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coal deliveries for August, September and October have not reazhed a toral of 6.000,009 tons, the Allies will prosead to she occupition of new territory in Gar- many, ia th» region of the Ruahr or else- where’’, The official charact riz-d as " au unheard of procedinz’ the compar- i3on made bv Loird Curzin between f'rance’s war debt and the reparations due from Garmany. ‘‘Our war deb's’’, he said, ‘‘enabled us to win the war and helped us to make a greater military el- fort to save British and United Stuates lives, while the German debt represents bioed of the Aili=s that was shed. France does- not repuadiate her debts Sae has wined off the war debts owed her by some of her Allies, but she intends to pay her own’’. The-French reply, if a reply is sent, wiil but reaffirm the posi- tion of this country, as rereatedly sat forch beretofore, the official deelared. France, e said, would never consent to the British demand that Germaay pay less and France pay more, whih is the official initerpretaiion here of the state- ment in the rote that Great Britain must coileet 14,500,000,000 gold marks and that if she does not receive that sum from Germany, she must get it {rom the Alljes. Paris, Aug. 14:h.—The Journal Des Debats, ccmmenting upon the Britisa re- paration note, says. 'Our wit to break the resistance of a country that does not wish to {ulfill her eugagements is irrve- vocable and as there is literally nothing i1 all this enormous text that migh* lend itself to an arvangement, we are forced to consider the possibility of a definite sparation, which will b@ as repugnant to the Government o! the Republie, as to that of His Majesty, but which we cannot prevent if [England really has said her last word”’. L 'lntransigeant also regards the document as a '‘sortgof repudiation of the Enterte Cordiale’. ““This is extremely regrettable’’, it adds, “*but nothing wiil tur: us aside trom our operation of constraint against Germany which the world some day, in the opin- ion of the writer, will recozniz2 to have been the rizht eourse’. Marviile, Aag. 14th.—''We are not enly sure of o wr rights, but we hava the means t¢ secare them,”” M. Poincare told the :opi- of war devastated Mar- ville on Sunday. “‘ifrance will never relent until Germany has been krought to her kuees,” he declared. Answering Chancellor Cunc’s Reichstag address, he made a bitter attack on, ““German hyproerisy,”” and declared that present conditions in the German state were brought about by the German people. ““The crzsh of the German money is an economic and financial master-piece,”’ he said. ‘‘Germany has worked it with disastrous success. If she persists in her stunbornness, it will lead trium- phantly to a catastrophe. Cuno would noi nave used such senseless language advocaticg the prolongation of resistance . iA and violation of the treaty of Versailles, if the Allies could have unanimously sig-. nified sthat their common will enjoined German revolt against the legitimate measure taken by Irance’’, he continued, C“Germany is the vietim of voluntary blindness’’. Recalling German atrocitice of war time, the Premier spoke stirringly of the scenes in Marville, which had been occupied by the German army Pillac: and destruction had followed the 1914 inva- sion of the German legions. he said. “"Arpeal to Poineare’’ was the answer the troops gave when homes were enter- ed and possessions looted. Poineare was then president of the republic. Now, he declared, the situatiyn was changed, Among the incidents quoted by M. Poin- care was how when ['renchmen complain- ed against the Germans stabliny 24 horses ir the village chuveh they were told that tue German officers were only imitating Napoleon. They even forced our giris to wash the diriy clothes of the soldiers, the Pre- mier -said. When we recall such abominable treatment, we are stupified at the effrontery of Germauy today com- plaining bitterly of the pacifie cecupation of the Ruhr fprom gvhich none of the in- habitants wou.d ever have suffered in the slightest degree if they had not been pushed by their government to acts of vivlence. Saying ihat Germany was now trying to evade the manifest consequen- ces of her ac's, he urged thar France must not weaken., “‘Your dead demand ic and their praycr will b 2 granted,”’ he totd his hearers. Barlin, Aug. 14th.—Dr. Gustav Stress- emann, the new German Chancellor, oat- lined in a sta*ement today the conditions under which Germany is .eady tv aban- don the passive resistancein the Ruhr. The conditions are the complete restora- tion to Germany of her right of control over tce Ruhr, re-establishment of the conditions in the Rhineland, vochsafed her under the Versailles Treaty, and the liberation of every German citiz n who has been outraged, evicted, or im prisoned. London, Aug, 14th -In the bye-election yesterday in South Portsmouth, render- ed necessary by the resignation of the member, Lieut Colonel Leslie Wilson. to accept the Governorship of Bombay, Ma- jor Herbert Cayzer, conservative,, vias elected over his Liberal opponent, Sir Henry Lawson, by a majority of over 2,000. The vote was Cayzer 11,885 Law- son, 9,763. Reme, Aug. 14th. —The Italian press is very sparing in its comment on the Brit- ish reparations note to France and Bel- gium. but the reception ¢f the document is mainly favourable. Special satisfac- tion is expressed over Marquis “urzon’s poiicy of fixing a definite sum to be claimed by Great Britain from the Allies and Germany, this being considered an acceptance by the British of Premier Mussolini’s proposal to consider repara- tions and inter Allied debts as a single problem and discuss them joirtly. The portions of the note demanding payment of the French debts and questioning tle legality of the Ruhr oceupation, met wity less unanimous approval, being critieize(, adversely, while a portion of the press consitiers the former too peremptory an-d quest,ons the utility of bringing up the latter question at the present moment, Official cireles, on the whole, are alsn pleased with the rote, consildering that since Great Britain bas begun making concessions in the matter of pavment of the inter-Ailied debts a bas’s for apree- ment ought to be found, but the hich hopes entertasined upon the reception of the note hav> been somewhat dampened by the manper in which it was received in France. Barbados, Aug. 15th.--At yesterday'y meeting House Assembly the foliowirg address was passed. ‘'The House of Assembly are of opinion that this colory should be represented at the Imperial Ecoromic Conference by somecne inti- mately conneeted and zequuinted with West Indian affairs such as the Presi- dent of the Associated West Indian Chambers of Commerce, in addtin to the Under Sceretary of State {or the Colo- nies and respectfully asks His Excellency to be g‘(md enough to forward to the Secretary of Siate for ike Colonies the views ol this House on the subject, Southampton, Aug. 14th.—A party of 280 excurtionists, aboard the steamer Princess Ena, had an exciting experi- ence early this morning wien the vessel, in erossing from Swuthampton to St. Malo, France, struck some submerg:d rocks, in a dense fog, between Jersey and St. Malo. A bad hele was ecut in the steamer's hall and a number of passen- gers were transferred to the boats. How- ever excellent order prevailed and there were o casualties, The Princess Era later procecded under ber own steam, Two of the lif'e boats eoniaining 80 pas- seagers were still missing at noon, des- pite efforis to fird them, but the authoii- ties believed there was 1,0 eause for anx- lety. St. Johns, N. F. Aug. 14th. —A meas- ure Introduced in the House of Assemibiy this evening by the Minister of Finance places a duty of 70 cents per gallon on all aleoholic liquors warehoused in New- foundland and n transit, For some time past big shipmentsat liguor have been landed here irom English steameoers. They have been placed in bond until transhipment could be made by the own- ers, usually to St. Pierre. Up to th2 pres- ent the only local charge on this has been for warehousingz. Atlauntic City, Aug. 14th.—Mr. Lewis. President of the United Mine Workers of America, has accepted the invitation of the Federal Coal Commission to confer in New York with tne c¢ommission and Anthracite operator, in an eifurt to avert a strikeon September Ist,