The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-08-16
PASSIVE RUHR
WAR TO co ON
"WiII Be Continued With All
strength Of German People,"
Is ChanceIIor's Challenge.
CALLS FRANCE DESTROYER"
British Note Is Assaiied-"We Stand
Alone and Must Help Ourselves"
Chancellor Tells Reichstae
as Reds Jeer

as Reds Jeer.
Berlin. resistance will be
continued with all the strength of the
German people, free from mad acts
of violence and terror" and the people
in the unoccupied territory will sup
port actively those in the occupied
region. This Chancellor cuno assert
ed in addressing the Reichstag when
it convened for a short extraordinary
session.
When the Chancellor rose to begin
his address he was prevented from
speaking for some time by the Com
munists who greeted him with such
epithets as traitor" 'swindler," and
the contemptuous announcement that
"the president of the SHINES Com
pany's board is going to speak
The Chancellor in his peroration
said:
''If there is no light on the horizon
which promises us speedy help, then
it is for us to keep alive by means Of
our own iron determination. And to
make. every sacrifice in this we must
rely solely on ourselves. We stand
alone and must and will help our
selves"
The Chancellor concluded by de-
handing to know clearly whether he
had the Reichstag's confidence and
whether the German people were to
be saved by the cooperation of all.
Prolonged applause. greeted the end of
his speech.
Referring to the British draft reply
of the German note, Cuno declared
that the principles upon which Great
Britain based her proposals really
were not pleasant for Germany, add
ing that in an endeavor to maintain
good relations with her comrade-in-
arms Of yesterday. England had gone
extraordinarily far in her concessions
to the French standpoint.
Herr Cuno continued:
Germany must be prepared for
long period of suffering.
1.-THE world knows we are ready to
take into account French prestige, 4
France ceases to impose humiliation
merely for, the sake Of humiliation, but
what we cannot and will not do, is to
abandon our German land and betray
our fellow countrymen.
Abiding to Frances demand for ces-
sation of passive resistance before she
is willing to open negotiations or say
what she wants, the Chancellor en-
phatically declared that it was impos-
sible to ask the people of the Ruhr
and the Rhineland to abandon their
sole weapon Internationally. Even
were the German Government to at
tempt this impossibility, he commended,
nothing would be achieved because
behind one impossibility there would
soon arise an endless chain of other
impossibilities by which French policy
blocks the way to understanding.
The Chancellor continued:
Germany must collapse but she
must pay, and if she does not pay as
result of her collapse she is to be
accused of fresh failures and is to be
exposed to new prosecutions until the
work of destruction mas been COM
pleted
But if this process of destruction.
which the world watches as if it is
paralyzed, is to be accomplished in the
name of justice we must be under no
Submission to the merciless
obstinacy of the French Government
would have to be sealed with docu-
ment which would be worse than the
Treaty of Versailles, which weighs
like a curse upon the peoples Of
Europe.
The British draft reply suggests
that Germany should withdraw its
orders and regulations regarding pas
sive resistance, thereby giving the
occupation authorities the possibility
of altering the occupation reign and
establishing the normal life of the oc-
cupied regions.
This proposal also, which practically
sacrifices the German standpoint to
the French standpoint, has been re-
jected by the ruler and destroyer of
Europe.