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According to German official figures, 50 citizens have been killed by the French in what the press describes as Three Months of Ruhr War. It is also stated that only 238,000 tons of coal and coke were extracted from the Ruhr, as against 4,200,000 tons that would have otherwise been paid on account of reparations...
French.. Seven more coke yards were occupied by French troops, bringing the total up to 18. The French hope in a short time to exact about 200,000 tons of coke monthly from the Ruhr area. This would be about half what they were receiving before the occupation...
...Dice of the Gods. Mrs. Fiske is the latest actress to lend her talents to the dramatic literature of dope, which has filled nearly a dozen theatres this season. At least she is a cheerful dope fiend. Hers no life of nervous shivering, furtive sniffs of coke, and dull-eyed fits of depression, but rather a bright and sunny addict, having a good time with her drugs. In fact the very Pollyanna of snow birds, now singing, now clowning, now whimsical, but always looking on the bright side of morphia. It is, perhaps, the most interesting and innocuous...
...farther. The Ruhr German apparently has the more pronounced characteristics of Daudet's Monsieur Tartarin who elongated and enlarged his stories to such a point that he believed them himself. For instance an official at Barmen told a newspaper correspondent that the French ran the same train of coke across the frontier by day into Alsace and back again by night, a proceeding reminiscent of long parades on the stage in which a handful of men create a delusion by running around back of the scenery. A little observation proved this an untruth "gross as a mountain", although the official...
...them; but France has been unable to carry out her threat of commandeering the surface coal massed at the pit-heads, owing to the shortage of labor. She has, however, stated that every effort will be made to obtain foreign labor with which to move the coal and coke in the Ruhr...