GERMANY WAITING TO SEE WHICH WAY CAT JUMPS AT ELECTIONS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6921, 29 May 1929, Page 7

GERMANY WAITING TO SEE WHICH WAY CAT JUMPS AT ELECTIONS

Hopes From Sosinlists

STRESEMANN DEFINES GOVERNMENT ATTITUDE

REPLY TO CRITICS. United Press Association — By Electrit Telegraph—Copyright. Received Tuesday, 9.30 p.m. LONDON, May 28. The fate of the Reparations conference now depends ou the result of the British general election, according to the Daily Mail Paris correspondent, who learnß authoritatively that if the Socialists win, the German delegation will scrap the whole of tho protracted negotiations. “They will then demand still further concessions from Britain and the other Allies. If Mr. Baldwin remains Prime Minister, or if Mr. Lloyd George becomes his successor, a different attitude would be adopted. Germany will cut her cloth according to the result, of the election and will temporise until she knows on Friday morning which way the cat is jumping.’’ The Times Berlin correspondent states that Dr. Stresemann took the extreme course to-day of issuing a public statement replying to attacks in German newspapers regarding the government’s attitude towards the Paris discussions. Ho particularly repudiates von Kuhlmann, the celebrated ex-Foreign Minister, who went to Paris on his own account to advocate the return of Germany’s former colonics. Dr. Stresemann also denies rumours that tho government is prepared to go beyond Dr. Sehacht’s offer. He says: “Naturally wc aro acquainted with tho course of tho negotiations. It cannot bo expected wc will go to sleep but anything like an increaso beyond what is estimated by Germany’s experts, would, be high treason. Anybody who repeats the allegation that the government is prepared to do so will be guilty of a deliberate lie.’’