San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23
FAILURES COST COUNTED.
Gigantic Outlay Thrown Away In
Resistance Campaign.

Berlin, Sept. 22.-The decision of
the German government TO abandon
passive resistance in the Ruhr. with
out conditions, ends one of the most
disastrous Of GermaDy's postwar
campaigns. p.
Resistance was started in the mid
die of last January, following the
Franco-Belgian occupation. Since
that time it has cost Germany more
than one hundred lives, ten death
sentences, Jail sentences approximate
ing 1900 years, money penalties ex-
ceeding one quadrillion marks and
100000 persons driven from house
and home.
Besides this luminous record of the
havoc wrought by the so-called
peaceful opposition" to the Franco
Belgian armed forces, the German
reich is poorer by an estimated total
Of over more than five hundred tril-
lion marks as a result of its financial
support Of the action.
The end of the Ruhr program
marks the conclusion of the most
extensive passive resistance under
taking known in history.
Tremendous Costs Counted.
The results are obtained in the
following statistics obtained by the
United Press from the German gov
eminent:
Dead 121.
Condemned to death 10 Zone exc
cuted).
About 1900 years in prison
sentences, including five persons con-
demned to lifelong Imprisonment.
Total money penalties: One quad
rillion, 652,0O0,000 marks and H.
759 francs.
Expelled: 145,GO4 persons, includ-
ing $1,000 railway workers and their
families and more than 1000 railway
workers who were imprisoned.
Military strength of the army in
the Ruhr district $4,000 men-S1 900
French and 1000 Belgians with in
fantry, artillery, cavalry and tanks,
aviators and engineer battalions. In
addition there were in the old occu
pied territory 100000 French and
1900 Belgians and in the Kehl
brOidgehead 1000 French and 2O0O
Belgian railway workers.
1913 Newspapers Suppressed.
Intellectual blockade:
Newspapers suppressed in the old
and new occupied territory: 123.
War against children: Old and
new occupied area, 200 schools with
2313 classes for $4,000 pupils con-
fiscated.
The balance sheet:
German deliveries from the Ruhr
in the period between January and
August last year were as follows:
Anthracite coal 6,S33,369 tons.
Coke APPS, 520, tons.
Briquettes 40l $50 tons.
Total IL, 463, 239 tons.
Since occupation of the Ruhr dis,
trict the French and Belgian trans
ported the following:
French Let.Down Shown.
Anthracite coal 1,329, 32S tons.
Coke 9S2, Jos TONS.
Briquettes 63.766 tons.
Total 2,375,199 tons.
Estimated recent OUTLAWS for Ruhr
support amounted TO three gold marks
per person in the Ruhr with total
estimated population of about J,OO0,-
600.
Aside from this outlay and not in.
cluded in the estimate of 300 trillions
of marks, the government has loans
OF billions of marks to the industrial
lists TO enable them to pay workers
engaged in passive resistance.
The ministry of finance estimated
that, in the latter days of occupation,
one third of the government outlay
was consumed by the expense OF
Ruhr support. How extensive this is
can be seen from the fact that, from
August IL 10 16, the reich paid out
total of 262 trillion marks, making
in the same time only 16 trillions.
Copyright, 1881