GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1923, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TO POPULARISE MANUFACTURES LONDON, Sept. 17. The' Federation of British Industries scheme for popularising Britain’s chief manufactures by means of cinema films is taking definite shape. The first displays are arranged for February and .March. The idea is to portray British industry from a national standpoint, at the same time making the pictures attractive to ordinary picture-goers. The Overseas Trade Department is arranging for films at the British Exhibition ami assisting to circulate films overseas particularly in the Dominions. CHANT;[NO TACTICS. [■Reuters Telegrams.] /Received this day at 8 a.m.) BERLIN. Sep. IS. The Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission has decided to allow Ireo traffic between the occupied Rhineland and unoccupied Germany from to-day. FRENCH INTENTIONS. STATEMENT BV M. POINCARE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) BARIS, Sep. 17. M. Poincare, in a speech at Brieul les Surmens, declared nothing was more calculated to encourage German hopes of revenge than immunity from the payment of reparations. France must, therefore, exact the total reparations, and watch over the maintenance of security, and not let slip the substance for the shadow. Y\ hen Germany ban fulfilled her obligations, she would he free to seek admission to the League of Nations. When she has become a member thereof. France and Germany will, ipso facto, reciprocally guarantee each other against agression. Meanwhile, France would keep the sureties given bv the Treaty, would not ho eamdit i>y trickery, and would not be lured b.V deeovs. France had sufierecl too much not to he watchful and circumspect. Henceforth the nation it forewarned, would he forearmed. He emphatically rejected the German suggestion that a general pact, wheiebi the Powers, including Germane, guarantee the Rhine frontiers, as a snare and a delusion. Incidentally, lie . r e-asserted that as Germany had not executed any clauses of the Treaty of Versailles, the stipulated periods for the occupation of the left hank ot the Rhine had not yet begun to run.