GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1923, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

/ USTHAI-lAN and n.z. cable association PRICES RISING HOURLY. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 9. The ''.Morning Post’s" Berlin correspondent, in dealing with the appointinent of a Reich Commissairo oi dictator, with power lo seize all foreign currency owned by Germans loi unproductive purposes, mivs 1 he lormatiun of a private gold an,l no to hank iconsidered probable; al-n Ihe restriction of marks credits and (lie gradual introduction of a gold ba>i- lor nixes. The correspondent adds; Every owner of paper marks is trying, at any price, to btiv shares in well founded industrial concerns, bill sellers of these are very scarce. There is a si rung movement afoot to get wages back to the old basis. A new drop in i la- mark is causing widespread confusion, prices of the simplest articles of loud rising hourly. The “Daily Telegraph’s" Berlin currespondent states that the recent drops in the value of the mark was not due lo the reparations or lo the adverse trade balance but to a clandestine adoption ol other currencies by some commercial circles and the people’s eagerness to iiud a sale anchorage for the product of llieir labour. li is estimated that fifty millions sterling worth of foreign currency is held in Germany, apart from legitimate holdings, to finance imports.

AIR LLOYD GEORGE SHOCKED. (Received this dav n( 9.15 a in.) LONDON. Sept. !b Mr Lloyd George in aekiue.vledging the freedom of Brogue., -aid: "1 do not like the epidemic ol the depreciation of British strength that is sweeping over the (’outincut. Tint Tor Britain’s intervention in the war they would have been vassal States. Tiecause Britain is the only country that does not swagger or boast Hint she won the war other naiions iorget what she did. I was shocked by Al. Ruincare’s recent soeecli suggesting Ibnl. but for l''rance, Germany would have completely wiped mil Britain. Would her army have swum across.' lirifn 1 n equipped a gigantic army lo save I 1 ’ranee and Belgium Irom complete -annihilialiou. Britain is not so unimportant as our Continental friends imagine.” SENTENCED To DEATH. •Received this day at 9.0 a.in.) BERLIN. Sept. 9. A court martial sentenced n> death a German student named Raabo for throwing a grenade at the French troops. 18 A REPUBLIC COMING? ’attitude 0E RHINELAND. (■“Tim-: Times" Service.) (Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) LONDON. September 8. The ‘•Times" special correspondent at Bonn says that propaganda for a Rhine Republic is proceeding on intensified lines. The railway stations aie placarded and aeroplanes are dropping manilcstoes. Ihe Separatists aie holding demonstrations on Sunday at Dus-eldoi f. Bonn, and oyer thirtylive trains have been engaged to convey the .Separatists. Many German officials approached the 1- rciicli authorities. announcing themselves as .Separatists and seeking pests vacated b.» t| K . deportees. May minor officials in the villages are openly co-o] crating with the Eronch. Among the middle class m the eitie- the remark is constantly Ileard that “We are going to lie made French anyhow.” They are convinced that a separate Rhineland is inevitable. Doctor Dei-ten prophesies the l'l'Oeinmntioii of a Rhineland Republic in a

ew weeks. Further steps have been taken to intioducc a separate currency which is ic-omled as a most effective and practical way detaching the Rhineland from Oennaiiy. GERMANY’S SECRET. (Received this day at 0.1-5 a. in A LONDON. Sept. 0. The "‘Daily -Mail” •"‘ays: Has Oermanv devised secret means of forcing aeroplanes to descend, is a question that the British expert at A ienna asks in view of the extraordinary mishaps to aeroplaes at Nureniburg. Twelve aerophines belonging to a French and Roumanian Compay have been forced to alight on Gorman soil, carrying passengers and mails. There are more <■! these mishaps 1 etwee,i Prague f.nd Stvnsburg than on any other of the Company's routes. They generally occur near the l'urth aerodrome. outside Nureniburg. Pilots and passengers arc forthwith arrested and the machines confiscated before the pilots have time to ascertain the cau-e ol the engine failure. It U recalled that Germany in May last warned other countries that civil aeroplanes would m t be allowed to land on German territory. Britain experimented with the wire.ess control of aeroplanes in war time hoping to frustrate air raids on Frame. American oxepriments, it is understood, have reached a advanced stage. One pilot suggests the Germans are using wireless rays to melt certain metals, especially the oil connections. One pilot at Furth found the solder ot his feed pipe melted.