SITUATION IMPROVED.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1920, Page 5

SITUATION IMPROVED.

GERMAN DEMANDS UNACCEPTABLE. COAL MINERS PROTEST. Received July 17, 1.10 a.m. Spa, July 15. Herr Ton Simons (Foreign Minister) sent Mr. Lloyd George a Note intimating the Germans' acceptance of the Allied terms in regard to the delivery of coal in time to prevent the presentation of an ultimatum. An hour later the formal German Note was delivered. The conference subsequently discussed the German proposals. The situation is regarded qs improved, but it is unlikely the German conditions will be accepted in their present form.—Reuter Service. Received July 17, 1.10 a.m. Berlin, July 15. After a conference of coal workers at Bochum, Herr Hue urgently telegraphed to Herr von Simons at Spa declaring a growing disinclination on the part of the miners to increase the number of extra shifts, or even to continue the present number, owing to the eytraordinary bad food, high temperature, and reports from Spa of measures for compulsion. Herr Hue l added that the Union' of Christian Coal Workers protests against the increase in hours of work, and hopes coal workers throughout the work will join the protest. Herr Hue concluded: "The German workers are not cut out of such soft wood as to allow themselves to be robbed of their right by the bayonets of Sengalese and negroes, or to be forced to slave in the service of foreign capitalists.—Reuter Service. Received July 17, 1.10 a.m. London,-July 15. The Allies propose to pay five marks a tot for coal above the Treaty price. They will occupy the Ruhr on November 15th if deliveries are short.—times Service.