The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-03-31
FRANCE WON'T
LET GERMANS
into VALLEY
Permission to Send Troops In
to Ruhr District is Refused
Berlin Ultimatum to
Workers Ignored.
MAY SEE RED EASTER
fBy Associated Press,


PARIS, March 31-The request OF
the German government that be
permitted to send troops to the Ruhr
district, in the neutral zone near the
German border, has been denied by
the government of France.
Conversations over the German re-
quest have been in progress between
Premier Millerand and DR.. Won Mayer,
the German charge d'affaires in Paris.
NJ MilIerand yesterday indicated he
would give the German charge an
early reply and it was handed to Dr..
Won Mayer today.
The reply read in part: "Replying
i to your note of yesterday. / have the
Rhonor to confirm to you the conditions
TO which the government of the French
republic desires to subordinate its
eventual authorization to permit Ger
man troops to enter the Ruhr valley.
Such an authorization, which would
constitute a derogation of Articles 43
and A of the treaty Of Versailles.
could be justified only by imperative
and evident necessity"
ESSEN, March 30.-The time fixed
in the Berlin governments ultimatum
for the workmens forces in the Ruhr
valley to surrender their arms and rec
ognize local and government officials
expired at noon today, and almost i'm
mediately the population of Essen
which had been about the streets dur
ing the morning, sought shelter in
their homes.
Communist army leaders say the
government troops have begun to
march but information received from
other sources indicates they have not
started, as was threatened in the ulti-
matum.
A state of ferment prevails in the
workers army and number of con-
tingents from conservative towns like
Dusseldorf have withdrawn from the
front.
Troops Want Their Money.
A majority Of the troops are de-
manding payment of their wages i'm
mediately and a paymaster with mon
ey, was rushed in an automobile to
the front 1t is believed, however, a
large element of the workers army
will not lay down its arms.
The leaders are determined not to
surrender and in the opinion of many
Of the working men have decided to
make an effort to have the mines
blown up if the government troops ad-
vance, as the belief in the ranks is
that the government will not grant
amnesty to the leaders.
1 Communication between Essen and
the outside world was interrupted for
many hours beginning with midnight
on Monday, the telegraph and tele-
phone offices being deserted except
for guards.
BERLIN, March 31-Government
troops in the Ruhr region have been
pushed forward, the time limit fixed
in the ultimatum from the govern
ment to the workers there having
been reached, says a dispatch to the
Abendblatt.
Confidence in the governments de-
clarations has been voted by the
Prussian assembly which has voiced
Its approval of steps taken in the re-
cent past by the ca binet.
Removal Of the Erhardt naval bri-
.gade, which took part in the kappist
revolt of March 13, from Doeberitz,
has been prevented.
Whether the Ruhr mining and in
lIlustrial district near Germany's west
lern border is to witness a red Easter
appeared Tuesday night to be wholly
contingent upon the pacifying abili-
ties of the Prussian minister Of the
interior. His task is to mollify the
labor elements and otherwise nullify
the effects of the methods adopted in
the Ruhr by General Won Waiter,
commander of the government forces.
Herr Seve1ing the new head of the
interior ministry, was on his way to
Essen today possessed of far reaching
powers. the granting Of which gives
rise to the belief that the military
element has been wholly eliminated
from the negotiations with regard to
Ehe situation in Westphalia.
The appointment Of Severing by the
government to conduct the negotia-
tions, indeed, is considered to be tan
tamount to discreet backdown from
the ultimatum to the workers.