GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1923, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN' AND 5.7.. CAIILE ASSOCIATION, WHOLESALE EVICTIONS. FRENCH BLACK TROOPS. •*< LONDON, April 9 The "Daily Chronicle’s” Dussoldorf correspondent says :—A French-Bel-ginn expulsion and eviction policy is in full swing in the occupied area, and everywhere people, mostly those belonging to the Customs and Railway services, are being turned out of their homes at the shortest notice, or are arrested, or expelled. The demands are so frequent that tho necessary forms are printed on a rotary machine. leaving a space wherein to tie names. WDr Schulte, the Archbishop of ogne, has been informed that hundred rnilwnymon’s families have been turned on to the streets by African coloured troops, who forcibly removed the furniture which was damaged. In some cases those evicted wore given only ten minutes’ notice. Large numbers were forced to camp in tfte open. The expulsions ore estimated at three hundred daily, teachers particularly, being selected for expulsion, most of the big towns are now without teachers.

The French have occupied three more mine heads, making a total of fou rteen.

The "Daily Telegraph’s” Dusseldorf correspondent says : —The Germans are doing their utmost to damage the canal waterways, so as to prevent the free passage of coal. Serious acts of sabotage were committed on the Doit-imind-Ems Canal, south-west of Heiiirichberg, where a powerful slow fuse 1 nun!> exploded when a patrol was passing. A large section of the canal was damaged, and the waterway was blocked. The Rhine-Mcrne ( filial has been lei tiered useless, through the sluice gates being blown up. Several French ships are aground, and further shipments are rendered impossible. EASY DIVORCE. BERLIN. April 9. Tile Democratic and Socialist parties have introduced in the Reichstag a Bill providing for a drastic reform of the divorce law. Instead of the guilt of the husband or the wife determining divorce in future, this Bill proposes that: if the husband and w'rfjVmutually ask for a divorce, the ColiWp must assent to it. If. on the other hand, a suit is defended, the applicant must satisfy the Court that the inarliage is stub a failure that there is no prospect of restoring happy relations. Tlie Court, under this Bill, must pay special regard to any mental and spirit mil differences between the par-

Ti:e ltd! n1.,0 proposes to remove the existing prohibition against a marriage between tbe respondent and tho co-respondent.