GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1923, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. PRESIDENT’S PROCLAMATION. BERLIN, September 20. President T.bert lias issued a proclamation which voices the Reich's gratitude to tile heroic people who carried out the passive resistance in the Ruhr and Rhineland, to which, he states, the Reich’s assistance last week cost 3,500,000,000 marks, while the current week’s expenditure will he at least double that. The President declares that the first duty of the Government is to see that all the prisoners are released and all the expelled persons allowed to return.

Tiio proclamation emphasises that the Reich is not going to lend itself to any arrangement depriving it of the smallest piece of German soil. It says that it depends on the invading Powers and the Allies, by adhering to this idea, to give Germany peace, and to bring about all the consequences which will ensure better relations between the peoples. DICTATOR’S PROC LAM ATT OX. BERLIN, Sept. 27. Martial Law lias been proclaimed in Bavaria, and Dr. \ enkohr, ex-Premicr, has been appointed General Commissioner of State. He has issued a proclamation, appealing to German patriotism. He declares that ho will take action against all acts of hostility to his orders by all means at his disposal. GERMAN’ INTENTIONS. LONDON, Sept. 25.

The modus vivendi, during which negotiations will he conducted between Germany and the Allies, regarding the reparations, would open the way to a final settlement of the Ruhr region. The German Government will at the earliest moment, communicate to all the Allies definite, far-reaching proposals to this end. The chief feature, as Chancellor Stresemann has already announced, will he an offer to mortgage both State and private property as security. FRANCE’S ATTITUDE. LONDON, Sept. 2G. M. Poincare’s action may be summarised thusly: France will not take any initiative in negotiations. She will await the withdrawal of all ordinances, and give the new state of affairs time to develop. Secondly France will continue to enforce the programme of local reparations, initiated on January 1 and developed since. Thirdly, regarding general reparations’ settlement, F’rance will not consent to any narrow formula. There will he no evacuation,, excepting in direct proportion to llnpayments received. THE RUHR SITUATION. LONDON. Sept. 27. There are indications that both Britain and France are inclined for immediate developments in the Ruhr. It remains to he seen to what extent the German official disowning ol the resistance means a cessation of the population’s resistance. DICTATOR OF GERMANY. 'Received this day at 8 a.m.) BERLIN. Sept. 27. Doctor Gessler has been appointed Dictator, to counteract the Bavarian revolutionary movement. A G ERMAN - DECREE. (Received this dav at 9.45 a m.) BERLIN. Sept. 27. The President lias issued a decree aiming at the restoration of public security and providing for the curtailment of constitutional lights like the freedom of press and right of assembly, authorising domiciliary searches and seizures, giving executive power to the Minister for Defence, military commanders and civil commissioners in imposing heavy penalties for infringement, including death.