GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1923, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

4 ÜBTIIALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. M. POINCARE’S REPLY. LONDON, Oct, 18. Advices from Paris indicate that one of the main reasons for the interview of the German Charge D’Affaires witli .W. Poincare was to justify Germany’s announcement that she was unable to finance the resumption of reparations deliveries in kind. .M. Poincare emphatically pointed n.H that no negotiations were possible until deliveries were resumed. GENERAL SMI'TS’ SCHEME. (Received tins day at 10.10 a.m.) LONDON. O.t, 18. The “Daily Telegraph” says that it is an exaggeration to say that General Smuts’ scheme attempts u full statement of the reparations. He is in perfect agreement with all the Dominion Premiers, who rallied to Mr Bruce’s view that it would be highly inadvisable to do anything that would embarrass or limit the freedom of the British Government, in the delicate negotiations about to begin. General Smuts desires to reinforce the Entente with France and lie favours a moratorium for Germany extending over a few years similar to Mr Bonar Law’s proposals.

"IS SMI'TS GOING TO BERLIN?" SCHEME GIVEN MI CH ATTENTION. (Received ibis day at 10.2 b a.m.) LONDON. Oct. 18. The new spa pers are devoting much attention to the scheme which General Smuts is said to be nrepiriug for the solution of the roparat ions problems. The “Daily Chronicle’s” diplomatic correspondent, recalling General Smuts' efforts in Switzerland during the war to secure a separate peace with Austria, and his diplomacy in connect ion with the Irish Treaty asks: “Is General Smuts now going to Berlin?” The correspondent adds: “General Smuts has spent some time elaborating a scheme li i liquidating the reparations problems, of which the French Government now have been made aware. General Smuts also favours the creation of a Rliiiielnd State with the same relations to Prussia as Bavaria so that it will be possible for the Rhineland to have special economic relations with France."

GERMAN BIOTS, f ItKI'TKRS Tklkcuams.] (Received this d;iv at I it. Id p.iaA BERLIN, October 18. disturbances in .Mannheim, etilluinated in tlic police, last evening, firing and Billing seven, and wounding many. A party of (lemon.-twilnrs acre liemined between tip. German police and French soldiers on Nocksir liridce. A great number were wounded and sixty arrested. RIOTING IN' GERMANY. [“The Times” Service.] (Received this day at 10.28 a.m.) i.oxnox, Oct. is. The “Times” correspondent at Cologne reports than an unusual form of rioting has broken out in Gelsenkirchen. Hundreds of workmen’s wives forced an entry to the premises ol tie Mannesmano works anti, calling on their husbands to assist, stormed the offices. Great damage was done ml everything of. value looted. The poire were greeted with showers of stones and pieces of metal but they eventually cleared the premises after firing a few rounds. Organised hands of plunderers, armed with knives and revolvers, attacked the farmers near iiochum, hut were routed by the police who made many arrest s. Serious collisions between the unemployed and the police occurred at Mannheim where several ca-usill ics a” reported.