GERMANY'S PROBLEM.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2693, 11 July 1923, Page 5

GERMANY'S PROBLEM.

PRESSURE ON BOTH SIDES. CUNO'S CENTRE PARTY GOES TO THE WALL. FOOD RIOTS NEAR BERLIN, ißy Electric Cable —Copyright.] (Aust. and N.Z. Cablo Association.] (Received Tuesday, 11.45 p.m.) LONDON, July 9. The "Times" Berlin correspondent pays the segregation of the Ruhr makes existence increasingly unbearable for the workers. Therefore, from their representatives, thero goes out continual pressure on the Government to keep its policy moderate, so that no chance of coming to terms with Franco may bo lost. At the same time, France's Ruhr policy is driving the Nationalists of the Right to more violent opposition. The results of the provincial elections suggest that the Centre Party is going to the wall, and that the Cuno Government is becoming more susceptible to the influence of the Right. As a matter of fact, the heads of any Government giving signs of readiness to parley would be in danger of assassination by the murder bands of the Right. Conditions are becoming like those of 1918, but this time the Right does not mean to bo stabbed from behind by a revolution of tho masses without a struggle. It is getting ready to light, and means to get its blow in first. ENFORCED "SALE" BY BUTCHERS MEAT AT QUARTER PRICE, (Received Wednesday, 2 a.m.) BERLIN, July 9. Food riots occurred at Nowawcs, near Potsdam. Thousands of people rushed the shops, and compelled the butchers to, sell meat at ten thousand, instead of forty thousand marks a pound. The police restored order. FRENCH RETALIATION. FOR IMPRISONMENT OF FRENCH CITIZENS. (Received Tuesday, 10.45 pjn.) COLOGNE, July 9. The French announco in Dusseldorf that in retaliation for the arrest of a French citizen named Schuldcc, in May, and his detention pending trial at Leipzig, they have decided to arrest every other day one German in a good position, who will be kept in ordinary cells till Schuldeo is released. They have already imprisoned a high school professor, a bank director, a lawyer and a college principal. STATEMENT TO-MORROW. ON BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE. (Received Tuesday, 7 p.m.) LONDON, July 9. Mr Baldwin, in the House of Com- ; mons, said he hoped it would be possible'to make a statement on the reparations on Thursday.