VERGE OF CIVIL WAR

Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9575, 28 July 1923, Page 5

VERGE OF CIVIL WAR

GERMANY’S POSITION TO-DAY. FASCISTS AND COMMUNISTS WAIT FOR EACH OTHER TO MOVE. PEACE DEPENDS ON ATTITUDE OF REGULAR ARMY. (United Press Association—Copyright) (Received Julv 27, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 26. Tho Daily Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent reports that Germany is on tiie verge of civil war. The question is everywhere discussed. The newspapers are lull of veiled allusions to it. A walk through the working class districts provides proof of the general nervousness. Many provision and clothing shops are shut and windows guarded, and meat and groceries hidden from view. Tho Fascists and the Communists are trying to provoke one another to strike the first blow. They picture food roits such as those which occurred m Breslau, and anticipate that in the general state of panic, they will he able by .a hold coup to assert a military -dictatorship. There is a possibility, however, that the Fascists will not wait for the pretext of a Communist rising hut will venture a. stroke on their own initiative. Everything depends or the Reichswelir. if the regular army can he depended upon not to take sides, hut to stand * by the Government, civil war is unlikelv. DUSSELDORF, July 20. The frontier between occupied and unoccupied Germany which was closed as a reprisal for acts of sabotage has been re-opened. The French however, will not hesitate to close it again if there is a repetition of the outrages.—A. and N.Z.C.A. FR AXCO-DELGIAX I;Fi’i/1 FS

EXPECTED NEXT WEEK. SEPARATE COMM UN [CATIONS TO BRITAIN. POINCARE'S TERMS FOR PACT OF RECUR IT V. (Received Julv 27. 8.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 20. British interest is (oenssed on the conferences ui: the Continent concerning renr.rathins and tho Ruhr. French and Belgian replies to He British documents are expected at the beginning of next week, and it is earnestly hoped, M; Baldwin will have: something dciinite to announce in the Ruhr Debate in the Commons vhi- h is fixed for Tuesdav. Meanwhile tho internal situation in Germany is attracting most serious attention here, and on the Continent. M. Poincaio had conferences in Paris with tho Belgian and Italian Ambassadors. A semi-official note from the Italian Government was previously received at the- Ouai D’Orsay. which it is understood asks for cancellation of the Inter-Allied debts. M. Poincare departs to-day for a fc-w days' rest at his country seat, from whiol' f:u f ’ the conclusion is drawn that the rep!-,- must be advanced to a satisfactory stage. It is expected time when M. Poipcarc returns to Paris he v. ill ha’-~c c. conference with Furl Cnrx m. v.ho is going to Bagnollc.-;. it is again reported- thatFrance and Belgium will reply separately, but on similar lines, both declaring that they cannot consider Lie Gorman proposals until resistance cease-;. R was Belgium who insisted on ieply.ng in her own way f-or tec purpose of avoiding: the impression that she under the tutelage el France The Quai D'Orsav new applauds the decision, declaring that separate_ replies are more lisiely to cany weight with Britain. • • , Regarding the Hint that Britain has sounded France concerning the security with which slip would be satisfied against future possible aggression by Germany, it is learned on roll-due authority that France would not agree to negotiate a part of -ecuritv y,ith Britain unless it laclue.cu immediate efficacious, and r; ciprc-rai a-ymtance in an hour of crisis—A. and N.Z.(—v. (Received July 27. 10.30 p.m.) PARIS. July 26. Conversations resulted in an agreement. in principle between franco and Belgium in relation to the tenor of the reply to the British Note. The French. Cabinet has abandoned the intention of making a separate reply. —A. and N.Z.C.A.