GERMAN APPEAL

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11423, 20 January 1923, Page 5

GERMAN APPEAL

TO SIGNATORIES 6f TREATY. AGAINST PRANCE’S BREACH. Australian, and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, January 18. The newspapers publish a Berlin dispatch stating that Germany intends to address the signatories of the Versailles Treaty, drawing attention to the fact that the French army of occupation has crossed the neutral zone of 50 kilometres provided by the treaty, and is in close proximity to the German garrison of Munster. MUNSTER EVACUATED. The “Echo de Paris’s” Mayence correspondent states that the detachment of the Reioilswehr which garrisoned Munster left the town and hurriedly removed all headquarters records, fearing the arrival of the Franco-Belgian troops. The “Petit Parisien’s” Dueseldorf correspondent Says that among the sanctions to be imposed will be the imprisonment of delinquents. The French, Italian, and Belgian Governments have ordered the exploitation of the State forests on the left bank of the Rhine as a penalty for Germany’s default in the delivery of wood. MISSION TO LONDON WILL REQUEST INTERVENTION. Published in "The Times.** LONDON, January 18. “The Times’’ Berlin correspondent has learned that a confidential German mission is going to London to request intervention in the Ruhr. ALL COAL BOOKED FOR SHIPMENT TO GERMANY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reoeived January 19, 8.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 18. Glasgow reports that all available export coal for January is booked for immediate shipment to Germany. This boom has increased prices of certain cjaam h* a, ton, ,