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FRENCH MAN-POWER.

THE QERMAN “SPIRIT OF

REVENGE

M. Maginot, the Minister for War, made a declaration in the. French Senate on February 15th on the subject of the man power nooded for the Ruhr occupation.

He said that since the occupation began the French Government had provided for the greater part of the railway com

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MILLIONS.

RIG INTERNATIONAL GANG CAUGHT

"

An amazing conspiracy of counterfeiters, involving over 1,000 persons and having ramifications all over the United States

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to light on February 1st through brought to

district of twenty munications and also the telegraphie Pinces in the tan

of the

gang.

After

and telephosle services by means of allegedetective work, agents of

¤

Sight

montha

in

staff of volunteers and men mobi- the lized for this purpose.

the inner ring of conspi quence of the resistance of Germany and Nearly all the pris

in

Italy and

As a consere Treasury Department succeecod

With plates eers arn Italianors.

Amug.

"pi, and

of certain acts of rabotage, the Government gled over to Americs in large cheaks the had been compelled to take over all the means of communication, A reinforce gang. it is alleged, printed American, Italian, And Austrian banknotes postage mant of the staff engaged was therefore and international revenue necessary. Volunteers would certainly counterfeit labels for

liquor. come forward in sufficient numbers, but They

also coined

imitations American while waiting for them the Government and Federal Reserve notes of a face value of made American Bank gold pieces. thought it necessary for about fifteen days to keep mobilized the men who had been more than a million dollars and stamps

$10,000,000 (£3,000,000) called pp.

reprose933 WES 4s carefully organized.

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the duration of military ever the centre of the gang'w'activities was service had been reduced to a minimum led or ten guards habitually

neighillance.

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It was the possible part

BANK LTD. elaborate business system which was in responsible for the downfall of the conspirators, because the Treasury agents enabled in the investigations in Many cities to determine when they were getting | close to the local headquarters by the scale

of prices for counterfeit

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soventeen cents.

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having regard to the security of the country. They did not wish their soil to be sgain invaded by foreigners France had nothing to fear while her soldiers were on the Rhine and held the bridgeheads; but they had to deal with a nation which by bad faith 'and trickery senght to elude its treaty obligations

Shanghai-61. Kiangue Road. Hankow-British Concession. The German Army, althougis reduced to

CORRESPONDENTE INT one hundred thousand men, was spread

London, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, over twenty-one regions. Each of these

Vancouver, B.C., Honolulu, Singapore, Fanang, regions was occupied by a regiment; anch The Federal authorities have under watch Tientsin, Swatow, Macho, Canton and all Com. regiment was divided into companies and several hundred persons, and many moromercial centres of China and abroad. occupied the quarters of the old regiments arrests will be made which were deferred of the Reich. These twenty-one regiments until the leaders of the conspiracy, could It is believed that through appeared to be destined to constitute the be caught. twenty-one divisions of the old Gerturning State evidence some of the gang misa Army, Associations of ex-soldierstricts frequented by them the mystery of throw light on certain murders in dis- trained under the guise of athletes met which has so far never been cleared up.- in the old barracks. It was only néces Times. sury to call them all together on one day to bare a re-constituted army.

There was no doubt, continued General Bourgeois, that Germany hoped thus to fad a powerful Army when the day came for a war of revenge. A spirit of revenge animated the whole of Germany, and fall rein was hatred of France. It

ernment contemplated a covering army of thirty-two divisions, of which siz divisions would form the army of the Bhine. The normal strength of an infantry regiment was 1,600 men, and the thirty-two divisions would require 244,000 men. There

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