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...filthy barracks. And if the Germans were less inhuman, they were guilty of the same false pride, with the consequence that numerous Poles in Upper Silesia, many of whom were in the same position as the Germans in Poland (except a number of recent immigrants working in the Ruhr mines and elsewhere) , had to leave everything they held dear and travel against their will to the land of their forebears...
...only onlookers. Suddenly a sharp command broke the mortuary silence. The scene abruptly became charged with the tension of things about to happen. There was a snap, much shuffling and slapping as rifles came to a general salute. Then silence. General Guilleaume, commanding the French troops in the Ruhr area, had appeared on the steps of his headquarters. After reviewing the assembled troops, the General turned toward the building out of which he had come, stood at attention with the troops as honors were paid to the Tricolor which was slowly hauled down. More commands, and off to a local...
...Ruhr was occupied on the ground that Germany wilfully defaulted in delivery of reparations. According to the London Agreement of last year (TIME, Aug. 25), the Ruhr was to have been evacuated by Aug. 15, 1925. Düsseldorf, Duisberg and Ruhrort in Rhennish Prussia and not in the Ruhr (Westphalia) are also to be evacuated by that date...
...letter day for the Rhineland, for on that date the Franco-Belgian occupation of the Ruhr is to come to an end. On that date the last soldier leaves, in accordance with the terms accepted by the interested parties at the London Conference (TIME, Aug. 18, 1924, INTERNATIONAL...
Last week, Premier Painlevé of France decided to recognize the country's pledge. French and Belgian troops began to quit the Ruhr and, by Aug. 15, not a soldier of the occupation will be seen...