New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-13
Pan-Cerman Control of
Reichstag May Stiffen
Resistance ON Repara-
tions and Gust Simons
Time for Action,
Declares BRAND
France Will Not Fail at
Rendezvous on May /,
He Assures Deputies
Special Cable to The Tribune

Copyright, 1921. New York Tribune Inc
PARIS, April 12.-Reports come from
Berlin this evening Of schism in the
German government. If as seems like
ly the Pan Germans have gained ma
Jorlty in the Reichstag and DR.. Walter
Simons, the Foreign Minister, goes out.
the advices presage the rise to power of
a government of the right, which will
offer strong resistance to the will of
the Allies.
The treaty enforcement measures en-
visaged by the French government. in
case the conservatives have gained con-
troll, would have to be made still more
serious than has been anticipated The
mobilization of two more classes would
be ordered.
The neutral governments are now
working hard to persuade Germany
either to declare her agreement with
the reparation demands drawn up by
the Allies at their Paris conference or
propose some clear-cut offer of an
equivalent nature concerning the an
nuities she is willing to pay the Allies
on her war bill. For example, Edmund
Schulthcss, President of the Swiss Con-
federation, is doing all he can in this
direction.
Simons Criticised in Berlin
DR.. Simoas has been holding to the
declaration he made last Saturday to
the Berne correspondent of the Paris
newspaper lie Matin, when he said that
Germany intended to make acceptable
proposals to the Allies at an early
date. That assertion was made with
out the Foreign Minister having con-
suited the German chancellor, Fehren-
bach, or the other members of the Ber-
lin Cabinet and it has been much crit-
cised in the Berlin press. Some of the
dailies, however, agree with DR.. ST.
mons in his tlesire to do all possible to
avoid a serious rupture between the
Allies and Germany.
1T is certain that after a check of the
DR.. Simons had with Lor-
ing Dresel, United States Commission
er in Berlin, and the declarations of
Washington, Germany no longer hopes
to be supported by the United States
in resisting payment of the war bill.
Moreover, while DR.. Smons was in
Lugano, Switzerland, near the Italian
frontier, last week he endeavored to
find out secretly from we'll informed
Italian personages whether Premier
Giolitt and Foreign Minister Count
Sforza of Italy would wish to prevent
France from applying new penalties
in the Ruhr and in German ports if
the Berlin government didn't yield by
May 1. The answer he received was
not encouraging to German plans and
convinced DR.. Simons of the useless
ness of trying any further to separate
France from her Allies in this respect.
Pan-Germans Still Stubborn
The Foreign Minister has not, how
ever. succeeded in converting the ex-
citable Pan Germans to his point of
view
In the French Chamber of Deputies
this afternoon Premier BRAND, speak
ing Of penalties, declared once again
decidedly that Germany had until MAY
to fulfill her obligations, and if she
still obstinately refused after that
date she must take the consequences.
PARIS, April 12 (By The Associated
Press) Premier BRAND, in the course
of the debate in the Chamber Of Depu-
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