FRANCE AND GERMANY.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17812, 11 July 1923, Page 9

FRANCE AND GERMANY.

POLICY OF BRITAIN. PRIME MINISTER TO MAKE STATEMENT. (a? CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN ASD X.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION (Received July 10th, 10.40 p.m.) LONDON, July 9. In the House of Commons the Prime Minister, Mr S. Baldwin, said he hoped it would be possible for him to make a statemoi" with regard to the reparation problem on Thursday. CONDITIONS IN GERMANY THE POLITICAL SITUATION. (Received July 10th, 11.45 p.m.) LONDON, July 9. The Berlin correspondent of "The Times" savs the segregation of the Ruhr makes existence increasingly unbearable for the workers. Therefore, from their representatives, there goes out continual pressure on the Government to keep its policy moderate, s r o that no chance of coming to terms with France may be lost. At the same time France's policy in the Ruhr is driving the Nationalists of the Right over to the more violent Opposition. The results of the provincial elections suggest that the Centre Party is going to the wall, and that the Cuno Government is becoming more susceptible to tho influence of the Right. As a matter of fact, the heads of any Government giving signs of readiness to parley would be in danger of assassination by the murder bands of the Right. Conditions are becoming like those of 1918, but this time the Right does not mean to be stabbed from behind by a revolution of , the masses without a struggle. It is getting ready to and means to get its blow in first. FRANCE IN THE RUHR. RETALIATORY ARRESTS. (Received July 10th, 11.46 p.m.) LONDON, July 9. 1 The Cologne correspondent of "The Times" says the French authorities announce in Dusseldorf that in retaliation for the arrest' of a French citizen, Sehuldee, in May, and his detention pending trial at Leipzig, they have decided to arrest every other day one German in a good position who will be kept in ordinary prison cells till Sehuldee is released. They have already imprisoned a High School professor, a bank director, a lawyer, and a college principaL SLUMP IN EXCHANGES. MARK STILL PLUNGING. (Received July 10th, 10.40 p.m.) LONDON, July 9. The foreign exchanges are nervous and depressed, owing to the political tension The exchange on Paris is 78.80 francs to the £; on Rome 108$ lire to the £,; and on Berlin 1,325,000 marks to the &. BERLIN, July 9. A committee of the Reichstag which investigated the causes of the fall of the mark found that the Government was itself responsible for the fall, which was attributed to extensive purchases of foreign coal by the railway administration, without notifying the Reichstag or other authorities. FOOD RIOTS IN BERLIN. (REOTEE'S TXLJSGBAMS.) (Received July 11th, 12.5 a.m.) BERLIN, July 9. Food riots occurred near Potsdam. Thousands of people rushed the shops and compelled butchers to sell meat at 10,000 instead of 40,000 marks a pound. The police restored order.