GERMANY.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 18 November 1920, Page 2

GERMANY.

SPEECH BY FOREIGN MINISTER.

SUSPICIOUS OF ARMIES OF OCCUPATION.

[Per Press Association—Copyright.]

[Reuter’s Telegrams] Received this day, 8.5 a.m.

BERLIN, -November 16. Von Simons, FdreigU Minister, speaking 1 at Cologne, declared that the Allies' troops of ncculpation numbered 145,(J00, or 50,000 above the sfreuglth of the Wltole .German Army in January next. He said that a tenth of these troops would suffice, and pointed out that the extension of the Rhine bridgeheads suggested offensive purposes. The drill grounds beyond the nedils oT the occupation troops had been made. Bakeries capable of turning out 40Q,000 daily rations had keen established, and new strategic Rhine bridges had' been prepaied; while behind the armies of occupation large forces were stationed, suggestive tliatf the Rhinish territory, would be Used as a jumpingroff ground for’ further encroaehmentls. Germany], he declared, would not comply with the occupia'tion otlligla'lions foitil the ocoupattou problem haj keen settled. Economically, the Entente was at present acting like a Creditor whk* gave a debtor an overseer whose salary was higher than the payments of the ddLl.or. Herr .FielierenlUach, Imperial Chancellor, in a speech at Colog'nei,, said that while the Germans intended to cany out th' 1 treaty they did not acknowH ledge the admission of the sole guilt which had keen forced on them at Ver-sail les.