GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1923, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION, REPARATIONS CONFERENCE. PARIS, May 29. M. Poincare goes to Brussels on June 6th. for the Franco-Belgian reparations Conference. POINCARE CARRIES RUHR VOTE. PARIS, May 29. Declaring that the question was one of confidence, M. Poincare has secured the passing by tho Chamber of Deputies, of Ruhr credits, by 500 votes to 67. GERMAN ARMY. BERLIN, May 29. Post-war changes are illustrated by the new Army List, the first since 1913. It consists of only a hundred pages, instead of being a bulky volume. Many Junker families, which wore represented in the Prussian Army for 200 years, are no longer found in the list. The Bulows, whereof 58 were mentioned in 1913, have been reduced to three. REPARATIONS PLAN. PARIS, May 29. The Belgian Reparations Scheme is based on the view that tho Ruhr region will continu to bo used as a means of exercising pressure on Germany, but such pressure would, under the scheme, be relaxed if the Germans definitely agree to tho Allied plan of payment by means of an internationally controlled monopoly over the German trusts. It is proposed that these, shall include the sugar, tobacco, and alcohol industries; also the exploitation of the railways and tho mines. The sale and export of the monopolised products would be placed in the hands of an international syndicate, in which tho Allies would have predominance. , . It is suggested that 2400 million gold marks would thus bo drawn from Germany every year. This, considered as interest at 6 per cent., would total tortv thousand million gold marks. Belgium does not regard this as the definite limit of the German payment, but as being a basis for consideration.

FRENCH VACATE DYE-WORKS. BERLIN, May 29. Tho French' have evacuated the Hoechst dve-works. which they recently occupid. Work has been resumed in the works. BELGIAN STRIKE. BRUSSELS, MM ay 29. The railway strike is psreading to the signalmen. The locomotive employees at Antwerp have resumed work.