17 APRIL 1920, Page 2

The French belief that the German advancer into the Ruhr

Valley was planned by the reactionaries is substantiated by the doings of the so-called .Reichatoshr or Imperial Defence Force. They were largely composed of the mercenaries who were employed the other day by General Ludendorff and Dr. Kapp. They showed no mercy to the so-called insurgents. Hundreds of prisoners, including women, were 'shot in cold

blood. The German War Minister virtually admitted last week that . he did not know how to disarm General Ludendorff's • mercenaries. The German Chancellor, in a long speech in the Reichstag on Monday, denounced French militarism; but the real danger to him and to Europe lies in the Prussian militarism-which he cannot, or will not, control.