| Show m SHORTAGE I COMPLAINED OF OFIN f fIN IN IN CITIE Supplies Gett Getting ng Lower S French Are re Told Mine Directors Ordered to Re- Re Resume sume Coal Deliveries INVADERS TO STAY S. S TILL BERLIN QUITS I ln Ra Railway y Committee Commit Commit- tee Reaches Agreement for Germans to Resume Work When Soldiers Go DUSSELDORF Feb 2 By A. A P. P P.- P. Many ny Ruhr cities and towns are complaining com corn Ining to the French authorities that t tIr Stir Ir food supplies are getting lower tower The burgomaster o of Recklinghausen to cite one instance has informed headquarters that his people have only I Ien ten days This en enough ugh potatoes potatoe to last I In with cabbage and ander n vegetable together I other er garden products form the chief diet of the Ruhr workers few o of whom whom h have he ve meat more than once a a. aay eay S 'S The directors of the four mines In Inthe inthe inthe district the Dortmund Gelsenkirchen who were ordered to resume coal eri cries s to France immediately have been if 1 given twenty four hours to obey th thy they y refuse they will b be arrested and tried by a court ouri martial The French have made up their m rids to remain h here re until Berlin surrenders sur- sur renders r come ome what may The railway sub subcommittee I Ifor for forthe the Cologne area has reached an agreement with the railway directorate district w whereby e bY the German railwaymen will resume work as soon soona as a as the soldiers are However However How How- evir ever no trains carrying reparation shipments will be operated Coal production continued to de decrease de- de crease trease while the empty cars needed for the transportation of what is mined vanished S Gruetzner to Consult On Food Situation LONDON Feb 2 Special 2 Special dispatches dispatch dispatch- es from Dusseldorf to the Lon London newspapers report that Dr Gruetzner president o of Prussia has has' gone gonet t t Berlin for a consultation with the government regarding the rood situation situation situa situa- tion which is causing much anxiety t the the German Ruhr authorities I The he Times correspondent learns from official sources that the food supplies are considerably more than is general- general and are large enough to feed the population on rations of or a sort f for r at least three weeks In addition it is said th that t about 60 BO per cent o of the theOPle people OPle have h ve In storage enough potatoes tf last them until summer he question of ot supplies in the Coe Cologne Co- Co logne e area Is Js also being investigated It that these st stores res are sufficient suf sut- fl for two tw months or more unless th tile the disorganization o of freight traffic greases I It Js ls believed that flour canned milk potatoes fats tats and sugar are ale on hand in ample quantity but butis is Js some uncertainty as to the meat meat supply The municipal tres in the area intend to ask help o of th the British if the food situation bec becomes be- be c comes mes serious S I German Workers R Ready ady to Spring Copyright 1923 by United Press BERLIN ERLIN Feb 2 The The people of ot the Ruhr Buhr valley have save murderous resentment resentment resent resent- resent resent- ment in their h hearts arts he women are shedding tears o of rage rage not not grief and they are urging t their men to rise against the long horizon blue columns of o Frenchmen who go swinging through the streets o of of their towns and bivouac In their Public squares The men are waiting grimly They ar are about the same stamp as West Virginia miners mIners just Just as ready for foi bat bat- tle Be Something is holding them back There here is no telling whether this restraint re- re will snap P I have been over the whole Ruhr industrial in- in district The French soldiers are re everywhere of course The tramp of their hobnailed boots over the coble- coble stones lIones or the Jingle of their cavalry accoutrements are heard on all sides The German people stand dumbly along t the e gutters them ride past In those crowds there are many men mentho tho who a few years ears ago wore the gray garb of ot Germanys Germany's army and marched deep d ep into France Now they appear content content to stand aside IThe iThe French are fetching all the Implements Implements implements Im Im- im- im of war along with them them them-ar- arfield ar- ar tillery field kitchens airplanes machine maine ma- ma chine ine guns tanks etc In lx fact the sit sit- U Uon presents every o of war ware war war- except e an enemy army The next few weeks eks will tell whether such an army II la going to spring to life Ufe from the ranks janks o of those who are satisfied with standing on the curb watching the parade Police Unable to toI I Cope C pe With Rioters I KOENIGSBERG East Prussia Feb eb 2 By U. U P P. French P.-French French members of ot the Allied control commission were forced L to remain in refuge In the city police station today following riotous aemon- aemon by German students and others others oth oth- ers era which continued through the night I Local police were vere entirely incapable of ot mastering the rioters Reinforce Reinforce- ments were ere hastily summoned from nearby towns the German authorities S Continued on page 12 French Troops Clearing Public Square in Essen Essen- 1 I S SS SS's s 's S 4 7 S gI I 4 4 1 q 4 S S S J S' S 4 d t tI tj J S I j f 1 S IS 7 5 V f I I I S S FOOD SHORTAGE I fearing serious complications toll folia ing log last nights night's demonstrations w wa wa wf a n. huge crowd gathered In the eo-c eo so so-coi so parade square and d toward t Hotel Kreutz J where tho the commission lon was Installed i and Jeers at the French w raised The Tho Koenigsberg police th tha thi thia a n cordon around the tho hotel and m aged to check temporarily the tho ad nd adva 1 lot of tho the mob The Tho crowd marc mar hod hed t to toI fi French consulate broke through ai alt aw awline t line of 01 police smashed windows t I. I burst buret In the doors and wrecked th j tenor hurling furniture to tho the str Officials of ot the consulate escaped |
