MAKING GERMANY PAY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18162, 26 April 1921, Page 9

MAKING GERMANY PAY.

GERMAN APPEAL TO U.S. DRAMATIC PUBLIC SURPRISE. BERLIN, April 23. Tlie announcement of Germany’s appeal to America caused the most dramatic public surprise since the military collapse. The War Cabinet acted without consulting party leaders. Count Bernsdorff, ex-Ambassador at Washington, regards the proposal as the only practical solution. Without America, reparation in the form of cash is impossible. The Democratic Centro Party express modified approval. The Conservative newspapers hotly condemn the surrender to America, and regard it as an act of desperation. The party leaders strongly criticise the Cabinet, and demand the summoning of Parliament forthwith for the special discussion. BRITISH LABOUR PROTEST AGAINST INVASION. LONDON, April 24. The Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress and the Executive Committee of the Labour Party have issued a manifesto that the French proposal for the further invasion of Germany and any occupation of Ruhr! should be opposed by every diplomatic means. Even if it were proved that I Germany is able and unwilling to con-1 tribute her due share of reparations,l the coercion proposed was calculated to add misery to the workers of Central Europe, delay its economic recovery, and aggravate our own industrial crisis. ‘The whole reparations question calls aloud for neutral arbitration.