GERMANY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19038, 7 December 1923, Page 5

GERMANY.

NEW CHANCELLOR’S SPEECH,

FINANCIAL PROBLEM ACUTE,

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, December 5. In introducing his new Cabinet, in the Reichstag, Herr Marx declared that he was neither anti-Right nor anti-Beit, but he, was against those who wished to rob the nation of its last remaining possession—namely, unity. He described the financial problem of the country as ‘ the question of to be or not to be,” and concluded by insisting that the occupied regions of the Federal States 'must remam part of the Reich.—Reuter.

FUTURE OF THE RHINELAND,

SEPARATIST MISGIVINGS,

LONDON, December 5

, The Paris correspondent of The Times says: “The Rhinelanders would be prepared to do much in the direction of political separation in return for a genuine peaceful settlement, the withdrawal of the garrisons from the Rhine, and the substitution of mild civil control; but if political separation only means placing themselves in the power of the French, they are asking: “What is th© use? Leading Rhinelanders feel strongly that the whole question of an independent State is too important, politicly and economically to be handled by the present hole in corner methods. If the Rhineland is separated it means that the Treaty of Versailles must be altered. Thev therefore argue that the matter should be taken up fairly and squarely by the chief signatory Powers.” —The Times.