FRANCE & REPARATIONS:

Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1923, Page 2

FRANCE & REPARATIONS:

AUFTHACIAN ANT) N'.Z. CABT.E ASSOCIATION. ACTION IN RUHR. BERLIN, January 23.

Advices from Essen state passive resistance on the part of German peasant workers has exemplified the decision of telephonists to disconnect telephones used by the French mission. The French occupied the telephone ami cable room at Essen post office; with the object of preventing ing with the wires in the event ora strike.

Owing to the failure of the efforts of the workers Council at Thysson ■ mines, Hamhoiirn. for the immediate release of Thyssen. the officials and workers struck. Stinnes employees were similarly unsma essful at Dusscldorf and consequently struck. Over oiw hundred thousand men are affected. Private banks at Aix la Chapelle closed. as business was impossible owing to the seizure of the cash. PARIS. January 23. Advices from Dussehlorf state three arrests were made at Kray for insults to occupation troops. The population is calm and the normal working of R'.'i klingsausen ainl Mollerschaot mines l«r< boon resumed. >

STRIKE INDECISION. PARTS, Jan. 24. "be Journal” says indecision characterises the Ruhr workers over the strike question. The Communists do not support the strike, believing it can only play into the bands ol the Ruhr i magnates. The Social Democrats are awaiting the turn of events, and are prepared to work it convinced that the occupation is not directed against the proletariats: while the Relish miners ' ■ arc frankle pro-French, on the contrary A*—. j the Catholic Trade Unions (which are | rabidly Nationalistic) support the strike . movement.

STRIKE IN RUHR ABATING. PARIS. January 23. .Premier Poincare has reported to the Cabinet that there is a satisfactory abatement of the general strike situation in the Ruhr. BAVARIAN ATTITUDE. (Received this day at ? a.m.) BE lIILN. Jan 23. Excitement in Bavaria over the Ruhr occupation is unahatol. Germany has notified I ranee that the Bavarian Government cannot longer guarantee the .safety of the I*tench Ambassador. Thetre was a big demonstration to-dav before the Entente Commission Hotel at -Munich. The employees ot the hotel struck until all thfl French and Belgian representatives loft. FRENCH SCHEME. (Received this day at S a.m.) PARIS. Jan 23. The French moratorium scheme cabled from the Westminster Gazette, demands a twenty-live per cent, mortgage of all real property in Germany, mil ;t quarter share in all corporatios. It suggests the Reparations Commission he empowered to hand ovetr the German railways to private owitershjp. Germany to raise prior to Feb. loth when the offer expires, an internal loan of three milliard gold marks.