FRENCH TROOPS IN RAID
ON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AT BOCHUiM
EXTENSIVE DAMAGE DONE.
(UNITED PRZ3S AO3OCIATIO;;.—COPIRIOZT.)
((ABBIRAUA.N - HITT ZJALAIiD CAJIZ AB36CIATION.) (Received 27th February, 11 a.m.) LONDON, 26th February.
The "Daily Chronicle's" Cologne correspondent says: "The French troops Backed the Chamber of Commerce at Bochum. Several hundred men broke into the building, burst open the safes, desks, and drawers, and carried away the contents or threw them into the street. They ripped the curtains off the windows, pulled up carpets, tore the portraits of ex-Presidents of the Chamber from the walls, and cut them to ribbons. The. furniture was heaped upon a score of motor-lorries, with which the raiding party wihtdrew. No explanation for the raid was given. There was also extensive requisitioning in Bochum during the week-end. Many bicycles were carried off."
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 49, 27 February 1923, Page 7
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