GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1923, Page 2

GERMAN NEWS.

lUBTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. LONDON, Nov. 23 The Reichstag refused to vote confidence in Stresoniann by a vote of 230 to 155. TO CARRY ON. BERLIN, Nov. 24. President Ebert has accepted the Caliinet’s resignation. He has requested Chancellor Strcseman to carry on in the interim. RUHR DELIVERIES. LONDON. Nov. 23. The Premier has announced that an agreement has been reached between the Allies and almost all the Ruhr Industrinli-ts lor a resumption of the deliveries in kind. BERLIN, Nov. 2-1. The recalcitrant- Ruhr industrialists headed by Hugo Stinnes have at last otino to an agreement with the .Franco-Belgian authorities, under which they will pay 27P million francs in arrears of coal tax, and will henceforward deliver to the Allies IS per cent, of their nett output of coal. They will also pay ten francs per ton on the coal sold, while the stocks remain the property of the Allies. The directors of Ivrupp factories, who were sentenced in contumacium oil the fourth of May, have returned to the occupied territory, and have resumed work. BERLIN. Nov. 21. The situation in the Ruhr is growing worse, (fitly four mines out ol o, are working. LONDON. Nov. 24. Advices from Dusseldorf state there has been a recrudescence ot disorders among the unemployed in the Ruhr, notable in lfsseu. Collisions between demonstrators and police resulted in six persons being killed, ami 32 wounded. O! these three are dead, and three of the wounded were lxditemeu. A GERMAN APOLOGY. BRUSSELS, Nov. 23. The German ( barge I) Altaires expressed to the Foreign Ministry, the German Government’s regrets at the arrest in Leipzig of Belgo-1' remit control commissioners. A GERMAN MOVE. BERLIN. Nov. 23 General Yon Seeckt, as the supreme executive authority in the Reich lias forbidden and dissolved all organisations and institutions of the Nationalist, National Socialist and Communist parties and also ordered the confiscation of their property. GERMAN CHANCELLOR RESIGNS BERLIN. Nov. 23. Herr Stroseniann has resigned. A NEW MIDDLE EUROL’E.

LONDON, November 21. “The Times”,' in an editorial, says: “The problem presented to the world by the fall of Chancellor Stresemimn is most serious. The plain fact is that Germany is breaking up, principally because the Ruin' and the Rhine have been torn fiumber. It is probable that within a month or two. the separation of this most important area from Germany will assume some tentative political form. France has had her way. Her curiously systematic, coldly logical effoit is nearing its gaol. A new political entity is appearing in Middle Europe, moulded and dominated I>v I'ranee. The rest of chaotic Germany, deprived of this wealthy region, has little chance ot a speedy recovery. .V new Europe is shaping at our doors. The facts arc still obscured by the clauses of the treaties and the noise of legal disputes. It is time to deal with realities. Britain needs, above all, itf present, the strongest Government, capable of grappling fearlessly with realities in Eulope.” DRAMATIC CO 1 NCI DEN I - LONDON. November 24. A considerable stir was caused today iu British diplomatic circles by the news of Chancellor Stresenmnn’s down--1 sill, which dramatically coincided wii.! M. Poincare, the French Premier's big contideme majority in the French Parliament. The whole European situation is thus again thrown into the melting pot. ami this at a. time when there were stub hopeful signs as the Ambassadors’ agreement in Paris; also the appearance yesterday of a German delegation before the Reparations Commission, and the announcement ol an agieement between the French and Ruhr idustiTal-i.st-s.

REPORTED ROAN DEFER. i-ONDON, November 24. There has been much speculation concerning Herr Suescmann’.s lelereitee, on Thursday, to a titty millions steiling loan for Germany, from abroad. No confirmation of this offer eoukl he secured in the highest financial circles in London. Tne “Daily Telegr.tphV’ Beilin correspondent states, however, that Herr Streseinann, in a statement made to journalists, alter hts deloat, said that to prove to the ('on-ervalives the reality of stab loan negotiations, he had that morning submitted to the Sec.clary of ttteir Party full docunamts relative to the matter. Herr Stresemnnn lidded that lie would do tlis best to secure the realisation of the loan, which lie hoped would not be frustrated by his. resignation.

SFCCKSSOR. CANNOT BE FOFXD tßrcsivcd this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, November 25. The “Sunday Express” Berlin corns- } (indent states that eiforts to find a stave.-xoir to Jlei'r Stressmaim have hitherto failed. Tee result of conferences has only emphasised the differences. Von Kardoft was invited to lonu a ministry but negotiations collapsed, j le t Horgt.. lead-'!' of the Centre Catholic Party conferred with Herr Ebert late last night. HAS FRANCE GIVEN AWAY? PARIS. Nov. 23. After tin l Chamber ol Deputies had carried a vote of confidence in 51. Poincare, the later delivered a speech. Dealing with the recent decision oi the Council ot Ambassadors, lie declared it was in no wise pcrtect. but said France prcL-ned to abandon, provisonally. part of her ideas and demands, in order to avoid the withdrawal of her Allies from their various treaty institutions, and to prevent a probable rupture. Continuing, M. Poincare, said.---“\Ye shall gain the best guarantee ot security, in the opinion of Marshal I *hy consolidating our present positions in the occupied territories. FEELING WORKED up. LONDON. Nov. 24. There were several violent scenes m the Reichstag before the vote that defeated Streseman was taken. The sitting of the Pans ( hamhei <> Deputies also, was not without incident. M. Poincare, m the course ot Ids speech Ix-fore the division on the confidence vote, said that the nt„otm tors of the Treaty ol \ ersulies had signed it in opposition to the it evident of the RepuSdc nntl ot -'lursfial Foeli. , “Why then did you accept tne treaty?” demanded a. Deputy.

‘T intended to resign,” replied M. PoincAro. “I consulted the Presidents of tlm Sonata and the Chamber, and also Marshal Foch. They all asked me not to resign.” , Deputy Matinel wished to reply, hut the uproar was such that the sitting had to he suspended. When tin- Chamber resumed. the deputies carried a vote of confidence in the Government. THE ANGLO-FRENCH PACT. Earlier in the proceedings, M. Poincare mentioned that he recently had asked permission of the British Government to publish a Yellow Book, detailing the negotiations for the An-glo-French Pact of Guarantee. in which Mr Lloyd George and the succeeding British Premiers had refused to insert any military convention. ‘‘l will never give up tlie idea,” ed M. Poincare in recalling that France had notified Britain in May of 1022 that President Millerand’s engagement. that France would not act alone, could apply only to inter-Allied questions. The Premier concluded with tilts do-' duration: If France were threatened to-ntorrow she would act alone, without asking the authorisation of the Allies.” LONDON. Nov. 23. The 'Times's Cologne correspondent, learns that when negotiations between the French and the Ruhr miners are resumed the former will announce an important concession regard to what is credited to reparation account, wherefrom the Germans hope that a definite agreement will he signed in a dav or two. The eorerspondeiit is informed that the Rhineland Commission has concluded an important agreement with a German grotto of manufacturers for delivery of amine dyes, medical products and chemical manures. The British Government, although represented during the negotiations, does not participate in the agreement. It is not clear whether these deliveries will he credited to the reparations account. The immediate cll’ect of this agreement, and the coal agreement, if it is signed, will he to relieve the considerable unemployment in the Rhineland and the Ruhr. The Morning Post’s Berlin correspondent says: It is now a week since the issue of the renteinnarks was authorised but ordinary citizens regard it as an event, if they see a note, and as a curiosity. Persons lortunate enough to secure one hold it tightly, for it- is long since thev had money which might not next day he half its face value. On the other hand speculators arc endeavouring to collect tenteumarks in the hope ot soiling them at a profit. Tlie Times’ Paris correspondent sitvs: The Allied agreement Mas reached only alter a period of great anxiety. The French contended a definite date should he fixed for the resumption of military control, hut the British insisted this was unnecessary. Generally, it may he said that the British view- were met all along the line. The ex-Premier. l)r Zetguer has been arrested at Dresden, on a eMtjge of accepting bribes while Minister of .1 nstice.