FRANCE & GERMANY

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1923, Page 2

FRANCE & GERMANY

l.tir telegraph—PF.it rnt:ss association] PARTS, Feb 17. Ai. Lq Troequer submitted to Cabinet a record of his mission to London. He emphasised the extreme cordiality of the meeting. Subsequently Cabinet decided to send Payot and Dcgouette to Cologne to confer with General (.miley. DFFYIXG FRANCK. PARIS. Feh IS. The German Minister of tine arts visited Bochum despite the embargo. KSSKX HAPPFXI.NGS. BERLIN. Feh IS. The “l.ukal AnzeigorV lessen correspondent reports the diatli of a French otlii it shot by a German cunstabl. alter the forme] 1 remonstrated with the Ini ter tor refusing to salute. PARIS. Feh IS. IN-ell reports state the French with a view to checking trades people hoycolt. sent oflieers through the town in motor lorries. The oliieers here and there descended and ordered goods. If th y v.er.i refused ibe shopkeeper was immediately hoisted aboard the lorries. French at Treves sciznd 250 million mar!.' intended for striking railwaymen. in consequence of Gelsenkirchen municipality refusal to pay a lino of a hundred million marks, the French s 1 ized 1 19 million from the city coffers. A AMOR [CAN BACKING FOR GFRAIAXY. 13KH1.1X, Fell 18. The “Rote Fillin’’ (Red Flag) states thor. the recent rise in tho mark is due in Air Hnrrimau. the American financier. lending the German Reich live hundred million gold marks. (I PRAIA NS BLOCK CANALS. PARIS. Fob is. Tim Germans have countered the French action of taking over ihe Rhine TleriKi Canal by sinking largi barges, and making truffle impossible. Other harm's were sunk at the entrance of Hugo Stinnes Harbour at Ruhort. and its channels will he blocked tor at h ast three weeks.