GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1923, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

AVSTH.UJAN ANI) N.Z. CAIII.K ASSOC lATIO.N. FRENCH ARREST X< >T.\ BLES. (Received thi-' day at 11. Id a. id.) Ulilt[.lN. April in. Tlu< French arrested Herr SLi lines iiiul hi- wife in a train at. Kchurnhorsteii, imi routo to I?ulir. They were reloaded after being interrogated, and wort! allotvod io *_■' > 11 1 illu • ■ their joii r- • nev. ' 11 ii in in (Soir.-tary of State) was arrested in K- - <-11 a here he intended speaking at the funeral of the Krupp victims. Ex-Ministers Ciosehrts and Stigcrwald were also arrested, hut all were released after the ceremony. lIERR (.’UNO. (IKH.MAN PROTEST AT OCCUI’ATI OX. (Iteeeived this day at P. IT a.iu.) ISKRi.LV. April in. Herr (Juno in an address at the memorial session of the Reichstag dcelarjtf\ Germany stood hy the offer to re~Yftyme negotiations immediately the enclny evacuated the Iliihr. Meanwhile lie appealed tc> ell nations to take measures for lid 1 prevention of fiirtuer shedding of hlood and terrm isation of inliahitants of the occupied territory. The nations, lie ventured to think, could not. much longer tolerate the situation in which the french were misusing their power in a terrible fashion. “Our people in the place are suffering m a manner that the civilised nations endeavoured to avoid during the time of the war. These Essen victims stood before the murderous french lire in defence of a, right Hint will become a power."

Ilierr Culio declared I) lie situation presented a. picture of right and work on the German side and brutal unjust force on die otlier side. lie had hod heard of am regret manifested in France. ‘'While machine guns may control the individual determination, they cannot de-troy the entire nat'.oi;. Passive resistance must continue. No arrangement unit lie made a bile the Ruhr and .Rhineland were occupied. The land where the victims are buried is sacred and must be freed.