Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-26
FRENCH PRESIDENT
REFUSES To LIFT
PREM|ER'S DUTIES
Crisis in the Paris Cabinet
Comes When Senate De-
cIines to Support Anti
Communist Policy

PARIS, May 24.-(By the AssO-
ciated Press.(-Premier POincare re-
signed this evening.
President Millerand refused to ac-
cept Premier Poincare's resignation.
OCCUPATION A FAILURE,
FRENCH DEPUTY SAYS
PARIS, May 24.-(By the Associ-
ated Press. deputy Vicent Auriol'
speaking for the socialist group at
the resumption of the Ruhr debate
in the chamber of deputies, Thurs
day, belittled the results of the
Franco Belgian occupation of the
Westphalian industrial and mining
district. During the four months
occupation, he declared, France had
obtained only about S0,00O,OOO francs
worth of products from the Ruhr,
while in the same period of last year
she received from Germany products
worth 100000 francs.
He asked Premier Poincare where
he expected to find any profit IN
such a transaction and also criticized
the head of the government for not
receiving Karl Bergman when he
visited Paris with German proposals
in January. The socialists, n. Au-
riol declared, did not deny that Ger
many had wilfully resisted payment
Of Preparations, but small defaults in
the delivery of materials, he claim
ed, did not justify the occupation OF
further German territory.
Deputy Auriol brought the Asa
tian deputies to their feet with in
dignant protests when he said the
only solution of the reparations prob
lem was consultation, and an entente
with Germany.
Germany Deputy Okerkirch
cried, already has spent billion
gold on passive resistance rather
than come to an understanding with
France"
Premiere Poincare. replying to the
criticism of the occupation Of the
Ruhr, said:
"I want to remind the chamber
that we are IN the Ruhri in pursu-
ance of the Treaty of Versailles,
which is not, as the Germans seem
to think. mere scrap of paper"
The premier said the Germans
themselves had made impossible of
realization their own proposition for
another international loan. They Of |
fered no security or pledges, he add
ed, and had levied no new taxes to
balance their budget.
GERMAN POLICE ROUTED
BY REDS IN RUHR
ESSEN, May 24.-By the Assoc |
ciated Press.)EThe communists
have taken possession of police head
quarters at Gelsenkirchen and have !
hoisted the red flag over the build |
ing. 4
Reports from German sources say |
that five persons were killed and 81 |
wounded in the fighting for the pos
session of the building. The strug-
gle began late last night and con-
tinued until early this morning.
The building is said to have been
defended by the civilian defense or |
ganization which was finally forced |
to quit when one wing was set on |
fire by the attacking mob.
The fighting was not restricted to !
the building but spread through |
the streets and many street cars
were shattered.
A number of non-residents were
wounded.
Additional French troops were or
dered into Gelsenkirchen, which is |
in the Essen region. six miles north
west of Bochum, but it was an.
nounced there was no intention on |
the part of the French to interfere |
so long as the dc constructors did not |
clash with the French military.
When the French troops appeared !
they were cheered by the Germans, |
. who thought the military had come !
to suppress the demonstration, but |
the French merely went to their |
various posts and looked on.