GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1923, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FLIRTATIOUS GIRLS. HAIR TO BE CUT OFF. BERLIN, May 21. Tlie Scissors Club, organised in the Ruhr to check the German girls’ flirtations with the French and Belgian soldiers, announce tlicir intention of cutting off the hair of any German girl carrying on with French, Belgians, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, or negroes. The hair thus forfeited will be made into nets and sold in aid of the Ruhr relief fund.

TALK OF REVENGE. THE SEEDS OF HATRED. PARIS, Afay 21. The press give prominence to the reports of a conversation which llindertburg had with the American captain, McMahon, in which he declared : “We will have revenge on France if he have to wait one hundred years. If history repeats itself, my most ardent desire would be to take up aims against the French, who to-day, are sowing the seeds of hatred which will produce a, terrible harvest.”

HUNGARY CRUSHED. LONDON, May 22. The “Times’s” Paris correspondent writes:—“Hungary stands crushed under the burden of the reparations, and the liens on its assets and revenues. Unless these be suspended to enable a foreign loan to be floated, the country "ill speedily follow in tbo wake of Austria. The British and Italian Governments are favourable to the suspension of the liens, but other nations are not yet agreed on the subject- which will be thrashed out at the League of Nations meeting on Wednesday. The opinion is expressed that, without foreign aid, there is no possible chance of averting a financial doibaele, with inevitable repercussions in tlie neighbouring States and in the rest of -Europe.