GERMANY CAN MAINTAIN.

Shannon News, 29 March 1923, Page 4

GERMANY CAN MAINTAIN.

PRESENT PdLICYr NOT SERIOUSLY 5 ’ '-AFFECTED' *•"' * BY. .OCCUPATION, VJh. (Received Wednesday; 8.20 : .piin.)v LONDON, March 28. Herr Beck6r,‘Minister of Econdmics, informed the. “Daily s Telegraphs-cor-respondent:-■ ‘‘We. shall,r not reach; the, negogiating stage -until France signi-. lies her willingiiess to negotiate. Ger-many'-does - not -.expect France* to w inaugurate .negotiations,, shut if ishe .iia ready, there, are-ways--and means.-,of making her readiness known. Germany is able to‘ continue her present policy,; owing vto ."the: Ruhr, occupationnot causingvthe serious effects-' that were at first anticipated” - EVACUATION -MUST PRECEDE PARLEY*; 1 -

MR • HUGHES’S. 1 ; '.-PROPOSAL V

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(Received Wednesday, 8.20 p.m.) «* BERLIN, March 28. ' Herr-*, i Rosehberg .'.informed" the Foreign Affairs Committee that Germany was ready to accept. Mr Hughes’s proposal that a,n international conference of business men, including French and Germans-, should be held to decide how .Germany, should fulfil her reparation., obligar. *tions. In that‘case, Germany would be ready to take up aslarge** inter-’ national loan, giving • all the guarantees 'demanded and immediately pay- 1 ing all the money advanced to France, but the Ruhr must'be evacuated prior to the negotiations.' * :Passive-.-resist-ance was Germany’s only weapon and must be continued until. then.

POWERS MEET AT MILAN. MUSSOLINI APPEALS TO BERLIN (Received Wednesday, . 8.25 p.m.) LONDON, March 28. Despite M. Poincare's reiterations that France will not tolerate • 'mediation or the evacuation of the Ruhr until the reparations question is settled, it is. persistently declared ' that representatives of Belgium, 'ltaly, and other interested* Powers;* at a meeting at Milan, will discuss various aspects of the occupation. The “Daily Telegraph” declares'that Signor .Mussolini, 'through Ambassadorial channels,-I-has urged, the German Government to make a firm offer to all the Allies. POINCARE’S “DIE-HARD” H ‘POSE. APPOINTING.

(Received Wednesday, 8.25 p.m.) PARIS, March 28. .. M. Poincare, in speaking at a meetj ing> of; the Finance > Commission, admitted that the economic results of the occupation so far were not important, 'owing to the difficulties encountered through Germany’s policy, *but her unwillingness only prolonged the occupation and would enable France to solve her problems. Fran'ce would not listen ito proposals ■' from ■ neutral or Rallied sources, and he felt certain no Allied country would make sucli proposals. Evaluation would Only be considered when the * tiofi question was solved. ~ STINNES -AND MUSSOLINI TO “ ■ meet.--"' (Received Wednesday, 10.25 p.m.)' PARIS, March 28. Signor Mussolini has agreed to meet Herr Stinnes at Milan. - - - . - «. A LABOUR SOLUTION. TO BE URGED UPON ALLIED GOVERNMENTS. LONDON, March'27; - The “Daily. Telegraph”-Berlin correspondent Isays that it is understood a conference representing Allied Labour and Socialist parties have reached an agrement upon a reparations settlement plan. This will be submitted- to. a plenary committee in Paris, and. if endorsed will be ; urged'upon the-Allied and i! German Governments. The scheme consists of three main sections.. [The first deals with the actual restor. ation of the devastated 1 areas, ’ ; for which the German trade , unions have* a detailed plan. The second provides that Germany is to adjudicate by an impartial commit-• ! tee o,f international 1 financial experts with reference to her ability to meet money payments. In the third place France’s security will be guaranteed by a treaty: in : which i 'Germany will solemnly enter Into obligations to the Allies and the United States, renouncing all idea of revenge and to abstain from aggressive action.