FRANCE & REPARATIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1923, Page 3

FRANCE & REPARATIONS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. FURTHER SHOOTINGS. PARIS, March 12. A Dusseldovf telegram claim- that two of those responsible for the Ruhr assassinations were slot by gendarmes. A hostile crowd compelled the retirement of a. French platoon, during which five Germans were killed. HARIS. 1\ I * 111 •i i 13. After Collin and .l**ly were found dead. French Secret Sendee men learnt that a certain German had boasted that lie would “bring down a Frenchman.” His house was raided. His wife pretended to be surprised at the visit. She said her husband was away but the French found him hiding in a wardrobe. He was being taken, with an accomplice to a French post, when be tried to escape. Roth weir shot, with revolvers. The curfew was operating at the time. but. although the inhabitants were forbidden to be in the streets, many were exchanging their views in the side streets and when they heard the shots, apparently they ran to th thoroughfare where the two Germans were lying dead. I’hey then abused the French and tiied to rush the patrol. I'lie French lire,,, killing five: The rest of the crowd fled.

the RUHR SHOOTINGS

A DEBT. OR ABLE POSITION. .'Received this dav at 9 30 a.m.) LONDON March 13. The Ruhr shootings have produced ft state of extreme tension, both in the occupied area and France itsell. The murder of Frenchmen has aroused feelings of anger, horror and indignation. nil,l a universal demand that the victims be avenged, and French soldiery and officials protected under the strongest measures. A Paris correspondent says an uneasy feeling has arisen. The crime marks the opening of a new ami grimmer chapter in Ruhr, that passive resistance having failed, the Germans are instituting a reign of terror comparable with the guerilla warfare and murders attendant on reprisals in Ireland, and terrorist methods employed by Germans in Upper Silesia, ft is suggested the Germans are organising sharpshooters, capable of pursuing a guerilla warfare at Darmstadt, Solingen and other places round Ruin*. REPORTED ARREST. LONDON March 13. According to a German report, Frailloin [Aiders, who is a woman member of the Reichstag was arrested by French soldiers in Ruhr. COAIM EXIST AIURDERS. (Received this dav at 12.25 p.m.) PARIS. Alareh 13. A Gorman Communist leader, l.eitc.cr. was murdered in the suburbs of Moscow hv robbers, directly' ho arriv, from Dusseldorf. FRENCH COMMENT. Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) PARIS. March 13. The press commenting on the Brussels’ Conference emphasise that France and Belgium do not desire to detach Ruhr from Germany. still less annex it. The “Echo National” says the Government has decided to strengthen the forces in Ruhr by fifteen thousand. Others report a probable extension of the occupation .including vital centres such as Darmstadt, in order to stop speedily, the German opposition.