EVEN TO BERLIN!

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11422, 19 January 1923, Page 7

EVEN TO BERLIN!

FRENCH GRIMLY DETERMINED. PREPAED, FOR ANYTHING. Published In “The Tlme«.“ LONDON, January 17. A prominent member of the French mission told “The Times” Dusseldorf correspondent:— “There is nothing we are not prepared to. do to oblige the industrialists to abandon their present attitude, even to go to Berlin, if necessary.” “The Times” Paris correspondent says: “In view of the German resistance, France is definitely determined to begin requisitioning on Wednesday, unless the owners agree to commence deliveries of coal and the collection of the' coal tax. “France is also contemplating the establishment of a -Customs cordon round the Ruhr, and the issue of special municipal coinage for the Ruhr alone. The money presumably will only be issued in event of the owners’ refusal to pay wages.”

ADVANCE ON MUNSTER? GERMAN RESISTANCE MADNESS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, January 17. The ‘Daily Mail’s” Dusseldorf correspondent states that the French have completed plans for dealing with any situation that may arise. The belief prevails throughout the Ruhr that. an advance is likely on Munster. It is, rumoured that the forces of the, Keichswe'hr there may attempt armed opposition. The madness of such an enterprise is apparent to anyone who has watched the march of the perfectly-equipped French Army, with “seventy-fives,” howitzers, machine-guns, armoured ears, and tanks following closely tho cavalry and infantry regiments. Munster, the capital of Westphalia, is 100 miles from Cologne.