FRANCE & GERMANY

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1923, Page 2

FRANCE & GERMANY

[by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION]

french advance. LONDON. March 7. The “Morning Post’s” Dusseldorf corespondent states: A thousand German railway workers serving under French control are unskilled and unreliable. Many are undoubtedly spies, who have entered the French service in order to betray their fellow countrymen. Others are daring saboteurs. One was actually c-augbt to-day cutting telephone wires. The “Daily Chronicle” says French have arrived in the suburbs of Frank flirt and stopped all traffic towards the 1 city. .Jnrres, Chief Burgomaster of Aix-la-Chapelle, has appealed against a month’s imprisonment. The appeal was dismissed, and the sentence doubled. [ FRANCE’S POSITION. I BRUSSELS. March 7. | M. Poincare is coming here to discuss the Ruhr position with M. Thonnis. It is stated France will soon have nearly a million in her army, as the calling of the T 922 class adds 200.C:)> to the present 736,261. L’Keho de Paris says Germany is raising a £10.600.000 internal loan, contravening the Treaty. The “Daily .Kxpress” says the God-Icy-l’nyot agreement provides that the number of troop trains passing through the Cologne area shall be the same as before the occupation of the Ruhr. The Paris “Journal” says an outbreak of strikes and a new German revolution like Kapp’s are apprehended. ! GERMAN REICHSTAG. BERLIN, March S. The Reichstag passed unanimously a vote of confidence in the Government | CAULDRON MAY BOIL OVER. nONDON, March 8. The “Westminster Gazette’s” Cologne correspondent says : —“My impression is the cauldron of the Ruhr i might boil over any time, with fearful results in bloodshed. France, lam told would not hesitate to declare war, and Iximb cities, Berlin included, if her forces wore attacked. The German authorities therefore are doing their utmost to check the rising passions of their people. Best informed people are ' of opinion that unless an agreement I is soon reached, it is only a matter j of time before another war breaks out. The French declare a crisis will occur in six weeks, when it is expected Geri man resistance will collapse.

GERMAN MONARCHIST COUP. (Received this day at S a.m.) LONDON, Marc'.. 7. A Monarchist revolutionary coup was discovered in Munich. Many arrests were made. The public prosecutor who was alleged to be implicated, committed suicide.