CLAIMS VARY AGAIN

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

CLAIMS VARY AGAIN

POSITION SATISFIES FRENCH -

GERMANS THINK THEY WIN.

LONDON, 30th January. The outstanding feature in the Ruhr is the continued divergence of French and German claims.

The French assert that the situation is sati3fa.c»ory from their point of view, and the Germans that the gradual holdup of the services of public utility is being accomplished.

The "Daily Telegraph's" DusseldoTf correspondent says: "If the Germans succeed in the general strike of the railways, the French will send an ultimatum .at the end of the month demanding : the fullest satisfaction, and threatening to impose further most drastic measures, the nature of which has not Deen disclosed. The Germans are engaged in industrial and guerrilla warfare, striking here and working there, and seeking to overthrow order elsewhere. It is the cases of pinpricking, which are causing as much inconvenience as the general strike."

; It is reported from Paris that the Germans have now refused to. permit a continuance of the exhumation of the bodies of French eoldiers who died while prisoners of war in QermaDy. M. Poincare, in a conversation with, English journalists, said: "We shall re-' main in the Ruhr as^long; as necessary^ and not a day longer." A It is officially announce? that a general railway strike has been declared on the left bank of the Rhine.