Behind all this there is a story of black intrigue
in the Rhineland. M. Poincare declared last Sunday 658 that France is adopting a neutral attitude towards the Separatist movement. He must be strangely misinformed of what is really happening. The Times of last Saturday published from its special correspondent one of the most amazing accounts we have ever read Of how in this twentieth century some people are trying to get back to the Middle Ages. The correspondent, nevertheless, only explains facts which must have been noticed by every English newspaper reader who look's at the illustrated papers. Photogtaphs from the dis- turbed towns in the Rhineland and the Ruhr for days past have shown that the leaders of the Separatists are for the most part unmitigated ruffians, obviously unedu- cated men, with evil faces. It must have been a mystery to countless readers how such men could lead in any cause or could even know what the policy of Separatism means.
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