Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-19
b|GFRENCH FORCE
QUIETLY DEPARTS
Frankfort People Unaware
That Halt Of Army Of o.
cupation Quits.

| cupation Quits.
PARIS. April 1s.-Demands for
into German cities east OF the
Rhine. abandonment Of new colo
niaI expeditions, such as that in
/ Syria nj present. and release Of the
! class OF 1918 from the coIors are
4 made in a manifesto issued by the
| General Fedora ton OF Labor in call
| Ing upon w0rkmen to Join in the
/ May day strike. These measures
| should he adopted. 1t is said. to
"sho~ the world that France vyishc.
! for penc~.'
I 4. Instructions by the federation
declare the strike Is 10 be UNDER
! taken In collaboration with work.
I crs Of other countries. and add;
/ 'MiIttnrtsts, capitalists and prof.
!! tefrH nrc responsible for present
economic conditions. which ouuht
4 70 disappcar.'
Y FRANKFORT. April is tby the AS
soclated Press).-The French an
nounced this morning that the with
drawal of the 31th Division to Wies-
baden had been completed with the
exception of staff officers. who are
leaving this afternoon. So quietly was
the withdrawal carried out that the
people Of Frankfort are still una
ware that half the French occupation
| forces are gone.
! The division included the Moroccan
and Algerian troops. whose presence
/. in Frankfort was greatly resented by
i the populace. No colored soldiers are
here now.
| Gen. de Metz and his staff attended
mass in the Frankfort Cathedral this
! morning.
( Berlin View of withdrawal.
| BERLIN, April 19-The vossiche
Zeitung today points out that with
! the removal from the Ruhr region OF
the reichwehr troops in excess of the
! permitted number, there are increas-
! ing signs of French withdrawal from
! the Frankfort area The French
| troops. 1t says, are gradually evacuat-
| ing the new bridgehead astride. the
! main river established at the time of
: the recent French advance They
have already left the zone of occupa-
ton east of Frankfort, the newspaper
states. while there are now no foreign
! troops at Offenbach or Mulheim.
| Strike Feared I'm Upper Silesia.
BERLIN. April 1S.-The situation in
Upper Sflesia is serious, according to
I. a semi-official dispatch received here
j today. A general strike is threatened
which will reach all the trades and
/ professions. Officials say the strike
VIII come as consequence of the en-
tente commission alleged 'interfer-
! ence in the administration of justice
and the political rights of Silesians in
the plebiscite area"
/ Mass meetings were called for +oaay
in Oppeln. kattowitz, Koenigshuette
Ciewltz and other centers to deter
! mine upon joint action.
The semi-ohicial statement charges
that the FRENCH general Lerond. head
OF the interallied commission in Up
per Silesia. lis displaying pronounced
pro-Polish partiality and working for
the complete severance of the pleOis-
cite area from Germany"
The general strike weapon was re-
?ected by trades union mass meetings
IN ten towns Of upper Silesia Sunday.
according to the Vossische Zeituns.
this step was taken on the ground
that the Poles would in such circum-
stances resort to forcible measures
Resolutions were adopted at the meet
; lnss protesting against the ententes
prohibition of the formation of work
ers' councils.
CA London dispatch of Sunday,
, quoting advices from Berlin, said that
the French authorities had threaten
ed to open the frontiers and permit
Polish troops to march through in
case the railway men should strike
in SiIesia.)
An official statement given to the
press today regarding the arrest on
Friday of three reichswehr officers
and three civilians on the charge of
conspiracy against the government
gives the circumstances of the arrest
and adds that the examination of the
men disclosed nothing directly in
eliminating them.
ZURICH, April IS tHavas).-Ac-
cording to a Wolff Bureau dispatch
from Berlin, the German government
! has ordered the reichswehr troops to
evacuate the neutral zone in the Ruhr
region on April "a. II
American Naval Men Wait.
PARIS, April 16.-The America n
section Of the interallied commission
to supervise the naval disarmament
of Germany 10 still being held here by
the Navy Department at Washington.
The mon arrived here in January and
have been awaiting ratification of the
/ peace treaty in order to permit Amer
lean participation, but meanwhile the
| work has virtually been complet ed
| by the comm Ssion.
| The section comprises about twenty
| men. under command of Rear Admiral
| House, who will retire in June. The
/ section is divided into two groups,
one for naval disarmament and the
| other for naval aerial disarmament.