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FRANCE LOANING ON GERMAN DEBT Government Has Advanced Fifty Billion Francs on Ex- pected Payments. ADVISER EXPLAINS POLICY Casenave Tells How Issues of Notes Were Replaced by Treasury Bills. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. The French government has already advanced fifty billion francs for pen- sions and the reconstruction of the devastated regions against the pay- ments hoped for ultimately from Ger- many, according to a statement made to me today by Maurice Casenave. chief financial adviser to the French delegation. As a result, reconstruc- tion is well under way. Homes have had to wait; but the fields are under cultivation again, and one sees in the | devastated regions “beautifully equip- ped new factories, surrounded by huts, in which employer and employes alike are living in hardship. Accused of Jugglery. “The French goverment has been ac- cused of having recourse to financial Jugglery instead of paying for repara- tions by me: f taxation,” continued M. Casenave. “But how could such enormous sums be covered by taxa- tion? We have been deprived of about taxalle revenue by €uffered from the war. Two million able-bodied young men are dead or crippled: the rest of the men were all mobilized. Can it be imagined that, in these conditions, the rest of France could be taxed without limit? Ac- cording_ to _calculations recently made, England is being taxed 26 per cent of its total annual income, the United States 8 per cent, Germany 12 per cent, and France, 19 per cent. Is 19 per cent too little considering that of a total population of 40,000,000, 4.000,000, living in the devastated re- glons, were ruined, and are not tax- al Loans Are Floated. “To meet the reparations expenses, the government therefore appealed to | the people for loans. Direct loansi were floated by the government,! others by a special bank, the Credit National, created for the purpose; still others, by corporations formed to employ the organized credit of the) devastated populations themselves. At first, the amount of paper money was also increased; but the government, considering that this in- flation_endangered public credit, put @n end to the issue of notes by the Banque de France. In the two last years, not only has the printing of mnotes completely stopped, but the outstanding circulation has been re- duced, at the rate of about two mil- lion francs a month, or a total of more than two billion franecs. Explains Treasury Bills. *Instead of inflating the currency. as the Germans have done, France issued treasury bills. This policy needs explanation. “Neither taxation nor the slow process of consolidated loans were equal to the immediate need of the devastated regions. The govern- ment had therefore to devise means for mobilizing all the available funds of France. “This was done by issuing treasury : of France has| WAR CLOUD STILL HERE, DECLARES MME. HARD Swedish Woman Says World Has Not Reached Aims It Is Striving For. Nations have not yet made any great sacrifice for the cause of peace and “the war cloud is still over us,” declared Mme. Sirl Hard of Sweden in analyzing the efforts to the arms conference yesterday at the forum o the National Council for the Limita- tion of Armaments at 532 17th street. “The world has not reached the aims for which it Is striving,” Mme. Hard said. She declared that the gains of the conference lay in the fact that the thought and attention of the world have been turned by it toward peace and that the influence of the United States by both Presi- dent Harding and former President Wilson has been thrown on the side of world peace. Increase in understanding among the peoples of the world was declared by Mrs. Mary Dawson Snider, of Canada to be the outstanding gain of the conference. “The parts of the British empire,” she said, togethe: the people of Japan and America’ have ‘been brought closer together; we all understand better the point of view of France and Italy and the other nations. Above all the newspaper correspondents who have met the representatives of vari- ous nations hive gained a liking and respect for them which will inevi- itably be reflectcd in all that they write for the papers of their own countries.” Miss Nellie Margaret Scanlan of New Zealand stated that to her mind in addition to minimizing the causes of war, that “one of the great con- | gribuitons of this conference was the more businesslike method of dealing with international problems which it had developed and the demonstrated value of face-to-face con- sultation between nations.” {REJECTS GIFT VOTED HIM. “have been brought closer “Father of Wireless Telegraphy” Esnored by France’s Legislators. PARIS, December 16.—Prof. Branly, who is regarded by France as the father of wireless telegraphy be- cause his coherer made the use of ! Herzian waves practicable, has de- clined an offer of 20,000 francs made by the chamber of deputies. This sum was voted toward the upkeep of Branly’s laboratory and to aid his researches, as the professor’s finan- cial position was considered anything but easy. Prof. Branly wrote: “I cannot put myself in the same rank as Pasteur and Lamartine, who were, with every justice, objects of the same high favor. They are too great | hames for me to be compared with them.” bills, and France has been reproached ! with the fact. However, thanks to these treasury bilis, the 50,000,000,000 | francs needed for pensions and recon- | struction, which should have been paid by Germany, but was not, have been successfully raised. Such a mobilization of credit is proof of the confidence che French people have in the country’s financial power. Results of Policy. “A policy can be judged by its re- sults. These results are as follow: “A large part of the work of re- construction has been completed, a fact which will henceforth be of great help to the French treasury. “The French people are hard at work, in conditions of political and social peace. Since the war, there have been strikes even in_countries {less hurt by the war than France; in | France there are no strikes. there is no social unrest; every one goes peace- fully to his work. Of a population of 40,000,000, some 18,000 only are out of employment.” (Copyright. 192 SPECIAL NOTICES. SPE(!IAL NOTICES W. TR- DT RY 4 OF F pliure. Som ashingion to Phadelpnia. and New York. SMITH'S TRANSFER AND STOR- | G AG THE ANNUAL MEETING OF TiE STOCK- Bolders of the Security Savings and Commbr- ‘cial Bank, Washington, D. C., for the election of directors for the ensuing year and for the transaction of such other business as may |} mer!y be brought before the meeting will be eld at the bank at 11 o'clock a.m. on Tues- day, January_ 10, 1922. 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DUBLIN, January 5.—The astonish- ment produced in the dail eireann by Famonn de Valera's sudden production of his alternative proposals to the peace treaty and his announced determination to move them as an amendment to the treaty at today's session have turned into anxiety over the probable effect of the move on the further proceedings in the dail. Meanwhile strong condemnatory com- ment appears in the Dublin newspapers. An editorial in the Freeman's Journal today reads: “Those who hoped de Valera would spare Ireland the ordeal of a factional fight over his absurd document No. are to be disappointed. The Irish peo- ple will find no justification in his pub- lication for his criminal attempt to di- vide the nation. His alleged alternative to the treaty is no alternative; it con- tains all the articles for which the treaty has been assailed by the ‘ideal’ orators of the dail, only it is much worse.” Action Laid to Vanity. The newspaper, seeking an expla- ration of Mr. De Valera's action, suys it is .Ammremly due to “vanity,” and adds: “He cannot forgive the Irishmen who made the treaty for their success, and for this he is ready to sacrifice the country. He has not the instinct of the Irishman It is the curse of Ire- Jand that its unity should be broken Ly such a man acting under the ad- vice of an Englishman who achieved fame in the British intelligence serv- ice. (An apparent reference to Ers- kine Childers.) Document No. 3 is largely the work of Childers. The Irish people must stand up and be- gir their freedom by giving thejr fate into the hands of their own countrymen.” The political correspondent of the Freeman's Journal writes: “De Valera, depending on the loy- alty ,and devotion which center around the position of eminence in which the people have placed him, seems to be arrogating to himself thé right of an autocrat. His mani- festo struck a historical note and leaves one with the picture of Dec Valera shrieking ‘treachery’ in the face of men like Collins, Griffith, Mulcahy, McKeown, O'Duffy and others whose lives have been risked daily for their country. The ab- surdity of it would efface its wick- edness in other circumstances. De Valera's name alone seems to make it a subject for comment. Seeks to Be “Law Unto Himself.” The writer says Mr. De Valera by his aotion seeks to be the law unto himself and to propose tae amend- ment, although he has already spoken in debate.” “One felt,” he adds, “that the pro- testing voice of the man in the street or the man in the flelds found expres- sion_in Griffith’s prompt challenge to De Valera’s assumption of a privilege undreamed of by any other member of the assembly. His (Griffith’s) charac- terization of such a claim as evidence of an autocracy, which, if persisted in, would force the chairman of the plen- ipotentiaries and those who support him to quit the dail was the most serious statement made in the whole course of the controversy. No such situation has arisen in Irish affairs since Charles Stewart Parnell's strug- gle in committee room, No. 15 (when Parnell, as head of the Irish parlia- mentary party in the house of com- mons, refused to allow a vote on a mat- ter relating to himself.” Despite all the high hopes for unity and amity, nobody who was present at the passage of urms which closed in his blood. A ilast evening’s debate could doubt that the assembly stood on the verge of all i the disaster that is summed up in the horrible little word “split.” Mere Plan on Paper. The Irish Independent also con- demns document No. 3, although in milder terms. ‘“The treaty signed last December,” it says, “is an actual scheme capable of immediate applica- tion, whereas De Valera’s proposal is merely a plan on paper and, even though it may in some respects be better than the trea: signed by the plenipotentiaries, it fs not now within the domain of praclk‘ul politics. cerned, we fail to find much difference between the treaty and the counter- treaty. Certainly there is no differ- ence material enough to warrant a division and perhaps chaos or disaster in the country.” MRS. DAUGHERTY BETTER FOLLOWING OPERATION Wife of Attorney General Ralli Quickly at Johns Hopkins Hospital. BALTIMORE, Md., January 5.— The condition of Mrs. Harry M. Daugherty, wife of the Attorney Gen- eral, who underwent an operation at Johns Hopkins Hospital yesterday, was reported ‘“very satisfactory’ this morning. She was said to have had a good night. Persons in close touch with the case said that she rallied quickly from yesterday’'s operation and this fact, together with the improvement reported today, encouraged their hopes for an early recovery. Mrs. Daugherty has been at the hospital the greater part of the time during the last three months. Attorney General Daugherty. ac- companied by Jesse W. Smith of Ohio, a close personal friend and secretary of the Harding pre-con- vention campaign committee, went to Baltimore yesterday and were at the hospital when an operation was per- formed on Mrs. Daugherty. The operation was performed by Dr. George E. Bennett, under the super- vision of Dr. Llewellys F. Barker. “Mrs. Daugherty has been suffering from disease of the joints for the last fifteen years,” Mr. Smith said. “It has only been her courageous fight and wonderful determination which has allowed her to forestall the operation until today. She ral- lied from the operatioh in wonderful fashion, which buoys up our hopes for her early recovery.” —_— EGYPTIAN OFFICIAL SHOT BY YOUTHFUL STUDENT Badreldine Bey, Seriously Wound- ed, Returns Fire, But Would-Be Assassin Escapes. By the Assoclated Press. CAIRO, Egypt, January 5.—Badrel- dine Bey, controller of the Egyptian government crimes department, nar- rowly escaped assassination today at the hands of a youth believed to be a student. The controller was seriously wounded by a revolver shot. He re- turned the fire and pursued his as- sailant, but the latter escapel. Badreldine eBy has been prominent in the prosecutioh o! the “vengeance gang,” an anti-British organisation, seven of whose members were sen- tenced to death last year, but had their sentences commuted. —_— Florida—Atiantic Coast Line. Pre- eminently the Florida route with choice of five through traing 5 YP :n.ll.y.&.ll at 1418 H st. n.w. “As far as the substance is con-{ Griffith Clashes With Leader Over Changes Made in Document Since End of Secret By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, January 5.—Following is the text of the most important pro- visions of De Valera's alternative proposal: Status of Ireland—That the legis- lative, executlve and judicial au- thority of Ireland shall be derived solely from the people of Ireland. Terms of association—That for the purp of common concern Irer land shall be associated with the states of the British commonwealth, namely, the kingdom of Great Britain, the Dominion of Canada, the comi- monwealth of Australla, the Domin- fon of New Zealand and the Union of South Africa. That, when acting as an associate, the rights, statutes and privileges of Ireland shall in no respect be less than those enjoyed by any other com- ponent states of the British common- wealth, that the matters of common concern shall include defense, peace, war, political treaties and all mat- ters now treated as of common con- cern among the states of the British commonwealth, and that in these matters there shall be between Ire- land and the states of the British commonwealth such concerted action founded on consultation as the sev- eral governments may determine. That in_virtue of this association of Ireland with the states of the British commonwealth the citizens of Ireland in any of these states shall not be subject to any disabilities which ‘a citizen of one of the com- Donent states of the British common- wealth would not be subject to, and reciprocally for the citizens of these states in Ireland. Shall Recognize King. That for the purposes of the asso- clation, Ireland shall recognize his Britannic majesty as head of the as- sociation. That so far as her resources permit Ireland shall provide for her own de- fense by sea, land and air; shall repel by force any attempt by a foreign power to violate the. Integrity of Her 8oil or territorial waters or to use them for any purpose hostile to Great Britain and the other associated states. The document sets forth in detail in somewhat similar terms to the Downing street treaty the particulars regarding coastal defense, with a list of harbor facilities, and an agreement to build no submarmes except by the consent of the British commonwealth of states, make a convention for the regulation of civil communication by air, assume an arbitrated share of the British debt and war pensions, agree to endow no religion and arrange for the election of a provisional govern- ment and for ratification. An annex names Berehaven, Queens- town, Beifast and Lough Swilly as harbors remaining in_British care, with facilities for coastal defense by air. Safeguards for Ulster. A resolution added to the document expresses willingness to grant the BODIES PILED HIGH INSTARVING RUSSIA 5,000,000 Now Declared Low Estimate for Toll of Dis- ease and Hunger. Bv the Associated Pre MOSCOW, January 5—Russia has begun the yvear 1922 with eight months of unspeakable horror before her and the terrible dread that next summer’s crops may only slightly re- lieve the gnawing famine. At Tsaratsin, Saratoff, Samara, Ufa. Orenburg and Kazan frozen bodies are stacked high awaiting burial in trenches which workmen cannot pre- pare fast enough for the victims of famine, exposure and typhus, and every day the situation is growing worse. Toll May Reach 10.000,000. American reliet workers, who origi- nally cautiously placed the number of probable deaths in the famine area this winter at 2,000,000, now say that 5,000,000 is a low estimate, and many say the number may reach 10,000,000, or even more. This is possible par- ticularly since the shortage of horses, oxen and camels makes it impossible to reach the mere remote sections. and since it is predicted the typhus epidemic probably will be the worst that Russia has ever suffered. i The Americans are feeding nearly, 1,000,000 children, and the British and i various other organizations are fur-! nishing nournishment for at least| 100,000 under the most dangerous con- ditions. Typhus Claims Relief Workers. Dr. Reginald Farrar of thé epidemics commission of the league of nations’ Miss Mary ‘Paterson of the English Quaker relief mission, and Dr. Guert- ner, of the German Red Cross have died within the past week of typhus contracted in the famine area. Miss Nancy Bobb and Willlam Kenworthy of the English Quaker unit, are ill with typhus at Buzueiuk, near Sara- toff, and Anna Louise Strong of Phila- delphia, who is associated with the English’ Quaker organization, is re- | eovering from the same malady in) Moscow. Col. Ball of the American ! relief administration, is convalescing | from the disease at Ufa. { These cases have occurred among | less than fifty foreign relief workers in the famine area, who exerted every ; precaution to avoid contracting typhus. The disease is_so prevalent throughout all of the Volga region and in Turkestan that the soviet gov- ernment has stopped all passenger service to and from these regions. Saw 250 Frozen Bodies. George Newes of the British Save the Children Fund reports he saw 250 frozen bodies, many of whom were children, buried in a trench at Sara- toft in one day. He says trainloads of refugee children, underfed and scantily clad, are riding from the famine area in such a pitiable con- ditlon that the living children are Worse off than the dead. The soviet government has agreed to grant the American Relief Admin- istration the use-of 8,000 cars and 200 locomotives, required to move the supplies which the $20,000,000, - just gppronrlned by the United States, provide. It IS estimated that 200 L 2na five locomotives will be re- Quired daily for forty days. e NEW P. 0, STATION TO OPEN. A new classified postal station will be opened January 16 at Mount Pleasant stteet and Park road, to be known as the Argyle station. The station will handle all sorts of postal ‘business, including mongy orders. Rent a Ford or Dodge Drive it yourself Sessions. northeast six countfes privileges and safeguards “not less substantial than those provided for” in the document signed at London on December 6. The document as issued differs, ac- cording to Mr. Griffith, from the docu- ment submitted in the private sessions of the dail eireann. It follows the main_outline of the treaty made at the Downing street residence of the British prime minister and signed by Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins and the other plenipotentiaries, but im- plies, Mr. De Valera contends, a fundamental difference in principle. It asserts that the sole source of au- thority in Ireland rests with the Irish people, while by the treaty, it| is argued, it is derived through the king. Griffith and De Valera Clash. Mr. Griffith, who, like the other members, had received a copy of the proposals, said: “Are we to consider this a mnew document, or document No. 22" refer- ring to the De Valera plan, to which frequent reference has been made in the debate. De Valera jumped up and said: “You are quibbling.” Criffith retorted: “Document No. consists of twenty-three clauses; tis new document consists of seventeen. Six clauses are omitted.” Further controversy then arose re- garding whether Mr. De Valera's pro- posals could be moved as an amendment | at all, as they have been'described on the agenda paper as a separate motion. One deputy urged (hat the new pro- posals embodied a policy to follow on the rejection of the treaty, and not as an amendment to it. Mr. De Valera sald : “I am responsible: 1 am going to choose my own procedure now." Mr. Griffith replied that it was not within the competence of Mr. De Valera to do so, as the dail eireann was a con- stitutional body. “I am going to propose my own amendment in my own terms, and it will be for the house to decide,” retorted Mr. De Varela, The session then adjourned. has con Saturday Banking Hours 5: MINERS ASK PRESIDENT TO GIVE AID TO STARVING Reports of Unions in West Vir- ginia Coal Fields Contradicted by. Gov. Morgan. West Virginia coal miners who say their familles are starving have ap- pealed directly to President Harding for government aid. Letters the miners have sent to the President are contradictory of the statement issued by Gov. Morgan of West Virginia, that there is no starvation among the miners’ families. The letter to the President from the local union of the United Mine Workers at Marfork, W. Va., says: “At the meeting of our local union located at Marfork, W. Va. the miners instructed us to appeal to you for financial aid to support their wives and babies. The men have worked about three months this year. Why the mines are not running we are unablg to say. The majority, or practically all, of these men, Who number about 200, are in a destitute condition, some not even having a meal ahead nor the means of obtain- ing such. The only hope we have to | ward off intense suffering is by ap- pealing to our national government for aid through you. The letter was signed by G. L. Barnett, W. 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