Evening star., 1923-10-07
COST oE I.R|CKERY',
40 BILLION MARKS
Germany Alleged to Have
Spent This Amount to Es-
cape Payment.to Allies. J..
ny ANbRE TARDIEU.

BY Gable to The Star.
PARIS; October Sit is difficult at
this writing to foresee. the course
events Will take in Germany. Chan,
ceIlor Streseniann resigns. A new
mandate u conferred upon. the sarae
Stresemanh by President Ebert.
These -afc mere surface phenomena.
There Is a reality beneath them.
That feality Is an increasing an
tagonism between the right and the
left parties. Herr Stresemann, lead
er of the peoples party, tried a cab
met Of concentration. in which' the
great industries and the socialists
were equally represented. This cab
met aggeed IN DECLARING that the
lnenciai sitIStion ,sa rs;sh ct, GermanX mould
pay for passive resistance. But when
1t came 'to measures which resulted
, from this declaration disagreement
began. The right opposed the prof.
sets Of ,,s the socialist hnsneial Ina, min; ina
Chancellor Stresemann's economic
projects
Rupture Over Eikht.Ho1r Day.
It seems that the final rupture was
produced over the question of the
eight hour day. And in Berlin, as
in Munich, the right elements pre-
dominate
There lis only one point on which
the adversaries are united: That is
in attacks upon France. The game
is not new. but 1t is being aecentu.
ated every day. II is being said,
Frances fault. If Germany is IN an
apparently inextricable position.
Frances fault? Because France
refused to grant Chancellor Strese-
mann satisfaction in exchange for
withdrawal @ Of the passr., passsixe, resistance a
statement OF persons. expelled from
the area of occupation and those
condemned for sabotage? :,
This Is pure sophis1n. In the frst
place, France and Belgium would
: have been, stupid. at the time when
the Ruhr,- to reopen that territory
to those who had disorganized it.
And in the second place, these con-
cessions would not have changed the
the stumbling block on which the
precarious union of parties has just
, broken.
Caused Own Troubles
Germany created her financial po-
sition with her own hands First,
by refusing to pay reparations from
/ 1920 to- 1923; afterward, by the
Ruhr occupation. The German press
brings. striking Information on this
Almost all the payers estimate the
cost of passive resistance at 1,200,-
yOs:H'o sossi Of o sbout o 1000, ,eoe, , 600. " .
The Telegraph Union Agency, de-
lending the industrialists, puts the
| figure much higher. It says that
Riihr industry received only 2o.ooe,-
| eee gold marks as sovernmsnt sub,
cost OF the program: On this basis,
the expense OF passive resistance
amounted not to 11,goo.e0e,000, but
| 25ig90. 100000. T have quoted these
| fgures because they answer the"fool-
Scrutiny oil the repaFations commits
sion's accounts as of last July shows
| that in goods and cash Germany has
| paid. in three and a half years less
than eight billion gold marks. Yet
abfe to throw into the Ruhr gulf n
sum estimated BY some at eleven bill
lions ana by others at Twenty-Five
billions. 5 :.
Has Fnia Forty Biiiasss. y
! Add to this all that Germany has
paid In variotis subventions since the
armistice:, what she has :, bought
| abroad; what she has spent for devel-
| opfng her railways. canals and mer-
| camille marine and one reaches q min
imupn Or f6fty blin6h g6ld marks ,of
which Germany has Systematically
robbed her creditors.
All this goes to show that Il the
\ allies had united In 1920 to compel
tGerinanyktc pay she would have. paid
i sum Ave or(six times as great ID
that: which she has paid. Then there
/ would have. been no necessity for .oc-
! eun1i1g the Rnhr and Europe'sseeq-
hof1lc feconstructionswould have Seen
/; facilitated. -.
| from ti1e allies, AID later Prime Mlf1-
istsT Lloyd GeofGe's policy, made GER
| m&hy hope: to s4cape heA obligationS,
/ And SHE has spent ON resistance wi1&t
she ShStad have used to pay her debts.
/ tsefma1Ys daf4ultswas. not hecauSe
| she was sincapable of paying. but be-
| cause she would not pay...sW6 Afs
whefe We afe tseaase of p6iiticaIs not
: <Ospyright, HAL