GERMAN PROTEST
WARRANT AGAINST INDUSTRIAL MAGNATE PAYMENT OF FINE DEMANDED (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. January 10, 7.35 p.m.) Berlin, January 9. There has been a storm of protest throughout Germany at the issue of a warrant at Metz demanding £120,345 fine and law costs against Dr. Roechling, the industrial magnate of Saarbrucken. A French military court in 1919 condemned Roechling to ten years’ penal banishment from the Saar and to pay a fine of ten million francs, on the ground of his exploitation of French mines iu German occupied territory. Later the French and German Governments, by special agreement, quashed the conviction, but -the French did not abandon the claim to the fine, which they are now demanding, with interest. The Metz authorities are threatening to use force to compel its execution. Roechling protests that the demand is characteristic of the French. They talk peace and keep up the greatest army in Europe. They sign the Kellogg Pact and spend milliards in armaments.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 91, 11 January 1929, Page 9
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163GERMAN PROTEST Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 91, 11 January 1929, Page 9
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