GERMANY’S GOVERNMENT

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11656, 22 October 1923, Page 5

GERMANY’S GOVERNMENT

FRANCE REJECTS ALL PROPOSALS FOR THE RUHR. INTERNAL DISSENSION. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Aesociatlcok (Received October 21, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 21. Internally and externally Herr Streeemann’f? Government is between the devil and the deep sea. On one hand Saxony is threatening open revolt unless Bavaria is brought to heel. Bavaria, which is already practically independent, is threatening similarly. On the other hand, M. Poincare's brusque negatives to all Germau suggestions of a solution of the Ruhr question nave been a heavy blow to the Government, and have caused even the Radicals to despair of the possibility of an agreement wth France. “Woo to the tyrant France! The curses of a starving people be upon her head!” says Herr Stresemann’s organ, which laments that Britain has forgotten her international obligations. BAVARIAN INDEPENDENCE. The Bavarian general, Von Lossow, whom Herr Gessler in September appointed military commissioner in Bavaria to circumvent Von Kabr's dictatorship, has now refused to execute Herr Gessler's older to seize the offices of the newspaper “Voelkischer Beebach ter.'’ Simultaneously he telegraphed to Generalissimo von Seeckt that he refused to obey any order which would bring him into conflict with the Bavarian Government. Von Seeckt replied that Von Lossow no longer enioved his confidence. This Von Lossow ignored, whereupon Herr Gessler "Went to Augsburg and instructed the ’ Bavarian general Von Kressenistein to proceed to Munich to induce Von Lossow to resign. Von Lossow refused, but Von Kressenstein resigned. The Bavarian Government has now informed Berlin that it refuses to have further official relations with Herr Gessler.