EXPULSION AND EVICTION

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 174, 11 April 1923, Page 7

EXPULSION AND EVICTION

IN FULL SWING IN OCCUPIED AREA OF GERMANY MANY FAMILIES TURNED OUT OF THEIR HOMES The French and Belgian policy of expulsion and eviction : is in full swing in the occupied territory of Germany, many families being turned out of their homes at short notice. Railway and customs officials and teachers Have been particularly selected for expulsion. BY TELEGRAPH—PMIS ASSOCIATION. —OorißiaMT.

(Rec. April 10, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 9. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Dusseldorf correspondent says:—“The French and Belgian expulsion and eviction policy is in full sWing in the occupied area. Everywhere people, mostly belonging to the Customs and railway services, are being turned out of their homes at the shorest notice, arrested or expolled. The demands are so frequent that the necessary forms are printed on a rotary machine, leaving a space in which to write the names. Dr. Schulte, Archbishop of Cologne, has been informed that one hundred railwaymen’s families have been turned on to the streets by African coloured troops, who forcibly removed the furniture, which was damaged. In somo cases those evicted were given only ten minutes’ notice.. Largo numbers were forced to camp in the open. The expulsions are estimated at three hundred daily. Teachers particularly are selected for expulsion, and most of the big towns are now without teachers. “The French have occupied three more mine-heads, making a total of fourteen.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. I CANALS DAMAGED FREE PASSAGE OF COAL PREVENTED (Rec. April 10, 5.5 p.m.). London, April 9. The "Daily Telegraph’s” Dusseldorf correspondent says the Germans are doing their utmost to damage the canal waterways and prevent the free passage of coal. A serious act of sabotage was committed on tho DortmundEms canal, south-west of Heinrichsberg, where a powerful slow fuse bomb exploded when a patrol was passing. A large section of the, canal was damaged, and the waterway blocked. The Rhine-Herne canal has been rendered useless through the sluice-gates being blown up. ’ Several French coal ships

are aground, and further shipments have been rendered impossible.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. BRITISH PREMIER AND M. LOUCHEUR GENERAL CONVERSATIONS ONLY London, April 9. Mr. Bonar Law, in the House of Commons, in a reply to a question, said that his interviews with At. Loucheur were only general conversations. The question as to whether the British Ministers approved the French action in tho Ruhr was never raised.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable/Assn. THE BRITISH ZONE COMPLETELY ISOLATED FROM GERMANY London, April 9. The Dusseldorf correspondent of “The Times” states that the French have blocked the last exit from the British zone of occupation to German unoccupied territory.—“ The Timen.” CIRCULAR URGING BOYCOTT ESSEN BUSINESS MAN IMPRISONED Berlin, April 9. Herr Guyanz, the president of the Essen Chamber of Commerce, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and fined 800.000 marks for signing authority for the distribution of a circular urging the boycott of FrencoBelgians.—Reuter.