GERMAN DEBTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1934, Page 12

GERMAN DEBTS

BRITISH CREDITORS’ DEMAND.

[BY CABLE-—PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] LONDON, August 11. A mass meeting of textile manufacturers was held at Manchester. It was decided unanimously to continue to press for payment of outstanding debts by German importers of textiles from Britain. It was stated that mills will remain stopped, and that more will stop, unless the Government insists on Germany paying up. British coal exporters are also dissatisfied. It is estimated that Germany owes a million sterling to British traders, who declare they will send no more goods to Germany until they are paid.

GOODS PRICE CONTROL.

BERLIN, August 11.

A decree of the Ministry of Economics virtually places the prices of all goods and commercial enterprises under Government control.

PASTORS ARRESTED. (Recd. August 13, Noon.) BERLIN, August 12. Many members of the Pastors’ Emergency League have been arrested for reading from their pulpits a message of defiance to Bishop Mueller, based on the Second Epistle to Timothy, 2, 19, accusing Mueller’s National Synod of accepting laws legalising injustice, violating the Constitution and ecclesiastical laws. The League declines to do this, and calls upon the churches 'and congregations to 'Support it.

11. Timothy, chapter 2, verse 19: “Nevertheless, the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let everyone that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.”