Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-05-03
FRENCH TROOPS |
MOVE NEAR BORDER
Entente Forces Are Ready
to Enter Ger
many |;
TIME LIMIT MAY y
Government to Pay 6,6Oo,OoO,C0o
Pounds Sterling at Rate of 1907
100000 Pounds Yearly

Paris, May 3.-Rance mad some.
thing Of the air today ;ae wore Il
1914 as preparations were II shed fol
the Allied occupation cf .the West
plsalian Industrial region.
-Four trains loaded with ca 1noR, MA
chine guns and shells left i.aroche 70,
the Rhine today, and cavalry and ar
t:re.y are on the way to tie frontier
frcm Melun, lyons, Vieone and Val
crcc. Mobilization order for the class
Of 1919 will be sent thnousaou. France
oy Tomorrow morning and, make more
than 100000 men available for the
service of occupation within week.
Several railroads in the eastern de-
paIsments ead.ng toward tic Ger
man frontier are reported to have
been placed under military =, troll.
The French are confiden1 20 eleven
tn hour proposal from Germany vii.
be sufficiently satisfactory to bait the
Allied advance into Germany. Officials
at the Foreign Office, way IN :he past
two days had been very anxious over
the differences which ha3 develo9e1
at the London conference s:i!d today
THAT the road is wei cleared for put
ting the French military program into
operation.
As theF contirrue perfeetins.s aaaans.
French are counting ON two factors
which they tliink :,:ake the occupation
Of Westphalia inevitable afSc, the ~
Gays' grace granted by the London
conference: First, todays assurance
Of British support; second. Gcrmany's
unwlhngness to furnish 1A-lr re-
quired guarantees.
Il IS doubtful lf any German Gov
errunent would feel prepared to as
sumo the responsibility OF Civ Es com
plste financial control Of GerEIany IN
+, the hands of the Al:es-which
would require the nost intir ate snPer
vision of German industry and part
cipation in the ownership ana profits.
French officials, while claiming a
diplomatic victory in Lo.don today,
also expressed satisfaGtic., over the
signing of new military AID political
alliance between RunaHta and Czech,'-
Slovaka
Lon.lnn, May Germany VIII bare
until May IL 10 accept the uitimatum
CT the Allies respecting payment OF
reparstions and guarantees binding
her to fulfill her ublisat:ons: other
wise the Ruhr district will e occupied
by Allied troops
The Supreme Council tod'.' decidca
uron the action to be taken against
Germany should she fail to sceep:,
but a decision was net reachaa on the
nature Of the guarantees <hy viii b
required to give.
The preamble of the agreement vii:
rec:te that Germany having failed ::
fulfill the Treaty of Fels. les WIZ
wSpec: 70 reparsl ions, d.'CnnaIneN
and pun:Shme11. Of the wa. criminals
sni having vio!a.e6 va:.:::s othe:
articles Of the tr4ty-~hich viii X
cited by run,ber-the ANA govern
mer:S have decided to Occupy th<
Ruhr.
In this event British ara BelsfaT
fo,r:es en- the Rhine viii io q with tbs
Ftecch in ,he,r march into the DIS
trict. Orders fer the monu.zation OF
tho 1919 class were d..sp~ nhed tc
Paris last night, 4 join: !An.'o- French
naval courcl has BEEN called to meet
in London today IN which Adm:,a.
Beatty, for rhe British, and Admiral
Glassie, for the French. win par:ici.
pate. The French admiral was sum.
maued to London last night.
The Reparat;ons Commission vii
rasfy Germany within four days q
the sums paysb!e and the conditions
CT payment. GesnauyS rapty must :,
acceptable, without reservations or di
cussion. If such affirmative reply
r:t received by the evening CT May !
the Frereh plans fer cccupat tcn {
the Ruhr, with possible naval d
mcnstrat:on on the part of the BIRTHS
viii be carried out and the proceet
Ct German revenue. such as custom
VIII be appropriated toward psyme7
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