SPECTRE OF ADVENTURE
COSTING MILLION FRANCS A DAY,
LONDON, 27th January. ■The "Daily Chronicle's" Dusseldorf correspondent says that interest centres on the French plans for setting, up a separate Ruhr State.. The military/and engineering conference, alter sitting all day, decided to out. ofi the Ruhr coal; area from Germany. The''conference hud to face.the spectre of the Ruhr adventure which is already a million francs daily. ' All traffic on the Rhine is suspended. .. The little-army of German officials, high .and low, is being escorted across the ' Rhine. The expulsions from Treves, are so numerous that a general protest strike broke out and the railway was closed;There is no gas, water, or electricity in the town. The French. retorted by. proi claiming martial law. . ' . Everywhere the postal service U bad owing to train stoppages. The French refuse to allow performances' of "William Tell" in the Opera House at Guhlenz, fearing^that it will cause patriotic demonstrations. . ■ • •
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 24, 29 January 1923, Page 7
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153SPECTRE OF ADVENTURE Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 24, 29 January 1923, Page 7
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