GERMANY'S TROUBLES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 15019, 5 October 1923, Page 5

GERMANY'S TROUBLES.

GOVERNMENT RESIGNS.

AN EMERGENCY CABINET. Press Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, Wednesday. The Stresomann Cabinet has resigned. Herr Stresemanu has been charged to form a new Cabinet. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. MINIMUM OF PORTFOLIOS. LONDON, Thursday. The Daily Chronicle correspondent in Berlin says Herr Stresomann, in order to facilitate his task, will reduce the number of Ministries to the minimum. He hopes the list will be ready in 24 hours.

The new Ministry will be an emergency Administration, for the clearing up of foreign affairs, and will be composd of business men free of party polities.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

A BITTER TIRADE. (Received Friday, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, Thursday. The Daily Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent says that Dr. Stresemann, conversing with a foreign correspondent, bitterly accused M. Poincare of being directly responsible for the present crisis in Germany. M. Poincare’s attitude after the cessation of passive resistance, had placed him and the Government in a most precarious position by greatly strengthening the lmndi of the German extremists. The latter did not blame the Government for uneonditinal surrender to France, but because this had not alleviated the situation. Dr. Stresemann concluded that it was doubtful if ho could maintain his position. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

POSITION VERY GRAVE. (Received Friday, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, Thursday. The Daily Chronicle’s Berlin correspondent telegraphy that hopes of a compromise have not been realised, and that the position is again very grave. Cabinet has had prolonged sittings, and as a result the Chancellor called the coalition parties together. He informed them bluntly that if no settlement were reached by to-morrow, the Reichstag would be dissolved. Until the new Reichstag assembles, the Chancellor declared, the Government would assume dictatorial powers. Another meeting of Cabinet is now being held.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

STILL DEFIANT. (Received Friday, 9.5 a.m.) PARIS, Thursday. The Temps says that although a week has elapsed since Berlin ordered the cessation of passive resistance, Germany has made no serious proposal for payment to the Repartions Commission. The only certainty in a complicated crisis with Germany is that those who instigated the war profited thereby; and that those who initiated the Ruhr resistance profited thereby, and are now trying to install themselves in power. They intend that the German workers shall do their will and that sooner or later France shall be at their mercy. • Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.