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s RUHR OCCUPATION ' CALLED FATAL STEP jMaximilian Harden Declares That Only 1921—PART 1 RUSS CONDITIONS REPORTED BETTER THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MAY 8, e —_— DENIES CLEMENCEAU (SN FEINTOVOTE SUFPRESSED FACTS) pmsur TN Tardieu Disputes Lauzanne’s Charge Amer- FRENCH MILITARY LEADERS DISCUSS PLANS FOR FURTHER I GERMANY. = ican Opposition to League Was Kept F rom Pu TARDIEU, mmixsioner to BY ANDRE Former French Hizh © Americ — Americans and interested in friend- be on prises on sed on in- enterpr new gnature accom- sincerely the traditional mu. politics. . One suc n launched in th under the who my purpo K the m rticle 1s to unr ver and to re-es h the truth. Gader the title, American Sen- ate Versus the Clemenceau Cabinet 1 that former at President ‘s request concealed from the public. through the censorship, 1l hostile manif American senators ag of nations nezotiations in He declares notably that the “round robin" signed March 3, 191 by thirty-nine ators. urging t league from the 1 from publication. thus: document was hid from President Wilson, from the plen- fpotentiarics and from the parliamen- erything re- tary committees. mained a secret at P the censor- ship having received orders to sup- press and smother what came from Washington.” In other words, alleges that both countr tematically deceived b governmental powers. Round Robin Published in Paris. The truth, which happens to coin- | ecide with common sense, is quite to the contrary. The round robin was widely pub- lished by the American press and therefore would have been difficult to “hide from Wilson." It was tele- graphed textually to France by the great newszathering organization, the Agence Havas, and was communi- cated to all French papers and pub- lished without the slightest censor- ship on the ith, 5th and 6th of March, as the files of all the papers will shoxw. I. Lauzanne further asserts that round robin was communicated its signers to Count de Cham- brun, charge d'affaires at Washing- ton, with the request that it be for- Le Matin's editor were Sy the abuse of i ja sacrifice of France, M. Clemenceau took precautions against non-ratifica- blication. ;Lauzanne declared that the Knox resolution alone was acceptable to the United States; nothing in the Ver- | sailles treaty was to be henceforth considered. Twenty-four hours later President Harding's address to Congress cate- gorically contradicted this ‘“new: Another mistake, as extraordinary s | tbe others. " Thus illumined ~with proofs, the mancuver stands out} clearly. On the French side it rep resents retrospective i sion | ezainst the Clemenceau policy, led. | with certain American help. by those Frenchmen who, for reasons which I will reveal some day, been his past two n side it Tep- hav relentless enemies for the vears, resents again with On the Ameri retrospective President Wilson's -rtain French help, bles who always combated that} policy. On both the object en i tirely is internal politics. But inte i national relations, which ought to be { sacred to all parties, are used to serve | such an object. That is the xreat { danger to which I desire to call at- tention. French Policy Toward U. S. This much said, 1 will now state, | without fear of contradiction, what | was the French policy toward Amer- ica in 1919: 1. In law, the government negotiat ed with President Wilson. Consider- ing the American Constitution, quot- | ed by President aHrding in his me: sage to Congress, we could not nego- tiate with others, although knowing that any agreement must be ratified by the Senate. The same situation ex- ists in all demecratic countries. 2 In fact, in the only question wherein President Wilson demanded tion in the following manner: Presi- dent Wilson, backed by Lloyd George, having refused to permit the occupa- tion of the left bank of the Rhine be- yond fifteen years. M. Clemenceau be- tween April 3-30, 1919, secured the adoption of the last clause of article 429, which provided that if guaran- tees against German aggression were lacking—meaning if Great Britain and America failed to ratify the spe- cial ‘military treaty—the occupation of the left bank could be prolonged. 3. In other respects President Wil- son accepted often, and defended, lhe[ French theses. Therefore, it was the French gov- ernment’s duty, dictated by purely French interest, to hope that Presi- dent Wilson would get a treaty sat- warded to Paris. which the latter instantly did. This is another dis-| tortion of the truth The records | show that no such visit, mo_such| transmission. ever occurred. More- over the newspaper publications suf- ficed. The only visit paid to De Cham- brun was in December, 1918, by Sen- ator Brandegee of Connecticut, call- ing attention to two speeches, very geaeral in character, concerning the Senate’s rights in treaty making, de- Jivered by Senators Lodge and Knox. The French charge transmitted these in a diplomatic_pouch December 31, 1919, It is needless to add that the paace conference had not then be- gun, hence this move did not have &ny precise character. T may add. from documentary sources, that from January to Octo- ber, 1919, all the speeches made by Senators Lodge, Knox. Borah, John- | son and others were correctly re- ported by Havas to French papers and were published without the least | objection from the censorship. Thus M Lauzanne's statement is contradicted by the facts and is ex- plainable only as a political maneu- Yer, rather amusing as coming from a journalist who was one of Presi- dent Wilson's most ardent worship- ers. Before examining this maneu- ver T wish to mention two others of the same nature revealing equally singular, conceptions of Jjournalism anad to which reference aiready has been guardedly made by well known Armerican writers. Lauzanne’s Reports ington. M. Lauzanne cabled from Washing- ton March 4 last: “Senator Knox in- tends to add a new clause to his reso- lution, of which he kindly gives me the text.” Then followed the clause saying that if European peace again was menaced the United States would consult with the threatened powers and co-operate if necessary in the defense of civilization. ] This allegzed “amendment” simply was the original article 5 of the Knox resolution, introduced in March. 1920, and published everywhere. This er- ror_also was unpardonable. Finally, in the same dispatch PECIAL NOTICES. | From Wash- isfactory to_ France ratified, and to help him to do so. That is what the members of the French cabinet did, notably Clemen- ceau and myself, in speeches of Sep- tember 24 and 25, expressing the hope that the treaty would be ratified. Washington™ at the time was hesi- tating. ~Moreover, despite President Wilson's iliness, leaving the fleld free to his adversaries for six months, the treaty lacked only six votes of ratifi- cation in March, 1920. Anyhow, what- ever the final vote might be, it was not the French government's business to assist the opposition, which was fighting a policy undeniably favorable to France. There is the truth. The peoples of both countries must have it if tho basis of their relations is to remain clear and wholesome despite the re- grettable efforts of certain politi- cians to the contrary. This truth is summed up in three statements: 1. No anti-treaty manifestations of republican senators ever was con- cealed from the French. AIl were published. Furthermore, it is_ab- surd to think they could have been concealed. 2. On_the question of the left bank of the Rhine, the only point on Which the French thesis suffered a tempo- rary setback, Clemenceau took ef- fective precautions against non-rati- fication, which are operative even if America_does not ratify the treaty, i namely the prolongatiou of the occu- pancy. 3. On the whole, the Clemenceau government, without meddling in American internal debates, in which j it was not concerned, believed Presi- dent Wilson's policy was based ona spirit of solidarity better for France than the policy of the irreconciliables, as pursued for two years and affirmed by Senator Lodge in his latest speech, in which, abandoning his own reser- vations, he goes over to Senator Knox as against President Harding and Secretary Hughes. Consequentiy, the French govern- ment of 1919 steadfastly hoped that the Wilson policy would triumph. 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There is no sign of weak- ening as yet, and it seems clear that only a war of attrition. will compel the men eventually to return to work. (Copyright, 1921.) REFUSAL TO HONOR SAINT STIRS PROTEST IN FRANCE Most Cities Plan Elaborate "Cele- bration for Joan of Arc, But Some Plead Economy. PARIS, May 7.—Buildings are be- flagged and illuminations have been placed in preparation for the cele- bration Sunday in honor of St. Joan of Arc. One of the principal ob- servances will be at the saint's birth- place, Domremy. The celebration is already in prog- some of which are to hold a three days' service. Protest has been aroused in many . quarters over the fact that a number of cities refused appropria- tions for the celebration which the government asked, some of them on the ground of economy and others for various reasons. The Limoges council would not make an appropriation saying that Joan of Arc “is com- pletely monopolized by a party with which we cannot associate.” The council of the French Masonic order has declared its reverence for Joan. but has objected to tomorrow's celebration, maintaining that the day observed should be the anniversary of the burning at the stake of Joan of Arc. Cardinal Granito di Belmonte, rep- resenting the Pope, and Cardinal Maurin of Lyons and Cardinale An- drieu of Dordeaux will conduct the services at Orleans. DISARMAMENT FAVORED BY JAPANESE ADMIRAL Declares, However, That No Pro- posal Had Been Made by Any Country. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, May 7. n a speech before a gathering of Japanese governors today, Vice Admiral Tomasaburo Kato, minister of the navy, declared he was heartily in favor of armament reduction, but that no concrete pro- posal for bringing this about had been received from any country. Meantime he was convinced that Japan's naval program, which is ex- pected to be completed in 1927, at a cost of 200,000,000 yen, would not necessitate increased taxation. There was no intention of carrying out the project ~ without considering the financial condition of the empire, ant, he added, plans had already been framed for curtailing ordinary ex- penditures for the next fiscal year 80 as to be able to meet the require- ments of new construction. FOIL MURDER ATTEMPT. Barcelona Governor Threatened by Suspicious Stranger. BARCELONIA, May 7.—As Gover- nor Anido was proceeding toward the | Bourse today to attend a demonstra- tion in his honor a man in the crowd | made a movement as if to take some- thmg from his pocket. He was im- mediately arrested and searched, revolver being found on him. The man is believed to be well known to police, but the authorities are extremely reticent concerning him. < “Say It With Flowers.” The sweetest flowers that grow— at Gude's, 1214 F.—Advertisement. JUSTICE PROTOCOL READ. Pe Photograph of the supreme military chiefs of France continuing their dis- cunsion of plans for the Invasion of the Ruhr district of Germany, outside the Elysee palace in Paris, after a conference with President Millerand, Premier Briand and other members of the cabinet. Left to right: Gen. Degoutte, commander of the French forces in Ger- many; Marshal Foch and Gen. Weygand, Marshal Foch's “righthand man.” | DENIES IMPERIALISM IN OCCUPATION OF RUHR Viviani Says France Regretfully Employs Force to Compel Germany to Dis- charge Her Obligations. BY RENE VJVIANIL, ceeded in ferocity the wildest dreams of imagination. Former Premier of France. ok natlor By Cable to The Star. PARIS, May Now has come the final calcula- tion of the ations commission, Germians s iy Wil s0..dften. demon= whose jurisdiction Germany her- grmany;s I Wil e self accel This calculation strated that doubt about it no onger | au; St siaiaturion exists anywhere, forced the London | are now low level after re- peated reductions. conference to decisive action. His- eated reductions. Yet we do not 5 % 5 complal acce e decisio tory can never say that the debtor | ofnBi NS QI ointing. Let was not given notice. It is now | Germany do likewi nearly two yecars since Germany In a few days we will occupy Not to molest inhabitants, as the Ruhr district. | and_brutalize the signed the treaty fixing May 1,1 as the final limit. By that date ¢ is Germany's habit, but merely to many was expected to have di take cconomic “measures. Why & o financial obli. | this delay? To give Germany a chatged . partiof her financial-d chance to make further proposals, gations. Not only has she failed to | fhes Enelangte fUrther proposals, discharge them, but she has played | wnderstand this. No matter how fast and loose with other many broposals Germany makes gl 3 g she ‘wiil never pay unless com- the treaty and has not ob pelled to. The moment pressure is moral law of her own signature. relaxed she will stop payments. How long will this scandal last? Our situation has been pitiable for a long time. It is now fast be- coming ridiculous. (Copyright, 1921.) From the moment of her failure the world was faced with a question which_fegretfully we must now re- solve by force, having exhausted all resources of conciliation. PRFEE This simply is a auestion as o |IBANEZ PRAISES THE U. S. whether France, for the crime of hladin s Jel Raving resisted with the allies an | plorced With Visit and America’s ides unjustified_aggression, must, bes suffering d bloody wounds, un- dergo economic ruin. We are told | Appreciation of Spain. Germany i in the same fix. But | MADRID, May 7.—Vincente Blasco that is. more than doubtful. But the author, who has return. even if it ba true, and one must suf- led to Madrid. in the conese or o for ruin, why should it be France? |interview here today. spobe: onaue Why should an innocent pay for the 'astically of his reccption during his guilty? What nation or man could |visit to the United States, whore feel case of conscience or security of [declared, Spain and things se,.:}.i;'fil life if such a erime should go down |occupied more attention than in the | the bewildered age: Who would desire to communicate to the tragic but glorious history of human liber- tion such a stain of immorality? countries of jority of the to them. Senor Ibanez gave his impression | Surope, cople where the ma- were indifferent Gov. Miller of New York, in a |of Mexico, w ai < splendid speech, delivered in my [ Tare 1o awork ont e eonguld, be presence on April 11, said this in | Latent anarchy. existed amone. the {mplacable. but just terms: Indians there, hie said, while the worst “Who did the wrong must 1epair | feature of all was the miliariers it. It is humanity's law. That [spirit under illiterate monerale Spe law will be enforced! i ist declared he intended to re- And it w I trust that re- lfrain from publishing his complete mperialism” against proaches of n that_sensitive N jnovel us will _cease, and concerning Mexican customs, agle and the Serpent,” because ! eyes will not raise the flood ihe did not desire to throw oi of their tears. This manif | fames, ©o throw oil on the of . sensitiveness durlng =¥ Senor Ibanez intends to devote hi months is a curious paradoX. gt immediately to wrnoin::w;{e}:,’;:[, Tears for the conquered are Signs of comprehensible generosity when the conquercd are innocent and not butchers, |will start literary gatherin is home. in Madrid, where mers ean er change views with women, the novel- ist being of the opinion that the sepa- {ration of sexes in Spain is most harm- ful, creating false conceptions of life FRENCH AND TURKS FIGHT Nationalists, Pushed by Bolshe- viks, Reject Treaty. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 7.—Fight- | ing has been renewed between thf French and Turkish nationalists in Cilicia. It is reported that the nationalist assembly at Angora, under pressure lh’\ the bolsheviki, has rejected the treaty entered into some time ago by * ok kX Tears_should be kept for those who suffer and weep, for our chil- dren, for America’s children, for all the allied dead, for justice to the widows and orphans and the inhabitants of the devastated re- gions, robbed of all their posses- sions. These devastated regions in area are of an economic impor- tance which corresponds to Con- necticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island put together. Where would justice be If we were not paid? ~ How can it be called imperialism merely to col- lect a debt Imperialism means the coveting of territory, of out- lets, and of domination of the |r¢aty « 4 e th world, economically and militarily. | Fepresentatives of the French and e el Cimtentionas | nationalist governments for the ces- of hostilities. HEATING By Hot-Water, Steam or Vapor- Pressure Systems Who has a right to charge us on therewith? 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Ave. At the same time “ver, there jare persistent reports that the third internation, lers, whether inde- | pendently or with the consent of | Lenin, are redoubling their propa- | ganda for a world revolution, utiliz- ing the legations in the Baltic other in_which the bol- vik government has been recog- as the bases of their agents. | {librium stituted Declared to Be_ Taking Effect. Ry the Assoclated Press RIGA, Letvia May T.—For the first| time since the promulgation of the | reforms instituted in soviet Russia by | Nikolai Lenin, soviet premier, inde- | pendent 8 have reported to| American other foreign repre- | sentatives in the Baltic states that| conditions in Russ v and that the conces some effcet. It s i theso reports, declaring the popula- | tion to be quieting down, have just been forwarded to W, iach of these legations sonnel three times as la Imost « per- | | any other legislation in these capitals. | tion Spirit Dying. month of : has so far in where quictly ago to have plann revolution for May 1 Traveler: re the popu- lation there, particulariy the work- men, have been so affocted by the new reforms that they are in no spirit for revolution. The question of what is to be the latitude permitted the third intern tionale in_the future now T are Lenin is ? ng between the old principle of a world revolution and a desire to save Russia from chaos no matter what becomes of revolutionary prin- ciples. The conservative advisers of Lenin. it is rted, are urging complete divorce from the internationale, while the Zinovieffl and other cnthusiasts for that organization are urging upon him that a’ world revolt is more im- portant than anything that could happen to RRussia. Report Amnesty. A Moscow dispatch today says the ariat of justice has ordered amnesty” for all offenders arged with the sale’ of food and other commoditie before the new free trade regulations became effec- tive, and the cessation of prosecution in the cases of persons against whom charges were pending. The amnesty covered all sentences for terms of more than five vears throughout the whole territory of soviet Russia In Petrograd long lines of persons. mostly former shopkeepers, daily wait to get permission from the labor ex- change to begin free trading, says the Novey Put, the bolshevik newspaper here.” The port of Petrograd, it adds. is busily preparing for lumber export business. U.S.AND REDS TO COMPETE IN OIL SALES IN FRANCE French Government Lowers Tariff on Russian Product to Profit by Exchange Rates. BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL. PARIS, France, May 7.—To under- sell American oil France has just a mitted to the privilege of the mi mum tariff oil from bolshevist Russia. The mineral report, signed by Premier Briand, Lucien Dior and Paul Doumer, on which the decree is based reads in part: . “Before the war Russian oil en- joyed the reduced tariff and could compete with American oil. The in- terest of our supply and the necessity of re-cstablishing the economic equi- demand _that we make our purchases in a country where, as in bolshevis Russia, the exchange is particularly favorable to us.” This arrangement was made possi- ble by the bolshevist conquest of iGeorgia, which freed the oil pipe from Baku to Batum, making it possible to{ deliver Caucasian_ oil directly to for- eign sels on the Black sea. Amer- ican oil buvers who previously were eager to buy bolshevist oil are e dently discouraged by political dif- ficulties. Now France appears as a strong competitive purchaser. WOULD WIN U. S. ENVOYS. Chita Government Officials Anxious to “Make Good Impression.” VLADIVOSTOK, May 7.—James F. Abbott, ¢ I aitache, and Maj. W. J. 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What was feasible, or men would not be loud enough Stemed to Le, on the Nile. unde today to cry ive economic conditions, is tm ot Lor love of Germany, it Tor ible pn the Rhine or in the Ruhr. in a land of 160 mines and the sake of European peace let all other industrics well-meaning men prevent this new stead of cxacling shelter for Hitn- 8tep of the allies —the establishment s of thou: h's troops, of military and cconomic foreign rule r Shoble be So-pnerating o over the indust aintricns of the | INIMINE Sorkmene A g ad lower Rhine and Ruhr!” | We Instead of We are confronted by the most Sowing fresh 1, en- fatefu! decision since Versailles. e Once the armies of France march | oion N0 T0UC the peace and in and a new rule is imposed upon | Glrv of anr mines and liboratories German industryg the end 0f the vc- | ghould he made secure German teche pation is incalculable. As the pro- | pi G, MEVE TG (s tar, dyes. vosed payments are spread over thir- g .n,01 "ore | from eoal. so that coke ty years and the debtor is deemed paq7an1y 2’ secondary value, is also untrustworthy, there will be Always yearyl to Germany's creditors. the chance to say the “pledg:” IS “Oniy throuzh increased and Im- unrelinguishable. proved production is reparation Permitting one nation to control . cqipie nd ropean economic most of the valuable possessions of | r..ocory is possible only when the another, especially when there iS'.,ntinent again is able to pro- great hatred between them, expo: duce and consume. Apart from the former to a most dangerous foodstuffs. Germany's consumption temptation. The ~ keeping of = the piTHITE LF TG 1 how only whole of the West German indus-| ... ¢irth what it was prior to the trial district—the coal. the Iron. the | {707 stecl, the chemicals, the textiles and WAT the dyestuffs—under French control! = "';““"'7 ie Ameriea. would be too s this. therefore. the time to en- enticing to extll’(‘l a speedy end to the arrangement. Nor could there be any hope from | tertain plans whose exccution would lame the brain and the heart of Ger- an ultimatum presented to Germany man industry? Every politician after the occupation has begun. It|must have foreseen that America Would be like a surgeon bargaining would refuse to arbitrate. But she about his fee after making the inci- has the moral and the ecconomie Sion. It would be easy to imagine power to force rational conditions on both camps, and this would give the French stronger guarantees against German military aggression than occupation of the Ruhe could possibly give. The United States by refusing to help any one singly would force Europe into a reasonably se- cure economic situation. Washington's grandchildren could not render a greater service to the old continent. And T think the serv- ice they would be doing themselves, would not be much less (Copyright, 1921.) | JAFFA FEARS NEW RIOTS. Important Mussulman Fete Cause of Great Apprehension. PARIS. Mav 7.—Agitation continues in Jaffa. Palestine, where recently many persons were killed or wounded in clashes between Arabs and Jews, according to official French advices today. Great apprehension what conditions we would have to, meet before the politico-military oc- cupations would cease. | It would be cowardly, even stupid, to deny that the German government and parliament have made terriblel blunders in_dealing with the repara- tions question. Even the last pro- posals made to President Harding were not acceptable, first, because they represented arithmetical jug- gling (fifty billion marks at 4 per cent would not equal two hundred; billions in fifty, or even sixty, annui ties), and second, because they were linked with conditions demanding at a most unfavorable moment that the allies abandon their most important advantages under the treaty of Ver- sailles. Most Difficult of Problems. But everybody must admit that the reparations problem is the most diffi- cult a nation ever faced. A nation? No, the most difficult a continent ever faced. Or, perhaps, the entire civi- lixed world! Take a single phase of the problem: £ If we offer the manual labor of thousands of German workmen to re-| is felt regard- 3 X Paris _an- | Ing possible developments on the oc- o e France d casion of an important Mussulman “That would be colonization. And|fete today. the advices say. Mussul- man seamen are refusing to allow Jewish immizrants to disembark, A British war vessel has arrived at the inhabitants of the devastated re-| gions could not stand the sight of hordes of former invaders living com- ! Jafta fortably in their countr: | S d other tech-| Bedouins who attacked Israelite It weiofer mack s e colonists, were repulsed by British nical equipment and implements, they | say: “Impossible! In that case we should have to get spare parts for renewing and repairing the machinery from Germany, whose industry would thus become too powerful in control of our troops. the ilispatches stat, STEEL GUITAR MELODIES With Ukelele and Guitar Accompaniments. Played and Sung at All Occasions by the The surrender of German ships has caused tonnage values to fall every- where, and the more ships our yards build for the allies the more difficult will be the situation in the British shipbuilding industry. Germany’s reparation coal is of- fered in France at below the price of English coal, thereby destroying the English market on the continent, and an unlimited dictatorship by France over all our coal would bring | British _industrial economy to a standstill, Most of the countries affected by the reparations issue are OppOSing the importation of large quantities of German dyestuffs and manufactured goods because they do not want to imperil their own industries. Even the United States, which alone | could take large amounts of these Famous American Quintet Private instruction. Col. 4874-3 or 6561. HARDING’S ORCHESTRA Through error of the film ex- change, Babe Ruth will run thix week, starting today at 3 p.m. in- stead of mext week. SIDNEY LUSTS LEADER THEATER 9th Below F All_ Week—Continuous 10 AM. to 11 P.M. Adminsion, 25¢, Including War Tax “THE HIT_OF THE YEAR" EXTRAORDINM‘Z,! 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