GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1925, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

[Reuters Tele on axis.] THE RUHR ACCOUNTS. (Received this day at 10.25 a.in.; .PARIS, January 11. According to si French source the Allied agreement provided for the liquidation of -Ruhr accounts on the basis of deduction, of the occupation expenses from the total receipts. The net

profit alone, which is estimated at one milliard gold marks, w... ho set down ' to the account of all the Allies. It is acknowledged that the. Belgian priority i.s not entirely extinguished, Belgian still having to receive 120 million gold marks out of two milliards conceded her. Belgium con.se<|ucntly will continue for two years to 1920 to receive eight per cent of the annual Dawes scheme payments, after which she will he reduced to four per cent, and the residue assigned to United States. The Anglo-American delegates agreed to acknowledge tho United States’ claim for a share in tho Dawes scheme payments under the heading of reparations, hut spread over twenty-six years from 1920. 'file rearrangements of payment were effected in roga" ’ to the discharge of American expenses for the occupation, a lump sum of 150 million gold marks being fixed for future occupation expenses, liable to certain reductions. After allowance has been made for all these priority claims thirty-four milliards of gold marks remain to meet reparations out of the Dawes scheme payment, of which France will receive fifty two per cent. Air Churchill in explaining to M. Ocmentel that the British attitude would uphold the principle of the Balfour Note, affecting the sum of fourteen milliards of gold rnarws, hut negotiations in this connection are unlikely to he opened immediately. The discussion of the Allied debts has not attained the scope previously anticipated. It i.s authoritatively denied that the Anglo-American agreement on the American claims i.s in any way connected with Sir Afontngue Norman’s (Chairman of Bank of Fngluiid) negotiations in Washington.

ITALO-GERA! AN AO I! EEAI.EXT. PARIS, dan. 10. An ftalo-German agreement has been reached provisionally permitting the continuation of trade relations after Vue 11th January, pending the conclusion of a definite treaty. DETAILS ON l.’lth. PARIS, Jan 10. Six Powers have reached an agreement, in principle, on all the points at issue. The exports will work out the details for submission to a Plenary .Meeting on the I.3th. Air Churchill is satisfied with tho progress,- and proposes to return to London on the 11th. LATE h’OR COMMENT. LONDON, January 11. Particulars of the Paris agreement in principle were received too late lor comment in the Sunday papers. One is* paper indicates that everything is not all smooth- sailing and that many acrimonious meetings* preceded the agreement. SMALL BOW KltS CONK Kit. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.l PARIS, January 11. A committee of experts entrusted with the preparation of the ground work for the Kinaneial Conference this L morning heard a statement hv the Finance Ministers of smaller powers,- such as Ron mania and Serbia who had not participated in the preparation of the preliminary report and wished to pmjU test against certain points in the rcport concerning them. ’I he Committee heard a! I shir in regard to Shunting mid the Brazilian ambassador in regard to' (termini properties seipiextra ted in Urwil. All questions were settled to the satisfaction of the parties concerned. BELGIAN PRIOR FIT. PARIS, Jan. IF British, French, Belgian and Italian delegates conferred for several hours last "evening, reportedly on the subject of the cost of the army of occupation ami Belgian priority. Air Churchill had previously conversed for an hour alone with ilerriott. ALSACE-LORRAINE. PARIS, Jan. Jl. In consequence of the lapse of Article 269 of the Versailles Treaty, providing for the entry into Germany, duty -free, of goods from Alsace-Lorraine, and’the failure so far of Frnnco-Gor-man negotiations lor the substitution of n Commercial agreement, a steail.v strenm of vehicles loaded with goods foi Germany set in along the routes leading to the Rhine, especially in the direction of Kehl. The organisation of a special police service was necessitated in order to avoid traffic blocks. Exported goods include tojdstulls, textiles and leather. A RAPACIOUS GERMAN. LONDON, Jim. 11. ~r A. Court martial in the provinces of jCicwc and Luxemburg passed the death sentence in default on a German, Alajor Von Dor Bach, n "butcher of Arlon, who is accused of ordering houses containing people to he set on lire; also With the destruction of sixty-lmir dwei- ■' .us .ami for extorting one hundred thousand francs belonging to the Commune of Arlow. lie is also charged with murdering a policeman. GERMANY'S CABINET. BERLIN, Jan. 11. Herr Alarx informed Herr Ebert that was unable to form a so-c-iilled busiGovernment on non-party lines. |P Alarx’s decision is the result of a declaration this afternoon by Stressmann s People’s Party to oppose a Government composed of the Centre Party or Democrats. or ineluding Umler-Secretar-ics as Alinisters. As a result, whatever Cabinet Alarx formed would he m a, minority in the Reichstag, as the small parties would also oppose. Rtressman apparently holds the key to the situation, which is uncertain. It is reported Fliert will request 1' mam;e Minister Blither to form a tunmet. Luther is a non-party man to whom Nationalist tendencies are ottiibuttd. His Government would certainly veer to the right ami encounter hitter opposition from Socialists and Democrats. | FRANCE AND GERMANY. GENEVA. -Tan. 11. Trendelenburg, chief of the German Commercial Delegation at Paris, has cone to Paris, hearing fresn instruc,ons from tho German Government which cannot agree with France’s suggestion of provisional arrangements. Consequently, unless an immediate agreement is reached, Germany s eus--toms’ tariff of 1902 will be applied to ].ye mil gomlw-