12 AUGUST 1922, Page 2

The German Government last week replied to the French warning

about the repayment of private debts by professing an inability to pay even £500,000 a month in place of the £2,000,000 due under the agreement. M. Folmar!) therefore announced on Sunday that no further payments would be made to private German creditors or owners of property in France

that had been confiscated, and that the restitution of personal property left in Alsace-Lorraine by Germans would cease. A number of Germans were expelled from Strasbourg. It remains to be seen whether such immures will have any effect on the Berlin politicians. They, it is to be feared, are still counting on the possibility of open dissensions among the Allies.