CABLE NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 4218, 15 February 1921, Page 4

CABLE NEWS

U*J Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.-) (Aust.-N.Z. Cable, Association.) SIMONS ON THE REPARATIONS. Berlin, January 11. lli.ii- Simons, in a speech at Stuttgart, declared that the repartitions demands, which were based o:i Germany's luture exports, were fantastical." The 12 per cent, duty was impossible and would injure the entire European trade. Counter proposals would siiow that Germany was i«..«dy to work in bitter earnest to heal the war wounds provided it was within bee rapacity. The counter pioposais irotiid not f>e fantastical, but what Germany could pay wit h an cli'oiv, A hug., loan would be necessary to ivhahilitalci tottoring countries, luit tins could only bo raised by scrapping the terms of the Versailles Treaty. DELHI DEMONSTRATORS. Delhi, February 13. There was a great. noll-Co-opel'.ltort' demonstration in the city yesterday afternoon. Gandhi and other extremist leaders, in a decorated car. escorted bv mounted volunteers, led a procession of 100,000 through the streets. Tho temper of the crowd at limes was threatening. At one point they prevented an American photographer from operating by forcibly holding his arms to his -ides, but no serious incidents have so far been reported. DISPOSITION OF GEHMAN CABLES, Washington, February 12. The American Government "ill demand a definite setleilleiit ol the question of the disposition ul former German cables at the Communications Conference meeting on February 15. The United States will also insist that Yap should lie open to all nations, as a '-aide base on terms of equality, it is understood that Britain is willing thai the former Gernian-l'nitod'Stntes Atlantic cable now touching British soil should revert to its original position. France has already raised obstacles against the restoration ol the German cable, which she has diverted to Brest.