| Show READY REBY SEEK EEK PARLEY N 1 REPARATIONS Pari fans iS Newspapers Report Protest to Commission pla Over ver V Voluntary Default I o of Payments by Germans FRENCH TO RESUME ii I COAL MOVEMENT Copulation in Ruhr Area Shows Decided Change if Toward oward Disobey Berlin Order Z u Feb 3 By- By U. By-U. U. U P. P Herr p.-Herr Herr m 1 s s. s German president of the Rhine province was WS arrested arrested- today immedi- immedi y 1 after visiting t. i French in tho the Rhineland commissioner high Fuchs was taken into custody as he stepping into his motorcar hur- hur transferred to a French raillery ary ery automobile and driven away ine in indirection e direction of ot Frankfurt P P. JUS RIS Feb 3 By U. U P. P GermanY p.-GermanY Germany negotiations with th s ing ing to reopen ance over payment of reparations it its reported s toda today todY Paris said Germany had hadro me TJ Echo de ested the action of the reparations ro voluntary declaring her In faulL of payments the then by supported emier Poincare has determined to re- re n re cabinet participating In such l from irom r avoid talking with any and to of Chancellor Cuno un- un Ii 11 he Ie e Ruh Ruhr movement has progressed o 0 such a point that German payment payments s 5 high personage interviewed byI byh by de Reno said I h believe V will be so able to resume sending ha ia we e will be De from the Ruhr in the thet c m to France will da s an anease and then we ext t fl e or six days das ays n. n nease ease the thee shi ent begun betIn to organize o e nave have only pub- pub have at Mayence shed I- I Newspapers appeals to the French that the Fritz Thyssen n and I s imposed on magnates for or their reus rel re- re industrial tr r canceled forth- forth us l I to obey orders be 1 population Drops Antagonistic M Mood od DORF Feb 3 By A. A P. P.- in m the Hit tamper of ot the population area appears ars to be undergoing I industrialists hange although the I I ind nd n. n the important magnates are as unI un- un I J opposed as ever to any coop coop- and Belgians r ratIon with the French have the tile railway workers I Not ot only ony resumed es med their jobs at Cologne Coblenz reves reves and as well as asi i some of the Ruhr lines but the chutz at Dusseldorf have reu re- re ud u d to obey Berlins Berlin's order that they snore nore the French officers and continue salute them FORCES RETURN German erman members of the ohal lonal commission at Ems Bad-Ems in jn the area who have been working ah ih the allied experts in issuing exI export ex ex- ex- ex when but port ort licenses quit work Paul aul the French Rhineland I Commissioner accepted their l ns and announced that he would fill r places with French and Belgian consid- consid the Germans r red and remained on duty Witten In Witten In-Witten Witten where the restaurant and keepers haVe hare been refusing to I French officers serve eye food or drinks to ind Ild soldiers the situation has com com- changed No discrepancy is isI w shown toward the forces of Ion I WORKERS START MOVE The improvement in the relations been between be be- wen tween en the foreign authorities and the Jj is confined to the working tradesmen and the small lasses and to ll The French authorities have a long and bitter Believe tb y Ight light to wage but hut hope to bring Berlin I io terms and force the surrender of the General Payot who Is operating sev- sev r ral l of the important railway lines for fort la is in a 11 position to t tie t h French says he teed teed- the civilian population and will willo willI to torance tot coal I o oon n be able to transport t tance rance ance Food trains are already ad a.d. X- X ng ng into the tho districts me Ul ui 1 ian ian- I ay strike as js still effective I I Speaking of the shortage of empty 1 oat oal cars General said The Ruhr district even in normal ines is the gulf gult into which empties continually be poured When the Reparation coal deliveries were effected I According to schedule by the Germans needed had Iper cent of the empties and Beli Bel- Bel kibe supplied by the French i lans ns I. I erman Surrender een en in Statement PARIS Fob Feb 3 By A. A P. P The P.-The The Geri Geran Ger- Ger i an n governments government's note to the commission protesting against the pons ps cent ent refusal of ot a moratorium is re- re by a part of the French press as of German capitulation d as a direct result ot 01 French rench action 0 the ithe Ruhr I on of the note today causes Commentators to remark that it repents rep- rep Germanys Germany's first attempt toward 2 I of ot exchanges with the al- al 4 Pes es As shown in Its note nofe of January 13 e communication says the German suspended payments inEd in find Ed d to France and Belgium solely beUse be- be ause Use of ot the invasion which invasion which was conto conto con- con Nry to the treaty treaty treaty-of of the Ruhr by Continued on page 3 3 Continued from page 1 1 these two powers and solely for the duration of this state of affairs and its consequences HELD TO RIGHTS In thus acting the German government government govern govern- m ment nt exercised its unquestionable right There cannot be a question of default In the sense sense of paragraph 17 annex 2 part partS part 8 of the treaty of Ver Ver- sailles Consequently the German government government government gov gov- protests against such a de default default default de- de fault being recorded The n note te then contests the conclusion that the tho German request for a moratorium morato- morato had become null and void It cites the reparation commissions commission's de decisIon decision decision de- de of March 21 1922 recognizing that the financial situation of Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- Ger- Ger many di did not permit of her making the specific payments for 1922 laid 1 down by the schedule of May 5 1921 It cites also the commissions commission's decision of August August August Aug Aug- 31 1922 expressly recognizing the fact that Germany had lost all her credit Internal and external In which the commission considered the tho question question question ques ques- tion of reducing the external charges to be Imposed on Germany Furthermore continues the note I each of the thc principal allied powers in plans submitted to the Paris conference conference conference confer confer- I ence of January of-January 2 recognized the present present present pres pres- ent incapacity of Germany regarding payment in kind and considered the question of the immediate grant of a moratorium of several years in addiCO addi addi- CO agi f r. r I tion to fo a a. reduction of the total obligations obliga- obliga j under the schedule of payments I of f May Hay 5 1921 SIT SITUATION GROWS WORSE Meanwhile the financial financial and and economic economic economic eco eco- situation In Germany has grown still worse owing to the occupation of I the Ruhr The mark has fallen to one thousandth ten-thousandth o of or Its prewar value j I Th The note declares Germany considers consid consid- i ers ens that the reparation in returning to the schedule of payments adopted in London in n 1921 is in conflict con con- with the former attitude of both the commission and the principal allied powers The action of the commission Germany contends contravenes the provisions of the Versailles treaty which document makes Germanys Germany's ob obligations obligations ob- ob depend upon her capacity for payment and sets forth that her lier vital needs should have preference over her reparations obligations Now that French and Belgian troops have invaded the Ruhr and the German German Ger Ger- man territory on the left bank of the Rhine as well as the Ruhr has has' has begun begun t to tobe tobe I be detached economically and fin finan finan- from the remainder of the economic organization of Germany the German government still less an be before before be- be fore is in a position to meet the ob obligations obligations obligations ob- ob of the London tn HI uie note adds It cannot consider the reparation commissions commission's decision of or January 26 as constituting a real reply to its note of November 14 14 1922 and it awaits reexamination of German Germanys Germans s capacity for payment in conformity with article of ot the treaty of Ver Ver- sailles sallIes |
