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Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1923, Page 2

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tCBTEALIAN AND N Z. CADLE ASSOCIATION. A .SOCIALIST CABINET. BERLIN, Oct. 31. Following the resignation of Zeimer, Premier ol Saxony, the Diet elected the Socialist, Herr J-elliseh as Ills successor. The new Cabinet will be purely Socialist. The Communists who were represented in the previous Cabinet refrained front voting. A HIDEOUS NIGHTA!ARE. PRESSMAN’S PICTURE OF RHINELAND. «<* LONDON, Oct. 31. Air Remvick. the “Daily Chronicle” correspondent, writing from Cologne says:— "I have been visiting the Hliinoland Republic. To do so is difficult. it is a hideous nightmare. This pestilential growth outrages every right and decency. The republic is a republic of hunger and terror, run by convicts, policed by imported ruffians of the most aggressive type, with whom the Rhim-l'.'-iiders have nothing to do. it is as though the gaols had been opened in order to allow a Government to be formed. In Bonn, the Republican chief is a naturalised American, who fled from Germany, because he was charged with unprintable offences. At Alum-hen and Gludbaeh, two Republican Commissioners were ex-convicts. Two Commissioners at I>m on share 13 convictions among them, and the rest of the army of liberation come from thieves’ kitchens, slums, and prisons outside the Rhineland. This army of rogues and scoundrels has been recruited, and is being paid, by French, and Belgian authorities. The new army’s first object is openly avowed terrorism, intended to wear the people down into abject stthmission. The chief of this army of rapine is a man who terrorised Upper Silesia. He is a Pole by birth, French by naturalisation, and a freebooter by inclination. His name is said to be Parseval. He is quite frank about his job. This man spread arson, murder and terror through Upper Silesia, and, fur a consideration, is doing the same in the Rhineland. Terror is his trade. When this army ha* done its job, ii will be replaced by more responsible agents: as France will have the Rhineland absolutely cut off from Germany. EX-CROWN PRINCE. LON DUN, Uct-^3l. A message from Holland says: The ex-Crown Prime of Germany is seeking permission to return to Germany. It is not clear wln-ther he has vet applied direct in the German Government. but it is rep .-t tod that tenta .i ■? communications have passed, and th it the German Government is not tinj»i pared to permit his return, on eott-ji-tion that the ex-Prinee lives quietlv i it his estates in Silesia. GERMANY'S CAPACITY TO PAY. LONDON, November 1. The Central News Agency’s Paris correspondent says:—lxnd Crewe (British Ambassador) hits handed a Note to the French Alinistry of Foreign Affairs from the British Government, proposing the convocation by the Re--1 a rations Commission of a meeting of experts in November to report on Germany’s capacity to pay. and inviting the Allies to take collective steps at AYasliiiigton to ensure the participation of the United States. The '‘.Morning Post's” Paris correspondent says:—"The French view is that- the commission cannot do much harm. What proves puzzling is a “Lo 'I enips” message from London stating that Britain will propose that the oommisHion shall (meet in Berlin. Tho French opinion is that all the evidence put forward by the Reich representatives will l.e open to the gravest suspicion, whether offered here, or in Berlin.

FRENCH EVIDENTLY WINNING. LONDON, Nov. 1. The -‘Morning Post’s’’ Paris corrc • spondeni says: "Herr Stinnes and Krupp and others spent 12 hours on Tuesday in eoiiferriiig with French representatives at Dusseldorf regarding a resumption of work in the Ruhr. The conference "as eon tinned on Wednesday. It was expected that a full and complete settlement would be reached before the end of the day. It: is understood that Horren Krupp and Stinnes have undertaken to pay the whole of the coal duties held hack by them, both before and since the Ruhr occupation, and to deliver in future 29? per cent of their production of coal anil coke on account oT the reparations. The agreements will cover fit) per cent of the production controlled by the pii-vn-te firms. The German Stale mines are already ill French and Belgian hands. '1 hose developments are regarded here in Paris a,* an evidence that the German indlistiial leaders have at Inst definitely surrendered. Herr Krupp on Wednesday, presented himself at (he gates of the Dusseldoi f prison, his week's piovilicial liberty having expired. A further week’s liberty was accorded him, and Herr Krupp drove away to join his fellow magnates in the conference with the French authorities. POLITICAL SITUATION ACUTE. THE SOCIALISTS’ DEMAND. [Rkcti-rs Tklkgiiams.") 'Received this day at 0.0 a.m.) BERLIN. November 1. The political crisis lias become acute v owing to the submission of a series of demands to Dr. Sti'ossomaun by the Socialist Parliamentary Party after a (.■(inference which lasted seven hours. Resolutions were carried that the party only remain in coalition if the requests arc conceded. The Socialists also demanded : (1) The alsilition of the state of emergency; (2) that Government adopt stronger measures against the Bavarian Government; (2) that the maintenance of order in Saxony he laid down as a police task and that the Nationalists who recently joined the Rejchswehr must he dismissed immediate! v.

Another resolution dealt with the stabilisation of the currency and the. compulsory sale of Food,stuffs by the farmers. A reply is required by tomorrow. The Government has decided to reduce the number ol .State officials by twentv-five per (-cut in the in tercets of economy.