INVISIBLE OCCUPATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18298, 15 January 1923, Page 7

INVISIBLE OCCUPATION.

MILITARY IN BACKGROUND. L. and N.Z. 'PARIS, ■ Jan. 13. , General Degouette, commander in chief of the French . Army/of' Occujpat ion, .says that he;intends to inaugurate new kind of military occupation, namely, an; invistitle occupation. Judging ■ by the absence of any.-. military demonstration in the streets of Essen, this has succeeded. /.'■;;' ~.; The Jonrnal ; states -that'. the hand of Marshal Foch can v be;seen in the whole of the occupation proceedings, which are | of a ;civil rather than a military nature. It I depends on/the Germans y;hcther France exercises ; any •' pressure or riot; /■■ .''.- .'.

• communists. : X.; : - more Arrests made. ; -iiusforalian and N.Z.. Cable Association, (Reed. '4.3 p.m.) ' .: / .PARIS,« Jan. 13. ~; More .Communist members'of the Com-/ mittee; of Action against Imperialism and: War'.have been _.'?■ arrested sand., charged..: i with participating in 'Geinian negotiai tions in the ;: Ruhr' region- against '"■' the i French occupation. The Government proposes; to charge M.; Cachin, a deputy, withtreason and. intercourse with foreign bps-. tile bodies and -'with plotting, against the* security, of„ the State. : ';: * '.■'- "'. ■ : ■. .-_.———- ';: SOVIET TAKES A HAND. troops on polish frontier. A. and, N.Z-.,. '/;»-' ,;,.": LONDON, Jan, 12. • -A' message from Riga states -that the> Russian Soviet .;•.. Government isf^^oncen-: tratihg additional troops .near the ; Polish, i frontier, where extensive, movements'' -of '. j troops' are taking'place. The Poles view I this/ Russian- demonstration in: the light of a threat that should Poland make a move of assisting France during § the present crisis, Russia wilL intervene.