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Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1923, Page 3

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LORI) ( LUZON'S SPEECH. FRENCH f’UKSS ANGRY. [Rixteiis Trr.ntit:ams.] (Received this day at Ib-lo a.in.) PARIS, Oct. 7. land Curzou's speech astonished and angered the French press. The “Figimi" says that Mr Baldwin's speed! revealed an original thinker and a sincere friend of I'ranee. Lord Curzou's revealed a man embittered at tho failure of his policy. IDspeech does not improve the prospects

of a settlement. The ‘ ‘ Echo de Palis" says the speech will revive all the past controversies Localise it implicitly advises th<' Germans to hold out.

The “Matin'’ remarks that Lord Ctirzon not merely diliered I nun the Krone)] views hut. he was ofiensivc. The “Gaulois ’ nhserves it was singnhir the speech 1 >rut: l llv threw oil on the lire.

The “Petit Pnrision" stales that Lord Curzou’s chiel anxiety was. apparently, not to improve the happy effects of Mr Baldwin's intervention. The “Oeuvre'' says the speech, as usual, was extremely disagreeable and some parts were frankly hostile. KR A N't 'O-0 KIR MA N ('ON KKR ENCE. Received this day at P.IA a.m.l PARIS, (let. 7. A telegram trom llusseldort -ays that M. Dcgoutte conferred with Herr Ktinncs and three mining magnates regarding the conditions for a resumption of work in the Ruhr and also a resumption of the reparations deliveries. PLAN COLLAPSES. HKRLI.N, Oct. 7. The plan for the eslablisheiit of a directory Government collapsed in tin face of opposition from various political parties, notahlv the Demoerats. GKRMAN PARTIKS CONFERENCE '.Received this day at ILIA a.in.) BERLIN, Del. 7. A conference ol the parties reached jin agreement, on the thorny ipie-tue of an v■ ie.l l l hour day nil the basis of the Wirth Caliinel’s formula ot 111““, which provided that exceptions from the eight hour day could he made for the purpose of increasing production in certain specified occupations. Herr Strescmann later amiouneed the names of Involve memhers of the Cabinet, including himself, holding the portfolio of Foreign Affairs and llerr Lfithor as Minister of Kinanee. Tin* lalter is replacing Llie Socialist llerr llill'crding. The demand for the whole resignation hv Stresemann’s parly was one of the causes of the Government's fall. The new Cabinet, is a coalition of Socialists. Democrats, Centrists, and People's Party. CABINET CRITUTSKI). (Resolved this: day at 0. lo am.') LONDON. October 7. The ’'Sunday Times’’ Paris correspondent says the i|uestion being asked in Paris is how can one Cabinet contain two statesmen, who express such divergent views as .Mr Baldwin, and Lord Cut/,on. It. is questionable whether even .Mr Lloyd Georoe had e'er to sustain such a torrent of contemptuous abuse as Lord Curzou has brought upon himself. Fraud! has fell for several momus that Lord Ctirzon aspires to he. come the mediator between France and Germany. France won't have. I/U’d Ctirzon as mediator.

“.Reynold's'’ Newspaper says plainspeaking is expected from the J>alniniou Premiers this week tinring the discussion on foreign affairs. The Dominion delegates have one dominant view, that it- i.- useless discussing the past. The task is to help the Umpire and world hack to normal conditions. GFI GMAN AFFAIRS. (Received this day at Tl.lt) a.m.) HER UN. October (i. Communists greeted Stresemann us Stinnes' puppet whereupon the Chancellor assured them that Stinnes in no way was cmieeiued in the formation id the Government, and he proceeded In state the latter tumid ask tlu- Reichstag to reiiminish (-institutional rights and at the same time give Cabinet unprecedented powers, lie deprecated, as bad statesmanship, the idea of playing olf the Reich against Bavaria in connection with the latter'> emergency decree. • THE STATE OF GERMANY. 'Received this day at 8 a.m ' RERUN, Oct. 7. In a speech in the Reichstag, Derr Stressemann in delending the nbandnllmenl of passive resistance, said that the situation with which the Government was confronted when il resumed olliee was that passive resistance was i.o longer at. its strongest and the I'laucolielgians were not to he brought out. ol tlu* occupied region by resistance alone. The weaker the resistance got the nw'D (li flic 111 t it became, to utilise it, dijnomatieally, for Germany. The Guvcrument's eltorts Nad been to hnd a lormula making possible the use of the abandonment of the resistance lor pmileal nemtiations. hut the task could not be effected, and failure was sullered is that eon licet ion. !l the Governm "it thought, by continuing the passive resistance. that it could have achim -d something val.mhle for German ticedom. it would have continued it- > >• the country was in such financial _c.i ms that the day was near on "linn Ute German mark would cease to oe • 10 means of payment, not only aim. .1. hut at home. The sole possd.ih \ ol a solution of the reparations pro ~cm to ~, the agreement with the Alim- ,-n one side and with Germany on ' other. The French Government uma. illustrate good.-, ill by entering . tint ions that now passive frusta,ice me. been abandoned.

COAIMKXT ON' GERMAN SITHATION. (Ti.'cwived this iliiy nt 8 si.m.* _ LONDON. Oct. i. “1 ~ Temps" hints that the developments in Go-many may neeess,t-ue something (more than m-urrsiht> < Franco's part ami signitu-antly roca..nl tuin that it tlu> situation in 1 tan <. continued uncertain and the n.«nu| ' ancc of pence was endangered.. lu. I immediatly reopen lostditus ■'' Bismarck declared that ,I he.o change of Government m l-raucm Gunwny would have to r.-osnmine hasp" of her guarantees. V "The “Temps'’ adds that l-ranee docs contemplate such methods, hut it m the Allies’ duty to guard thenmhis risks. If the danger » not faced immediately it is hound t 1 * The ‘‘Journal ties Dehats'’ says: 11 Germany does not.check men like l.udeudorf. France will have to pmt. herself in the rear.