FRENCH RIGOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18396, 11 May 1923, Page 7

FRENCH RIGOUR.

CRUSHING RESISTANCE.

RAILWAY OFFICIALS TRIED.

TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT.

COUNT KRUPP TO APPEAL. Bv Telegraph— Association— Copyright. (Received 8.5 p.m-) A. and N.Z. LONDON. May 9. Sentences ranging from four to five years" imprisonment were passed by" a French Court-martial at Mayenco on high German railway officials, who were charged with inciting railway woikers in the Ruhr to resist the orders 'of the French.

Berlin advices state that Count Krupp and his co-directors have been removed to Dusseldorf. They have given notice of appeal.

BRITISH REPLY READY.

REPROACH AGAINST FRANCE.

PARIS PRESS RESENTFUL. A. and N.Z. LONDON. May 9. The British reply to the German Note, which was drafted by experts, has received the Cabinet's approval, and will be despatched on Friday. , \' ? •The French Press gives prominence to Mr. Stanley Baldwin's statement in the House of Commons on the German Note. The Journal says that it is the declaration of a man in a bad temper, though he may not have realised it. •■•."■ The Matin remarks that the - main point is that it seems to reproach France, officially this time, with the same lack of courtesy of which the British press has already accused us. La Victoire asks: "What interests have the Allied nations to serve by publicly picking at each other. We thought this deplorable habit disappeared with Mr. Lloyd George. L'Eclair says that in order to embarass Mr. Bonar Law, M. Poincare only need submit France's debit account for the devastated areas and ask this great man of justice whether France or Germany should payThe newspapers are indignant at the Marquis Curzon's statement in the House of Lords, arid consider that criticisms of the Franco-Belgian action are'unfounded. They hope that the incident, which iis generally considered a question of armour propre, will not have serious consequences. .:..-.