OCCUPIED GERMANY

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 December 1945, Page 5

OCCUPIED GERMANY

FRENCH ALOOFNESS . PARIS, December 6. France, in spite of. -the- warning by the United States Secretary of State (Mr. James Byrnes) that she may be left out of the British, Russian, and American plans, remains adamant in her refusal to accept measures for centralising the administration, of Germany, according to a French Foreign Office spokesman. She is confident that the Allies will not break their written undertaking that decisions taken by the Control Council must be unanimous. The spokesman suggested -that the question of separating the Rhineland and the Ruhr from Germany could be settled by a meeting of the four big Powers. The establishment of new frontiers by a peace treaty would be prejudiced if Germans were, now placed in control of the Rhineland and the Ruhr. Reuter’s correspondent in Paris says it is learned that the French Government has unilaterally reduced the number of the French occupation forces in Austria by 25,000. GERMANs”IN SWEDEN - (Rec. 10 a.m.) ■ STOCKHOLM, December 7. ' Balts from the Swedish internment camp, who started a hunger strike a fortnight ago, broke the strike, having temporarily achieved- the aim of evading evacuation to Russia. All were taken to the hospital. Sixteen Germans from.Lßinkaby Camp who tried to avoid extradition, are missing. They are believed to have attempted to dig an escape tunnel which collapsed on them.