Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-02-26 | Page 1 | French Extend Hold on More Ruhr Rail Roads

fRENCH EXTEND HOlD ON N MORE RUHR Lines Hitherto in Unoccupied Unoccupied Unoccupied pied Area Taken Over to strengthen R Rhineland h i n e 1 I and Customs Control in Area CIVILIAN WORKERS READY FOR JOBS I Oc Discipline City of Bochum by Bringing Bring Bring- ing in Tanks and Machine Machin Guns Rioters Released II DUSSELDORF Feb 26 By A A. IThe P P I The Tho French today are In possession of or orthe the strips of territory between the Cologne Cologne Co Co- logne and Coblenz and the Coblenz and Mayen e bridgeheads thereby securing securing ing brig railway lines that have heretofore been In unoccupied territory Tho op operation operation op- op was waa planned to strengthen the Rhineland customs control I Between twelve and fifteen thousand civilian workers from France and BelgIum Bel- Bel glum gIum aro are awaiting the order to put them at work on the railway lines throughout the Ruhr and Rhineland Plans for operating the roads It is ex expected will wm be completed this week I IThe The disciplining of the city of or I Bochum for its attitude toward towar tho the oc occupation occupation oc- oc has been featured by Wholesale wholesale Whole hole n oc 1 sale arrests and the virtual declaration of ot a state of siege The French sho showed ed their strength by bringing tanks and machine guns to the heart of the town Most of or those arrested were released French Short on Railroad Workers ESSEN Feb 26 French French and Belgians Del Bel gians glans In the Ruhr were faced today with the Herculean task of operating the Vast of or Ruhr railways with a a. mere handful of employee Acquisition of or the Indu Industrial regions multifarious transport lines was was' wascom om- om the but but the occupiers occupIerS' had hM only trained rail all workers for n a a job that ordinarily requires men With the French reaching out ut for still stUl moro more territory the territory the bridgehead arcs arca occupied under the Versailles treaty were extended over tho the weekend weekend weekend week week- end so that the allied line now forms a continuous stretch of thirty kilometers kilometers kilometers east of or the Rhine Rhino German stubbornness stub stub- in the newly occupied zones increased Practically no rail workers answered the call for tor men to work under under under un un- un- un der Franco-Belgian Franco orders