THE RUHR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18802, 3 March 1923, Page 7

THE RUHR

TAX ON MINE OWNERS. FRENCH GENERAL’S DECREE. Pr«sa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, March L Generali Degoutte decreed that the Ruhr mine owners shall nay an export coal tax. Failure will be followed by court martial and imprisonment till the money is paid.—A. and N.Z. Cable. INCIDENT AT OUSSELDORF. SECRET NATIONALIST SOCIETY. LONDON, March 1. Advices from Dusseldorf state that a crowd attacked a German in the streets because he had accepted employment with the French Technical Mission. A French patrol rescued the man, and arrested some of the attackers, including Prince William Frederick Von Lippe, who was an agitator in Upper Silesia. Another man who was arrested had papers on him proving the existence of a secret Nationalist Society for agitating among the miners.—A. and N.Z. Cable. GERMAN GOVERNMENT. POLICY OF EXTRAVAGANCE. PRIVATE TRADERS BENEFITED. LONDON, March 1. (Received jNCarch 2, at 8.26 p.m.) The Morning Post’s Berlin correspondent says that evidence is continually growing that the German Government has been following a deliberate policy of extravagance in order to benefit private traders at the expense of the State. Apart from the deferred collection of the coal tax from the mine owners the Government has allowed the payment of export dues to be postponed for six months, thus sacrificing £650,000 monthly of purchasing power. Similarly the payment of import duties enable merchants ment of import duties enables merchants N.Z. Cable.