NO CONCESSION.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 April 1920, Page 5

NO CONCESSION.

GERMANY AND THE TREATY. DEMANDS TO BE ENFORCER Br Aun.'-Cosmjht Received April IS, 5.5 p.m. London, April 10. The Australian Press Association learns that the situation in Germany continues to cause grave anxiety. There is little doubt that the military party is only awaiting a favorable opportunity to effect a Royalist coup. Lord Curzon informed the German Charge d'Affaires that Germany must give evidence of her honorable intentions by immediately withdrawing some of the Reichswehr from the Buhr Valley. Evidence is now available that the German troops in the neutral zone far exceeded the four battalions mentioned in the official estimate. It is now believed between 30,000 and 40,000 are there, which is roughly double the number permitted under the Treaty. The German Government's attention hag been called to the Treaty's requireBMkis' with reference to the surrender of guns and material, and the demobilisation of troops. The whole question will be closely reviewed at San Remo. It in not improbable that, in the event of Germany's failure immediately to fulfil the Treaty obligations, enforcement will be demanded by means of an ultimatum, and a definite time limit will be fixed. The proposals suggested for the enforcement of the demands include a threat of withholding the delivery of foodstuffs.

One of the chief difficulties arises out of the German Government's inability to control the- troops, which are under the direction of K&ppist officers and high-spirited students, and will not be satisfied until a change of Government ®°® e sabout, This is almost certain to lead to. a general strike, and possibly civil war. 1 3 Paris messages indicate that the Allies have taken collective action to demand the strict execution of the disaraament clause of the Treaty.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Aun.

NEW INSURRECTION. A WARNING FROM BERLIN. RECRUITS CALLED FOR. Received April 18, 5.5 pm. . . Berlin, April 18. Extensive additional barbed wire defences have been erected in the Government quarter of the city. The National Party has warned its members against taking part in a new insurrection. The Vorwaerts states recruiting offices have opened at the Zoolgoical Gardens in connection with the threatened Insurrection mt r. London, April 17. Me Berlin correspondent of the Daily Chronicle .reports that Luttwitz and Bischoff have been arrested, and are being taken to Leipzig with a number of conThey have been shadowed tor several days, but managed to escape from place to place until they were run to earth at Horst. „ . Stockholm, April 18. .Kapp arrived here, and was arrested was not in order.—Au-v Gable Asm

NEW BLOCKADE THREATCATTLE SENT TO PRANCE. Hecelved April 18, 5.5 p.m. ~ „ Paris, April 16. «.n H oyd Geor ? e wirelessed M. MUler&nd confirming Britain's intention to reintroduce the blockade In the event of another Monarchist revolution in Germany, or her failure to evacuate the Ruhr in the stipulated time. Twelve hundred horses, four thousand cattle, and ten thousand sheep have arrived in France from Germany under the C 8 Treaty provisions. A large number were suffering from foot and mouth disease.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Awn,

EVACUATION OF RUHR, i TO BE MADE THIS WEEK. Received April 18,11.20 p.m. Berne, April 18. German semi-official reports state tie German Government has ordered the evacuation of the Ruhr district by 24th. inst.—Reuter Service.

LEADERS OF REVOLT PUNISHED. Received April 18, 11.20 p.m. Berlin, April 18. The Vossisohe Zeitung states the bank deposit* and all landed property of the leaders of the recent rising have been confiscated.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BELGIANS IN THE RUHR. Paris, April 15. Seven hundred Belgian troops have arrived at Frankfort. There was great enthusiasm among the French garrison. The Germans lined the streets, but showed no hostility. Berlin, April 15. German newspapers, commenting on M. Millerand's speech, stated that the French allegations regarding the German militaristic tendencies cannot be accepted from a Minister like M. Miller, and, whose Government is merely a tool of Marshal Foch. It is necessary to know whether the San Remo Conference will convince France that she must be permanently under the political and moral control of her Allies.

In the National Assembly the Defence Minister announced that he had ordered the arrest of Major Ebhardt, commander of the Baltic naval force, a portion of which was being disbanded and disarmed, forcibly, if necessary. The Minister added that the news from Pwnerania was most serious. He warned the Conservatives that the Government would not permit fresh disturbteees. The Government troops could not leave the Ruhr district until all arms had been surrendered. Berlin, April 15. Tie Imperial Guards occupied Plauen quietly. The Bavarian Guards ousted toe Beds at Klingenthal, intercepting motorcars con tailing 600,000 marks, which Hoelz had extracted from terroriced capitalists. Hoelz, before his departure, blew up a section of the Klin-"eoithal-Zreadenthpl railways.—Aus.&Z. fiftW* Ami -