RHINE ARMY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 24 March 1922, Page 5

RHINE ARMY

AMERICA'S NOTE TO ALLIES

NEW ARMISTICE PROPOSAL

BY CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT WASHINGTON, March 22. It is understood that America's note ito ;Britain, {France, Italy, Belgium, and Japan states that the recognition and granting of. the United States' claim for the cost of occupying the Hhiii& .territory is doubly binding on the Allies, since it was at the urgent solicitation of fhe Allies that the : American troops .were kept in Germany; also there was a solemn agreement between the Allied and Associated Powers that payment of the cost of the armies of occupation should constitute a first lien on German assets, which understanding always contemplated the payment or American costs. \ The note adds: # "Since Germany has! not objected, there seems to be no basis for Allied objections." I The State Department, in a note to the Allies, points out that they cannot raise a teacnnical objection to the United "States receiving a share of the cost of occupation of German territory, on tne grouncT that she is not a signatory to the Versailles Treaty, in, view of the fact that Germany expli-j citly consented to priority being given I to American costs, notwithstanding! that she had not ratified the Versailles Treaty v The note also points out that the United States will welcome the Allies' i suggestions for a reasonable adjustment' of the matter, but, pending such considerations, the UniteS States hopes the Allies will refrain from the distribution of the funds to the exclusion of th© United States. . PARIS, March 23; Lord_Curson submitted an armistice proposal wKJbh was agreeS to unanimously. It provides that an Allied commission^jj^ting under Allied direction, 5e afitacEed to each army, and empowered to control the execution of the armistice conditions, and to intervene with the occupying authorities to protect the people and property in the, occupied territory. A belligerent not desiring to renew the armistice must notify the other Allied representatives fifteen days before the armistice terminates.