GERMAN REPARATIONS

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14613, 14 March 1921, Page 5

GERMAN REPARATIONS

CONFIDENCE IN VON SIMONS. RESOLUTION OF REICHSTAG. '". —■ % ". FURTHER PROPOSALS TO BE MADE. , and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 14, 12.15 a.m. BERLIN, March 13. The Reichstag, by 260 votes to 40* tarried a vote of confidence in Herr voa Simons. Herr von Simons, in a speech dealing vv.th the negotiations in London, said the German counter-proposals he made • ! were his personal responsibility and were made from political motives," and especially out of consideration for thosa towns threatened by the Allies' measures of compulsion. "Our position," he said, "was such that we could not expect anything from a rupture of relations, as the world's opinion of us was too unfavourable for us to contend that tin - Peace Treaty is null and void because the Allies had torn it up. Germany must fulfil the treaty as far as possible, but no further. We have not blocked the path to further negotiations and we must endeavour to make c< unter-proposals on a different basis} but after a slap In the face we cannot offer our hand and say we will bj> friends." SILESIAN PLEBISCITE. GERMAN PRESSURE APPLIED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 14, 10.30 a.m. \ PARIS, March 13. The Temps is apprehensive of coups ere force by Germany over the Silesian plebiscite. It stales, on the authority cf the Frankfurter Zeitung, that the P.eichsbank and other German banks will no longer undertake to collect cheques on London and Paris. "It would be well," says the Temps, "if Germany were warned that she is play«r Ing a dangerous game."