Evening star., 1923-09-26
BERLIN FORMALLY
ENDING RUHRF|GHT
BEGS PEOPLES AID
Ebert and Stresemann Assert
No German Territory Win
Be Conceded.
WORK FOR RESTORATION
OF 1870, 900 NOW ExILED
Gigantic Task Of Getting Industrial
Sector Back to Normally Faced
80 by Cabinet.
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Blythe Associated Press.
BERLIN, September 26.-Presiden'
Ebert and Chancellor stresemann an
nounced, in formal proclamation
today, that the German government
had been compelled. through bitter
necessity, to end the Ruhr battle
Adherence to passive resistance, said
the document. would have brought on
the economic collapse of Germany
and consequently would have threat
ened the livelihood of the German
people.
The government appeals to the ma
tIon to stand by the republic in the
present hour ''of severest soul-search-
ing and material privation. as only
thus can the nations honor and life
be conserved" The proclamation lays
emphasis on the statement that un-
der no circumstances can a particle
of German territory be conceded to
another power.
Says 10000 ExiIed. 49,.
The nation is assured that the gov
ernment will do everything possible
TO obtain restoration of elementary
human rights" for the German ma
tionals evicted from the Ruhr and the
Rhineland.
The history of passive resistance
is reviewed by the document. which
sets forth that 10000 men,, women
and children have been driven from
their homes and firesides, while many
millions no longer have any concep-
tfon of personal liberty.
More than 100 OF our fellow citl-
zens have been forced to lay down
their lives" it continues, while hun
,dreds are still languishing in pris-
ons." - - - t.-s
AS to the expense OF the support
given the passive resistance, the
proclamation cites the fact that only
last week therasststanee given n hs ths
Ruhr' amounted TO 5.boo;eoo,eoo,oVo
be doubled the following week. The
cost OF this asBfstance4 had made .fhA
stabfIization of the currency 'impos-
stble, it was pointed out
France NOT NotiAed. I
The entente now 10 able to give
Germany peace" the document de:
clared.
Neither, France nor Belgium WIN
receive formal notification OF the
German governments decision to caii
off passive resistance, ~ - sS1,
being assumed in official qusrteIs
THAT the governments prociamat t4op
gives due notice OF that action.
The proclamation as counterslgn gneo
by all the cabinet ministers says:
S'Tt depends upon the powers Whicil
invaded us and their allies to restore
p.ace 10 Germany by sdhering to TINS
Tonception, or, by = rejecting tnls
I,esce. to bring about all the results
in the relations between the peoples
which would proceed thererTom.
Now that the action of the German
soyernmeaf- In terminating passive
resIstarce only awaits formal ratin-
cation by the reichstag the govern
nlent faces the gigantic task OF get-
ffnX the Ruhr industrial sector back
to anything like an approach to nor
nalcy
Points stu Obscure. A.
while the tacft withdrawal orders
70 the resisters is believed to be
sufficient official notification that the
resistance has been called on, some e
of the more pertinent questions asked
nv polttical observers CONCERN the
manner In which the government
hopes to, win back it's economic free
dom In the Ruhr and Ehineland with
out clashingS with the French ana
Belgians, who now control the mines,
railways anu LSic6IdBhc.
Not less serious in it's ramiflcatlons
Is the existing social and labor stu
alton, for the government Is imme-
dIately confronted with the necessity
OF inaugursting far-hung RELIEF mea
ures notxonly In food and tuel, nut
also acknowledgement pensions.
So far the government Is without
the slightest fnkling as to the man
ner in which the occupying powers
win respond to the new situation. Ad-
pYnTeSE
apprehension that France Is deter
mined to profit by the Consideration
and confusion by actively attempting
to promote her Rhtneland plans, es.
pecially SO far as DueEseldorf and
Tssen are concerned, the moment the
Germans proceed to reinstate them
selves.
Basis of Fenrs shown.
These fears are based not only in
.he familiar suspicious. but also on
more recent developments such as the
attempt to create hnlnelana cur.
rencys and the increasing actlVlties
ofIthe separatists.
4 sneciaI dispatch to the TaEeblatt
from Duesseldorf says the French
contemplate a decisive step within
the heehtneIand critics of the govern.
r,anf's: past policies charge thai
those supporting the passive resist.
moe were not sufficiently prepared
far the. ACTION Oh
now been suddenly informed: anc
nredict 4 serious crisis when the Of
SeisJ ordinances are withdrawn.
no tiffs extent the Psychologist
aract Of the new sitEsation or the
,,tinsrs and steel workers threatens
diN7ruItfes which are viewed in Ber-
I'm circles as being fully as profile
nafical as will be the attempt tc
raadiust the dislocated economic sit
uatfon. s.,.. ~.
suppoPt An Rsiehstag. -
isnpport for Chancellor Strese;
,rayT, in his efforts to bring abou'
a speedy, termination Of the Ruhi
ana Rhfneis.nd conflict has sufficient
.Iv -crystaIlfEed to warrant the pre-.
5icti,r,- that the government vii
can5n1ano more than. q comfortable
naJority in approval of It's forriiRa
declaration to the reichstag Thurs
The chancsiior'e . conferense yester'
dav with the premiers<of the fed
Grated states and Tpefnbers OF the
fadaral council wa.g in compiete ac-
cord with the <Gabinet,s procedure
avan the redouNtabi DR.. van Kniliing
adnnitting the Inevitable necessity OF
seTanpinR< Resistance in the face OF
oYerwheirniig financial. economic and
social odds The Bavarian premier
proved Surprisingly docffe;
Aftsr corlferfing with fthe visiting
fSrAn1teYS, the chancsIlor received
defegattons srepresentlng the rslcn-