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Show 1 BELGIAN PREMIER CENSURES GERMAN! I TM HEADY TO HANG" SLAYER OF TWO DECLARES . . . i " TEUTONS GAIN CONCESSION ON I EOALJfSTl r Presiding Officer at Spa Reprimands Re-primands German for His Language At Session U FATHERLAND FINAfiCES DECLARED CRITICAL Lloyd George Says He Does Not See How England Can Aid Poland mmm SPA Belgium. Julv 10.---By The! IBM AMocut,.l Press. -The German rep- H rSSuve.' proaenUtlon of their coa (81 and economic situation to the repre- HKl sehtatlvea of the allied OVernments H hero toda won for them further con- igH cewiOOS from the conference In agreement lo 1. "'" 1 alUcd , P3 experts consider the coal uuestion. MJfL It was another -lay marked t j Eflir forceful language, the presiding offl-j HtUf cer Premier Delacroix ol Belgium, lB- t rruptlng Hugo Stinnes, German Opal m - operator. In hla pn isentatlon ot the E Tjejg situation, when he referred to those. aMm -afflicted with the disease of vie-, F: ton ' A U would STOP PRODUCTION. , Both Stinnes ana I itto Hue, pn sl- dent of the German miners' national QfflH association. said the threatened occu-1 UH patlon of the Ruhr would only serve i HH to stop production. Stinnes said such IHH occupation might result In riots and Mm revolution, and he denied th iccur- ttmjM sey of the allied figures with regard tflttj lo German coal proiluctlon. BIS Hue said the diplomats might order EBffi coal, hut only the miners could pro- HISE luce It. He advocated the six-hour Hgf day for Increasing the output, declar- H hig the American, British and French HWre miners approved this view. HK After the conference had turned mjm over the coal problem to the experts, HRT Dr. Walter Simons. German foreign B minister, on behalf of the German I delegation, expressed regret thai Hy? Stinnes had spoken in a disagreeable , WeM manner. Discussing reparations, Dr. 1 MHl Simons said he would be able to au-i 3BB pounce the German plan tomorrow. 1 FIN A N ES CRITICAL, fffffi He pointed out that German fi- atmWi- nances were critical and Mat Germany j fjt&L '.el allied help . it was extremely important, said Dr. 1 Hp Simons, i n. a tin ( ipitaJ sum ol rep-mlj?" rep-mlj?" i.iations dc known. PHl prcmici Millerand commented that I : PHI Stinnes' declaration had neither been i Hl . xact noi given in a courteous luuu- flf Taking up again today the question Hl of coal deliveries from Germany, tne HB allied conference at the request of Ha Konatantln Fehrehbacn, Uerman K chancellor, agreed to near Huyo Spjv Btihnes, tne great coal operator, and flflg utto Hue. president oi uie uerniau miners' national association PHe Dr Walter Simons, Gei man foreign 1 minister, Said at tue opening o( tne 1 session that the men did not represent BV ine German government, nut ne BhB tndught it advhutOle to bear Uo men BIB so intimately conneeicd with c-oal,piu- I, auction m Germanj OFFEXSi i. SPEECH, IBBK It is the custom ol the conference for speakers to remain seatea, but 33 1 1 i'i i tttiunes stood up. lie said: i stand because i warn u look my imm-T advisraarlea In the eye." ilfl This was the opening sentence of Hj 'ff v. hat the allied delegates considered H J a rather offensive speech, Premier ml I Delacroix of Belgium, who presided) Bk'Bj on one occasion reminding Stinnes ! ; that hie language was too forceful Jll j 1 r Simons said atti rward lo iho BnBr on espondent he regretted Stinnes 9H I - "I lift d bUi. li loll nt and aggiessise 9flB B language. Stinnes said in substance: The military protocol which the I Germans were requested to sign July BBJ I 7 will Increase discontent and disor- BBt f j der in Germany, it will make it more BW I iluficult to maintain our coal produc-lion, produc-lion, and will not help us to increase MINERS WOULD REFUSE, HBB K "Jt is all very well for you to tell us Hflf that unless our coal production uud H 'ii livsrles to you Increase ou win oc- fll: i upy the Kuhr. 1 may lell you that BjB B if you should expect b occupation of BE K the Kuhr to obtain more coal than IS I ou now do, jou would find yourselves ffi I in iHtaken. Not only would you not Br I gfet more coal but less, because the Bi? t ' miners would refuse to work. They ffp i are doing now all they can with the uieagei tood with which they are sup- K 1) "Notwithstanding exhaustion from I U It of substantial food they work Blv iiuef hours extra twico weeki, so as w ,j Increase production Vou gentle- 9HI " cannot by an expression of your Ml 1 Will merely pive an order and increase Sfll ij our coal deliveries. That is why. if glfjl M practical results are to be obtained BU Bi there must 1 . n agreement among flK I f Millerand said yesterday that Ein 1 the Germans were accorded the right Bpj W io speak ns n matter of courtesy. 1 Bj claim to speak as a matter of right (Continued on page Two.) I teutons emu CONCESSION ON COAL QUESTION (Continued Prom Page One nnd whoever la not afflicted with the gisease of victory " Here M. Delacroix Interrupted and said The object of this conference is to arrive at a peaceful solution and 1 uust therefore ask Hen Sttnnes not u be prov oral iv e Btinnee, resuming, s.iid: This conference is the ear through I blch Europe could Ucai the facts. 'I hat is why I wish lo Speak. Without co-operation nothing win be done. That is whj 1 wlali to speak as a mai-ter mai-ter of right and not Oiie 01 pi" .liege. J cannot dispute to. ttillerand'e ng-ures ng-ures concerning I'i-iihi. but his figures fig-ures regaiding Germany arc quite wrong. Germany has not produced per cent or her pre-war coal and It is not true that 66 per cent of the Oei-iran Oei-iran iron nidus. ucs are at work. ' I iccogtiiz'r thai the French coal fhuation in serious and altnough tile Versailles treaty was foncd upon Oei-Biany, Oei-Biany, every German employer and workman must strive to help Prance as many of her mines have been destroyed, de-stroyed, although this destruction was not wanton, but one of military r.cceflsii v IMPOSSIBLE TO CO.UPM . "Germany is reproached foi not llv- : ing up to her coal obligations under h the treaty. As s matter of fact, la tere the treaty was signed Germany rad voluntarily supplied Prance wlthi j considerable quantities c coal. The I Germans now recognise thai this set I was dictated by an unwarranted .sentl-, I ment. "The reparations commission 1? now! demanding 89,000,000 tons per annum.; ; It Is Impossible to compl; The Ruhr' 1 output in May was 220,000 tons per' 1 day. it has now reached 28 5,000 tons. this on the basis of three hundred j! wot kins days per annum. "The Ruhr proprietors have been I 'ing to Increase the output by draw- Ing more workmen into ;he Huhi Tin workers, however, demand a six-hour day, but In order to provide the French with supplies the men ha I agreed to work eigl t hours and ten minutes subject to being paid double rates for the extra two hours. J, The employers are cndenvorlng to S arrange that the men should work an I ' hour and a half, but overtime j oennoi be forced upon the workmen I Cht One million ions now being eup- j . id i e only made possible by ver- 1 me The state of the working men's health makes additional effort on (I hair i.i t v ! y difficult, i lccngntze thiit Germans may far 1 UD precipitate occupation of the Ruhr 1 hlch would result, were the allied di mands not complied with 1 think hnt if blark troops as the Instrument ' of public authority nre used the feel- j ing Of every white man will recoil and e allies will jret no coal Immlin. I ion of workmen into the Ruhr woud ! suffej and tho building oi dwellings j io house them would Mop lot i anl ij, ' If the allies Insist upon iIkui d uiands. the European coal situation ! inch otherwise might te solved with- it. three ears, will become perma-I perma-I ntlv disorganized and Europe will j permanently exhajsted Future complications due to the I milltarj decision yesterdav may be i - I ;eeted. Riots and revolu'lon mo oc- ' ur and the allies would s-iff.r as srell I ,.s evervbody else The Gorman coal J owners have dismissed n reasonable solution. In view of what Hps iuo doing and right boLng on their side, we cannot accept and work under the I Hilled decision " 1 The conference will meet Sundav at I d p. vn. The Po'iish question was the sub- Ject of a ionersalion : esterdav be-Lwcen be-Lwcen Premier Lloyd George of Great i Britain and Premier Blllierand of Prance, the iwo prime ministers con-udoring con-udoring what. If an;, thing, could be I d ine to help the F'ops In their pres-i ' at milltan difficulty, VN T HHI' MCC H Premier Uod George i.s understood to have s.iid that in view of tho agi'ee-n.ent agi'ee-n.ent just concluded between Great Britain and the Russian soviet government, gov-ernment, he did not feel disposed td do anything more than give iilpl-' ujit,. support to the l'oles. Promiei ' Mill' land is reported as having re-, piled that, this boing the case, Prance! could not go fnrthei The note of the t'ollsh government respecting peace with the Moscow' ; government was received today by the! I Polish delegation here to be communicated communi-cated to tho allied premiers. It was stated by those ronneoied with ti e delegation, however, hat the note, 'which was in code, had been so mutt-ilated mutt-ilated in transmission b telegraph that the delegation could not determine whal It really contained. , A Warsaw dispatch on July 'j said toe Polish foreign office had .an-nounoed .an-nounoed that the Folish government had for. . . j ei a note to the conference confer-ence at S a. declaring that Poland was I now "jus r,s before and always ' read) and willing to make a peace 'based upon the principle of self-deter-! initiation of nations 00 |