GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1924, Page 3

GERMAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. STINNES VIEWS. PARIS. Jan. IL Interviewed by the ‘'Journal ties Debuts,” Herr Stinnes said Ruhr industrialists had agreed to pay reparations [or the Reich until the 17Ui. April, after which they could not continue to do so. He outlined a scheme folded iverios ill kind as a subsequent form of .settlement. Stinnes advocated the Reich should pay German miners and factories for deliveries under long term contracts, to Allied industrialists, who should pay their respective 'Governments therefore. Such I>-'.' • ''wonts to be written down to the Reparations account, the Reich to insure ■payment of industrialists ny the allocation of revenue from certain taxes. Stinnes as optimistic, that all difficulties could he solved, if the plan were admitted. An alternative tv a sound Franco-German agreement was war. a censorship: S BERLIN, Jail. 11. Germany is practically depending on London and Paris for news of the Speyer affair. Presumably the Separa- ’■ |i s ts have established a strict censorship, and it is known they have arrested a number of prominent Germans in Palatinate, as hostages. Xews- * papers comment furiously on the French action in supporting the >eparatists and paint out the Bavarian Government has issued a warrant against Kcinz for high treason.