Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-08


the most important news of the
world for the seven days ended
April z:
BRITISH EMPIRE-5o.o0o coal miners in
Wales have gone on strike
Riding his own horse. Little Favorite, the
Prlnce of Wales Wednesday won by ten
lengths the household brigade steeplechase in
field Of five. The prince has had some pretty
bad tumbles of late, but each time he puts his
crown in leopard he makes the crown safer.
Greater Montreal has population of about
100000 1t is the fifth city in size in the
in Importance in North America nrt !: it leads all
T tn ports 9 OF the world in shipments Of grain.
sSSppes bushels of grain
70 Tne mere Is great building activity in Montreal.
growth within the past few years in popula
ZION and business activities.
X x = x
GERMANY-On March 81 the occupying
authorities in Essen proceeded to requistion
motor vehicles suitable for their There
was no difficulty elsewhere, but at the great
krupp works a very serious affair occurred.
A French detachment of one lieutenant and
Ten soldiers arrived at the Krupp garage at
O'Clock In the morning, the said garage open
ing on public street which runs through the
krupp works. They worked along without
incident untl'9 o'clock. At the tick Of nine
all the sirens of the Krupp establishment
broke loose and the workers that signal
surged into the street 1t is always, of course,
impossible to get the exact truth concerning
an episode of this sort but the account which
follows Is probably substantially correct:
The garage manager now pre-emptorily de-
manded that the lieutenant and his men with
draw. The sirens kept blowing and the
crowd increasing.
The latter smashed overhead lamps. whose
the union leaders Of the workmen tried to
persuade the crowd to withdraw but in vain,
not to allow anything to be removed from the
garage. Stones and Jumps of coal were thrown
cording to one account some revolver shots
were fired by the workmen. who pressed in
two French civilian engineers drove up and
the occupants severely. and carried them off
as prisoners. Some one uncoupled the steam
place vas eioudsd With steaS. This attack
from the rear , precipa at, the tragedy I;o.
He behaved coolly. He summoned the crowd
in German to disperse; He repeated the sum
air. At last he ordered them to fire to kin;
and about thirty either were wounded or were
badly hurt in the panic flight Seven Of those hos,
Armored cars and tanks now arrived on
the scene: the engineers We're rescued and the
directors have been arrested charged with
in BE 5sd by to h The
f aad to esT that S3
nationalist agitators. it will be equally
difficult to prove the completely of the direc
tors. The mob, of course, was victimized Once
assembled 1t was easy for a few agitators
judiciously distributed to achieve the tragic
result. Who set the sirens going? We are
not likely to know the answer to that ques-
ton.
On the 3rd at Recklinghausen a German
interfering with French sentry was shot by
the latter. There has been some sabotage on
the railways, and thirty persons
pected of sabotage have been arrested. But
except for the Krupp incident. it has been
a fairly TRANQUIL week in the Ruhr.
The decree requiring the striking German