BRITAIN'S REPLY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 110, 10 May 1923, Page 5

BRITAIN'S REPLY.

AN OFFICIAL REPROACH. 'RESENTMENT IN FRANCE. fgß DEVASTATIONS ACCOXINT. tat C»We-" _I * r ' ss AssoclatlOD_ " r ° pyr,s,lt - 1 (Beedred I- 30 P m^ PARIS, May 9. The French Press gives prominence , «- Stanley Baldwin's statement In X Houee of Commons on the German St, The "Journal" cay- that it is STdeclsration of a man in a bad though he may not have realised '''The "Matin" remarks that the main Jnt is that Jt Beem9 t0 r «P, roa f h hince, officially this time with the lime l»ck of courtesy in whiA the Swiiih Press already accused us. "o* Victoire" asks: "What interests Wto the Allied nations to serve by pub£«uv picking at each other. We St this deplorable habit dieapwith Mr. Lloyd George." Eclair" says that m order to Mr. Bonar Law M. Poincare ~L nM d «ibmit France's debit account fw the devastated areas and ask this •mf man of justice whether France rtmany-should pay.-(A. and N.Z are indignant at the Marquis of Curzon's statement in the Ho\i*e of Lords, and consider that crltictane of the Franco-Belgian action , rt unfounded. They hope that the incident, which is generally considered «; question of amour propre wiU not lave serious consequences. —(Renter.) y SEVERE CRITICISM I OF THE GERMAN OFFER. LONDON, May 9. ■Hie diplomatic correspondent of the •Daily Telegraph" states that the Briteih reply to the German Note will probably be'handed to th« German Ambaswdor in London on Thursday or Prioty. Its criticism of the German offer will be severe, but it will avoid tilting lides in the Ruhr controversy. Begret may be expressed that Britain'e advice has not been more fully acted «pon.—(A. and X.Z. Cable.)