Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-16
.STRESEMANV GIVEN
MANDATORY POWER
|. At RE|CHSTAC MEET
French Make Little Effort to
QueII Food Rioting in
Towns Of RhineIand and
Ruhr

DUSSELDORF, Oct. 14.I(By the
Associated Possibility or more
stores were sacked of food and
clothing in Dusseldorf during the
day by unemployed and lawless
elements, and the looting continued
tonight, almost unhindered, except by
a few resolute but quickly van.
quished store owners and shop
keepers. Pillaging likewise is re-
ported from many other parts Of
the Ruhr.
The French troops at the request
OF the city authorities took oyer
protection of the public buildings.
because since the French disbanded
the security police there remain
only 200 blue police, who are able
to do little against the plunderers.
French armored cars and cavalry
frequently cleared the streets today,
but the crowds scattered only to
gather again when the troops
passed.
The French have also placed de,
tachments to guard the building
where the allied personnel is en-
ployed, but otherwise have adopted
strict "hands-off'' policy. The
German population in general
showed an apathetlc attitude or
found the scenes amusing, no one
even trying to dissuade the hooters
from breaking open the stores and
emptying them of merchandise.
Many Of the half hundred stores
entered were stripped completely.
Pillagers this afternoon broke into
one department store in the heart
OF the city and carried off about
three hundred suits of clothes and
a large amount of other merchan-
disc.
AS the success Of the plunderipg
movement became certain, the loot
ers were well reinforced. and by
afternoon the pillaging became more
widespread and systematic.
Plundering is reported from Duis-
burg, Buer, Bochum, Essen, Co
logne and number OF small towns,
like Neustadt in the French area,
where German police fired, wound
ing IL. The situation at Duisburg
became more nenacing with 8lse
complete shutdown of thirteen
large factories employing about
Inn nm nnnratiupS
The city officials asked General
Simon, commanding the Dusseldorf
bridgehead, to send troops to dis
perse the plunderers, but the French
only increased the size of the reglI.
lar patrols, sending no extra detach-
ments. General Simon told the city
authorities the French troops would
not interfere unless the interests of
the forces of occupation were me-
naced A few detachments of cav
airy and armored cars were sent out
this morning, but up to noon they
did not use arms for the dispersal Of
the rioters.
Whenever the troops appeared the
plundering crowds scattered, only to
reaSsemble before another promising
store. In few cases did the crowd
Great throngs Of onlookers, many
of them well dressed, gathered to see
the pillaging, quietly watching che
plunderers carry out sacks of -four.
sides of beef and other meats, bags
of beans and cases of shoes without
interfering.
Whenever some of the pillagsrs
captured what they considered
good prize, they worked their way
through the crowd of spectators and
disappeared. The rule obtaining
seemed to be that anything in the
store belonged to him who could 9et
it, and the instant pillager got his
loot safely Oh his shoulder it became
inviolate from the other pillagers.
The plundering was continuing
unabated this afternoon.
REICHSTAG GIVES
EMERGENCY AUTHORITY
BERLIN, Oct 14.-(By the AS
sociated Press).-The reichstag to.
day adopted the emergency bill s1v-
ing Chancellor Stresemann extra
constitutional authority to deal with
the grave economic and financial
situation Of Germany as he sees fit.
abstaining, among the latter Hugo
SHINES, the industrial magnate.
1t was uncertain until the last
moment which way the voting would
go, although the coalition parties
turned out in full strength and the
chancellor held over the house the
alternative of dissolution If 1t did
not vote the measure.
The debate began with the usual
denunciation of the governments by
the communists.
The BaVarian peoples party
spokesman then announced that the
party could not withdraw from tho
house. This settled the fate of the
bill, which the demonstrative with
drawal of the nationalists was un-
able to alter, and the result Of the
vote was received with applause
from all parts of the house except
the communists, who booed and
Kissed.
POLICE FIRE INTO CROWD
AT COLOGNE FOOD RIOTS
COLOGNE, Oct. 14.-One man
died today from wounds alleged to
have been inflicted by the police,
who fired into a crowd of food
rioters. The police say factory
workers pelted them with hot Goals
and they were forced to use their
firearms.
AUTHORITIES CLASH
WITH MOB ON STREETS
FRANKFORT. Oct. Hops
worker was killed and three seri-