TRAINS RUSHED OUT

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11436, 5 February 1923, Page 6

TRAINS RUSHED OUT

FIRED ON BY FRENCH. DRIVERS DISAPPEAR. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received February 4, 5.5 pm.) BERLIN, February 2. Heyr Greener, Minister for Communications, again ordeved the railway managers to disobey French orThe managers complied by rushing Drains eat or the Itunr. French id* diera fired on a number of trains failing to stop when ordered. In several instances where tlie Germans were unable to get trains out they have diverted them to sidings, and abandoned them. •A French version, from Paris, of the aame incident, is as follows: “A number of German railwaymen, pretending to he willing to resume work, were taken in trains, hnt abandoned them in open country, the drivers disappearing. The French are now sending expert railwayman to accompany trains whjcb Germans are handling.” 1 RAILWAY SERVICE 3 “RESUMPTION IMMEDIATELY.” . Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, February 2. The “Morning Post’s” Dnsseldorf correspondent states: “The railway service will he resumed immediately, as the French have promised to withdraw their troops from the stations, thus ending the appalling chaos.” COLLAPBE OF BTRIKE WORKERS BEGINNING TO TIRE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assortstlon. BERLIN, February 2. The President of the Reichßtag, whom the Government sent to the Ruhr to study the workers’ attitude, reports pessimistically. He says that the workers axe beginning to tire of strikes, which have hitherto produced only trouble. Complaints, are beginning to circulate. A notice was posted at Eksen: “Railway workers, you are starving us officials. Be on y6ur guard.” , EFFECT OF IBOLATION REAL STRUGGLE BEGINS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON. February 2. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Dusseldorf correspondent says: “The real struggle in the Ruhr has now begun. The setting up of the frontier between the Ruhr and unoccupied Germany was hurriedly completed last night. Only a few coal trains thus far have been held up. The Customs officers have been expelled.”-