The Black List.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 47, 7 February 1920, Page 5

The Black List.

FEELING IN GERMANY.

SURRENDER DEEMED IMPOSSIBLE.

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The reception of the Black List produced a crescendo of protests, wailings and threats. The general opinion is that the Government will go to pieces if it agrees to the Allies’ demands and it is difficult to see where the new Government would come from. A Conservative Government would mean defiance and reopening war with a working class, revolt within the country, whilst the extreme left Government would mean a Soviet regime and civil war. “Vorwaerts” declares that the overwhelming majority oppose the handing over. “Tageblatt” hoWs the surrender erf Pnnce Rupprecht of Bavaria is impossible. He is the idol of southern Germany and his name is t many men's mouths as the future Monarch of Germany. “Reich” correspondents say voluntary surrenders are most unlikely. i. Herr Noske, in a violent interview with the Daily Mail's” correspondent. declared the Allies’- vengeance outdid Shylock’s. He would not order soldiers to arrest those wanted because trains conveying them to the frontier would never get there.—{Times).

FRANCE DETERMINED.

DEMANDS WILL BE PRESSED.

Pkvia. Eel). 5Leading journals demand stern measures to enforce demands, including prolongation of the occupation of the Rhineland, reimposition of the blockade, and stoppage ci the repatriation of prisoners. A strong militant tone prevails in Paris.

M. Millerand (Premier) informed Deputies that nothing would be allowed to interfere with the prosecution of the Allies’ The latest in Berlin is No&e’s proclamation, which appeals to the people to preserve their dignity and not molest the Allies’ missions.— (Times).

RESORT TO FORCE THEATENED.

IF TREATY EVASIONS CONTINUE.

Paris, Feb. 5. M. Millerand. in an important statement to the Foreign Affairs Committee, declared that France intended to insist on the execution of the treaty with all the means in her power, and that she possessed a sufficiency of .arms for this purpose. Germany was delivering only 300,000 tons of coal monthly, instead of 1,600 ,000. Moreover she was evading the treaty in other ways.— (TimeZ)

CONAN DOYLE’S SUGGESTION

London, Feb. 6. Sir Conan Doyle suggests that a German judge should oe added to the Allied tribunals trying the war criminals, thus save Germany’s face and relieve the present resentment.

ALLIES LACK UNANIMITY.

JAPAN AND AMERICA STAND OUT.

London, Feb. 4. There is wide divergence of Allied opinion regarding demands for the German war criminals. Japan refused to identify herself with any attempt to obtain extraditions and America refuses to participate until the Senate ratified the Peace Treaty. Italy forwarded only 29 names, and even these were sent lukewarmly and hesitatingly. Belgium supplied 334 names, Poland 57, Boamania 42, and Serbia 4. The balance comprises France 335 and Britain 87, mostly submarine commanders. — (United Service.) GERMAN GOVERNMENT’S APOLOGY. Paris, Feb. 6. The German Government bas apologised tor von tLersner’s attitude, which was opposed to instructions. Von Lersner had resigned, and his action would be the subject uf an official enquiry. GERMAN PRESS RAMPANT. Berlin, Feb. 6. The newspapers greeted the publication of the list of war criminals with a howl of rage. They demand the immediate convocation of the

National Assembly, and call on the Government to resist this last greatest indignity heaped on stricken Germany. The ‘‘Vorwaertz,” comparing the Entente’s note with the Austrian ultimatum, says it is porposely worded so that compliance is impossible. Some complain that the list is drawn up in a frivolous manner as it contains the names of dead, namely Haescler, Fritz von Bulow and von Ingersobl. The Prussian Diet suspended its sitting as a formal token of the members* indignation at the Entente's action.

Herr Noeke, as Minister of Defence, has issued an appeal to the public to remain dignified and refrain from molesting foreign missions.