THE INDEMNITY.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1920, Page 5

THE INDEMNITY.

FULL PAYMENT DEMANDED. VOICE OF THE SUFFERERS. Sj T«!t(rap6.—Preu Aiu.-Copyrlfht. Received May 23, 5.5 p.m. Paris, May 20. An inter' Parliamentary group, representing the devastated areas, Unanimously passed a resolution, which will be forwarded to M. Millerand and Mr. Lloyd George, pointing out the agreement regarding the German indemnity is really a reduttion of the German debt. M. Poincare «bok part in the discusjion, which resulted in the group demanding the full execution of the Treaty of j Versailles, which they declared only Parliament can alter.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Alio. London, May 20. The Berlin correspondent of the MornUg Post states that German newspapers comment on M. Poincare's resignation frcta the Reparation Commission with utufketlon. They declare the Hythe decisions - signify the collapse of M. policy of making Germany the whole cost of the war. ARMY OF THE FUTURE. . JMPORTJfiSCE OF DISARMAMENT. IBE REPARATION QUESTION. Received May 22, 3 p.m. London, May 18. Ib the House of Commons, Mr. Lambert expressed alarm at the recent state.iKBt by President Wilson that we needed an arms as in 1914. ' Mr. Churchill, interrupting, said the statement did not imply that we were 04 the Verge of a great catastrophe. We were in a period of great disturbance and Increasing degeneration in wanv parts of the world, but anything similar to the German onrush of 1914 need not be expected again. £<» d Robert Cecil complained that an onparalleled opportunity for making the teagne of Nations a reality had been lost by not referring the Polish-Russian dispute to the League. Mr. Bontr Law said that the Lympne conference discussed the agenda for the Spa conference, the first paramount item ftrnereof was disarmament, but he was unwilling that the Spa conference should pferent action meanwhile, and arrangementa for pressing forward disarmament Were proceeding. Referring to reparation, he pointed out that the Treaty of Versailles allowed Germany to propose b total stun instead of the arrangements; laid down in the Treaty. The Allies hoped that such a proposal would be made at Spa. There was a general feeling at Lympne that, if possible, a fixed amount should be paid. He was not in a position to give the figure provisionally Suggested. The British Government had always recognised that a special hardship had been endured by Prance, but was unwillijg to say the initial paywefttt should go to France, Britain comin# liter. That Would be utterly unfair, lint only to our own people, but to the DofeMoas, who had borne such a heavy charge. The special claims of France were recognised bv laying down a definite proportion, namely, that for every : £5 Britain received the French were to receive £ll. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GERMANY'S WAR MATERIAL. DESTRUCTION BY THE ALLIES. Received May 23, 11 p.m. Paris, May 21. General Nollet, head of the InterAllied Commission at Berlin, in an interview, (aid Germany still possesses an incredible quantity of war material. He lided: "We have already destroyed thousands of guns, which represent only a fifth of the total, exclusive of those which are being discovered daily. We established over a hundred centres of lestrucfion, which are working con-tinuously."—Aus.-N Z. Cable Assn.