GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1924, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

tUfcIKALIAN AND N.Z. CAUL* ASSOCIATION. KLEPTOMANIACS. BERLIN. Nov. HI. The mother, her son and two daughters of a respected family, charged with shop-lifting, have been declared hereditary kleptomaniacs. Tiie criminal records showed that the disease went back four generations. The oll’enders were sentenced to three and iotirmonths imprisonment.

LEHMAN COMPETITION. PAULS. Nov. Ifi. A Cologne .Mining Journal states that the Stinnes mining group is offering the Portuguese Government large quantities of coal much below the British price. Ordinarily Bortugal imports one million and a-liall sterling worth of coal from Britain annually.

KEPAHATrON PAYMENTS. BERLIN, November Ifi. An interesting item in the reparations payments is disclosed in the Ageiit-Generl’s report, for September mid October. It is one blind rod thousand minks paid to Belgium for the res. tornticn of the Library of Louvain. Altogether 1 Ifi million gold marks were paid over to the various creditor states.

the geneva protocol. VI SCO I’NT GREY’S VIEWS. (Deceived (his day al S n.m.) |,< IN IX IN. Noveml'.'i 17. Speak ill”, at Newcastle. \ iscmiu Grey urged that whatever was done ii eumu'ctiim with the Geneva Protocol Britain must carry the Dominions will her. lie Imped the Dominions wouh not separately turn down any proposu without consulting the British Govern incut. Whether the Protocol was ue copied, amended or something hettei devised, he hoped there would he fill consultations between Britain ami Ik Dominions to arrive* at sonic t-oiiiiiioi conclusion.

R EPARATION PAYMENTS.

AVI DEISPItEAI) C<)X FI’S 10X

(Deceived this day at 8.80 a.in.) BERLIN, November 17.

Widespread misunderstand,tog lias resulted from the publication of the letter from Mr Parker Gilbert, the American Agent-General regarding the reparation payments under the Dawes scheme, informing the German Minister of Finance 'hat lie would not credit, as 'reparations, any payments Germany made after the Ist. of l'ehruarv under the Franco- British laws imposing it reparations duty of twentvsix per cent mi German goods imported.

The letter was firstly interpreted til'll Germany avoulil unit get airedit lot such payments which Franco and Britain had been allowing.

Further inquiries suggest- the letter is really an attack on France ami Britain's right to levy duty ami it i.-. hinted that Mr Gilbert rogaids the duty as an illicit method of raising repara-

tions. LONDON'. Xnvemlrt'f 17. Official circles advise caution in acceptiug a German interpretation id the letter. It is pointed out that such an interpretation is contrary to the terms „f the Dawes report and would throw the Allied agreement with Germany thereon into the melting pot.