Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-08-05 | Page 10 | German Reply Brigs French Penalty Order

GERMAN REPLY BRINGS FRENCH PENALTTDRDER First Step Against Teuton - Government for Nonpayment Nonpay-ment of Prewar Debt Will Be Expulsion of Germans PROPERTY WILL BE CLAIMED BY FRANCE No Military Action Said to Be Involved in Well Planned Pressure to Bring Former Enemies to Terms j TAB IB, n I l Be i P.l ne many's reply to tha latest French note demanding- payment In full of the Installments In-stallments on ths pre-war debts ow-ln ow-ln to Krench cltlsena waa delivered to the forelsn office st noon today. Premier Pre-mier Potnrare, after a quick peniaal of the document, cava an order, the purport of which wss not announced. It waa unofficially atated that the panaltlea asalnat Oermany, arrange- jments for which had already been I made, would be put Into force Immediately. Im-mediately. j The French government today order-jed order-jed Into effect the penalties against Ulermsny for falhre to pay In full the Installments on the pre-war debts to 'French cltlsens. j The penalties concern German properties prop-erties sequestrated In France. Certain j payments that were being made to Oermany on account of war losers are suspended In Alaacs and Lorraine as sre aleo the Indemnities under the arbitration agreements reached between France and CJermany In August and September, 1121. No military action la Involved. , Anticipating thst ths assurances rs-, quired of Germs ny of her Intention to pay the 2 000,000 pounds due August II toward liquidation of the pre-war debts owing to French cltlsens would not be forthcoming at noon today. Premier Pre-mier Polnrnre Kst night made final arrangements to enforce the threatened penalties. It Is understood that the first measure,- which wiU be avpplied Monday will be the expulsion of IftO Germans residing In Alsace-Ixirrftlne and the sequestration of their property. Similar Simi-lar measures will be taken the following follow-ing week, fresh and harder penalties being enforced weekly until the aer-man aer-man government decides to pay. A Berlin dispatch last night said the supplementary note reaffirmed the position taken by ths German government govern-ment In Its original communication regarding re-garding the payment of private debts. Germany did not propose to default on the payments, the note said, but merely mere-ly requested a reduction of the amount to be paid.