LONDON CONFERENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1921, Page 2

LONDON CONFERENCE

CABLE NEWS.

BY TELEGRAEH—PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z,. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A GERMAN FEELING. BERLIN, Feb. 24. As the result of the violent jpanGerman propaganda that followed on the decisions of the late Paris Conference of the Allies, there are apprehensions entertained regarding an outbreak of disturbances in Germany during the London Conference. The possibility of an attempted coup d’etat is being discussed.

The “Allgemeine Zeitung” publishes a warning against needless action which, it says, would only renew foreign suspicion. Germany’s military leanings would be then imputed by the German proletariat to the whole middle class, instead of to a few political adventures.

GERMAN COUNTER-PROPOSALS. LONDON, Feb. 26. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Berlin correspondent states: —“The German Cabinet have adopted as their counter-pro-posals for reparation payments proposals providing for the co-operative control of the world’s raw products, and the allotment of a percentage of’ Germany?s industrial products to the Allies as reparation, with partial payment in gold. ALLIED LEADERS CONFER. UNDER DISCUSSION. LONDON, Feb. 26. • Mr Lloyd George is entertaining at._ Chequer’s, over the week-end, Loid Curzon, Mr Bouar Law, Sir Hamar Greenwood, M. Briand (French Premier), Lord d’Abernon (British Ambassador to France), M. Bartholet (French Minister) and also Marshals Foci) and Wilson and General Weygand. The Paris newspapers interpret the summoning of Marshal loch to EngInnd where he' arrives, with Marshal Wilson, on Sunday, as indicating that a preliminary discussion of penalties is to be held. FRENCH OPINION. 9 LONDON, Feb. 26. “Le Petit Parisienue” declares that France must insist that the reparations question be considered separately from that of dsarmament, which is regarded as settled. France, it says, must oppose the substitution of economic for military penalties.

AMERICA AND THE TURKS. NEW YORK, Feb. 26. Senator King lias introduced in the Senate a resolution which asks the Senate to record opposition to any revision of the Sevres Treaty, and hoping that the Allies would not permit any restoration of “intolerable Turkish dominion.” CONFERENCE DECISION. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 27. * A communique from Lord Curzon informed the Turkish delegates to the Conference that the Allies intend to adhere to the obligation to constitute limited stable Armenia and the districts of which Armenia was deprived must he restored. REPORTS ON GERMANY. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 27. The Allied Conference of economic experts submitted a report intended to meet Germany’s contention that she is unable to pay the indemnity demanded. The report points out Germany’s favourable economic situation, compared with the Allies. She has not suffered material war damage and has not contracted a heavy foreign debt. France’s foreign debt is 2386 francs per "head, and Germany’s only 40 marks. Germany’s disarmament saves her pre-war expenditure on the Army and Navy, and lias released considerable man power for increased production.