COMPARISONS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 4 June 1923, Page 9

COMPARISONS.

Germany in 1870. M. MILLERAND IN FGRSVS. lIY CABLE —PRESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT (Received 5.5 p.m., June 3.) Paris, June 2. M. Millerand at Strassburg recalled that after the FrancoRussian war (Germany imposed on France a tribute of five milliards of marks and did .not grant, postponements. She said : “That is what you owe. We will hold your territory. When you have paid we will go.” Germany kept, her word. France will now keep hers.

By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. London, June 2.

The ‘'Daily Telegraph's” coirespondent, states that the speech is taken to represent the attitude towards the impending- German offer. It is said that the French Government is no more interested in Germany’s capacity to pay than formerly. It is Germany’s business to pay what she owes. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT (Received 0.15 a.m., June 4.) Pans, June 3. M. Millerand, in a speech at Metz, said that, lie was hapjiy.to say that France needed advice from no one as to how to carry out operations in the Ruhr, negotiations with Germany had been of no avail, and France had come to' the conclusion that the German Government and people were only trying- to gain, time to recuperate, economically, in order to fall upon their vanquisher, and make her the vanquished. In the name of France he said they could not see that happen. France knew what she wanted and would see that she was paid. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Berlin, June 2. It is officially announced that the new offer will be addressed to all the Allies. The mark fell to 345,000 to the £l. Fresh disturbances, mainly economic, have broken out in Saxony. Two were killed and six wounded. — a. an(l i.