Evening star., 1923-01-10
Reveal
How Invasion
Will Go On.
GERMANS TOGET
FORMAL NOTICE
POincare Indicates
Action Assured
by Tomorrow.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, January 1o.-The exact time
for lifting the curtain in the latect act Of
the postwar dramatic French inva-
sion of the Ruhr-was still a secret to-
, day. although the actors were in their
places with their parts we'll learned un-
der the tutelage cf the French military
command. Every preparation for the
final order to ''go ahead" has been made
with clockiike precision.
The consensus of opinion here is
that the advance would not begin un-
til midnight tonight or early tomor-
row. Various reasons were offered
in support of this belief. chief among
them being the fact that the foreign
office had not received this morning
Premier MusSolinis reply TO NJ. Poin-
cares proposal that Italy join France
and Belgium in formally notifying
Germany of their intention to inn
pose penalties.
Await Italian Reply.
Notice that the troops would
leave their concentration point for
Essen tonight or in the morning was
expected to be forthcoming as soon as
the Italian premier's answer was
received
The last formalities regarded as
necessary before the French troops
enter the Ruhr valley to apply pen
alties for default in deliveries in kind
by Germany under the treaty of Ver-
sailles were set for this afternoon.
1t was arranged that Premier Poin-
care would inform the German gov
NJ fhrnnOh np with elm MaVPr
the German ambassador in Paris. and
through the French ambassador at
Berlin of the measures he purposes
taking, beginning tomorrow.
Belgium Joins In.
simultaneously with the giving of
these notifications ii was arranged
for orders to go forward to Gen. De-
goutte to send to Essen a sufficient
force to assure the protection of the
allied engineers and agents who have
been intruSted with applying the
measures decided upon by the French
government and which are disclosed
fully, it is stated in the notification
to the German government.
Belgium will simultaneously send to
Germany notifications identical with
those of France. Italy. although par
ticipating in the economic measures to
be applied, il is explained, will not give
notification to Germany, because she
will not send troops to Essen and the
neighboring territory.
The notification by France and Bel
gium to Germany, it was forecast, would
inform the German government that
owing to defaults duly reported to the
allied governments by the reparations
commission, they had found it necessary
to apply the penalties provided for by
the treaty of Versailles and had decided
to control the production of certain dis
tricts, heretofore unOccupied, with a
view to collecting the coal and customs
duties, and that they would take over
the state forests in the Rhineland.
Military to Stay Outside.
It was generally understood that
the plan, as it stood today, called first
of all for sending engineers into the
Ruhr to take over certain mines.
These experts will be adequately but
not ostentatiously escorted by the
military. 1t is thought that the dis
traint will be increased in proportion
to Germany's failure to give satisfac-
tion.
The military escorts will be quar-
tered on the outskirts of any towns
so occupied, and the soldiers will be
kept from contact with the inhab-
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