GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1923, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. THE RUHR MINERS. (Received tins day at 11.-15 a.in.) BERLIN. August 11. According to a message from Essen i,.e new wage agreement between the mine directors and the four miners’ organisations in the Ruhr provides for the payment for the days oil which tuts miners commit acts of passive resistance.

ramsay macuon.m.d on position. (Received this (lav at 10.15 a.in.) LONDON, August 8. Mr Ramsay MacDonald, writing in the “New .Leafier” says: “We are determined to change completely the method of conducting business with other nations. We propose to end the bureaucracy of the Foreign Office, with its work done in secluded rooms by strange people. AVe believe that light, air and publicity will have a healthy invigorating influence upon international relations. Labour's aim regarding foreign affairs is to devi.-.** a policy which "ill end this war after the " 11 r which France and Belgium arc now

carrying on. To get British influence on tlie -side of such a policy it would he necessary to devise a prog ram me in which Britain, will play, not lor her own hand, but for wider and deeper purposes of peace reconstructing. BERLIN. August 8.

Herr Ctlno implored the people to have nothing to do witu the idea of civil war because the Government was determined to put down, with the strongest hand, all civil disorder and rioting. Lie was prepared to resign the moment the Reichstag ceased to have confidence in him.

Herr Cutio concluded: “Let os have an open discussion and try to discover how the nation can lie saved.”

PARTY LEADER’S DECISION. (Received this day at 10.-15 a.m.) LONDON, August 8. The ‘-Morning Post’s” Berlin correspondent says that the Conference of party leaders decided that the Cuno Government must continue in office, especially as it was determined to maintain the passive resistance in the Ruhr. Financial circles anticipate litt.e advantage from the Government s measures. believing all attempts to put the finances on a sound ha-sis impossible as long as the French occupy fhe Ruhr.

FR F.N'CH NEWSPA BE It COMMENT.

t ßeceived this day at 10.10 a.m.) PARIS, August 19.

Tl,e ‘ Journal” stales that Herr l uno lias formally declared a "ew war on France. Pence at present is impossible between Berlin and Baris. '|h,. “Echo de Paris" says that tlie speech is a vehement diatribe ag; nst England. It i“ now evident that British interventon has tailed. H H definitely impossible to secure <•" - Nil,oration of Britain, nobody will be astonished to see France work by other

means to obtain success for a positive „f which the occupation of the Ruhr is only a prelude. The “Gnulois" said that the speech :,t least will have the merit of drawing Biitain and France closer thus facili-

tating subsequent negotiations. The “Petit, l’arisieu” says that the speech confirms absolutely the FiailOOBelgian theory that the Reich isjmviL ling to fulfil any obligations and Trance and Belgium is only encouraged to persist in action. AX INDEPENDENT RHINELAND. the vassal of England. (Received this day at 10.-15 a.m.) LONDON. August 8. The “Daily Herald's” Paris correspondent says that M.e Eclair" declared that it is with tin? inhabitants of the Rhineland and not with England that France ought to settle the Rhine question. The idea of Rhineland's independence is making giant strides and the people of the Rhineland are determined to break the yoke of Germany and live in amity with France. The question of the security ol Frame li es with an independent Rhineland and not with guarantees which would make Franco the vassal of England.

A PROTEST. BERLIN, Aug. 9. All shops, excepting the provision stores, have been closed as a protest against the refusal of the authorities to allow prices to be fixed on a gold basis.