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Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1923, Page 2

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AUSTRALIAN AXI) N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. THE BLUR AND RHINELAND. A FRENCH VIEW. PARIS, December I. The Foreign Ministry in a communique on the proposal made by AI. I)e----goiitte, says that the French and Belgian Governments have now decided tm administrative measures to be taken in favour of persons expelled from the occupied zones nr sentenced. Al. Degoittee expresses the opinion that the passive resistance will virtually have 4 ceased when work is effectively resum'd in the mines and factories and when tbe agreements for the exploitation of the railways of the Rhineland and the Ruhr have been ratified by the Berlin authorities and enforced. The date of such enforcement, according to a Convention signed yesterday, is the l(>tTi. of December. The regrouping of the military forces with a view to lessening contact with the population has already commenced and will continue progressively. CHANGE IN THE RUHR. LONDON, Dec. A. The “Daily Express’s” .Dnsseldorf correspondent is informed that the force of occupation in the Ruhr will shortly be reduced from sixty thousand to ten thousand. All the public buildings will be etacqaied. Tbe French General Staff will be removed from Dusseldorl to Mayence. Gorman officials will again be placed in control of the customs and the other public, services. GERMANY'S GAIN. LONDON, Dee. I. Lord Derby speaking at Waterloo, said that he believed that there would soon come documentary evidence from the Reparations Commission which would facilitate a real financial settlement. "I think.*’ he said, “lor the first time since the armistice that I see daylight, and that some settlement. can. and will, he carried out.” He added: “During the time that Germany has been refusing to pay the reparations, she has not been idle. She lias been able to wipe off not. only her national debt, but her municipal debts, her debentures, and the overhead charges upon her industry.” WEALTHY GERMANS 'ESCAPE TAXATION. LONDON, Dec. A. Tlie Daily Telegraph says: “Ltkfcl all his predecessors, ( hanceilor Alarx lias lacked the frankness and courage to toll the Reichstag that for the past three or lour years, affluent classes iu Germany have practically escaped taxation altogether, and consqcuontly they are in a position to pay handsomely now. CER.MAN RECOVERY. LONDON, Dec. A. The Daily Telegraph says:—“While the Party intrigues are influencing the Reichstag, the German Nation is wholly occupied with the rise ol the mark and the o.llapso of prices. There is such a rush to buy now as has been unknown for many months past. Moreover Iho .supplies- now far exceed the demand. All kinds of hoarded treasures from eggs to dollars, are emerging from their hiding places. A few more days of this would effect a transformation in the economic position. and in the mom] of the nation. w SPECIAL POWERS WANTED. LONDON. Dec. t. The Morning Post’s Berlin correspondent says:—Chancellor Marx said that ex-C'liancellor Strosemnnn had • been criticised for asserting that the situation in Germany was desperate, bin Dr Stresenumu was right. All seel ions of the German people should know, lie said, that we are actually at tin* end nf our economic and financial resources. Hence the need for a Bill empowering the Government to take urgent measures, without consulting the Reichstag. The Alarx Cabinet has decided iT the special powers if seeks arc not conferred it will immediately dissolve 1 lit* Reichstag.

RHTNHLAXD POSITION, f "Tiif, Times” Skuvice.] (Received this dav nl ff.lo a.m.’f LONDON. Dec. A. The “Times" Paris correspondent says Rhinelanders would he prepared to do much in the direction of pulitical separation in return for a genuine peaceful settlement, the withdraw of the garrisons from the Rhine and substitution of a mild, civil, central, but if political separation only mean placing themselves in the power of the French they are asking what is the use. Leading Rhinelanders feel stronglv that the whole questiun ol' an independent state is too important. poliiiealiy and economically, to lie handled hv the present hole and corner methods. Tf the Rhineland is separated, it means the Treaty of Versailles is altered and they therefore argue the matter should he taken up fairly and squarely by the chief signatory powers.