The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-31
FORBID COAL TRANSPORTATION
 By Associated Press

FORBID COAL TRANSPORTATION
 By Associated Press
 BERLIN, Jan. 30.-The minister of
 railways today issued precise regu-
 lations to the German railway per-
 sonnel forbidding the transport of
 coal CT timber from the occupied
 areas on the Rhine to France or Bell
 gium.
 Cooperation with French or Bell
 gian railway officials or, the execu-
 tion of any orders unless given by
 the German authorities. also is for
 bidden.
 The minister orders the employ
 ment of all Legitimate measures" to
 bring to a standstill any trains run
 by foreign crews on the lines under
 the control of the German staff. Tho regulations do not apply to the Brit
 ish occupied zone.
 The Prussian minister of the in terior has forbidden policemen in the Rheinisa Westphalian area from sa- 1uting officers or colors of foreign armies.
 The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung states that more than 100 German of- ficials, with their families, have been expelled from the left bank of the
 Rhine.
 Newspaper reports from Bochum say a German train guard was shot
 dead there by the French.
 WEYGtND'S LIFE ATTEMPTED DUSSELDORF. Jan. S0.-An at- tempt tG wreck the train on which General Weygand and Minister of Public Works Le Trocquer were trav- cling to Duesseldorf from Paris is reported to have occurred at Dueren last evening. Other incidents of sa- botage, such as the w-ecking of signal boxes on the Ruhr railroads,
 have also come to the attention of the occupation officials. The train on which the general and the minister were passengers was halted in time to avert striking an obstruction placed on the tracks. General Weygand and NJ. LeTrocquer proceeded to Dusseldorf by auto- mobile.
 German tralnmen at Dueren assert that the incident was unintentional and that the obstruction was part of a wrecked car which was smashed up in a rear-end collision yesterday. General Weygand and LeTrocquer
 had long conference last evening with General Degoutte, M. Coste and other occupation officials, and later the minister left for Brussels to ask the Belgian government approval ef the deeisions reached. The greatest secrecy, was maiA- tained as to the results of the con ference but the indications, point to the establishment of a customs ring around the occupied Ruhr valley and a complete stoppage Cf coal ship mnets into the interior of Germany ta[ h fo ft k.xl by the French. 1t is believed that these measures will be put into ef- feet February 1 coincident with Ger many's failure to meet the repara- tion payment falling due January 31 Customs officers who have been stationed at Dusseldorf and Essen for several days have received Cr- ders to proceed to the frontier of the
 occupied territory at points where the railroads entered Germany They have also been ordered to, the locks and canals on the rivers Lippe and Rhine.
 13 officials Arrested The arrests and expulsion ms of Ger | man officials have not yet been com. pleted, but already number 1S fol this city alone. Among the deporte officers are pr. Sweitzer, who re. placed pr. Schlutius as president o1 the state finance department, and the
 director of the Dusseldorf post of. l flee.
 Mere expulsions are scheduled fol Essen, while the cities of Dartmund Bochum, Gelsenkirchen, Duisburg 1 Hamborn and Ruhrort will be pena. lized in the same manner in propor. | tion to their size.
 ~sIThpSA functtnnariac danido1 ,< obey Berlin instructions rather thar ours.' an occupation official said We are simply giving them the op- portunity to obey Berlin in the ter. ritory ruled by Berlin" The telephone strike is not quite al effective as the telegraph tieup. An, | French conversation is immediately | cut off. English is tolerated or sup pressed according tc the moods anc
 sympathies of the telephone girls
 Germans may talk in their nativ. | language as usual. Postal servIc, with the outside world is at a stand still.
 The gas and electrical workers b,
 a vote of two to one, have decided no
 to strike.
 | The miners continue to turn Gu about two-thirds of the normal pro
 duction of coal. but the stoppage O l the railroad traffic and the shortag. | of empty cars is causing congestic I
 at the pitheads and it is thought tha the mines must close in a few days unless some remedy is found. 1 BORAH OFFERS PLAN | WASHINGTON. Jan. 30.-Senato
 Borah renewed in the Senate today hi, I proposal for an international eco
 homie conference called by Presiden
 Harding.
 1 In order to prevent any undue de
 lay, however, MT. Borah indicated tha
 when the proper time came he prob
 ably would move to add the resolu
 tion an amendment to some bill al fready discussed.
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