GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1923, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FRENCH SATISFIED. PARTS, April 13. The French arc satisfied with the results of the Conference, having won the Belgians’ decisions to ielti.se mediation, hut i lie Belgians still refuse to send more l roups to Ruhr. A DEMENTIA PATIENT. LONDON. April lA. The ■■Sunday Express” Wieringon correspondent .-tales two Berlin doctors report the ex-Crown Prince is suffering from progressive dementia. He was seized with a loitn of religious mania. The servants are forced to listen to revival services, the ex-Crown Prince accompanying on the organ. AN OITK KR ATTACKED. '.Received this dav at 8 a.in.) PARIS, April 13 An unexplained attack was made by three soldiers on an officer in a (ruin near Kerte-ous Jou.irre. Bursting into the compartment they struck the officer with an iron bar ami then threw him out of the train. He was picked up (king, rottsly injured. The police secured one assailant, Poiitin. I lie others escaped from the train. A BAD START. (Received this day at 8.3(1 a.in.) BERLIN, April 13. A trial (light at the inauguration of the Berlin to London air service ended disastrously. The engine caught fire and one person was killed and outlier passenger and pilot injured.

TO BREAK GERMANY'S RESISTANT E. (.Received this day at 9.23 a.m.) PARIS. April 13. The Eureigu Office denies the “Matins” .statement that tic- Government is submitting a reparation plan i.o a Conference ol* Belgian Minr-ters. Ihe Conference will deal cmiosi entirely wi L h < oal deliveries and taxes. It reparations are discussed, it will only he •I secondary matter. I lie whole purpose of the Conference is to tighten up the organisation to break Germany's resistance. AIR DISASTER. BERLIN. April 13. In the London aeroplane disaster the pilot and three passengers .succumbed. ERA N CO-BE LG IA N CON PER KXCE. (Received this day at 8.30 a.in.) PARIS, April 15. The Francn-Pelgian Conference has ended. M. Theunis and M. Jaspar have returned to Brussels. An official communique states the conioieiue to affirmed the Brussels resolution not to accept German promises and that the evacuation he progressive with German payments. It was decided that goods seized in Ruhr should he taken by France and Belgium as reparations in kind, to the extent of their requirements. and the surplus he sold, the

proceeds after a reduction for expenses of exploitation being Imndcd to the Reparations Commission. GERMAN VIEW. (Received ibis day at 9.T0 a.m.i LONDON, April 13. 'The “Times” Berlin correspondent says the Chancellor, replying to Tracies Union lenders, said ho would bo prepared to negotiate with the .French on a non-political basis only on terms ol equality. Meanwhile the workers in the Ruhr must understand they would lone to bold out a considerable time.