Show RUHR CUT OFF FROM GERMANY French Blockade About boIt Invaded I Area Complete Train of Runs Runs' the I Gauntlet DUSSELDORF Feb 2 By A. A P EThe P.- P. The blockade blo k de of the Ruhr valley from within was absolutely complete today Not a a. single ton of ot coal or pr coke cok has entered Germany from the Ruhr in n the thelast he last six thirty hours the Fre French ch au au- au thorl Ies announce adding measures they put Into forceS force or e at j mid mid- Id- Id Wednesday are arc total totally y effective T e Germans show no disposition to contradict the Fren French h as as s to tn general effectiveness of the block blockade d but they how one train of six forty loaded coal cars disregarding disregard ing all signals ran the blockade at Horde near Dortmund y yesterday aft err oon and escaped into interior Ger Ger- I many The French have commanding I every line Into Germany and the di directors directors dI- dI I rectors of ot the railroads railroads- have been beer Informed in informed informed In- In formed that any locomotive attempting attempt attempt- ing to escape will wUl be fired upon Inquiries Inquiries inquiries In In- addressed to the French authorities authorities au au- au- au as is to why they have not re reI resorted resorted re- re sorted to the simpler way of tearing of tracks I up a few hundred yards o along the occupied front elicited the he reply that they did not wish not to Interfere interfere interfere inter Inter- fere with other othe traffic than exports of ot coal coal and coke and w were re desirous o of giving the railway men men full tull opportunity opportunity I to resume work STRIKERS RETURNING The striking ra railway way work workers rs showed a an inclination today to resume re r theIn theIn- In Interior ume sume their duties on many of ot the tenor lines in the occupied area The he French are occupying by troops only the lines IInes surrounding the region and the Interior roads are being partially operated by Germ Germans ns The strike at t Cologne also seems to tobe tobe tope be pe petering out ut S S The Dusseldorf station was waa opened today today- today for f for r the first time since January 25 with only a small amaH percentage o of the scheduled trains running General Pa Pat Payot t. t the French rench quartermaster quarter guarter- r- r master general said that the Fr French army service supplies were operating efficiently S Tobacco dealers and manufacturers in the valley vaHey have been instructed by bYthe bythe the French authorities they must mus pay DI Du DuI Dusseldorf Dus- Dus the tax on tobacco at Essen or I s disregarding garding Berlins Berlin rord orders rs to toI remit direct to the capital I I POLICE CHIEF EXPELLED 1 The le he chief chi of ot police of o Bochum was I arrested a. and c expelled pelle l today The Dussell Dusseldorf r will be was was' suspended Jan January y 24 tomor tomar allowed to resume r. p-r. publication n. n ro row The rhe printers printe s 's and other workers 1 I pleaded with General Genera the tle I French commander r representing pr they I were being deprived of their mean means Of or earning a II living S I II A company of or l. l French rench soldiers quartered J I it hwing had been using th the shower baths intended foz for th the miners of ot a II nearby pit The proprietor I I tor of ot the tho mine min objected to this upon I i which the captain commanding the I company Informed the magnate that th Ithe the soldiers from then on would pro proceed pro pro- I ce ced d to his beautiful chateau and use uso his private shower bath The rhe miners miners' showers were Immediately tl thrown rown I open again to the soldiers |