FRANCE & REPARATIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1923, Page 3

FRANCE & REPARATIONS

L'STIIALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

I SHOT BY SENTRY. I (Received this dav at ~ a.m.) BAR IS. Jan. 21. A French sentry near Dortmund shot and killed a German civilian. The sentry had to use hi> ride, owing to the j hestility of the crowd. GERMAN HOTELKEEPERS. j ! Iliant.l! S TEL KU lIA.MS. i (Received this dav at 9.J0 a. o i I BERLIN, Jan. 21. [ The hotelkeepers association has decided to refuse to accommodate any I French or Belgian, and also to disj ,-.u tin lie the sale oi French viands. | SOCIALISTS ATT IT! ’ DE. (Received tlr's dav at (b.'IO a.in.) BERLIN. Jail. 21 The newspaper orwaerts” state:-. a collier, nee of principal Socialists and Labour bodies unanimously decided it ua. tin- duty ol Labour in give all appropriate support to resistance being .de-red to lln- Fran-i Belgian invasion, I Though the light against reaction will simultaneously he energetically rcJ sinned. A BIG GEN. PARIS. Jan. 21. ‘•he large-1 --.nil e.g-r cast m France, has been completed at Buclle arsenal. It is seventy feel hug and weighs, with the carriage, g.'iii ton-.. I'hc gun which will be used for coastal defence i i- expected to burl a 12(1 kilogramme hell over 90 kilometres. GERMAN SLIMNESS. BEATING THE FRENCH. UNITED sritVK I. TiII,EUI.AMS. 'Received Ibis dav at S..‘?o a.i11.) or.NDON. Jan 20. The “Daily Mail'-” Paris correspondent says a fresh instance oi robbery of many thousands of marks from tlie Fivii. h treasury hy G -rmau Government ami shipping liingnnPs. is pro-

vid'd hy the German shipbuilding .subsidy. After tin Germans had given up all Im half a million l .ns id shipping, to Allies, lln- G. -1011111 Treasury provided :> sull.-id', of Inelve th.itisaoil million marks, linn worth iorty-eiglil million sterling. In build g.-T I.OOJ ton-. Kixi- -0 millions Stirling; had been paid, whin a heavy fall ill th* mark occurred. I'hc shipping I’.un-ii-(letermined though getting one thu-d of the m;v iF-et ' i 'll'! t!-'.- Sla! nor l" hear the loss. A' corihiigly ile-y sued the Treasury !"-fere ;• ,-eeret arhiLration tribunal to inak-.: up tlie dill'erence due in the fall of the currency, which they, with coal, and steel barons had a large share in bringing about. The D-iliumil ordered il : Treasury i>pay an additional eighteen thousand million marks, then worth ihree imllioii -tel ling. Slid the shipou m r-. and a- the mark aa- sliding I'm lb.-r. th . had a sliding -.-ale in lie- agi-i-e- ---, nient with the result that th - Treasury paid thirty-1 wo thousand million nnuLs in tin* ‘U’>i in-i umu i»t>- instend u!‘*t\vidvi* ihc*u>;iu{ 'inlli-m> 1.-g eou.Cis tt-i* • i.- * | >;» i;i i »<?*»-- t board «.d ;liis slniii-L open, linn. uvi l tiE. (ioveritihoiti • til'd ihi-jmk n ivlivvo th<' Treasury <•! ‘Phil. ! jpile Lite v. isniii’. . t i ‘ ’1 ivjt-iir.v paid the shipping i rusts am llmr liUM'ii thousand mill ion inarke halt M million stvrliiij*.