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BERLIN POLGCY CRITICISED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Rood. 11.6 p.m.) LONDON. Feb. 13. The French Foreign Office announces that the town of Gelsenkirchen has been fined 100..000.000 marks and the burgomaster and leading citizens arrested in consequence of the riot in which two French soldiers and one German were killed. Another German soldier has died as the result of the Gelsenkirchen affray. It is reported that a French soldier shot dead a Recklinghausen merchant. A Dusseldorf message reports the important capture by the French of eight men in a motor-car with a further 200,000.000 marks for distribution among the strikers. Two men were also captured in "Worms paying out money to strikers. The Petit Parisien's correspondent at Essen reports that incidents are increasing a3 a result of the boycott of Frenchmen by hotels and cafes. The manager of a hotel in which French officers mess and engineers reside, refused to serve them. The officers immediately introduced infantry, who cleared the Germans from the hotel and replaced them with Frenchmen.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18325, 15 February 1923, Page 7
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173RUHR WORKERS' VIEWS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18325, 15 February 1923, Page 7
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