The following message was addressed to the world last week by Wilhelm Marx, German Chancellor: On Jan. 11, a year ago, the French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr in violation of the ...

It is the heart of Germany's industrial system. Small wonder, then, that beginning with the armistice, the occupation of the Ruhr was discussed in French and Belgian circles. By controlling it the ...

At Charleville he, as usual, spoke of the German advance and occupation of the town and then went on to deny that the Ruhr occupation had harmed British trade, and quoted figures to prove it.

A condition attached to the protocol means that if, by mid-November, six million tons of coal have not been delivered, the Allies will occupy the Ruhr or some other part of German territory.

(See "The Ruhr Occupation," by Nicholas Roosevelt, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Vol. IV, No. 1.) The dotted area represents German territory occupied by the Allies under the Versailles Treaty. The region north of ...

The payment was made in kind by way of coal and timber. Ruhr occupation was an aggressive step to which the German government responded by passive resistance - the workers and the civil servants were ...

Numerous publications and events commemorate the centennial of the year marked by three painful events – the Ruhr occupation, the devastating impact of hyperinflation on society and Hitler's ...

In fact, this week marks the centenary of the French invasion and attempted occupation of the Ruhr — an event with cataclysmic consequences that uncannily resembles Russia’s invasion and attempted ...

Coal and steel from the Ruhr fuelled the German economy during both world wars, and so during the Second World War it was flattened by Allied bombers. In 1945, the British occupied what was left ...