AMERICAN TROOPS

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11412, 8 January 1923, Page 7

AMERICAN TROOPS

WITHDRAWAL FAVOURED BY SENATE. DANGER OF CONFLICT. (Reoeived January 6, . 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, January 5. Following on to-day’s Cabinet meeting, Mr JT W. Weeks (Secretary ter War) declared that while no orders had yet been sent to the American commander there is a prospect that the American troops on the Rhine will 1)5 ordered home in the near' future. (Reoeived January 6, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, January 5. Senator Reed introduced a resolution authorising the President to order the return of all American troops in Germany. (Received January 7, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, January 6. Senator Reed, in a speech in the Senate/ declared that the American troops on the -Rhine were being held there as a moral influence to help collect the reparations. “We have,” he said, “no business helping to collect something we do not want. If trouble ensues with Germany it is highly probable our troops might suffer an attack. Tho moment a drop of American blood is shed the cry would go up, ‘lt must be avenged.’ If the United States withdraws her troops now it will be a notice to Franoe and all the world that if they want to settle their quarrels they will have to settle them without our bayonets.” I (Reoeived January 7, II .5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, January 6. The Senate pasted Senator Reed’s resolution asking the President to withdraw the American troops from Germany, by fifty-seven votes to six. Efforts made -to have the resolution referred to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where it would be tabled by an unfavourable report, were quickly defeated.