GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1924, Page 3

GERMAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN ANP N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. E.NI'EItT COMMITTEE .MEETS PARIS, Jan. 14. The first expert committee dealing, with German currency met in the presence of the Reparations Commission. M. Barthnu in a speech of welcome, said that the Reparations Commission would place at (lie disposal of the experts all necessary documents ami the experts would control their method of procedure. They would hear Germany in a form which appeared most useful to them. M. Hathou said:—‘'We wish, lor the common good., that the Gorman Got 0 verniuent will facilitate your arduous and complex task. It is necessary that results should lie reached lor the pacific equilibrium of Hu- whole world depends upon a reparations settlement.'' The Commission rejoiced in American co-operation and asked Air Dawes to accept the Presidency. .Mr Dawes, replying, pointed out the Committee was not asked to duter- ' mine the legality ot the occupation, ol the-. Ruhr. Tile success of the Committee would depend chiefly upon whether, in tke public mind and ron- ■ science of the Alln-s and the woild, there is an adequate conception of the great disaster facing each Ally mid Europe, unless eommeiisense is orownetl King.”

hri>!■: rno.M York. (Received this day at .11.25 a.ni.) LONDON'. Jan. U. Bell, who shortly returns to New Zealand, came to England to htiv English stock. On the first day of his ride from York to London he covered r>f» miles, the next 33. owing to snow, tind lastly lid. He considers the rule (proves English (hunters hare niore staving powers than the Arab hotses. Yorkshire lViy is a, typically good specimen of a sturdy northern breed, hut is nothing phenomenal. The sire ■was a blood horse and the dam a hackney mare. Hell rides just under fifteen stone, so the long ride on macadam was a severe strain, though the jar of the roads was lessened by rubber pads. Bell never had to press the horse. He intends to lido bark lo York, but will not try to break a record. (iIIEKK EOLITH'S. A'LHKXS. .Tamuir.v lb Apart from the Royalist and extreme Republican circles, the lormnlion ot a. Venizelist Cabinet is regarded as the f only .solution. No Libel til will serve under any other Premier. Roussos brings experience of diplomacy to the foreign ministry and is a leader ot the Republiran-I.ihenil wing; but there is a distinctly moderate section in the Cal.i- - nut Ycnizolos "ill work for the termination of the state of civil war, an absolutely impartial plebiscite and a reduction of public expenditure by adl opting the British system of control by the Treasury over all other Departments. Venizelos says he will retire in a few months. The Republicans announce they will fight hard to restore their own principles

GERMAN PH IE STRIKE. (“Sydney Sun” Coldest. (Received this day at ILO a.m.t LONDON. -Jan. 1-1. The German sailors’ strike is spreading and thirty-eight (fornun ships in Mfie Thames are affected. It is slated _e<t]uit on the sixteenth nil (lerinau ships in Britain "ill he rendered idle. RUGBY LEAGUE TEAM. LONDON. Jan. 1-1. The Rugby Ijeague decided to restrict selections for the Australasian tour to United Kingdom players. Ihe South Africans, Van Hecrdcn and Yan Ooyen, members of the Wegan team. , will therefore he excluded.