GERMAN WOMEN’S APPEAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1923, Page 5

GERMAN WOMEN’S APPEAL

TO BRITISH EMPIRE. “OUR AGONY AND DESPAIR.” (“Times” Service.) LONDON, November 8. The “Times’s” Cologne correspondent sends a mdving appeal from German women to the men of the British Empire. It describes their cry for help in their last extremity. The appeal is signed by sixty-nine women’s associations in Cologne, and is also being transmitted to the Imperial Conference. It says : — “We appeal to you as we do not know what else to do.” It describes how the Ruhr occupation paralysed the industry, adding: “To our agony and despair, armed hordes of adventurers have been let loose on our disarmed, helpless population under the guise of Separatism and Republicanism. Winter is coming and we are without coal, although living in the midst of one of the world’s greatest coal-producing areas. We can do nothing to help ourselves. We are faced with grim starvation, and in despair appeal to you to save us. It is not for us to suggest how, but whatever is done must be done quickly, before it is too late, and before the Rhineland, Germany and all Europe, and with them the British Empire, are engulfed in this welter of discord, and countlesss lives are once more sacrificed.” SEPARATISTS DEPORTED. BERLIN, November 8. Advices from Bonn state that following the recent Belgian action against the Separatists at Aix-la-Chapelle, the French in Bonn rounded up over two thousand imported Separatists, who were disarmed, marched to the station and deported in special trains, The guards on all the roads leading to the British zone have been reinforced. Two prominent Separatists endeavouring to enter were arrested. BAVARIANS OVERAWED. LONDON, November 7. The “Daily Chonicle’s” Berlin correspondent -says :—There are concentrations of Reichswehr on the Saxony and Thuringia frontiers. They have

already checked the Bavarian irregulars’ movements. The latter are now mainly occupied with trying to unify the divergent aims of their leaders, whose ardour has been cooled by the proof that the Central Government does not intend to take attacks against the republic lying down. EX-CROWN PRINCE “WANTED.” PARIS, November 8. The Ambassadors Conference decided to ask the Dutch Government not to permit the ex-German Crown Prince to leave Dutch territory, and the German Government not to permit him to enter Germany, on the ground that he is on the list of War criminals whose surrender is demanded by the Allies.