CONDEMNED IN ADVANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 104, 3 May 1923, Page 5

CONDEMNED IN ADVANCE.

A POLITICAL MANOEUVRE. MINIMUM OP FRANCE. (Received 10.30 a.m.) PARIS, May 2. The Newspapers generally condemn in advance Germany's new* Reparations *ote, which they regard as merely an effort t» improve Germanj-'s position in .the eyes of America and 'Britain. "Le JoernaP declares that France and Belgium require but one thing from Germany, that is acceptance of the debt payments fixed in May, 1021.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) CRITICISM OF THE I.EAGTJE. HOT PERMITTED IN THE SAAR. LONDON, May 2. Sr John Simon (Liberal), in the House ot Commons, asked whether the League of Nations Council in March adopted a proposal to fcsue a decree by the League, as the responsible body under the Versailles Treaty for the administration of M f aar '™ akin g >t an offence punishao c by a fine or imprisonment to criticise Publicly the Treaty of Versailles or the actions of the League, and what action *ne fln.ish representative took. -Mr.-Stanley Baldwin replied that the Matement was substantially correct With ' ard , t0 -I* British representative's attitude, the President of the Hoard of Education (Mr. K. V. L. Wood) would make a statement next «eek.-(A. and - ■"•«■• table.)