The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 9, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 28, 1923 Page: 4 of 54
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FRANCE WILL ■
ANNEX ALL OF
RUHR VALLEY
Political Occupation to
Gradually Follow Mili-
V tary Rule.
SAY TREATY LAPSED
All Signs Point to Extended
Holding of Industrial
Districts.
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Ry WILLIAM BIRD.
Copyright 1923. by The San Antonio Light.
Paris Jan. 27.—The French govern-
ment is swinging gradually but surely
to the political occupation of the
Ruhr.
Criticism of its attitude in insisting
on the strictly economic character of
the movement grows sharper daily.
Observers predict Premier Poincare
shortly will come forward with a
declaration practically annexing the
entire Ruhr district to France without
any definite time limitation.
This prediction is strengthened by
the latest action of the French dele-
gate Louis Barthou on the reparations
commission in declaring the total of
Germany’s unfilled obligations under
the reparations section of the treaty
of Versailles. This is regarded as
equivalent to all intents and purposes
to a denunciation by France of the
treaty itself.
Part of France.
In other words in assuming this at-
titude. France practically declares that
the Versailles treaty has lapsed by rea-
son of Germany's failure to fulfill her
obligations. Additional significance is
furnished by the establishment of a
customs frontier east of the newly
occupied area which now has been de-
cided on as well as the introduction
of a new monetary unit based on
France currency. These modifications
in effect make the Ruhr a part of
France although under martial instead
of civil laws.
This change nf policy will it is
hoped provide France with considerable
profit chiefly through the linking of
the Ruhr and Alsatian metallurgical
industries.
Production Will Rise.
The French believe that while the
Ruhr coal production has declined
sharply since the occupation this drop
is due chiefly to the confusion of the
movement and that eventually produc-
tion will rise again especially when it
is realized that Germany will be the
chief sufferer from any shortage as the
French will take what coal they need
leaving Germany only what then re-
mains.
The French steel magnates are plan-
ning a tremendous development of the
French metal industries based on a
long time enjoyment of the advantages
of the Ruhr occupation.
Thus the economical advantages are
not lost sight of. but the majority of
French opinion believes these advant-
ages will not be fully obtainable until
the occupation takes a definite political
character and the government now
seems headed toward that same at-
titude.
PLANT LESS POTATOES
Valier Fanners Will Put in More
Cotton.
San Benito. Tex.. Jan. 27—There will
be a much smaller acreage planted to
potatoes this spring than was planted
last season. The reason for this cur-
tailment is the fact th t the growers
met with heavy losses last year and are
afraid to go too strong this year. Prob-
ably not more than 80 or 100 cars of
northern grown seed potatoes will be
shipped to the valley. Last year some-
thing like 350 to 400 carloads were re-
ceived. Local dealers claim that the
men who grew potatoes last year have
turned to cotton. As a'result of this
change of heart the largest acreage of
that staple ever grown in this section
of the state will be planted in the next
few weeks.
How He Cured
His Rupture
Old Sea Captain Cured His Own
Rupture After Doctors Said
"Operate or Death."
His Remedy and Book Sent Free.
Captain Collings sailed the seas for
many years; then he sustained a bad
double rupture that soon forced him
to not only remain ashore but kept
him bedridden for years. He tried
doctor after doctor and truss after
truss. No results! Finally he was
assured that he must either submit to
a dangerous and abhorrent operation
or die. He did neither! He cured
Mtnself instead.
. Captain Collings made a study of
himself of his condition—and at last
he was rewarded by the finding of the
method that so quickly made him a
well strong vigorous and happy man.
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telling all about how he cured himself
and how anyone- may follow the same
treatment in their own home without
any trouble. The book and medicine
.are FREE. They will be sent prepaid
to any rupture sufferer who will fill
qut the below coupon. But send it
right away—now—before you put down
this paper.
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REMEDY COUPON.
Capt. W. A. Collings (Inc.)
Box UI7H. Watertown. N. Y.
Pjqase send me your FREE Rup-
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SUNDAY.
FRANCE PLANNING TO REMAIN
IN THE RUHR INDEFINITELY;
GERMAN REPRISALS CONTINUE
Belgium Take# the Initiative in Attempt to Force .Pay-
ment of Reparations by Germany—British Public
Protests Against Invasion by French Troops.
By FALL SCOTT MOWRER
Special Cable to The San Antonio Light
and the Chicago Dally News.
Copyright 1923.
Paris Jan. 27.—1 n the face of the
German resistance France and Bel-
gium are planning to stay in the Ruhr
indefinitely—perhaps several years.
On the initiative of Belgium the
French and Belgian governments have
abandoned the idea of proposing a guar-
anued moratorium to Germany. The
Belgian the ry is that it would be fool-
ish to make such a proposal so long
as Germany cont : lies to resist the ap-
plication of the treaty of Versailles it
every way possible. Belgium there-
fore asks the reparations commission
to reject the moratorium demand and
notify Germany that the oH scale of
payments ($77351X1.000 a year) will
again cuter into force early in Febru-
ary.
Failing to receive any German coke
in the last fortnight eleven French
blast furnaces have shut down in Lor-
raine. five in the Longwy-Nancy basin
and five in Luxemburg with consequent
partial unemployment. The French
steel magnates are not greatly disturbed
by this situation as they consider that
tin..- will be necessary to reorganize
the Ruhr administration in such a way
that coke shipments can be resumed
regularly.
The French government intends soon
to ask parliament for a credit of 45-
000000 francs for the expenses of the
Ruhr occupation in January and Febru-
ary. The radicals are expected to make
this demand an occasion for an attack
on the occupation policy but there is
every reason to believe that the ma-
jority will quickly grant the credit the
general French belief being that it is
quite proper to spend whatever money
may be necessary now to break Ger-
man resistance as this expense will ul-
timately be more than compensated for
by increased reparations and especially
by increased security against war.
PETTY REPRISALS CONTINUE
Germans Seek in Every Way to Make
French Uncomfortable.
By GEORGE WITTE.
Special Cable to The San Antonio Light
and the Chicago Daily New..
Copyright. 1923.
Berlin. Jan. 27.—The policy of petty
reprisals employed by the Germans
against French officials and civilians in
Ge.mnnv is getting worse every day.
In the restaurant nf the Hotel Adlon in
which the beads of the Inter-Allied mis-
sion of control live a German guest of-
fered a waiter 25.000 marks (just about
$1) if he and his colleague would refuse
to wait on General Nollet the French
officer who heads the military commis-
sion. The waiter at nnce refused the
bribe declaring that the labor unions
were opposed to such reprisals as sug-
gest er by the guest.
Count St. Quetin. counsellor of the
French embassy here received notice
from Berlin's most fashionable restau-
rant which he had patronized since he
came here three years ago. that he
would no longer receive any service
there and that he had better keep away.
tThe restaurant in question which Is
frequented chiefly by Americans Eng-
lishmen and Frenchmen has been half
empty since this action on the part of
the proprietor Herr Peltzer became
known.
Other bars and restaurants in the
capital which have refused to serve
French and Belgians have also been
boycotted by the Americans and British
who are unanimous in condemning the
German attempt to make harmless ci-
vilians pay for the actions of their gov-
ernments.
BRITISH PAPERS PROTEST
Ruhr Occupation by France Is Called
a Farce.
By HAL O'FLAHERTT.
Special Cable to The Ban Antonio Light
and the Chicago Daily News.
Copyright 1923.
London. Jan. 27.—Without exception
the British weekly reviews condemn in
sonorous phrases the latest action in
the Ruhr area filling columns with
tragic warnings against driving Ger-
many to desperation.
The Outlook calls the Ruhr occupa-
tion a complete farce covering France's
actual aim forcibly to seize a strip of
territory and maintain it as a protec-
tion against future German aggression.
"To cut off the test of Germany from
the Ruhr whence a great industrial
people draw the fuel and raw materials
that enable them to live is an act de-
signed to bring starvation and Ted rev-
olution” says the. Outlook. “Do the
French realize that to onlookers the
strangulation of 60000.000 defenseless
human being is far worse than a mili-
tary attack directed against countries
that can hit back? The German crim-
inals in 1914 at least ran risks and
were prepared to fight for what they
got. History will put this Ruhr crime
in the same category with the invasion
of Belgium!"
The New Statesman declares that the
events of the last week have proved the
imp.ssibility of the task the French
government has undertaken.
"The spirit of resistance which the
French have met places them on the
horns of an ugly dilemma. Are they to
incur execration of the world by starv-
ing and bayonetting the population of
the Ruhr into submission or must they
incur the world's ridicule by a grotesque
failure to achieve a single one of the
purposes for which they set armies
marching? The French theory that the
Germans will do anything if pressed
hard enough appears to be applied to
premises ridiculously wide of the truth
General Weygand with 70.000 men may
be 1 e fo cope with the Germans but
the French have no direct knowledge ol
the phenomenon of passive resistance
nor do they realize the prohibitive cost
of suppressing it. They may learn too
quickly.”
St. Loe Starchey in the Spectator of-
fers a closely reasoned appeal for in-
tervention by the League of Nations
expressing the hope which seems widely
prevalent in Great Britain that
Hjalmar Branting. the Swedish premier
will initiate the leag a’s effort.
BAVARIA IN STATE OF SIEGE
—
"Grey Shirts" Threaten to Overthrow
Central Government.
By GEORGE WITTE.
Special Csbje to The San Antonio Light
and the Chicago Dally Nawa.
Copyright. 1923.
Berlin Jan. 27.—Adolf Hittier lead-
er of the Bavarian “gray shirts.” and
back of him General Ludendorff de-
clared war on the Berlin government
today. When notice was served on
him that the mass meeting of his fol-
lowers called for tomorrow bad been
forbidden he replied “a victorious wave
of nationalism will sweep away the gov-
ernment inside of two hours." It was
not Hittier’s bold threats but secret
service reports that the German Faseisti
now number 50000 men which induced
the Bavarian government to proclaim
a state of siege all over Bavaria begin-
ning today.
Reichswehr troops as well as all the
police forces have been called out for
Sunday when the nationalists are sup-
posed to meet. In the meantime the
Bavarian government has issued strict
instructions to the local authorities to
break up any gathering of more than
20 persons. The Bavarian minister of
the interior Herr Schweyer has issued
a statement in which he says:
"The Bavarian government feels that
it is its duty to stand by the central
government in every question and be-
cause nationalistic demonstrations are
bound to be detrimental to the interests
of the whole people at this time we are
determined to suppress any such dem-
onstration which in the long run may
hurt the government no matter whether
it is of a nationalistic or communistic
character. In view of tjie fact that
Herr Hittier bos announced to us that
he will hold his anti-government mass
meeting just the same we have called
out all the police and troops available
to suppress all riots that may occur.”
Herr Hittier had no comments to
make on this statement.
GERMANS DISOBEY FRENCH
Cuno Tells People to Resist Establish-
ment of Customs.
By GEORGE WITTE.
Special Cable to The San Antonio Light
and the Chicago Dally News.
Copyright. 1923.
Berlin. Jan. 27.—Chancellor Cuno is-
sued strict orders today to all govern-
ment officials in the Ruhr basin oc-
cupied by the French to refuse to obey
orders given them by the French in con-
n :tion with the plan to establish a
Ruhr customs frontier.
"No German official is allowed to
surrender to the invaders any sums
collected in the shape of taxes or duties
or to obey commands given him to col-
lect such taxes or duties on behalf of
the French authorities.” is the text of
the chancellor's instructions.
It was due to this order that the
railroad men in the Ruhr district and
in the old occupied territory are plan-
ning to balk if the French attempt to
carry ont their intention of running
the railroads themselves as seems to
have been tried in Dusseldorf yester-
day. That attempt was a complete
failure according to reports received
here.
In spite of all these developments it
is believed the French are getting the
best of it as the situation stands now.
In some circles in Berlin it is the opin-
ion that the French tried to rush things
at the start but that realizing this
fact they are now advancing slowly In
accordance with the rules of diplomacy.
RAIL STRIKE CONTINUES
Other Strikes May Result From French
Invasion Monday.
By WILLIAM E. NASH.
Special Cable to The San Antonio Light
and the Chicago Dally News.
Copyright. 1923.
Dusseldorf Jan. 27—The partial rail-
way strikes which continue in Dussel-
d f and Duisberg on the main line of
communication through the Ruhr area
seem to be the main reason for the de-
lay in the application of the customs
dragnet. The French want to make
sure of this so-called jugular vein by
means of German railway men or mili-
tary engineers before trying further
measures of coercion. Locomotives and
empty freight cars have been forbidden
to leave the occupied territory without
permission.
More strikes are threatened for Mon-
day. notably of postoffice employes and
city hall officials.
Will Deport Two Aliens.
San Benito Tex. Jan. 27.—Two un-
desirable aliens were vaught in the mo-
tor car as it drew near this city yes-
terday They were taken in charge by
a Brownsville officer and will be held
for deportation. These men had slipped
over the border from Mexico One was
Czecho-Slav and the other was a Hun-
garian. They were turned over to the
immigration authorities.
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THE SAN 'ANTONIO LIGHT.
fHANCE NEEDS
STRONG POLICT
SATS TARDIEU
Too Considerate of Ger-
many’s Feelings and
Change Is Necessary.
IS ONLY ONE PROBLEM
Germany Must Be Made to
Execute Engagements Be-
fore Peace Insured.
By ANDRE TARDIEU.
Copyright 1923. by The San Antonio Light.
Paris. Jan. 27.—Almost everybody
seems to be pursuing what you call a
pussyfoot policy. The intention is good
but the results are not clear.
The French government in develop-
ing the occupation of the Ruhr is show-
ing an excess of caution which to me
seems a psychological mistake. When
you are obliged—as the United States
and Great Britain both have been in
the past—to deal forcibly with a party
whose bad faith has been demonstrat-
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ings has even gone so far as to attempt
what has been called invisible occupa-
tion. hat is a bad method especially
with Germany which considers herself
cleverer and stronger than any others.
In the present circumstances we should
proceed squarely fairly. Our extreme
moderation has not prevented Senator
Borah proclaiming our action an of-
fense against humanity which shows
that too many precautions only lessen
the advantages from the operation
without eliminating the disadvantages.
French opinion is beginning to con-
sider we have been too irresolute dur-
ing the last two weeks. The policy is
too reminiscent of that which prevailed
in the war before Clemenceau took
hold. To succeed a change is neces-
sary.
The British do not seem to know
what they want. Bonar Law on leav-
ing Poincare on January 5 said:
"I think yon are mistaken but if
event* prove I am mistaken I’ll be
delighted.”
His attitude since has been friendly
but between his desire not to make ex-
tra difficulties for France and his pub-
lic disapproval of the French plan
there is of necessity certain friction.
In Italy Mussolini despite his ener-
gy. seems tarred with the same brush
His representatives sided with France
against British and Italian engineers
accompanied the French and Belgians
to the Ruhr. On the other hand no
other Italian troops have been furnish-
ed while Italian diplomacy busying it-
self in London and Berlin but express-
ly disclaiming tenders of mediation
gives the impression of offering its good
offices to the end.
Naturally everybody desires the end-
ing of the present crisis but there is
more than one way to do it. and the
Italian position seems ambiguous. May
I add the American way appears simi-
lar.
Eastern Republican senators seem to
advocate a certain intervention in Eu-
ropean affairs without specifying ex-
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mined on isolation. The Democrats
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lias withdrawn its troops from the
Rhine for reasons which perhaps were
not what the public thought. Between
the contrary currents it hesitates and'
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Don't Know What to Do.
I will say with frankness to which
my friendship for your country entitles
me that while all parties never have
been at a loss when it came to telling
Europe what to do they seem complete-
ly stumped when it is a question of
what America ought to do.
Washington and London seem to
have as much trouble in agreeing as
Paris and London have. The Bald-
win mission ended in failure. London
thought an accord would be facilitated
by the fact that Great Britain upheld
the American view in the Franco-Ger-
man conflict but was mistaken. The
ideas of your treasury and Britain’s
are irreconciliable. The negotiations
were for nothing.
This is another case of pussyfooting.
Only one country maintains the same
straight course which she has been fol-
lowing for three years and that is Ger-
many. Germany organized the collapse
of the mark to annul the foreign and
domestic debt with one stroke. She
sacrificed her middle class which is
ruined by the monetary crisis. She
will if necessary sacrifice the prosperi-
ty of the Ruhr. It is anything rather
than pay. That is her motto. The Rus-
sians burned Moscow to elude Napo-
leon. The Germans would annhilate
the Ruhr industries to escape the debt
they solemnly recognized. That is the
source of Europe's disorder and an-
archy. By trying to matte Germany
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