FRANCE & REPARATIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1923, Page 3

FRANCE & REPARATIONS

AUSTRALIAN' AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION,

POSITION IN RUHR

(Received this dnv at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON. Feb G

The “Daily Clirollick-’s"’ Dusselorf rorrespondent dealing with the railway situation says:—Railwayman are not returning to work or helping the French in any way. Passive resistance everywhere is n* strong as ever. r |’he resisianee will (irtainly be encoiiragdaliy Herr Cuno’s visit, just as the Government will he made more detor mi net l by the evidence ol the people’s determination. Public opinion is not greatly stirred by the extension. of the French occupation of this area .the important Frankfort Mannheim and other important places. TELEPHONE DEADLOCK. Received this day at 12.25 p.m.t BEL! UN. Feb (i. At Essen, the postal authorities refused to give the French telephone connections. The French thereupon cut off the batteries and declined to reinstate them, until the postal authorities gave way. Essen is therefore isolated again. The same stale <U affairs exists at Wctten where all shops have been ordered to .shut because they refused to serve the Freiieh. HERR CUNO’S VIEWS. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) BERLIN. February 6. Herr Cuno received an ovation at Elberfeld. He declared he was convinced bv the result of his visit to Ruhr that the Rhineland and Westphalia would co-operate in repelling the Fra neo-Belgian irruption. Speaking at Munster, lie said the German nation was lost, unless the inhabitants of the occupied territory held together.