GERMAN ILLS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17936, 3 December 1923, Page 9

GERMAN ILLS.

NEW CABINET FORMED.

CENTRE PARTY VENTURE. C»T CABLE—P2SS3 ASSOCIATION —COPTEIGHT.) (ACSTBiLLAS AJTD K.I. CABLE ASSOCIATION'.) BERLIN, November 30. Dr. Marx, of thc Central Party, has formed a Cabinet, in which ho is Chancellor, Herr Jarres, Minister of the Interior, Dr. Ton Gessler, Defence Minister, anil Dr. Stresemann Foreign Minister. The new Cabinet is approximately the same in character a3 the last; except that it contains more representatives of parties on tho Right. The new Government will rely on the support of the Centre, German Peoples' and Democratic Parties in the Reichstag, and the Socialists are expected to be benevolently neutral, as they have no desire for a new crisis, which would result in the dissolution of the Reichstag. Thc Opposition will consist of the German Nationalists, therefore the Cabinet will not have a majority in the Reichstag; but if the Socialists are quiescent, the Cabinet should continue until the elections next year. RUMOURS OF ARMAMENT. IN NOWISE OFFICIAL. LONDON, November 30. A numbre of papers liave taken, up, in a sensational manner, yesterday's statement in regard to German disarmament, assuming that it was an official statement evoked by enquiries with regard to reports from Paris and Berlin attributing certain statements to General Bingham, head of tho central section of the Allied Military Commission. The information contained in the statement, althotigh authoritative, was in nowise official, and had not emanated from any French source. GERMANY MUST APOLOGISE MOLESTATION OF ALLIES. (SI CABLE —PEE S3 ASSOCIATION COPTMGHT.) (RETTUSJI'S IKIiEOBAJIS..) PARIS, November 30. It is semi-officially stated that tho Conference of Ambassadors has prepared a Note for despatch to Germany demanding a formal apology for the recent molestation of members of the Inter-Allied Control Commission. The statement adds that the British delegates associated themselves unreservedly with their colleagues.

RHINELAND REPUBLIC.

NEW PRIME MINISTER.

(BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTBALIAN AND U.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

BERLIN, November 30

Herr Hector Merz has succeeded Dr. Mattlies as Prime Minister of the Provisional Government of the Rhincland Republic. It is stated that Dr. "Matthes, in a letter to M. Tirard, French High Commissioner, admitted that his administration collapsed becauee it consisted mainly of dishonest and incapable persons. Advices from Cologne state that Separatists who were arrested in the British zone were sentenced to six months' imprisonment for being, in possession of firearms. The President of the Court said that the Court was not prepajed to give judgment on political questions, but the British could not tolerate the entry of fully-armed men into British occupied territory contrary to the ordinances of the Bhineland High Commission. UNEMPLOYMENT INCREASING, BERLIN November 30. Unemployment in unoccupied Germany on November 15 th affected 1,250,000 people, compared with less than 1,000,000 ou October Ist. Unemployment in the, occupied regions numbered over 2,000,000. REICHSTAG TO MEET. (BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COrmIGET.) (AUSTBALIAN AND H.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received December 2nd, 5.5 p.m.)

LONDON, December 1

The Berlin correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Agency states that Dt. Marx is summoning tho Reichstag immediately, for the purpose of authorising new emergency law.