OCCUPATION OF THE RUHR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 644, 1 March 1923, Page 5

OCCUPATION OF THE RUHR.

ROUND-UP AT ESSfEN. " ~ ' >. : ; MANY GERMANS ARRESTED. The Echo do Paris states Ihivt during a round-up at Essen of a quantity of arms and documents, the French found 150 German agents’ provocateur and arrested them. It is alleged that tho' latter, acting at the instigation of the. Monarcliisis, had established headquarters in, the vicinity of the French camps.—A. and NJ2, cable. GERMAN SUPPLY OF COAL. DENIAL- OF A SHORTAGE. BERLIN, Feb. .27. Tho Coal Controller denies the Paris report that Germany has only a month's supply.. Ho says tho unoccupied parts are producing increasing quantities, thanks to the miners working overtime and largo consignments from abroad. —A. and N.Z, cable. BRITISH GOVERNMENT’S ATTITUDE. APPROVED BY THE PEOPLE. LONDON, Feb. 27. In tho course of an address at the Aidwyoli Club, Lord Curzon viewed the homo and foreign situation, and claimed that things were improving slowly, but expressed the wish that ho could see . daylight regarding the Ruhr. He believed tho British people approved of tho Government's attitude. A solution of the reparations problem would not be solved by any individual nation. He looked forward to line day when it would be settled by international action. There were two features which encouraged that confidence; one vms the establishment of the League of Nations and the other was our improved relations with America.—A. and ■ N.Z. cable,