THE REPARATIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1921, Page 3

THE REPARATIONS

FRENCH DISCUSSION.

i AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABbE ASSOCIATION. PARIS, April U All speakers in the French Chamber of Deputies in the discussion on a Bill, providing for the Allied fifty per cent tax oil German exports, criticised the measure. They did so on the ground that either the French business men would have to pay the tax, or, if they iof use to buy German goods, they would be obliged to purchase the goods they needed from other countries, whose rates of exchange are against I‘ ranee. J for instance, England’s. England would thus profit greatly. The speakers added that while they intended to vote for the measure as a question of the sanctions, they hoped the imposition would not he necessarr in view of the Allied measures to he taken on May Ist. ADVICE TO DR VON SIMONS. BERLIN, April 13 Dr Von Simons has hurriedly returned to Berlin in consequence of the decision of Herr Stinues of the People s Partv to attack him. The “Frankfurter Zeilung” urges Dr Simons, despite the junkers and the outcries of the Stinnes press, to formulate new conciliatory proposals. GERMANY’S AIM. LONDON, April 13 The “Daily Chronicle’s” special cor- ! respondent of Berlin reports that Herr Cuno, head of the Hamburg-Amenca Shipping line, speaking at the German National Shipping Congress, said that ■ Germany’s reconquest of Iter former shipping position would entail a long struggle, hut her companies were busy equipping their ships in readiness to meet foreign competition. Though Germany would only he allowed to rebuild o ne-third of her former fleet, he said she would have an inKlruggh’. because she would build exactly to suit her requirements, wlteras (lie Allies would he saddled with the former German ships, the majority of which aro already obsolete. The English attempts now to sell the f former German ships revealed the mad- >' , iess 0 f the Allies in their ship-robbing - policy. The result of this policy was that the English wharves were mostly idle, while Germany’s wharves were forking at their full strength.