THE REPARATIONS PROBLEM.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16413, 29 April 1921, Page 7

THE REPARATIONS PROBLEM.

REICHSTAG DEBATE. MAILED FIST FLOURISH DEPRECATED. | By Telegraph— Preas Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ! (Received April 29, 9.5 a.m.) BERLIN.. April 28. 3H»ove«*-eia exc-t-aiigod heated passages ? with Nationalists during the foreign 1 policy debate in the Reichstag. } Hen* Mueller, a former Chancellor, j described the Versailles Treaty as simi- \ tar to that of Brest-Litovsk. He blamed the Nationalists for being responsible for the breakdown of the German foreign policy. He protested against the use of the ex-Kaiseritt’s funeral to stimulate Monarchism. I>r Karl von Helfferich, former viceChnnoellor. replying amid disorder, declared. that Imperial Germany was now 1 a peaceful power willing to make big sacrifices in fulfilment of her obligations, but he deprecated M. Brian d’s continual flourish of the mailed fist as \ shameful. THE PROPOSALS TO U.S. •‘THOROUGHLY UNSATISFACTORY.” LONDON, April 28. Mr Lloyd George informed tlio House of Commons that he had seen the German proposals submitted to the United States, and regretted to say that tbev were thoroughlv unsatisfactory. AMOUNT OF REPARATION FIXED. (Received April 29, 11 a.m.) PARIS, April 28. The Reparations Commission unariij mously fixed the total German reparnj lions debt at 132,000,000,000 gold ; marks. This does not include the re- ; payment of all of Belgium’s borrow- | mgs from the Allies prior to the ar- ! mistice. ___________