GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1923, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. NEW GERMAN NOTE. (Received this dav at 9.25 a.in.) PARIS, May TO. The “Journal’s” Berlin correspondent says tho new German note will definitely offer thirteen milliards of gold marks, and seek a moratorium after which the first payment will exceed a milliard gold marks. Tho “Loeuvre” declares the Belgian Government thinks France and Belgium should take tho initiative in submitting a plan, thereby anticipating the British proposals.

COMMUNISTS STOPPED. (Received tnis dav at 9.25 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, May 30. Fifty German Communists tried to e.ross the Dutch frontier at Elton but were stopped by the frontier guard. BELGIAN WAR SERVICE. BRUSSELS. May 30. Owing primarily to commitments in regard to Ruhr, the War Minister proposes to extend the military service by four months." REPARATION SCHEME UNSOUND. (Received this dav at 10.45 a.m.) 'PARIS, May 30 Tho Press regards the Belgian reparation scheme as interesting, but unsound. There is considerable hension lest Belgium should suggest a loosening of tho blockade, thus permitting the Ruhr manufacturers to pass into unoccupied Germany. BURGOMASTER ARRESTED. (Received this dav at 11.10 a.m.) PARIS, May 30. At Belgium’s request, the French arrested the burgomaster of Dusseldorf. Ho will lie tried by the Belgian Council of War for hostility to tile Belgian authorities.

RUSSIAN WAR PREPARATIONS. (Received this day at 12.45 p.m.) BERLIN, May 30. War preparations of the Soviet supreme military command are being pursued at a high pressure, according to reports from Moscow. There arc continued conferences between the chief commanding officers. Leave has boon stopped and victualling orders issued, with special measures taken- to protect tho Black Sea and Baltic littorals. A new military mission is going to Angora on Ist June. G ERA lANS EMIGRATIN' G. (Received this day at 1.0 p.m.) LONDON, May 30. The “Daily Mail’s” Strnsburg correspondent says as a result of the economic conditions in South Germany, thousands are migrating to north and south America.. Whole villages are emigrating to found settlements in Argentine and elsewhere. PLAGUE' OUTBREAK. LONDON, May 30. The “Daily Mail’s” Paris correspondent says four cases of plague are reported in the suburb of Stoucn in the rag pickers quarters and there have been two deaths.