Show SEPARATISTS SEPARATISTS' lEAD LEADER ER TAKEN BY BELGIANS Berlin Authorities Give Thought to Governments Government's Decision to Abandon Effort Effort Effort Ef Ef- fort to Support Provinces COLOGNE Nov 14 Leo Leo Deckers Deckers Deckers Deck Deck- ers separatist leader has has' been arrested arrested arrested ar ar- ar- ar rested at Verviers Just over the Belgian frontier according to ad adI advices advices ad- ad vices I ea from Abe Alx la Ill Chapelle h pelle I a BERLIN H 14 alcad ers era were were sIng 1 to iY se ap apparent apparent ap- ap p- p parent decision of the central gover government gov gov- er ment to withdraw all federal support from the Ruhr and Rhineland Rhineland Rhineland Rhine- Rhine land provinces leaving tho those e territorIes territories terri tern tories to their own devices or to the pleasure of ot France and Bel- Bel glum gium The Impression grew that the cabinet ministers state premiers and spokesmen of ot the occupied re region region region re- re gion In In their secret conference here yesterday had bad concluded upon the abandonment of federal Jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdiction Juris juris- diction over these areas as a means means' of ot saving the rest of the country The fact that further support of the Ruhr and populations populations populations would constitute an unbearable unbearable unbearable ar able burden on the reich is be believed believed believed be- be to have Influenced Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many's leaders In deciding to leave ave aveon on the shoulder shoulder of or France and andI I Belgium all responsibility for the fate of of- the German people In oc occupied occupied oc- oc territory Apparently api ap- ap i reports were were in circulation yesterday that the government go was to proclaim an autonomous Rhineland Rhineland Rhineland Rhine- Rhine land and considerable surprise was manifest last night when an official official Iti cial statement declared the government government government gov gov- Would never sanction the proclamation of ot a Rhineland re re- re public It was In this statement Issued at the conclusion of the secret Conference con Con- ference that the government explained ex- ex v ex-v planed anew the seriousness of the unemployment problem and of ot the general social and industrial COnditions condition conditions con COn- In the Ruhr and Rhineland giving the Impression that the reich could no longer consider itself responsible for conditions In the occupied area This Inference was strengthened when It was learned in official quarters that the government considered eon cop d such a revision of Its policy policy pol pol- icy to be he the only possible course at Its disposal |