GERMAN POLITICS

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15098, 20 November 1922, Page 5

GERMAN POLITICS

FORMATION OF A CABINET

CUNO'S FIRCT ATTEMPT FAILS

STINNES ANTAGONISTIC

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) ■ ■ LONDON, Nov. 18.

A message from Berlin states that Herr Cuno abandoned his attempt to form a Cabinet owing to opposition by political parties. The President, Herr Eberl, requested him to a further attempt with non-politicians. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph stales that Herr Cuno's chances of forming a Cabinet are favourable. The chief difficulty will be'to balance himself between the People's Party and the Socialists. Herr Cuno is antagonistic to Hep." Stinncs, whose ambition is to become trio industrial dictator of Germany, which is not favoured by the Hamburg shipping nabobs. Herr Cuno is personally acquainted with the United States President, and ho is believed to hold broad, tolerant views on international affairs. Consequently, it is thought that he has the character and menlalfty necessary to grapple with the reparation problems, which cannot be solved without British goodwill and American gold.

Efforts to form a Cabinet are followed sympathetically by practically all parties. An idea is prevalent that France wished the Chancellorship to go to the more suave and more plausible Dr. llerines,, late Minister for Finance. This resulted in Herr Cuno abandoning the proposal to appoint him Foreign Minister.

j » WHOLESALE LOOTING,

BERLIN, November 17. Four hundred rioters in the mining area of Frechen, after, looting goods from shops to the value of 20,000,000 marks, visited the farms, where they fired the,stacks, and slaughtered stock. ' Five thousand rioters looted the town of Kerpen, .doing damage to the extent of 60,000,'b00 marks.

English soldiers assisted the police in quelling the disorder. Twenty of the rioters were arrested.

The riots arc stated not to be due to hunger, but to plunder and lust. Eighty per cent of the Dusseldorff strikers have returned to work.