Evening star., 1923-03-07
CUNO COMPLAINS
: ALLIES INACTIVE
Declares Ruhr Occupied Sew.
/ en- Weeks and Not Finger
[ Lifted to Aid Germans.
lAUDS QUIET RESISTANCE
Asserts Government Will Continue
Policy, Lest France Should
Declare War.
BY the Assoc iated Press.

BY the Associated Press
BERLIN. March 7.-Chancellor
Cuno's declaration that Germany will
hold out in the Ruhr and his intima-
tion that no overtures will be made
so long as the occupation renders
II impossible for us TO estimate our
own capacity" rang through the
reichs today as the people appraised
their spokesman's address to the
reichstag.
Asserting that France had obtain
ed nothing in all the weeks of the
occupation. Herr Cuno scoffed at talk
OF negotiations so long as the situ-
alton remained il is.
we will agree 10 no settlement
serering illegally occupied territory
from Germany" he said, or any
agreement which fails to restore to
freedom Germans wrongfully pun
ished. The world is silent. the vic
TINS are still too few. | do not ap-
peal even now to foreign countries.
] merely note that after seven week 8
Of fighting for our rights and for the
alone"
Devoid of Sensation.
Chancellor Cuno's keenly awaited
Apeech was devoid of new and signih-
cant utterdnCeS in connection with
the Ruhr situation. beyond the state
Aent that Germany had not. directly
or indirectly. suggested the Inaugural
zion of negotiations with the occupy
ing powers. and that ali rumors TO
off II h,,. it.!+i
basis
The chancellor's speech took the
form of a lengthy protest i'll which
he recapitulated in detail the situa-
tion growing out of the occupation
OF the Ruhr from the first day. and
the more recent invasion OF points in
Baden
He frequently was interrupted by
expressions of Indignation as he re
cited the number of arrests. conVic-
tionS. evictions and deporta tious OF
German officials who refused 70 carry
out the orders of the occupation au-
thoritieS.
Sees Economic Failure.
The Franco Bele ian expedition into
the Ruhr. he said. had thus far re-
solved itself into q dismal economic
failure. the gains from which suS-
gested a doubtful offset to the alleged
German delinquencies in the payment
of rcpara tionS.
The French actions i'll the Ruhr he
termed viciouSly inimical to the
worlds economic welfare in general
and 10 the promotion OF European re-
construction in particular.
Herr Cuno lauded the passive re-
sistance with which the German
populace in the Ruhr and elsewhere
had opposed the invaders. and assert
ed that this resistance obviously Was
the only weapon at Germans dis
posaf After nine weeks of stubborn,
1
kinds of privations. the German ma
1ion today was an unfaltering unit III
its determination to hold out against
the heavy physical odds.
Submits His Address.
This morning. before the reichstag 8
convened. the chancellor called in the
parliamentary leaders and outlin ed
the contents of his speech, informing
them that it would contain no sensa
tional announcement or revelations
as the government had none to make.
Therefore. he would conf1ne his state
ment to a sweeping protest of the
French and Belgian procedure.
The parliam entary leaders were
convinced that Herr Cuno and the
members Of his cabinet proposed to
that any suggestion of mediation
either direct or through neutral
sources. must be based on the condi-
tion of equal treatment for Germany
q SUu, IuTtneT, tndl resumption OF
reparation payments must be con-
tIngent upon commensurate indem-
nifcation for the damage suffered by
Germany through the Ruhr invasion.
Meanwhile the governments attitude
would be 50 constituted that the
French would not be provoked into
declaration OF war.
"Acts of TerrOrism."
III the course Of his speech the
chancellor described the French de-
cree imposing the death penalty in
cases where rail transport was seri
ously endangered by the actions or
abstentions of railway officials as "an
act of terrorism against the German
railway men, compelling them by
brutal penalties to be false to their
oath to German sovereignty
Referring to the occupation Of
Mannheim. Karlsruhe and Darn
stadt he said that had such action
occurred elsewhere among civilized
nations the world would have seethed
with Indignation. but since Germany
was the sufferer il was considered as
merely small extension of the Ruhr
action and unworthy of particular
notice.
Hints War Move.
Declaring his intention to speak
quite openly. having nothing to con-
ceal," the chancellor recalled the
French declaration repudiating polit-
ical motives for the occupation and
said:
Against that declaration we now
have the reality. The so-called re
stricted' employment of soldiers COM
prises five divisions. with two COM
manding generals. about seventy five
tanks and hundreds of airplanes."
Herr Cuno complained that the inter
nllied Rhineland high commission had
placed itself at the service of French
violence, issuing DEGREES without
bothering itself about legal grounds -