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Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1923, Page 2

LATEST CABLE NEWS GERMAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. CLASH WITH POLICE. LONDON, May 24. The “Daily Express” Dusseldorf correspondent reports that two were killedfintl thirty were wounded at Gelscnkerschen, during a fight between armed Communists and tho police. There has been fighting also at Dortmund since Saturday. The police have had two killed and several wounded, and tho Communists have had ten killed and sixty wounded. The driver of a fire engine, who went to the assistance of the jiolico was shot. Rioters in Dortmund are still parading tho streets. Many ruffians from other parts of Germany have been at- i tractod to Dortmund and Essen by the unemployment dole. The black flag of the Syndicalists, nS'-3 well as the Red Flag, is being plentifully displayed.

FURTHER. FRENCH SEIZURES. PARIS, May 23. The French have occupied great dye works at Oppen, and also at Dorsten, where they have received goods valued at thousands of millions of marks. The seizure included a train laden with spare parts from Krupps’ works. FRANCO-BELGLAN CONFERENCE. PARIS, May 23. M. Theunis, the Belgian Premior, and M. Jaspnr, Belgium Foreign Minister, will confer with M. Poincare in Paris on Sunday. DECISIVE ANSWER. PARIS, May 24. The “Matin” commenting on the imminence of a new German Note says. “We must not forget that a decisive answer must conic from London.”