GERMANY

Evening Star, Issue 18531, 14 January 1924, Page 5

GERMANY

THE PALATINATE MURDERS. FRENCH ATTITUDE CONDEMNED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BERLIN, January 11. Germany is practically depending on London and Pans for news of the Speyer Presumably the Separatists have established a strict censorship, and it is known that they have arrested a number of prominent Germans in the Palatinate as hostages. The newspapers comment furiously on French action in supporting the Separatists, and point out that the Bavarian Government had issued a warrant against Herr Heintz for high treason. —A. and N.Z. Cable.

RHINELAND HIGH COMMISSIONER -v ACTS.

PARIS, January 11. Advices state that as a result of the assassination of Herr Heintz the repre•sentative of the Rhineland High Commission has prohibited entry to the Palatinate by non-residents from unoccupied Germany, and has ordered the closing of the Rhineland bridges except at Ludwigshaven and Mannheim. The curfew has been imposed it Speyer, and all meetings have been forbidden.—Reuter, SIX DEATHS. BERLIN, January 11. The death of one of the persons wounded at Speyer makes the victims six. The occupation authorities at Coblenz, owing to the imminent danger of a fresh Separatist revolt, have ;re-armed the German police. The Separatists have strengthened their garrison at Castle Coblenz.—Reuter, REPARATIONS SUGGESTIONS BY STINNES. PARIS, January 11. Interviewed by 1 Le Journal des Debats’ Herr Stinnes said that the Ruhr industrialists had agreed to pay the reparations for/the Reich until April 15, after which date they could not continue to do so. Herr Stinnes-outlined a scheme for deliveries in kind as a subsequent form of settlement. Herr Stinnes advocated that the Reich should pay the German mines and factories for deliveries under long-term contracts to the Allied industrialists, who should pay their respective Governments for these , deliveries. Such payments would be written down to the Reparations Account, and the Reich would ensure the repayment of the industrialists _by the allocation of a revenue from certain taxes. Herr Stinnes was optimistic that all difficulties could bo solved if the plan were adopted. The alternative to a sound Franco-German agreement was w-ar. —A. and N.Z. Cable. THE SEAMEN’S DISPUTE. LONDON, January 11. A temporary settlement of the shipping dispute has been reached after a meeting of the British trade unions concerned, and also between the captain of the Frankenwald, the agents of the company, and the German Consul. It has been decided to resume work pending the convocation of a conference in London, which the German shipowners will be requested to attend.—Reuter. [The crews of a number of German vessels at Hull and London struck last week, demanding the British rates of pay.] THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES. BRUSSELS, January 12. The Belgian v«ply to the German memorandum of December 24 regarding the administration of the occupied territories says that discussion of the modus vivendi must be restricted to details of regime and of pledges. It rejects certain administrative proposals sought to be introduced by Germany.—A. and N.Z. Cable. PARIS, January 12. A Note on the same memorandum has been handed to the German Charge d’Affaires, who was informed that the door remained open for further conversations. -A. and N.Z. Cable. ANARCHISTS AND COMMUNISTS FALL OUT. PARIS, January 12. An encounter between the Anarchists and Communists broke out at a meeting called to protest against the occupation. Shots were fired, and two persons were killed and two seriously wounded. Fifteen were hit. —Reuter.