GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1923, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. MARK SPECULATION. LONDON. Nov. 2. Hie “Daily Chronicle's Berlin corres pendent says the mark made a record breaking dive into the abyss of nearly double in worthlessness, during the day, the. plunge being accompanied hy faverisli buying on the Stock Exchange, and wild speculation in scrip of the gold loan. This scrip hears a face value of a dollar, and these Herman dollars are now selling at about three hundred thousand millions. Thus the new currency is becoming a fresh counter for gambling. Food and goods in the shops are now priced at so many gold marks, and the equivalent number of paper marks, hut as the price in paper is based on the exchange value, the price in gold marks is .sometimes changetl three times a day. KRITES’ AGREEMENT. PARIS. Nov. 3. The French delegates’ decision with Herr Krttpp has so far resulted in an agreement regarding the Salzor. Neuack. Hanover, Haiinehal. Helen, and Thai in mines. BERLIN POLITICAL CRISIS. BERLIN. Nov. 2. A political crisis, consequent upon an ultimatum to the Government from the Socialist Party, is still unsettled, notwithstanding all-dav-long conferenc-s. and Cabinet meetings. Chancellor Stresemann is in hod, suffering trout a heart attack. THE RHINE SEPARATE .-L BERLIN, Nov. 2. The Separtists have proclaimed the Rhine Republic at C'reteld. 1 hey searched the houses and seized all sporting guns. Fifteen hundred Separatists, ar'-iving at Aix-la-Ohapelle from C'ohl.-m’.e. C rcfeld and Duisburg, besieged the 'low; Hall, which firemen, security polite, and Communists, defended, hurling sulphuric acid bombs at the Separatists, who then dynamited the doors of the building, which was occupied by them after lively lighting. BERLIN. Nov. 2. A message ir-.uu Dresden says that fifteen were wounded in street lighting there, a large crowd attacking tinReichwehr. SOCIALISTS LEAVE GOVERNMENT 'Uoeoi'-ed this dav at 8 a.in 1 BERLIN, Nov. 3. The Socialists have left the Coalition Government in the Reich.