RUHR OCCUPATION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18821, 11 July 1923, Page 5

RUHR OCCUPATION

F WORKERS’ EXISTENCE | I UNBEARABLE i GOVERNMENT’S DIFFICULT i TASK THE GERMAN VIEW FRESK. - : D iy Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright. < Times.) Received Julv 10 10 30 p.m. LONDON. July 9. \ Berlin corresjxmdent says the segitgurioH of the Ruh’* makes existence' increasingly unbearable for workers. Therefore, from their representatives there goes out continual pressure on the Government to keep the policy • moderate *so that no chance of coming terms with Fiance may be lost. At, the same tim-' France’s Ruhr policy is driving the Nationalists of the Right ' to more violent opposition. The results ol the provincial elections suggest that \ the Centre P.-o ty is going to the wall, ar.d the Cuno Government becoming susceptible to the Right. As a of fact, the heads of any Gov- j ernrrent giving signs of readiness to j.arkv would be in danger of assassination by the murder bands of the Right, (’•editions are becon ing like those of 191 H, but 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. I and means to get its blow in first.

FRENCH METHODS FORCIBLE ARGUMENT. Received Julv 10. 10.30 p.m. COLOGNE, July 9. The French announce in Dusseldorf that in retaliation for the arrest of a French citizen, Schuldee, in May. and his detention pending trial at Leipzig, they have decided to arrest, every other day, one German in a good position, who will be kept in the ordinary cells til. Schuldee is released. They have already imprisoned a high school professor, a bank director, a lawyer and a <ol!ege principal.