GROW WORSE FOR FRENCH

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 32, 7 February 1923, Page 5

GROW WORSE FOR FRENCH

CUNO IN OCCUPIED AREA

BCLINCHES PEOPLE'S RESISTANCE.

(CHIIED PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT.)

MVITHAHA.V - NBW SJJALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received 7th February, 8 a.m.) LONDON, sth February.

The "Daily Chronicle's" Dusseldorf corespondent says: "Affairs oa the Ruhr are growing worse; The German.

Gbvernment's attitude is unchanged.

.. Herr Cuno spent Sunday in Essen, Bocht unf, and Dortmund, and was given the ■clearest evidence that the whole popu-

.. latioti is behind the Government, and the 1 people look to the Government for every i assistance in their passive resistance to ' the French.

"Herr Cuno allowed it to be understood that the Government would only, negotiate on condition of the cessation of the Ruhr occupation, and that there would be no thought of negotiations, if! the French required the region to reinain in French and Belgian hands he five years as a pledge. "The situation on tlw railways is unchanged. The railwayman are not returning to work or helping the JTrenui in any way. Passive resistance is everywhere as strong as ever, itesistance will certainly be encouraged by Herr Cuno's visit, -just as the Government will he made more determined by the evidence of the people's determination. Public opinion is not greatly stirred by the extension of the French occupation. "The real reason is believed to be thatl by the occupation of this aj:ea an- important Frankf-jrt-Basle train conies under French control, enabling them ta command fcrp-^c between Frankfort, Mannheim, and other important places. "A Mainz message says that the; French have occupied the Hoechst dye; factory, one of the largest concerns of this kind in Grennanv. The workers immediately struck. The Germans comlilain tnafc throughout the occupied area, the. French are actively interfering with food distribution. The food- situation- is causing serious concern."