VERSAILLES TREATY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 71, 7 March 1923, Page 5

VERSAILLES TREATY

France’s Rejected Claims OBJECTS OF RUHR OCCUPATION GERMAN EVASION OF AIRCRAFT RESTRICTIONS. (by Gable.—Press Association.—Copyright.] (Received 7, 10 a.m.) London, March 6. “Th© Times’s” Paris correspondent states that though the Government denies that the occupation is as much concerned with security as with reparations, there is little doubt that when negotiations actually begin they will deal with every side of the problem, that the Versailles Treaty will be *re-moulded, and that France will again put forward the claims that were not granted in 1919. The conference will be the biggest and most important since Versailles 1 . ■

French newspapers, after investigations in Russia, declare that the Soviet has concluded a contract with a German group of aerial designers and manufacturers which is developing on a large scale, enabling the Germans to evade the treaty provisions.

The newspapers regard this as a most serious menace. They believe that the Germans are taking advantage of the facilities to evolve giant metal troop carrying aeroplanes. The idea of a Red army of the air is said greatly to appeal to the Soviet;. The “Echo de Paris” declares that one of the factories in the charge of Germans employs a thousand workmen. —(United Service). T " FRENCH GRIP ON THE RUHR. LACK OF RAW MATERIALS. LARGE FACTORIES CLOSING. Paris, March 6. Many large _ concerns in the Ruhr have, given notice to their employees that they must close owing to lack of raw materials. Several collieries are suspended owing to accumulations of coal at the pit heads. There are general indications that the great industrial groups are feeling the French grip severely, while the workers are growing restive and demanding in some cases an agreement with France. —(A. and N.Z.) EXPORT OF NITROGEN. Berlin, March 5. The Reparations Commission invited the Government to send delegates to discuss the export of nitrogen to France, Belgium and Italy. The Government replied refusing any dealings with the French and Belgian delegates during the Ruhr invasion. Negotiations with Italy are already iti progress.—(A. and N.Z.) DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS. NO ADVIdToF RUPTURE. London, March 5. Mr. Bonar Law, replying to a question. said he had no information of Germariy breaking off diplomatic relations with France.—(A. and N.Z.) GERMANS SHOT. SABOTAGE GANG CAUGHT BY PATROL. (Received 7, 9;20 a.m.) Paris, March 6. A French paty-01, discovering Germans tampering with the railway at Westerhold. fired, one German being killed and two wounded. Germans attacked a soldier nt Horde. The soldier fired and killed z one of the attackers.—(A. and N.Z.)