Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1922, Page 3

TROOPSHIP CROOK NEARS | DEMANDS OPIUM ACTION. SHORE WITH ALL WELL | Reform ‘ Bureau Protests Omission Briand’s Resignation Regretted 1. . HELPS JAPAN BRANDVINDICATION [RELAND JUBILANT CLOSES HEARINGS . .y > L ,.v 7! by Arms Mestig. | weoten uene| By General Public in France| o ! Resolutions of protest ngainst the 5 R {Report From 190 Miles at Sea omission of the question ~of “pro- S . > ! P i fection of China against morpbia By the Associated Press, Jections ;. cons@uently, he slipped out, Says Transport Making Seven , U, smuggling rom Great Britaln, Japiy | PARIS, January 13.—Premier Briand's | enchanting ‘with_the sound of his lyre ¢ y Knots After Squall. and the Un ! . iresignation seems to have caused re-|t1e Wild apimals preparing to devour . ! . » t problems be- nce have been tional Reform d today. him. ‘We were favored with a last harangue, not of the best, but which was, nevertheless, not without value, thank goodness, and now we must’get to work.” ¢ The syndicalist newspaper Le Peu- ple, speaking ‘‘without political pre- occupations or - minjsterial sympa- agenda of the far eys fore the arms confere adopted by the ln(e\‘l'u:‘t Bureau, it was announce The rex:ilutiun stated that the bu- reau had been informed by the S!’le Department that the question was omitted “inadvertently” and that the} department “thinks it is now up to [Batches Walk From PriSONS | vy sso mhes cnst ot Ambroe chan: and Are Greeted With nel and making seven knots an hour | Wildest Enthusiasm. gret among the general public and in many political circles. The attitude of the majority of the press is fairly ac- curately reflected In the following ex- cerpt from Le Journal: “HI8 decislon is doubly regrettable, French Crisis Has Bearing on | U. S. Policies—Showdown Believed Beneficial. House Subcommitiee Reports Lack of Accurate Informa- tion on Profiteering. High Diplomatic Pressure Is Now Being Applied Here. {at 6:10 a.m. today, according to u;‘ | wireless to the War Department. The | message stated that the transport | {St. Mihlel was standing by. about| | | bE2 o = duce it, if thies,” declares: BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS. oL e e 5 _BY DAVID LAWRENCE. firsts because it deprives the- country, View of Syndicaliat Press. By the Ausociated Press. ! three miles atarboard of the crippled | Despairing of getting any accurate Success is already attending the|® The bureau went on record further| For the first time since the Euro- L';m‘l"'tmlfll! of the negotiations, of & | wwioe counts for us is that no| DUBLIN, January 13.—Materializa- | vesae ""flcwra.lcfi,'fil?max e pra!uetailed information from the milk eftcita¥ostheAnesichn srspresentay| AN oo e nited o oy |Besnwer s Frenchicabinet cHisld Ras o once 1in avoided eangorus | Sovernment - oan_ puraue o differsnt tion of the amnesty of political pris- that the Crook i short time be re |distributors which would lead o ek iv 1p J t ree to do|Evod citizens in the Ly St & direct bearing on'the policies. of|clashes, ! us | Eolley” unless It wishes disaster, Un® | ners in- Ireland bas elicited more)had encountered a small squall,” but lislation to curb profiteering, the spe- tives to help Japan to ag &St Britain und Japan will not be| 8. ;2nd, secondly, because Briand's ' L i \ishes rupture of France with Shar the Tiow ) DOD. CMSE SROVA il tenioiantties of Tho Eie outward enthusiasm here than any * z - |the Un 7 % eclara ith the work of the con = United ' States government. And|d ition, having neither been de-| (1% " Ciions, or inless it wishes to dumage and the transports expected in the conference, as of her own|satisfied wi L volition, what she naw knows must |ference If this issue for the settle- |whils it may seem paradoxical ta say :’."’d nor voted upon, no-clear indica- | emibark on an adventure of insensate jother development in the peace activ- { [FEEL B LIE orn region within {trict committ faveaiatiog be done, willingly or unwillingly, [ment of which antl-opium et os{it: the truth is, sympathy with the £ e dhcamen Ok Jarliament on | violence. 1€ there io-a politiclan Wil {ities. 1t may be remarked in passing |an hour. _ imilk supply of the District, do with rexpect to the far east: The)Rax® “theq [0 [\ ely"in this only [outgoing Premier Briand, i coupled!men his successor.” i ,‘,"gn to take such reaDo e ‘would | that the choice of the phrase “act of | \~?:.l-my(.,';a":‘u,';‘:‘.:r:;?;c.:fr‘:.i:."gdu(" At today to close its hearin resumption of ¥he ‘Shantung nego-|opportunity ‘-';‘er pn»x;lm 1 to take u.:m\ an opflm(nliciexpecxulun that | Joy tn Some Quarters. | n?r'_.d‘re to unllu{n:l IL"ty Aol G oblivion” rather than an "ar('of nlem-g‘ o . B The tiations, togethier with the progress up with decisive resu 3 is resignation will prove the most] The newspape B 5 Che communist deputy. cel Ca- | ancy™ in the announcement s recos- | v made in l:e’n, and the official an-! —_— ! beneficial thing that has happem-d%em'y. stich at the "p‘sa",.;é'fi:';“(‘fi: ‘é:‘l‘,’m“!;;“ .‘Y.i:}.".,f'{‘m‘:n'?,i‘f.“.w“&'cr..'i‘;: nized as a happy diplomatic stroke. | DEATH FOLLOWS D|SPUTE§:; nouncement of a_complete change o('u S. TRADE BALANCE iln the European situation in three C:ne‘e-lflsih:{:- the other hand. do mot | 1 Treublie and aggravates the dan-| Dublin's citizens induiged in lively | T f B Miiecs U s lsss e forneielr, Joy atthe resignation. | gers of the situation, national andgemonstrations last night, @ large; OVER CLAIM FOR 85 CEN S‘_‘A arylund to have the twenty-one demands DROPS $1,000,000,000 | The Unitea States government has| “Brland could not have resisted.the | Hh s somaiit T T are Jocked | crowd outside Mountjoy prison wel- discontin ingw, T brought before the conference, are s refrained from expressing itself on|attacks prepared for him. He had no he Ditter Cstruggles dealing blows |coming the successive batches of lib- | cxamimations ar. ANl s Rl next Tuesd clear” evident of the change that has come over the spirit of the Jap- anese dreams within the past three days. £ There ig no concealing the truth that pressure—highly diplomatic and courteous and friendly and behind- the-curtain pressure—is already being applied. Japan's representatives now understand fully that the naval pact will not be signed nor any other en- actment of the conference, until after e - far eastern «uestions. which were the premise of the American invitation. have been settled. President Harding has let it be known that he will not send any treaties to the Senate until the con- ference has finished its worl hose two facts would be perf clear to even a less discerning delegation than the Japanese. Accepts Liberal View. Other forms of friendly pressure are also operative, some of them in the homeland. At least one high Japanese official of the delegation has come to swccept the position of the liberals in his_country, to the effect that tran- «quillity and trade in China and Siberia mean infinitely more to Japan than military penetration or territorial control. As one shrewd conference official expressed the case: “On every American dollar invested in a stabalized China Americans may | i i draw 4 or 5 per cent interest, but!previous year, while imports aggre- [ compel Briand to be called again, or Japanese will make 8 per cent on that ! same ‘dollar which they themselves have not invested. Whenever America, or any other nation, builds a railway in China, it is Japanese trade that profits first and most—provided there | is no boycott on. So it is Japan that has the largest stake in helping China to settle down to order and progress, Exports Off $3,743,000,000 Dur- ing 1921, While Imports De- cline $2,777,000,000. A decrease of nearly $1.000.000,000 in the favorablé trade balance of the United States during 1921 was indi- cated inthe foreisn trade statistics for December. issued today” by the Department of Commerce. Kxports decreased in-value in 1920 by $3,743.000.000 and_imports by $2, 777,000,000, the report said, attribut- ing much of the reduction to the material decline last year in prices of commodities which made up the bulk of the country’s foreign trade. “The lower values of imports and exports in 1921, as compared with 1920 and previous years,™ the depart- ment_said, “do not represent corre- sponding declines in volume of trade, but are, to a great extent, due to the fall in prices.’ 2 During the year 1921 exports amounted to $4,485,000,000, as com- pared with $8,228,000,000 during the gated $2,508,000,000, against $5,278,- 000,000 in. 1920. ~ Exports in December totaled $295.- 900,000, as against $294,000,000 in’ No- ( vember, and $270,000.000 in December, 1920, while imports amounted to $236,800,000, *against $211,000,000 in November and $266,000,000 in Decem- ber a year ago. and Japan knows that she herself can never cause China to settle down. al- though this conference may do so." British Help Expeected. British help may be expected in aiding Japan to “go along” with the | Hughes program. as soon as that program is definitely known. Aside | from the important consideration that the British public really wants | the same things for the far east that the American public wants. the British delegates see that to thwart the administration purpose, or to abet the Japanese in thwarting it. would be to wreck the conference, and they are the last ones to wel- come any such tragedy. Reduced to cold realities, America is the one of the thyee powers that can_best afford the failure of the conference, and the consequences that would flow therefrom. It seems SPECIAL NOTICES. to be the American view that to ad- journ with a tacit recognition of the ttatus quo in the far east would bring greater evils to the world than to_permit the conference to collapse. But the conference is not going to collapse, either by dissensions be- tween the delegates or by repudiation at_the hands of the Senate. Like . “S8entimental Tomm: diplo- macy will “find a way,” to align Japan with the powers that now con- template the work of removing cer- tain fundamental causes of trouble [tion of joining an economic confer- |pressure upon France would henceforth from the far east. That day will not | ence, but wantéd to know more of the i be alleviated. He would get a guar- be one of humiliation for Japan, but | Program and scope of the conference | antee for France from cne that will mark the beginning of | before announcing official acceptance. ! States, if he could, but failing tais. 2 new and brilliant era in her forelgn | A8 it is now, the United States finds | he would at least try to win. American - relations. (Copyright. 1922.) SPECIAL NOTICES. D. 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Claflin Optical Co. 114G St. o g i g gy e =% an reparations, the subject of Europ ‘with anxious it was watchin, eyes the continuous sniping behind the back of Premier Briand, and it knew that no progress could be made in Europe until there was a show- down between the extremlsts repre- sented by Polncare, Foch and the mili- tary crowd, who want to force Ger- many to pay the exaggerated figures called- for by the reparations agrec- ments thus far, and the moderates, who believe world recomstruction hinges upon a conciliatory pol‘cy and a ghaving down of the-repara.ion ob-} ons. i Eftect of Backfire. J ‘The showdown i:as come at last. Few officials here believe Premier Briand was in the wrong when he resigned and laid the case -before the whole world. To have Kept up negotiations waile there always loomed up behind him the political backfire of his opponents was simply to keep Europe in an unsettled state and make the forthcoming Genoa conference on economic affairs of doubtful value. The general opinion in official circles here is that eventually Briand will be vindicated. but that it may take time for the new party in power in France to come around to hig viewpoint. The prediction is that tie Poincare party will either fail at its task and | that the facts of the European situa- tion wiil gradually force Poincare to adopt a policy virtually the same as that proposed by Briand. Whichever way it turns out, the judgment here is that the cabinet crisis in France clears the air and ends the period of uncer- tainty between tiie two major groups in French politics, who have permitted the intricacies of their quarrel ‘to reach even to the Washington conference on armament. U. S, im Inquisitive Meoeod. | Fortunately for, the United States | government, it h2d not-accepted the invitation to attend the economic con- | ference at Genoa. M. Briand made it | clear to the French chamber that | America would come into the con- ference, but he was simply .mm-‘ paling certain acceptance when he | used the phrase “America has| agreed.” The truth is the United | States informally indicated her inten- itself in an even more inquisitive! mood. i 1f the Poincare group mieans to in- | sist on the letter of the Versailles| treaty and use military force to make | Germany pay her obligations, Amer- | icap participation in the Genoa meet- ing is unthinkable. In a sense the new i Poincare ministry in France will find alongside the government of Great Britain_another powerful government United States—in examining the practical aspect of sconomic re- | construction. ey 47} It would not be surpf Gn‘fif the bringing of America Into the Genva! conferénce was the very flrlt)num- bling block the Poincare‘party’would | encounter. The United States must be | convinced that the Genoa meeting! iactually intends to ‘relieve the eco- | nomic distress of Europe before at-| tendance will be assured. It is the| fundamental bellef of the officials here that German reparaiton payments must be adjusted before anything feasible can be considered along other economic lines. Germany and Britain. Another factor which is expected to moderate the Poincare policies and show the new party what Briand w: up against is the British attitude t ward Germany. The growing com- mercial friendship between Germeny and Britain was the first source .of Anglo-Frenoh discord. Prime Minister | Liloyd George did not hesitate 10 show France that if the latter insisted upon a policy. that might bankrupt Ger- many, the British would not play: along’ with the French, ‘but would come to the moral, support of Ger- many. It is an Open secret that American officials concur in the views of Lioyd George and that the moral support of America and Great Britain will be found on the side of Germany in the reparations controversies of the immediate future. Premier Briand tried to head it off by closer relations with Britain and a modified policy on reparations.. His opponents called this a surrender. He gave up the fight by resigning and permitting his political opponents to try their hand. When they come face to face with all the factors—the Brit- ish leaning toward Germany and Rus- sia, the American concurrence in the British views on European economic reconstructior. and the tendency of the largest creditor nation in the world, the United States, to stand aloof while France' gropes for a sta- ble policy—the universal conviction here.is that France will make: her point conform to that of the other i i ! i i i “{ powers, and the day of world recon- struction will then be hasteped. (Copyright, 1922.) FOUND DEAD IN BED. W. G. Russell Believed to Have Been Gas Stove Vietim. ‘William G. Russell, ‘setretdry to Representative Vare of Pennsylvania, was found dead in his bed this morn- ing, - death belleved to ‘have been caused by the fumes of 2 gas stove fn his room. Mr. Russell's absence this morning | caused the sending of two Capitol po- lice to Mr. Russell’s residence, 100 C street southeast. They found Mr. dead in his'bed, ahd, after an 'examination, were of the opinion that he had gotten out of bed early in the morningy closed the windows, lighted {the stove and gotten back in bed lagain, to remain there a short time| until the room got warm before ge ting up. In their opinion Lir. Russell fell -to sleep-and was asphyixiated by the gas from a couple-of the burners on the stove which failed to light, B —_—— MERCHANTS TO AID. - Issue Suggestion’ for ‘Objervamte of Thrift Week Here: ; The Merchants' and Manufacturers’ Association has been delegated by the local Y. M. C. A, which is promoting the Nafional Thrift ‘week campalgh, January 17 to. 23, in Washington, to carry. on the empum\wfor thrift among the merchants of Washington. The association ‘has issued several suggestions for . obgervance of the ly”’; arrange tables (bargain:tables); arrange 3s- sembly for store employes to have thrigt presented. :z - thrift Do e et e and" ‘¢6-0, o I8 dis tributing budget: booksy -, : p las regards Germany. |ing American sympathy, there was serloub answer to oppose to clear ob-|which will weaken both.” . ACTION BY BRIAND CAUSES CONFUSION Has Effect on Re;.)arationsl and”May Mean End of ‘ ‘Cannes Proceedings. By the Associated. Press. LONDON, January 12.—Premier Bri- RAND ACTION LAID T0-ARNS PARLEY Resignation of Premier De- clared Direct Consequence of Washington Conference. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. The resignation of Aristide Briand | as premier of France is apparently aand's unexpected resignation, without direct consequerice of the Washington | Wating for a vote in the chamber of Tonference.” The French policy ever|deputies, has occasioned great sur- since the Paris confrence has been to | Prise in London. and the indefinite ad- apply the Versallles treaty, especially | journment of the supreme counell, it This applica- | I8 feared. means the break-up of the tion, difficult in itself, has been ren. Cannes meeting. §t at least throws dered doubly difficult, France consid-; the Whole reparalions question into ers, by the attitude of Britain, which ‘ extreme confusion. ‘ & the French think has been consistent-| There 18 a noteworthy parallel in Iy such as to encourage Germany to' the fact that both Lloyd George an resistance. The s:ability and peace of | Briand went to Cannes, each with hi Europe, France believes, depends | hand on the pulse:of the political =it upon the harmonious collaboration of | tation” at home. British and French France and Britain, but upon equal | Rolitics completely “dominated - the terms. The actual situation for the | Cannes meeting. . ' - last three yeard is conceived by tne! Fear of Natfenalists. Britain aoenive been oM in whick | 31 Briand had fear of the pationalist France to make all the sacrifices. | obbosition. led by Clemenceas “ib Briand, prior to the Washington ' haj,Junt 5127td & Toaul "Painieve. conference, had himself gone o far in | fomcs orerml a0 minister of war, the direction moderation, of e | Horer DI e to wh J i inst his yielding to what th peated concessions both to Germany | mons u 3 17 and to Britain, that the French cham. | contiaered e IOy el *Fhis o y"'in the supreme council. This op- ber had pracileally ‘decided to gver- | ¥oion was igaris. Sntaonistic. to o s ity Briand. going | 4,y derogation from the terms of the frankly before the chamber. asked for | Versaillés treaty. and even against un He "wanted 19 g0 tor Washington, “ne | ANElo-French -alliance. which would , et : the soviet eald, o hoped to emnt the mston:, ‘¢ | compel France to recognize o overnment and tie the bands of the America in such a way that British g'rench Wwith*~regard _to -submarines and any assistance to Poland. Mr. Lioyd George. on the other hand, is credited with geing to Cannes with the intention of availing himself of the expected decision for a European economic conference, which would hold out the expectation of the reha- bilitation of central Europe and | the United | sympathy and moral approbation. The | chamber weakened, gave Briand a vote | of confidence, and he came to Wasaing- | ton. | thereby promise a solution of the His effort to obtain an American guar- | difficult unemployment problem and antee falled. But. on returning to Parls, j trade depression. he made a speech to the chamber, in| It was contended that these would which he said plainly that he had suc- | provide useful planks. combined with ceeded in winning American sympathy. |the Irish settlement and the siccess Rene Viviani, returning a few weeks|of the Washington conference, for ap- later. corroborated Briand's statement. i other appeal-1o the country, which, t But at-about the same time the debate |8 understood, he intended to make in in. the. Washington conference began ;February. concerning France’s naval claims. Obstacles te New Party. Placed ia False Poaition. The British prime ' minister was Tae French delegates had no sooner | further credited with intending to form set forth these demands than the en-|a new “national party.” with rather tire American press loosed a mighty |liberal than conservative leaning, but roar ‘of disapprobation against France | his plans have met with the strongest Although the question was not one |opposition from the extreme conserva ir which the United States had a di-|tive wing of the coalition which was rect interest, the United States al-|against such an early electlon because lowed itself to be placed in the false |il was desired to force the premler to Dosition of supporting Britain against | legislate for the reform of ‘the house France in a European dispute. The|of lords and restore to the lords the French chamber seems immediately | power of veto over legislation by the to have understood that not only had |house of commons, which, by Mr. Lloyd France failed to win America’s sym- [George's efforts, the lords were de- pathy at Washington, but that Amer- | prived of a decade ago. ica’s sympathy was all with Britain.| The French crisis, ax viewed here. From this moment forward,|unless solved by the recall of Briand Briand's political fate seems to have |to power, would seem to threaten the been practically sealed. He went to| disarraying of all ghese plans. Cannes tg make & final effort. Fall-| : | GERMANY SEES CONFUSION. ene ll;’t !(;ll?ne?t—hlmely. that of win- i = ning Britain jteelf to the point of giving a guarantee to France. Livyd | Reperations Issue Bélieved Effected George apparently understood the sit- iad e uation, He offered France the much by Briond Resignation. h By the Associated Press. desired guarantee. but tied eo many. strings to the offer—strin, s - & - S Guiring from France concessions| BERLIN, Januacy 13.—News of the wm:h the‘ le):lllre French people re-|Briand ministry’s retirement, reached gard as of the most serfous nature— e is at the that_the ‘chamber seems Immedlately | OTCial auarters from baris at to have revolted. Briand rushed|Close of vyesterday's cabinet session. back from Cannes, laid his case be-| Cabinet members declined to dis- :?;: ‘dth! hostile. deputies, and—re-|cuss eventualities likely, to result . from the altered situation, but official Declared Serious Situation. opinions concur,in the belief that the The resultant situation is a serious ! reparations-issue for the moment has ¢ne for Europe and for the whole |again been thrown into confusion world. The events of the last three ' through the obliteration of the new years haye tended more and more to | liné of itical and economic orienta- force France into a position of bit- [tion wMch the Cannes conference terness and isolation which bodes ill { promised to develop. for European reconstruction. The | Official speculation gppeared to cen- ! H i Young Colored Men Fight, and One Dies as Result of erated prisoners with loud cheers, while a happy atmosphere generally pervaded the streets. Similar scenes were epacted in Cork and Limerick, Stabbing. where others were released. Trouble between Rapdolph ur- 2 o 5 roughs and Paul Chapman. youns Lelllasf el s it onasr ‘olored men, residing at 426 L street. Meanwhile preparations for theiciarted in a poolroom not far {rom their home last night about 7 o'clock. The trouble was ower 55 cents Bu roughs is suid to have owed Chap- | man. When the men troom. it is stated, Chapman for the money he had louned E roughs, and was told by the latter | {(hat he did not want to be annoved ¢ {When the men reached the sidewaik {they rencwed the argumnt and blows are said to have passed. Chapman wont home and was seated at the supper table in the house of {Jennie Vi . “colored, where both boarded, Burroughs appeared {and is reported to have said: “Now {youre in here, what are you woin to_do about it?” | “The men clinched and went to the {floor. Chapman had a plate in one hand, the police were told, but he I managed to open a pocket knife with { the other hand. and, it is charged, in- Aicted three wounds, one on the fore- Troops to Withdraw &lowly. head. one in the side and one in the| left chest over the heart. With regard to the military With-3 Up, yipe ‘bled to death befor drawal, it is not anticipated that the! shyvsician from Emergency Hospital work will be completed for some time. r;:u'h(;;l ;Iu- hnu.\e.‘ Se‘arrhd ni; lm : alleged slaver was instituted. Detec- perhaps for months. Shipment of the 3 08 oo el "and Lynn of head- troups, variously estimated Lo num- | quarters and Detective Waldron of ber from 30.000 to 50,000, is the“leas:|the sccond precinct participating part of the'undertaking. as after they transfer of administrative authority | to the new Irisa government under] Arthur Griftith continue. Sir Ernest’ Clark, undersecretary for Irelund in the British government, arrived here last night, it is belfeved in connec- tion With the transfer. It is begin- ning to be realized that, ‘even with the greatest good-will, the complete evacuation of the British cannot be effected instantly, either as regards the civil or military administrations. 1t is understood Michael Collins will go to England shortly to arrange de- tails which are as vet unsettled, and until he returns the work can con- ttnue only partially. The new gov- ernment is reported to have protested against the removal of the documents from Dublin Castle to' England. with the result that the movement has been temporarily suspended. in the poos met : Chapman left the house as soon as have gone it will be necessary to dis- | he realized the result of the encoun- pose of immense quantities of stores|ier. and shorul i afterward he ap- seared at the second precinct police station and surrendered. He is said 10 have admitied taking the knife from his pockel. but denied he knew t had been used until he saw the and foodstuffs, besides military build- ings, including hospitals and barracks. and lands occupied for military pur- poses.. The king's proclamation of amnesty, announcement of the departure of the i blood. augiliaries and the resolution of the| Witnesses to the affair differ as to Sinn Fein executive council to sum-{who was the aggressor in the house man an extraordinary convention for | Arrangements were made to have February 7. to decide upon the futurc j them tell their versions of the affair of the organization and its policy, aft- | io a coroner’s jury at the morgue er Eamon de Valera had predicted ai'ate today. Chapman is twenty-fi lit in the organizalion, were the|vears of age, while twenty years was chief developments in the Irish situa- | siven as the age of the dead man tion yesterday. it ation g tnct Ampoimiments. | QFFICERS SEIZE STILL. The election of the standing com- mittee of the Sinn Fein organization | Anonymous Letter Advises Author- resulted in a victory for Arthur Grif-|. Ty for Arihur Grif-l:ties of Alleged Infraction of Law. fith and his party. Of the fifteen members elected only three arc op-| An anonvmous letter writer oAy : norning gave the police the informa- posed to the treaty. tion that the prohibition enforcement Mr. Grifith has made additional | 'aw was being vio'ated In tae home of cabinet appointments. Ermest Blythe | Joseph Petro, thirty-nine years old, a is the new minister of trade and com- | quckster, 1009 1st street southeast. and merce; Joseph McGrath ¢upplants |last night Detective Wise and Police- Countess Markievicz as minister of { man Salkeid of the fifth precinct and labor, and Michael Hayes is the new | Revenue Agents Rose and Lipscomb minister of education. i visited Petro's home. where, they re- ported, th i v LONDON JAILS EMPTIED. | her st " *02e0 an improvised: cop- 1 1 | i | | H i per still. The officers destroved a_quantity of . - mach, corn meal and other products Irish Political Prisoners Freed ! said to be used in the mnnutagtum of whisky. Petro was arrested and Early This Morning. i charged with manufacturing and.illegal By the Asmoclated Press. ossession of corn whisky. Selzure of LONDON. January 13.—The Lrish po- | 21 duart of the finished product was litical prisoners in the London jails— | Vo % ~ Brixton, Pentonville and Wormwood | 1 Scrubbs—were released this morning. | BOARD OF TRADE MEETING | under, the smnesty proclamation fs-| ——— sued by KiIng George vesterday. In- Btcuctions ware sont.to the provincial | MOuthly Session Is to Have Noted jails for similar releases. Speakers. Ulster Transfers Prisoners. Senator L. H. Ball of Delaware and' Ry the Associated Press. {Representatives Frank C. Millspaugh BELFAST, January is | o Missouri and Thomas W. Harrison | L217 3 !3lof Virginia will be the guests of | learned that 140 prisoners were being | honor at the monthly meeting of the | transferred from Belfast today. It WVashington Board of Trade to be| is- understood here they are being lel‘?bl‘flfl:ih:‘.\;:m“n'll!nrd }‘l;:;vl_'l‘;lt i taken to Mountjoy prison in Dublin, | “*g JET0 M8 S RHTIN, Ll al b o s | where the§ will ‘be liberated. { will be read, followed by a buffet sup- | There was further shooting in the | per. | streets of Belfast last night. - One i man was eritically wounded. I e men were uriea.yesteraay tor| SEEKS LIMITED DIVORCE. the murder of Constables Gorman |wife Charges Husband Ga: 3 ve B and Lyttle in Londonderry jail last = ‘tl Decernber. Patrick Leonard, Thomas| $15 Weekly to Support Eight. | McShea and Patrick Johnston were| Limited divorce with alimony is ask-| found guilty and sentenced to death {€d in a petition filed today by Mrs.| The three others were acquitted, but | Catherine K. Beuchert against Julius! shop erson, ator we 3 - and President Smyth of the Methodis. ;‘rlxibr&r"gd ‘h?‘l:l,r;;'elxfl}gnrn‘:ir 3.‘: Jcon 3 mi- ly. which consists of five of his Church, in a joint letter to the peo- | way in which the American delegates and press handled the French crisis. here a few weeks ago was such as to increase this French sentiment of.bittern and isolation. A President Millerand - asked Ray- mond Poincaré ‘to serve as premier. In this case this is the end for the time being of the policy of modera- tion &nd compromise which Brignd has steadily pursued. The Loucheur- Rathenau agreements, the Washing- ton naval ratio agreements, the Genoa conference, the proposed mora- torfum for-Germany—all are threat- ened. He is a bold prophet who will now venture- to - forecast what the next few months may bring. ., The. responsibility for this crisis in world affairs cannot justly be placed, in my opinion, entirely upon e French - legislature. = Britain must bear its share of the moral burden. 1.1 i”) ies . toward France had ‘been’ wigér and more generous Briand might today have continued in power. And we, too, must bear our share of the responsibility. -Our, policy of isolation from -European affairs has been’ 8 fundamental factér in' bring- ing 'about the .bitter isolation of France. ok french Not Understood. Our refusal to promise to support France in case of a renewal of un- provoked aggression is another fac- tor: The complete failure of our dele- gates here in Washington to under- stand the French state of mind in the naval ratio crisis, and their ap- parent support of the British posi- tion, were last straws. It seems now to the French people that, despite | ‘what théy regard as the unquestiona- ble right and justice: of their case, the ‘whole ' worM is leagued against thém. Ihevilably, their reaction, far from being_one of humbleness and contrition, is- one _of" inju pride and ~ strong” determination. Sinee Briand, the mioderate: man, the man .of” compromise.: has' failed, ‘they awill try - Poli 7 the man of iron. T de _not belleve that: France in tiie “long run_can avoid the-direction] which Briand has been giving to its foréign policy. This: direction is in- herent it the very circumstances. But Briand's fall means a delay in world reconstruction, a delay in which some bold and perhaps dangerous experi- ments are likely to be attem { ”I e the 13 H. E. Sprucebank, 2d and Pa. ave. .o pted by | MO! ter around the predicament into which Lloyd George was suddenly placed through “the loss of his danc- ing partnef,” which Briand has been designated since the Cannes pour- parlers were opened. Up to a late hour last night thel cabinet was without news from Wal- ter Rathenau, heading ‘the German delegation which discussed repara- tions questions with the supreme council at Cannes. The reichstag, which had been summoned for Janu- ary 19, may meet at an earlier date as the result of the new international situation. » - ! - Lib Pash’s nephew, that”wuz sentenced ‘€' be ~hanged next nth, cheated th’ pardon board by suicidjn®in his cell last night. Lester-Moon is th’ new-cashier at_th’ People’s Bank -an’"Auto e sutheast sec- | Exchange, - succeedin’ Laurel t] m:’;éfi,}.“‘ Sz ncian: | Spry, five feet, light comrected: e, an‘ ere-this.’ prob’ly smdoth-fac “Cmsright National Semspaper Service.). | King. George, congratulating him ugon '3 ple of Belfast, ask the citizens “to use all the influence théy can com- mand to bripg to an end the out- bursts of cfime, which are a dis- grace to any civilized community.” SEEKING FUNDS IN U. S. Childer’s Party Cables for Money to Fight Free State. By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 13.—The Daily Mail's Dublin correspondent says that Erskine Childer's party has sent urgent cablegrams to the United States appealing for funds to enable them to begin the election campaign in opposition to the new free state government. May Deport Breen to United States. The Dublin correspondent of the Morning Post telegraphs the follow- ing: “The shipment to the United States of Daniel .Breen, who appears to have been hanging around the .{dail eireann with a band of thugs, threatening to enter and shoot up the entire assembly if it ratified the treaty, suggésts that Michael Collins and Richard Mulcahy are alive to the necessities of the case.” # : There has beep no previous intima- tion that Daniel Breen was to de- ported from Ireland. A London dis- patch, in October, 1920, identified Breen as commandant of the 3d Tip- perary Brigade of the Irish republican . "The British authorities in Ireland were said to have offered a| £1,000 sterling for his capture in _connection with® the murder of a Maj. Smyth, and he was also accused of killing two constables and perpetrating & series of other outrages. Irish Weuld Keep Troops. Dublin correspondent. The inhabitants of the military cen- ters have sent letters to Dublin, and |even to the British government, ask- ing retention of the troops, whose ex- enditure of entire pay in Ireland eant important trade and employ- P :gnt of a number of the natives. POPE CONGRATULATES KING. Districts in Ireland which benefited financially from the presence of. Brit- ish troops are expressing something like consternation at their withdraw- al, according to the Merning Post’s children by a former marriage. a child | of the wife by a former marriage and | a young offspring ef the present mar- | riage. ! The Beucherts were married at Capitol Heights, Md.. October 7, 1914. Attorneys Mason, Spaulding and Me- Atee appear for the wife. MISSOURI SOCIETY DANCE. Senator and Mrs. Spencer of Mis- sourl were the hosts at the dance given by the Missouri State Society | at the Meridian Mansions last night Included in' the many Missourians present_were the following congres- sional delegation: Senator and Mrs, James R. Reed, Representative W. 0. Atkeson, Representative and Mrs, Dyer and the Misses Dyer. Represent- ative and Mrs. Edgar C. Ellis. Repre- sentative Charles I Faust, Represent- | {ative and Mrs. Harry B. Hawes, Rep- resentative Theodore W. Hukriede, Representative and Mrs. Henry F. Lawrence, Representative and Mrs, Cleveland A. Newton. Representative and Mrs. on E. Rhodes and Rep- resentative and Mrs. Samuel A. Shel- ton. the conclusion of the Anglo-Irish treaty, was made public here tonight: | I “Overjoyed at the agreement happily | reached regarding Ireland; we con- Eratulate your majesty warmly on hav. 'ing contributed effectively to this great work of pelce‘" The king replied as follows: “] thank your holiness warmly for the Kind message which afforded me sincere gratification.” . RAILWAY STRIKE LOOMS. Irish Employes Plan Walkout at Midnight Saturday. By the Adsociated Press. DUBLIN, January 12.—A general strike on all the Irish rajlways is an- nounced for Saturday at midnight, ow- ing to a refusal of the railway mana- gers'to meet the chairman and secre- tary of the Locomotive Soclety to dis- cuss the proposal of the companies to abolish the regulation wages and hours which were settled by an award of the national wages board In June, 1920. l SN s e The men -:ocu;:dm%e strike called e e . i = on of lo:o ;uc-. long - LONDON, Janusry 12.—~The follow- | Into. e A, gos.c Jous ing “telegram 'from - Pope Beredict to}s decade ago. The strike will effect 23.000 workera. ay. Reduction in Price Discussed. At the hearl today attention was called to t price of milk. The produ reduced the price, it all reductions to consy from re rice paid the produce 7 intained the distributors have for many pric ilino Chevy Chase committee that both of these dairi through their managers, have gone record before the committes as Ju- tending to continue both the tubertu- lar tests and turization with a view to giving Washington the best possible milk safeguard independent of whatever the decision of the com- mittee may be. R. J. Wine Testifies. Raymond J. Wise of the ti Brothers, operating tk i Dairy, was the principal wi and told the ¢ that with NEW BONUS PROPOSAL IS MEETING WITH FAVOR Republican Leaders Expect Plan to Use Allied Securities Will Produce Action. Payment of a soldiers’ bonus is based on a plan of Senator Lodge which contemplates the receipt from the allies of bonds or other securities in exchange for their present notes, which could be s0ld to the American public in sufficient amounts to pay the cash honus. 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