GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1923, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

ACSTI’.Ai.I.IX AND .N.Z. CAUi.K ASSOCIATION-. THE WORLD'S mriin. AM) .MR HUGHES’S PROPOSAL. (Received this dav at 11. !5 a.m.) liKltl.l X. April 17. Herr Rosenberg, in tin* Reichstag, aunouneed that Germany bad notified tilt: powers that she believed the world’s future depended on tie ac, cptniice of .Mr Hughes's proposal. The Bergmaim ) hut was the only solution because no (lei nun Government would ever permit the neutralisation if the Rhineland. The plan which Ilerr Bergman vainly tried to submit to the Allied Conference at Paris in December provided for the Herman payment of fifteen bundled million sterling, 'llu.t was Germany's utmost caj Deity then, and the lluhr invasion had siiue rctliieed Germany's economic strength and capacity to p.iy: yet Geimany was prepared to ae-ej'L the Hergmanii plan as the basis for a new discussion. No Herman Government could accept M. Lou,hour's plan for gradual French retirement a- payments were made and the proposal to make the left hank ot the Ullihe a Federal State, demilitarised under the League oi Nations would he the beginning of the end for Heninmy. Replying to .M. I’cineate’s sLatemeiits at Dunkirk, Herr Rosenberg declared that Germany had only ID!).000 troops which the Treaty permitted.