electorates to vote Nationalist, “thus imitating British political good sense.” It is doubtful, the correspondent adds, whether German voters v. ill realise in time that the German Nationalists have hardly anything in common with the British Conservatives.—Times.

LITBENDORFF IN DISGRACE. BERLIN, Nov. 2. Twenty-seven B.Wli iviau generals held a court of honor and decided that Ludendorff had been guilty of disloyalty because be alleged the former Crown Prince Rupprecht broke his promise to assist Herr Hitler in an attempt to overthrow the Republic. the sentence was that Ludendorff is to be socially bovcottecl.

REPARATIONS AND DEBTS. Mr J. A. Spender makes a remarkable statement in the Weekly 'Westminster on the cost to the United States of our repayment of debt. “It is,” he says, “a very disturbing business trying to get £125,000,000 a year of German exports, unbalanced bv imports, distributed among the creditor nations without injuring their trade. We cannot both take those goods and make them for ourselves, and, if we do rot take them they will go into neutral markets and knock out our goods. However, we have at least two or three years to think about it, and in the' meantime the whom world will have the benefit of our experiment in paying America. “About that an 'American man. oi business told mo last week that it was costing his country about £60,000.000 a year to get £30,000,000 out of Great Britain, • the £60,000.000 being, roughly, tho cost of hoarding gold-and maintaining its price in the world market. Neverthe'ess, the fact that wo are paying causes a warm glow all over the English-speaking world, and the Germans must hope that they will acquire merit m the same wav. I think it is pretty safe to sav that within 10 years from now every creditor will be begging evew debtor to let him off being paid.” ' ; C