Show I II I I I GLOOMY PICTURE or OF SITUATION IN RUHA IS ORAN DRAWN London Correspondents Declare Declare De De- dare clare Political Situation Becomes More Dangerous With Increasing Idleness ESSEN CONDITIONS REPORTED PITIFUL Death Rate Among Children Children Children Chil Chil- dren Rises 20 Per Cent Milk Unobtainable Fearful Fearful Fearful Fear Fear- ful Bloodshed Threatened L LONDON March S 8 By A. A P. P r.- r. Gloomy pictures of the situation in the Inthe the Ruhr with warnings of an Impending crisis are ale painted f today day by some of the London newspaper orr correspond s. s A Dusseldorf dispatch to the SPond 1 Telegraph Telegraph Telegraph Tele Tele- graph says saya that unemployment is Is In Increasing increasing In- In creasing and that the political situation situa tion Is dangerous Economic conditions he describes as disastrous asserting that persons are without work In Dusseldorf alone and that the unemployment unemployment wages are Insufficient The workmen are noticeably depressed the correspondent adds and rumors are current that they are beginning to I doubt the issue of ot the Struggle The French this dispatch asserts are preparing to deal with the food problems which will undoubtedly arise with the Increase of ot unemployment Their soup kitchens boycotted at first are aro now popular DEATH RATE INCREASES The Cologne correspondent of the Dally Daily ally Express reports that conditions in n Essen and Bochum are pitiful and Imd that hat the death rate among the children has ms risen len 20 per cent In the last month and milk Is 19 almost unobtainable The phrase hunger blockade Is on the he lips Ups of the wh ne German ion tion The French military authorities h have ve ogder en to food the cities but some of the trucks never arrive arIve and ond part of ot the shipments Is stolen Education the correspondent adds Is at a standstill for the French have occupied the schools schoos The passing of ot each day finds public feeling more embittered em em- The impression that cauldron in the Ruhr may bon boll over at at any time with fearful results in bloodshed is expressed ex cx- cx pressed by the Cologne representative of the Westminster ANOTHER WAR LOOMS It Is th the opinion of ot those best able to Judge he continues that unless an agreement is soon reached It can only be a matter of ot time before another war breaks out I am told that France would not hesitate to declare war and bomb German cities Including Berlin If her forces are attacked The correspondent adds that it Is only fair to point out that many re reports reports reports re- re ports of ot this character may be traced to German sources He asserts that the difficulty of ot obtaining reliable In Information information In- In formation because of ot the severance of ot communications is ta constantly emphasized In this connection the Cologne correspondent correspondent correspondent cor cor- respondent of ot the Express says It Is Impossible to verify some of the stories in circulation and that rumors much more serious than the facts warrant are rife French Disa Disarm Police Force BERLIN March 8 By A. A P. P P.-A P. A telegram from states that the Fr French n h reent reentered red that city today surrounding a schoolhouse and ad disarming disarming disarm disarm- ing irig the police who were quartered there The force torce orce was removed to an unknown destination The French al allowed allowed al- al lowed t tie the e patrolmen 11 t to take their be- be be belongings belongings longings with them while the officers were permitted to ro retain th their Ir swords S The town hall ball was later occupied Units from Dorstfeld and Herten were used in the o operation |