The Archive · 1921

GERMANY'S REFUSAL TO PAY

Stage-Managing the Opposition Berlin, Feb. 4.

The reparations terms have caused a repercussion in German social life in Bavaria and Baden. Both States have forbidden the public celebration of the carnival, as ill-according with the gravity of the situation. Prussia' is acting" less drastically, but the police have orders to keep the celebrations within proper bounds.

A mass-meeting of 3,000 political enthusiasts at Munich marched to the hotel where the Allied Commission is housed. Violent speeches were delivered against the "Robber Entente." The gathering dispersed with shouts of "Revenge," "Down of Versailles should be complaining that the Allies want to put it into execution, while M. Briand, whom his adversaries depict as hesitating before the final plunge, is compelled to offer a defence of his having taken a conclusive decision.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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