20 JANUARY 1923, Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE news from the Ruhr, from Paris, and from Berlin is full of menace and ill omen. The French are finding that the further they advance on the road to ruin, whether on the geographical or the political plane, the more difficult it becomes to stop. Though the Government professes to be satisfied, a large part of the French Press, says the Paris correspondent of the Times in his very striking message in Thursday's issue, is beginning to say, in effect, "We set out for the Ruhr, but we have no intention of going round the world. Where are we to stop ? At Berlin ? But why Berlin ? Why not Moscow ? " Meanwhile, the distraction and dislocation in Germany increase hour by hour. It would serve_ little purpose when- the situation is so fluid to chronicle the details of the French advance. The general aspects of the situation are fully discussed iii our first leading article.