FRAN COPHOBIA NOTICEABLE IN AUSTRIA.

Shannon News, 6 February 1923, Page 4

FRAN COPHOBIA NOTICEABLE IN AUSTRIA.

PROBLEM OF THE TRAINS.

(Received Monday 1 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 4. * Tbe “Times” Essen cocresponV dent says the situation in tiie Ruhi* and Rhineland became ( worse during'.the week-end. There have been many arrests and removals from office and expulsions of officials, including Dr. Fuchs, over-president of the Rhine province and tlie highest official hi Rhineland.. , An anti-French demonstration of protest was dispersed by French infantry. A number of tragic incidents, as the result of trouble between French soldiers'and Germans have been reported.. One German was shot dead and three others seriously wounded. The “Daily Mail’s” Vienna correspondent states that hatred against the French has spread through Bavaria into -Austria, where sentiment is becoming intensely pan-German and even anti-British.

FIRST COAL EXPRESS TO FRANCE EVERYTHING GOES WRONG. (Received Monday 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 4. The “Daily Chronicle” Dusseldorf correspondent says, "Everybody is awaiting news of the first coal train to France. It started, manned ,by Frenchmen, but the stationmaster, Herr I-lohenduberg, refused to allow it to pass the signals. The points wept wrong, and the engine developed defects and the train got no further. If these difficulties attend the running of one coal train, what will be the trouble in dealing with two hundred, which are daily' required to carry France’s portion of reparation coal. The* German labourers in some places have refused to accept from the French five-fold the normal wages to load coal. French troops at Bochum, used revolvers because the Germans refused to obey orders. Two Germans wore killed and four wounded, but the affair hitherto has been ( hushed up. . * RESTRICTION OF INTERNATIONAL EXPRESSES FRANCE AND ROLAND COMPLAIN * (Received Monday, 7 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 4. The Franco-Polish diplomatic • representatives' have handed , the German Foreign Office a Note protesting against the restriction of the international train service between France and Polandas a violation of the Peace Treaty. . “Vorwaerts” has published an appeal by tire German trades unions to the American Congress, declaring, on behalf of twelve ■•million members of the unions, that they are firmly convinced they cannot enter a war for the purpose of the annihilation of the German people, and they look to American sense of honour to save Europe and the world from a disaster. NINE GERMANS SHOT DEAD. AFTER TRAIN IS DERAILED. : (Received Monday 8.25 p.m.) BERLIN, Feb. 5. French cavalry, infantry and tanks occupied Appenweir-Offeback, which is an extension of the Strasbourg bridgehead. It is stated that a train under French control at Kengelheim was derailed and surrounded by a crowd of Germans of which the French shot nine dead. “ BLIND INFATUATION FOR OBSCURE SCHEMES.” THE “TIMES” ON THE OCCUPATION. , ‘ LONDON, Feb. 4. The “Times,” in an editorial dealing primarily with the confusion raised by the mystery of .the French Notes to Angora, examines the advantages of the A*glo-French unity and concludes: “It is very natural that the British people should wish to know the real motive of the power with whom we have been accustomed in late years to closely cp-operate. We are accustomed to regard treaties as binding, and the plighted word as a contract that cannot be lightly ignored, at the convent, ence of either party. , “ In the policy the French are pursuing in the Ruhr, a policy inspiring .England with the greatest alarm as to the future of Europe and the world, the French Government, knowing Britain entirely disapproves, invokes the sanctions under the treaty that was the product of the joint efforts of all the Powers who were allies in the war. The French have aroused in Germany a spirit of [resistance and „ reckless disregard of all obligations and imposed the Peace Treats', which seems lively to throw the whole work of peace into complete confusion. We have no part in this yet, and we must bear the consequences. The tradition of close relationship with France,. and especially the vivid memories of comrade, ship in the war, will still prevent many people in England from perceiving the full consequences to ourselves and the world of the headstrong action of France. If, however, the French Government, in blind infatuation for some obscure schemes of its own, go so far as to wreck the hope of peace in the Near East, encouraged by the labours of the Lausanne Conference, then the people of this country will begin to feel that, for all practical' put--poses, the Entente is ended.” '

RESISTANCE INCREASING. NO LET UP BY GERMANS. BERLIN, Peb. 4. It is semi-officially stated that the rumours that the Germans are preparing to yield to the French pressure are untrue. On the contrary, the Go. vernment’s resistance is increasing.