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...French troops are now occupying two districts in Germany-the Rhine and the Ruhr. Seizures were made last week of the railway yards at Darmstadt, the towns of Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Lorch, Knielingen. The German Ambassador in Paris was informed by the French Government that these occupations are the result of acts of sabotage. A fine of 1,000,000 marks is being collected from the inhabitants of Kettwig for an untraceable act of sabotage. Essen station was seized and all the rolling stock confiscated. For violently attacking newspaper vendors who were selling papers to the French the town of Bochum...
Herr Gessler, Minister of Defense, made a speech to the Reichstag in which he said: " Will a nation of sixty millions remain impassive while our brothers in the Ruhr are being strangled by white and black Frenchmen? Our defence army of 100,000 may not accomplish much, but I have no doubt that a well-organized guerrilla war on our own soil would soon end with the enemy's destruction...
...calamity of the most appalling magnitude threatens to oust even the French occupation in the Ruhr from the minds of the citizens. The sausage supply is gravely menaced by the strike of the livestock skinners in Berlin. Thirty-seven sausage and meat-canning factories are idle, and fear is expressed that the strike may lead to the closing of no less than 1,000 plants. A wage dispute is at the seat of the trouble...
Only a few months ago, at the time Italy decided to throw in her lot with France on the Ruhr problem, Mussolini strongly favored a Continental bloc composed of Italy, France, and subsequently Germany. This was when the great Premier looked upon Great Britain with some disfavor...
...suppressing rebel forces in Tripolitania (Tripoli Italiana); there is a state of civil war in South Ireland; General Wu's forces are fighting the Military Governor of Szechwan in Western China; the French and Germans are snarling at each other in a war of attrition in the Ruhr; trouble has again broken out over the Polish- Lithuanian boundary...