| Show I T Boasting That French Get Little lOne One Week of Occupation o I With Value ot Mark Dropping and Dropping France Is Puzzled Where to Get Enough Paper to Pay Oft Off Ruhr Workers I Jan By 19 19 By the Associated Press All Press All the I banking institutions in both private and state closed I this afternoon claiming to be unable to carryon carry on business owing tc to toI I the by the French of the local branch of the thus shutting off the supply of marks The economic l life e of the CIty is at a a standstill I ESSE Jan By 19 19 By th the Associated ed Pless Seizure c r mines In Inthe inthe I the Ruhr by by- the torce Corce ot occupation was begun toda Th Ber glueck mansa- mansa I and We tenho d pits near Buer ere occupied by th military and Ahrens was 13 nit lh I tiled ted for refusing t to dell deliver coke cokl appear appear- appeared appeared ed at the tho pits a and I it the en nines mines it Ur Dr of the state mine a administration it t hausen hausen responded to an In in to toI appear before belore the I and had not returned Ul- Ul u to this aC- aC aCI af afternoon I It is believed 11 was as arrest arrest- arrested arrested ed I It la Is reported that when the French FrenchI r attempted to enter I some of ot the mines that Pre seized the workers became gr agitated that 1111 all the tho miners would leave the pit it the l TED TEDA A general of ot the freight raU- raU rail railway way av men throughout tit the Ruhr is ex- ex expected ex expected this afternoon Orders Ur ers tor Cor tho strIke were re ed fr n Berlin this morning by theall the rail all and at noon the union leaders W I In the orders betor them Th expect them to promise to continue work worl ind obey the instructions from Crom Berlin It the amount of oC coal coni mined In Westphalia In th past de de-cade de ade can be taken as n standard oC measurement annual thIs legion It still sUII contain to last t two 0 an and ears accordIng to tv circles here The total to the surface up to n th I is 11 es- es estimated es estimated at three billion Ions CH Ln The president of the I y a of o Essen Esser I 1 t day to dispatch coal trains train electing i the FI enCh demands foi COI The Tho short Age ot oC pa pap r r narks is matter of oC great concern othe Jt seems certain that 01 h next elt the workmen ormen will III have O to be bep p ue In some other cur Ruhr In- In IndustrIes In Industries The weekly wages ol 01 h now amount to 1 ir r paper and the that In another v ed thel e not figure be enough mark mark- to jo O In- In in inasmuch Berlin Is ru ng ort ott the as IS supply M VP ROCK ROel l The value alue of oC the marl mark is about one less than a week eek n ago o and the pa past t Cp dl dais s it s h-s III lik 1 iTe Call all of the mar v will Hl be top top- only by uy the rock bolt in found CountI by bye crown n the tho RussIan rov Austrian tIe e I lie tori torK-spond- torK a hanker anker told e ct ent lie liea However er we e orl ly 1 last three contemptuously a l d sentiment of oC the old sum lIm up the In the oc- oc entire German cuple J he legIons at ren l-ren French h gen gen- gen that the he customs elal to oe De inaugurated and In the I be promulgated In the brought forth Corth the comment in Ger- Ger German man Ger-man circles that the French man applY authorities werA to such penalties in the ne newly Iy occupIed I area AS r rI I bU Ui P Delay of the meas- meas measures in cement ures here I regarded 1 b i ii i the tk Germans normana weakness sign of ot as a As s the French Italian and customs completed their plans Cor controlling the e export business of the Rhineland which includes 70 per percent percent cent of oC Germany s d as 3 ell the tha prod products of ot the JI Klupp upp plant at Alx Lo Chapelle he Ruhr alley neither resistance nor opposition opposItion to the requisitioning of oC coal mount thus taken over so far la Is small J there here wa as rejoicing today over the theDr letter to General Den Igne by Dr GI pI of In which he declared the French have been responsible for the Increased living cos costs in the Ruhr ir td on Page Pace Two vo BOAST FRANCE FAILING Continued 1 from froni Page Pago One Tho The communication also warned w the tle French tint thet famine rd ppe unai una unavoidable old old- able In reply ply to the th French retort that this as i an attempt at black black- blackmail mall black mall mail Dr Ur Gruetzner asserted that e cc- cc ex export port houses houes In Canada Canado and Holland which have havo been supplying the th Ruhr Bohr with cereal and nd other food rood he e n h-n gi gi- gien Kil-en Kil n en notice that shipments could not he be continued d 1 Iho ho Germans as the tho oc- oc oc occupation bering Its second neck ek con con- continuo continue con continue to concentrate their resistance to economic ond lines To Toa Toa a 0 neutral er this appears to haio boe put the tho French on the flip rhe control adopt an optimistic attitude asserting the German Grman ch and th tho th Ruhr work work- vork SK og ng man be the first to suf- suf suf sur suffer fer Tho The French a assort sert that they ate ale do- do doIn Ins do-Ins In fag e een er c en thing thine In their J O po-fter po er to pro pro- pro td de food for tor the but that tIie embarrassments put forward for by bythe bythe the reich may render their task Ira Ira- Im possible In this e C nt ent the they declare 11 hold the orld orl l for tor an ani misfortunes that may the Ruhr fluhr population UTI LITI 11 BERLIN Jan JaIl BY lQ-BY l By The Aiso- Aiso plated Press After After a eck v is ot of economic grip crip In ii the Bohr It seemed today that M I Cote Coito and had I little littlemore nore more than their heir trouble trouble- for lor their pains In their attempts to enforce re- re pal re-pal pai A few coil eod barges borges intercepted here and thle and an occasional coal wf were re the only fruits 0 o the occupation In the Indeed Its It vis s said that more coal Moa os shipped yesterday to I cs outside of or tho the occupied area areo than on Tuesday It Is feared that the reluctance ot of to move m coal on the Rhine in the face taco of ot confiscation h hi tb the moy result in a ti complete shut shut- shuttIng shut t tIng oft off of or the tho domestic supply The Th executive 0 council of or the Im- Im Im Imperial penal union of or German hs to telegraph Fritz Th a message c gratitude and pride at the mini andy attitude of oC the tho fluhr and urging them to continue to hold out Dr Buecher Buther acting chairman or of orthe ofte the te council said that Germ s 's must be to hold out under all II circumstances II He asserted that the tho french nation would t realize that Premier s was disastrous |
