MORE ARRESTS

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

MORE ARRESTS

FOR FAILURE TO OBEY. BITTER ENMITY IN BERLIN. Australian and N.Z. Cable AssociationPARIS, February 2 Tho French authorities at Dusseldorf have sternly warned the managers of four mines against delivering coal and threatened their expulsion in the event of non-compliance, lwo managers complied, but the others refused. The telephone director and two postal officials at Dusseldorf and the telegraph director at Duisburg have been arrested for refusing to obey French orders. ' - , , , Germany fears the French will adop.. profit-sharing on the Ruhr, inducing the workers to ■ make an agreement with France and Belgium. SAAR MINERS STRIKE. The Saar miners have decided on a general strike, to begin on Monday. They demand the continuance of in-, creased wages on. the ground of the cost of living. . ~ A mine detonator was found m a truckload of Saar coal at Dijon. “ALMOST UNBEARABLE.” The “Matin’s” Berlin correspondent says: “The position of £he French subjects is becoming almost unbearable. One cannot speak French or display a^French newspaper, without risking insults or even blows. The Government is helpless before the public excitement.”