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ST. CROIX STATION.
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in transmission.)
Paris,
April 6th.—A Hava’s
despatch
from Mayence
states
that rrench
icnks
entered
Frankiort
yesterdav,
followed
by
a barailion
of Tirailleurs
and
a com-
pany
of engineers.
Tthe
troops occupied
the railway
station
near
to
which
ihey
found half
a dozep
:anks staitioned.
The
occupation
was compieted
wi
naac
lacr-
dent.
Berlin,,
April
sth.—Reports
received
from
Westphulia
announced
that
the
Reichwehr
have
reached
the
line
of
Duiskturg,
Mulheim
and
Oberhausen.
ten kiloraetres
north of Kssen,
the object
to seize
cthe oridges
of
the
Riar
in
or-
der
to prevent
the
Reds
from
doudiiag
back
on
the
wooded
cegion
bzt
seen
the Ruhr and
the Wupper.
Lisbon,
April 4th,—{he
Senate
and
the
Chawmber
of
Deputies
have
rati-
fied
the
treaty
of
Versailles
and
the
Minister
of
Foreign
Affairs
immedi-
ately
despatched
a
courier
to
Paris
with Portuagal’s ratification.
Londcn.
April
4th.—The
DBolsheviki
have occupied
Hainenshav,
one
hundred
and
thirty
miles
north-east
of
Tiflis,
according
o
a
wireless
message
from
Moscow.
.
Paris,
April 4th. —Herr
Von
Mayer,
the German
Charge
Daffaives has
sent
a
note
to
M.
Millerand,
in
which
he
seeks
to
belittle
the
importance
of
the
movement
ot
German
troops
into
the
Runr region,
tae
number
of
which,
he
asserts,
has
bheen
exaggerated.
Tue
note
declares
that
there
is
no
necessity
for the applicaiion of
the
guarancee
de-
manded
by France,
it being stated
tha:
the presence
of extra numbers
of Reich-
HRISTIANSTED.
V. 1U B A..
FRIDAY
16tH
wehr in the Ruhy disirict ¢would
not
be
prolonged.
M. Mill#rand this
afternoon
conterred
with Mav:hai Foen.
Dablin,
April
4th.—- feleuyraphic
com-
munization
with
the
nort
and
south
and with
Scotland
.as
severed
on
Sat-
ardav
nicht.
Unknown persons
entered
the custom-house
and”t»¢
Grand
Central
Hotel,
which
is now ogcupied
by
Govern-
ment
offices
and
burned
official
docu-
nents.
.
Constantinopie,
Apnl 3rd.—Presidert
Wilson’s
note
to
the
Allies,
favouring
the expuision of the Turks
from
Europe,
came
a shock
to
all
the
Turkish
parties
here.
The
fuall
text
of
the
note
has
not ye!
been
received.
Paris,
Avrii 6th.—Marshal
Foch
con-
ferrad
this morning
with M.
Mitlerand,
who
later
had
an
interview
with
Mr,
Waiiace,
the United
States
Ambeassador.
Coblenz.
Aprii 6th.—The
railway
sta-
tion of the city of
Darmstadt
was
occu-
pied this morning without
incident.
Bortin,
April 6rh%—ln
a
note
to
the
Wolf Bureau
the
Govt.
aifirins
its
dig-
agreement
with the
Frenceh
Govt.
on the
subject
of
the
entry
of
German
froowbs
in the Ruhr and declares
that
the
iroops
which have been
ser.
(o
periorm
poiice
dutics
do
not
yet
c.mprise
the
contin-
gen:
allowed
{or the
meutral
zone,
there
being
actually
thirtéen
chousa
d
five
nhundrad
men
in the industrial
region
and
three
thousand
five hundred
in
the
rest
of the zone.
The note
concludes
by
de-
ciaring that
M.
Miilerand was
informed
that
the
operation
"undertaken
in
the
Ruhr could be
‘erminated
in
about
sev-
en cays.
¥
Mayence,
April 6th.—French
cavairy
at 9
o’clock
this
morning
reached
the
village of
Eckenheim,
between
- Frank-
fort and
Hanau.
Aliis quiet
at
Frank-
fort.
‘
.
Paris.
April 6th.=An official
commu-
nication
states
that:he military
opera-
tions
arranged
agzainst
Franktort
and
Darmstadt
conmenced
ioday at an
ea
ly
hour,
the
troops
participating
therein
encouncering
no
resistance.
The
en-
circling of the
two tawns
and
the
occu-
pation of important
points
were
conclud-
ed by eleven
o’clock by
cavairy,
which
in
tue
afternoon
oceupied
Hanau,
al-
ready
evacuated
by
the
Gerinan
iroops.
Paris,
Aprii
6th.—French
opinion
generally
approves
of the
energetic
at-
titude
of
M.
Millerand
and
considers
that
if France
had tolerated
the
viola-
tion
of
sc
importagt
a
clause
of
the
treaty,
she
would t%reby
have
renounc-
ed
‘[for
~tas:
Tfuiud
the
guarantees
No.
86
and
reparations
indispensable
to
her.
germany
knows
that
France
is
de-
termined
to
make
the
treaty
of
Ver-
sailles
respected.
A
member
of
ihe
Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
declared
to
the
"'Heho de Paris’’
that
the President
of
the
Council
could
be
certain
of
having the majority
of the Chamber
be-
hind him,
adding
that it
was impossible
for the Allies,
and
chiefly
England,
not
to support
an
attitade
designed
to com-
pel Germany
to respect
vital
clauses
of
the treaty.
The
‘‘Petit Parisien’’
pub-
iishes
a long articie by M. Mardieu,
prov-
ing that the
Govt. of
Herr
Muller since
the signing of the
treaty
has
multiplied
its efforts
to escape
from the obligation
of
the
treaty,
showing
ihe
bad
faith
of Germany
and terminating
by calling
on the Allies
to support
France.
Paris,
April
7th.—Advices
from
May-
ence
state
that
the
advanee
of
the
Frenen
troops
was
carried
out
like
a
peace
manoeuvre,
the
incident
occur-
ing north
of Frankfcrt,
where,
accord-
ring
to
reporis
oFf
aviators
fiying
in
front
of the
troops,
the
Germans
fired
iwo shells
on
a
French
cavalry
patrol.
At
Darmstadt
ithe
welceme
given
the
Wrench
troops
was aimost
cordial.
The
town
o
Hamburg
was
occupied
at
6
o’clock this morning.
Paris.
April Tth.—lhe
German
Charge
d’Affaires
has
handed
M.
Millerand
a
note
on
the
subject
of
the
oecupaticn
of
Frankfort.
M. Milierand
will
coni-
municate
(o
a
conference
of
the
am
bassadors,
whicr
will meet
at five o’clock,
ihe
reply
he
proposes
to
address
to
Herr
Maver.
Paris,
Aprii Tth.—A
Hava’s despatch
from Berlin
gives the
textof. a note
in
which
the
German
Govt,
formaily
pro-
tests against
the ceenpaticn
of
the
new
cities,
affirms the
right
of Germany
to
re-establish
order
in
one
of
her
dis-
turbed
provinces,
denies
and
viclation
of
the
treaty
of
Versailles,
qualifies
as
absurd
the
idea.
that
the
sending
of
Reichwehr
into
the
Rubhr
region
constitu'es
a
menace
(o
France.,
consi-
ders
that the French
Government
should
have
submirted
any
disputed
point
7o
iniernaiional
procedure
.in
acecrdance
with
the agreement
with the League
o.
Nations
and
fina.:y
expresses
ithe
fear
ihat
tnhe French
occupaticn
may
have
a
serious
after-effect
from
a political
and
economice
point of view.
Paris, April 7ih.—-The
Servian
Lega-
tion denies
'he
repart
‘rom
[riesie
an-
nouncing
that
an
agreement
on the
Adriatic question
has
been
reached.
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