GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1924, Page 1

GERMAN ITEMS

VUSTHALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS. LONDON. Eeb. 2. A Bntssels correspondent .states full diplomatic relations between Germany and France and Belgium, which were broken oil' when the Ruhr was occupied are about to he resumed. The French and Belgian Governments accepted Lite proposed appointments o! Ilerr Von llocseh as German Ambassador at Paris and Herr Von Keller. German .Minister at Brussels. A big withdrawal of Fraiico-Belgian loree front Ruhr is reported. Belgians arc reduced from seven to four thousand, who no longer arc tinder command of the French General Degoiitte, but under the Belgian General. Ruequoy. Titi.s may he taken as an indication that military operations in Ruhr under! aken conjointly with !■ ranee, are considered by Belgium to he ended. In the future her Ruhr troops will form part of the Belgian loreos regularly garrisoning the Rhineland. French Ruhr troops are to be reduced from forty to twenty-four thousand.

HOARDS. ABROAD. LONDON, Feh. 1

The Timlin correspondent ot the Daily Mail says Herr Bergmann and Herr Wassermann, formerly the Presidents and Directors of Die Deutsche Rank, experts, at which there was a discussion conducted mainly hv M. [’lender, who searohingly inquired regarding the amount oi (-apital which the Deutsche Runic has since the armistice transferred from Germany to foreign countries. The ex-directors informed M. [’lender that they will demand an inspection of the books and will question other banks similarly. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, commenting on a statement to the effect that the leading German industrialists are promising absolute frankness, says: —If the industrialists really intend straightforwardness they should really have an interesting story to tell of the money stored abroad in foreign currencies. It has come to my knowledge recently that large sums, so hoarded, have been transferred from England to America, Holland and Switzerland, out of a fear that the present investigation will imperil such deposits in the London hanks.