FRANCE & REPARATIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1923, Page 2

FRANCE & REPARATIONS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. RAILWAY BOYCOTT. FRENCH UP AGAINST IT. LONDON, Feb. 3. Some German railwayman, pretending to be willing to resume work, were taken in trains but they abandoned them in the open country, the drivers disappearing. The French are now sending expert railwaymen to accompany the trains which Germans are handling. BERLIN, Feb. 2. Herr Greener, Minister of Communications, has again ordered the railway managers to disobey French orders. The managers are complying by rushing trains out ot the Ruhr. I ranch soldiers have lired on a number of trains failing to stop when ordered. In several instances where Germans were unable to got trains out they have diverted them to sidings and abandoned them. A mob at Ivocuigshurg smashed In* windows of the* French Consulate. The town authorities have requested Merlin t o cal 1 on tile French to leave the town, as they could not guarantee their snfetv.

MAY BE CONFISCATED. BERLIN. Feh. 3. •Dor Nachrichten.” published at Dresden, states the French author:! >*•-. have ordered Hie museum officials to draw it]) a. list of the best works art in the public and private collections, the intention being to confiscate them against the payment o, the reparations. The Dresden picture gallery is world renowned, and Hu* -Museum .lohanneum contains the finest porcelain in the world.

COM, BARON'S BATHS. LONDON. Feh. 3. The •■-Morning Post’s” Dltsseldorf correspondent gives, as a quaint example of the'l'YemL treatment of the recalcitrant industrial magnates, an account of one case. One of the minor German coal barons •cttpytng a fine mansion near his mines, churlishly i<I'ttsed to allow any French soUliers guarding bis mines to use the baths provided for the miner-. cry wen, Monsieur,” replied a l-reach officer. “If that is inconvenient, no mil meit vmir wishes. From to-morrow, my men will use vottr bathrooms in your pnVl,to bouse!” The coal baron now iv a rets his decision.