Word: sseldorf
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...outline of the reparations agreement, signed at Düsseldorf by Herr Vogler of the Deutsche-Luxembourg coal mines on behalf of the magnates, Herren Stinnes, Thyssen, Reusch, Hubert, Fickler, and himself...
...words of Lord Curzon to the Imperial Conference in London, passive resistance in the Ruhr has been supplanted by passive assistance. The towns of Düsseldorf, Essen, Dortmund, Witten, Horde, Bochum, however, recognized the legality of the Ruhr occupation by agreeing to pay their quota of the occupational costs to France and Belgium. In other places expulsion by the French of resisting population continued...
When Sunday came along, some 15,000 secessionists assembled in Düsseldorf for their mass meeting. At the same time Communists held a counter meeting. Order was maintained during the procession that was formed, and then Dr. Josef Matthes began his speech: " The Separatists are animated by hatred toward none, but only desire peace, security and tranquillity." Shots rang out, men dropped dead, women and children screamed, a panic followed; the security police fired a fusillade, the secessionists replied with guns and cudgels, men, women and children fell dead or wounded. The fight was characterized by "savage brutality, particularly...
...sseldorf correspondent of The Daily Mail, London journal, says stern justice is likely to be meted out to them...
Baron Krupp von Bohlen: "Still in the Düsseldorf jail, I have grown considerably thinner...