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GERMANY AND OUR DEMANDS. Br Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Conyrlsht. Paris, Dec. 18. The Germans tried many dodges when confronted at the meeting of Ministers and Ambassadors which replaced the Supreme Council. They produced figures halving the Allied experts' estimates of Germany's shipping material. The Allies agreed to accept 200,000 tons of dock material as compensation for the Scapa sinkings plus 50,000 tons jof new ships which the Germans undertook to construct within a limited .period. | Germany offered half-built Dreadnoughts instead of cruisers and destroy- | ere, claiming that the latter were necessary to police her shores, j M. Clemenceau. drily replied: "Why have not the Dreadnoughts already been broken up in accordance with the treaty t"
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1919, Page 5
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115PLAYING FALSE. Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1919, Page 5
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