DELICATE SITUATION

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 56, 30 November 1923, Page 7

DELICATE SITUATION

ARISEN FROM THE RUHR OCCUPATION OWING TO AGREEMENT AS TO PAYMENTS PROBLEM FOR REPARATION COMMISSION A delicate situation has arisen out of the Ruhr occupation owing to the French and Belgian agreement with tho industrial magnates, under which .Franco and Belgium propose to recoup themselves for the costs of the occupation. This presents a problem for the P parations Commission. By TELEcnx’PH — Pbess Association. —Copyright. London, November 28. A new and delicate situation has arisen out of the Ruhr occupation owing to the Franco-Belgian agreement with the Ruhr industrialists, under which France and Belgium propose to recouu themselves for the costs of the occupation from the payments under the agreement. The position wafi discussed at a conference of British experts. including Sir John Bradbury. at the Foreign Office. Sir John Bradbury will report the British Government s decision to the Reparations Commission, which, according to Paris newspapers, is confronted with, the problem not merely of recognising the occupation of the Ruhr, as hitherto it has not done, but of endorsing the legality of the payments.—Reuter. COMMUNIST DEMONSTRATIONS IN BERLIN FREQUENT COLLISIONS WITH POLICE Berlin, November 28. Communist demonstrations throughout tho capital led to frequent collisions with the police, and a considerable number of policemen and civilians were wounded. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.