ANSWER TO OUTRAGES.
ARREST OF HOSTAGES.
SABOTAGE IN BELGIAN ZONE A. snd N.Z- LONDON. March 20. Reports from CohJoiu. state that in view of the attack on Herr Smeets the Interred Khineland Commission decided to m*pend the prefect o: police in Cologne and op fiD an inquiry into the outrage. It. is also taking precautionary measures in connection with the traffic between unoccupied and occupied Germany. An Essen telegram states that arising out of the shooting of a French soldier on Monday last, the French authorities arrested as hostages the chief of police in Essen, the president of the tribunal, tho director of the Reichsbank and other banking directors, who will be held until the German police hand over the wanted criminal. If the latter be not discovered the military reserve the right of fining the town. A number of taxi-drivers who were in the station when the soldier was thtit have been arrested. The railway between Dusseldorf and Puiaburg has been torn up. The Belgians have arrested three hostage?, and threaten to shoot them if acts of sabotage be repeated. The French at Aix-la-( hapelle seized 450,000,000 marks destined for Run? cr^aiisation*.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18355, 22 March 1923, Page 7
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193ANSWER TO OUTRAGES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18355, 22 March 1923, Page 7
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