GERMANY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 16 November 1922, Page 5

GERMANY

fifcSiUNATIUN Of CABINET

ATTEMPTS fAT RECONSTRUCTION

ABANDONED

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BERLIN, Nov. 14

Cabinet has resigned and President Ebert ban accepted the resignation. Herr Wirth abandoned an attempt to construct Jjhe Cabinet owing to ihe, decision of the Social Democrats not to enter any coalition with the Government that included the German People s Pai'Ly, with which big industrialists, like Stiimes, are associated.

COMMENT ON RESIGNATION

BERLIN, iNov. 15

Herr Wirth, commenting on the resignation, states that throughout the conferences the People’s Party had given every- assistance and raised no objection to his reparation programme. s The Vonvaerts attributes Herr Wirth a downfall to his leadership and disposition to deal with party leaders behind closed doors, instead of coming into the open. The Deutsche Tageazeitung says the crisis was precipitated by the. Govern meat's repealed yielding to Radical pressure.

Tie Berliner Tageblatt blames both the Socialists and the People’s Party lor putting party interests above the country's welfare. STRHiE RIOT'S a\t DUSSELDORF

MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED

BERLIN, Nov. 15,

The authorities at Dusseldorf decided to proclaim martial law owing to strike riots.

The Frankfurter Zeitung lias acquired the German publication rights of.Mr Lloyd George’s memoirs.

HERR WIRT IPS ROLE ENDED

PARIS, Nov. 15

The Petit Parisian says that Herr Wirth’s rule is regarded as ended; and that probably a bourgeois Cabinet will be established in Berlin with united So oialiats in opposition.

FOOD RIOTS BERLIN, Nov. 14. Dear food riots continue in Rhineland. Bands of armed youths are patrolling Colonge, sacking shops, Die majority of which are barricaded. Fifty rioters were arrested. A panic occurred at Dnsseldorf following the exchange of shots between policy and rioters. Four of the latter were lolled. Bystanders sought safety by climbing on to the roofs and in the mad jostling several fell and were injured.

REPARATIONS ”mSjN, Nov. 14. The Government’s note _to the Reparations Commission promises increased production and savings in the budget, restriction of luxuries, and an internal loan. The note demands a long term moratorium except for payments in kind, definite fixing of reparation, restriction of Allied occupation, and most favoured nation commercial rigids. Herr Wirth is experiencing the_ greatest difficulty in the reconstruction of the ministry. The Bourgeois and Coalition parties are willing to accept the People's Party in the Cabinet, but the “Socialists refuse without an explicit statement as to the People’s Party’s attitude on the stabilisation of the mark! i ßhine Province is bristling with riots and strikes. Communist agitation is growing. The Reichsbank raised the discount rate from eights to ten per cent. BERLIN, Nov, 15,

The reparations note also proposes a gold loan controlled by an independent body consisting of representatives' of foreign creditors, the Reichstag and the finance committee, and the establish in out of agencies abroad to redeem marks held abroad .as soon as Germans themselves regained confidence in the mark.