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Show KARDOFF DECLINES CHANCELLOR POST FINDS TASK OF SELECTION HELP IS DIFFICULT; NATIONALISTS NATIONAL-ISTS REFUSE HELP President Ebert Still Casting About For a Successor to Strese-mann Strese-mann To Take the Lead Berlin, Herr von Kardorff was selected by President Ebert Saturday afternoon to undertake the task of forming a new German ministry to take the place of the ousted Strese-mann Strese-mann ministry. He appeared willing to undertake the work, but the German Ger-man Nationalists refused to cooperate with him. Thereupon he tried to form a coalition from among the Socialists and the German People's party, but the German People's party declined to cooperate with the Socialists. Social-ists. Herr von Kardorff was therefore obliged to renounce the task of cabinet cabi-net making and withdrew. Throughout the day there were conferences among the various part-ies, part-ies, and among the possibilities foi the chancellorship consulted by President Presi-dent Ebert was the Nationalist leader Dr. Hergt. Strong efforts are being made to construct a coalition government of the four bourgeois parties namely the Nationalists and People's party, the Clericals and the Democrats. All avenues ave-nues of compromise are being explored ex-plored as President Ebert appears to be firmly opposed to the dissolution of the reichstag. The country however, may yet have a dissblution forced upon it, should all combinations fail or a cabinet be formed from the parties of the Right which would be unable to stand the acid test of a vote of confidence in the reichstag. It is felt in official circles at Paris that France made another important concession to the allies and to Germany Ger-many in the contract signed with the Stinnes group of Ruhr industrialists. In this contract it is stipulated that all deliveries in kind shall be credited to Germany on reparation account, while the taxes collected by the occupying oc-cupying countries shall be paid into what is called a "productive pledge fund." From this fund the occupying authorities au-thorities would pay the cost of the occupation, subject to the rights of the reparation commission. This is understood to mean that France and Belgium will be unable to use the receipts re-ceipts from taxes even to pay the cost of maintaining their forces in the Ruhr unless permission to do so Is given by the reparation commission. commis-sion. The Importance of this concession fs reflected in the prudence with which the accord with the industrialists industrial-ists Is commented upon in the French press. Opinion in reparation circles is that Premier Poincare has begun to recognize the necessity of yielding on some points In order to prepare the way for final reparation settlement. |