GERMANY & THE ALLIES.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 21 November 1923, Page 3

GERMANY & THE ALLIES.

PKB PBEoS ASSOCIATION— OOFXBIGMT PARIS, November 19. A Qua! d Orsay communique explains that M. Poincare's declarat.u.. um. trance will not evacuate the oecupieu territories before the Versailles Treat) has been completely executed, referred to tile occupied terriior.es on the left bank of the Rhine, and the bridge heads, and did not apply to the ituhr, in wuich connection no decision could be taken without a previous FrancoBelgian agreement. It is understood that a previous Franco-Belgian agreement, hitherto unpublished, provides for sending a stiff Note of protest to Germany without defining senetions, which will be discussed later if Germany does not give satisfaction. The Ambassadors are agreed in regard to the resumption of inter-Allied military control of Germany. Jney arc still deliberating in regain to the return of the ex-Crown Prince. LONDON, November 19. The Cologne correspondent oi the *'l imes ’ states that the decision of the Ruhr miiieowners from December 1 vonly permit employment of men working ten hours per day, is causing bitted feeling among rhe men, who are getting out of hand. Wholesale demonstrations are being held. One at Essen led to serious rioting, in which there were three killed and many wounded. The police wore compelled to fire on the demonstrator.-., who replied with revolvers and ham. grenades, sheltering behind barricades [ erected in the streets. Eventually French troops, with an,. I oured ears, intervened and cleared the streets. Separatist agents took advantage of the occasion to placard the town, proclaiming the Rhineland R< - public. Mean-'bile trade unions in tin Rhineland and XV. -.t.plialin are urging the Government to take over and run the mines, adding that they cannot admit that the occupying Powers ait, alone to blame for the present chaos. PARIS, November 19. The French Cabinet unanimously approved of M Poincare’s attitude curing the negotiations with the Confer* I ence of Ambassadors. The final decision 'now depends on the views ci the Allied Governments on the ag: eeme.n!. in principle, reached by the Cont?.'i'’i?e.