Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-16
INSTANT REPR|SAL
MOVES ARE BEGUN
IN RUHR VALLEY
Mine Deliveries Ordered
Stopped by Germany,
French Tighten Ring of
Troops About Essen

LONDON. Jan. 15.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press. )-France and Germany
today engaged in new measures of
reprisal and ccunter-reprisal for the
Ruhr invasion.
Berlin ordered the Ruhr coal own
ers not 20 deliver any coal to France
or Belgium even if payment were
made for the fuel. France tool
prompt action to meet this move.
The French had already occupied
Bochum and ordered the encircle
ment of the SHINES industrial prop
critics after receiving notification yes
terday of Germany's intention to sue
pend payments of money and deliv
cries of goods on separations &C
counts.
When the coal owners, complying
with the instructions of Berlin, de
clined to promise any deliveries, even
for cash, the French commander at
Dusseldorf ordered a still further in
vasion of German territory, carrying
the French lines beyond the Bo-
chum area, to the edge of the big
Industrial town of Dortmund, nearly
eight miles east of Bochum.
1t was forecast in Paris that the
PREPARATIONS commission was likely to
declare Germany tomorrow in de-
fault of her 1928 reparations deliv-
cries. This, Preparations circles
thought, would be used by the
French as a basis for acquisitions
in the Ruhr, including live stock,
metal products and coal and wood.
GERMANS REFUSE ALL
DELIVERIES OF COAL
BERLIN, Jan. 15.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press.)-The German coal
commission has prohibited the coaI
owners of the Ruhr from supplying
coal or coke to France or Belgium
even if payment is made fer the fuel.
The stiffening attitude by the Ger
man government is expected here to
precipitate Drastic action by the
French government.
This information was conveyed to
NJ. Coste, head of the industrial mis-
sion in the Ruhr, by representatives
of the German capitalists in the re-
gion, while he was awaiting the ar
rival of the mine owners at his ho-
tel to continue the coal negotiation
opened last week. .t
The orders from Berlin, NJ. Coste
was told, were absolute. Deliveries
of coal to- France and Belgium were
forgidden under it. no matter what
conditions might be offered.
NJ. Coste accepted this statement
as a complete rupture Of the nego-
tiations, and General Degoutte or
dered the extension of the occupa-
ton movement in the Bochum re-
gion.
Agreement Reversed
The, action of Germany today in
RUIN from supplying coal to France
and Belgium, even if payment is
made, is a quick reversal of the ten
tatiVe agreement reached Saturday
at Essen in the direct dealings be-
tween the French control commits
sion and the German owners.
At the Saturday meeting the Ger
man owners submitted a written
proposition to furnish coal to France
and Belgium when the control COM
mission gave a written declaration
agreeing to pay cash in advance to
the individual mines. at a price tL
be fixed from TINE to time by the
German coal commissioner.
= This was accepted in principle by.
NJ. Coste, on behalf of T. the control.
commission, and provided san. APP.
parent means by which France and.
Belgium would get the coal, the
mine owners would be paid, and the
mine workers would get their wages
by the advance cash payments Of
France and Belgium.
1t is this tentative adjustment
between the control commission, the
mine owners and the mine workers
which is rejected now by the action
of the coal commission at Berlin
prohibiting all supplies of coal, even
if paid for, which has been followed
by an extension of the French adj
vance beyond the Bochum region to
the edge of DOrtmund.
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