GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 April 1923, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N. 7.. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TOE RUHR DIFFICULTY. BERLIN, March 30. Germany's most conspicuous move towards the settlement of the Ruhr difficulty is the announcement that site will not insist on the French evacuation as an essential to the opening of negotiations. This development is considered ato ply to Air Ronald AlttoNeiil’s statement in the House of Commons that Germany's acceptance of Air Hughes’s proposal was weakened by Dr Cutio’s supposed condition that a French withdrawal was essential to tlte opening of negotiations. The German Government declares that no such condition has been made. It is believed in diplomatic elfins that Germany's new attitude •> the prelude to a definite proposal to the Entente, which will probably ho made when the Reichstag renssemh'ei, and that the Ruhr deadlock is approaching an carle solution. STATEMENTS BY Af. PCI .'( ARE PARTS, AIa.VII :>l. Af. Poincare, in an intervi'v. informed Mr Ben Tillet, the Fii'.’lGh Labourite, that France was willing to negotiate with the German Government, hut not with the German cm :- talists, who were responsible for Germany’s repeated evasions of the Versailles Treaty.

Al. Poincare, replying to Socialists criticism in the Chamber of Commerce, said: “It is not our intention to appropriate a single inch of German soil. Hut we will not be duped by the new manoeuvres. Germany litis no foreign or internal debts, and is less burdened than France. It is just and necessary that she should repair the evil she lias caused."

Al. Poincare, in a message to the Chamber of Deputies, said: “France will examine any offer Germany may make through the Allies for a settlemen of the Ruhr problem, provided it is precise, serious, and direct. Ihe Chamber adjourned until May 8, after voting the appropriations necessary to maintain the administration in the Ruhr.

ORDER TO RATLWaYAIEN, BERLIN, March 31. Twenty-five per cent only of 1 lie fifty millim dollar loan lias been subscribed. General Degoutte hits issued a proclamation at Dusseldorf, ordering the raihvnvmen to work for France or leave the occupied area. A FRENCH AIOVE. BERLIN, April 2. The French has occupied a suburb of Mannehcim, seizing large motor works. The workmen downed tools. FR EXC II CON DK AI X ATT ON. PARIS, April 2. The “Figaro” publishes a vituperative article by an anonymous writer, who is staled to be inspired by Al. Poincare. The writer accuses Britain of securing the lion’s share from the war, and ot leaving nothing for France. Lord D'Abernon, British Ambassador at Berlin, is accused of encouraging the German resistance. Britain tears a Franco-German alliance so much that she lias devoted all her efforts to preventing France from settling her affairs with Germany direct. Germany’s resistance is being regulated constantly according to the British Government's attitude. The manoeuvre has lasted four years hut it cannot last fur over. .MORE DHATHS. LONDON. April 3. The “I tally Chronicle's” Essen correspondent. says:—Two of those wounded in the Krttpps shooting, have died, making the death roll 11. Nineteen are still on the danger list. It is expected that some will not recover. The funeral will ho a public one, unless the French prohibit it. It will lie made the occasion for a great, silent demonstration by Krupps’ oft.GOO workers. It has been established that 11 persons were killed or wounded in running away, when fired tip.m. Krupps deity workers were armed, or that Gorman police, disguised as workers, wore employed to urge the employees to attack the French. This makes oft Gormans killed since the Ruhr was cuter-