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Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1923, Page 2

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ItTSTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. Ci.i.IIMEXISTS SENTENCED. HAAIBCRG, October 28. The special court which tried the Communist loaders concerned in the iccem disturbances hero, sentenced one to death for high treason and rebellion; also one to six years penal servitude for attempted murder. Other.wer sentenced to imprisonment itinging from a year to two months. Fourteen policemen were killed doling tli,. revolt. The total rebel casualties arc not yet known, but seventy-live arc dead in the hospitals. SEPARATION FAILS. BERLIN. On. 29 Though the population in the Rhinehind is unable to express effectively its feelings regarding the separation, owing to a state of seige. which prevents more than five persons gathering together, a solemn protest has been organised, signed by leaders of religion, communal authorities, trade unions, and chambers of commerce. There is little doubt that .separation has failed. ERA XC E’S hi A! ITATIO NS. BRITAIN DISSATISFIED. LONDON. October 28. Tlie “Daily Alai!" says:-—The Goveniinent are disappointed with the French insistence that 1 lie conference shall consist of a committee of experts under the Reparations Commission, and also with the refusal to consider a reduction of the Reparation- debt below sixty-six hundred millions, as fixed in 1921, which is now regarded as beyond OiTinany’s capacity. The conference's work under this restriction will consist ot advising when payment should begin and the annual amount- of the instalments. It is expected that British Government will endeavour to secure France's co-operation on broader lines. The “Daily Telegraph’s'’ diplomatic correspondent says: - Both the Cabinet and the Imperial Conference will dismiss the Allied icplios to Lord Curzon’s note early this week. The British and Dominion .statesmen regard, as a most serious obstacle to the proposed committee of inquiry France’s restriction in not allowing the committee to fix Germany's total indebtedness. Af. POINCARF’S YTF.AYS. PARIS. October 28. In a speech at Chnnipigiiy. Al. Poincare declared I"ranee would not agree In a reduction of the German debt beyond (bat fixed in Alav, 1021. Referring to Mr Baldwin s speech In.-, agieed as to the importance "of an inter-Allied sett lenient, of the Reparations questions and the advantage oi the United States en-oporalinn therein. Ho would accept the appointment by tho Reparations Commission of a committee' of expert- to examine Germany’s capacity for payment-, the reform of German (inanees, and a ctui-cvi-te reparation- scheme, provided the procedure remained within the four corners a> I ‘tin* Treaty: knit I i.uue would never agree in llm Reparations Commission being divested of its lniietion. or replaced by an organisation wherein France's share of inlltieuce. which already was inferior to France’s share of interest, should lie further reduced. “The limit of our concessions has been attained,’’ lie said, “and "0 will not go further.

He declared the Rhirndand Separatist movement was a spontaneous one. due to the ma.lai.-e ol the inhabitants and to their old opposition to Pruwia. It was not France’s doing. Franco had always held scrupulously aloof from German internal affairs. ’A havever Germany’s future constitution. Frame never would violate the conscience of tlm inhabitants of Frame. She cherished no plan of annexation, but would not, renounce her claim to permanent guarantees of security. SHORTAGE OF PAPER AfONF.Y. BERLIN. October 29. The situation in Germany during the week end was most serious owing to the inability of the Rcidisbank to supply sufficient paper money to pay the week's wages. Twn thousand inmilies are without means to buy a lout ot bread. Fortunately, the weather B unusually warm, so the sufferings are less than they might have been evcrywhiuc in Germany, workmen are being dismissed. owing to the impossibility of paying wages. A) orkers are demanding to’ be paid in real money, and for clothes and food to be provided by the employers or communes.