REPARATIONS

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 154, 25 March 1922, Page 9

REPARATIONS

COMMISSION’S DEMANDS ON GERMANY UNACCEPTABLE TO BERLIN CLOSER UNION WITH RUSSIA TALKED OF The Reparations Commission's demands on Germany . have created a deep impression in Berlin, but the London “Telegraph's" correspondent says the uproar should not be taken very seriously, as it Is largely stage thunder. By Telegraph—Press association. —Copyright. Berlin, March 23. The "Reparations Commission’s Note has created the deepest impression. The conditions proposed are completely unacceptable. Political leaders fear that tlie question will lead to political chaos. It is declared that if the Entente desires to bring about the closest possible union between a German Communist Government and Bolshevik Russia, no other plan than that proposed need be proffered.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn. LARGELY STAGE THUNDER ' NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY’. (Rec. March 24, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 23. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent states that the uproar over the Reparations Commission’s Note should not be taken very seriously. It was largely stage thunder, which would have rumbled Ju si as ■loudly if the Commission had proposed a complete cancellation of Germany’s debts. An-, other largo proportion of the noise was due to party tactics in order to prove that Republican governments are essentially bad and weak. Among the factors which exercise a calming effect' will be the annual report of the HandeTsgesellchaft, the first of Berlin’s big banks, whose last year’s balance-sheet shows a net profit of sixty-two million marks, and after placing forty millions lb reserve pays a'~£ividcnd of 16 per cent. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.