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French.. Seven more coke yards were occupied by French troops, bringing the total up to 18. The French hope in a short time to exact about 200,000 tons of coke monthly from the Ruhr area. This would be about half what they were receiving before the occupation...
...Valentine Chirol, sometime director of the Foreign Department of The Times: " The Frenchman is aware that there is no one in this country who does not to some extent share his feelings in this matter (Ruhr occupation) and recognize his right to reparations...
...Loucheur, formerly Minister for the Liberated Regions, went to Lon don to confer with British politicians about the Ruhr, and in spites of tt maze of facts coming from the hos tile section of the Paris press, it appears that M. Loucheur's visit, while not in any way official, was m point of fact made with the cognizance of Premier Poincare...
Germany bitterly resists the invasion of her coal fields, but not, apparently, of her studios. The younger painters still follow the lead of Paris modernists, in spite of propaganda and the mutter of the Ruhr. According to foreign critics, German art today is French. But art of any sort exists with difficulty in Berlin. Statistics recently published show that nine-tenths of the painters and sculptors face starvation. The situation has reached a crisis-which the government ignores. The only help, thus far, has come from America. Munich and Vienna duplicate Berlin. Hundreds of German and Austrian artists have already...
...dramatic yet genuinely constructive policies of Mussolini have advanced rates for Italian lire. Belgian and French francs have also continued strong. Fewer Bank of France notes are now outstanding than when the French armies entered the Ruhr. This is in the strongest possible contrast to Germany, whose currency now aggregates nearly five trillion marks through the colossal addition last week of 683 billion. The German $50,000,000 "loan" failed dismally, German industrialists evidently holding completely aloof...