IN RHINE AREA.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 57, 8 March 1923, Page 5

IN RHINE AREA.

RAILWAY CONTROL

ANGLO-FRENCH INCIDENTS. FRENCH IN BRITISH ZONE. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright. LONDON, March 7. A message from Paris states that General Payot and General Sir A. J. (iodley have reached an agreement regarding the use of the railways in the British zone on the Rhine by the French authorities. No details are available. The Cologne correspondent of the "Daily Express" in an earlier dispatch asserted that the delicate situation east of the British bridgehead had been accentuated by the French tightening the blockade on exits from the British area in the neighbourhood of Lennep. Unpleasant Anglo-French incidents had been already reported and a new movement of French troops near Reinsciieid, so near to the boundary of the British zone, enhanced the danger of a clash. —■ (A. and N.Z. Cable.)

HERR CVNO'S APPEAL

FOR JUSTICE TO GERMANY. 'TRANCE AFRAID OF TRUTH." BERLIN, March 7. The German Chancellor. Herr Cuno, addressing a specially-summoned meeting of the Reichstag, detailed the history of French acts of injustice in the Ruhr. He ~fervently appealed to the world to consider Germany's position. He accused M. Poincarc of being afraid to tell the French people the truth about the Ruhr campaign. French terrorism, he said, had succeeded in uniting Get* many, and Would never succeed in anything else. Germany was resolved to hold on to the end. Herr Cuno pointed out that Franee'a so-called restricted use of soldiers for the occupation in fact meant occupation by five divisions, 75 tanks, and hundreds of aeroplanes. The Rhineland Commission, not heeding legal grounds, simply issued decree after decree, and placrd itself at the eervice of French violence, but France reckoned without the loyalty of German officials. — (A. and N.Z.)

GERMAN INTERNAL LOAN,

DEMANDED BT FRANCE. (Iteceived in a.m.) PARIS, March 7. The "Echo de Paris" declares that a ten million sterling internal loan is being raised in Germany, and contravenes the treaty. It urges the Reparation Commission to demand the proceeds. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)