GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1923, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.”*^ THE FRENCH REPLY. LONDON, Aug 21. The French reply to the British Note was handed to the British Embassy at laris to-day. The latter sent it to f London by special courier. A copy was also sent to Lard Curzon. who is 1,11 a h< li.tr. v visit to France.

Ihe reply consists of 50 pages, ,‘i2 of which art* occupied By seratim French replies to the points raised in th*? British Note.

Contrary to expectations, the French Foreign Office did not issue either tin* reply or « summary thereof to the press to-day. The London “Daily Express's” Palis correspondent states: “M. Poiman* carries the history ot the question bin k tv the Conference ot 191 ti, when the Allies recognised France’s and Belgium’s rights of priority in the reparations. He suggested that, by t! <* ad.iptii.ii of 2.0i1 1 miiiions sterling as the total, and by using the Spa formula for the division of tin* same Britain woidd obtain eleven of the fourteen point two milliards of gold marks which she now is demanding.” The “Central News” agency says ■

“Tlu* French reply suggests that only urgent question is to discover tlm means whereby Germany can he made to pay. If the Allies can attvo ;t Millie compromise regarding the steps to be taken, jointly, to get the mom y fom Germany, the conflict ov*v the Ruhr would specdly, he eu led. In ot I or words M. Poincare bints that, it only the Allies would act in concert, the French pressure in tin* Ruhr would immediately lie lightened.”

reichsbaxk head resigns. LONDON, Aug 22. The ‘Central News” Berlin correspondent states that Herr Hnvcnstein, President of the Reichshauk, lias resigned. For some days he has been practically a ptisonor in the Reiclisbauk. PRESSURE ON FRANCE. LONDON. Aug 21. The Executive Committee of the League of Nations Union has adopted the following resolution: “That, in view of the threatened disturbance of international peace arising from the continued occupation ot the Ruhr, by France and Belgium, this union urges the British Government at or before the League Assembly meeting on September 3rd: (I) To exorcise its declared friendly right under Article 11 to bring to the notice of the* League the present relations bet wen France, Belgium and Germany: (2) to propose that representatives of Germany he invited to participate in discussions on matters directly afloeting her under Article 17; (3) to endeavour to reach ,1 settlement under the League’s auspices. or possibly with the assistance ol the United States, of the whole problem of the reparations, and the interAllied debts security, out of which the present strained situation has arisen.”