RUHR AND REPARATIONS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 97, 29 August 1923, Page 5

RUHR AND REPARATIONS

THE BELGIAN NOTE.

FIWANjCIAL EXPECTATIONS.

/Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Aflsochtion. London. Angn.it- 28.

The Brussels correspondent of tho Daily Express says the Belgian reply wjill bo published t ><Mny. It points out that Belgium') debts have risen from £1,700.000 iu 191 Jto £360,000,000 last June and ddbts are still multiplying. The Note says: "Tho British 'Note leads us to suppose that in Britain's opinion Belgium has already been treated over favouraMy." The reply points out that the priority accorded Belgium was only the incomplete execution of engagements contracted towards her during the war, engagements recognised at the Peace Conference. The Note stipulated that Belgium must have £275,000,000 from Germany.

Discussing Germany's capacity to pay, tho Note says : "Its its not enough to reckon what Germany will pay in order to fix the sums the Allies are to receive. We mxißt also knowl what sums will' have to be paid. It is just to consider the creditors' essential needs."

GERMAN REORGANISATION.

Berlin, August 27

Tlie Socialist Parliamentary service states tho Government has already taken steps to settle the Ruhr conflict by negotiation. Thelre is reason to hope the Government will soon find itself on sufficiently firm ground to proceed with measures of definite reorganisation.

"PAY OR WE STAY."

FRENCH PRESS OPINION.

(Argus). (Received 10,0 a.m.) Paris, August 28.

Although all the newspapers except tho Extreme Radicals approve of M. Poincare's declaration mad© on Sunday, "Pay or We Stay," several papers eritiqise his suggestion that the mass of American opinion favours tho occupation of the Ruhr. The Journal Des Debats says: "The greatest prudence should bet exercised in attempting to estimate the opinion of a great Continent like America."

The Quotidien characterises M. Poincare's statements as "an attempt to decoivo France regarding the American people's real view, and says, America is at least as hostile to the occupation as England." M. Poincare's words will only provoke disappointment in France and irritation among France's friends abroad; who believe M. Pojincare has wrongly interpreted American opinion.

"THE TERRIBLE CRISIS."

GERMAN CHANCELLOR'S FEARS

MENACE OF BOLSHEVISM.

(Router). (Received 0.30 a.m.) Berlin, August 28

Herr Stresemann (Premier), in an interview in the Daiily Graphic, said: If his Government fell, accomplishing nothing, he perhaps would be the last bourgeois Chancellor in Germany. If that happened, more of Europe than Germany wpuld succumb to Bolshevism. If lie could keep the people fed, all might be well. An Anglo-German understanding was the only thing which would possibly restore order, peace, and welfare of Europe. All should work for the solution of the terrible crisis.