PROBLEM OF THE RUHR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 750, 5 July 1923, Page 5

PROBLEM OF THE RUHR.

BRITISH AND FRENCH VIEWS.

CONVERSATIONS CONTINUED.

By Electric Telegraph.--Copyrigb.fc. LONDON, July 4. The most hopeful result of the conference between Lord Curzon and Count St. Aulaire is that the conversations are continuing. Count St. Aulaire did not deliver a written reply, or even leave the expected typewritten memorandum.

The Daily Telegraph's diplomatic correspondent says the canversation was far from being either a full or definite reply to the British questionnaire. Lord Cur Eon, who was evidently disappointed at the nature of the verbal elucidation, requested Count St. Aulaira to ask his Government for additional and more definite particular. The correspondent gathers that the conversation was primarily concerned with the progressive military evacuation of the Ruhr. The British Government desired and expected details of the process, but France was not prepared apparently to go further than to say that the occupation would be intensified or relaxed, according to Germany's behaviour. The re-statement of the principle that the occupation will cease only with the full payment of the French claims promoted Lord Curzon to argue that it seemed da if France would never leave, since by remaining she was, in the British visiv, impairing Germany's capacity to pay. The Daily Express says that Count St. Aulaire emohashed the point that the French could not consent to renew negotiations with Germany until passive resistance was offically discouraged by Berlin and eliminated. The Morning Post aays: "It seems obvious that soma of the British Government's inquiries cannot be answered at any specifio moment in black and white by the French Government, whose policy. must largely be controlled by the progress of events in the Ruhr and Germany."—A. and NiZ. cable. SOAR VALLEY COMMISSION. "GENEVA, July 3. A memorandum presented to the Council of the League of Nations by the inhabitants of the Saar Valley asserts that the intolerable acts of the present governing commission have brought about an impossible state of affajrs and that the present commission has lost the respect and confidence of the people owing to its nar-row-mindedness, its disregard for their rights, its lack of understanding or the people's needs' and its misuse or power.—A. and N.Z. cable.

BELGIAN POLICY TO CONTINUE.

BRUSSELS, July 3. M. Theunis, in tho Chamber, said the Cabinet would maintain its Ruhr Policy until it obtained satisfaction, and would persevere in its efforts to re-establish between the Allies that entente which alone, would hasten a definite solution.—A. and N.Z. cable.