TREACHEROUS HUNS

Gisborne Times, Volume LII, Issue 5462, 24 April 1920, Page 5

TREACHEROUS HUNS

REPORT OF ALLIED MISSION. DELI BERATE ATTEMPTS AT OPPOSITION. WAR MATERIAL DEPOTS DISCOVERED. IMPUDENT REQUESTS TO ALLIES. United Press Association —.Cor -rightPARIS. April 22. Le Petit I’arisiea states that General Masterman, heat! or the Allied C'ommissson on Air Control, reported to the Ambassadors’ Conference that the Germans wore deliberately opposing attempts at checking wa. material. rendering the mission’s journeys most difficult. German officers are everywhere behaving with hostility. Aviation material was stolen. War material depots were discovered in the neighborhood _of Berlin. Fresh construction is being conducted secretlv.—-Reuter. SAN REMO. April 21. A German delegation presented three Notes with a request that they be sent to San Remo. The first asks for a decision regarding the number ox German troops permitted in the neutral zone. It also asks permission to double the strength of the Eeichswcin-. The third asks for permission to maintain a general staff, and create railwav companies, and aviation groups : also permission to re-estab-lish heavv artillery.—-A. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

LONDON. April 22. Air Ballonr has been summoned to San Remo.

An unfavorable symptom is that M. Millerand and Signor Nitti are liesirous of returning to their own countries on Sunday, giving no time to sift tin- situation.

(Received April 2d. 7.30 p.m.t 'S.-\X REMO. April 22

The German Note asking permission to increase the Army to two hundred thousand argues that the Government forces are insufficient to suppress trouble provoked by extremists and* re-establish order. Ihe Note dwells on the danger oi a Bolshevist revolution and contends that an insufficient military force in Germany will prejudice the Allies because the Government will be unable to conform to the economic stipulation of the treaty. It also urges a postponement of the reduction ot the jinny to 200.000 until the situation in Germany is consolidated. The Note declares that the cohesion of the army is greatly impaired by the uncertainty of the future and urges a settlement of tile question without delay, otherwise the consequence to Germany and to Europe will he incalculable.

The Note proposes that the army of 200.000 should consist of twelve infantry divisions, three cavalry divisions. and three infantry brigades, with three batteries of heavy artillery for each infantry division, also a total of eight- groups of aviators.— Imperial News Service.

INNER HISTORY OF SAX REMO CONFERENCE. 111! FT ISM I’ll EMI KB ,IN DIEEI- - POSITION. MILLERAND STANDS ALONE TO FACE FFTFRE PERIL. DANGER OF MORALE OF ENTENTE BEING BROKEN. LONDON. April 21. Mr. I’orris. the Daily Chronicle's special Sa.g Remo correspondent, summarising the inner history of the conference. says:When M. Millerand. Signor Nitti. and Mr. Lloyd-Gcorge met, the latter laughingly remarked. "Well, licie we are in paradise, but whore is the serpent?” Mr. Ferris says that Mr. Lloyd-George is by far the strongest man. but is painfully torn between deep conviction for the necessity of a reasunable attitude towards Germany and deep sense of France’s wounds and difficulties. Signor Nitti has some resemblance to Mr. LloydGeorge, which makes malignant the charge that, Signor Nitti has an inclination towards the restoration of tin' old understanding between Italy and Germany. As a tact Signor Nitti has the wisdom to recognise the peril of any policy of adventure at the present time. It is unlair to say that M. Millerand is the serpent, lmt lie lias inherited a role of immense difficulty from A!. Clemenceau. Tin: French conservative. militaristic Right is now trying to drive AI. Alillerniul to extremes. Other leading Frenchmen profess to he utterly hopeless of France getting reparation on tile security promised l>y the Versailles Treaty. They regard the Berlin Government as a leehle effigy ot the Junker Government. It is potsiblc that at any moment the AngmA merica n convention on which France relics may become valueless, owing to America's attitude. I hey point out that England cannot be relied upon for immediate substantial aid. Italy is oven less reliable. There is no Russia to aid France. Consequently Frames tends alone to face the future peril. 1 hose urge that the sooner that Germany s infractions of the treaty are punished the better.

If (lervnan disarmament is not completed the quantity of coal to be delivered to the Rhine frontier should he made definite or the Ruhr valley occupied. A struggle is going oil behind the scenes to impose these views upon the three Premiers, tins is a grievous spectacle, and lilustra\es the ineffectuality of democratic barties to deal with internationa matters. There is a danger to civil orovernmcut if France is pushed into further separate action and the morale of the Knteiite thus broken, which would he a calamity.—A. and Cable Assn.

FRANCE’S FEARS

GERM \XY MAY ESCAPE, FI'LFIL- ' ME NT OF TREATY. IMPUDENT HEX PRESS. DEMAND REVISION AS MATTER OF RIGHT. LONDON. April 22. Though the supposed differences between England. France and Italy, regarding the necessity of exacting full compliance with the Peace treaty ( from Germany are at present only based on rumors, they are taken uit extreme seriousness in France, where tiie newspapers almost unanimotisb fear that Germany will be allowed 10 escape fulfilment of treaty obligations. The commonest version is that Siwnor Nitti desires a revision m Germany’s favor; that M. Nip”, demands strict compliance: and that Mr Llovd-George occupies a mici position.' and it is uncertain how tar he will incline to one side or the other. Home French newspapers that the next few days wdl decide on continuance or dissolution 01 the itntv" Contemporaneous with Gerraanv s triple Note, cabled yesterday, is the increasing frankness of German news Paper comment. A portion oi the press openly hope for heuefit by En tente disagreement._ and are Wi uin rr to demand revision as a matter of riMit. The impression is current in Germany that Mr. Llovd-George agrees with Signor Nitti in principle. bSt is not not tl^meons. T n Matin’s San Remo correspondent asserts that Mr. Lloyd-George and Signor Nitti suggested that tk German Government- should he invited to participate in the conference to discuss the restoration of political and economic relations with the Allies. M. Millerand declared that the proposal was unacceptable. »

| AI. Millerand. interviewed by iLe Matin, declared that when Germany was able to prove good faith in carrying out the treaty one could talk about economic co-operation. Le Matin adds. ‘‘AI. Millerand - s attitude was a hint- to Air. Lloyd-George that he is taking the wrong step."—A. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

• GIVE GERA!AN GOVERNMENT A CHANCE.'’ POLICY OF BRITAIN. BELGIUM UNITED STATES AND JAPAN. LONDON PRESSMAN'S VIEWS. All LEER AND WANES DLSARAIAAIEXT. United Press Association—Copyright- ! Received April 22, 10.40 p.m.) LONDON. April 23. Air Perris, writing from San Remo, says that the German Note will be a blessing to all concerned if itobliges the Supreme Council to study the German problem in close detail. The British Government i s largely guided by the reports of the military scattered up and down Germany. They consider the Reic-iisvehr’s advance justifiable as a police measure and regard it as only a technical infringement of the Treaty. They are not sure that French opinion is correct in ascribing it as a deliberate evasion. Alilitary reports insist oil the semi-starvation of the German people and quote as an example Cologne, where instead of the 3000 ialor.es which food experts consider necessary, the people only receive 1300 calories. The Briti-n poiicy whicli Italy, Belgium. United States

and Japan i- supporting, i-. to give the harassed German Government- a

Aly inquiries suggest that the 1' reach attitude on the German Note will not be favorable, hut AI. Aiillerand is inclined to make allowances m connection with the economical provisions of the Treaty. AI. ALllerand, interviewed, stRuT "Air Lloyd George declares himself against any military revision, the ! roaty. I s ovora! times said that in the ceononmic sphere it is very desirable to renew normal relations between France and Germany, but Germany must prove her good faith Indeed. In tile Allied Aviation Commission report everywhere the Commission meets with evidence of bad iaito, material being hidden and inspection avoided. Aly opinion is there is only one remedy by which the .Allies can obtain peace—namelv, disarmament.—A. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

(Received A'pril 21. 12.33 a.m.) SAN REMO. April 22. AI. Millerand in an interview said that as regards the enforcement of the treaty there is no real Anglofrench divergence. Ho had no doubt that an agreement would by readied on other points. France insists on tile disarmament of Germany. Tiio report of the Air Commission gave evidence that Germany was determined to attempt to evade the treaty. Ai. Millerand said he regarded Germany’s request to increase the army ;is another attempt to evade her obligations.—A. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

SENSATION AT CONFERENCE OF ambassadors; GENERAL AIASTU.MA DESCRIBES GERMAN DUPLICITY. (Received April 24. 12.33 a.m.) PARIS, April 22. General Ala.-tuma caused a sensation at tin- Ambassadors’ Conference by describing German officials’ devices to baffle his mission by concealing war material.

FOOD SHORTAGE IN RUHR REGION. WORKERS OFFER INCREASED OUTPUT FOR TuOcTF, RATIONS. (Received April 23, 10.40 p.m.) PARIS, April 22 ; The food shortage in tin* Ruhr Valley has become serious, particularly at Essen, where the food consists mostly of bread and potatoes, but tbe bread ration has been reduced to two pounds weekly. The Essen Workmen sent a deputation to the Reparation authorities stating that they were willing to increase the output if supplied with increased rations which wore insufficient to sustain a working man. The authorities are considering the representations.—A. jind N.Z. Cable Assn.