FRANCE & GERMANY

Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1923, Page 2

FRANCE & GERMANY

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FRENCH FUNERALS. LONDON, March 14. According to a Dusseldorf message the funeral of the French officers was conducted with such pomp that it might have been a great General or a President of the Republic. The two coffins were lying in the Guildhall, each covered with French Hags. The steps of the buildings were covered with a magnificent wreath. Generals Payott, Degouettc, and Bourinans were present when the coffins wore placed on the train bound for France. The "Daily Chronicle's" Dusseldorf correspondent states that two German police sergeants who returned to Biter within the permitted time limit to collect their belongings, were arrested by the French. It is not known if they were tried, but they were shot in the ! courtyard of a girls’ school. Another account states that they were executed by two soldiers in the presence of their officers, SUGGESTION DENIED. PARIS. Marili UL ft is declared in official circles that there is no intention to extend the advance on the right bank of the Rhine jno Bavaria, which would make too serious a. call on the French Army. With the addition of live thousand Belgians, and fifteen thousand French, there arc IOO.OiKI Allied troops , now in the Ruhr. i PARIS. March 15. I \| PertiiuiN, writing in the '‘Echo do i Paris,” savs:—“There have been atcn'ipts to revive the demand for new re--1 pa rations negotiations, excluding Britain.” , . “Lt‘ Matin'’ rejoins with niter\ie\NS with leading Belgian statesmen who do-t-lare that a new scheme must be el abonded soon, and that it is imperative tin France and Belgium slml .-each an agreement with Britain am Utah uho must participate in the settlement.