WOULD MAKE GERMANY PAY

Shannon News, 10 April 1923, Page 4

WOULD MAKE GERMANY PAY

TAXATION REASON FOR PRUDENCE. OF BRITISH POLITICIANS (Received; Monday;-8 p;m.)\ • . „ PARIS,. Agril The newspapers are'giving'prbihin- 1 erice td an intervifew'-'’- MikTtti'dyarai Kipling ghve to jaurnalipts .TQh.l o^’* 'on the subject of the. Anglo-French attitude towrirdb Gferriiatiy. Hri I ‘‘riaid the 1 grerit’iriftss of British- i opinion never/understood .why o ,Gerrpany„ 'which prepared and launched the war. ehbuld'hot pay ! tor ttid”dathagfe. They ■Md riot the least. confidence, in. ahy programme based on the idea of nursing Gemariy tenderly "until she 1 was t /restored to hea'dth aiid power, in the hope that she then wopld. ,h.ave , a change of heart and pay some 1 of her obligations.' nbt'belidve Ger--1 mahyda disarmed, dr will be, until.she is Subjected to a control far more 1 rigorous thah any imposed in the’ past."' ' -- ■; .. r ( . ; “We believe'it would have been far , better had England, side by side ..with France arid Belgium!, 'tried' to ob- ; tairi ririiount of repam-, tions and the greatest security pps* sible. .The reason, public, opinion''did riot declare itself °mdre‘‘“clearly' war that the-taxpayers are groaning under 1 war debts and,, taxation on. a crushing. and, fantastic scale. Tt was natural That the ; politicikns shouldbe • eices- ’ siveiy 1 prudent' and/Jihould hesitate to .tyke any step which would Increase; public'"expenditure.” 'Gefriiany undferCtadd : this, and made" clever use of it. Britain and France , should consider each other, with patience. \ ' “We’shbrild never fbrggtThat C&r*mriay united us and Germany will, keep us united. Trust her for that, 1 and only that!” " ' • v: •.utfjiShiisufjct?

SECRET MARK MILL. SURPRISED BY FRENCH. J (Received Tuesday, 2 a.m.) PARIS, April 9. I in the - last seizrire~of marks' is ‘included a big supply found, in a private printing establishrityrit'V in . Mulheim, where marks "were being ’ secretly printed in order to prevent the confiscation of money during transit from unoccupied Germany. French troops unexpectedly surrounded" the printing works, seized .3,900.. million marks worth of finished notes, and eighty milliards of partly printed notes, alpo engraved plates. ‘ The notes Will ; be credited to Germany on account of money she owes for- the maintenance of the army of occupation. WHERE MONEY WAS FOTJNIL BY DEGENERATE SONS OF ONCE CHIVALROUS NATION.’ (Received Tuthday/2 d.m.) ...... . BERLIN, April The 'G6vevnirieri^".''iiiiiiiiri'lg^s'. seizure, pointing orit thatthe Ruhr; requires, sevenmillion jiew marks; daily. A German, official statement contiririe.3: “These have v into' • the 4 " ' "Euhr ■ Clandeetiriilyi; The r French; are sometimes sufficiently, curinin£,;to .discover the . means by which' thus is ' accomplished, in' this 'Way these ] degenerate sons of a price chivalrous, ri'ation , haye. .. before now, discovered, bundles of our notes p coftctaied in women’s skirts and underclothirig.” ELEVEN HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. AMERICA’S CLAIM ON GERMANY. . (Received Monday, 10.20 prth.T . . WASHINGTON- April 8; • " r l The~lJriitrid State's “w' irifdrmbd Germany that claims' by. the American Government ,and- i|ajtlonals upon; Germany arising from ‘ war damage, have Keen tentatively 4 fixed %t* 1/187'million dollars/: ; There' are ' IX.SIF /-claims more are being pared. ' Many of these represent floss of life and property-in l 'th6 sinking of tlife' Lusitania.,. The United-Stages is now holding, in . seized enemy alien o dperty; a sum vfrtfiaiiy 1 equal 1 to the total clriifn'S/but ft is*dbubtful whether inore than. %,pmall, part of the former/ will be ided to settle' the plriims,. since ’ the ’ seized ' property Kelbngs in' greater part to private individuals.

FRENCH'/DISCIPLINE. (Received hhppday, p.m.); 1 K „" r'/ - ’ A" Mayence mbsa'ge"states 'that. t,w° drunken Moroccan soldiers, Who were charged .with killing a 'German, Were ’ shot‘yesterday in the presence of the j Germ.an;authorities..::, „./ • . ,v. ( A . telegram from Metz bays that the ’ Saarebrudk police have discovered-a : plot, to. kill/M. Poincare; ’and that a German to proceed' to Paria "t0 7 ~ carry" out 'the plan., f<;