Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-20
ECONOMIC RESISTANCE
IN FATHFRLAND now
GROWING ST UB BORN
French Outline Course In RUlar
District-Cuno Gives Orders
AS To Coal Deliveries
MARSHAL FOCH ON SCENE
Rail Workers Strike And Ref"se
To Transport Coal Outside
Ruhr District
MARSHAL FOCH ON SCENE

ESSEN, JAN 2O.-(By Associated
Press. )-Concret 1eturns from
Frances ten days occupation of ths
Ruhr Galley, briefly summarized are
over one hundred thousand tons Of
coal requisitioned and shipped to
France, confiscation Of six coke ovens
and four mines, all state-owned, the
sequestration of customs receipts and
tax collections amounting to ten bill
lion marks.
ESSEN, Jan. 20.-(By the Asso-
! ciated Press -Eritz Thysscu, one
Ut Germany's leading coal barons,
was arrea ed today together with five
other coal operators, and taken to
Dusseldorf, by the French trorr2 &C.
cupying Germany's coal and indus
trial reSi -, it is announce today.
1t is also reported That Marshal
Foch would arrive during the day in
the Ruhr valley, his visit being re-
garded significantly by all Europe.
Just what his position will be toward
pacification measures can only be
surmised.
Banks and money were seized, coal
and mines confiscated and Rhiniand-
ers arrested as the French wise of
steel started to squeeze reparations
out of Germany.
In answer to these blows at t,ie
economic life Of the Fatherland, Ger
, man passive resistance became more
stubborn; capital and labor joined
hands, some strikes were called and
other threatened.
Drastic steps taken by the French
in the Ruhr follow:
/, Customs tax office deposits in
branches of the Reichs bank at May
ence, Wiesbaden, Wormsbigen, Boiin
and other places in the Ruhr were
seized by French authorities. Othe.
deposits were not molested and there
was no intereference with private
banks This action had the backing
of the nter-allied Rlineland com
! mission; thus France vas, technical
ly, within the law Of The Versailles
treaty. Gaa hundred and fifty mil
lilo aUaca c0ng yed in an au-
'o.,o~ i !, = llel-ns bank branch
~ Dusseldorf was seized.
I 2. Two state mines at Buer were
seized. Troops occupied four coke
furnaces ana state mines at Reck-
Iingshausen. Shafts of other col
lieries over the area were placed un-
der guard.
! 3. Several industrialists, train
dispatchcrs, railroaders, TAX ofti-
cials and others were arrested Tor
| passive resistance.
4. Coal being moved to the in
terior Of Germany in barges and
trains was confiscatcd. The amount,
however, was small.
While all this was going on, the
government at Berlin directed the
acts of the Rhinelanders, Berlin and
local officials countered with these
measures.
Orders Given by Cuno.
l. Chancellor Cuno instructed
rail workers of the area not to assist
J in forced coal deliveries to France
and Belgium and one billion marks
were set aside to aid citizens Of
the Ruhr who became destitute be-
cause Of resistance to the French
occupation. This is considered, in
some circles, as the governments
sanction to a general strike of rail-
road employees.
2. The coal barons were inform
ed by the government that they
would be reimbursed for all losses
arisign from obedience oq orders
from Fuel Administrators Stutz that
no coal shall be delivered to France
and Belgium, Profits lost because
of the French occupation will be paid
by the government alsoy it was de-
clared.
3. Officials in various Ruhr
towns, apparently on instructions
from Berlin, ignored orders issued
to them by the invaders. For exam
pie, the mayor of Mulheim was or
dered by the French commander to
arrest Fritz Thyssen and other coal
barons and to bring them into
French headquarters at Bredeney.
The mayor replied that it was inpos-
sible for him to comply inasmuch as
he had notified the industrialists and
Ethey had already refused to obey.
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