GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1925, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

- [Australia A N.Z. Gable Asset iatiuii.] IN THE REICHSTAG. BERLIN, Aug. 12. The Reichstag has passed the Government’s tariff hill without amendment. tiller heated debates. Prior to the division the So' ial Democrats and Communist* walked out of the Chamber, while the Democrat* abstained from voting, alter making a statement expressing their doubts a* regards the legality of the tariff law in view of the attitude ol the Majoiift parties in restricting the speeches. The Reichstag also passed a GermanAmerican commercial and amity tieat>. also a Gernian-Swedisli. and GermnnEiimisli arbitration treaties, and a German-Greek commercial treaty. Dr Stresemnnn demanded that tiermany, as a progressive nation, should have the same right as others to holt mandates over backward nations. Jlcrr Sohee. ex-Governor of German East Africa, lamented the obstacles placed in the way of Germans acquiring land from colonies like New Guinea. Samoa, and East Aft'iea. He-said Hint the British Colonial Minister had declared that even Tanganyika ha. been n-ermanontly im-orporated iu the British territorv. He tultled that this j was a violation of the League ol Nations Covenant. NEW GERMAN TARIFF. LONDON, August 13. The “Morning Rost’s” Berlin correspondent states: ‘•To-day ended the German Government's long and weary light to carry the new tariff, under which industry gets increased protection. "While the land owners are .secured by the roimposition of the food duties which were suspended at the outbreak of the war. all the capitalist parlies are immensely gratified. Industrv can now .settle down and develop an aggressive export trade, as neces-I skated by the Dawes Plan, while agri-I culture can carry out plans for increasing the local production of foodstuffs. Politically the new tariff 1* bound to lead to popular opposition ti the Government by Socialists and the Democrats, representing the wage earners. owing to the probable ra| id in (leases in the cost of living.”