The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-05
Collection of War Debt Is To Be
Assured, Premier Says.
Refusal of Germany to Pay Up
Brings RetaliatOry Move.
GERMAN PROPERTIES SEIZED
French Penalties To Be Added
Until Huns Give Up.
Payments Made to Germany for
War Losses VIII Cease.

Paris, Aug. 5.-Premier Poincare at
noon today notified the Germany em~
bassy at Paris that the first of . series
of measures to coni rye French inter-
ests against a lapse in Germany's pre-
war debt payments would be put into
effect Immediately. The notice fol-
lowed the receipt of a note from Ger
many refusing to meet the 100000
pounds installment of these payments
to French citizens due August 10.
The first of French measures con-
sists of the immediate suspension OF
all payments to German nationals for
debts contracted with Frenchmen be-
fore the war both in France and AL.
SAGE Lorraine.
(By the Associated PresG.)
Paris. Aug. 1.-THE French govern
ment today O. dered into effect the
penalties against Germany for failure
to pay in full the installmenta on the
pre-war debts to French citizens.
No Military Action.
The penalties concern German props
critics seQuestered in France. Certain
payments that were being made to
Germany on account OF war losses are
suspended in Alsace and Lorraine as
are also the indemnities under the ar
bitration agreements reported between
France and Germany in August and
September, 1921.
No military action is involved.
Act I'm AIsaee Lorraine.
Anticipating that the assurances re-
quired of Germany of her intention to
pay the 100000 pounds due August
Is toward liquidation of the pre-war
debts owing to French citizens, would
not be forthcoming at noon today.
Premier Poincare last night made final
arrangements to enforce the threat
ened penalties
His plans were completed after a
lengthy conferences with NJ. Rebel.
minister of liberated regions, who is
also replacing Louis Barthou as min
lister of justice.
Asked for Reduction.
1t is understood that the first meas
ure which will be applied Monday,
will be the expulsion of $50 Germans
residing in Alsace Lorraine and the
sequestration of their property. Fresh
and harder penalties will be enforced
weekly until the German government
decides to pay.
A Berlin dispatch last night said a
supplementary note was being sent 20
Paris. reaffirming the position taken
by the German government in it's
original communication regarding the
payment of private debts.
Germany did not propose to default
on the payments, the note said, but
merely requested a reduction of the
amount to be paid.
German Feeling Runs High.
Berlin, Aug. 5.-Tension ran high
in German official circles today over
the action which France would take
over the German note rejecting the
new French indemnity demands. The
French note had threatened to i'm
pose new penalties tonight unless Ger
many consented to the demands
The note asks France to postpone
decisive action against Germany until
the other allied nations have had an
opportunity to come to a decision on
the issue. Furthermore, the note
pointed out that the time limit for
the pament of the next monthly in
the payment Of the next monthly in-
marks is August l 3 and not the bth.