ROOT OF ALL EVIL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 2775, 17 October 1923, Page 5

ROOT OF ALL EVIL.

THE WORTHLESS HARK.

CIVIL WAR CERTAIN IN , GERMANY.

IP WINTER SUPPLIES ARE

WITHHELD.

[By Electric Cable —Copyright]

I Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Tuesday, 7.30 p.m.)

LONDON, Oct. 15,

The "Daily Chronicle's" Berlin correspondent says that Cabinet is earnestly tackling the root of the evil of the whole economic trouble —Germany's worthless currency. Food disturbances in various parts of the coun try are not due to any real food shortage, but to money anarchy. The harvests are good, but the agrarians refuse to sell supplies, except for stable currency. If winter supplies are not forthcoming, civil war will be a certainty. There is still danger in the domestic political situation. Communists, syndicalists and agitators are busy in. Berlin and other industrial centres. The Socialists and Commun--Ist h have already formed a coalition in Saxony. President Ebert has set a ample. In view of the financial posi-

tion he has renounced half his allowance and is practising the severest economy in the Presidential household.

SHOPS PLUNDERED BY DESPERATE PEOPLE. " OUTLOOK IS OF THE . BLACKEST." LONDON, Oct. 15. The " Daily Express's " special correspondent at Dusseldorf says. " The situation in the Ruhr and Rhineland is rapidly approaching the point where the British and French troops will inevitably be drawn into bitter conflict with the civil population if the country is to be saved from anarchy and complete destruction. Everywhere thousands of communists ana those unemployed, driven desperate by sheer hunger and want of winter clothing, have engaged in wholesale plunder. Over 100 shops in Dusseldorf have been ransacked. Nothing has been left except a few waxworks figures standing amid piles of broken glass from the shattered windows.

" Crowds ran wild and hundreds of men and women went through the streets wearing all manner of new clothing."

The" correspondent saw scores of men discarding their own clothing in the shop into which they had smashed their way, calmly attiring themselves in complete new outfits. Some left wearing two or three suits, one over the other, and carrying bundles home wards.

The people raided the food- stores like hungry wolves, the police being powerless to prevent them. The green police have been disbanded. " Similar scenes have been witnessed in nearly every Ruhr town. Mounted police have been rushed to Solingen, dn the British area, but our troops may be called on at any moment to charge the unemployed Garmans. The French are standing by ready to assist the police in Dusseldorf, but they have been ordered not to iuterfere unless the French and the Allied interests are threatened. The outlook is of the blackest; the unemployed already number 1,000,000." STRESEMANN'S POSITION. STRONGER THAN AS DICTATOR. LONDON, Oct. 15. ' The Berlin coirespondent of the " Times " says: " The Socialist vote virtually carried the Emergency Powers Bill only by threat of expulsion. The Socialist leaders secured the support of 31 of their more independent followers, who were numerous enough to wreck the Bill. These agreed to vote for the Bill solely to preserve, the party unity. "It is known that their objections are based on the ground that the Bill is an abdication of Parliamentary rights, but they hav e evidently concluded that this was an occasion for sacrificing principle to party.

"As a result the votes place Dr. Stresemann in a stronger position to tackle the urgent problems confronting the Government than he would, have been in if he had assumed dictatorial powers without Parliamentary sanction."