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...said that the Fascista Government neither agreed with nor authorized such a movement; the Government would follow an autonomous policy. Italian workmen accompanied by a priest on their way to Belgium were maltreated in Bavaria by a crowd who were under the impression that they were distined for the Ruhr. Premier Mussolini has instructed th Italian Ambassador in Berlin to demand exemplary punishment of th ringleaders, with compensation fo the victims. The message inform Germany that Italy will not permit the molestation of her subjects an will defend them, whatever the consequences...
Before a crowded Reichstag Chancellor Cuno, describing himself as " an honest merchant," made a speech, which, while it lacked the fire and brimstone of oratorical genius, was after all more a categorical denunciation of French "violence" in the Ruhr than an attempt to define German policy. He claimed that the French were acting against the Versailles Treaty devised by the other Powers; that the Rhineland High Commission had sold itself without restriction to the French. He said that he doubted whether France came into the Ruhr for reparations and that her action made it impossible for Germany to estimate...
Forty communists were arrested on warrants issued by the Belgian Government for fomenting strikes and causing demonstrations against the occupation of the Ruhr. They will be charged formally with plotting against the safety of the State...
Died. ? Dr. Wilhelm Mayer von Kaufbeuren, German Ambassador to France, in Munich. He was recalled from Paris at the time of the occupation of the Ruhr. In accordance with diplomatic etiquette, Premier Poincare telegraphed his condolences to the German Foreign Office...
...attempt to send American Negroes to work the Ruhr mines for the French...