SPA CONFERENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1920, Page 2

SPA CONFERENCE

Reuter’s Telegrams GERMAN EXPLANATIONS. BERLIN, July 18. Semi-official' apologies for the acceptance of the coat terms, declared no other decision was possible,. after Marshal Foch was summoned. On the one hand was an invasion into the heart of Germany with incalculable political con 7 sequences and on the other a reduction of eight per cent, an th* coal supply of Germany. FURTHER DISCUSSIONS SPA,' July 18. • A correspondent reports at the closing of tho Conference, De La Croix announced that discussions regarding reparations would be continued by a committee of two representatives of the great powers and Germany, meeting at Geneva in a few weeks time. ON THE RHINE. LONDON, July 19. Though the British Commander on the Rhine ordered all arms in private possession in the occupied area must bo given up by the 20th, General Von Der GoJtz announces that arms will not be given up, because to do so would mean certain ruin to the Fatherland. He urged that armed discharged soldiers ■ should be employed on farms in order to protect landowners against Spartacists. GERMAN PROTESTS. I Received This DnC nt A. 45 a.nO BERLIN July 19An agitation is afoot in Rhineland, and Westphalia against the Allied Spai* policy. Miners resent the extra shift? necessitated by the coal decision andstrikes are threatened.