GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1923, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION, KIPLING’S VIEWS. HOSTILE TO GERMANY. PARIS, April 9. x The newspapers are giving prominence to an interview which Mr Rudynrd Kipling gave journalists at Toulon, on the subject of the Anglo-French attitude towards Germany. He said: “The great mass of British opinion had never understood why Germany, widen prepared and launched the war, should not pay for the damage. They had not the least confidence in any programme based oil the idea of nursing Germany tenderly until she was restored to health and power in the Kfc? that she would then have a changed heart, and would pay some of her Jjijt. ligations.” “We do not believe,” "/Ha said “that Germany is disarmed, or that she will be until she is subjected to a control far more rigorous than any imposed in the past. We believe it would have been far better had England, side by side with France and Belgium, tried to obtain the maximum amount of reparations and the greatest security possible.” The reason that British public opinion did not declare itself more clearly, he said, was because taxpayers ar&<. groaning under war debts, and their taxation is on a crushing, fantastic scale. It was natural that the politicians should be excessively prudent, and should hesitate to take any step which would increase the public expenditure. Germany understood this and she had made a clever use of it. Britain and France, he declared, should consider each other with patience. “We should never forget that Germany lias united us, and Germany will keep us united. Trust her for that, and only that.”

GERMAN CABINET BLAMED. y BERLIN, April 8. The Communist organ “Rote Palm” has been suspended for a fortnight for calumniating the Government and saying “Chancellor Cuno dances to the piping of the steel and iron industry tlie banks and the junkers,” and also for saving “The German Government’s Ruhr policy is responsible, equally with France's policy for the Essen tragedy.” FRANCE ADAMANT. LONDON, April few The “Daily Telegraph’s” Paris cr/n----respondent says:—M. Poincare, in an official communication to Belgium states that M. Louclieur was not entrusted with any kind of mission on his visit to London recently, hut he undertook the journey on his own initiative, and responsibility. M. Poincare emphasises the point that France’s reparations policy lias not undergone recent ly the slightest modification. GERMAN MARK FACTORY. PARIS, April 9. The last seizure of marks in the Ruhr included a big supply found in a ~> private printing establishment in Mulheim, where marks were being secretly printed in order to prevent the confiscation of money during transit from unoccupied Germany. French troops unexpectedly surrounded the printing works and seized 1900 mil- j lion marks worth of unfinished notes, and eighty milliards of partly printed ones, also the engraved plates. The notes will he credited to Germany on account of the money interest she owes for maintenance of the Army of Occupation. BERLIN, April 9. The German Government minimises the marks seizure, pointing out that the Ruhr requires seven thousand million new marks daily. A German official statement continues: “These ■”> marks have got into the Ruhr clandestinely. The French, however, are sometimes sufficiently cunning to discover the means by which this is ae, complished. In this way these degenerate sons of a once chivalrous nation have, hetore now, discovered bundles of our notes concealed in women’s skirts and underclothing.”