ALLIED CONFERENCE

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14585, 7 February 1921, Page 5

ALLIED CONFERENCE

GOOD WORK DONE. SHOWN BY GERMAN OUTCRY. THE ENTENTE CONSOLIDATED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received February 6, 5.5 p.m. PARIS, February 4. Alhough the Chamber had coldly received M. Briand's explanation of the Allied Conference's work in fixing the indemnity, he delivered such a brilliant, spirited and logical reply to M. Tardieu's attack, that the Government Is certain of a large majority on a vote of contldence. M. Briand declared that his aim had been to consolidate the accord between the Allies without tearing France's rights to pieces. The Conference at one critical moment might have ended without result. It was absolutely necessary that the Conference should reach a definite conclusion. The value of that conclusion was shown by the outcry from the German press and manufacturers. GERMAN KiI.VERS' PROTESTS. AGAINST INDEMNITY TERMS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received February 6, 5.5 p.m. BERLIN, February 5. The indemnity terms have angered the workers in the mining districts, and great labour demonstrations were held. ■"Ten thousand copper miners in the Mansfield area are striking as a protest. The coal miners in Ruhr determined to do as little work as possible. The civic authorities in Munich ordered the town to go into mourning. The miners in Silesia are refusing to work the overtime arranged by the inter-Allied Commission, declining a 50 per cent increase in wages. They also refuse to accept food which the commission is providing at a cost below current prices.