The Holbrook news., 1922-09-08
ARMY MARCHING
 ON GERMANY
POINCARE'S CABINET DECIDES TO USE coERciVE MEASURES
 TO FORGE PAYMENTS.
SITUATION DESPERATE
SCHROEDER PLEADS IMMEDI. ATE RELIEF TO PREVENT TO-
 TAI COLLAPSE OF MARK.

PariS-Grim determination to ob- tain separations from Germany, seize guarantees and enforce such payments In the event that the separations com missions decision should grant a nor atOrium to Germany without exacting the securities demanded by France, is everywhere evident in French official circles.
 The war office also is very busy and is in constant communication with General De COuette's headquarters at Mayence Large movements of troops were reported from Nancy, Metz and the Rhineland and there seemed to be no doubt in the minds of officials gen erally that the occupation of the Ruhr was foregone conclusion should the commissions decision go against France.
 While official announcement is withheld, in order not to interfere with the work of the commission, and owing to the desire of the French gov ernment to allow the German delegates every possible opportunity to make final proposal which might be accept able to France, French officials talk and act as if the plan were adopted and Frances decision to take cOercive measures against Germany had al ready been decided upon.
 Herr Schroeder's propositions to the commission are described as "abso- lutely unacceptable"
 The Germans were given two hear ings but failed to produce any new | concessions.
 | Herr Schroeder, as spokesman, as- serted that the situation in Germany is desperate. He pleaded with the al- lies to grant immediate relief. in order to prevent the total collapse of the mark and the probable fall of the Wirth government. The Germans spoke their final word at brief aft ernoon session and left without re- ceiving any encouragement from the | commission.
 Herr Schroeder's final proposal to the reparations commission was re- | quest for a moratorium for cash pay ments during the remainder of 1922 only, with new plan for 1923, name | ly, that if a moratorium were granted then the German government would se- cure coal and timber by private con | tracts with the industrialists. The proposal involves huge amounts of wood and coal, which are not yet estimated, but Herr Schroeder later pointed out that at the present time 1,6OO,000 tons of coal alone are being delivered monthly. It was specified that the proposal must generally be accepted by all the members of the reparations commission. | Premier Poincare had a long confer ence with NJ. Viviani and the minister of finance, NJ. DeLasteyrie. Later he received Andre Lefevre, former minis ter of war, a most persistent advocate of the adoption of strong measures toward Germany.
 M. Lefevre appeared in great spirits as he emerged from the Poincare cab inet.
 "Our only chance to get anything from Germany" he said. lis for us to l go and take it. This is what I have been preaching since the signing of the peace treaty. l am happy to find that my viewpoints will prevail"
 Berlin.-The cabinet has decided to reject new demands sent through Herr Schroeder of the German finance min istry by the separations commission in 1 PnriS for some nrOductiXe OF gold