"PESTILENT GROWTH"

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 107, 2 November 1923, Page 7

"PESTILENT GROWTH"

RUN BY ROGUES AND SCOUNDRELS

A .SWEEPING CONDEMNATION.

(vsntti- ■ press; rtsSfici.tnoN.-^opiitioHT.) •■'•■■ (ALSTRAIJAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 31st October. Mr. Renwick,...the "Daily Chronicle's" Cologne correspondent, says; "I hay? been visiting the' Rhiiieland ' Republic | It is difficult to believe if is not a ! hideous nightmare. This pestilential j growth outrages every right and decency. I Die llepublic is a republic of hunger and i terror, run by ■ convicts and policed by J lmportedv ruffians! of the most sggros- ! siye type, with whom the Rhinelaiiders j will have nothing to do. It is as though ij-™ 6 gaols.had been opened in order to , allow a Government to be formed. In s Bonn the Republican-chief is a nation- ;, alised American who fled from Germany | because he was.charged with unprintable }. offences. At Munchen and Gladbach the a two Kepubhcliri commissioners were exI convicts. The two dommissiofiere in Dur- | ren share forty-three, convictions among « them, and the rest of the "army of lib | eration ' come, from thieves' kitchens; | slums, and prisons outside the Rhine- » li, amy of roßue and Scoun--1 arels has been recruited and is beine . paid by the French and Belgian author,s lties. ' The army's, first object is open | avowed terrorism, intended to ivear the -| - peo-plo down into abject submission. j The chief of the army of rapine is a •i man who terrorised Upper Silesia. ■ He | is a Pole by birth, a Frenchman by j iiaturahsation, and- a free-booter by iri--4 clination. His name is said to be Par- .\ seval. He : is quite frank about his job ,| He spread arson, murder, and terror % through Upper Silesia, and for a consideration is doing the same in the -jj Rhmeland. Terror is his trade. When % this army has. done its job it will be .-si replaced by more responsible agents as j* France will have the Rhineland absoji lutely cut off from Germany."