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' THE GERMANS' DEMANDS.
... BIG SUPPLIES OF FOOD -OBJECTIONS TO HANDING-- OVER SHIPS. Received March 9, 5.5 p.m. London, March 8. It is an exaggeration to speak of the "rupture" of negotiations at Spa, though some of the Allied delegates have returned to receive fresh instructions. The Germans demand 2i million tons of food before the harvest, and won't surrender their ships unless this is guaranteed. The Germans also want coal, as Silesia and Westphalia are yielding little. The Germans object to handing over their merchant ships on the ground that it will throw forty thousand German sailors out of work. The Allies do not consider it desirable to give a definite promise regarding the length of time in which the Germans are to be given food, in view of evidence that the Germans deliberately refused to economise their existing stocks in order- to embarass the Allies.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1919, Page 5
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