COMMON ALLIED REPLY

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 226, 12 June 1923, Page 7

COMMON ALLIED REPLY

TO GERMAN NOTE FRENCH PREMIER WILLING TO SIGN IF CONFINED TO REQUEST TO END REBELLION The French Premier has notified the British Foreign Office of his willingness to sign a common Allied reply to the German Note, if the toply Is confined to a request that the Reich cease the policy of rebellion. Paris, June 10. It is semi-officially, stated that M. Poincare has notified tho British Foreign Office of his willingness to sign a common Allied reply to the German Note if the reply is confined to a request that the Reich cease the policy of rebellion. If Germany fulfilled this condition, France would be prepared to negotiate with the Allies with a view to reaching an agreement on the subject of reparations on the basis contained in tha French memorandum of January.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Paris, June 10

The “Petit Parisien” says that France and Belgium are absolutely agreed on tho points discussed by M. Poincare.

The “Matin” says that .jf the British plan offers real and substantial proposals, France is willing to make sacrifices to help the re-establishment of Allied solidarity, but she is not willing that Britain should act as an arbitrator between France and Germany. Three > Germans walking in a street at Dortmund shot dead two French officers.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

STATEMENT BY CUNO ALL GERMANY PREPARED FOR SACRIFICES GUARANTEES FOR PEACE ON EQUAL TERMS Barlin, June 10. The Chancellor. Herr Cuno, after conferring with the industrial magnates and Labour leaders, told Press representatives that France complained that Germany was trying- to evade the Treaty of Versailles, but the Treaty itself mentioned the possibility of easing tho reparations to meet Germany’s ability to pay. The proposal to decide this by international arbitration emanated originally from the Reparations Commission. As soon as tho reparations demanded approximated Germany’s capacity the whole of Germany would be prepared to make sacrifices to meet the demand. The Government would use all its powers to see that industry carried a fair burden. After Germany’s last Note the world must decide for peace or destruction. Tho Government would do nothing against the passive resistance in the Ruhr, and could not if it would. Up to tho present the French had shot 50 Germans in the Ruhr, icnteaced 450 to imprisonment, and had deported 50,000 people from the occupied area. Germany was ready to give every guarantee to France for peace on eqval terms, but the Ruhr. Rhine, and Sear districts were priceless to, and indivisible from, Germany.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

TWO FRENCHMEN SHOT AT DORTMUND

GREAT ANGER AROUSED IN FRANCE

(Rec. June 11. 8.45 p.m.) Paris, June 11

The shooting of two Frenchmen at Dortmund has aroused great anger in France. One message states that tho shooting followed a street brawl between soldiers and civilians, but the London “Daily Telegraph’s” Dusseldorff correspondent says that two French non-commissioned officers were walking in the streets at 10.30 at night when they were attacked by three Germans armed with revolvers, who opened fire, killing one Frenchman outright with a bullet through the head. The other was wounded, and lived only a few moments. Other Germans near by raised an alarm, but too late to cateh the assissins. Their descriptions, however, were given, and it should be possible to identify them. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.