FRENCH OCCUPATION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17012, 10 April 1923, Page 4

FRENCH OCCUPATION.

MARKS SEIZED IN RAID. ii y 1 elegrapn- Ptoss a saociation—Copy rig ;y Australian and N.2C Cable Association. PARIS., April 9. Thu last seizin.' oi marks included r. his supply found in a private print inf establishment in Mnllheim.’ whore tin marks were living secretly printed ir. order to prevent the ro-r.ii?.catio«i o> the morun during; transit from unoecu ruerl Germany. French troops une:-: pectedly surrounded the printing works ’and seized 1,900,000,000 mark.worth of finished note*, and eighty milliards of portly printed notes, also engraved plate?. The notes will hr credited to Germany on account of th money she owes for the maintenance, of the army of occupation. The Goverimjent minim is«s the soiz lire, pointing out that, the Ruhr re quires . eeVen thousand million new marks The German official statement, continues : - ; The .so hrirc got into the Ruhr clandestinely. The French, liOivewr/ are sometime.® sulficientl’ cutmingf to discover the means by which Shis is Tn thrway tffi'.so dege,, crate sons of a once• j chivalrous nation hare before now dis- j covered bundles of our notes concealed j in women’s skirts and underclothing. ’’ j RUYARD KIPLING’S VIEW. PARIS, April 9. | Tile uev.spupviv. arc t ;r, • ,-i- prumii: • c;m<- tp an into-view .Mr Kudyanl Kip kng gave joimuiiisi- • at Toulon, on : the .subject of the Anglo-French atti j tude towaros (Jormany. . Me said that i ti-r great mass o l ' British opinion neve? | understood uhy Oon-.r.iiv, which pro- ! pored and launched the v.;ir. should i not pay for the damage. Tim\ had 1 j not the least cnnndcr.re in anv pro- j : srnn.mo fin-H • n (:■ ■ Arc, ot cur in, . 1 G. riucui ir-cA-r,.- untU sic iva, rvstor i etl to hoaltn ai-.d power, in tlie hop- ; 1 that she wonhi then have a changtQ j j heart and nay •, m? , f her obligations ! ! •• Wo do not bclievb Gevrnaui i« dir, i armed.” he added .“or t car ’she will be until >b.e is subjened to a control ! far more rigorous than any imposed in \ the pnfit. V.c believe it would have ! lee-.i far better had England. Rde b : side with France and B. lgunn. tried ; to obtain a maximum, r.mount of re- j pa ration? and the greatest seem it v | possible. The rec on ti.yt public- ] opinion does net (lechire it: elf more | clearly is that the taxpayers arc groan- \ cruslung. 1 H s nafural i thM politicians should be excessive!•: prudent c.rul hos-itaie to take any stcr j which would increase public expends s turn. Germany rnclrvstoocl tliis. arc! i made n clever use o. il. Britain and . France should consider u.v.h other with ; patience, and never forget- th«i f ; or- j many uidt-cd hr and Grrm-t:v will kcc: : ns unite.;!. Wo <-«u L-rs- her for limt. i »nly thM |