GERMAN SITUATION

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5878, 3 April 1920, Page 2

GERMAN SITUATION

THE'RUHR REVOLT ANXIOUS TRIE FOR ALLIES. FRANCES ATTITUDE. .Australian arid N.Z. Cable.) (Received April 3, 8 a.m.) \ LONDON. April £. Ino Australia/a Press learns that tie Allied Goveramd.its the .situation in ltuhr district with anx'lety. h is understood that GermSSyT* in order to quell the J.rsuiTection in ltuhr, h:is requested the A!lbs to permit the despatch of 100,000 troops V.istead of 40,000, which the agreement i,i' List August allowed. Fra-r.cc fears tlutt the presence of such a.n army is a

:-;:.t.'ji;:s menace to her safety, but Britain and the other Allies, lv-.-ognisiag the importance o." the restoration of order acceded to the Germain i'(.q::cst. Ultimately, in response to Frtvich representations, the Allies agreed to permit additional German troops to enter tho neutral zune provided a.n equivalent Allied lorce occupied various points.

PAN-EUROPEAN REVOLUTION

OVERTURES TO LENIN

BERLIN', April 1

The Reds of Ruhr district in'ormc.if Moscow that the m'.imeat was ripe for a Pan-European revolution, the Russial.i Reds, traversing Poland and capturing P.'.u-lih. Lenin replied that he did not intend a large offensive beyond disturbing Poland and ga : (iing time for the Russian Government.

LOYALISTS AND RKDS

SEKIOU3 CONFLICTS

BANKS LOOTED BY BEBELS

(Received April 3, 8 a.m.)

BK'iLIN, March 31

The miners in Ruhr Basin are mostly idle, and the Bedsore confiscating all tho coal and food supplies. The Government troops at Wescl made numerous counter-el tacks with armoured car?, and droyo lh« Kcds from ibo town. The victors captured supplies of. dumdum hullets. The Reds looWi the Duisberg Bank of a million mnrk?, and also secured three million marks at Muilieim. The communists arrowed the moderate members of the Dussildort Workmen's Ojuncil.

THE RDHK DISTURBANCES

GERMAN APPLICATION DECLINED (Received April 3, 8 a.m.) PAKIS, Match 31 M. Mi lerand, French President, in a letter to tb. l German Charge d'affaires, points out that the penetration of German ttoops in the liutir l»asin is only justifiable by imperious necessity, but ihit the Control Commission is emphatically of opinion 'kit military intervention in this district at present is both useless and dangerous, therefore it is im-pos-ihio to grant the Gtrinau Govern, raent's request.

TAXATION CF WEALTH

IMPRACTICABLE SCUEHE,

GOVERNMENT'S DIFFICULTY.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable.) (Received April 3, 8 a.rn ) LONDON. April 2

Though, the select committee, decided that taxation oE war wealth nasfmpraeticable, Mr Cliaraberhir;, Chancellor of the Exchequer, ihetn to continue tht inquiry, because he had been building on a large yield from that source. It would ba impossible to grant relief m case of small iccomea unless new scu'ees of reveuu? were tapped. Mr Chamber. Isin met the o:mniiite6 privately 10-day, and the. committee decided to resume lhj inquiry. Mr Cha nbcrlain is considering whether the terms of reference should be extended.

Tha Daily Chronicle slates that the excess profits tax will be dropped in the coming Budget.