GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1923, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION'. THE REJECTED OFFER. GERMAN G 0 VER XM ENT’S ANXIETY. LONDON, Sept. 17. 'l’lie ‘•Westminster Gazette’s” Berlin correspondent says: “Grave anxiety, almost amounting to desperation, prevails in Herr Stresemaim’s Cabinet, owing to M. Poincare’s plain rejection in today’s speeches of -the perfectly plain oiler sent to Paris last week, under which French industry would participate in Germany to the extent of per cent. Berlin has nothing more to (filer. The belief here is that France knows that Germany is nearing the end of her capacity to resist, and must ultimately surrender unconditionally, therefore the desire to postpone agreement as long as possible. German industrial circles have informed Herr Stresemann that the present is no time for tine polities, and that an agreement must he attained immediately at any cost in order to save a complete denude.”

GERMAN RIOTS. BERLIN, Sept. 17

Demonstrations against the high food prices continue in the province of Brandenburg, and have resulted in a conflict at Sorau between the jiolice and the demonstrators, in which 12 of the latter were killed and 15 were wounded. MARK VALUE. [Reuters Telegrams.] this dav at 8 a.m.) LONDON. Sept. 18. The German mark reached the preposterious level of over one thousand million to the pound.