FRANCE AND THE RUHR.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18724, 3 March 1923, Page 5

FRANCE AND THE RUHR.

GERMAN CUNNING. THINGS ENGLAND NEVER KNEW. where french reparations WENT. Received March 2. 8.25 p.m. LONDON, March 2. The Morning Post's Berlin correspondent says: Evidence is continually growing that the German Government nas been following a deliberate policy of extravagance in order to benefit private traders at the expense of the State. Apart from the deferred collection of the coal tax from mine owners, the Government allowed the payment of export dues to be postponed for six months, thus sacrificing £650,000 monthly of purchasing power. Similarly, the payment of import duties enabled merchants to pay in depreciated marks.

GERMANS ATTACK GERMAN “SCAB? RESCUED RY FRENCH PATROL. LONDON. March 1. Advices from Dusseldorf state that a crowd attacked a German in the streets because he had accepted employment with the French Technical Mission. A French patrol rescued the man and arrested some of the attackers, including Prince Wilhelm Frederick Van Lippe, who . was an agitator in Upper Silesia. A nother man arrested had papers proving the existence of a secret Nationalist Society for agitating among miners. PARIS. March 1. The cost of living is rapidly rising. The retail prices of food in Paris are 209 per cent, above 1914, while the prices in provincial centres are from 304 to 360 above 1914. TAX GN RUHR MINEOWNERS. PARIS. March 1. General Degoutte has decreed that the Ruhr mine owners shall pay an export coal tax. Failures to do so will be followed by court martial and imprisonment till the tax is paid.