The announcement raised a storm protest by almost the entire press, M. Malech, President of the Paris ion, has written to the Berlin, Dec. 28, fon the decision of the Conference of Ambausadors with regard to the non-evacuation of Cologne, "Vorwuerts" says that the attitude of the Paris and London Governments could only be described as wise on the suppose lieved that they' could quietly ignore the opinions and feelings of the whole German people. No people, the journal declares, enn farvive at peace as long as it does not powress a securely fenced-in ter victory in which its word alone prevails, The "Lertiner Tagoblutt™ st that if the order ix fur the oeet tion of Cologne to continue inde itoly then the underlying idea of political power and Imperialism that "och and Company" have instilled into the head of M. Herriot becomes manifest. It is not an imposing sight, says the paper, t6 more rezoneiled peoples using Marshal Foch's sabre as a crutch.
The "Vossisehe Zeitung" asserts that the difficulties appear to have ¢ome from England. The whole Baldwin Government must be regarded us the embodiment of era alist, it declares. 'The maintenance of the evacuation date and the restoration of. Germany's independence are a neces-jon, it concludes, for the carrying out of the Dawes' Scheme, Germany's Further Deni:
Herr Gessler, the Minister of Defence, interviewed on the subject of disarmament declared that there! was no foundation for the insinuaier, protesting against the "flagrant attack on the freedom of Herriot replied that Journalistic indiscretions had several times hindered diplomatic negotiations, stating that. "L'Belair's" publication of the abridged memoandum of the Chequers meeting unself (M. Herriot) id, while General Nollet's report was an especially confidential document une ublishable without the consent of the Allied Governments, The op= position newspapers prophesy. that of the evviot
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