FRANCE & REPARATIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1923, Page 3

FRANCE & REPARATIONS

AUSTRALIAN ANI) N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

MrSKOLTNI’S ROLF. , ROM K, Fch II

premier .Mussolini, speaking in the Italian (MiamlK'r, declared that lie refused to permit general discussions in tlio Chamber.

"There "as nothing to discuss in home policy,” he said. “Wluit occurs happens according to my precise, direct will, or my grim orders, for which Jam alone directly responsible. It is therefore useless to attack the ollicials or the administration. I lie difference between the Libera! and the Fascist State is that the hitter is not content to defend itsell. hut would attack the enemies ol fascism, who must not be surprised if they find themselves imprisoned.” Referring to Foreign Affairs. Signor Mussolini said that the F.ntenlc remained united. In reference to the Near Fast, lie claimed that Italy could i,nt have adopted a different policy. As regards the Ruhr, France had not asked lor further evidence of Italian solidarity. If she did, Italy would] raise the whole (piestimi ol franco | I Lilian relations. FRENCH MOVKMFNT.

(Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) PARIS, February 12

M. Degoutte, interviewed, said the final result is still far distant, but lie is confident that there is not the slightest doubt of success in the Ruhr operation.,. The ‘‘Petit Parisian” is calling attention to the importance ol French measures prohibiting the exportation of iron and steel products from Ruhr to unoccupied Germany. It considers the measures are probably more important than the cod I blockade, beimuse Germany is more dependent ou R.uhr for partially manufactured goods than on coal. To blockade mnniil’netnred products is to paralyse most brandies of German industry. Men- | mures will probably be complete by a system of exportation licenses prevent- | ing Ruhr industrialists from breaking ! the blockade by exporting goods to j Germany through foreign countries. ' Exportation from Ruhr will be placed under strict control.

FRENCH 15 LOCK ARE. HEREIN. Eel) 12.

The French stopped the Germans who are trying to run an iron and steel blockade only an hour after the new message operated. Captures were made on Ruhr frontier, also on the Rhine, where valuables were seized by Fnich customs official,s.

OKU ALIN WORKERS FOR- FRA NET Received this dav at 12.23 p.m.) ' I»ARIS> Feb 12.

The “Echo de Paris” Dusseldorf correspondent states that Sweet, the lender of the Separatists in the Rhineland, lias given the French the names of twelve hundred German railwayman willing to work under the French, and has expressed his willingness to organise fifty thousand workers to prevent all terorism in Ruhr. He says a million and a-lialf workers favour I 1 ranee and an hostile to Prussia.

The central telephone exchange in Dusseldorf, which was disorganised by ,-tlio Germans, will lie manned by one hundred Parisian women tclepbonisis. A member of the Russian Soviet Diplomatic Corps was mistaken at Instorhurg for a Frenchman and roughly handled by a crowd. Tbe Herman Government lias apologised to the Soviet.