GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1923, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

AUSTIUJ.IAX AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. CHANGING FRONT. LONDON, April 10 The "Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent. states there are good reasons for supposing a. majority of t lie dominating personalities in the Reiefistag favour Germany olfering a definite sum as reparation, hut asking for an international commission of linaneicrs as Mr Hughes suggested, in decide the terms of payment guarantees and whether the olfer should he increased. All that is now hoped for ipence hy understanding. It is sign.M. rant that the ehief advocate- of tins plan are supporters of Stinnes, ami the Socialists who hitherto have been most dilfieult to reconcile on the reparations question. Both parties are strenuously trying to will the Cabinet to the above a iew, RESULT OF OCCTPATION. CONDON. April 10. The “Daily Chronicle's’' Dusseldurl correspondent, .summing up the results of one hundred days of the occupation of the Hullr, says : France admits that she has spent fifteen million sterling. Franee and Belgium have ole tained 300,000 tons of coal, whereas they would have received 5,230,000 tons if tin- Ruhr had mu been invaded. Coal trains now go from Ruhr to France every 0} hours, instead of every 2sj minutes. The money seized in the .Rhineland and the Ruhr totals sixteen thousand million marks, or L"If>0,000. Forty thousand Germans have been expelled. Thirty mine heads have been occupied, and 110 railway stations have been partially occupied, and sixty stations wholly occupied. The correspondent says lie has travelled the Ruhr extensively. Food was plentiful. He saw no evidence of a lessening of the German will to hold out. WORK FILS DESPERATE. CONDON, April 20. The unemployed in Dusseldorf have written to the Government at Berlin stating their number is 30,000, a ltd that if their dole is not increased, they will offer to work for the French. The latter, however, sa.v there is no work to give. At a Bochum meeting, two Russian agents, who were present, urged a revolt.