12 MAY 1923, Page 1

Meanwhile, in the Ruhr, France might seem to be trying

positively not only to unite Germans of all parties in a great national sentiment, but to work this sentiment up to the highest degree of fury and bitterness. The trial of the Krupp directors ended on Tuesday, when Herr Krupp von Bohlen and two of his colleagues, Herr Osterlen and Herr Hartwig, were sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment and a fine of 100,000,000 marks each. Herr Bruhn, another director, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment and a fine of 100,000,000 marks ; and the absent directors and sub-directors, Herren Cuntz, Schrapler, Schaffer and Baur, as well as Herr Gross, the factory manager, also absent, were sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment and a fine of 100,000,000 marks each.