SPA DEADLOCK

Gisborne Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5534, 16 July 1920, Page 5

SPA DEADLOCK

FRENCH PRESS APPLAUDS LLOYD GEORGE.

HUNS’ COAL SUPPLY OFFER INADEQUATE.

GRAVE SITUATION CREATED

United Press Association —O-ovr'izh*-LONDON, July 13. The Daily Chronicle Spa correspondent says: It is hardly possible to hope that the deadlock • will - be solved by agreement. The German delegates arc listless, and like a bankrupt whose' case cannot he made worse. unless some unexpected interposition occurs. The Allies will he driven to take coercive measures, repeatedly foreshadowed. PARIS, Julv 14. The newspapers applaud Mr Llovd George’s attitude. Le Matin states that he suggested that Marshal Foch. and General Wilson he summoned ito So a.

, SPA, July 13. A Conference' communique states. Von Simons advanced serious difficulties facing the German Government as regard's a greater coal ton- , nage until it has obtained the owners’ and miners’ assent to increase the output. He submitted German proposals for delivery 0 f fifty-six thousand tons per working day from next October, and 68,000* tons daily n-oni October 1921, conditionally on toe possibility of improving the feedmg andl housing of workmen. , , , e . Belgian Premier expressed on lehalt of the Allies their deep disappointment. He -said the reply created: a ; grave situation. He re-' minded Von Simons that the Jin-' partitions Commission had alreadv reduced the treaty provisions as regards coal, and of the Allies willingness to still hear the German explanation and offers. He added that m view of the German Government’s attitude which took account neither of treaty reparations nor the Commission s programme, and made totally inadequate offers, the Confer"’r 11 C i bo pended t 0 enable tlie _ Allies to examine the situation. concludes: Vlarivih '° < h nnd Fi «M-Marshal Wilson tors of • Sl l mmoncd Spn for matters of extreme urgency.—Reuter.

BREAK-UP OF CONFERENCE imminent.

ALLIES MAY OCCUPY RUHR VALLEY.

MILITARY LEADERS CONFER

ti dir LONDON. Julj 14. I 1 10 Allied delegates met on Tuesi . -iaishal loch and General Magluie.se, and conferred on the military situation.

Meanwhile no communication is bein ff held with the Germans. It appears that a break-up is immmcnt and the Allies will occupv the Ruhr Valiev.

'ltalian and British generals are expected to-night. Von Simons requested'an audience with Mr. Lloyd-George who, after consulting M. Millerand, agreed. ]Mr. Lloyd-George earnestly pointed out the gravity of the situation, emphasising that the Allies were not hluffmg.

(Received July 15. 2.30 p.m ", „ r SPA. Julv 14. _ Marshal Foch has arrived' The Germans declare they will wait and see what the Entente does. The Allies retort that they will occupv the Ruhr Valley rather than accept Von Simons’ proposal. Stinns _is regarded as the chief German irritant and : s directing the hand behind the German delegation, especially as \on Simons was Stinns’ secretary before the war, and so is regarded as a mere puppet. Stinns believes that the Allies aie bluffing and their apparent unity will break if the Germans continue resistance until the Bolsheviks are closer to Warsaw. He believes that the threat of a general strike wiU prevent the Allies from attempting to occupy Ruhr. The Italians alone are. reluctant to assent to the occupation of further territory.

BITTER FEELING IN BERLIN

FRENCH FLAG TORN DOWN AND STOLEN.

ALLIES READY To OCCUPY RUHR VALLEY.

(Received Julv 16. 1 a.m.) LONDON. Julv To

The Times’ Berlin correspondent says that all press correspondents from Spa. commenting on the presence of Marsha] Foch and General Wilson, reaffirm that the Germans are absolutely determined not to accept the conditions, regarding them as impossible of fulfilment. The news of the Allies’ firmness is stirring up bitter feeling. A crowd assembled before the French Embassy in Berlin and demanded the removal of a national Hag. The police drew off from the . demonstrators, whereupon a man in a German uniform climbed the roof and pulled down and stole the flag. The Embassy hoisted another and the incident created great excitement.

A Daily Mail Spa message says: The Allies are readv for the immediate occupation of the Ruhr region if the terms are rejected.-—United Service.