IMMEDIATE RELIEF FOR GERMANY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LII, Issue 8476, 22 December 1923, Page 3

IMMEDIATE RELIEF FOR GERMANY

CHAR IT V WILL BE NECESSARY. Piers Assoc, liy lei. Copyright Aust. N.Z Cable Assoc. Rec. Dec. 22, 8.5 a.m. Washington, Dec, 20. The Treasury Department stated that direct and immediate relief for Germany was imperative because of the dangerous feed shortage. This is taken to mean that France’s refusal to permit priority over repa-ra- j turns payments makes the projected ;! food credit impossible. Further- | mere, since American bank?, cannot 1 otherwise advance direct, charity s wiH be necessary to effect. relief * from famine. The Government is understood to he reluctant to abait- Jj don lhe : food credit plan since Pre-si- t dent Coolidge definitely favoured re- ! lief along purely business lines, but ) French unwillingness to abate- the re- \ paraiicrrst demands renders charity, j through Governmental and civic j bodies, the sole remaining expedient. » MILLIONS OF UNEMPLOYED | IN GERMANY. Berlin, Dec. 21. A clue to the Government’s action in regard to the ren ten mark has been revealed by the announcement that the Finance Ministry has issued a statement to civil servants that it cannot pay the: arrears of salaries, except by cheque. Though these are the- last official salaries- payable before Christmas, the unemployment doles are swallowing up the receipts at an appalling rate. The Labour Ministry states that there are 1,500,000 unemployed in unoccupied Germany and 2,000,000 in the occupied territory. The public have 4 been notified that the tax collectors offices will be open on Christmas Eve.