San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-25
french Abandon Aloof
|Dignity-Check Sabo-
tage With Iron Hand.
|XPEL EVERY MAYOR
General Strike Called Al
ter Thousand Citizens
Rounded Up.
Tut RESISTANCE LOW
'hke Funds From Ger
many, Equivalent Of
/ $1,000 600, Seized.

X Essen, Feb. 24.-Ths entire Ruhr
hlley was In economic and civic de-
|hstation tonight.
4 Not a town from Dusseldorf to
Fortmund had a head to its local gov
Snment; every mayor and burgomas-
IL had been deported or arrested,
I'D the French, like a conquering
fmy in war time, ruled everything
18th an iron hand.
4 Around one thousand Germans, IN
hiding the councilmen of Bochum,
here taken into custody today at the
I55het point, and hundreds herded
Ito trains for deportation.
The French no longer maintained
lie aloof dignity with which the sane
lons of the early day of occupation
here enforced. Sabotage is met with
fern repression, and both French and
herman observers fear a crisis.
More than 15,000,000,000 marks
'ere seized by the invaders today In
\ hold-up OF the Berlin Cologne ex-
fess near Hagen. 80
A state of intensified siege was
kclared in virtually every important
ty Of the newly occupied zone.
Some OF the towns falling under
is ban today were Bochum, Herpe
nd Wanne.
Against increasing repression, Ger
an resistance was at low ebb, but
snion workers in the vicinity Of Bo-
tum Immediately declared a general
srike in protest against the arrest OF
lie town councillors.
Look Into Rifles.
The earliest available version OF the
,.eat "train robbery" at Hagen, in
hitch the French made their greatest
,ngle haul of the occupation was
iom German sources. A French an
buncement confirmed the seizure,
bwever, and added that. besides ac-
hiring nearly $1,000,000 (even at
be present rate of exchange) the oc-
bpiers captured a quantity of plates
hing sent to Cologne for the manu-
lcture of $4,000 bank notes.
There were members of the Reich
'ag aboard the Berlin Cologne express
hen its wheels ground to a halt on
waste stretch outside of Hagen as
he engineer found himself confronted
y French poilus who held him up
| Jesse James style. Others lined
he tracks with machine guns.
Heads went out of windows to
|;certain the cause of the sudden
bit, and many deputies found them
lives looking into a cooked rifle and
card sharp commands to get their
ln5s up and heads in before they
ERE shot.
The poilus took possession of the
rain and in a third class compart-
Ient the searchers found what they
Iere seeking, a diminutive safe from
be Reichsbank, containing thirteen
Illion marks. Two Reichsbank en-
loyes guarded it. They were cover
/ and held at the bayonet point
|hile straining troopers grunted and
eaved as they removed the safe from
he compartment and eased il to the
round. The money had been intended
8 pay for workers, many of whom
20 striking on orders from the Ger
an government.
A $1,000, 600 Mark Haul.
The Reichstag deputies were out
>oken both at what they termed
rfdlu IODDeIy anu rlue gOFeTuueDl |
trelessness in permitting such large |
inns 10 be transported without ade-
Iate guard on a line to which the
rench had access.
This seizure was not undertaken by |
le French without due precaution. |
developed that blue-clad cavalry |
I'D infantry occupied the station at |
'anne, near the scene Of the hold
?, surrounded the depot at South |
ecklinghausen and at Herne and
spt a close military grip on the en-
re region, occupying the inhabitants
inds with frequent raids and arrests.
Employees on the Berlin-C Cologne
mes near these points. and prospec-
We passengers were driven away I'M
the French had the captured safe
lirited away towards Paris.
Other hauls made by the French
day include one of 65,000.0O0 marks
funds at Coblenz. taken
ter four French civilian custom Of
Gals had picked a fight with Ger
an railroad officials, according to
o latter's version. i