DISTRESS IN GERMANY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1923, Page 5

DISTRESS IN GERMANY

BRITISH ZONE INVADED

APPEAL BY ARCHBISHOP OF COLOGNE. <UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIBHI.) (PD4USHJSD IN THE TIHKS.) (Received 30th October, noon.) LONDON, 29th October. The Cologne correspondent of "The Times" says that hunger disorders are starting in the British zone, where many fugitives from the- Separatist terror have taken refuge. Plundering of the fields and farms outside the city is beginning. .The police, and it is said, the British troops, are refusing to intervene against the obviously starving people. The Archbishop of Cologne has appealed to the Roman Catholics of the world to send immediately, foody money, clothing, and coal to the atafTing cities of the Rhineland and the Ruhr. He implores the occupying Powers to facilitate the trans, port of the supplies. A single ray of light illumines the darkness. It is believed that the French are disposed to make concessions to the mine-owners so that a general closing down of the Ruhr may be avoided ;> but, even this is uncertain.