LEGALITY OF OCCUPATION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 14 August 1923, Page 5

LEGALITY OF OCCUPATION.

FRENCH CONTENTION.

PARIS, August 12

The newspaper Liberte says^t "The British Foredgn Office perfectly well knows that the suggestion regarding the legality of the occupation of the JRuhr could net.be admitted for an instant by France; The questions concerning the treaties of 1919 depend solely upon the Allies, who won tbe war, and in no way upon the League of Nations, of which The Hague Tri"feunal is an annex.""

The Loeirvre asks- . "What " is the good of arguing whether the Ruhr occupation is provided for under certain paragraphs of the treaty ? Good or "bad, the French and Belgian Governments will not evacuate the Ruhr over a legal q'libble." The French Government wiil shortly issue a Yellow Book bringing;' the history «f reparations up to date.