NEUTRAL ZONE TROUBLE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5883, 10 April 1920, Page 2

NEUTRAL ZONE TROUBLE

BRITAIN AND FRANCE STRAINED RELATIONS, i SERIOUS CRISIS FEARED. (Times Service.) (Received April 10, 8 a.m.) LONDON, April 8

A serious' crisis is believed to have arisen in the Anglo-French relations. The British Calinet has n'ot'fied its disapproval of France's advance in the rieiitra! zone. United Service Telecrams.) LONDON, April 8. It is learned authoritatively that Fiance acted entirely o).\ her own responsibility ill deciding to advance ca the neutral zone. Britain, Italy, Belgium and America were all opposed to such action, ajad France's military move caused an obviously delicate situation. The Anglo-French Governments are discussing the niatter in the hope of easing the tension. Whe)n trouble started in the neutral zone it wins essential that steps should be takein to restore order, but the question was whether Allied or German forces should act. o>ne proposal was that Germany should be made responsible for restoring order, and be allowed to send troops to Ru'hr under the strictest guarnJntoc, which defined that Marshal Foch and Allied officers should accompany 'the German forces in order to determine when retirement was justified. France doubtless acted bona fide-, but the immediate result is 'that the responsibility for her actilm canf.iot be shared by the Allies as a whole. Certainly there is no intention on the part of the British Government to allow British soldiers to act as police between the hostile Germain factions.

FRANKFORT QUIET,

GERMAN TROOPS IN RUHR

EARLY WITHDRAWAL PREDICTS

Tleuter's Teleerarns.'} (Received April 10,. 8 a.m.) PARIS, April 8. Quiet has boon restored in Frahkfort. The authorities have pacified the students.

BERLIN, April 8

The Vorwaerts says that the Defence Minister states that if possible the troops will be withdrawn from Ruhr in two days.

IMPROVEMENT IN SITUATION,

AMICABLE SETTLEMENT LIKELY

(Received April 10, 8 a.m.) LONDON, April 8

The Australian Press Association loarns that there is an ii.icreasi.ng likelihood of an amicable settlement of the international differences arising out ot the Ruhr incident. There is every indication of the Reds rapidly disarming.

To-day's Supreme Council meeting has boon postponed, probably in order to await events. It is hoped that whpn the Council assembles the "end will be in sight. POSITION AT DUSSEDORF. MILITARY ACTION ENDED. (Received April 10, 9.10 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, April 8. A DusscldcM'f message states that the military action by the Reichswehr has virtually ended, bait that the delivery of arms, according to tflie Bfelefeld agreement, will occupy a few days.

PARIS, April 8

Official reports of the Frankfort incident state that two were killed and several wounded.

The mati/ii alleges that a Pan-German prl>«?ssion, mostly students, surrounded a French picket and separated the officers from the men. The latter, fc'irjng that thc'">omcers would bo ondaingered. fired several shots,

GERMAN TROOPS AT ESSEN

FLIGHT OF 'REBELS.

SURRENDERS TO THE BRITISH

(Received April 10, 9.10 a.m.)

PARIS, April 8

Le Temps states that German troops occupied Essen after the Reds fled, many of wliom surrendered to the" British. Tlie Roiehswehr continues to advance into the centre of the Rhenish-West-plalian basin. This is attributed fo the pressure of the military party at Berlin upon tlie German Gpvernmont. Tlie latter are asking the Aljies to allow ihem' t'o nso troops in fJie neutral zone until the 10th July, pqint-jag out that Germany has already beeui allow.ed to use troops to maintaiiY order until the , 10th April.

FRENCH PATROLLING FRANKFORT. BELGIUM SUPPORTING FRANCE (Received April 10, 9 10 a.m.) PARIS, April 9.

! Strong patrols of French cavalry, preceded by armoured cars, paraded the Frankfort streets all night Icing. There havo been no further incidents. The French nilitfiry authorities assert that a,n antf-Fi'cneh demonstration has been organised by German m'i'itarists, and that a small body of Belgian troops has been ordered to enter TSithv, indicating that Belgium ranges lierscl? j alongside of France.

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