GERMAN REPARATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18730, 9 June 1924, Page 7

GERMAN REPARATION.

REPORTS OF THE EXPERTS.

acceptance confirmed.

VOTE IN THE REICHSTAG.

By Telegraph Press Association— (Received 6.5 p.m.) Eollter - BERLIN, June 7 The Reichstag passed a vote of confidence in the Government in connection with the declaration of the Chancellor, Dr. Wilhelm Marx regarding the reparation experts' reports. The motion . was carried by 247 votes to 183.

In a statement at the opening of the Reichstag last week Dr. Marx said that the acceptance of the reparation experts' plan was a question of life or death for Germany. wl4l.se economic position at present was hopeless. The whole structure would collapse if no relief were forthcoming. The Chancellor, amid Communist interruptions, asserted that domestic matters must take second place to the country's foreign policy. He said that he intended to continue the preliminary work of carrying out the reparation experts' plan in conformity with the previous announcement that Germany was ready to co-operate in the proposals as offering a quick solution of the reparation problem. The Government was orepared to translate the report into reality, but the measures it was preparing would only be enforced if it were clearly shown that the other parties would accept the experts' plan as an indivisible and unchangeable whole.