AMERICAN TRESS SUPPORT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 14 August 1923, Page 7

AMERICAN TRESS SUPPORT.

'- * 'BRITAIN UNQUESTIONABLY RIGHT." Received Aug. 14, 12.50 p.m. NEW YORK. Aug. 13. Tho New York Evening Post, com-r-mentmg on the British notes, declares : ''Above the specific items in the Curzon ' -note stand out the surprise and protest •of the British Government at the recusal of her late allies to so much as -consider those items. France and Belgium simply wave them aside.. This -is not an attitude that will win the .approval of the rest of the world. Britain is unquestionably right in taking -the opposite course.'» ". The Sun and the Globe comment .similarly, stating that clearly there is nothing left for responsible British .-statesmanship, if argument fails, but to ■-extricate the nation by the best means - from the inevitable economic .Jtuin which is sure to come about if ;*ho French course is much longer tacit, ly accepted. Trite French franc is quoted at 5? -■-cents, the lowest on record. Various French municipal bonds have also fallen several points, as the direct result of -the week-end's political developments.— ' .Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.