REPARATION CONFERENCE

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14597, 22 February 1921, Page 5

REPARATION CONFERENCE

FRANCE MUST BE ALERT NO DESIRE TO ACT INDEPENDENTLY STATEMENT BY M. BRIAND. Receiver! February 21, T>.s p.m. PARI?, February '2O. M. Briand, Interviewed on the eve of his departure for the London Conference, said thai France would welcome news of America resuming her place at |he Allied Conference. France does not desire to acl independently of the Allies, but is prepared herself to carry out the clauses of the Versailles 'treaty relating to sanctions. France mil si always remember thai Pie spirit of aggression can still be awakened In Germany. This German attitude may !>.• modified in course of time, but France for the present must remain on guard. DELEGATIONS REACH LONDON. GERMANY'S TRUCULENT ATTITUDE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received February 21, 5.5 p-.m. LONG! IN, February 20. The French ami Italian delegations to [lie R< parations Conference have arrived. A preliminary discussion will lake place at Downing Street to-day. Receive,l February 21, 5.5 p.m. PARIS, February '2O. M. writing in I'm Temps, says the battle which M. Briand has gone to London to deliver, side by side with our Allies, against German ill-will, may perhaps decide the fate of France for ever. M. Poinearc supports his argument by documentary proof that Gi rmany is now actually Ihrowing even the responsibility for the war upon Ihe Allies, especially France. He adds: "Germany is not representing herself before the Allies as a repentant criminal. but as an audacious accuser. Her attitude is more arrogant to-day than years ago." HOME, February 20. Several members of the Foreign Affairs Committee consider that the Italians should obtain further compensations for their war sacrifices by economic concessions in the German colonies VON SIMON'S ADVICE. REFUSAL OV TERMS URGED. (Australian and N.Z. ('.able Assn.) Received February 21, 5.5 p.m. BERLIN, February 20. Herr von Simon, in conferring with the Hessian Government, emphasise I that the failure of the forthcoming London Conference would not mean the immediate enforcement of the penalties against Germany. They could only he enforced when Germany rejected the demands of the Reparations Commission, with which, according to the Peace Treaty, the decision, lay. Herr Simons urged the Germans to strongly support the Government's refusal.