GFRMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1921, Page 3

GFRMAN NEWS.

AVSTIi.U.IAN AND N.Z. L'AIM.E ASSOCIATION A GERMAN DEMAND. (Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) HEREIN. November 22. In regard to M. I trial id's speech at the Washington Conference, it is semiofficially denied that the Rvichswehr »onsis/U of most ex-officers and ex-non-cows.: A gnat majority of the Eeiohswolir are youths appointed after the war. 'lll,, police are ill no wise controlled by the Imperial Government, hut it is the Stale <tovernment’s sole task to maintain older in the Interior. Its numbers, organisation and armament arc requested by the Entente Control Commission. The police possess only the rifles ami light guns allowed them, but no heavy guns. The citizens guard mentioned by M. Briand has long been disbanded and the weapons surrendered or destroyed. All armament factories in Germany are dosed and the machinery destroyed. CKKMAN ciiancf.i.lor. BERLIN, November 22. Addressing the Reichstag taxation committed Herr Wirtli intimated the Reparations Commission had declined to discuss the possibility of a moratorium if Germany did not make the January. February indemnity pay incuts. Wirtli confidmitly looked forward to a long term credit operations' about which the Government had been sounding the markets <>i the world. 11,. declared Herr Stinnes was visiting London privately. The Chancellor declared he would like to see an increasing effort by German business men. banks and trades uiiiows to get into touch with influential quarters abroad.