FRANCE ASKS NEW INDEMNITY GUARANTEE.

Grey River Argus, 24 July 1922, Page 5

FRANCE ASKS NEW INDEMNITY GUARANTEE.

WILL GERMANY MORTGAGE HER WEALTH? PARIS, July 21. (Received July 23 at 5.5 p.m.) The “Echo de Paris” states: —“M. Poincare, French Premier, has asked the Allied Reparations Commission to make a declaration of Germany's voluntary default, and to claim fresh guarantees. M. Poincare suggests that the Commission should grant Germany a moratorium, but for not more than five or six weeks, after which he recommends the immediate mortgaging of German public wealth, such as the forests, and mines, as well as the customs.

GOMPERS SEEKS U.S.A. STRIKE CONFERENCE. (Received July 22, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 21. The American Federation of Labour has invited President Harding to call a conference of employers and workers in an effort to settle the coal and railway strikes without coercion. GERMAN PARTIES CO OPERATE FOR SECURITY. (Received July 22, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, July 21. , Following on the recent co-operation of the Soeiall<| parties, the Democrats, the Centre Party, and the People’s Popular Party have reached a comfnon working agreement, with the object of stabilising and consolidating German foreign and home policy on the basis of the existing German republican constitution. RUSSIA’S STRATEGICAL MOVE NOW DISCLOSED. (Received July 23, 5.5 p.m.) THE HAGUE, July 21. M. Litvinoff (Russian delegate) in a statement, said the failure of The Hague Conference showed clearly that it is impossible to reach a general agreement at any conference. The only possibility is separate agreements.