FRANCE & REPARATIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1923, Page 3

FRANCE & REPARATIONS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. GERMANY’S OFFER. /Received this day at 111 a.m.) LONDON, Alrach 1 8. The “Daily Express” Berlin correspondent states there is every reason to believe that Germany’s best reparation offer remains at C2.60(),0nn,(i:)U and guaranteed by a mortgage on German industry, coupled with Ibe pact oi non-aggression. The Government maintains that the evacuation oi Mi hr must either precede negotiations or coincide with the first payment. GERMAN PROPOSAL. PARIS. March 18. The press is in entire agreement witn the Foreign Office declaration and they will regard any offer <>l mediation as an act of hostility. Le Matii! .states the Government will not discuss the German proposal unless nddresse direct to the Reparations Commission, or the Al'ii’d Rowers. SABOTAGE IN' RHI R deceived this day at 10-00 a.m ) PARIS, -March 18. Sabotage continues on the Ruhr railwavs As a result of damaged points at Fricrniersheim, a troop and gooj train collided. One soldier was kiiiui. Vi e soldiers and three rmlwaymcn iere injured. The Rhineland Cornu j sion have decided that f J J b t . punishable with penal servitude. Tho French stopped the Herman s ea er Badenia bound from Cologne o - don at Rnlirort. They forced be, to return and discharge the cargo.