FRANCE & REPARATIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1923, Page 3

FRANCE & REPARATIONS

[by TEliEfjrtAPn-—PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION] FRENCH ACTION. (Received tins tliiv at S.»fl> a.m.) [’AIMS. Jan. 29. In view of Ike German sabotage a id threat of a general strike in the public serviees, the Kreiieli contemplate coercive measure against German ollicia.s, wlm will lie replaced hy French. K CUE lIA PPEN I NOS. f Received this (lav at B.JO a.in.i PARIS, Jan. 29. Some papers state the isolation of Ruhr operated to-day. Others say tin; Allies v, ill lirsi purify the administrative serviees expelling recalcitrant Germans. REPORTED AU.IANCE. (Received tins day at B.HO a.in.) PARTS, Jan. 29. I.e Matin reprodtlres a Belgrade topnrt slating Ismet and Tehifcheriu have concluded a secret Treaty approved hy Turkish and Russian Governments. under which Turks and Russians undertake to help one another in the event ol a resumption of hostilities lift ween Turks and Greeks, or war between IP i tain and Turkey. Itt the latter event, Russian- will send several divisions to .Mesopotamia. Ihe I rcaty also provides for the despatch ot Russian troops to Thrace through Ru: r;i ria. M. Poineaire lias written to Komal suggesting he adopt a eoneiiiiitory attitude and urging him t*> coiulude peai-e. NAVAL PREPARATION. (Received this dav at B.JO a.m.". PARIS, Jan. 20. Naval authorities at. Toulon have received orders that the battleship St ras.-hwrgh shall he icsidy to leave iit a moment s notice lor the Near East and the despatch i i destroyers and siihtearittes to Eastern waters are also e-oi-ttiitplatid. ERENCII ACTION. LONDON, Jan. 20 The ■■Daily .Midi’s” Paris correspondent com fercnce between l‘reneh military and civil heads is being lu ! I at Dus.-cldorf on Tuesday, to coordinate plaits for cutting olf Ruhr and taking disciplinary action against German nllicials, guilty of deliberate interference. GERMAN HOPE FAILS. ’’Received this dav at 0.30 a.n.) LONDON. Jan. 29 A llerlin correspondent declares no hope remains in Berlin Government, circles that Russia can usefully help Gtrmany. In anticipating the occupation of Ruhr, German military experts Intel consulted a prominent Russian staff officer and a tentative plan of action was outlined including an advance through Poland, the occupation ol Border States and provocation of risings in Eastern and Southern Europe, hut German experts sent to Russia to enquire, relurned with most pessimistic reports. They declared the Red Army was ill equipped and not to he depended upon, and not lit to uudertak” an otfelihive beyond the holders of Russia. Independent observations also show the Soviet authorities are now unwilling to risk ti serious disturbance of their own power hy military « ernplivaliens be yond the frontier. ITALIAN VIEW. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) ROME, January 29. Signor Mussolini's organ the “Popnlo d'ltalia” says Rhenish events are no longer circumscribed or an isolated episode hut a general political struggle of the first, magnitude is likely, owing to drastic repressions hy XVciuJi bayonets, machine gnus and tanks inside the new frontier. Paris henceforth must he obeyed not Berlin. Tins implies a change in the? continental Malauce of power, dceuly affecting Italy, which consequently cannot play a passive role. Ttaly litis been cautiously neutral but cannot pursue a sentimental policy, should her interests he carelessly considered or trampled