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Show FRENCH TROOPS TO NUKE II RESPECT TREATY OE PEACE Paris Government Defines Attitude At-titude on German Crisis in Ruhr District ACTION UNCALLED IF TROOPS DISARMED French Consider Drastic Military Mili-tary Measures Necessary to Secure Respect For Pact. Berlin, xpril 5. By The Associated Asso-ciated Press). The government forces have lost two hundred men killed in fresh fighting in the triangle tri-angle formed by Duisburg, Dortmund Dort-mund and Essen, according to of-cial of-cial inform? tion given the correspondent corre-spondent this morning. Except in this triangle quiet gradually is being be-ing restored in the Ruhr district. Paris. April 5. (By The Associated Press). The attitude of the French government in lhe present German crisis is delined and explained in a note issued tonight. ATter reiterating that the government has no hostile designs toward Germany desiring on she contrary the resumption of normal relations with that country and expressing ex-pressing realization of the difficult? situation sit-uation of the Berlin government, the note declares the German governmen' has give"n way to pressure by the militarist mili-tarist parly "not fearing to infringe the imperative and most solemn stip ulations of the Versailles treaty." The note continues: "The sequence of facts follow: "The first request for permission permis-sion for I ho entry of extra troops into the Ruhr district was made Just after the insurgent movement by the military authorities on March 15. It was renewed from Berlin on March 17, in the name of the legitimate government by von Tlaniel,.who has remained in Berlin with the consent, at least implied, of the insurgent government. govern-ment. "All information from the allied missions, and again, the day before be-fore yesterday from the high commissioners com-missioners at Coblenz. does not cease to show that German military mili-tary intervention is uncalled for by the situation, and it would be attended with the gravest dangers dan-gers from the .point of view of security se-curity both for the population and the men in the Jield." The note then points out that if the German government had carried out the disarmament clauses of the treaty there would have never been the Kapp insurrection nor the red army in the Ruhr district and remarks that articles ar-ticles 42 and 4-1 are such an Indispen sfiblc safeguard that article one of the P'ranco-Anglo-American convention defines de-fines as a casus foederis those dispositions dispo-sitions insufficient to assure the protection pro-tection of Europe. It concludes: "The situation created by the abrupt offensive of the German troops in the Ruhr obliges the French government today to consider military measures, the execution of which cannot be deferred. de-ferred. The sole object of these measures meas-ures is lo bring Germany to duo respect re-spect of the treaty and they are ex clusivelv of a coercive and nrecaution ary character." It is estimated that at least tjvo weeks wJU elapse before conditions are normal. The assertion was made today to-day that the military employed in the Ruhr region with the exception of a few additional batteries, does not exceed ex-ceed the force authorized by the peace tiealy and that these troops will be withdrawn as soon as order is restored. re-stored. It is declared ihat the entente up to the present has expressed no opposition op-position to the government's military measures in the Ruhr region, although the French have continued their attitude atti-tude of protest. , Mayence, April 5. (By The Associated Associ-ated Press). The Frencb"troops will occupy Frankfort early tomorrow rnoi-wning. Some detachments have already started. |