THE BREACH

Taranaki Daily News, 15 March 1921, Page 5

THE BREACH

LONDON CONFERENCE. THE GENTLEMANLY ENGLISH. GERMAN’S COMMENT ON ALLIES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Received March 14, 5.5 p.m. Berlin, March 12. General von Seeckt, giving his impressions of the London Conference, said Mr. Lloyd George intended to bring the negotiations somehow to a positive result and only reluctantly, after pressure by the French, agreed to the ultimatum and the break-up of the conference. General von* Seeckt, contrasting the London' Conference with the Versailles ind Spa Conferences, declared that the ittitude of the French and the Belgians it Versailles and Spa towards the Gernans resembled what one might expect from the Kaffirs of Central Africa, but the attitude of the English in London was in every way correct and gentlemanly. —-Reuter Service. A DANGEROUS GAME. GERMAN BANKS WARNED. Paris, March 13. The Temps is apprehensive of a coup-de-force by Germany over the Silesian plebiscite. The Temps states, on the authority of the Frankfurter Zeitung, that the Reichsbank and other German banks will no longer undertake to collect cheques on London and Paris. It will be well, says the Temps, if Germany is earned that she is playing a dangerous fame. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn/ ALLIES’ GRAVE NEEDS. CAUSE OF DEMANDS. Berlin, March 13. During his speech in the Reichstag 3err von Simons admitted that when >ne heard from gentlemen in London af the conditions in their coutries, one must acknowledge their demands were not the result of the intoxication of victory or hunger for power, but were due to their extraordinarily grave anxieties ind needs. Herr von Simons’ remarks produced noisy protests from the Right, countered by approving shouts from the Left. BAVARIA STUBBORN. Received March 14, 5.5 p.m. Berlin/March 12. All thfc federal States of the Imperial Council, except Bavaria, which dissented. passed a Bill providing for the execution of the Peace Treaty articles prohibiting the existence of so-called selfprotection organisations.—Reuter Seriica.