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Show FRENCH DISARM AND OUST GERMAN POLICE I A A m-' . 1 500 GET ORDER I TO LEAVE CITY I OF DUSSELDQRF I Privates Refuse to Salute French Officers; One German Ger-man Heavily Fined REICHSTAG INDORSES DR. SIMON'S DECISION Laughter Greets Plea to Abide By Treaty As Far As Possible DUSSELDQRF. March 12 fBJ The Associated Press.) Inability of the German security police offiee--s to compel privates to salute French officers caused General do, Goutte today to-day to order the disarmament and dlsbandment of I0O0 securlt police in Dusseldorf and command them t lease the city befor 10 o'clock to- An officer, a member of whosi squad refused to salute a French ma-Jor, ma-Jor, has been fined three thousand marks. APPROVAL VOTWED jBERLTN, March 12. (By The Associated As-sociated Press) Approval of the Gcr-man Gcr-man government's attitude toward the allied reparation demands was oted by the relchstag today after Foreign Minister Simons made a lengthy ex-planatlon ex-planatlon of his work at the London conference. There was a partisan debate over the resolution of approval, which wo moved by tho coalition parties, hut it was finally adopted. 266 to 19. The Nationalists and majority Socialists voted with Poo government bloc. A H communist resolu'lon demanding lm-mediate lm-mediate establishment of diplomatic relations with soviet Russia was de-feated. de-feated. The house was crowded to hear Dr Simon's statement In which he dilated on the extraordinary difficulty on the part of Germany to make definite pro-posals pro-posals under tho uncertainty concern-lng concern-lng Ppper Silesia and the exchange fluctuations. Tho Germans" counter-proposals counter-proposals were made from political motives, on his own responsibility. GREETED WITH LAUGHTER After repeating the arguments em-ployed em-ployed before the London conference Or SjmoiiB declared that the idea that. because the allies had torn up the treaty, It was therefore void for Gei -many was wrong and that "we should not repay wrong with wrong." This was greeted with laughter and disorder, but Dr. Simons continued: "For Germany there still remains fulfillment of the treaty so far as that it possible, but no farther." He then proceeded to advocate the seeking of a middle path to the coun-ter coun-ter proposals on a dlfforent basis. si LP OX FACE "But," he added, "wo are given such a slap in the face we cannot of-fer of-fer our hand and say, 'Wo will be friends' That is impossible. If we renew negotiations we must point out f that the basis Is altered by the imposl-1 imposl-1 tion of penalties." 11.. asked the house to confirm the delegation's final decision to reject ths allies-' impossible demands, adding amid applause: "Unless the reichstag does that It will have to look for some one else to represent the country In future nego-tiations." |