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Show Rhineland May Set Up Republic - - . i . ; SEPARATIST MOVE ; MHO PROGRESS I PARIS PAPERS TOLD, ; Government Demands Work-I Work-I ers in Ruhr District Must Give Up Their Munitions RADICAL COMMANDER ; OPPOSED TO ORDER Threatens to Shoot His Own Soldiers If They Follow Demand De-mand and Surrender PARIS. April 2. (Havas). The Separatist movement is making progress pro-gress In the Rhineland district of Germany Ger-many which has aspirations to be es-i tablished as an independent republic, according to a Mayence dispatch to the) Echo de Paris. i 1 Newspapers here, commenting on ine suuauon in the Ruhr district of Germany, declare thai tho firm attitude atti-tude of France relative torihe advance of German government' "troops' into that region was a1, vital ;61erae'iit.inih.f setjrnjnk TtV"cenT'thejGntxifes?ts of Franc and those 'of Germany no incompatibility existed, says the Matin. 9 Would Shoot Men. I DUSSELDORF, April 1. (By The Associated Press). Soldiers of the workmen's army in the Ruhr district i must make a delivery of their arms to ! local authorities before April 10 un-jder un-jder the agreement reached between i the government and tho central com-'mlttce com-'mlttce of the workmen's general con-j con-j ference at Essen today. They will not be considered rebels If fighting ceases ! throughout the district by noon tomorrow. tomor-row. , The commander of the communist , troops before Wesol gave a pledge to the conference for the strict observ-anc observ-anc of the agreement, Pie declared he. I had really a good army but could not continue fighting because he lacked ammunition and asserted all' looting I had been suppressed and that all lool- J ers had been shot. I Would Slay Men. I "I will shoot with my own pistol," he said, "any communist soldier who (disobeys the order to withdraw and disarm." Assurance was given the delegates, 'however, there would be no trouble. Tho general strike throughout the Ruhr industrial and mining district has been ordered called off effectiye. as far us possible, on Friday morning. At the last meeting of the workmen speakers said that the revolutionists could not have lived to accept a final agreement i,f the allies had not backed them. |