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Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1923, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N X. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FI LYNCH AGI!F LA It LF. To REDI.'CTH iN. LONDON, Oct. If. The Westminster Gazette's Paris cor. respondent siy.: France, through the Reparation- Commission, is p;ej:ari-d to consent it. a n-vi-iou of the amount ol the deliveries in kind due from Germany. All that France asks. a- a pre-limin.-uy. i- that tin- deliveries --11' -11 Gresumed to a certain extent, the funds requited to tiuanei* the German iudu--trialist.s being granted by the German Treasury, fit response to this hint, it is ,-inuoum-d that .the Germans intend to apply to the Reparations Commi.s-ion for a r-'diutioa of the amount they are md-T-'d to deliver. A LMJOni M.l'.'S VIEW. I.IIXDON. Met. IS. Ht Hon A. Ileti'lcr-'ii. speaking at New net !e. sai-l that if M. Poincare i<-maim-d adamant ag.-misl all .suggestions from other signatories to the Versailles Treaty, Britain could not afford to sir lia-'k ami await disaster and ruin. Britain could convoke all the signator. ies exeept l-'rum-e to tala- note of M. Poincare'- continuous vie!:i i ieii- ui

th,. Treaty, and deal with tin- new situation on the l-a-is ol intei nal lonal ,i iistice. G FILM AN S\\ INDI.F.PS BUSY. WHAT THK POLITICIANS FLAP. [■"Tim Times” Si:rvk i:.] ;I<CC-eived this da;, at 8.7(1 a.m.i LONDON. Oct. it). 'I he "Time-" lierlin correspondo-il says that, the ranks lor the purpose of

obtaining loreign exchange eunviiev, organised by Doctor Fellmger, ike foreign exchange dietiitnr, are giving, an oppnrtuuity to swindlers who are reaping a rich liarve.-i Iroui uu-u.-pcet - ing loreigners. Tln-ir methods are to stop people in the street ami tlciuaiid to see their note eases and any foreign moneys are cnnliscaicd. Tin- mnn-'s are given a receipt and told to repent in the morning at the police station where there they generally learn that they have been virl imized. Dusseldon bear- ,-viilene,* ol the se-

vere rioting during the la.-t few days. Tiie mam road from Oologm- to l)tis-ei-dorf looks as if ii has passed through a violent slorni. Fvi-u to-day when (jtlict reigns (he shops .-IK- doing business behind closed slmller- arid dr.-iwr blinds. "It is not ('o 111! 11! 1111 s!, i we [ear. We an* ten noor to make a revolution. ll is anarchy ari-ing lioni amidst the starving population." declares the German polit ieian.

THK FPKNCH ATT LIT' 1) F.. (Received this day at If) n.m.) LONIII )N. October 10. Tin- "Times" i'aiis eorrcspondent says M. Poincare was not imposed upon by tiie new definition wliieh it seems will long postpone real negotiations. Thine have been many attempts to state p-e----eiscly uln-’i A!. Poincare will eon-idcr passive re-i'-tam-e <aided. It has never heen so ch-a-dv d"inousj i a ted that I-'ranee will not listen to Germany till the IJuhr is working menially and deliveries attain tie- ] :e-oeeupation '.ultimo. That w ill I e I lie test. but as considerable deliveries from Muhr are impossible, unless lierlin i- prepared to tiuanei- them, Germany |.-re-o'e will fall more and me e into e-mlii-ton. while France will remain imua-.-ive. Tlu> French think lierlin is wilfully placing ohstaek-s in the way of i-ninn mie rest era t ion in Pulir. it i- eon-hl-ered that 11 err Si 11-1-111111111 is alarmed at the possibility ol a supersession by industrialists. Therefore he is endeavouring to 11 tree M. Poineaie to I'--nine direct negoTiat ions 1 etwee;, i lie Iwo , Government This amounts in political blackmail, -ay the French, who are i-oiivinied M. Poiii'-are- will persevere j in regard to resistance.