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Former French President Keeps Check Upon Briand . SHOWS GERMAN DUTY! TO PAY FOR THE WAR Viviani Says It Would Be Crime for Victor to Alloew Voluntary Bankruptcy of the Conquered. BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN, Germany’s Foremost Publicist. By Cable to The Star. BERLIN, January 22.—A slump on the German stocK exchange, while the mark improves abroad— these are symptoms of our mad economic conditions and illustrate the falseness of our present situa- tion. We groan over unfavorable BY RENE VIVIANA, Former Premier of France. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, January The great danger when such method fails to hasten solutions is that it | gives peoples false hopes which are | followed by djsappointments. 22 _Events have!| What will the next supreme coun- happened rapidly since my ,“";girl “prr:;fluiclecw”“\'g:lrgg;;:':n{:‘g t':::: exchange. hindering imports and article. The Leygues cabinet has Tondon that the near eastern ques- | reparations, but do such volumes of small domestic business that banks, despite doubled personnel. can hardly handle it and constant- ly declare new holidays in order $0 catch up on their business. Col- lections taken In the streets for hungry, unclad children are like catching rain drops in a bottom- less barrel, while an army of offi- cials, undreamed in kaiser times, draws salaries. Vast sums are spent for champagne. needless lux- uries are imported and there are more Walls, dances and gluttonous feasts than before the war. A half of billion marks was gambled in fallen. - After many difficulties. in- herent in the present troubled situa- tion, and after certain political per- sonages, for various reasons, de- clined power, the perilous honor has fallen to Briand. The labor of bring- ing the combination to birth was severe; for, besides complex problems, external policies are complicating the internal policy. Briand had to satisfy certain groups and form a ministry resting on a thinly outspread majority Wwhich obviously will not agree on all ques- tions day after day. The cabinet situation, however, is not exactly precarious, since account must be taken of two facts, and these facts are apparently contradictory tion. as contained in the Sevres treat: which has been further obscured by | the overthrow of Venizelos. will be passed over, since opportunity for study since last November has been insufficient. Reparations and Disarmament We are told also that the repara- tions question is yet unripe and that means of knowing Germany's paying capacity are still not possessed by | allied governments. The question of Germany’s disarmament remains; con- cerninfthifl there will be much talk, includfng the problem of effectives massed in Bavaria under RAYMOND POINCARE, Who is said to lead am ever-vigilant opponition and who demands that new names. French enbinet strictly enforce the Shall they be reduced at one stroke | treaty of Versailes. or tolerated a while in exchange for | the destruction of heavy armament material? We shall know in a few various Parliament is becoming increasingly | days. The certaintv is that the grave | impatient to obtain satisfaction injreparations and the near eastern: Berlin during the racing season. foreign questions. When it sees the | problems will be sidetracked in the A disarmament question getting farther | official deliberations, though they | = and farther away from settlement [cannot be sidetracked in the’ public Toops with many various names . and the same true so far as repara- |mind. for their regiments hear loud However. the reparations problem is easily the most disquieting factor n public opinion, as since the armi- stice France has imposed extremely heavy taxes ard has had recourse to various expedients in order to live, to pay debts and to make loans for the restoration of-her devastated de- partments. ‘Wealth Resources of Germany. Meanwhile, Germany. without in- &easing_taxes. with identical rail- road and postal rates, her laboring and business population. except the middle class, enriched, offers a spec- l tacle of public distress along with her be allowed to go ahead. but results | private riches. This raises the fors of its policy will be anxiously | midable agnestion of whether it be ‘watched. Meanwhile. the council of | tolerable that the state shall plead the prime ministers of allied nations | ruin while » majority of its citizens - meets in Paris on Monday. For our|are rich and whether. in the name part we have small taste for these|of moralitv and justice, this apparent meetings. It seems to us that am- | discord hetween state distress and bassadors of all allied countries are | private fortune prove acceptable. appointed to receive instructions from | 1t certainly seems that the Ger- their respective governments and try | mans, being historically and politi- to carry them out at the foreign of- | cally responsible for war and its fices to which they are accredited | consequences, ought to make finan- and that. therefore. the best plan | cial and budgetary effar's to provide Copyright, 1921, woul " to convoke a meeting of [ the German state wWith resources SN , movernments only to draw comclusions | meeded fo pav 1¢n debts, The German | VIENNA, January 21—Before the after the ambassadors had prepared | =tate did not sien the peace treaty.|War Russia and Rumania were the the w: but Germany in ite entiretv, and hers [only European countries requiring The advantage of this method would | is the responsibility before iatory. | passports and possessing secret po- { . that ambassadors l Srthiae thetr Caeal ey Crime to Allow Bankruptey. lice. Today all of Europe is czarized, ‘ It is certainly proper that victors!and in traveling from Warsaw to i tions are concerned, it insists strongly upon a solution. these questions are not solved by the present cabinet, parliament will be even more impatient with the next. This impatience, facing the prac- tically negative results obtained by ygues, caused his overwhelming repudiation. But on the other hand parliament realizes that not alone is ministerial responsibility at stake, but likewise a collective responsibility weighing on it, t0o, in the eyes of the countr; ‘Will Anxiously Wateh Cabinet. ‘Therefore, the present cabinet ™' whisperings that their existence is Justifiable to the entente allies only becm_lse they overthrow communist revolutions. Yet we seem %ur- prised at bloodshed at every harm- less meeting. We are helpless be- fore the decree forbidding Austrian union with Germany; it is regard- ed as the greatest crime of the peace, yet every financier -and nearly every politician secretly ad- mits that Germany is quite unable to bear the burden of setting Aus- tria's house in order. As in ancient times, every stranger was considered a barbarian and a deadly enemy, so now it is consid- ered a patriotic duty to spread lies for enemy ears. As during the war, Liar Bethmann Hollweg is being glorified by this strange republic and the unpolitically minded Ger- man people are again having ham- mered into them the doctrine that they are surrounded by greedy enemies and in danger of annihila- tion. They are told that they must use all weapons, even craft and lies, to defend against this con- spiracy. This is quite immoral and all well meaning people should join to free the splendid German people £rom the mists of such false illusions. INEUROPE BIG ITEM More Outlay for Vises, War- saw to Paris, Than in Rail- road Travel. AMERICANS SUFFER MOST Countries Which U. S. Aided Most Demand the Highest Prices, Is the Report. BY A. R. DECKER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. and ,:lhlb!. ue;:ond. time for mediation h | Justi hould not K would be given governments which | championing justice should not make are in a position to weigh advan. | exaggerated demands and not render | P2rls you will spend more money for fages and disadvantages of a Eiven | German economic life impossible. In | Passport vises than for railroad fare, situation. hct._ it is to lh!ll: interest not to do |and you will lose more time in ob- The only advantage of Monday's|so. since Germany's economic restora- { -t W21 W 5 o8¢ WOT meeting in to hasten business and | tion is the condition of their own | Aning yises than the duration of ;:‘: reatoration. Nevertheless it would be | (1P | 1f you are an American you reach solutions more promptly. Un- G ess it wou ortunately, it cannot be claimed that | the most revolting crime in_history | ¥l 2 1E victory were o be followed by the | five to several hundred times. Amer- sensational meetings thus far have Y vielded great results. Since ratifica- | voluntary bankruptcy of the con.|lcan business men have complained Suered before the eyes of the world |re8arding the discrimination and loss ol tion of the treaty numerous.meetings have been held, yet we pereceive no | it ravaged. f time, declaring that the present practical application of the treaty. * x % % Socialist industrial workers di- vided into three parties, violently (Copyright, 1921.) passport ditficuities are keeping , ___THE SUNDAY STAR, JANUARY 2, 1921-PART--2. Harden Scores German Nation for Deliberate Policy of Lies and Wantonness mistake of denying the charge that the Imperial government was re- sponsible for the war, pretending such admission would be a confes-, sion of the guilt of the German people. They forget that this de- nial of the world's verdict must arouse false suspicion that the German people in 1914 were not deceived by a lying government, but were party to the plot, and that they now are, wittingly or unwittingly, fostering a spirit of revenge especially among those who have lost military or civil po- sitions. The old imperial flag. abolished under the republic. is en- thusiastically cheered, even by small group capitalists who at the first shock of the kaiser's fall called themselves the democratic party. Students rage against a professor who praises a celebrated French mathematician. Another professor, also at a big university, who in lecturing on chemistry uses the word ‘react'on.” is ded wildly, indicating that whatever is reactionary is today welcome. The near approach of the “great day when all German-spexaking people are united,” is openly proclaimed. A Prussian league demands speedy return 'of the Hohensollern rule. The fiftleth anniversary of the Ver sallles proclamation was celebrat- ed officially just as if the German empire, then founded, still existed. The Raiserin’s health is prayed for in churches. The government says no warning word. The Prussian parliament elec- tions, which wil be held in Febru- ary, wil show a swelling of the flood of nationalist sentiment. * ok k% Lying is not only disgraceful, but also, thank God, is stupid: silence is complicity. Blind gamblers are dragging a people, who are as nec- essary to the world as the world is to them, along a path which must end in a precipice and will drag, all humanity into new and unbear- able confusion. * Kk ok, The Briand ministry in France is probably the last attempt at a friendly and dignified understand- ing on our continent. This is an hour of vast importance and it will never return. Any discussion of various questions, even the most - important, namely, reparations, is idle without a clearing of the at- mosphere, and this both sides have thus far avoided. Germany, and especially a unified ertente—f the . latter were strengthened by the participation of America—could, with the clarified atmosphere lay the foundation for a new interna- Mexican Diplomat Playing .+ Leading Role as Arbiter a few weeks Barra niready holds the prexidency o jtke mixed Franco-Austr! tion commin:lon extabl! treaty of St. Germafi STINNES, GREATEST FIUREINGERMANY Engaged in Combining Trusts | That Will Dominate the Life of the Country. LOCKS TO FAR FUTURE Close Personal Friend Asserts That the Magnate's Work Is Influ- enced by Glowing Patriotism. Cross-Atlantic Cable Service to The Star. BERLIN, January 22.—Out of ‘the great seething vortex of sentiments, men and events which the German republic presents to the mental eye today, only one rock stands forth solid and unshakable, only one man perturbably—Hugo Stinnes, who ha: made up his mind to emulate Rocke: than America. carries out his plans absolutely im- feller and show the world that to the right man Germany today, in spite of all confusion and discord, is the land of the unlimited possibilities, no less 3 BRITISH TRIALS TAX GENIUS OF PREMIER That Lloyd G BY GEORGE N. BARNES. Former Member of the British War Cabinet and Delegate to the Peace Conference at Pari By Cable to The Star. LONDON, January 22.—The political barometer of Great Britain points to unsettled conditions. The many dis- turbing elements in the Irish situa- tion constitute one storm center: the far eastern troubles are another. Then, too, there are the barnacles in the government service, bequeathed by the war, each sticking to his job like a limpet to its rock. Moreover. the unemployed have grown, during the past week or two, to alarming proportions, and ate now naturally being exploited by the revolutionaries among us. And last, but not le: the public mind has been startled this week by two events of magni- tude. The first was the publication of documents connecting the Germans with the Irish insurgency during the war. The second was the Sinn Fein outbreak in London, when an attempt was made to set fire to an oil ware- house. Many blame the government for all these troubles; .indeed, this fact has only lately been reflected in two elec tions. In one of these this week the government candidate retained his seat only by the skin of his teeth: in the other, the government candi- date, Maj. Astor, was ignominiously defeate . \ Normally stch events ‘would —por- tend an early general election. Lioyd George may intend to bang on, hoping to liquidate the war settle- ments before quitting, but this will tax to the utmost his genius for po- litical strategy. According to pre ent _indications, he is .losing h! stride. Debt Csncellation Suggested. A startling suggestion was made the other day by a British cabinet minister that the British debts to America be canceled, debts of other European countries to Great Britain be canceled. The Sug- gestion, originating in such a quar- ter, is prbof of the parlous state to which the war has brought us. In- deed. it is more. Nemesis warning us that peace-time finance is not applicable to the de- bacle of wa! There is much to be said for reciprocal cancellation. Our debt was incurred. largely .on behalf of bur poorer allies early in the war. We will never be repaid, simply be: cause those now and foreve! ASKS U. 5. TOBACK and also tha’|common sense. George N. Barnes Says Indications Are eorge Is Losing His Stride. | will be unable to pay us. And if | they did it would glut our markets {and further paralyze our trade. The moral argument for cancella- tion is that all the civilized coun- | tries of the world were concerned {in the war, therefore nome should | hemefit by belated participation in It If America insists on payment | Rritain will naturally p | above points are surely consideration in the United States. Differences Narrowing. At the great league of nations dem- onktration Wednesday Viscount Grey said that the letter of the league must not stand in the way of any na- tion that belongs to the league in spirit. A dispatch from Marion. Ohio, on the previous day said that Senator Harding felt his responsibil- ity and that the necessity of the itimes, as well as the interests of his country. demanded solid support for plans which would make war more 1difficult. The differences between the {.two sides of the Atlantic are narrow- x‘lnz. There must be collaboration be- twean the two sections of the English- !speaking peovles Meantime. good ek to Mr. Harding on his Florida {holidaxr! May he return to health and i gain strength for the great task be- fore him! Troubles in South Europe. There are new troubles in south Europe, where war-liberated nations are squabbling busily over the land- marks of their neighbors. And In the north the Lithuanians object to the Vilna plebiscite—apparently because they fear the politics of the majorit The Poles suggest as an alternative a Lithuanian-Polish federation. but Lithuania demands prior recognition of her fronmtiers, with withdrawal of Zeligowski, but this the latter re- fuses to do. Meanwhile the bolshevists are massing troops and may crush both. unless there is a timely return to The Irague of nations certainly inherited a.mess of trouble in.a world awry, ar 1 it will require ali the support an! good guidance possible in the coriing months. The Rapallo treaty. meantime met- It is the finger of {4105 the affairs of Italy amd Jugo- slavia, though it is a sad reflection that it leaves a half million Slovenes under Ttaly, largely as the result ,of the helpfulness of Wilson and the préoceupations and commitments of the allied powers. (Copyright. 1 IHELIGGLAND NOW AR ON RUSS REDS. A SEASIDE RESORT Maj. Colton of Winnipeg Pro-|Germans Industriously De- poses Canada Also Assist | = stroying the Fortifica- ‘in Aiding Offensive. tions. Cross-Atlantic Cable-Betvice to The Star. A ross-Atiantit Cable Service to The Siar. Americans from developing their for- Aneric tional morality and world order. German disarmament must not be the beginning of her destruction, but of the disarmament of all Europe, which is unable to breathe without first removing her armor. When 1 last met the German mag- nate in his quiet apartments at the Hotel Adlon he told me that the Spa conference had taught him a lesson—. never again to take a personal part fcs. - “This does not mean, of he added, “that I shall mot use of politics as a tool to fur- fighting one another, are per- suaded by their leaders that ques- tions of the state are meaningless to the proletariat and that the only important thing for them to ade. Americans Hard Hit. Strangely, the countries which we are supposed to have aided the most demand the highest prices for vises PLAN FRAUD TO WIN LIFE OF EX-KAISER mal and make the most difficuities for Americans. - Belglum, Czechoslovakia and Austria charge Americans t| equivalent: of §10 for, Visék, while the charge for other natlonalities varfes trom nothing to the equiValent of $2. Recently the Austrians ‘charged me 1,000 Czech crowns (more than $12) for a vise. 3 The excuse is that the price of American passports has been raised to $10. However, the parallel is in- exact use the American phssport is good for a year, and {s the same for all and is used for a long visit, in the course of which the holder may make P —Int .| & forune. The Austrian vise is good ARIS, January 22.—Interesting de- | ¢ %00t wo months, is discrimina- tails of how the ex-kalser is spending | (ory and the holder often intends exile at Doorn are published by ‘the | merely-to ride ""vl:‘l‘:‘ tthe edu:ury. Paris Matin, which sent the correspond- | A real parallel woul e to require a ent to Holland o ascertain whether | Series R T U e S an on e way ‘'om orl 0 Lioyd George's remark. “He has been |Chicago. The Germans charged me suffigiently punished,” was founded on |$10 to ride through Germany to fact. Czechoslovakia without getting off The report states that the ex.kaiser the train. leads a retired. but very comfottable France Broad-Minded. life in Doorn, “which is no St. Helena. dois to capture and demolish the capitalist fortress. All citizen partles, however di- vided on domestic policy by shades of ‘economic theory, are united on nationalism, all making the same UPPER SILESIA VOTE IS ONE OF COMFORT German Election Methods as Described by a Danis!n Journalist. Oress-Atiantie Cable Service to The Star. COPENHAGEN, January 22.—“What the Germans did to the Danes in Flensborg. in Slesvig, will happen to the Polish population in Upper Silesia and all other plebiscite districts, if the entente does not watch events in time,” writes'a Danish journalist who has gone to Upper Silesia to study German election methods. |Surrounded by a Suite of Fifty Persons, Devoted to Him. Cross-Atlantic Cable Service to The Star. His Country in ‘Tammany leader green with envy, he says, “to watch the way in which German_electioneering is carried out here. In the most b German agents here announce that in accordance with paragraph 88 of the peace treaty Germany intends to send into the plebiscite district not less than half a million so-called Upper Silesians, picked up in the slums of all the large cities of Ger- many for the purpose of colonizing asd make a result favorable to Ger- many an absolute certainty. ’ Colonisation Plan. “The population of Upper Silesia consists of about 2,100,000 inhabitants, of whom about 1,250,000 are Poles and 800,000 Germans. The number of voters is naturally less, as only in- dividuals of twenty years and over are entitled to vote. An unbiased es- timate puts the number of. Polish voters at 600,000. A Polish victory would, therefore, be absolutely cer- France is the only country which 1t is a fine place of 3,000 residents, and |pas been broad-minded enough to the surrounding country would make an ideal health resort. qn;e Dutch au. | realize that czarism does not pay. In thorities exercise a certain survelllance, | Paris you obtain a vise for 2 francs but he receives news and visitors from {40 centimes (normally 48 cents) to Germany. leave the country, and you enter Expects Call to the Throme. France for about “:so‘dntl;:ft(r'ln.ltnlfl- According to the statement of gium recently redu insit vise informed persons. Wilhelm tar sen. |0 Z Bold france (40 cents), in accord- vinced that his son—if not he himself— |ance with the suggestion of the will some day be called back to the |league of nations when it considered throne by the German people. And so Seneral passport regulations. he 15 of g0od cheer. The ex-kaiser has| It is almost impossible to obtain a a suite of fifty persons, who are de-|vise the same day that it is asked for voted to him. There i¥ strict disci- |and often it is necessary to return pline, and the kaiser himself and his|many times. In Vienna I have passed court ma 1, Count Gunther, see to |three full days in obtaining an Italian it that everything is done in military |vise. The Germans have a special bu. style. The latter, a martinet, is the |reau for foreigners and a special offi terror of the servants, who are partly |cial for Americans, but even in Berlin Dutch, partly German. The kaiser |it'Tequires a tedious wait. The ridic- tries hard to become popular, but ow- [ulous passport and baggage examina- ing Jo the strict economy which he |tions at the frontiers ceuso much nl:;- must practice under rules lai of time, to say nothing of the annoy- tain but for the unfortunate addition |the Dutch government et f:: ‘l:y'. ance of getting out of one's berth at to the peace treaty, which allows all | poration of Doorn, this is rather diffi- |4 a.m. to wade through slush and rain who have been born in Upper Silesia fcult. and stand for hours in the cold. As to vote, regardless of their present| He lives the simple life and is an|{a Vienna merchant, who spent five domicile. This gives Germany her|early riser. At 8:30 he takes his con- | days and nights in reaching Bucharest chance, and during the last twelve (stitutional, which extends to the gate, |said: “Only men with rbbust consti- months associations have been form-|where he can be seen from the outside, | tutions should attempt this trip.” over Germany under th A S acusts Vertaends: Halmss: His Personal Appearance. Few Through Trains. The correspondent who saw ‘him| Through trains run in only a few treuer Ob:mhmxrr 't s po: direction of prominen! serman e say; e appears to be in ex- [directions. They are very slow and leaders. A few of these “Ober-|cellent health. His gra he lets grow. has chanoad tor aruhich |very expensive because of national obstacles. The worst locomotivesand schlesier” are genuine and the import of them would not fnfluence the elec- Physiognomy’. tion result, if the greatest care were s demeanor and appeara: a1 atelgtven) the rain or faken to see that all of Polish |not betray old age. Wrapped In a fong |Loa oierate dclays are planned were excluded and their|Wide pelerine, wearing a cap with & | fience the trains are usually late, al HN;III feather, breeches and leather though the running time allowance js Eaiter®y he approached the gardeners |groater than it was before the war. and ‘taiked to them, watching their | The conductor of & Paris-Prague train Wwork at the same time, and illustrated [told me that it could not continue instructions by drawin, To Outwit the Poles. sand with his stick " o s rl‘l:“rl:: :nma longer because of the slow “To prevent Polish voters from to the castle, where a religt making a complaint to their own Pol- {15 held. On Sundays this ‘servics is Generally oo A roven: Thus . ish commissioners their names will be | celebrated in a special hall by & Gers | 28 Lle CoM Bro e nree houts from duly entered on the voting lists, but |man clergyman. e rening time of the Berlin-Vienna when the moment comes for their de- “Wilhelm keeps up a_ brisk inter- | express between Prague and Vienna. parture for Upper Silesia their pa-|course with his neighbors, mostly | Soon passports and baggage will be pers will be refused them, and their | Dutch aristocrats and wealthy Amster. | examined on the trains, and more places will be taken by the trained!dam citizens who own esiates near|time will be gained, with infinitely professional voters who will be given!Doorn, and whom he often inviteg to | greater convemience to the pessen- free transportation and board and dinner. gera. People are beginning to tire of lodging until the moment it is known ol aeiaye and o e irtke ot WILL QUARANTINE DOGS. that they have voted the right way. Rl harn FaliFoad & crow France Will Detain Pets Taken to BY LOUIS L. KLOTZ Finance Minister in Clemenceau’s Cabinet and Representative of France at the Peace Conference. Cross-Atiantic Service to The Star. PARIS, January 14.—It has become the fashion for the unthinking to speak of France only In terms of pit- eous criticism—pity for the state in which she was left after the war, se- vere criticism for the weakness shown Yn her efforts to re-establish her economic and financial balance. Let us see it France deserves this criticism—if she really is faced with the dire prospects which are pictured for her. France is the debtor to several other nations for the reason that during the war, when her flelds were desert- ed; her factories in ruins or busy making war material, she had to buy bher needs from foreign countries. With the war ended she had to oc- cupy herself with the task of re- building her ruins and again she had to buy the necessary materials abroad, To have hesitated before making these purchases would have improved the exchange situation, but it also would have ll‘ne:.m delaying recon- struction work, The exchange rate between the dol- lar and franc bears witness to our in- debtedness to the United States; it does not, however, indicate assets ac- Quired by France in exchange for these debts abroad—it does not re- veal any sign of the hundreds of re- built hquses, factories, bridges, rail- roads, mor does it reflect the benefit which will be derived later from the thousands and hundreds of thousands of acres of shell-torn land which, thanks to the agricultural machinery bought on credit abroad, will fill the granaries of France to overflowing in future years. The state of the French treasury reflects the borrowing, in- vesting, struggling movement of the present; it must not be considered as & reflection of the future. Fremch Expenditures. Before looking to ‘the future it is necessary to look at the past. From the 1st of August, 1914, until the 31st of December, 1919—that is, for the pe- riod of the war and that of the armi- stice—the expenses of the ordinary budget reached 187,500,000,000 francs. Extraordinary outlays, such a: vances to our allies, etc, brought the total up to 195 billion francs at least. Such was the burden laid upon France; could she have minimized it, reduced e it? l;a us w this money was spent. “lm than 116 billion francs were spent on the army. Never at any time was there any discussion about the advisability of this expenditure. The 2oldier was given everything possible to aid him in his fight for liberty and wvictory. _ Military expenditures thus formed 59 per cent of the total. Of the remainder, 25 billions, or 13 per cent, were devoted to an equally in- evitable obligation—the nation's obli- gations in face of the mational debt. 22 billions and a half went to the re- lief of families impoverished by the war in order to preserve social soli- It was with the 11 per cent which remained after the foregolng, expenditures, that.the government was conducted, pubjic services carried on places filled by trained voters who have already done duty during the election in the Slesvig plebiscite dis- trict. conditions are improving supreme insult should it ever reach their ears. If they would repay it by keeping their eyes and ears open and step in before the elections it might do some good.” MINERS GIVE LABOR TO POOR. January 22.—To benefit Lelpzig, all coal miners trict are work- “The Germans here are highly Southern a crow amused at the fact that the Polish e A e ' train to Grats, delegates were foolish enough to ac- e pon the passengers organized . copt the plebiscite idea, trusting to e ag of men armed with suto- President Wilson's eolemn official H matics, who forced the engineer to promise that the United States would er Shores by Tourists. complete the trip. Be the voting was performe: n B A O st manner, and sarcas-| PARIS, January 22—American vis.| $10 Fee Viewed as “Mistake” tically declare that it will be per-|itors to France. who bring their pet| American consular officers, tell me foflnad-fil the“l;l‘n'll ll:prnvad dAmer’ dogs with them will have to part with | that, in their opinion, the $10 vise is ican on with colonizers and even o O g mechods with which | (NeIF Pets as soon as they reach the|a mistake, for it '-:rln‘llm‘reprl:u President ‘Wilson is undoubtedly fa; French shores, under a government | Without ‘“::‘;_l‘, :‘l s u"“ o, miliar from his own party elections.” algn against Eeckuss DEo! ve emigrants, espe- ‘The Danish journalist adds: -1 won- [0 yen SEainst the spread of ra-| Oyt organtaed undesirabies, can der what Americans would say to this | Ples. The government has ordered the | easily afford the price. Passports, Veterinary Medical Soclety of France |stringent frontier regulations and bad to experiment and produce the requi. | train facilities ars the thres curaes of 1 e rope, e site vaccine.. This is being done npecand ke 310 paseport Fule i of all re difficulties enough. It poodies_and other canines in France | 1o o sistake to imagine that Shy of will go forth. Foreign dogs reaching |these countries is inclined to favor French ports will be kept In quar- |the Americans, who, on the contrary, antine for ten days, during which |are almost considered legitimate y time they will be subject to the vac- | because the Americans have dollars. cination treatment. France is the last | American foreign trade cannot de- of the principal European countries|velop until the United States gove to attack the traveling liberty of the | MeDt insists upon its citisens recei ¢ [dos. Englana has had o quarantine | 5E,L" 3 Cther nationsia.. AL Ioeat; 1 provision for visiting canines for ‘a | o ! 3 free | long time and similar r e e~ BERLIN, the pgor of requi; equal it from. the ictions are | countries it is asked to afd and which in force in Germany an¢¥pain. it has alded so bountifully. Whogver brings thig enlightening idea into the minds of the Germap people must take advantage of this last hour of grace. The clock has ! begun striking. (Copyright, 1921.) Time of Stress. - - and other charges, increased indirect- 1y by the war, met and liquidated. In 1920 our ‘expenditures had to be revised; increased credits were voted, including a sum of about 21 and half billion francs reimbursable by payments to be made by Germany. The total credits voted thus totaled, roughly, 44 billions, the sum of the budget of expenses for the year, Last year France spent 35 per cent of her Tesources for the work of reclaiming the allies’ Dbattleflelds—a charge which she might well have expected to have borne in common with those allies. ‘Why Taxes Were Not Heavier. In view of these expenditures what resources has our c E Eesons ountry to count France often has been reproached for not having financed the war by taxing her people as certain of her allies are sald to have done. But I ask: Can one reasomabiy compare countries which were able to wage war with their territorial integrity unimpalired,’ with all of their natioaal resources untouched by the enemy and with their people safe from the aggressor, with a country which, while bearing its share of the general burden, also served as the battlefield? Can one compare a country on which the enemy never trod with one in which ten departments were, from the beginning, under the enemy’ heel? Can it be overlooked that these ten departments are the richest in France, yielding one-fifth of the n: tional taxation resource: Can it be expected that France, which had to mobilize 89 per cent of its male popu- lation of military age, could have de- pended upon tax receipts to wage its war? And even now can it be for- gotten when talking of taxation that France's killed are more than 1,300, 000; her wounded more than 3,000, 000, of whom half are reduced to 60 per cent of their working capacity? Loss of Man Power. Let Americans who feel impatient with the slow. progress of France to- ward industrial activity and financial prosperity remember that the im- mense army of our dead and incapaci- tated i{s 25 per cent larger than the valiant Army which the United States sent to help us win the war? One out of every three of our soldiers failed to return to hid fireside after the war ad- |or returned in a condition preventing him_ from resuming his place in the workshop or in the flelds. It is to comes from abroad—from lands of lighter hearts—bringing, in bitter- sweet tones, in the guise of comfort, the counsel of prudence and exhor- tations to fiscal courage. France is proud that she had the energy to raise by her taxation system (devised during & period of crisis) nearly & sixth part of the expense of the war. To give an exact figure, 31,973 million francs, or 16 per cent of the total|8 French war cost, has been raised from August 1, 1914, to December 1, 1919, by taxation. For the rest, it has been necessary to resort to public borrowing in all its forms and the world knows Now French men and women have responded. ) FINANCIAL POLICY OF FRANCE IN WAR AND SINCE DEFENDED th interests, for every man in Doa but I shall my position must do that, ‘content to follow the example by; -the great. American captains of industry to pull wires and make use i{ot obliging professional politicians as :|pawns in my game.” < This was said some weeks ago, and . |since then Hugo Stinnes has never | appeared in the press, least of all In which is to be launched mext spring. asked to back an offensive against the Russian soviets on four fronts LONDON, Japuary 22.—The.United| LONDON, January 22 —Heligolan« t|States and Canada are about to be"l‘ha name it the ‘little island bring: ! back to-Ahé Mmagination the descriptions llns! gigafitie’ “Gérman: fortifications of .| which we used to read in the early days Maj. C. R. Colton of Winnlpeg, the|of the war, and that famous thirty-mile lexpert on Russign affairs in the!halo of mineflelds, which certainly kept APPeSE the scores of newspapers helBritish army intelligence department,” the enemy fleet-away from the island, owns and whose editors are meré pup- pets. But the great billionaire has not beep inactive, and the fruits of his|sajs that ighty brain are now beginning to [become apparent in the shape of gi- gantic trusts which within a short timg will dominate the financial, eco- nomical and industrial life of Ger- Louis L. Klotz, Member of Clelficnceau’s‘ Cabinet, Praises Accomplishments of many. Combiniag the Banks. Stinnes began with the banks. 400 millions of marks, and the gob- bling up by this bank of such well as the known financial institutions Hannoversche Bank, Braunschweig- ische Privatbank. and the Gotha Pri- vatbank. The Deutsche Bank has be- sides acquired control of the Wuer- tembergische Vereingbank and the Hildesheim Bank. : Infiluence in Industry. But to an even larger extent has the influence of Stinnes made itself felt in German industry. He now practically possesses a monopoly of the German mining industry through {the Deutsche-Luxemburgische Berg- werksesellschaft and the Gelsenkir- chener Bergwerksgesellschaft, with his latest acquisition, the Bochumer Verein. Not satisfled with his gigantic mo- nopoly Stinnes has just succeeded in linking with the enterprises just mentioned the huge interests of the Siemens-Schuckert Werke, the great electricity trust of old Germany. That Stinnes is the most useful citi- zen of his country at the present moment is not to be doubted, and as a creator of trusts he already stands without an equal in the world. Raw Materials and Manufacturisg. It is present ecomomical conditions in Germany which form the back- ground of this enormous concentra- tion of power, because they unmis- takably point toward the closest pos- sible co-operation between the in- terests producing raw materials and the industrial activities manufactur- ing the finished articles. Stinnes himself is Juoted as saying that if Germany Is to rise again and main- tain her former pesition in the mar- kets of the world, she must make the road between raw material and the finished arti¢le as short and as cheap as possible. He added that if he sucoeeds, not even the United States will be able to compete with him, but will have to acknowledge them- selves beaten in their own game. I have tried to get Stinnes to grant me an interview, only to be told in the most polite’ manner that the great magnate, though he appreciates Credited With Great Patriotism. A close personal friend of his in- fo¥ms me, however, that a glowing atriotism, far stronger than his de- sire for money or power, lies behind Stinnes’ efforts, and that it is his greatest hope that the work he is now doing will become of the great- est importance to Germany’s future by joining together Prussian, Ba- varian and Rhenish-Westphalian key industries in the closest possible com- munity of interests, which neces- sarily must strongly counteract all the separistic tendencies. which con- stitute the greatest danger to the country at present. With this object in view, Stinnes has insisted that all agreements binding all these gigantic interests together are.to remain in force for not less than eighty years. ‘The independent German press now renders full justice to Stinnes’ patri- otic spirit, and it is of some interest to notice that even the soclalistic Vorwaerts has nothing but praise for the great work he has performed, although it adds that from a so- cialistic viewpoint its greate: im- portance lies in the fact that it will reatly facilitate the soclalization of the industrial activities in question. At the present moment, I unde! stand, Stinnes is endeavoring. to add Walther Rathenau's great Allge- mr:Ilne El::trlclfile'—mull)lehfl! (Gen- e ric mpany) . and - the| mininghindustries of Upper Silesia to his cofipine. X B B His was the master brain which planned the increase of the capital of the Leutsche Bank from 2756 millions to assist in international ‘recruiting. Program of Offensive. The program of offense as hold Kieft, - e Military chiefs are that France So-operate if-Britain joins. co-operate “Our biggest .problem is to finance such a - campeign” .eays Colto; “Within three mont! have popular drives started in Ca and the United States to raise §1 000,000. Sees Collapse ot Seviet. this year if the United four-front offensive. OBREGON WANTS MEXICO 70 PAY- FOR REBEL ACTS 'Will Make Recommendation in His Message on Ground That Laws Favor Such’ Damages. MEXICO CITY, January 22—Ree- ommendation that the Mexican gov: sustained by individuals and com- panies during revolutionary periods in this country will be made to the Mexican congress by President Ob- regon. This announcement was made yesterday afternoon during a confer- i ence between the president and mem- bers of a legal commission which has been studying several projects to be ubmitted to the extraordinary ses- fon of congress beginning Kebru- ary 7. Gen. Obregon asserted during the discussion, personally. he did not be- lieve the government should be obliged to pay these indemnities, say- ing, “Revolutions are merely process. es of evolution toward progress. He added, however, Mexican laws already enacted favored such payments, he felt bound to submit a recommendation to that effect.® "NERVE SAVES HIS LIFE. Hunter Xills Leaping Tigress Only Two Yards From Him. Coming within ten yards of a wounded and a hunting party in-the Semam- pore (Bengal) jungle. were startied to see the beast crouch and spring to- ward them at lightning speed. The party at once opened fire with- out harming the anjmal, but a steady hot from the governor. drepped the tigress dead within two yards of him. The hunt had started with excellent luck, four tiger cubs being caught within the first hour, but their mother to locate l::'ku’m not e’ the animal” until-they ' w within ten yards ot her. . ... asked to give financial support, but to outlined e in ;:{.ter'enc; n the plan of campaign an P Ming. the Nnaucial backing needed. has agreed to! Zolton.| “ad hs, however, we'li nada | P9t «I've been fighting the bolsheviki{ tified rocks of Heligoland, has a very for three years and have just returned from a tour of invéstigation in and around Russie and I'm positive that the bolshevik republic will collapse States and Canada give sufficient support to our ernment pay indemnities for damage CALCUTTA, .India, January 22— (Wi is here making the arrangements. He | but which also rendered useless the for- America will not only bel tifications of. the island itself. Yet when the boat from Cuxhaven ap- proaches the island. one gets, not the impression of emtering a fortress, but simply that of approaching a summer so far includes simultaneous nnunxl resort very much out of season. against the soviets by the armies of Wrangel and Kerensky and of tWol. crossing of the Heligoland Bight for Polish generals, one of whom now The wind was, blowing flercely, and the six passengers on board was but a moderately pleasing affair. In a whirl- wind of dust and scraps of paper we ent ashore, The mighty military har- bor is still there. So fre the mighty sheds, the great cranes, the elevated bins, -the elaborate appliances of the vanced nest” of the German fleet: the harbor is empty. Like a German Seaside Resort. At the other side the Unterland, the sandy platfornmi on which stand the for- . “Big hotels of stucco and 1P e restaurants, and clnema palaces give. it the-look of the normal German seaside . I am told that this first after-war season, in spite of the unfavorable conditions, has been a great success. irty-five thousand bathers have been there, “enjoying” the demoli- tion of their fortress almost as much as they used to enjoy the construction of it a few years 8g0. Patented System of Destruction. A firm from Hamburg is carrying out the job with Teutonic thorough- ness. The chlef engineer who show- ed me around impressed.on me that the system employed is the exclusive property of his firm. patented all round the world. He seemed 5o anxious to persuade me that it is the best gun-smashing system in exist- ence that I could but offer my sym- thy for the limited amount of work of the kind that there is to be carried ot - “We have nearly finished with the iron plates and guns; now we will have to tackle the concrete”—a still harder job. There are cubic miles of it, Then the harbor will have to be déstroyed: onme arm of it only will probably be left as a promenade for {summer visitors. It will be a great at- traction. Heligoland is designed to become the most “colossal” summer resort of the North sea. Those Germans are absolutely in- curable! They could no longer have the colossal fortress; so now they want the colossal bathing. resort! Utilising the Splinters. The higher part of the Island is al- most covered with small splinters from the explod>d guns and plates. The debris, carted to a collecting point, is shoveled down a toboggan rrangement which makes it roll like a trickling_stream of iron down to the shore. Hence it finds its way to Cuxhaven and Hamburg, I suspect, to ivade the world in the shape of ingly cheap g The island will assuredly never be round resort. In November, a hotel open and with only ingy theater posters and incements of tigress, Sir Edward Gait, the retir- |bathi ing Lieut. Gov. of Bihar.and Orissa, | it te the continent !::l:m W -grog and rushed down em- "’I.-nk-nt_-A red- md.' muffied