RUHR PLANS

Northern Advocate, 25 April 1921, Page 5

RUHR PLANS

UNDER DISCUSSION. RECONSTRUCTION OFFER. DETAILS ANNOUNCED. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, April' 22. The Hythe Conference has opened. The Premiers are discussing the French plans in the Ruhr area and the recent German note, which reaffirms in fuller details the proposals for reconstruction of the devastated vogions of France and Be-lgium. Germany offers all the necessary equipment for the preparation of building material and is prepared to erect immediately 25,000 wooden I houses to relieve ui'gent needs and | to furnish them, while individual citizens can piace orders with German contractors, who will be paid by the German Government—A. and N.Z TRADE UNIbN OBJECTION. UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. LONDON, April 22. The Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress Executive and the committee of the Labour Party has issued a manifesto urging that the French proposal for a further invasion of Germany and occupation of the Ruhr should be opposed by every diplomatic means, even if it were proved that Germany was at once able and unwilling to contribute her due share of reparations. The coercion proposed was calculated to add to the misery of the workers in Central Europe-, to delay its economic recovery, and to aggravate Britain's industrial crisis. The whole reparations question called aloud for neutral arbitration—A. and N.Z.

PASSED ON. VATICAN ADMISSION. ROME, April 22. 'High' Vatican authorities admit that the Vatican transmitted Germany's reparation proposals to America. It is merely as a transmitting agent in view of the fact that as Germany and America are theoretically at war, it was necessary to select a neutral.—A. and N.Z. WHOLE RESOURCE'S. SEIZURE AS GUARANTEE, LONDON, April 22. M. Briand, Premier, in an interview, said: "W.e shall seize Germany's assets, wheh, with the whole economic resources of her Empire, will be a guarantee of the payment of her debt. Germany, by insidious propaganda, has endeavoured to dissolve the friendship between the Allies in the hope of delaying payment. Prance is resolutely determined to compel her to respect the Versailles Treaty, and is determined to act without brutality or haste, but also weakness."—A. and N.Z.