ALLIES’ TERMS TO GERMANY.

PENALTIES FOR REFUSAL. SEIZURE OF TOWNS.

Mr. Lloyd George, at St. James’s Palace yesterday, announced to the German delegates the Allies’ terms. He gave them four days’ grace in which to comply with the Paris proposals, and stated that in the event of refusal the following measures would be taken:

Occupation of Duisburg, Ruhrort, and Düsseldorf, on the right bank of the Rhine.

Obtaining of powers by the Allies from their respective Governments requiring their nationals to pay a certain proportion of all payments due to Germany on German goods to their several Governments, such proportion to be retained on account of reparations.

Duties collected by the German Customs Houses on the external frontiers of the occupied territories to be paid to the Reparations Commission, and to continue to be levied according to the German tariff.

Temporary establishment of a line of Customs Houses on the Rhine and at the bridgeheads held by the Allied troops, the duties to go to the Reparations Commission.

In the course of his speech Mr. Lloyd George took the Germans to task for their failure to realise their position. Their proposals, he said, were an offence and an exasperation, for they indicated a desire on Germany’s part to evade her obligations. The Premier then read a strong declaration by the Allies, followed by the terms summarised above.

Dr. Simons at once replied that the German delegates would examine the speech and the documents, and give their answer before noon on Monday. He added that Mr. Lloyd George appeared to mistake the German Government’s intentions, and that in the delegates’ opinion no occasion would arise for the sanctions stated by the Allied Powers.