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EDITORIAL ‘SECTION he Sundiny Stad. "EDITORIAL PAGE NATIONAL PROBLEMS i¥* SPECIAL CABLE NEWS Society News ARY 16, 1921 RUSSIAN OUTRAGES STIR LABOR LEADER Metal Workers’ Secretary at WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORN ' Part 2—20 Pages GERMANY’S HOPE LIES\EALADAYSAVES Viviani Makes a Plea Maximilian Harden, Scouting Red Peril,| . R A "BY RENE VIVIAN (By Cable to The Star.) Benefit of the American Re- Urges the Necessity of a Sincere lief Work in Austria s o “tee | Paris Acts in Behalf of th Was] n idendorf or e . Democracy. Apparent. Siarire it nt e Social Democrats. attempt to over- throw this gov- ernment. Does America realize what we portunity of ad- dressing direct- 1y the American public. The present epoch is WORLD REBUKE FAVORED 5 party to this conspiracy, whereas in truth she was the bleeding victim of Hollweg’s failure to keep his agree- BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN. By Cuble to The Star. AID GIVEN PROFESSORS -r’;m‘;‘;‘fi TJ;”‘“‘ ment. Cereals and Fats Will Be Exhaust- | o fertile in mis- have lost and l\Teader in Genmeral Confederation b A ivie In the official white book he fup-|" u nd erstandings what v;e have e £ Do 4 ment is strength- pressed important telegrams and| ed Next Month—Chancellor Says | that it ts neces- suffered? Yes, B Dt otherwise poisoned German sentiment. sary that we Otiicourse) Do to Show Terrorism. ening throughout eastern Europe, including Russia, seems hardly open to doubt. A Country Faces Bankruptcy. BY A. R. DECKER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News. cause American generosity to- ward us has been limitless. But perhaps have frequent exchanges of ideas. Between France and America these Scouts Bolshevik Peril As against the wish of France that Germany proceed honestly to disarm, leaving nothing under whatever name BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Ch Copyright, 19; PARIS, January 15.—A. Merrheim, secretary of the Metal Workers' iicago Daily News. Copyright, 192I. VIENNA, Austria, January 15.—This strong determin- hich contd .4 . i Pproduce a “revenge |noon I visited the old artillery barracks, | o'z ¢ 14 nge America believes | 5° ing fn.cl'orl ant‘:e army.” it is asserted that Germany,|where the American rellef administra- | sing a"g sm:: that we have |Union. and one of the leaders of the Teturn o & and therefore Europe, must be pre- |tion is feeding several thousand children | oy oy oo b o0 no reason to | G°neral Labor Confederation, calls on the International Trades Unlon to protest against the terrorism by which the Russian communists are trying to repress the social demo- return of King Con s tantine to Greece after he had been expelled by his own people when he was crown pared for attack from the Russian red armies and therefore cannot dis- arm. Tnis eventuality is improbable. Russfa’s moujiks constitute 85 per of Vienna, giving each child one nour- ishing meal daily at a cost of 7 cents. Three hundred thousand Austrian children are betng fed and of these fear the future, forgetting that we have mount- ed guard beside heart, for they proceed from a common con- prince and later, as king. displaced | %Ussie's mo sclence. Not S iparty sl Rlaea 2 population. They pos- [160,000 are in Vienna. sy from his throne by the angry powers [ (00 oF her PopUietich They Bos: It Rellet Were Withdrawn. o b - The prime er- | ments, nhostiy fovin Sommist moaos of the entente. 7 waited. What they now want and| T asked Dr. Pirquet. an Austrian child) o0 W50 - RENE VIVIAX ror is the bellet |he goes on to say: 4 In Hungary fthe restoration of \G%L I gxpert.” working with the administra-| twice shared, Former Premier of Framee | {00 1% V08 TOUC | ' vuch aro tho ‘facts, Equally with le is freel and openly 08e in ungary, regardi which monarchial ru y Moreover, Lenin would not bave de- | - ~What would happen'If the relief work | 72 220 10 treaty brought | the Infernational (rades unioas have | discussed. Taking courage from this general drift, monarchists in Germany and Austria have begun to breathe again. Their numbers run into the hundreds of thousands, and promi- nent among them stand the military ‘and civilian officials who lived idly under the rule of the idle kaiser. They yearn for a return to former conditions, and it is whispered that thélr conquerors do not object to ‘monarchism. % Royalty Not Popular. From such people, greedy for pow- er end position, and not from mon- archist leaders, comes the reaction- ary demand. As for the leaders, they believe that the time is not yet ripe. No member of the former reigning ‘ familles is popular emough to sway public backing. We must not forget that wide- spread . disappointment exists, even among the working classes, with what s here- called the republican democ- racy. Then, too, dissensions in the ranks of the goclalists caused by the were withdrawn?" “The children would quickly Tevert to their former condition of undernourish- “Not only would ut they already been protesting, there should arise ‘the vehement and indignant reprobation of all trades union mem- bers and socialists who still have a sense of dignity and independence.” Various Instances Cited. Instances are cited by M. Merr® heim from the documentary evidence. The arrests attendant on the al- leged social democratic conspiracy last September necessitated 4,000 new places in the Moscow concentration camps, to procure which the bolshe- viki sent 4,000 of the older prisoners to Ekaterinburg and Archangel. Among the prisoners sent to Eka- terinberg were several leaders of the center party and the co-operative union. The trip took ten days. On the way the prisoners received no hot food and no hot water. Moreover, the Ekaterinburg authorities had not been warned of their coming and there was no place for them in_ the overcrowded jails. They were Kept two days in the station and a month in a half-built house, and then were finally thrown into jail with common criminals. 5 In October and November there were mass_arrests of social demo- crats. In Mogile all the leaders of | the party except two were arrested. Twelve, leaders were arrested at | Vitebsk and twenty at Samara. At peace, whereas it only ended hos- tilities and stopped a massacre. At present we are between war and peace, and the latter will exist only when nationalist passions and revengeful desires and hates are calmed and when economic se- curity returns. What is needed to bring this about? It is neces- sary that Germany keep her en- gagements, for Germany brought on this economic situation by war. Not only in the interest of right must she make reparation, but in the interest of every one in the world. If Europe, which is al- ready the tomb of millions, con- tinues living thus, with work, energy and production paralyzed, Europe will not suffer alone. It is no longer possible for a nation to maintain isolation. Economic interest, if not ideals, demand that all nations, linked by commercial necessity, present a common front. * Kok K A united Europe in its present cided against the communist wishes to grant concessions to capitalists had he not percelved the necessity of stopping the relgn of bloodshed and using all energy for economic’ recon- struction. Everything indicates Rus- sfa will permit the Polish pear to riven and will cease war if the Kr: sin-Curzon agreement succeeds ending the blockade. ‘What the World Needs. The most important wishes of those ‘who desire humanity’s welfare should be today: 1. TRat countries which have sur- plus food and raw materials should quickly build bridges to those lan- guishing for the lack of same, thus weakening the most powerful com- munist propaganda weapon. 2. The formation of a union, above suspicion, declining all intercourse with lars or those desiring the re- turn of the old military regime, but giving every help to those who hon- estly desire peaceful democracy and the betterment of international rela- near to each other, but also be- cause they emerge from the war the two least selfish nations. Yet misunderstandings separate them. Reproaches do mnot help, they serve only to embitter; com- pliments do not help, they only breed insincerity. We must tell each other the truth. That is the best course for honest people. To know what one wants, to tell where one is going, to tell others, and to keep one’s word is the only diplomacy possible for, great peo- ples, and their ambassadors are their cltizens. * *x x % 7 Immediately after the war an evil opinion surrounded France like a thick vell. Poor France! She truly is unlucky! Before the war she was the object of humili- ating pity for her ancient distress; after the war she aroused an envy that seeks to tarnish her glory. She is accused of imperiallsm, of endangering world pedce and of aster. , tainable and they would have to.go hun- Ty. ‘Dr. Pirquet further told the writer that the children had shown a wonderful improvement since the feeding began, the percentage of the very badly nour- ished class baving been greatly reduced. The school attendance has been in- creased by 25 per cent Nearly All U Of the chlidren in Vienna 97 per cent were found to be undernourished, but it_was found impossible to feed all with the funds provided. Hence the children were classified into three groups. Then it had to be decided whether to feed a few three meals daily or provide one meal a day to all the most needy. It was declded to give 300,000 one meal. Hence, while the ‘work-is wide in scope it does not cover the need. Austria has 1,182,000 chil- dren up to fifteen years of age. Of these 930,000, upon scientific medical examination, were found to be under- nourished and only one-third fed. All the very badly nourished are being fed and three-quarters of the badly rnourished. evik i ourished class. bolshs movement and resulting in |, . suporessing ageravating threats, | In two of Vienna's poorer districts, 7| throwing Europe - into economic distress will buy nothing, sell |Smolensk the president of the com- the formation of a communist Party, | .y op" 0o the oocupation of the Ruhr |per cent of the children receive only| . o grancial disorder through nothing. What can the world do |mittee and several members were arrested. There were arrests and seizures of property at Stavropol, Kursk, Nijninovogorod, Sormovo and Vologda. In Briansk an influentfal metal worker, Samsonov, was thrown into jail. There are now twenty-six American food. In other districts the children are supposed to receive some- thing at home, for the American meal is intended to be supplementary. Aid for Professors. ‘which, merely to justify its existence, would welcome the triumph of re- actlonary inguences. .Finally, the present government against that? Of course, the peace treaty falled to foresee such things, but that is no reason to spend a lifetime groaning about it. valley, and persevering in the move- ment for general disarmament, Ger- many leading in disarmament, but not moving alone. stubbornness. So much for the general reproaches. The France which lay conquered for forty-four vears did not want daantatplof) e regard the ¥e-| 3. That Europe should be regarded |, The Rochester community fund has| .. ghe tried to avoid it. She The treaty is written. We French, |social democrat leaders in the Mos- IEMiices mereiy s e as an economic unity whose sufferings | gitive restaurant for Vienna profes-| signed five transactions in ten Who more than eny soaked it in |cOW prison. sary, evil; men who consider & mon- | g5 not permit a return to selfish na- |sors. In a transformed billiard room[ years toward world peace. Now .. our innocent blood, consider it our Arrested at Party Congress. archy as a higher and nobler form | (ion,ism, whose wounds are to be | the Professors come as to a club and| |, "), " hecome imperialistic! charter. The fury of battles did | Many of the leaders of the Ukrai for a_small payment receive a simple nian social democrats were arrested but good meal. The club is popular and was certainly weeded. for a pro- feasor earns only-about $10 a month in money: No one is prosperous ex- cept, the “schiebers” or profiteers, be- of government. - France in Place of Fear. England, who has supplied her needs at Germany’s cost through the de- not destroy our wealth, it was a systematic rival who sought to bredk our power of recovery. War is ignominlous, but victory would healed ¢nly on broad economic lines. 4. That the German peopls. provide themselves with a government which’ will not attempt to justify the old ‘Why? Because she maintains an army? She has. just reduced the period of military service, but re- tains troops in the fleld. Why does at Kharkov. been exiled to Georgia and others in the concentration camps “until the o|Of the limitation of armaments. August. 19 during the party” congress | Strengthened by the first Seventeen of these have | meeting. have been condemned to forced labor | WANTS U. S. TO LEAD IN CURTAILING ARMS British Labor Leader Sees Opportunity fOl‘ America to promote peace of the World. BY GEORGE N. BARNES, British Labor Leader. By Cable to The Star. LONDON, Jan- uary 15.—Amer- ica has a great opportunity to- day, for the time is propitious for courageous lead finally determine the attitude of poli- ticians and presidents. All in the Same Boat. The new Cunard line stock issue of four million sterling (normally about $20,000,000) to complete its shipbuild- ing program shows notable enterprise and confidence. It is a cheering lin- ing to the somber cloud of depression hanging over the s s ones industrial world. e e But a return to prosperity depends spending. The upon the re-establishment of credit British naval of countries desolated by the war so program is in they may again buy from countries abeyance; Japan has asked a like America, where productive capac- ity has been only slightly impaired. Lalt; D'Annunzio’s legionaries have|We are all in the same boat and must been blown out of Fiume by a blast|pull together if we desire to sur- of public impatience; the French!mount commercial depression, unem- militarists have been defeated in the | ployment and class conflict. 7 chamber of deputies and, above all.| 1t jg als0 satisfactory to note thut peoples everywhere afe sick of WAT-|¢n financial economic organization Should America point the way, the | groying out of the recent Brussels league of nations would assuredly | o oo onoo ol B T it follow her lead in this direction, for |° ¢ 2 S the assembly, with Anglo-Japanese el opeRR onn ik concurrence, has declared in favor| ¢ 8ETeement for the resumption of trade between Russia and Great Brit ain, however, still hangs fire. Krassis has gone home. Meantime, despite : general desire for resumplion, - th, prospect is bad. g There are two formidable difficulties —first, the absence of goods in Rus, sla wherewith to exchange; second the declared and considered bolshevi policy of trickiness, therefore trad would necessarily be one-sided, ex cept for gold. But gold, if sent t: Britain, would, according to recen icourt decisions, be attachable for th- [payment of former debts, and even i this were legislatively overcome. n: government could rely, without guar antees, upon the bond of a goverr ment which prides itself on perjur: There must be something in the na ture of clearing houses, either fre ports in Russia or other receiving sta tions, until such time as there is - responsible Russian government, the present government shows change of heart and intent. Improvement in Ireland Ireland is still in a ferment, al- though there are signs of improve ment. The home rule bill has becom: a law and therein lies the promise o further improvement. In a few week northern Irishmen will be proceedin.- plenary [ to set up a new parliament and ther: The Argentine delegates’|may be a psychological imfection U withdrawal when their amendments|the south and west, where peop: were not accepted concerned nobody | while still holding-a vision of futur Endanger Peace of the World. Viscount Grey s one of the safest and sanest men and he, perhaps more than any other man in Great Britain, accurately senses the present needs. Worthy, indeed, of the man was his speech in Glasgow the other day, when he said that armaments still endangered the peace of the world, and he urged that their growth be carefully watched, and, if possible, arrested, so that no country might again force the killing pace. He commented upon the ghastly prece- dent of a victorious Germany forc- ing the Franco-Russian alliance by forming the triple combination of Germany, Austria and Italy, and he warned against the possibilities of allied exclusiveness, now that we are in the position Germany held fifty years ago. , . Will these wise words be heeded? To me it seems that the time has| come, not only to check the growth but concurrently lessen all firearms; | yet the only relief is in the reduction } of expenditures, and here is America’s opportunity for leadership. League of Nations Stronger. ‘The league of nations has been o struction of our maval power, our|regime by continually blaming for- Mul., the cost of llvingdh Ii.nl;ruged she? What is her role in the be immoral if the victors, who are 3 Among the colonies and our commerce,’ can view | mer enemies, but which will honestly |00 f{imes and wages and salarlés Ut} 13, prance s a peaceful likewlse victims, went without T ek oh 1D Sl e S e o e the situation more disinterestedly | embrace the idea of a democratic.rer| Few persons actually die of hunger.| democracy. She had only one de- reparation. s I A * X %X X France has but one interest; namely, to rebuild herself along- side her countless graves, and everything else is unselfigh, is dis- _interested, like America. But, like America, we are interested in the final triumph of right. but, being underfed, they fall easy vic- tims to disease. Tnfant mortality and tuberculosis have increased 30 per cent. Austria Is “Broke.” Austria is ‘broke,” and, the wrriter understands, has been forced to pledge Gobelin tapestries for food. Feb- ruary will see the end of the stocks of cereals and fats, after which any- thing can be expected, for the unem- public, a republic thus earning the confidence of the world powers and able to insist on a mutual understand- ing as a first condition. Hopes for World League. Only the fulfillment of these de- siderata will clear the air for the set- tlement of the difficult reparations campaign against Poland. Members of the central commit- tee of the social revolutionary party after a long sojourn in the Karoslav jail have been removed much en- feebled to the Butyrki prison, in Moscow. This Karoslav throughout Russia. a protest against prisoners declared a hunger strike. sire. namely, to see Alsace return home. She possesses in northern “Africa and in Senegal a territory where justice has inspired the na- tives with affection. She must re- build her own economic fortunes and repair countless ruins, bend- ing double with toil to clear her- than can France, who would neces- sarily bear the brumt of possible Ger- man revenge. Fesrs are felt in France that she will not receive the reparation due her. As Foch put it, “France will whistle for it.” France complains also that Ger- many begins the new year in a belli- jail is famous On August 11, as ill-treatment, the cose spirit, citing von Seekt's address | question, which cannot take place |ployed cannot live on the government| self of innumerable obligations. They say we don't agree on the |Dbrisoners declared a hunger steike. to the army officers, which In its ref-| yntil the league of nations becomes a "g g:j 3’;’;}: :‘?Y_-Im“ et * Kk K means. It is enough that we agree |,teq by removing the ringleaders to eremce to sharpemed swords and | jiving organism, instead of @ torso.|of o New Fear eall Chancollor aaen| How can she be accused of black on the end, and this we do. But |a dungeon. AR brightened sheaths was strongly rem- | The league should be the noble means | visited the forelgn representatives in| -designs? True, she retains an bellef or faith in universal right | all prisoners thenceforth Wore for Vienna and practically declared that Austria was facing bankruptcy. The ‘withdrawal or restriction of American aid, he said, would add starvation to Austria's black outlook. SIMPLER PASSPORT RULES DEMANDED IN EUROPE Travelers Claim Big Financial Losses by Deloys at Frontiers. BERLIN, January 15—There is a spontaneous ‘demand from commercial organisations of Furope and the American: continent for simpler pass- port regulations, says Fred W. King, acting president of the American Chamber of Commerce of this city. The matter already has been brought to the attention of a number of gov- ernments and protests have been made to Washington against the American system of issuing short- time passports, it is stated. Representatives of chambers of commerce of many nations are to hold & conference for the purpose of developing a passport plan that will be at once satisfactory to the gov- ernments and meet the needs of com- mercial and other travelers. ‘Those advocating changes want passports to be issued for, perhaps, a number of years, instead of for a few months, and to eliminate the cus- tom of viseing, ipspection and long examinations at every frontier. It is claimed that the. delays resulting from present regulations have been carried to 2 most aggravating ex- tent by some of the smaller mations of central Europé. usiness men have told me of los- ing hundreds of thousands of dollars by being unable to keep appointments and close contracts because of delays in receiving credentials to cross the frontiers,” said Mr. King. *“The pres- ent system is absolutely hopeless from & business viewpoint. What is needed is @ simple method which will do away with all the red tape and permit people to move about as Quickly as affairs require. This is entirely possible. HIT BY GERMAN RIVALRY. Sweden’s Employers Lose Through Competition in Markets, 7 STOCKHOLM, January 12.—Swedish employers are feeling the brunt of German competition. Its pressure has become so that proprietors of a large number of Swedish industrial and other enterprises have been com- pelled to enter into negotiations with their employes, placing before them the alternatives of a reduction of wages or the number of workmen. The employers say they will be un- able to keep their works in operation at the present rate of financial loas. ‘The mechanical enllna:rlnz indus- cannot be resorted to except on the “basis of respect for international engagements. Otherwise ' that right would be a delusion. (Copyright, 1921.) army of 700,000, but others have kept their fleets. It must be re- membered that France is alongside Germany, a Germany which still hates and which has a weak government. SEES FRANCE FACING GERMANY ALL ALONE Editor of Echo de Paris Fears the Only Alternative Is Reducing Claims to Insignificant Point. send letters, read newspapers or re- ceive food packages. without which they must slowly starve. The daily fare in this prison con- sists, in the morning, of 300 grams (about ten and one-half ounces) of black bread, “like putty.” and a cup of hot water; at noon, a thin soup with.a few pieces of potato, beet and cabbage and a few herring heads, and at night two spoonfuls of mashed potatoes. 3 Threat to Strikers. M. Merrheim then quotes this re- sume of a communique in the official newspaper Pravda: “The workmen in the Bkaterino- slav steel mills having gone on a strike and committed numerous acts of sabotage,.the soviet government has effected a military occupation of the mills and given the workmen forty-eight hours in which to resume | work. At the expiration of this time the striking workmen and their fam- ilies will be arrested and interned in concentration camps in northern Russia.” “In_the face of these acts, com- In|mitted by the Russian communists, we going to make ourselves ac- iniscent of Kaiser Wilhelm. His glorification, further, of Hollweg is regarded by the bgst Germans as an insult For it was Hollweg whose criminal acts in the summer and au- tumn of 1914 led the German people to believe that their country was about to be made the victim of con- & and armed attack, and through false documents spread a na- tional conmviction that Belgium was a ~ AUSTRIA SEES HOPE IN GERMAN UNION Conditions Accentuate Desire for Amalgamation of Teu- tonic People. BY A. R. DECKER. News. m.msm&womu ews. VIENNA, January 156.—Austria’s elec- tions in the fall of 1920 had little ef- foct upon the tendency of political evolu- tion in the country. The former social democratic coalition government fell and a Christtan social government assumed the leadership. The social democrats while in power bad a decided majority, but the Christian socials have only a small plurality. The social democrats in the two years they were in power had time to estab- lish elements which if non-destructive were also non-constructive. They al- lowed something closely approaching communism to be organized and de- veloped in the minds of the city work- men. They organized a socialist army and established a system of food con- trol thought by many to be harmful neceesity, or for some other reason, they printed large quantities of paper money without assessing or col- lecting taxes. Would Mean Stagmation. Many Austrians are asking themselves what will happen when the government's tll is entirely emD:y :::1 du:e D;es::: unable to supply eman: he depreciated currency caused by ths rising prices. The notes now in circula- ton amount to 30,000,000,000 crowns (normally $6,000,000,000) and, in addi- deficit of the same fig- use. Prices rise with the inflation. The real sufferers are the middlc classes, who depend upon an income from bonds, in- surance and unorganized, labor. An emp- ty government till would mean stagna- tion {p all government euterprises—food o e Tollef and rallroad communications. 3 ERET. There is a somewhat less gloomy| According to reports from Paris, side, however, for the food situation (M. Peret, president of the Fremch is improved. There is enough f00d to | chamber of deputics, was unable to last unti] the end of March. Finan-|form a mew cabinet to succeed that clally, s slight betterment in thelof Georges Leygues, value of the would make many | being requested.to do- so Austrians rich. bave half of Millerand. of international discussion, including | Russia, which at worst is not bloodier nor baser than under the czar, includ- ing also America, which, overcoming feelings of disappointment and aban- doning a policy of fruitless negation, would, despite her position of world supremacy, co-operate toward the harvest of spring blossoms and sum- mer fruit. (Copyright, 1921.) their funds in foreign money, as they know that there is no real :n:nc.yy of their own paper currency. !'l“-h:ek Austrians have considered the situation hopeless and have felt that only outside aid would be effectiv For this reason they have made aj Ppeals to the entente and have talked of a union With Germany. Union Wit Germany Favored. Just now the propaganda for uniting with Germany is more accentuated than ever before. In Austria the so- cial democrats and pan-Germans both would like a union, the former to strengthen the power of the city so- cialists against the Christian social ruralists, and the latter to unite all people of the German race. Other Austrians consider that a union with Germany would be a climax to their misfortune. ment of fixation until May 1, 1921. May and June of last year Millerand | are oo endeavored to Settle the matter with | complices-by our silence? asks M. BY PERTINAX. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, January 15.—Although the defeat of the Leygues ministry in the chamber of deputies last. Wednesday was fully predicted. in these dis- patches several weeks ago, nobody quite has realized .the difficult posi- tion in which this would leavp France. The achievement of Leygues as premier is that of having been in power four months without ever having expressed any definite views on any definite subject, and he drop- ped from the position of head of the French government as .ap overripe apple falls from a tree. The problem now- confronting the president of the..republic,. who must find a new premier ocapable of choosing a ministry acceptable to the | people, really is less that than the re-establishment of that govern- mental authority which almost has [disappeared through lack of exercise. Downfall of Leygues. The personal. insignificance of the outgoing premier must mot be ac- cepted, however, as sufficient expla- nation’ of his fate. The real cause lies deeper in post-war French poli- tics. It is the fact that the task of onforcing French rights -under the peace treaty s so great and difficult that not only has every man who has ‘tried his hand at it failed, but that all_good men suggested as -possible endeavorers fear the job. ~ - That section of the treaty which concerns reparations is now foremost in importance, as the nation’s eco- nomic _reconstruction depends upon it. ‘Therefore, it inevitably is the dominant factor in the present re- lationships of France with her allies and sssociates. By one leader after another the French people have been ! led to expect from Germany a com- pensation extending far beyond prac- tical possibilities. Feared French Outburst. When the treaty was in the making at Versallles, Clemenceiu, Tardieu try is particularly it ‘by_.&m- |and.Loucheur all were afraid to state petition from Germany, where wages|any fixed sum to be paid by the Ger- a mero fraction of the Swedish|mans, dreading popular French out- zates of compensation. cry, and the result was the postpone- l [Failed in Effort to Form England and the other allies, He | Merrhein. To do so, he thinks, would stressed the fact that the treaty does | be to surrender the principle of soli- not provide coercive action by the al- ' darity in unionized labor. lies and that without such.action —_— rmany cannot be expected to pay. 95 urging willingness to make the sreaty | “LIFER” GETS FREEDOM. in other respects less drastic If the allies would join- him in the applica- 5 tion “of coercive measures, whether Serves 15 Years When Real Mur. they had been written in or not. He nearly succeeded in reaching his goal, sbed il but jeopardized his whole undertak:|' GENEVA, January 15.—After serv- ng by his failures at the Spa con- v £ .2 lif ference with regard to subordinate | .S more than ffteen vears of 4 'fe matters, The fact, too, generally es. | Sentence for a murder of which he has capes attention abroad thaf, despitc|always claimed to be innocent, a his success with regard to Poland, irschb: i Millerand went to the Elysee batace | 70UnS man named Hirschbrunner is as Prosident of France a haif-defeat. | o be released, the real culprit having | ed man. if success i3 the achievement | confessed. i of all that one starts out to do. More| On the day following a ‘popular | or less assisted by Leygues, his pol- | masked ball at Soleure in May, 1906, icy has.been to force a determination | {he body of'a young Swiss gifl was of some fixed sum, screened by an un- | found in the waiting room of the rail- ceasing public defense of a literal in- | road station where she had been terpretation of the Versailles treaty. |acrangled to death. She had been seen Crumbling of Ministry. the previous evening in the company Such was the French policy just|Of a young man dressed as a peasant | closed with the overthrow of Laygues, | woman. The description of her com- Since inability to solve the reparations | Panion tallied with a costume worn by problem unavoidably implies upon the | Hirschbrunner and he was tried and part of a French government Inability | sentenced to life imprisonment, en- to control the course of home and for. | tirely on c{rcumstantial evidence. eign policies, the gradual ruin of the ministry’s prestige and authority will be easily understood. A fact hitherto secreted” fs that during the last few of his days in office Leygues, apparently ‘without ‘consultation with anybody, took the risky-initiative of communicating to ! for the audit of her‘accounts the less . | 'she will be in a position to rally her allies to her support if she finds it neces- ; sary to attempt enforcement of her claims. | ‘The detachment of America from any- thing like even the semblance of active participation in the enforcement of the’ Versailles treaty indicates that before long France will have to choose between . reducing her claims against Germany ! to insignificance or embarking upon the hazardous enterprise of separate military , action, such as would esirange her from | her former friends. For such reasons it is devoutly and almost tremulousl: hoped by all far-seeing Frenchmen tha in the choice of a successor to Leygues Millerand will be more successful than he was in the selection of Leygues him- nual payments of 300,000,000 marks gold each, which he should call upon Ger- many to pay pending the settlement of the “whole reparations problem. Of | course, he selected such a solution be- | cause it allowed him to represent tol parliament that he really had not tol- erated a curtailment of the ultimate French claims and that the plan merely postponed that day when an accurate and satisfagtory statement of Germany’s capacity to-pay would become possible. - Danager in Inftiative. - government more (Copyright, 1921.) after it Leygues was very dangeérous, as it isjthe difficult. [RIREmea obvious that the longer France wut:l R self apd that the allies, realizing the|tice of England, won fame at the bar vast ‘amount .of that which is ‘at stake, |as Rufus Danfel Iyaucs. He This initiative on the part of Premier| will not Unhecessarily- make the path of |known. in this country, having been French engaged in diplomatic and fimancial minxions during the war. seriously. Therefore, the Argentine |freedom, may yet decide to accept th president is probably sorry now that|act. A fateful stage for Ireland a he forced his country briefly into un- | Great Britain has-been reached. It i. desired prominence. The league may |Ireland’s turn to speak. “Will s modify the covenant to get the co- |SPedk for a measure of peace and rec- < - ion? 1] operation of all mations, but it wont [OnCliations Will she try 1o buila i be bullied. It has come-to stay and| 5 4 o= has the backing of peoples, who will H sumption that because Canadian IAPANESE STATUS (Copsright, 1921.) most reliable publications, shows tha; even if authorities did at any stage consider the possibility of similar views with respect to oriental immi- gration, that is no reason for the as- | waters they are to confederate in'any vay with American vessels. The Globe shows that the vessels |are en route to patrol the Pacfic coast |on ordinary duty. Press Discusses RepOrtS |one cimor ooty o terretiy s, he That Cruisers May Co-Ope- ‘lrom its American correspondent: “Mr. P. W. Wilson alleges an in- formal compact between the Cana- N B - | dian government and the republican rate With U. S. in Pacific. |5ty "Gt the United States, by which | the new Canadian squadron, the gift Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘ol the British admiralty, is to proceed OTTAWA, January 15.—The Califor- | to the Pacific coast to co-operate with nia-Japanese question is again to the ;2; "‘,*m;rlun_ fleetl under a unified fore, now that there have been Inti-| naval bases o the ;fnc!'h:'"ed States mation from New York that certain | e e Canadian cruisers are to go to the| «nr. Wilson’s varn is imaginative, Pacific coast, possibly to confederate |but it is mixchievous also, because it s ey o ipa- | implied that Canada, immediately with United States ones in anticipa- | pon receiving the admiralty gift, had tion of some possible future Japanese | proceeded to make use of it to af- menace. {front Japan, Great Britain's ally, ; 3 ? | without Great Britain's knowledge or There is nothing to this; at least|copsent. The Canadian ships—two nothing but what both Americans and | destroyers and two submarines—are Canadians now universally acknowl- on their way to the Pacific coast, but edge—that is, that both countries|not because of any understanding have the same views respecting what ' with the United States or Japan. is generally known as the “yellow There are plenty of British warships peril” on the Atlantic, and the Canadian The Globe, Toronto, one of Canada’s|government has chosen to use its own to patrol the Pacific coast, Where there is an excellent Canadian naval base—at Esquimalt. Canada is at- tending strictly to her own busi- ness. “The fact that Canada and all the British dominions fronting on the Pacific are as much opposed to Asiatic immigration as the United States will no doubt be a factor in shaping the policy of the British gov- ernment and the terms of any new Anglo-Japanese agreement. Nothing Inimical to U. S. “The United States may be assured that, whatever may be the outcome of the present negotiations for the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese treaty, there will be nothing in it inimical to the interests of the Unit- ed States. The Japanese ambassador in London, Baron Havashi, points out that Great Britain is expressly ab- solved in the present treaty from joining Japan in a war against the United States, and that the Anglo- Japanese alliance can never stand in the way of friendly relations betwee the United States and Great Britalr But the presence of a Canadian squad don in the Pacific will have no con- nection whatever with Anglo-Japa- nese or Anglo-American negotiations. j1t is merely the employment of Ca- nadian ships in a purely Canadian, task.” FORTUNE FOR FILIPINOS. Methodist Episcopal Church to Spend Million in Tslands. MANILA L. January 15.—a mil- lion and a quarter dollars will be spent in the Philippine Islands by the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Inext five years. according to Dr. Joseph Cottingham, conference evangelist of the local Methodist mis- sion. who has just returned to the islands after an absence of twe years. The mission plans te-erect 500 build- ings and to participate in the con- struction of two educational institu- ons. N Lord Reading, Who May Become Viceroy of India The Earl of Reading, lord chief jus- widely