RUHR OCCUPATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18850, 1 May 1923, Page 7

RUHR OCCUPATION

CONDITIONS IN GERMANY. AN EYE-WITNESS’S ACCOUNT PROSPERITY OF MASSES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, April 29. The Daily Express Berlin correspondent, leferring to Ixird Buckmauter’s statement in the House of i.ords that the life of the German people to-day is one of great misery, states that a tour of Berlin shows the contrary to bo the case. The masses of Germany are leading a life of great prosperity. There has been an amazing growth of buildings, including factories, farm houses, and dwellings. Outside the capital food is cheap and abundant. It is calculated that there are now five jimes more motorists than there were before the war. The agriculturists are probably better off than at any previous period in their history, and the commercial people are hardly less flourishing. The Ruhr capitalists have had gigantic credits opened in their favour to enable them to carry on the resistance. It is true that the middle classes, and especially the intellectuals, had suffered severely, many being crushed out of existence, but their places had been taken by others springing from a different strata of society.—A. and N.Z. Cable. DYNAMITE OUTRAGE* FRENCH OFFICIALS KILLED. BERLIN, April 29. A dynamite outrage against a French passenger train is reported from Coblenz. Three French railway officials were killed. —Reuter.