ON THE RHINE

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 3 February 1923, Page 5

ON THE RHINE

• FRENCH TAKING STEEN MEASURES. n'ooW’i TCr TT r ' ■ (Per Press Association —Copyright). Paris, February 2. The French authorities at Dusseldorf have issued a stern warning to the managers of four mines against delivering coal and have threatened expulsion in the event of non-com-pliance. Two of the managers have com1 plied, but the others refused. ■ A telephone director and two postal officials in Duseldorf and the tel- , egraph director in Duisburg were ar- ' rested for refusing to obey French orders. Germany fears that the French will adopt profit-sharing in the Ruhr inducing workers to make an agreement with France and Belgium | — | CONFIDENCE LN POINCARE. PARIS, Feb. 2. 1 The Chamber has carried a vote of confidence in M. Poincare by 485 votes to 81.—A. and N.Z. Cable.