BAD TO WORSE

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 26, 31 January 1923, Page 5

BAD TO WORSE

HOP.ES DISAPPOINTED

STERN MEASURES IN DEISBERGs

(«73IR«">t*N • N»W ZBALAND CABLB AMOCIATWN.) LONDON, 30th January. Mr. Renwick, writing in tlie "Daily Chronicle," states that Duigberg is un.der General Degoutte's sterner measures., No one is allowed out of doors in the Ruhr between 10 at night and 6 in the morning. The reason for the order is to stop acts of sabotage. All demonstrations have also been forbidden, unless a special permit has been first obtained. Newspapers, .theatres, and cinemas are being severely censored. The punishment for breaches of General Degoutte's orders is five years' imprisonment, and a fine of 10 million marks.

Th« order makes it plain that the situation is going from bad to worse. Economists have given the matter up as a bad job. Politicians and economists have been buoyed up with the hope that an agreement between French and German magnates would be quickly reached, but such hopes have disappeared.

Meanwhile the ironworks are closing for lack of coke. The expulsions have raised popular feeling in Aix la Chapelle to fever heat, particularly the expulsion of Dr. Kueld, burgomaster of Mainz, ■who was taken from hospital and carried into exile in a motor lorry.

The train service in the Ruhr is in confusion.