FRENCH PAPERS APPLAUD THE ADVANCE.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIIII, Issue 82, 8 April 1920, Page 5

FRENCH PAPERS APPLAUD THE ADVANCE.

' HANA.U AND DARMSTADT

OCCUPIED-

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(Received April 7, 10/45 p.m.) PARIS, April 6. The newspapers applaud the French advance, declaring that the Prussian militarists merit a stem snub.

Telegrams from Berlin state that Herr does hot regard the situation as serious, because? Britain and Italy have'not yet been heard from.

The French troons are now eighteen miles beyond the Treaty circle around Mnyence. ;The troops number 17,000, intOudlng artillery. "The French Rhine flotilla lias gone to Hanau, which the troops nave occupied. v

The French have occupied all the public buildings in Darmstadt, including the palate. The inhabitants obeyed the instructions in the French proclamation, and there wer-e"Tio disorders.