GERMANY'S OFFER.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 56, 7 March 1921, Page 5

GERMANY'S OFFER.

STILL TOO LOW.

NOT LIHELY OF ACCEPTANCE. AN UNOFFICIAL CONFERENCE. (Ft r.i Mo. Press Association.—dprnght.;! 'iPIiITJ 11. .",11 a:n ., LONDON, Manh 6. An unexpected development lias oc-« cuttpil in connection with the reparation.- I'r Simon* repeatedly requested an opportunity for private conversation with Mr. Lloyd Gefirge, which was re. fused, bin linally Lord rt'Abernon. flritain. Huron l.oiieheur. France, and M. rheuni-. ihe IVI-ian detefrate. had con-rcr-ationa with the Germans, and learned tho bivn.l i•■inline of tin , new proposals i.orrl d"Aheri>on. M. Briand. Karon Lourheur. ;in.l M. TluMinis went to Chequers Court and wnv Mr. Lloyd George, who rammniiril an immediate meeting of the ffupre'ir- ( oiim-il at Downing Street this ewnitie. It is understood that the propo-aN are r-till considerably short of the Allied 1 demand, and cannot be accepted.— (A and NX ( able.) BETTER OFFER MADE.

TOO MANY CONDITIONS. l-OXDON, March 6. Tt is understood that Dr. Simons, head of the Herman delegation to the Reparation Conference, has received alternative proposals from Berlin for submission to the conference on Monday. These artbased on increased taxation which would give the Allies three-quarters of the indemnity demanded. but German delegates fear that the conditions will make the proposals unacceptable. A request from Dr. Simon for a private conference with M. Briand and Mr l.loyd George before Monday"s conference was refused. It is reported thftt the German delegation is only united in order to jrain time, and that sham divergencies are suppressed. The German Cabinet is anxious to confer further with financial and industrial magnates. Mr. Lloyd George is cons-uiting Admiral Earl Beatty. Marshal Foch has summoned General Degoutte, the Allied generaHssimo of the Rhine forces, to Paris. The "Times" correspondent aC Paris advises that French dreadnoughts have coaled and taken aboard munitions at Toulon, and are ready to join the British blockade and to occupy Hamburg. Dr. Simons, in an interview published in the "Sunday Times." declares that Germany honestly wants to discharge her obligations, but she cannot pay to the extent the Paris Conference demanded. "We desire." he says, "to pay as much as we can, but rather than agree to the Paris proposals, which would cause Germany's economic strangulation, the German people will submit to the penalties announced. Wp strongly object to the long term of 4J years, shackling- two generations."—(A. and >T.Z.)

KEICHSTACt DISORDERS. RECONSTRUCTION CABINET^ LONDON", March 6. Berlin advices stat?t that all psrt'es except the Independent Socialists and Communists, cheered the declaration of the President of the ReuOistag that Mr. L'oyd George's was irreconcilable -K-ith the Versail!c-= Treaty. Pandemonium succeeded when tlie CommuiUft ]eader. Herr Hoffmann, attempted to demand the reading ot thy whole instead of extracts from th? speech, anj the suspension of the sitii.ig bncjme ntccssaiy. The President, Herr Ebvrt, liss summoned part}" leaders to discuss a reconstruction of the Cabinet, with the view of including Nationalists and Socialists. The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that evening newspapers make a feature of Mr. Lloyd George's catalogue of destruction in France, bringing home for the first time to many Germans the enormity of havoc in Northern France. Herr Branting, the Swedish Socialist leader and former Prime Minister, writing in the "Social Demokraten," sharply criticises the London Reparation Conference. He says that a fiasco at London, does not a triumph for the threatening creditors, but it does mean a triumph for Lenin.— (A. and X.Z. Cable.)