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Show Tench , German and British !ngleson Europe Muddle Alleged Army of Occupation Living Luxuriously in Germany Absorbs All Teutons Can Pay, Harden Declares By MAXIMILIAN HARDEN Germany's FYmxnost Public Ut (Copyright, mvo bv Thc standard Examiner.) BERLIN. Dec. 16 There can he no peace, no settlement between be-tween France and Gernmnv until the allied armies of occupation are withdrawn from German soil These armies, In their (.i-.i 1 tates, are eating up all that Germany Ger-many can afford to pay There canb e no solution of reparations rep-arations question by military force France must and shall receive what she rightfully deserves, but the nuuns of paying cannot be organized or-ganized under foreign control. F'ay by day thc purchasing power of thc mark declines It must be plain to our bitterest enemies en-emies that the conditions of financial finan-cial ruin here make It Impossible for Germany to pay exoi bi'mt dcbUs with official world standards stand-ards of payment. Vet her creditors try to Corci Germany more and more to unproductive un-productive payments proof of thli blind Imprudence Few p sons roallze the extent of the iur-den iur-den of the armies of occupation The German people, however, loudly eomplaln of this crushing weight laid on the new German republic. The building of new and been demanded time after time. SCHOOLS ARi: CLOSED Hundreds of German h o'.s been i losed to their punils .md turned Into offices and quarters for occupation purposes and the control comml.'slons. The best rooms In Innumerable private houses have been demanded from the owners and the pay of troops, officers and commissions, together togeth-er with extravagant demands for the costliest furnltun hftvi swallowed, swal-lowed, as everybody must realize, many billions of murkt. y. t mm of this has gone to France in hc way of reparations. Let me set down Just a few of the things the allies havo demanded de-manded In the last IS months they have demanded and obtained complete furnishings for 10 S00 bed rooms. 6000 dining rooms. 2600 studies. 1400 drawing rooms. 2900 club arm chairs. 800 ladles writing tables. 500 dressing tabh B, 72.000 glasses for white wines. 6 1.000 glasses for red wines. 15.-000 15.-000 glasses for port, 46.0t'O glasses for champagne. 61.003 ?mall glasses for liquors GERMANY PAYS BILB Germany must pay for all this, despite the tremendous prices prevailing pre-vailing the same Germany In which thousands of engaged couples cou-ples are forced to porpone their marrlaee because dwellings are unobtainable and they are unable to pay for even the poorest furniture fur-niture Do not the victors realUe what a perilous amount of hatred Is bo-Ing bo-Ing accumulated in tho hearts or these people who. of course, do not reflect that the army of oc-cupation oc-cupation does not wish to give up its habitual comforts Do they not realize to what extent they aro lessening the possibility ot reparations repara-tions payments and how much they are increasing me difficulties of those who aiv endeavoring to weed out all seeds of hatred, de-slrlnp de-slrlnp first, a mutual understanding understand-ing between Franco and Germany and afterward throughout all P:u-rope. 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It Is shrieked to the German, people from all aid- s thai the continued con-tinued occupation of tho Rhine betrays an Intention on the part or franc e to (.rush Germany n lop of this comes the French book entitled "Occupation el liberation uu terrltorle." which proves by Its own testimony that from 187 1 and 18S2 'he German army of occupation in Franco avoided every ev-ery unnecessary oppression of the acfeatcd French, and despite th.-winter's th.-winter's cold quartered its officers offi-cers In wooden barracks to free private houses and hotels of this B)KB8 TUHRIBLE DANGER Those who look foreslghtedly must realise the terrible danger of future wars inherent in an occupation oc-cupation uhoss representatives through doubtlessly only continuing continu-ing their accustomed way of living Seem to tho oppressed German middle classes to be reeing ana U astlng Ilk'1 Maharajah Any International pM t guaranteeing guaran-teeing the Safety of France's frontier fron-tier should demand the evacuation ot all foreign troops in Germany. This would be u great step toward European pacification Even tho best of troops become demoralized demoral-ized when living in a cultured land more luxuriously than the natives and with the opportunity to speculate in goods and money. The most effective speeches of ' Tiger" Clemenceau and Premier Polncare will not preserve their country' from suspicion so long as the occupation Ia3ts, that French predominance on tha continent Is more Important to them Uian disarmament dis-armament and real peace TTMK FOR SOLUTION Hasn't th'- reparations problem produced enough economic confusion confu-sion during the last four years and Isn t It time that a solution was here" Yet I say. It cannot ever be obtained by present military mili-tary methods. Germany cannot find dozens of billions of gold marks today or tomorrow, nor can Germany lame the Industrb-s of other countries by tremendous exports, nor yet mortgage her woods and mines and railways to a foreign and not friendly pow- r'i3ut Germany could entrust I these guarantees In part or wholly I ,i UJ llmr. tn n roriiora- tlon Including Germany's Industry, agriculture, commerce, banks and insurance compaiii'-s Who without with-out foreign control, would t:ik care of thc reparations debt. This would at least be a step forwara while awaiting tho d.';y when the people recognize hat instln healing heal-ing is onlv possible by co-opera- Preeident Harding rightly said In his last messofc tnat no nation na-tion can take from another its burden of responsibility. If tbe German people, wttb Ihclr Industrial Indus-trial apparatus Intact and their working energy aroused, pleog their entire wealth for reasonable reparations they would Pve their feeling of responsibility and unquortli.nal ' good talth. and U this difficult task succeeded and of that there is no reaaonable doubt tho German nation would prove Itself woffhr of cfealt a id do more toward the stabilisation of its money than any outside manifestation possibly could Negation and groanlngs can only depreciate our exchange still further. fur-ther. oo |