"MUST GET OUT"

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 288, 18 July 1924, Page 6

"MUST GET OUT"

GERMANY'S TONE TO ALLIES SHARP LESSON BY FRENCH London July '* Much, space is being devoted by the German Press to the forthcoming Allied Conference in London, at 'which says the .Berlin correspondent of the "Times/' it is presumed the .question of the evacuation of the -Ruhr amd other "non-Treaty" areas will be discussed. The "Zcif," which is the organ ol Dr. Slreseniann (Foreign Minister), and must, therefore, bo taken to reflect the views of the German Foreign Office, maintains that as the cities of Dusseldorf, Duisberg, and Ruhrort, were occupied on the pretext that Germany was not fulfilling her treaty obligations, it is obvious that thejr occupation becomes invalid and their evacuation imperative; the moment a general agreement is reached regarding the fulfilment of the treaty provisions. Tin; "Zeit" adds significantly: "It must be quite clearly and uncquivccably understood that, -without definite assurances with regard to the evacuation of the'Ruhr and the three cities mentioned, no final result can he achieved at the London conference." '' A French court-martial at Dortmund .sentenced four Germans to 10 year' jinprijjonmclit for belonging to a local secret society organised for the military training of civilian volunteers.

Evidence was given that the society sunt volunteers for six weeks' training in occupied territory.