GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1923, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN ANI) N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. M. POINCARE AGAIN.

FAR IS, April 22. M. Poincare, speaking at the unveiling of a war memorial in the Arouse Department replied to Her Rosenberg’s Reichstag speech. lie declared that the German Government proclaimed that without an understanding between the Reich and France, the reconstruction of Europe would remain impossible. lie asked: Does the resumption of normal relations really depend on France ? Since pence was signed France never ceased to display patience and magnanimity. Rosenberg speaks of the understanding with France, yet Germany begins by setting up a doctrine of the rejection of treaties and the repudiation of signatures. The essential conditions to rcapproachinent remain always the same and consists of

two words, “reparations and security. Germany now wants the origin, both immediate and remote, <>i the latnstrop’ie which she precipitated on the world to he forgotten. To listen to her one would suppose that the nations, who allied theselves to resist her eternal spirit of dominion, were dealing with an innocent and odiously calumniated nation. When wo entered the P.uhv we desired to come to an understanding with the masters and workmen on the spot, so that the mines could I/O worked for the benefit of reparations. It was th* orders from the Hoich which compelled us to give the operations a more accentuated military character. When Germany pretends to ignore that Franco was authorised by treaty to take all necessary measures without finding in it an act ol hostility. she once more confounds diplomatic acts with scraps of paper. .