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Y PREPARING T0 OPEN COURT OF NATIONS Jonkheer van Karnebeek De- parts to Preside Over Open- ing of World Judiciary. i FORMAL SESSION JUNE 15 Results of League Pointed Out. Arranging to Take Up Land Armament. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. The departure of Jonkheer van Karnebeek, head of the Dutch dele- gation to the Washington conference, for the purpose of presiding, as for- eign minister of Holland, over the or- ganization and opening of the per- manent court of international justice at The Hague, January 30, calls n-l tentlon fo the work of world paciti- catian which the. league of nations, concurrently with the Washington conference, is carrying on. The statutes of the permanent court, 1 formed under the league's auspices, | were largely draws up by Elihu Root. | John Bassett Moore, who was elected by the leagne council and assembly | 1o represent the United States in the court, is also leaving for Holland, where he will henceforth sojourn more or less permanently, in pur- Buance of his duties as international judge. The court's first formal ses- ion will open mext June 15. Cases connected with the status of Danzig, With the labor clauses of the Ver- sailles treaty, and possibly the Pol- isb-Lithunian dispute, are expected to be brought before it at once. Ends Onme Conflict. Reports received here by those close to the league, such as A. J. Balfour, state that the league has been suc- «cessful in stopping the hostilities Which had_broken out between Al bania and Jugoslavia, A league com- misslon, composed of a Dutchman, a Finn and a Swiss, is now in Albania, studying the situation on the spot. Representatives of these three na- tionalities were chosen because l“l are conversant in their own countries with the problem of racial minorities, which plays a large part in the Al banian-Jugoslav troubles. The Serbs had for some time refused to retire their troops behind the so-called am- ‘bassadors’ line, which had been drawn to separate the combatants. In these circumstances Lloyd George wrote a | letter to the league council, suggest- ing that it should consider the pos- #ibility of applying the economic boy- cott, ~provided by the covenant, against Jugoslavia. This letter alone was sufficient to cause a violent fall in_Jugoslav exchange, with the re- sult that the Serbs immediately came to terms. The incident is without precedent and is full of interest. Negotiating on Silesia. Other interesting items connected with the league's activities are also reported. Polish and German plenipotentiaries are now in Geneva, negotiating, under the Jeague’'s auspices, the details of the economic phases of the upper Silesian settlement. This settlement, it will recalled, divided the contested territory by a political frontier roughly leaving most of the Poles on one side and most of the Germans on the other; at the same time, it aimed to heal over the economic cleavage thus threatened by a series of German-Polish economic, agreements tending to preserve _the economic unity of upper Silesia. It Is expected that if the precedent is proved to be useful and practical it may be applied to other parts of Europe where new political and racial frontiers have interfered with normal economic rela- tions. The Polish-German negotiations are being presided over by M. Cal- onder, former president of Switzerland and former member of the league’s suc- cessful commission in the Aaland Islands dispute. . Two Treaties Concluded. Czechoslovakia has recently con- .cluded two general and compulsory arbitration treaties, one with Poland, the other with Austria, which are also of interest to the league, because SAYS PRE-WAR HISTORY . HAS BEEN MADE CLEAR Vienna Paper Cifes von Hoetzen- dorf’s Boast, and Declares Guilty Are Known. (By Cable to The Star and the Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1 VIENNA, Austria, January 4—Com- menting upon Gen. Conrad von Hoet- zendorf’s books, in which the former chief of staff boasts of having helped to start the war, the Arbeiter Zeitung says: ‘ “They wished war. Pre-war_ history has been made so clear by different revelations that no doubt exists as to who were guilty. The world knows that the conflagration began in Vien- na. However, none of the other revela- tions are so conclusive as those made by Gen. Hoetzendorf, because we learn that he advised war in 1907 and 1909, The Serajevo affair was providential, as it provided an excuse to begin a war for the purpose of consolidating the disintegrating monarchy by means of a victory.” —_— 13,000 TONS OF RAILS ORDERED BY JAPANESE First Large Export Steel Contract of Year—Price Undisclosed, But Believed less Than $520,000. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 4.—The first large steel export contract of the year—13,000-tons of rails for the Jap- anese government, was announced to- day by the United States Steel Prod- ucts Company, the export agency of the United States Steel Corporation. The rails will be manufactured at the Ensley plant of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, the largest southern subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation. Officials of the United States Steel Corporation declined to make public the selling price. The domestic sched- ule for steel raily was reduced sev- eral months ago to $40 per ton, which would make the $520,000, but trade circles believe a lower price Wwas|the world thought and progress has made to the Japanese. — e they provide that disputes may be re- ferred to the international court or to the league council. * . Finally, the league Is preparing to take up the subject of land arma- ments, which has apparently been dropped by the Washington confer- ence. This subject was discussed at considerable length at the last meet- ing of the league assembly, and will, it is expected, be carried farther at the next assembly; the progress at- tempted, however, is cautious and slow, for the situation with regard to armies is far more complicated than that of navies. Pact Drafted at Paris. It will be remembered that at the time of the Paris peace conference an agreement, known as the St. Ger- main convention, was drafted, but never ratified, for the purpose of preventing the “dumping” of arms in backward countries. The agreement provided specifically that no arms should be sent into Asia Minor or Mesopotamia or certain re- gions of Africa, and that all exports of arms should be notified to the league. The league council desired that ratification of this agreement should be sought at the last assem- bly, but no action was taken because it was pointed out that unless the TUnited States, which is one of the world's chief arms-exporting nations, also ratified, the agreement would be useless. The council therefore asked the representatives of France, Brit- ain, Japan and Italy to take this mat- ter up in Washington, and wrote them a special letter for the occasion; but the delegates of these countries have felt that any mention of the league would be ill received here at the present time, and have not com- municated the letter to the American government. The suggestion is made that if the United States would agree simply to publish all exports of arms, instead of notifying them to the league, the same result would be at- tained. and the league could go ahead with the agreement. (Copyright, 1922.) e e SPECIAL NOTICES. SPECIAL NOTICES. WANTED—TO CARRY A VANLOAD OF FUR- niture from Washington to Philadelphia and New York. SMITH'S TRANSFER AN] R- AGB 00. THE MARVEL VACUUM CLEANER; electric; no cords; easy to operate; powerful suction; low price. ~Franklin 2362 or 401 G NON- YOU WORK FOR YOUR MONEY, MAKE IT WORK FOR_YO! 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A plenary sessfon of the conference, the first since December 10, 18 planned for Friday. It Is to announce the program for the reduction of naval armament. The general principles have been agreed upon and the final detalls are practically completed. Five powers arc concerned in the agreement which will be presented. As they are the principal naval powers of the world, its effect will be practically unniversal. Great Stride Toward Peace. Though the agreement in its final form will fali short of the drastic reduction called for by the American program, it wili be a great stride toward world peace and an end of the present naval race It is far greater than the most sanguine dreamed the powers would assent to two months ago The reductions pro- posed by Secretary Hughes, however, were so sweeping that a new goal was set with the opening of the con- ference That it could be reached was impossible, considering the vary- ing needs of the different powers. What has been accomplished is close to that goal, more than a mere be- ginning, and what remains undone can be accomplished easier now that been turned toward peace. For capital ships a ratio of 5-5-3- 1.67-1.67 has been agreed upon be- tween Great Britain, United States, Japan, France, and Italy. The quota for Great Britain and America has been increased to 525,000 tons from the 500,000 proposed in the program and the tonnage for the other nations is proportionate. What Has Been Achieved. The ten-year naval holiday in re- spect to them has been agreed upon except that France shall be permi ted to build a specified limited num- ber and Great Britain to build the two Hoods of 37,000 tons each. AuxHiary ships and light cruisers are to be limited to 10,000 tons each, with major batteries mot exceeding eight inches. The two larger naval powers agreed to limit themselves to 450,000 tons of these, and the others will be limited by their financial ne- cessities. France insists on 330,000 tons. in submarines, Great Britain, Japan and the United States agree to limit themselves to 90,000 tons and France reserves the right to build an equal tonnage if the occasion warrants. In aeroplane carriers the ratio is to be 5-5-3-2.22-2.22, with a maximum of 135,000 tons for the two larger powers and a maximum of 27,000 tons for any single ship. Increases Over Original Plam. In each classification there is an increase over the original proposais. Regardless of the criticisms which have been aroused against the vari- ous powers, chiefly France and Japan, which have proposed the mod- ifications to the proposals, the fact remains that the United States is not injured by the changes which have been made in its own program, and, if anything, the American Navy is strengthened. The change in the allowance of cap- ital ships was made chiefly as a re- sult of the insistence of Japan that the new Mutsu, which has already been put into commission, should not be scrapped. At the same_time the United States is enabled to fetain two almost completed superdreadnaughts instead of two of the old ships which it was propoged to retain, and whick would have been obsolete before tire end of the naval holiday, necessitat- ing the building of new ships to take the place of the almost completed ones being scrapped. Great Britain must go to the expense of building two Hoods which have mnot been started. U. S. Gains by French Proposal France’s refusal to accept the sub- marine program also reacted to the benefit of the American Navy. The American_naval plan called for the largest submarine of any power. In- stead of reducing it to 60,000 tons, as the United States was willing to d remains at 90,000 tons, a scant 5,000 tons less than was originally planned. The same stand of France also saves the United States from having a Navy, practically devoid of fast auxilliary cruisers. Great Britain has announced that if France insists.on a large submarine fleet she must be gliven a free hand in building counter defense craft. The United States has the privilege of equaling the British fleet in every branch and will have the opportunity of building the cruis- ers and scout ships which her Navy now lacks. The United States was ready to make all the reductions caled for in her program, even though the blow would fall harder on her Navy than on that of any other power. That the others refused to make these cuts brings -joy to the heart of the American naval officer, for the United States will continue to have a navy with its proper quota of superdread- maughts, cruisers, submarines, de- stroyers and other craft. It will be much smaller than contemplated, but the navies of the other powers also will be smaller, and it will be su clent for our national needs and n. tional resources. % (Copyright, 1922.) —_— PROBE 6-YEAR-OLD CRIME Remark of Italian in Buffalo Stirs Up Police in Pittsburgh. BUFFALO, N. Y., January 4.—A murder committed six years ago in Pittsburgh interested the police here today, following the arrest of A tine Perofetto on a charge of threa ening to kill his wife. As the prisoner was being taken from his home he is alleged to have yelled to Mrs. Perofetto and other rel- atives that he would kill them if they told about “the Pittsburgh crime.” The detectives understood enough Italian to gét the drift of his words and made further inquiries. * Frank Frantantonio, & brother-in- law, swore to an affidavit in which he named Angelo Serapeto as the 'man shot in Pittsburgh. The affair, he said, occurred. March 5, l’l}-G. in Reedsdale street, Pitts- burg! The Pittsburgh police requested the: holding of Perofetto. DRY LAW HELD VOID.: Court Says Lynchburg Cannot Par- allel State Act. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, . January 4.— Judge Christian in the corporation court here has held that the city coun- cil has no power to enact an ordinance paralleling the Mapp state prohibition and that the ordinance under which| the police court has been working for a month is void. Judge Christian held that a number of cases appealed from the police court would have to go to |ntlst-uory by Maj. John Reynolds, BRITISH AGAIN CITE QUOTATION FROM CASTEX ON SUBMARINES Taking note of the stajement of the Paris Temps, cabled to the United States this week, that one of the quotations from the famous Castex article read by Lord Lee of the British delegation to arms conference naval committee could not be found in the article, the British delegation today cited the qQuotation. The quotation from the article by Capt. Castex of the French naval general staff, as read by Lora Lee, Wi “Thanks to the submarine we (France) possess the instrument, the martingale, which will defl- nitely and forever overturn the nlva'! power of the British em- pir The Temps declared it was un- able to find such a passage. Tho British delegation statement as- serted the quotation in question could be found “at the bottom of page 24 of Capt. Castex’s first ar- ticle gn ‘Synthese de la Guerre Sous-marine,’ published ‘under di- reoction of the historical section. of the naval staff’ in La Revue ri- time for January, 1920.” The statement then adds: N “Whatever may be the inter- pretation of this particular pas- sage, it must be obvious to every reader of this article that the ‘whole purpose of the writer, evidenced by the other passag which Lord Lee quoted and which the Temps does not challenge, is to expound and defend the Ger- man methods of submarine war- fare on commerce as practiced in the late war.” PRESIDENT SURE OF NEW PROGRESS Believes Conference Has Es- tablished New Process of World Adjustment. On White House authority it is sald that President Harding believes that the arms and far eastern conference has already established a new process of international adjustment. He sin- cerely believes in the future pf world conferences to settle differences and avoid difficulties among the nations. The President does not consider that the conference has in any way proven that it will be impossible to 80 adjust international affairs in the future. The very fact that there have been disappointments in some of the undertakings is regarded as having left a train of regret among those in- terested, and s calculated to induce to renewed effort in the same field hereafter. The President belleves that the con- ference has already shown it to be possible for representatives of the na- tions of the earth to meet around the council board, look each other in the face and discuss and settle their.dif- ferences. In his opinion the thought that conquest by force must rule here- after has given way to the convic- tion that the people of the world are intent upon the methods of peace pre- vailing hereafter. One of the greatest tragedies in the world’s history occurred when Ger- many threw away her opportunities of progressing in world influence through science, the arts and com- merce aand chose to follow the path of force and conquest. —_— ARMORED TRIPLANE FLIES Initial Flight of Fifteen Minutes Proves Satisfactory. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., January 4.— The initial flight of an armored tri- plane, one of the few machines of its kind in the United States Army, yes- terday at Kelly Field, was pronounced commander of the field. The plane was in the air only fifteen minutes and other flights will be necessaryl before the worth of the machine can| be fully said. The triplane is driven by two liberty " motors of 400 horsepower each and is equipped with eight ma- chine guns and a one-pound cannon for firing down on infantry troops. The motor and three cockpits are protected by steel plates. —_— OFFICIAL FACES CHARGE OF TERRIFYING PUBLIC Italian Government May Act Against Deputy in Case Dating Back to 1918. ROME, January 3.—Criminal pro- ceedings against Deputy Mussolini, on the charge of having, during the sum- mer and autumn of 1919, in Milan, “formed and armed a band for the purpose of committing crimes against persons, terrifying the public and causing tumults and public disorders," are contemplated by the government. Application has been made to the chamber ef deputies for permission to bring action against the deputy. A similar authorization is sought as a preliminary to an action brought against Deputy Carosi, communist. He is alleged to be the responsible agent of the newspaper Azion® Communista of Florence, which recently published an_article’ which “depreciated the Italian victory, abused the Italian |army and exposed it to ridicule and contempt.” MISS DAVISON WEDS. Financial King’s Daughter Bride of A. L. Gates, Ex-Yale Athlete. LOCUST VALLEY, N. Y., January 4. _Miss_Alice Trubee Davison, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Davison, was married here yesterday to Ar- temus L. Gates, son of Mrs. E. L. Gates of Clinton, Jowa, and a former Yale foot ball star. The ceremony was performed _in the Episcopal Church of St. John's of Lattingtown by Rev. Charles W. Hinton, rector. The ceremony took place in the presence of 200 relatives and friends, many of whom came here from New York in special trains. Mr. Davison, the bride's father, a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co, was un- able to attend. He is spehding the winter at Thomasville, Ga., recovering from, an operation performed three months ago. TEXAS BANK CLOSES DOORS. AUSTIN, Tex., January-4.—The Citi- zens' Guaranty State Bank of Manor near here, has closed and is in charge of a representative of the state in- surance and banking department, Commissioner Ed. Hall announces. The bank has a capital stock of $25,- | 000 and deposits of $60.000. determined, Maj. Reynolds | 'C)Zaw y going or /~ Jhe P-B > Semi -Annual Clearance Sale FAVORS U. 5. BANK BRANCH IN EUROPE Senator Owen Proposes Link in Reserve System for Foreign Assistance. The establishment of a European Federal Reserve Bank, providing a gold-secured currency and linked in- separably with the American reserve system, from which it would draw its resources and reserves, was advocat- ed today by Senator Owen, democrat, Oklahoma, as a basle move toward restoration of stable economic condi- tions throughout the world. In an extensive speech in the Sen- ate, in which he dealt comprehensive- ly with post-war conditions, the Okaloma senator suggested in con- nection with the proposed reserve bank the following proposals for American aid in world rehabilitation: “1. That we should postpone the final payment of the world war debt in the United States by extending the payment over fifty years; that we should not for ten years collect any amount under the sinking fund. *“2. That in arranging the payment of Europe’s debt to the United States, we should extend time to Europe necessary to enable them to readjust their affairs and regain their produc- tive power, and that we should not for ten years demand of them the payment of interest due, but allow it to merge with the principal. “3. That we should put the interest rate at 3 per cent on Europe's debt to the United States.” Reserve Act Amendment. Mr. Owen at the same time sub- mitted to the Senate a bill to amend the federal reserve act so that es- tablishment of the foreign banks would be possible. He proposed that the European bank should be owned by the reserve system of the United States and that from the twelve banks here it should draw a total of $500,- 000,000 in gold as a reserve. This, he claimed, would in no way impair the reserves or resources of the American institutions, yet it would enable the foreign banks to is- sue $2,500,000,000 in notes, backed up by gold, as well as 100 per cent com- modity bills. Secured currency is the sorest need of European trade at present, the Ok- lahoma senator declared, adding that if the United States provided such gold-backed medium of circulation and then delayed collection of money due it from the demoralized countries, it would do much toward reviving the productive power of the whole world. He asserted that only through resto ing the productive machinery of Eu- rope would there be safe and sane economic conditions. Now Resoiting to Barter. “The one great outstanding factor breaking “down confidence and de- stroying the validity and desirability of contracts in Europe,” the Senator continued, “is the violent inflation of currency through the printing press. In some countries of Europe people have been compelled to abandon the making of contracts in terms of cur- rency and have had to resort to the clumsy system of barter —so many bushels of potatoes for so many bushels of corn or coal. “How can manufacturers contract goods for future delivery in terms of marks, when the mark at the time of future payment threatens a high per- centage of loss? How can merchants buy and sell safely in terms of marks or other depreciated currency, when such_units stretch from one value to another without notice? ¢ ¢ ¢ “The outstanding factor that r tards restoration of European indus- try and commerce then is the lack of gold-secured currency: Thus, the United States is able to provide the means for supplying a currency se- cured by gold, redeemable in gold and secured at the same time by mer: chantable commodities that in them- selves open and renew the ways of trade.” 7% Now All financial authorities soon be plentiful. 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Asserting that lel, had sought to undermine the government of the JFar Eastern Republic of Chita in order to set up a government there, over which they would have control so that they could gain special privi- leges and concessions in eastern Si- beria, the special Chita delegation in ‘Washington yesterday made public coples of treaties alleged to have been drawn up between the Japanese army in Siberia and Russian officers connected with Gen. Ataman Semien- off, the anti-bolshevik leader. In the alleged documents, Japan agreed to aid the offensive against Chita with arms and money. For this help Japa- nese subjects were to receive prefer- ential rights for hunting, fishing, forestry and mining concessions in Si- beria, when a stable government had been established. Added to Other Accusatiohs. These alleged pacts were in addi- tion to other documents previously given out by the Chita delegation, purporting to be treaties between Japan and France for a protectorate over Siberia. M. Sarraut, head of the Frech delegation to the conference, branded these documents as pure fabrications, and yesterday his denial of the authenticity of the documents was officially accepted by Secretary Hughes. In his letter, Mr. Hughes said: “] have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of January 2, in which you refer to the text of al leged official documents said to have passed between the French and Jap- anese governments and given to the press by representatives of the £o- called Chita government of eastern Siberia. “I am gratified to learn that the French government formally denies that it has come to any agreement or carried on any negotiations con- cerning the status of Siberia and I am glad to accept your statement that the documents in question are not authentic.” Officials of the State Department vesterday said that no reports of any such documents were -in their files. Imposible, Says Kato. In discussing the treaty supposed to have been made between the Jap- anese and Russian officers Admiral Baron Kato, leader of the Japanese delegation here, yesterday said that such a pact was impossible because, as a member of the Japanese cabinet for the past seven years, he could as- sert authoritatively that no such agreement had ever been sanctioned by that body. He also characterized as “absolutely false” the alleged Franco-Japanese pacts given out pre- viously. “Japan has troops in Siberia now,” he said, “for the protection of her natienals, but these will be withdrawn as soon 'as the proper guarantees from the bolsheviks against invasion of Korea or Manchuria and the as- surance of protection for the Japa- nese people in Siberia are given.” The Chita delegation in making public the documents, said that they proved that the Japanese were in league with Russian bandits, that the attack of Baron Ungern-Sternberg 1from Mongolia on Chita was insti- gated by the Japanese and that the Japanese were seeking to set up a democracy under their control in order to get an economic grip on the Far Eastern Republic. Gives Plans for Offemsive. The alleged treaty made public yesterday is dated June 8, 1921, and is said to have been signed at Vlad- ivostok by Gen. Saveliev and Gen. Soboley, representing Russia, and Capt. Arimoto and Lieut. 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