GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1923, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

FRENCH DEPORT .SEPARATISTS. [ItBUTEIts TkI.KCHAMS.] ißeceived this dav at 8.30 a.m.) BERLIN, Nov. 8. Advices from Bonn state that billowing the recent- Belgian action with regard to the Separatists at Aix-La-Chapellc, the French in Bonn have rounded up over two thousand imported Separatists who were disarmed and marched to the' station and deported in special trains. Guards on all roads leading to the British zone have been reinforced and two prominent Separatists endeavouring to enter the zone were arrested. GERMAN WOMEN'S APPEAL. [“Tun Times” Skhvick.] (Received this d.i.v at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON. Nov. s. The "Times” ( ologne c orrespondent sends a moving appeal from the German women to the men oi the British Empire. It describes t|u-ir cry tor help iii liit-ir Inst extremity. The appeal i- signed by sixty-nine women's association* in Cologne. An appeal is also being transmitted to the Imperial Conference. It say.*:—"We appeal to vou as we do not know what else to do," It describes how the Ruhr occupation has paralysed industry adding: "To our agnnv and despair an armed horde of adventurers lias been let loose on our disarmed and helpless population under the guise of Separatism and Republicanism. Winter is coming and we are without coal although living in the midst of one of the world’s greatest coal producing areas. Wo can do nothing to help ourselves. We are faced with grim starvation and in despair appeal to you to save us. It is not for us to suggest how, but whatever i- done must be done quickly before it is too laic and lie fore the Rhineland, Germane, nil Europe and with them the British Empire are engulfed in this welter of discord and before countless lives aro once more sacrificed.”