RHINELAND.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLV, Issue 23, 9 November 1923, Page 3

RHINELAND.

APPEAL BY GERMAN WOMEN. "pITEOUS CRY FOR HELP. (Electric Telegraph.—Copyright). (Received This Day, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, November 8. The “Times’ ’’ Cologne correspondent sends a moving appeal from the German women to the women of the British Empire. It describes their erp for help in the last extremity. The appeal is signed by sixty-nine women’s associations in the Cologne area. It is also being transmitted to the Imperial Conference. It says: “We appeal to you. We do not know what else to do,” and describes how the Ruhr occupation has paralysed industry, adding, “To our agony and despair an armed horde of adventurers have been let loose on our disarmed and helpless population under the guise of Separatism and Republicanism. Winter is coming and we are without coal, although living in the midst of one of the world’s greatest coal-producing areas. We can do nothing to help ourselves. We arc faced with grim starvation and despair, and appeal to you to save us. It is not for us to suggest how, but whatever is done lfhist he done quickly, before it is too late, before Rhineland, Germany, and all Europe, and with them the British Empire, are engulfed iu this welter of discord, and countless lives are once more sacrificed.”—(“The Times”). HARASSING THE SEPARATISTS. A ROUND-UP. (Received This Day, 8.50 a.m.) BERLIN, November 8. Advices from Bonn state that following the recent Belgian action against the Separatists at Aix-la-Cbapelle, the French in Bonn rounded up over two thousand imported Separatists, who were disarmed, marched to the station, and deported in special trains. The guards on all the roads leading to the British zone have been rein-' forced. Two prominent Separatists endeavoring to enter were arrested. —(Reuter).