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Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1923, Page 2

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lUBTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FRENCH ATTITUDE. PARIS, November 18. M. Poincare in laying the foundation stone of a war monument at N*'ully, said: “We do not despair of convincing the Allies that our method is the right one. We will continue our peaceful way without uneasiness and without laltoiing, certain of being in the tight. Germany for a Jmig tune has been disregarding the stipulations guaranteeing our security. She has paralysed the action of the Allied tommission of Military Control, and lias secretly Died to reemdtrurt forces which were prohibited by our treaty. Simultaneously she lias authorised the return of the heir to the Imperial Throne, who figures at the head of the list of war criminals. These are audacious acts, in defiance of the Allies am! also insolent violations ol the treaty. We are more than ever resolved not to evacuate the occupied territory before all the clauses of the Treaty arc complied with, and also until we are so'idiv secured against now possibilities ot aggression. The blood ol our dead cries for justice, and justice will be given them!” PRESIDENTS ATTITUDE. WASHINGTON. Nov. If. Owing to despatches assailing that the French felt the 1 niled States would not lie concerned in the event of the Kaiser’s return to the German throne. President Goolidge summoned press correspondents, and stated that it was his belief that the American people will sympathise with any move taken l>v the Allied Governments to prevent a restoration of the Flohenzol. leriis. The President declared the Allies were empowered by the Versailles Treaty to doa] with the situation, but the A merit an Government-, in accordance with its long established policy, was unable to take definite action in the mailer.

NEW GERMAN CURRENCY. BERLIN. Nov. 10. The new rentenmarks are being slowly issued to the ptihlie. hut the Jewish and other speculators are buying them at a premium. The retailers refuse to sell even half a pound of butter for paper marks, saying that wholesalers will not accept. them. Other shops are offering up to twentylive per cent, as a rebate lor rentenmarks. ORDERED HOME. BRITISH OFFICIALS IN GERMANY. LONDON. Nov. 10. The “Dailv Chronicle’s” Berlin correspondent- states that all the women and girls, including typists and secretaries. who are members of the British Government's stalls at the British Embassy and Consulates, have been advised to leave Germany, and to return to England. The reasons given are the dangerous possibilities of the political situation, the food shortage, the high cost of living, which is likely to cause disorders, and the diflieulties arising out ot the currency chaos. GERMANY Wild. FIGHT. LONDON. November 19. The “Daily Chioniele's” Berlin correspondent says: Cl'ancellor Strosenutnn on Sunday evening made an important speech Lo the members ot the people's parly. He said France was threatening new sanctions on account of the return of the Crown Prince. '.lhe German Government would reject any demand for his extradition. The Cabinet. he said, had decided to expose the country to fresh brutalities rather than lay itself open to the reproach of compelling this German subject to remain in a foreign country, away from his family.

allied officers maltreated. BY GERMAN TROOPS BERLIN. November ID. General Nollet has gone to Paris, I’rol lahly to inform the French Government of an incident- that is likely to have serious consequeueos. It happened at I.eipzig. Two Franco-I’elgiaii officers, members of the Dresden section of the Inter-Allied ' Military cont rol, were dragged out of their beds nt four o’clock in the morning, and detained in the guard room for five hours. It is alleged that they were shamefully molested and insulted, before being released, under orders from Dresden. The officers were previously held up by the Lteir-hswohr while motoring from Dresden to Leipzig, detained several hours, and then released on instructions from superior officers. GERMAN MINE TROUBLE. SERIOUS RIOTING OCCURS. 'Received this dnv at 8.30 a.in.) -LONDON. November ID. The “Times” Cologne correspondent states that the decision of the Ruhr mine owners, front December Ist. to onlv permit the employment of men working ten hours a day. is causing bitter feeling among the men who arc getting cut ef hand and wholesale demonstrations are being held. One at Essen led to serious rioting wherein three were killed and many wounded. The police were compelled to lire on tlie demnnst ratois. who replied with revolvers and hand grenades, sheltering behind harm cades erected in the streets. Eventually French troops, with armoured oik. intervened and cleared the streets. The Separatist agents took advantage of the occasion to placard tile town, proclaiming a Rhineland Republic meanwhile.

The Trade Unions of the Rhineland and Westphalia are urging the Government to take over and inn the mines, adding that they cannot admit that the occupying powers are alone to blame for the present chaos.