Aside from the outward manifestations in the Ruhr, the week’s most important event in diplomatic circles was the British answer to the German note. It is evident that the British Government saw fit to ...

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 Versailles ...

Standing on the windswept roof of the Zeche Zollverein – formerly Europe’s biggest coal mine – Germany’s industrial heartland, the Ruhrgebiet (or the Ruhrpott, as locals like to call it), lies spread ...

THE economic geographers' maps show a black smudge running along both banks of the Rhine from just north of Cologne almost to the Dutch border. Loosely called "the Ruhr," after one of the eastern ...

The Ruhr region is characterised by heavy industry. This is also unmistakable in football - here at a demonstration by miners in Bochum's Ruhrstadion in 1997 ...