ALLIED NOTE

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 1210, 7 January 1925, Page 5

ALLIED NOTE

GERMANY'S SERIOUS DEFAULT. WHY COLOGNE CANNOT BE EVACUATED.

[By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] BERLIN, Jan. 5. The identical Note of the Ashes on the subject of the evacuation of Cologne, presented to-day, points out that tho Allies have acquired proof that Germany has hitherto not fulfilled and will bo unable to fuliii, by January 10th, the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles enabling her to benefit by the provisions for the partial evacuation of her territories west of the Rhine and the bridgeheads. Information collected by tho InterAllied Commission of Control shows that tho Grand General Staff of the army has been reconstituted in another form i" violation of article 160 of the treaty. Short-term volunteers have been recruited and trained in violation of article 174. The conversion of war material factories lias been far from realised and thi9 i» a violation of article 168. Surplus stocks of war material of all sorts exist in violation of articles 164 and 169. The reorganisation of the State police has not been begun, contrary to article 162 and tho decision of tho Boulogne Conference of June 19, 1S?(I. Furthermore, tho German Government, rn violation of article 811, has in no wise taken all the legislative and administrative measures demanded by the Allied Noto of September 20th, 1922. The Allied Governments expect shortly to receive tho report of the fstf'.r-AUied Commission of Control giving tlio complete results of a general inspection now proceeding. This report will t trmit them to determine what may be expected from Germany bo that her obligations as regards war materials raav be regarded as loyalty observed in accordance with article "-23. A communication will be fent later to the German Government on this subject.—A. and N.Z. cable.

GERMAN CHORUS OF PROTEST.

"DESTROYING MUTUAL CONFIDENCE."

Received January 7, 11.5 a.m. BERLIN, Jan. 6. The Allied Note regarding Cologne hag evoked a chorus of protest from the press. Herr Marx's organ. Germania, says that the note' seriously threatens to destroy the mutual confidence between the nations which was recently reviving. The Tageblatt says: "The German people will unanimously reject the monstrous attempt to indefinitely subject a population of 2.000,000 to foreign domination. The Monarchist organ, Kreuzzeitung, states that the real reason for the non-evacuation is that Britain needs the support of France for her European policy and therefore gives France a free hand in the Rhine. —A. aud N.Z. cable. THE PARIS CONFERENCE. FINANCE MINISTERS TO MEET. LONDON, Jan 6. Cabinet met preliminarily to the Paris Conference on Wednesday, when the A Hied Finance Ministers will assemble for the first time since 1923. Mr Winston Churchill, who crosses the Channel to-lay, reviewed the Treasury attitude at ). ngth regarding the two most prominent subjects to be considered at the conference, including, firstly, tho allocation of the proceeds of the Ruhr occupation and annuities raising under tho Dawes scheme; and, secondly, Ita American claim for participation in annuities in order to cover war damage. Apart from these subjects, it is viio'erstood that Mr Churchill wll unofficially discuss with M. Clemoniel ihe qtlt.'.tioi of Allied debts, which is regarded as eclipsing in importance the questions on tno official agenda. The Daily Telegraph's diplomatic correspondent says that Mr Churchill has bce.n assured of Cabinet's full support for his debt policy, concerning which nust importance attaches to the Government's decision that Britain must reserve the right of requiring possiblv different terms for the funding of Allied debts to this country from those applied to tho funding of debts to America. —A. and N.Z. cable.

DEBT SETTLEMENT.

Received January 7, 11.5 a.m. LONDON, Jan. G. . The lit, Hon. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir Otto Niemeyer, Cont. oiler oi' Finance, left for Paris to attend the conference of Allied Prime Ministers. Though inter-Allied debts do not figure in the agenda ihey dwarf everything else in importance, and will certainly bo unofficially discussed. In an interview prior to his departure Mr Churchill said the conference would last for ten days but he did not expect a hard task.—Reuter.