FRANCE IN RUHR.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 131, 4 June 1923, Page 5

FRANCE IN RUHR.

Id NO SPIRIT OF CONQUEST.

W )LL CARRY OUT TREATY

POLICY OF AMERICA.

jfOT INDIFTEBBNT TO ALLIES. py Cablc.-rrejs Awcwlnrlon.—Copyright.i (Received 11..in --r PARIS. June 3. j| Poincare. spenkinp at the unveiling o f'a monument t<. fallen American solill,, at Chaumont, faid that while ime rican co-operatinn had not continued jo completely as was hnpod for. America, nthout withdrawing her ancient friendship, had adopted a policy ot" voluntary Isolation. America was not indifferent to the efforts of France ami her allies. Her natural sympathies remained uninfluenced by German propaganda since He war. She did not believe, in spite of German representations, that France eld Belgium entered tho Ruhr in a spirit oi conquest. America relied on Fiance to carry out the Versailles Treaty. In It days the French in the Ruhr seized 28.000 barrels of dyes, valued at £3,000,000, and transported them to Strasburg.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) NEW CRISIS IN GERMANY. CHANGES IN CABINET. (Received 2.30 p.m.) PARIS. June 3. Advices from Berlin assert that the political situation is becoming serious. A crisis is imminent within the inner Cabinet Council. There are hints that new proposals may be presented by someone other than Herr Cuno, the present Chancellor. The French Government has informed Britain that it is opposed to an inquiry into the Saar administration by the League of Nations. A German Communist Deputy, arrested in Paris when attending a French Communist conference, will be kept in prison as a reprisal for the arbitrary arrests of Frenchmen in Germany. The French Government is making representations to Berlin in regard to the French airmen and machines seized at Nuremburg, and their release is demanded.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) DISTURBANCES IN SAXONY. TWO SILLED, SIX WOUNDED. *&■ LONDON, June 3. The exchange value of the mark lias fallen to 345,000 to the pound sterling. Flesh, disturbances, mainly economic, iave broken out in Saxony. Two people were JaJJed and six -.younded.—(A. and Ita Cable.)" GERMANY MUST PAY. FRANCE REMAINS ADAMANT. WILL GO WHEN DEBT IS PAID. LONDON, June 2. Hβ President of the French Republic, M. inierand, speaking at Strasbourg, recalled that after the Franco-Prussian Tar Germany imposed on France a tribute of 5,000 million marks and did not grant postponements. She said: "That is what you owe. / We shall hold jfmr territory. When' you have paid -we dull go." Germany kept her word then Ud France would keep hera now. The "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent in France states that the speech is taken to represent the attitude of France toward the impending German offer. It is said the French Government is no more interested in Germany's capacity to W than formerly. It is Germany's taanees to pay what she owes. In Berlin it is officially announced that we new offer will be addressed to all the •Allies. Speaking at Metz, M. Millersnd uaid: T- am happy to say that France is In no jeed of advice from anyone to carry out «r operations in the' Ruhr. Negotiates with Germany have not availed. «an« has reached the conclusion that we German Government and people are ""ly trying to gain time to recuperate Monomically in order to fall upon the waquisher and make her the vanquished. "wee fcnnws what she wants, and will w that she is paid."—(A. and N.Z.) latent estimates of damage of all ™as due to the war have recently been. wopleted and explained at the Statis- », V hoeiet y <"" Paris. The figures for "eFrench army are: T °. of men mobilised 8.410,000 ot whom 475.000 were natives). £ Ue . d 1,128,300 i i! fiS ' n ,g J 265,088 gabled, aftout eSO.OOO n ounded, over SOO^OOO rr^° P0 , tion of ki ' lt,ri and missing: iTVt" 30; En ? la "d. 1 in 66; Italy, J" '7 United States, 1 in 2000; GerHa 107 m X; Austria > 1 in 50: Russia, Jfb ! Xtent of land completely devajS.i "tillcry fire in France- was ttrnm-°V, ectareß . comprising 4320 comititZ* / Were 7!M - nn '° dwellings wtroyed or damaged, of which on October •tructM £? m m had bee " recon - «re ;*f" x- %" res for coal output W P tere 1 ,nf? - Tn ]M] ,h « mine» of «p nf P *2 dUCPd 3n J°°n-000 tons, but in reari, * •,- dama S« done to them it l a £ }f m - m !" 1021, to which must llosPllp J ° rer 8 - 30 °.000 ton? from the P asm and 9 ' s ° 0 ' 000 tO " S f™m the ■Wr,,/ meilts alrf, "dv made for the iCJhmJJ of war f lanu 2 p of all kind, SJu'*?, 9B^ mm * ™«h i* reckoned "mother 84,000.000,n T0 f will be necesm °- reconstruction.