Evening star., 1923-01-13
SHORTAGE OF COAL.
FELT IN GERMANY
Berlin and Other Cities Hit
/ by Slump in Ruhr
Production.
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Policy of Passive Resistance to
French Is Gripping
Output.
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BY GEORGE WITTE,
By Wireless 20 The Star and Chicago |
News CoDyriRhf 1924

BY wireless 20 The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1923.
BERLIN, January 13.-The city of
Berlin and other German industrial
centers are already beginning to feel
the coal shortage, which is attributed
TO tho occupation of the Ruhr region
by the French.
The country'S coal producers, who
have shifted their headquarters from
Essen to Hamburg. much to the per-
turbation of the French. are consider
ing the importation of English coal
at cost of 40 per cent higher than
that of coal from the Ruhr merely to
ION the French plan of getting more
feparations in kind than they received
before the present invasion.
Passive resistance Is the policy
Whlch the mine owners and iron and
steel industrialists are following
ihelr ann Is to see to 1t that France
gets less in the way of reparationS
than she had been getting. Kloeck-
ner, IhysSen and other industrial
leaders. who. until two weeks ago
were bending every effort toward
aDollshing the eight-hour work day,
are now encouraging the Ruhr la
1orers to insist on the eight-hour
day.
Messages of Sympathy.
SHINES. and it is said also the
krupps. are opposed to this attitude
on the part of their fellow capitalists.
but they do not think the time has
yet come TO offer resistance to the
majority of the industrialists.
From every state in Germany, par
ticularly Bavaria. messages of SYM
N
sent to The newly occupied cities
which are assured that they will be
given all the support the rest of Ger
many is capable of giving should
there be trouble. The two political
parties which are most opposed To
each other. the nationalist and COM
munist, both hope to profit by the
prevailing spirit of antagonism not
only toward the invaders, but also
toward the government, which both
parues blame for the present crisis
because il was too weak
The nationaliSts have opened their
offensive by offering resistance to the
authorities in Bavaria, where demon
stratonS. inspired and led by Gen
Ludendorff and Crown Prince Rum
precht. are taking place daily against
tne Berlin government and the Jew
ish regime"
In Berlin the communists are PLAN
Alhg anti government demonstrations
'VCodSt lAeS Dldlfle the CunO minis
try with being purely capitalistic
II either of these anti-government
1orces gains enough strength in the
next few days serious trouble may
be expected in Bavaria or Berlin.
Reprisals Against French.
Reprisals against everything French
and Belgian are in, full swing. The
German government has placed a ban
on the public sale of absinthe and has
forbidden French and Belgian boxers
from appearing in German rings
against German boxers Third on tn
list were the French and Belgian
newspa per correspondents who were
rold to keep away from public hufld-
lngs like the reichstag and foreign
Office.
The general feeling Of bitterness
against the two countries named has
aroused nervousness among their
diplomatic representatives and among
French and Belgian civilians in Ger
many. Both the French ambassador
and Belgian minister have asked for
special police protection from possi-
BILE demonstrations, especially on Sun
day, when mass meetings will be held
in the center of Berlin.