Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-01-09
Cabinet and President
May Take up Cues
ton Today
OPPOSE ACTION
German Miners Have Dynamite IN
Their Possession 10 use Against
French-Hughes Refuses COM
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Washington, Jan. 9.-With the
European situation described IN
diplomatic quarters as similar to
the crisis in 1914 that developed
the World War, the United States
Government today considered re-
call the American troops of occupa-
ton from the Rhine.
President Harding and his Cab
met are scheduled to meet at the
White House today and it is high
" probable that the crisis on the
Rhine and the advisability OF
bringing home American troops
will be as recently requested py
4 senate resolution be the FORE
most subject to be discussed.
Whether or not orders are ISSUED
within the next few days for WITH
drawal of the American forces IN
Germany, the government had
made it clear that under no CIR
cumstances will they become IN
volved in any trouble resulting
from the French seizure OF Ger
many's principal industrial region.
The American forces will not as
sist this movement in any way.
In connection with the imminent
advance by France into the rich
Ruhr region of Germany, the
limited States Government has
made to the French Government
what amounts to an informal pro-
test against such drastic action.
But, France is bent on going INTO
the Ruhr and thus carrying out a
policy which the Washington Gov
ernment believes is almost cer-
tain to bring about worse SIT
uation in the Old World.
Nothing can stop France, 1T IS
believed, or the American Gov
ernment, Secretary of state
Hughes, however, is watching each
development with the closest at
tention and any moment he' may
take some further action to stay
the reril that faces Europe.
As exclusively announced by the
United Press yesterday, two iactS
stand out in the attitude of the
American Government towards the
present European crisis:
| - Informal representations,
through a clear, direct and en-
phatic statement, have been made
bv the United States to France
against advancing into the Ruhr.
2-This Government understands
that the Poincare Government OF
France has finally and definitely
decided on a program of ecenomlc
and military occupation of the
Ruhr. that France is intent on
carrying out this plan and that
nothing can stop her.
The informal statement of Ame-
rican opposition to the occupation
of Inc Ruhr announced
by the U. P. yesterday
,,.s made to France
prior to the decision which it IS
believed by the highest authorities
here that the French Government
recently reached on going into the
Ruhr.
The informal American protest
was made by Secretary Hughes
either to Jules Jusserand, the
French Ambassador in Washing
ton, or through Ambassador Her.
rick, the American Envoy at Paris,
direct to the Poincare Government.
The attitude of the United States
Government is that the French ad-
vance into and occupation of the
Ruhr will not only fail to facili-
tate the collection of German re-
parations but will almost certain
ly bring about economic and poll
teal disaster on the Rhine, if not
throughout central Europe.
As reports today indicated that
the French may even already have
gone so far as to order the ad-
vance into the Ruhr, and that the
French troops are making prepa-
ratory moves along the Rhine, the
German Embassy here was without
definite information as to what its
Government is going to do in the
crisis.
The home Of DR.. Otto Wiedfelt,
the German Ambassador, is in the
great industrial center Of Essen
in the heart of the Ruhr. Weidfeldt
is not talking about the situa-
ton for publication, but he is un-
derstood to believe that although
trouble as the result of the French
advance may be slow TO arise, the
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