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tion payments the German Government would he well advised to put a stop to passive resistance in' the occupied territory.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Mr. Lloyd George, acknowledging the freedom of Wexham, referred to reparations. He stated that if more patience, coupled with firmness, had been shown fee believed a substantial contribution would hatfe .been' - received f Kom Germany,, not merely towards repairing the damages m Fcaßce, but towards the losses which this .oeuntry had sustained. Through impatience the process of securing reparations -was not merely postponed, but he thought was made almost impossible an the future. BERLIN, Aug. 10. Herr Rosenburg {Fojteign Minister), speaking in the Reichstag, denounced as unjust the reparations pEpjrided by the Versailles Treaty, which Ge«?Hiany would never accept, France's w&pO^ purpose in entering the Ruhr was to &dng ruin upon Germany's economic life> He disputed the right of a single sigtftJtory to take independent action, citing the Supreme Counoil's refusal to allo*v Roumania to seize Hungarian property^ on the ground that it would violate the | treaty. LONDON. Aug. 12. The British reply was handed to M. St. Aulaire "(tne French Ambassador) ion Saturday. . In th« meantime, M. j Poincare has gone to Steft#y, where he delivers a speech to-day.