GERMANY AND THE ALLIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19218, 8 July 1924, Page 7

GERMANY AND THE ALLIES

THE LONDON CONFERENCE BASED ON DAWES REPORT. TERMS OF BRITISH NOTE. t'rus* Association—By Telegraph,—Copyright ROME, July 6. Tho British. Govern meat s tetter inviting Italy to attend tdio Louden Conlercuce says; “Tho main aim is to forgo an instrument formally pledging tho contracting parties to tho execution of tho suggestions in tho Dawes report. It might be in tho tonu of a protocol, as it is intended to avoid any appearance of a desire on Hie part of tno Anics to modify tho Treaty of Versailles. '■The British Government favours fixing in this protocol a date by which Germany sliall complete the legislation and other measures that she shall bo required to adopt, and a later date—perhaps a fortnight after —when all tho economic and fiscal sanctions which aro at present enforced upon Germany, and which uiterfe.ro with economic activities in Germany, shall bo withdrawn. “It ia proposed that tho protocol shall include a stipulation establishing, in the event of flagrant failure on Germany’s part, an authority that will decide regarding the non-execution of tho treaty engagements into which Germany shall outer according to tho Dawes report, ami which will rank before those imposed on her by tho Treaty of Versailles, i'horoloro tho British Government is of opinion that tho task of deciding tho questions relating to flagrant non-execution cannot be entrusted to°tho Reparations Commission, the functions of which are strictly determined by the Versailles Treaty. “ft is,"proposed that recourse should be had to the Irinaneial Committee of the .League of Nations.” Tho invitation emphasises tho fact that M. Herriot and Mr MacDonald have not entered into any engagement.—A. and N. Cable. GERMANY’S ATTITUDE. RUHR EVACUATION INDISPENSABLE. BERLIN, July 6. Commenting on a Paris newspaper report that the German Foreign Minister iDr Stresemann) had demanded the prior cr simultaneous evacuation of tho Ruhr ms compensation for obligations exceeding the Treaty of Versailles, which ib is posed Germany shall undertake, Dio Zcit, Dr Strescma.nn’s organ, says: ‘ This demand was undoubtedly mado, and it IS emphatically declared that without indispensable certainty in regard to tho raiJitarv evacuation of the Ruhr, no final result can be attained at the London Conference. ” —A. and N.Z. Cable. OPPOSITION TO M. HERRIOT HIS OVERTHROW DEMANDED. PARIS, July 6. (Received July 7, at 9.50 p.nn) The Opposition has launched a big antiHerriot offensive, and the extremists are demanding the immediate overthrow of the Government. The more moderate Oppositionists are trying to prevent M. Herriot from going to London until he has assured tho public that French interests will not be sacrificed. M. Herriot, in a speech at Troyes, declared that tho Exports’ Report ofiered Franco the best chance of securing peace end payment. He deplored the Opposition's efforts to distort and belittle the character of the Chequers meeting, and stated that the Government s method was to pursue what united, not what divided. Reuter.