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Show oo 'FR1MTIS SCENE OF WILD j DISTURBANCES MAYENCE, April 7. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press) Disturbances broke out in Frankfort today but energetic intervention inter-vention by the French troops restored order. From German sources it is learned that six Gorman's were killed! and 35 wounded. It Is reported that i the manifestations which gave rise to! these Incidents were due to an order originarlng in Berlin. "The first day of the occupation of Frankfort passed without incident the reception by the population was alonist cordial." said General "de Goutte. the French commauder, on his return froinj a tour of inspection. "Then, sudden-1 ly on orders from Berlin, a certain fer-1 ment seized the population. This fer-, ment degenerated intb aggression and our soldiers in self defense were 1 obliged to use their ifrnis. So far as I know, we had no losses. "The incident shows how we must watch proceedings in Berlin and that is why the events in the Ruhr demand de-mand my whole attention. You cannot can-not consider what Is going on in the Ruhr and here apart; there is a close relation between the events we aij witnessing today. The aggressions at Frankfort and events in the Ruhr are attributable to the same military reaction. reac-tion. Of that we have absolute proof. "The Berlin government allowed the reicbswehr to Invade the Ruhr district unnecessarily because it was the desire de-sire of Kapp, von Luettwitz and their like. The coup d'etat having failed, only through the general strike, the military party sought revenge on the working classes and invented the bol-shevist bol-shevist peril in the Ruhr. It ought lo be known in France and elsewhere that there never was any bolshevlst peril in the Ruhr. It was simply a case of a population of workers, which hates Prussian militarism, asking only to be allowed to, work ih peace. The population was still at work in Ess9n yesterday. What is happening now Is the result of the reichswehr occupation." occupa-tion." Silent On Occupation PARIS April 7. ((By the Assoclat-ed Assoclat-ed Press) Considerable reaction was ' noticeable today In French public opln- Ion, which was unanimously favor able yesterday regarding the advised-ness advised-ness of the occupation of the Rhine i cities. Official circles were silent. J The failure of the American ambassador, ambas-sador, Hugh C. Wallace, the British ambassador, the Earl of Derby, Baron Matsui. representing Japan and Count Bonln-Longare, Italy, to express an opinion concerning Premier Miller-and's Miller-and's note is not Interpreted as unfavorable, un-favorable, but as merely pointing to the fact that none of them has jet: received instruetitons concerning the attitude of thcir respective governments govern-ments on the situation. The attitude of the government of-ficixils, of-ficixils, however, is one of expectancy and there is even some anxiety regarding regard-ing the probable course to be adopted by the allied governments. Great interest 13 displayed in the meeting of the British cabinet tomorrow tomor-row and there is much speculation as lo Washington's official expression. Banking, financial and business circles cir-cles are more outspoken; the opinion Is freely expressed that Intervention was untimely and detrimental to French interests. At the stock exchange today the belief was expressed that the French government fell into a trap cleverly laid by the German government to separate France from her allies by asking ask-ing for Individual French authorization to enter the Ruhr district and putting it up to France alone to refuso Germany Ger-many permission to take military measures. The dollar rose today to the highest point ever known 15.35 and the. pound sterjing to 61.10. The Belgian franc rose to 1.09. On the other hand French francs decreased on all markets, both allied and neutral, which caused brokers brok-ers to say: ".France is going it alone apparently apparent-ly the wrong way. I The German mark reached 25 centimes, cen-times, a rise of five points since last' Friday. 1 00 I |