Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1921, Page 3

DEEMED PREMATUREf Tardieu Declares the Proposal Premature and Likely to Cloud the Political At- mosphere More Than to Clear It. BY ANDRE TARDIEU. Former French High Commissioner to America. By Oable to The Star. PARIS, June 11.—Confusion still reigns in Europe. It manifests itself today in every field, three of which deserve espe- cial emphasis. These are the Anglo- French relations, Franco-German rela-:| tions and the oriental question. Anglo-French relations ae just emerging from a serfous crisis. Cu- riously enough, certain English news- papers, doubtless with the best inten- tions, have sSelected just this moment to propose an alliance between the two countries. 1s the proposal opportune? think so. p The so-called military guarantee treaties between France, .the United States and Great Britain, negotiated in 1919, remain inoperative, owing to the failure of the United States to ratify. But these treaties were linked directiy: with the whole system of the league of nations, which the United States Senate would not accept. Therefore, even if Great Britain decided to ratify the An- glo-French section of the _tripartite 1 do not agreement, independently of the Franco- | American protocol, the result would be Qquite different from what the Versailles negotiators intended. Are these English papers suggest- ing an old-fashioned offensive and de- fensive alliance? In that case it is neces- sary to give careful thought to the mat- ter to assure an equality of rights and duties between the two contracting parties. Such a study has not yet been made. No definite proposal has been offered. Wherefore one is forced to conclude that all such discussion is quite pre- mature, serving more to cloud the at- mosphere than to clear it, for an alliance is impossible without a prior agreement and before exchanging commitments France and England must resolve their many disagreements. That is what they have always done in the past. In 1904 they cleared away their disagreements, and in 1914 formed an al- liance. It seems to me that the present discussion puts the cart before the horse and is a bad beginning for fruitful work. Lack Confidence in Germany. Concerning Franco-German rela- tions, they are dominated on the one hand by the formidable concessions made to Germany in the London agreement. and on the other hand by Premier Briand's latest speech ex- pressing confidence in the presen German government. Many Frenchmen, including myself. regret the concessions, and do not share the confidence expressed. We regret the concessions because all the arguments about Germany's ability to pay the war ddmage apply HUNT CALVIN’S GRAVE. Authorities Get Information From Alleged Descendant. GENEVA, June 10.—The spot where John Calvin, the Protestant reformer and theologian, is buried, is being sought by the authorities on informa- tion furnished by a man who says he is a descendant of Calvin. The loca- tion of the grave has been handed down through the Calvin family, under pledge of secrecy. according to the man, who is seventy-one years of age, and as he is without issue, he believed it his duty to divulge the location to the ecciesiastical consis- tory at Geneva. Tradition has it that John Calvin. who died on May 27, 1564, was buried “in_the common cemetery in Geneva called Plain-Palais,” but_ the exact spot has not been identified. YANKS DIE IN MOSELLE. Soldiers Drowned While ‘Watering Horses. By the Associated Press. COBLENZ, June 11.—Two American soldiers, Corp. Samuel Carvey of 67 Model avenue, Hopewell, N. J., and Private Anton Holson, 5107 Hahn ave- nue, Cleveland, Ohio, were drowned in the Moselle river here today while watering horses. Both were members .;1! Battery F of the 6th Field Artil- ery. Holson’s horse stepped into a hole and threw him into the river. Carvey answered his call for help and tried to save him, but was dragged under by Holson. Comrades of the men re- covered their bodies. WAR COURT ACQUITS. Leipzig Student Was Accused of Ilitreating Belgian Children. By the Associated Press. LEIPZIG, Germany, June 11.—Max Randohr, a Leipzig student, was ac- Qquitted today by the court trying war criminals on the charge of having ill- treated and imprisoned Belgian chil- dren at Gramont in 1917. Randohr was released and the im- perial treasury will pay the cost of the trial. The case was brought at the instance of Belgium. SPECIAL NOTICES. Two even more forcefully to France, since the latter suffered the devastation, while the former is intact, and because what the London agreement lets Germany escape paying must be paid by France. We lack confidence because, while some of the statements made by Chancellor Wirth and Foreign Minis- ter Rathenau seem to indicate good will and a_determination to keep promises, other statements are less reassuring and certain acts tend to further doubts. Germany signed the treaty prescrib- ing the division of Upper Silesia by communes after a plebiscite,~yet Dr. Wirth claims the whole of Silesia for Germany. Wirth also declares he will end Gen. Hoefers Silesian enterprises, who could not have recruited hi army and assembled his war material without the German governmen knowledge and who pursues his a tivities. The-German government “officially” protests against plebiscite campaigns in Austria, but the man inspifing these campaigns 18 Rosenberg, the German_minister at Vienna. The German government declares its_intention to punish those guilty o fwar crimes, but the Leipzig ver- dicts provoke nothimg but derision. For the sixth or seventh time the |German government has promised to lexecute the treaty clauses concern ing_disarmament, but Hoefer's ex ploits in Silesia show how far she is from disarmament. The French people, e« raphy has condemned to see Ger- many at close range, noticed these striking _manifestations, and when told that the London agreement has magically converted Germany _to peace and respect for contracts” they are naturally skeptical. We have suf- fered too much to trust so easily in our neighbors. Uneertainty in Orient. At present all is uncertainty. This is particularly true in the orient. Our English friends wanted us to follow King Constantine of Greece in a great crusade against the Turks. I am convinced the French chamber will never agree to such a policy. | We had war on our own soil for | Afty-two months. That was enough. We do not want to go to war in Asia Minor. This, of course, does not depend entirely upon ourselves. If the Kemalists attack us in Syria we must defend ourselves. But that is no reason to fight for Greek ambi- tions. French blood will never flow to get territory for Constantine. the brother-in-law of the one-tme Kaiser William Hohenzollern. Nobody seems to be anxious for an early meeting of the allied supreme council to discuss the oriental ques- tion. Such meetings always turn out badly for us and we do not care to court further disappointments. (Copyright, 1921.) HONOR FOR NEW LINER. First Voyage of 36,700-Ton French Vessel Being Celebrated. HAVRE, June 11.—The first voyage whom geog- of Paris, which sails for New York June 115, will be celebrated with fetes and | ceremonies beginning today with the { presentation by the municipal coun- cil of Paris of a beautiful commemo- rative statue to the vessel. A reception aboard today was at- tended by a large number of men in public life and naval officers includ- ing Admiral Lacaze, chief of the gen- eral staff of the French navy; Vice Admiral Jaures and Admiral Mottez, and two Japanese admirals who were received by Minister of Marine Guis- thau. COAL MINERS TO VOTE. British Workers to Ballot on Own- ers’ Proposals. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 10.—The conference today decided that a ballot should be { taken in 211 the coal flelds on the pro- posals of the mine owners for a set- tlement of the strike. This is gen- erally considered a long step toward peace in the coal industry. The coal mine strike, tying up vir- tually the entire industry, has been in progress since April 1. “WHITE STRIKE” ENDS. Italian Government Employes De- cide to Resume Work. PARIS, June 11.—The “white strike” of employes in the Italian government service, which has been in progress for more than a week, has been de- clared off, a Rome dispatch today an- nounces. The employes haye decided to resume work immediately. Their method has been to go to the govern- ment offices every day as usual, but to refuse to do any work. The grievance of the strikers was alleged to be inadequate wages, of which an increase was demanded. SPECIAL NOTICES. AMES F._ FASTNAUGHT, INFANT, WAS anoped by Mr. and Mrs, James W. Graham, in the District Supreme Court on November 26, CLAFLIN FOR EYBGLASSES. 1919, and his pame changed to James F. i & W GRAHAM. * — DR. H. E. WO0OD, DENTIST, Warren W. Biggs, W. K. Pace, Jas. Cunningham. 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ANGLO-FRENCH PACT | Vieewr o Belfan, Feher o g e SECTIONALALLIANCES Takes Over Reins of Office . VISCOUNT FITZALAN (Former Lord Talbot), whose debut as viceroy im Belfast, Ireland, is consid- ered a ccens. Relizious feeling Tuns high there and doubts had been felt an to how the president of the Catholic Union w. speech, which was well received, dis- pelled thene daubts. UNIGNISTS FILL ALL PARLIAMENT SEATS Elect 22 Members to Places Ignored by Nationalists " and Sinn Feiners. By the Associated Press. | "BELFAST. June 11—Twenty-two unionist representatives were elect- ed today without opposition members/ of the senate of the northern Irish | parliament. ~They include the Duke of Abercorn, the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, son of a former Canadian viceroy; Viscount Bangor, Viscount Massereene and Ferrard, Lord Pirrie and Sir James Johnston. The nationalists and Sinn Feiners ignored the elections, although the unionists had left seats open for them. The unionists, accordingly, nominated {men for all the seats. Three unionist labor nomirfees were among those re- turned. DENY COLLEGE THREATS. Republican Army Leaders Say Let- ter Was Forgery. DUBLIN, June 11.—The publicity department of the Dail Eiraenn today denied that the Irish republican army was responsible for the letter received by the authorities of Trinity College warning that observance of the annual athletic festival week of the college would entail danger to the public. After declaring that if such a letter was received in the name of the Irish republican army it was a forgery, the denial says: “The republican authorities do mnot send threatening letters, and any such_letters purporting to be from the Irish republican army are from some anti-Irish body or private in- dividuals. Announcement was made on Friday of the cancellation of the annual athletic festival week of Trinity Col- lege in consequence of the receipt of a letter, said to be from the Irish rpublican army, notifying the col- lege authorities that if the sports were held the safety of those attend- ing would’be jeopardized. QUEEN GIVES UP TRIP. Will Not Accompany King to Open Ulster Parliament. LONDON, June 10.—It 18 announced that the queen will not accompany King George to Belfast for the formal opening of the Ulster parliament. Owing to the industrial situation, says another official announcement, the king and queen have decided to hold no courts this year. Those who were to have been present will, in- stead, be invited to attend a garden party at Buckingham Palace in July. The government has instructed the authorities in Ireland to cease re- prisals, says the Daily Mail. The ! newspaper adds that when the mil tary forces in Ireland are increased, as it has been announced they will be, they will exercise full authority in quelling outrages and riots. PINNED AGAINST WALL. Shenandoah Valley Student Caught by Auto and Ribs Broken. Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘WINCHESTER, Va., June 11.—How- ard J. Woff, jr., member of a prominent family of Norfolk, Va., and a student at the Shenandoah Valley Academy here, was under treatment at Memo- rial Hospital last night and today for fractured ribs and internal injurles, éaused, it was said, by being caught between an automobile and & wall at the Winchestéer Garage, while a fel- low student, David Crook of Balti- more, was driving his cap into the garage. ‘Woff misjudged the space that the automlobile ‘would occupy. He was caught by the rear fender and pinned tightly. ‘The injured youth was hurried to Memorial Hospital, where surgeons and physicians said his injuries were not necessarily serious. S —_— PLAGUE KILLS 37. Death Toll for May Reaches That Mark in Tampico. HAVANA., June 11—Thirty-seven deaths from bubonic plague occurre in Tampico during May, according t the bill of health issued by the Cuba: consul at Tampico to the Americt tanker Albert E. Watts, which ar- rived here yesterday. One death a day marked the first week in June, but the number of cases last month and the first week this month were not mentioned in the doc- ument. —_— STEAMER CAPTAIN DIES. CUXHAVEN, Germany, June 11.— Capt. C. F. Smith of the United Amer- jcan Line steamer Carroll, which left Hamburg for New. York Thursday, was stricken with apoplexy yeste: day and died. ‘The body has been ‘brought ashore. MRS. SOUTHARD IN IDAHO. TWIN FALLS, Idaho, June 11.—Mrs. Lyda Southard, charged with murd in oconmnection with the death of her fourth husband, Edward Meyer, was in jail in Twin Falls today to await trial. . ~ix 3 “Don’t let them question me,” said ‘Mrs. Southard before she was taken to a cell. “I am not well® enough to dne.” - S 3 120 miles of the journey from Honolulu was made overland by from Woells, -Nev., to avoid crowds. Mrs. Southard is suf- fering from nervous headaches, with indications of a nervous breakdown, 2icials said. BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN. Germany’s Foremost Publicist. By Radio to The Star. i BERLIN, June 11.—One must not believe that the lenient sentences be- ing meted out today in the trials of German soldiers and sailors at Leip- 2ig charged by the allies. with viola- tions of the lgws of war até due to any bad will on the part of the judges presiding. Thelr task is not an easy. one. The acousers are the deadly enemles of yesterday. The accused are the “de- fenders of the fatherland.” The judge have had their education and bring- ing up in a school of thought which ascribes all virtue and power to its own people. and all faults and vici to the people toward which it is his torically and bitterly hostile. Thi tends to make it easier for the judges to believe their fellow countrymen rather than the testimony of enemy strangers. But even if the judges ve the courage to withstand this temptation, they are bourid to observe and uphold the legal regulations of their coun- trp—regulations which the strangers do not know and have no wish to ac- knowledge. Usual German Practices. If there be fault to find at Lelpzig it is not with the judges. It is rather with the “idea of military discipline,” inculcated with iron vigor in the last two generations, and it is -asking too much that Germans be punished more severely for offenses against foreigners than they have been pun- [ished in the past for similar offenses against their own people. It is not a new story, this revela- tion of the ill treatment of men at the prison camps. The boxing of ears, the tying-up of men, the chang- ing from hot to cold shower baths, the throwing of small stones, the butting with guns—these have often been the means of enforcing military obedience among German recruits in our own barracks. According to the German military penal code the deed of a superfor officer in which he has enforced obedience in a case he considered an abuse of his military authority is not punishable. This same rule holds true in the case of subordinates obeying the command of superior officer. Under this code “danger to discipline” has been suppressed, no matter the cost. _His majesty's cabinet order of July, 1877 (during “the Kaiser's regime the orders of the supreme war loyd al- ways were thus called) states that even corporal punishment inflicted upon subordinates is mot to be con- sidered an offense, or ill treatment, or to be punished. Such punishment was to be considered necessary to keeping up the “idea of military discipline.” That order must be taken into ac- count in viewing the Leipsic trials. The allies tell us that to overcome the military “idea” in Germany the war was carried on. Prussian Ger- many, we are told, has lost th idea.” and for generations will have to pay dearly for it. However, is it consistent with com- mon sense and justice on the part of the allies, after victory and peace, to continue to carry on warfare against inconsequential persons who_had be- GZECHOSLAVAK TREATY WITH RUMANIA PUBLIC Text Provides Defensive Alliance i Against Hungary for Two Years. The Czechoslovakia Press Bureau announced ycstorday receipt of a cablegram from Prague giving the text of a defensive alliance between 1 Czechoslovakiaand Roumania against | Hungary “in accordance with the {treaty of Trianon made June 4, 1920, between the allies and associated na- tions and Hungary. “Should Hungary, without being provoked, attack either party,” the message said, “the other party will help the attacked party. “Authorities of Czechoslovakia and Roumania, by mutual agreement, will later outline the military ar. rangements needed to bring this agreement into force. “Noither of the parties shall make alliance with the third power with- out notifying the second party. “To insure that both governments will take similar steps toward the realization of the peace program, they agree to inform each other about the question of foreign policy with re- gard to their relations to Hungary: “This agreement will be in_ force for two years, beginning the day of the exchange of ratifications. After the expiration either of the parties may revoke the agreement, but after the revocation the agreement will re- main in force for six months.” PULP MILLS TO REOPEN. Plant at Hopewell, Va., to Resume Full Capacity. PETERSBURG, Va., June 11.—En- couraged by the more optimistic busi- ness outlook he encountered on a trip to New York and through New Eng- land, J. W. Stull, president of the Stamsocot Company of Hopewell, which manufactures pulp for high- class paper, using cotton linters, an- nounced here tonight that the Hope- ‘well plant will resume at full capacity next Wednesday. Several hundred are employed at the plant, .which uses a secret process for the patented method it employs in the manufacture of pulp. HELD IN AUTO DEATH. Sister of Speaker Gillett Charged ‘With Manslaughter. . CHICOPEE, Mass., June 11.—Miss Lucy Gillett of Westfleld, sister of Speaker F. H. Gillett of the national House of Representatives, was .ar- iraigned in district court here today icharged with manslaughter ‘as the result of an accident yestenday in which the Sutomobile she was driving struck and killed Irene Cote, aged thirteen, and.injured Yvette Gauthier. 'aged nine. Gillett entered a plea of not guilty and was released in bonds of $5000 for a hearing July 1. g YORKTOWN OPPOSES PARK People Indignant at Bill in Con- gress to Take Over Area. NEWPORT NEWS, Va,, June 11— People of Yorktown. Newport News and vicinity:have ‘united .to fight the bill now pending in Congress which would, establish a. federal park at Yorktown. at a-cost of $100,000. The bill provides for -the -taking: over of the town, the property therein and enough’ nearby to ° constitute seven square miles.. People of. York- town held an indignation meeting last night -and civic. and -commercial o ganizations in this city have notified them of their.willngness to help. fight the passage of the measure. 7 “Say It With Flowera.” More expressiye than words—Gude' flowers, of course. tisement. | HARDEN SAYS RIGHT MEN ' - ARE NOT PUNISHED Those Who.Ordered Ill Treatment of Prison- ers Grin- as Their Subordinates Are - Imprisoned for Qbeying Orders. 1234 F—Adver-lbe come contamimated by the ‘“idea” Especially when the contamination was wholly unavoidable and necessa- ry in order that the man might keep his pos ‘The scandal and shame is that the fate of highly cultivated prisoners of war often was confided to persons of much meaner station of life, such a brewers or coopers in the uniforms of sergeants. Angered or jaundiced under-officials were made command- ers of camps in which men of brains of western Kurope were miserably fed and kept in long imprisonment. All this was scandalous shame. But even the judge who shares these views is bound first of ail to the laws of the land—laws which, by the way, still exist in our so-called “most free republic of the world.” i And the men who inflicted the pun- ishments in camps had the “idea of military discipline” drilled-into them for yeqrs before the war began. They used the same means against their “pals” in our own military prisons and were not conscious of any abuse of military authority. What was the camp commander to do? If he had reported he could not force the prisoners to work he would have been dismissed from his post as being unsuitable, and would very nicely have been sent away to the front. where vefy many, even in 1917, didn’t very willingly go, be- cause it was but_a condemnation to a hero's death. Because of this al- ternative, and because he had no great hope that the art of persuasion would avail, the prison commander made use of brutal force. Are the entente powers convinced that their corporals and lieutenants, in a pinch between duty and human- ity, always and everywhere behaved as ‘men? Are we justified in expect- ing the average old soldiers to be paragons of a high moral code? If this were their teaching how would they be suitable to destroy with grenades and mines and poison g: the lives of unknown innocent pe: sons, whose only crime was belong- {ing to another nation? War today is the most unchivalrous |of all times. Tyranically it has util- ized the greatness of the masses and industrially barism. Guilty Ones Escape. All our efforts ought to be directed toward preventing a possibility of a relapse into such a state of degrada- tion, disgraceful to all mankind. Nothing too severe can be said in stigmatization of those whose orders made the ill treatment of prisoners possible. The infliction of punishment on those who merely executed those orders will do no good, only harm. We are only at the beginning of a long list of trials. and evil conse- quences already are-noticeable. The right men are not being punished. They sit back and grin as their fellow countrymen are imprisoned for carry- ing out their orders. It all causes a polsonous fog to hang over the trials. The main culprits are those with the “idea” of the military right of force and it is they who must be over- powered and dragged with their roots out of the earth of humanity. It is therefore the duty of all not to satisfy a narrow-minded pession of revenge, but to join in the fight for the liberation of ‘the oppressed. Only in the fulfillment of this duty will the world be made safe. (Copyright, 1921.) HEAR SOVIET CONCEDES OIL GRANTS T0 BRITISH One-Quarter of Output to Revert to Russia—United States Also Makes Bid. Large concessions in the Baku oil flelds are reported to have been jgranted a British company by the Russian soviet government, according to advices received here yesterday in official circles, reproducing published reports in Letvia. The concessions are reported to pro- vide a grant to the company of three-fourths of the oil produced, the other fourth to revert to the Russian government, and a permit for estab- lishment by the company of its own Police organization. The report as received here today supplements various unofficial reports it> has organized bar- .+~ . Power in Parliamen ARTHUR HAYDAY, Labor memder of the British phriia- ment. He in the father of eighteen children by two marriages. Hix wec- d wife is an American woman, a rmer resident of Newark, RUSSIA SEEKS FO0D Levy on Peasants for Pro- duce Declared Less Than Under Old Regime. BY LOUIS LEVINE. By Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily News, Copyright, 1921. REVAL, Esthonia, June 1.—Russia s in a desperate struggle against economic dilapidation,” although the soviet autkorities look hopefully to the results of a new economic policy. The latest decrees have fixed the peasants’ taxes at 40,000,000 pounds of grain, 60,000,000 pounds of potatoes, 12,000,000 pounds of oil seeds, more than 2,000,000 pounds of dairy prod- fucts, 400,000,000 eggs, and so on. The soviet authorities point out that this tax is from 20 to 50 per cent leas than that actually collected under the old system, and therefore should be ac- ceptable to the peasants. The soviet authorities are aware that difficulties are possible, because the peasants are incredulous and may resist taxation altogether. However, the soviets hope to get some of the farm produce needed in the cities exchanging the produdls of indust for those of the farm. As an addi tional means of getting this supply the soviet government has just de- clared a state monopoly of the salt supply, aiming to exchange salt for farm produce. It is expected that the remainder can be obtained abroad through money obtained from exports. In addition the government has a fund of 150,000,000 gold rubles (37 000.000) with which to make pur- chases in foreign markets. No less important than the food question is that of fuel supply for the railroads, factories and domestic pur- poses. Under the present conditions the soviet authorities must rely mainly on the wood reserves for fuel. The -railroads have only - forty-four days' supply of wood, ten days’ supply of coal and twenty days’ supply of oil. The soviet government has declared three weeks of obligatory service for cutting and gathering wood. The magnitude of the task may be judged from the fact that Moscow alone needs 600.000.000 cubic vards of wood annu- ally. The bolsheviki claim that the crop prospects are favorable for carrying out their tax program. Meanwhile Russia is living through a period of unparalleled hardship. In the six central governments where the crops last year were bad the peasants are suffering from hunger. Committees organized to help them are able to_ distribute food only to children and to them in insufficient quantities, so far as concerns Moscow. and Petrograd. The total supply of bread in the country is equal to 30, 000,000 pounds, while the minimum need is 16,000,000 pounds a month. The supply of meat is exhausted. In spite of all their efforts, the Rus- sians 1iving in the cities and villages are facing three months of partial starvation. This can be relieved only received recently from abroad to the effect that offers had been made by the Russian soviet government to British companies for oil concessions in the rich Baku flelds. In particular, formal announcement was made by Moscow wireless, April 4, of the de- nationalization ‘of Russian industries to, permit the exploitation of various works by foreign concessionaries. It also has been reported that with the negotiation of the trade agreement with Moscow: by the British govern- ment efforts were being made for the reaffirmation of British oil rights in (.hAe CI\:CI!\I;. o merican interests also were repre- sented in the Baku fields betoreplhe ‘war, and it was said yesterday by officials that some effort was unde stood to have beén made recently by American companies in the direction of obtaining concessions there from the soviet government, but it was un- certain what progress had been made. Concerning the value of concessions obtained from the Russian soviet gov- ernment, officials were skeptical, as- | serting ‘that on account of the de-| moralized . political conditions ob- taining in_the Caucasus along the pipe line from Baku to Batum, .as well as the state of deterioration into which the oil properties have falle little could be expected by the Brit- ish company. GEN. GOMEZ GRAVELY ILL. President of Cuba Expresses Sym- pathy to_ Former Opponent’s Wife. - HAVANA, June, 11— President , upon learning last night of the serlous illness in’ New York. city of Gen. Jose M. Gomez, former presi- dent of Cuba and opponent of Dr. Zayas in their election held last No vember, sent a cablegram of sy; - e . vices received here indi that Gen. Gomes Was in a serious ooee. dition as the result of -an attack of pneumonia and his son, Dr. Miguel M. Gomes, left for New York iast night. ! CLARA BARTON HONORED. Schoolhouse Where She Taught - Marked . With Bronze. Tablet. _BORDENTOWN, N.-J., June 11.— little brick schoofhouse’ in which M Clara_Barton, founder of the Ame: ican Red Cross, taught in 1853, was dedicatéd - to' her memory foday. School children, -state. and county officials and educational leaders trom all parts of, the state ati ex:rc{’u-. 3 . 2 et ronze tablet- was' unveiled by | her nephew and grandniece, Stepl fl Barton of Boston and Saidee F. Ric ¢lus of -Massachusetts, ) —_— SPORTS AT COLONIAL BEACH. Special Dispatch to The Star.- . FREDERICKSBURG, Va., J L ~_Colonial Beach Is preparing for & big auto. tournament and other at- tractions next - > There ' will .a baseball game, auto parade, band by the outside world. CZECHOSLOVAKIA AGREES TO RUMANIAN EXCHANGE Two Countries Set Precedent in Amiable Adjustment of Dis- puted Territories. By the Associated Press. BUCHAREST, Juhe 10.—Rumania and Czechoslovakia have just set a precedent in the amicable exchange of territeries in order to make conditions of the Paris peace conference fit local conditions, satisfy aspirations of the populations and meet the viewpoints of both countries. The Prague cabinet having approv- ed of the agreement, Rumania will hand over to Czechoslovakia three villages, with a population of 3,000, all of whom are Cazechoslovakians except six. Rumania will get in exchange eight villages with a population of 10,000, of whom 7,000.are Rumanians, This removes the last subject of contention between the two countries and will mean the strengthening of the alliance betyveen them. NAVAL PROGRAM PASSED. French Chamber of Deputies Adopts Plans for New Ships. By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 11.—The chamber of deputies Friday night adopted the na- val program presented Thursday hy Peputy Paul Denise, reporter for the naval commission, by 468 to 128. The,program calls for the cpnstruc- tion of six light cruisers, twélve de- stroyers, twelve torpedo boats and thirty-six submarines at an approx mate cost of 1,416,000,000 francs. iunder obligation to | suggested that Great Bri BY NEW TAX PLAN s (@S to whether or not the terms of the A N T S BY GEORGE N. BARNES Former Member British War Cal By Radio to The Star. LONDON, June 11.—The proposal of a Scparate treaty of alliance between France and Great Britain is a thor- oughly bad one. All sectional alliances avoided and condemned. The Anglo-Japinese agreement fi_houhl be a warning. It has been the peg upon which mischief-makers have fastened for the purpose of intensify- | ing national vanities and prejudices. This agreement may not be renewed when the current term expires next month. Certainly it will not be re- | newed in its old form. As to the proposcd Franco-British alliance, it will be remembered thatd when the peace treaty was drawn upd in Paris in_ 1919 protocols were] signed by which Great Britain andi| the United States were to be brough protect future aggression The treaty d should bed| | against possible Ly the Germans. materialize because of non-ratifica~ tion by the United States. But the ea is now being revived and ampli- ed in regard to its objects. It is n alone shall undertake responsibility and that there shall be new alliance. | The Belgian forcign minister chime!} in at_Brussels with the suggestion that Belgium should have a place in the agreement. In denouncing this proposition as a.l bad one I realize that the 1919 agree- ment had its dangers, but at least the obligation was clear and it was tem- porary. On the part of the United States and Great Britain it was an agreement between peoples of the same language and the same ideals. A new alliance binding only one of, these parties in a pursuit of objects not clearly defined, and with peoples of different language and ideals, would be full of graver danger. } It might even lead back to rival groupings of nations and to another war. Cites Anglo-Japanese Pact. It would certanily lead to division and confusion where there should be unity and clarity. Take the Anglo- Japanese agreement, for example. Irresponsible persons have said it has | prejudicially affected, or might preju- dicially affect, American interests. These ~statements are quite untrue, for the objects were and are confined to “the maintenance of peace and the interests of the contracting parties in castern Asia and India, and the inde- pendence of China and the maintenace of equal opportunities for commerce and industry of all nations in that country. There may be difference of opinion agreement have been loyally PARIS WANTS FIRM ob- ' BRITISH TIE IF ANY Debate Over Proposed Al- liance Continues Warm in French Press. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1921, PARIS, France, June 11.—The de-| bate concerning the advisability of seeking to conclude a treaty of alli- ance with Britain continues warm. The entire French press is agreed that merely for Britain to guarantee to assist France in case of “unjusti- fied aggression™ from Germany would be insufficient. “If a new shock occurred.” argues Auguste Gauvain in the Jourhal des | Debats, “it would probably follow a prolonged diplomatic conflict or a series of local incidents that would provoke recourse to force. It would then be very difficult to discern which state should be considered the ag- Bressor. The Echo de Paris is very much opposed to attempting a resumption of the British and American guaranty pacts negotiated by Premier Cle- menceau because it fears that the American spirit of _isolation would teng to strengthen the British senti- | ment of insularity to the detriment of France and her continental power. This phenomenor., it adds, was clearly | demonstrated during the peace con- ference. i “Moreover,” it adds, “American thought is essentially mobile and changing. At all times it has been difficult for the President of the United | States to conclude any sort of treaty. The United States is a continent which does not lend itself easily to international compromises and it chafes under such as it happens to have concluded This influential newspaper there- fore desires that France should treat separately with Britain while doing cverything possible to maintain | friendship and co-operation between | France and the United States. | —_— lmnflnmis Chinese Troops Looting U. S. SCHOOL RANSACKED. | ‘Wuchang, in Hupeh. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1921. SHANGHAIL China, June 11.—The mutinous troops which began _rioting and looting at Ichang last Sunday are now terrorizing Wuchang, the capi- tal of Hupeh province. They are sacking the city and setting fire to buildings. The American Trinity School and the government mint have been ransacked. The missionaries’ homes and the Young Men’s Christian Association quarters have not been touched. Hankow is quiet. _In the rioting at Ichang it is re- ported that 100.persons were killed and many foreign and Chinese stores | looted before the United States gun- boat Palos arrived. 3 i ~ JKeHOMESTEAD FEEDiSN - Hot Springs the'Alleghanies, rest and new life. quitoes. - Two famous swimming, & Ohio Railroad, from - WASHINGTON Not far away, in the shaded greenness of enetvating June and July are unknown. Physical and mental uplift, Average. Summer temperature 64°. No humidity, no mos- golf courses, tennis, George N. Barnes Condemns Proposal for a' Separate Treaty-Between France and Great Britain. served, but the allegation that it has j| been or could be inspired by hostile sentiments toward the United States is an allegation put forward only in ignorance or malice. In the discussion as to the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese agreement it should be remembered that Great Britain is to consult her overseas do- minions and that their viewpoint in regard to far eastern affairs is the same as that of the United States. No agreement with Great Britain is pos- ble which runs counter to the feel- ing and sentiment of the English- speaking peoples of the world The idea is fantastic Yet it ix upon the assumption that this has been done that sum.cion and ill will have been engenderde between peoples who ought to ¥ marchinz abreast and forward in tké interests of peace and world settlements. The moral of it all is plain, to be critical of sectional and to oppose any for an which may hinder or impede mate alliance of all the good of all. Some Encouragimg Signs. Tt iz well however,, just now to wel- come the few faint streaks of light that pierce the general gloom on the international horizon. It in that spirit T have noted the new (_;erman chancellos Wirth, in which he t0ld the Germans they Were a beaten people and that the must make amends for their past mi ceds by work and frugality. This speech &hould help to dispel the il. lusions of the mulish still afict that country. has been hailed in the aliie as & welcome sign of co and good faith on the par. man governmen. n the questions of Silesia the refluction of naval armaments nm::f; a‘%eo is improvement to be noted. On the first there is less fric. n between France and Great Brit- ain. On the second some progress 1as been made toward a wider com- mon agreement. The “feclers of merica appear o be taking root ut the international situation gen- erally is Such as to try the temper of a Mark Tapley. Austria is fall- Ing to pieces and Germany has shown at Leipzig but little change of heart he Greeks and the Turks still are Shgaged in the active art of killing, rmenia slowly bleeds to death with no ‘)‘1225 outstretched to save her. ere are other eviden: > world distraught. The one swhich 13 perhaps not so striking. but none ess disturbing, is the proposal to divide the world once more through the sectional alliances to which ref- erence has already been made. It is alliances purpose an ulti- the . nations for is Already it d countries ming sanity t of the Ger- Orkney Springs Hotelan. Booking on-i"'zyul'ozzfi Bld, Frank P. Fenwick, Manager Make a H. S. credit this sum- mer or begin preparation for a y inviting field - very & of employ. Evening Class Just Starting . Ten other accredited High School Courses offered. 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