Germans Must Work.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 February 1921, Page 3

Germans Must Work.

TO MAKE REPARATION

\by Electric Telegraph- 4topyn«{at) (Per Press Association.) (Received, This J>ay, 9.40 a.in.) Berlin, February 12.

Herr Wilts, Minister of Fina*.**, .;* dressing the Chamber of Comineiyfc said the Government was not going to London to submit to dictation: They were prepared to do their utmost be--1 cause they felt morally obliged to assist in reconstruction, thereior© would submit reparation proposals to 'he London Conference. The nation must realise that payment must be made, not from national wealth, but from work, and it was therefore questionable whetner all the fruits of revolution could b& safeguarded. It was impossible: for America to Jret'p aloof when j the world's economic force assembled at the conference, because decisious would) remain in the region of theories unless the whole economic world cooperated. * Paris, February 13. The Foreign Minister, in consequence of protests by the German newspapers and neutral'trades, has issuedi a statement that the proposed 12 per cent tax does not aim at compelling Germany to create a tax on exports, but to force her to deduct twelve per cent from the total value.