PROTEST AGAINST ADVANCE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 9 March 1921, Page 8

PROTEST AGAINST ADVANCE

GERMAN COALITi'JN PROBABLE

(GERMAN DELEGATES LEAVE. HERR SIMONS' VIEWS. v BY CABLE—FBES3 ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT (Received Mar. 9, 9.25 a.m.) ••■• BERLIN, Max. 8. Herr Ebert has issued a proclamation protesting against the Allied advance, which he declares is contrary .to the Treaty. . PARIS, Mar. 8. The French, British and Belgian troops occupied Dusseldori at six in the morning without incident. 1 TSie Petit Parisien' s Berlin correspondent states that the question of the. Cabinet's resignation in, favour of a coalition will be considered on Wednesday. , ~.■., LONDON, Mar. 8.

One of the German delegates stated that all tvere sorry that negotiations had broken down, but he believed they would be reopened in a fortnight. Referring to the occupations he said hehoped there would be no more fighting, but feared a Communist revolt in the Ruhr district, which was the home of the. Communist. There was no fear of Bolshevism, getting a hold ii Germany. If Suesi'a^e.re taken from Germany the result would be ruinous. It would ibe like taking Lancashire from England. > ' The 'German Ambassador leaves for Berlin to-night to discuss . with ihe Cabinet 'the situation arising out of the Conference's decision. The German delegation has returned to Berlin. A large number of German residents^in London witnessed their departure. ' \. ■ •Herr yon Simons, in an interview, •stated that he was disappointed at the lack of definite results of his mission, hut perhaps the London Conference would not ultimately prove ibarr^n of results., •- •