CRISIS IN GERMANY.

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15358, 5 October 1923, Page 5

CRISIS IN GERMANY.

POSITION VERY GRAVE. NO COMPROMISE REAOHED. DICTATORSHIP THREATENED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. Received October 5, 12.30 p.m. LONDON, October 4. The Daily Chronicle's Berlin correspondent telegraphs that the hopes o( a compromise have not been realised, and the position is again very grave. The Cabinet had prolonged sittings, and as .a result the Chancellor called the Coalition Parties together. He informed them bluntly that if no settlement were reached by to-morrow tho Reichstag will be dissolved, and until the new Reichstag assembles the Chancellor declared that the Government would assume dictatorial powers. Another meeting of Cabinet was being held.

EXTREMIBTB STRENGTHENED.

BY POINCARE'S POLICY,

STRESEMANN'S ALLEGATIONS.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, Oct. 4

The Daily Telegraph's Berlin correspondent says that Herr Stresemann, conversing with a foreign correspondent, bitterly accuses M.. Poincarc of being directly responsible for .. the present crisis in Germany. M. Poincare's attitude, after the cessation of passive resistance, had "place*d him and his Government in a most precarious position by greatly strengthening the hands of the German extremists. The latter, did not blame the Government for unconditional.surrender to France, but because this had not .. alleviated the situation. Herr Stresemann concluded that it is doubtful if he could maintain his position. • PARIS, October 4.

The Temps says that although a week has elapsed since Berlin ordered the cessation of passive resistance, Germany has made ; no..serious proposal for payment to the Reparation Commission. The only certainty in the complicated' crisis with- Germany is that those who instigated the war profited thereby, and those who initiated the Ruhr resistance profited thereby,, and are now trying, to instal themselves in power. They intend , that German workers shall do their will, and that sooner or later France shall be at their mercy.