RUHR OCCUPATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 14884, 23 March 1923, Page 5

RUHR OCCUPATION.

SETTLEMENT PROSPECTS.

WARNING AGAINST OPTIMISM.

t’ress Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyrigh PARIS, Thursday.

While official quarters issue a warning against excessive optimism, there is undoubtedly a better feeling between the occupying forces and the population.

The Ruhr railways are running under French control, and canal traffic is assured. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

INCREASING THE GRIP. LONDON, Thursday. The Daily Express’ Cologne correspondent says that the French are building large barracks on the eastern boundary of the Ruhr, taking over more mines, importing more troops, and installing larger guns. Miners’ unions at Hamm declined to work the mines seized by the French, threatening to allow the pits to flood unless they •were restored. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. INSULT TO ALLIES.^ BERLIN, Thursday. When the inter-Allied Commission visited an aerodrome here, they were refused admission because one member was a Belgian. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. RISE IN CURRENCIES. LONDON, Thursday. The papers give great prominence to the rise of the Erench, Belgian and Italian cureneies, but decline to believe there is sufficient ground at present to justify belief in their really progressive recovery. The Morning Post fears that a permanent improvement in the French franc is impossible unless there is a radical improvement in the reparations crisis. The poor wheat' crop is also held to be a grave factor against continued improvement. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. BRITAIN’S ATTITUDE. (Received Friday, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, Thursday. In the House of Commons, Colonel J. C. Wedgwood (Labour) asked the Premier whether France had asked t'he Government if Britain w r as disposed to associate herself with measures designed to enforce the terms of the Versailles Treaty dealing with the s disarmament of Germany and the operations of the Commision of Control; and whether, in view of the French action in the Ruhr, the Government would refrain from cooperating on the Commission. Mr. Bonar Law said that the answer to the first'' portion would be in the affirmative, and to the second in the negative. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. NATIONALISTS ARRESTED. •\ (Received Friday, 10.10 a.m.) PARIS, Thursday. The Inter-Allied Commission have arrested nineteen Nationalists in connection with the attack on Smeets. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

AN AMERICAN PLAN.

(Received Friday, 9.40 a.m.)

ROME, Thursday.

The Tribuna states that Americans attending the commercial men’s congress, have prepared a practical plan for the economic reconstruction of Europe under which American financiers would provide a loan to Germany for the payment of reparations conditional upon the French demands being reduced to a reasonable total. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

ARRESTED MAN RELEASED..

BERLIN, ■Wednesday

Rossbach, who was arrested two days ago on a charge of organising active resistance in the Ruhr, has been released on engaging not to participate in propaganda there. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.