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Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1921, Page 5

REPARATIONS.

GERMANY REJECTS TERMS. BERLIN CABINET UNANIMOUS. NEW OFFER TO BE MADE, LARGER INDEMNITY WITH CONDITIONS. Jij Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 6, 55 p.m. London, March 5. The German delegation has been informed that the Berlin Cabinet ia unanimously opposed to the adoption of the Paris peace terms.—Aue.-N.Z. Cable Received March 6, 11.5 p.m. London, March 5 It is understood that Herr von Simons has received alternative proposals from Berlin for submission to the Allies’ Conference on Monday, based on increased taxation, which will give the Allies three-quarters of the indemnity demanded, but the German delegates fear the conditions will make this unacceptable. It is reported the delegates are only united in desiring to gain time. Otherwise there are sharp divergences in the German Cabinet, which is anxious to confer further with the financial and industrial magnates. Meanwhile, Mr. Lloyd George is consulting Admiral Beatty and Marshal Foch has summoned General Degoutte, Allied Generalissimo of the Rhine Forces, to Paris. Mr. Lloyd George refused Herr von Simons’ request for a private conference with M. Briand and himself prior to Monday’s conference. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FEELING IN GERMANY. REFUSAL OF TERMS APPLAUDED. SCENE IN THE REICHSTAG, . Received March 6, 55 p.m. Berlin, March o. All parties except the Independents and the Communists cheered the Reichstag President’s declaration that Mr. Lloyd George’s speech was irreconcilable with the Versailles Treaty. Pandemonium succeeded the Communist Hoffman’s attempt to demand the reading of the whole instead of extracts from the speech, neeessitafing the sitting being suspended. Herr Ebert has summoned party leaders to discuss Cabinet reconstruction with a view to the inclusion of Nationalists and Socialists. —Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn. GERMAN DUPLICITY. FRESH PROPOSALS FORTHCOMING. London, March 4. It is understood that the German Cabinet has decided to make an effort to prevent the Allies’ sanctions being put into operation, therefore Herr von Simons will make fresh proposals on Monday next. One delegate states: “We are now considering with experts a new basis of taxation in Germany, which it is hoped will enable a better offer to be made. He frankly admitted that the delegation did not believe the Allies would accept ' the counter-proposals, which were made with a view to maintaining the faith of the German electors and to play for time. There Is also some suspicion that the Germans will again raise the Communist bogy to intimidate both the Allies and a certain section of the German electors.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DESTRUCTION IN FRANCE. J.fiE FACTS BEFORE GERMANS. Received March 6, 5.5 p.m. London, March 5. The Daily Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent states that the evening papers featured Mi. Lloyd George’s catalogue of destruction in France, bringing home ior the first time to many Germans the snormity of the havoc in Northern France.—Aue.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ANGLO -FRENCH NAVAL ACTIVITY. Paris, March 5. A correspondent advises that France s dreadnoughts coaled and munitioned at Toulon ready to join the British blockade and occupy Hamburg.