CHANCELLOR MARX HOPES TO REACH A COMPLETE AGREEMENT with the French government

The evacuation of the Ruhr is among the conditions he places in this agreement

Dusseldorf, June 14 (Havas dep.) Chancellor Marx, in an interview given to an editor of the Cologne Popular Gazette, declared in particular:
“The changes currently taking place in France will be of the greatest importance for the development of the political situation in Europe. I say it loudly, we have the hope that we will reach a complete agreement with the new French government for the general settlement of the question of reparations.

It goes without saying that we have no illusions. We know perfectly well that the new French politicians will naturally pursue a French policy, but our hope is based on the fact that a desire for understanding on the basis of the experts' report now exists as well among us, who accepted the Dawes plan. , than among the Allied Powers.

I hope that the new French government, through an act of generosity, will restore freedom and home to all Germans who were victims of their love for the homeland.

Foreign Minister Dr. Stresemann declared in the Reichstag that the evacuation of the Ruhr was a matter of prestige. I want to believe that for France also the settlement of the question of reparations must not fail for a question of prestige.

The continued occupation of the ports and industrial territories of Offenburg and Appenweler, Wesel and Emmerich, Limburg, Konigswinter, Linz, Kaub, Karlsruhe and Darmstadt is irreconcilable with the Dawes plan. The Mannheim region in particular suffered considerable economic damage due to the occupation of the port of Mannheim.

Finally, it is absolutely essential that during the general settlement and at the same time as the customs border is removed, the difficulties of entry and exit of people from the occupied territories are abolished.