RUHR DEADLOCK.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1923, Page 5

RUHR DEADLOCK.

PLIGHT OF THE WORKERS. SETTLEMENT DESIRED. POLITICAL OUTLOOK. By Telegraph.—Press Aj»n.—Copyright. Received July 10, 11.45 p.m. London, July 9. The Berlin correspondent of the Times says the segregation of the Ruhr makes existence, increasingly unbearable for the workers, and therefore from their representatives there goes out continual pressure on the Government to keep the policy moderate, so that no chance of coming to terms with France may 'be lost. At the same time 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 goin? to the wall and the Cuno Government is becoming more susceptible to the Bight. As a matter of fact, the heads of any Government giving signs of leadiness to parley would be in danger of assassination by the murder bands of the Right. The conditions are becoming likj those of 1918, bat this time the Right does not mean to be stabbed from behind by a revolution of the masses without a struggle. It is getting ready to fight and means to get its blow in first. L.

ARREST OF GERMANS. FRENCH RETALIATION. Received July 10, 11.45 p.m. Cologne, July 9. The French announce in Dusseldorf that in retaliation for the arrest of a French citizen named Schuldee jn May and his detention pending trial at Leipzig, they have decided to arrest every ether day one German in a good poeition, who will be kept in ordinary cells till Schuldee is released. They have already imprisoned a high school professor, a bank director, a lawyer and a college principal. BRITISH POLICY. STATEMENT TO BE MADE. London, July 9. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, in the House of Commons, said that he hoped it would be possible to make a statement on reparations on Thursday.