GERMANY.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17016, 13 December 1920, Page 7

GERMANY.

ECONOMIC WAR ON POLAND. (By Cable—PrcM —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association.) "WARSAW, December 10. Germany has declared an economic war on Poland, refusing exports and imports, thus aggravating the exchange position, ■which is already very bad. EEET-SUGAE HARVEST. » BERLIN, December 11. Germany's beet harvest for 1920 will be 23,000,000 centners, obviating the necessity for any imports. Hereafter, Germnnv will be a sugar-exporting country! DEFENCE ORGANISATIONS. BERLIN', December 10 A Note to the Inter-Allied Military Control Commission says that Germany never recognised the obligation to disband self-defence organisations, which are non-military, and only temporary, but necessary. (Received Defember 12th, 5.5 p.m.) BER.LIX, December 10. Tho Government has informed the inter-Allied Commission that it cannot consent to disarm non-military sclfdeferiee organisations, because they are reovircd to oppose internal and external Bolshevism. EVASION OF OBLIGATIONS. PARIS, December 10.. At a meeting of tho Foreien Affairs Committco it was stated that nonAllied advances to Germany to improve tho feeding of tho Ruhr minors had been expended for that purpose. M. Leygnes deelnred that Gormany undoubtedly had not carried out her undertakings. He added that France, in her 1921 Budcet, was providing advances of a milliard of marks to Germany, and this situation could not last.