FRENCH PRESSURE

Southland Times, Issue 18990, 11 July 1923, Page 5

FRENCH PRESSURE

WORKERS FEEL PINCH GERMAN GOVERNMENT’S QUANDRY FACES REVOLUTION AT HOME (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 9. (Received July 10, 11.45 p.m.) The Times’s Berlin correspondent, says that the segregation ,oi the Ruhr makes existence increasingly unbearable for the workers, therefore, from their representa fives, there goes out continual pressure on the Government to keep the policy moderate, so that no chance of coming to terms with France might be lost. At the same lime France’s Ruhr policy is driving the Nationalists of the Right, to more violent opposition. The results of the provincial elections, suggest that the Centre party is going to the wall, and that the Cuno Government is becoming more susceptible to the Right. As a matter of fact, the heads of any Government giving signs cf a readiness to parley, would be in danger of assassination by a murder band of the Right. Conditions are becoming like those of 1918, but. this time the Right does not mean to be stabbed frem behind by a revolution, of masses, without a struggle. It is getting ready to fight and means to get its blow in first. FRENCH RETALIATIONS A NOVEL PLAN. COLOGNE, July 9. (Received July 10, 11.45 p.m.) The French announce in Dusseldorf that in retaliation for the arrest of a French citizen named Schuldee, in May and his detention pending trial at Leipsig, they have decided to arrest every other day, one German in a good position, who will be kept in ordinary cells till Schuldee is released. They have already imprisoned a High School professor, bank director, lawyer and college principal. BRITAIN’S ATTITUDE. PROBABLE STATEMENT BY PREMIER. LONDON, July 9. Mr Baldwin (Premier), in the House of Commons, said he hoped it would be possible to make a statement on reparations on Thursday. FOOD RIOTS. BERLIN, July 9. (Received July 11, 12.5 a.m.) Food riots occurred at Nowawes, near Potsdam. Thousands of people rushed the shops and compelled the butchers to sell meat at 10,000 instead of 40,000 marks to the pound. The police restored order. CONSPIRATORS SENTENCED. RINGLEADERS IMPRISONED. BERLIN, July 9. Fuchs was sentenced to twelve years’ hard labour and fined 2,000,000 marks. Wunck, found quilty of assisting Fuchs, was sentenced to fifteen months’ imprisonment and fined 30,000,000 marks, with deportation at the end of his imprisonment. Three others were acquitted. [Professor Fuchs was leader of a conspiracy to separate Bavaria from the Reich and to join it to Austria.]