GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1924, Page 2

GERMAN NEWS.

<g>- . IUBTIIALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION STRANDED IN RERUN. I.ERI.IN. Sept. 22. Mascagni, the composer, with an ii],era i inipany liuiimbering 1(!33, is ■stranded at Berlin .owing to tin* failure ol lisi production “Aida.” Mascagni received L'HUk.O sterling to linan:e the venture, but the kox ollice receipts were so small that the salaries could not he paid. Finally, the company refused to sing. Three of the Italian directors were arrested for issuing valueless cheques which were not met. NO MORE AVAR CRY. fßcct-tveil this day at 9.15 a.i11.) I .ON DON, September 23. Numerous “no more war” demonstrations are being held throughout the I'n ited Kingdom. The "Daily Herald” ouotes a speech made by I* rock way. leader ol the Independent l.ahuur Party, during a visit In Berlin. In tills lie said that the party accepted the Dawes Plan as a temporary expedient, but when Socialism triumphed in Britain, France and Germany, the Dawes plan and Versailles Treaiv would he swept aside as an unjii“t, impossible document.

FEAR OF REPARATION'S. lON DON. Sept. 22. Mr Frank Hodges. Labour M l'., at Tamwoi tli. in a vLoi.ius attack on tb* Danes Report sail the i a; itali.sts were squealing that limns should In* lengthened and wages lowered. Mr Hodges declared that tin* ic’.iarations might he good politics, but they itrtainly were bad economics. Germany could deal the deadliest blow to the Allies by fulfilling the report. German coal, delivered in Frame. Belgium, and Italy would be sold at a fruition below the Riitisb cold priie. so. it any were sold, it would be at a price which would scarcely alh.-w the British collieries to live. In order to pay the reparations German workers were* being driven to a'a-ndo’i their hard-earned victories in their fight for reasonable conditions of employment. The gcil of reparations must be appeased, even il the whole European Labour’ .Movement were to lie (lung on the altars of sacrifice. Now flu* German workers bad succumbed and British capitalists were now .signalling that wages should be lowered and hours increased.