Evening star., 1923-02-13
NEW. GERMAN NOTE
SCORES INVASION
Protest Brands Latest
N Moves in Ruhr as Arbi-
trary Force.
COPY DELIVERED HERE
Declares France Has Made Tool
= of Rhineland Interallied
= Commission.

--latest seizures of German territory
made by French military forces in the
Ruhr have been made the subject of a
renewed protest by the German govern
ment.
The note of protest. copy of which
has reached diplomatic channels here,
characterized the French occupation as
one OF purely arbitrary action and
force. committed by taking advantage
of the defenselesSnesS of the German
nation"
Approval expressed by the Rhineland
commission of the measures taken by
the French governmnt, the note said,
does not legalize these measures which
violate the treaty and likewise does not
give a legal title to the illegal ordinance
of the Rhineland commission.
THE approval shows anew. however"
the note continued, that the interallied
Rhjneland commission lets itself be
made the tool of French policy.
The German government protests
also against this violation of the treaty
and of right.
Text OF Note.
The text of the note follows:
The French government. i'll the
note dated February 9 and trans
mitted to the German embassy Gin
Parts) on February 4, reproached the
German government of a violation of
the treaty of Versailles, a viola ton
which was said to have occurred by
ways, having stopped the service Of
The international trains-PariS-Bu-
charest and Paris-N1unich-Pr
The French government al the same
ume announced that for this alleged
violation Of the treaty it would oc-
cupy as sanction the German towns
of Offenburg and Appenweier. The
occupation of both towns actually
took place on the day the note was
handed to the German embassy at
Paris.
THE German administration of rail-
ways was, on account of shortage of
coal and other difficulties of transport
caused by the Franco Belgium inva-
sion Of the Ruhr, obliged to suspend
a great number of international and
German railway services. Among
these We're also the two trains men
toned in the note. In view of the
time and circumstances under which
the stoppage of the services of the
TWO trains took place, such stoppage
obviously amounted to an emergency
measure of transitory nature where
by there can be no question of a yio-
latjon of the treaty.
But even If. formally speaking. the
treaty had been violated. it would
mock every state of peace if the
French government took occasions of
such minor Importance as the suspen
sion of two train services to send
without further notice it's troops into
German towns.
THE French government has. in
deed, with view Of concealing the
apparent incorporation between the
cause of reproach and the French
measures. tried to enumerate further
alleged violations of the treaty by
Germany
I'm reply to this the German gov
ernment refers to its former ex-
change of notes with the French
government The German govern
ment points out that in every single
case of a reproach made of having
violated its obligations it by detailed
argument refuted such reproach,
without the French government hav-
Ing even tried to refute on it's side
the argument put forth by Germany.
Calls 1t "Arbitrary.,
The French government does not
mention a legal title on which 1t
claims to have imposed it's sanctions.
In this case, therefore, the French
government does not even dispose Of
visionary grounds for imposing sane
tions. In reality the whole case
amounts to one of purely arbitrary
action and force. committed by TAX
ing advantage of the defenselessness
Of the German nation. The German
government formally protests against