INTERNAL GERMANY.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1920, Page 2

INTERNAL GERMANY.

i AUSTRALIAN & N.Z.- CABLE ASSOCIATION] . A GERMAN FEAR. j lßeceived this day at 8 a.m.) | BERLIN, Nov. 16. The “Lokal Anzeiger” states the Government has received a confidential report thaf/ the Poles are concentrating great masses of troops on the Bendzin- . Ezeutachan line in the neighbourhood of Upper Silesia. Government has instructed the Ambassadors in Paris, London and Rome to acquaint the Entente Governments with request for j speedy consideration of the matter. I GERAIAN VIEWS. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) BERLIN, Nov. 16. Von Simons, Foreign Minister, speaking at Cologne, declared the Allies troops of occupation numbered 115,000 or 50,000 above the strength of tlie whole German Army. In January next, he siiid a tenth of these troops would suffice f and be pointed out that the extension of the Rhine bridgeheads suggested offensive purposes and military drill grounds beyond the needs of occupation. The troops had been made into bakeries capable of turning out four hundred thousand loaves daily for 1 rations.. New strategic Rhine bridges have been prepared, while behind tlie armies o* occupation are large forces stationed suggestive of Rhenish territory being used as a jumping off ground for further encroachments. Germany, he declared, would not comply with their occupation obligatiqps until tlie occupation problem was settled economically. Tlie Entente was at present acting like a creditor who gave a debtor or overseer whose salary was higher than the payments of the debtor. Fehrenbach, Imperial Chancellor, in a speech at Cologne, said while Germany intended to carry out the Treaty, they did not acknowledge tlie admission of sole guilt which was forced on •them at Versailles. " AGREE TO PAY AVITH STIPULATIONS. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Nov. 16. The Public Commission of the-Prus-sian Diet have agreed to pay the annual appandage to the Holienzollern family in accordance with their social position, if they relinquish their right on Crown revenues. .