Evening star., 1923-02-01
.|ines Production Falls Off
so Per Cent and Faces
Complete Tie-Up.
RAIL STRIKERS RECEIVE
2 MONTHS ADVANCE PAY
More Deportations Increase Bitter
Feeling-Many Trains Are
Suppressed.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Industrial isolation Of the Ruhr
from unoccupied Germany, begun
today by the cutting off of coal and
coke shipments, may be carried still
further if Germany fails to come to
d. Terms.
J In interdiction will be put upon
exports of iron, steel and other
manufactures in that case, Dues.
seldorf dispatch quotes the French
as announcing.
With the tightening of the indus
trial Gordon about the valley, the
production of coal continues on a
declining scale. The railroad strike
is effective throughout the entire val
ley, and there is a growing shortage
of cars, threatening enforced sus-
pension of the mines.
The rail strike likewise is effec-
tive outside the Ruhr, at Cologne
and Mayence. The few through
trains being run in the Rhineland
are operated by French crews. In
Germany the government has can.
celed operation of numerous express
trains to economize on coal.
Increasing tension between the
Lssen population and the occupying
troops is reported. In Essen and
other Ruhr towns reports that France
and England had broken at Lau-
sanne over the near east question
caused premature jubilation.
Hugo SHINES, the German indus.
trial leader, Is visiting the Ruhr for
the first time since the occupation,
Muelheim dispatch announces.
By the Associated Press.
DUSSELDORF. February q
Lm.)-The order prohibiting the ex-
,ort of coal and coke from the Ruhr
unoccupied Germany has been in
orce since midnight. There had
cen no reaction from the Germans
, to early this afternoon.
,,;ermany fail to come to terms the
tended to steel, iron and other manu-
actured articles, now permitted to
nter Germany.
The general railroad strike is ef-
ective at Mayence and Cologne and
throughout the entire Ruhr valley.
one train daily, worked by French
rews, is dispatched from Paris to
layence. another from Paris to Cologne
nd third from Paris to Coblenz and
eturn.
Train Nearly Wrecked.
AT Ingersheim yesterday the Paris
iayence express was switched off
IN TO blind siding, but the engineer
applied the brakes in time to avert
4, ,astrophe.
The patrols of French soldiers who
nave been enforcing law and order
i'll the streets of Dusseldorf since
the demonstrations of last Thursday
we're removed this morning. The cur
few hour has been made IL pm. in
stead OF 10 o'clock as formerly.
Closing Last Exit.
The closing of the Dortmund gate
way. the only remaining exit into un
occupied Germany, was undertaken bv
the French early today upon the re-
ceipt of instructions from Paris to
complete the isolation of the Ruhr.
This step. which translates into ac-
tion the decision OF the French and
Belgian governments to shut of the
Of the Reich. follows quickly the as
sumption of the customs control by
the allies yesterday and leaves the
fuhr completely at the disposal of the
occupying forces.
With all the Ruhr customs posts.
,s well as many large warehouses,
n their possession, the French find
hat coal production is being consid :
still effective. The shortage of cars
the mines may result, 1t Is feared,
suspension Of mining operations
,r few days because of the con-
.stioh at the pitheads.
Coal Production Falls.
Taking stock Of yesterdays coal
reduction, the occupying experts
ound that slightly more than $4,000
ons were taken out. This is less
han half of the usual amount and
was the poorest showing for any day
since the occupation began three
weeks ago.
Among the increasing number Of per-
sons reported are twenty-five high school
students of fAix-La-Chapelle.. They are
charged with holding a demonstration.
Automobiles are still used to take
elected civilians across the border.
Speaking to some labor leaders in
Essen last evening, the correspondent
found greatly divergent opinions re-
garding the French occupation. The
real leaders. 1t Is believed, are now In
Berlin.
Nati0nalists Feared.
Several Of the local leaders spoke of
the occupation as violation of inter-
national law as great as the entrance of
the German army into Belgium. Men
holding such views belong to the ma
tionalist elements, which the socialists
and communists fear more than they
do the French.
Mr.. Gruetzner, president of Rhenish
Prussia. in an interview published in
The Cologne Gazette, says he has dis
covered reliable information to the ef-
Ruhr, and that the installation of their
own customs system is the first step
toward that end.
When this statement was called to
the attention Of French general head
auarters. ofiicials replied that It was
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