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Eight on Great Ques THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 22, 1922—PART 1. tions Confronting Old World Shed by Latest Cable Dispaiches: } MONSTERS OF THE DEEP WAR LEADERS’ RETURN FUTURE OF EUROPE IN SCALE AT GENOA Harden See‘s Fate o Parley—Believes £ Nations Molded at France Must Back Down—Germany Waiting. BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEY, Germany's Foremost Publielst. By Cable to The Star. BERLIN, January 21.—Despite the militant tone of his statement in the chamber of deputies Thursday, Pre- mier Poincare of France does not in- | tend to be a bull in a china shop. A serious politician and jurist, his poli will be distinguished fr. that of Briand principally by tone and method. Briand was long Poincare’s friend against Clemenceau. and was his kingmaker at the Versailles presi- dential election. In the too pedantic dispatch which Foincare sent to Briand at Cannes the first sentence sald that Europe could be saved only by France's economic recovery. That is to be the keynote of the Poincare policy. This Lor- rainer, who lived through the 1870 in- vasion, and cannot forget. hopes for a return of French he: - aned ¥'nto “Chanticleer.” taga=s .. policy of “France rst”—a phrase which should have a familiar sound in America—resembles the Gallic cock “Chanticleer.” of whom Rostand wrote. This cock believed that if he did not crow the sun couid not come up. France's recovery is not a prelimi- nary condition to Europe’s restoration, but will be a consequence of that restoration, for France, despite her ruined areas, is neither the most dam- aged nor economically the most im- portant country of a continent whose fate is to be decided at Genoa. Genoa is at the frontier between the eastern and western ribieras. It is important for America whether this conference turns toward the ris- ing or the setting sun. If it turns to the rising sun then the cock. whose song and plumage every one loves, will not have crowed in vain Gives Cause of Fallure. But ere talk of Genoa it is impor- tant to inquire “Why was Cannes a failure?” 1 believe it was due to the Root resolution adpoted at Washing- ton limitinz the use of submarines and, forbidding attacks upon mer- chantmen. This deprived the Frenc of their strongest weapon agains their beloved, but too powerful ally, England. Furthermore, Cannes was a failure because the superwiseacres of Paris mistakenly thought Eriand had a se- cret understanding with Tokio and he- cause the Austro-Czech agreement {and a Jugoslav-Rumanian marriage | has 'strengthened the central-Eu- ropean bloc and tightened the triple | alliance, thereby encouraging the Italians to deal gently with Slav- Adriatic interests and blocking the | way to France's continental hege- | mony. An additional cause of failure was | the fact that Winston Churchill's de- fensive pact, which Lioyd George had allowed to' rlumber for fourteen months and dragged forth only after he had concluded an Irish setilement and a friendly urdersianding with the United States, read too much like a protective convention. This wound- ed French pride snd overempha- sized “France's just fears.” Other se Advanced. Finally, failure was due to the fact that the Genoa prosram for a con- ference in which Germany and Rus- sia_were to be present as equals aroused a fear. really justified this time. that France would have to modify somewhat the reparations sections of the treaty of Versalilles. On top of all this come reports of [varicd amusements at Cannes, cZ din- | Iner. of goif. of automobile excursions on the Riviera, of the long and self- complacent spécchifying of the Ger. {man delegation. which the French isurmised indicated an anglo-German understanding, and_the culminating “stupidity” of the Bank of England publicly " attesting _the impossibility of executing the French reparations claims. The international picture suddenly presented the most powerful coalition ever seen—of America, the British empire. Russia_and China—eclipsing France's plans for supremncy Briand Declared Culprit. And the culprit of all this was Bri- and. It was Briand who attained nothing tangible at Washington. It Briand who defended the Ango- jrans, the murderers of Armenians. with puns at Cannes. It was Briand !who could not withstand Lloyd 1 George's charms. It w23 Briand who seemed to have alienated the world's sympathy from the victors at the iMarne. It was Briand who must be speedily overthrown, so that France. three years after victory, should not ibe obliged to become a British pro- I tege. The fact that a nation with so great ia power of high accomplishment as | France cannot look a reality in the iface today. may explain why Presi- more at Paris in 1919. ' (Copsright, GERMANY 1S SEEN MORE BITTER DAILY Member of Commons, After Trip, Tells of Feenng - Toward Allies. BY GEORGE WITTE. By Wirel . to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, BERLIN, January 21.—“The last British elections were fought on the question of making Germany pay for the war; the next will be fought on the question of refusing to let Ger- many pay.” This was the view expressed to the writer today by Commander Joseph M. Kenworthy, a member of the house of commons, as he was leaving for England, after his third visit to Germany_ in half a year. Mr. Ken- Wworthy has had many opportunities to meet the country’s prominent men and discuss the situation with them. He ‘also investigated the Upper Si- lesian question while making a tour of the plebiscite area. “To let Germany pay, Mr. Kenworthy, “means to jeopardize British trade and industry. Germany Will recover. She is bearing up well under the war burdehs, and when she recovers we do not want her to be in dangerous mood. bent on re- venge at any price. The interests of the United States and Great Britain demand that we allow Germany to recover so that she can_ take her part as a trading unit. I am con- vinced that without Germany Europe cannot recover. Germans Grow More Bitter. “In Great Britain there is a better atmosphere at because have begun to realize that we must co-operate with Germany, but my im- pression is that in Germany the feel- ing toward the allies is getting more bitter daily. And that Is because of little insults. The difficulties Ger- mans encounter in getting into Lon- present we ontinued | TRIP AROUND WORLD IN 17 DAYS, HOPE OF AIRPLANE EXPERTS PARIS, January 1—A trip around the world in seventeen ays by international mail planes regarded as one of the possi- bilities of the future by airplane | experts. They say seventeea-day | schedules, with stops for deliv- eries at the chief cities en route, may be realized when transatlan- tic flying becomes a reality. | A Suggestion for even reducing | the time to 300 hours was made by one espert, whe said this would be possible if “airmen’s islands,” or floating fuel bLases, were sta- tioned at points in the Atlantic where the mail planes could re- plenisk their fuel. Such a scheme would make possible a speed of 100 miles an hour, he estimated. It is claimed that in a recent test a letter dispatched from New York by land and sea went around the world in eighty-nine days, and that this is the world record to } date. CITES RICH AREAS AWAITING CAPITAL i Irkutsk, Si- ! beria, Invites British and 1 | i Americans to Investigate. 1 BY F. A. McKENZIE, By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News, Copyright, 1922 TRKUTSK, Siberia, January 13 (de- layed).—The president of Irkutsk province public properties sends a cordial invitation to British and American capitalists to investigate the rich areas here. Among the en- terprises cited as awaiting develop- ment in the province are mines of mai kinds, including gold, man- gancse, graphite, tale and coal; timber concessions and electric power stations. The foundations are {President of dent Wilson was unable to accomplish | already laid, and the undertakings a;l‘e only awaiting capital to run them. don hotels is one of them. The re- fusal to admit German diplomats to golf clubs is another example. Little | IN FIERCE BATTLE, LEAVE BLOOD-RED TRAIL IN SEA By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 21.—That the monsters of the deep fight in groups as well. as engage in per- sonal encounters Is testifled to by Capt. G. Evered Poole, a commis- sioner in the Gold Coast colony, who writes the rollowing to his brother: “Between Sierra Leone and Se- kondi we steamed through. for more than an hour, a blood-red sea, and saw some hundreds of whales dead or dying on the sur- face of the water. nDome were just able to move slowly along, few, If any, could move quickly. “There must have been a san- guinary battle, supposed to have been put up by swordfish. It was a most appalling sight, and the ex- tent of the bloody expanse must have represented the death of many more whales than were visi- ble. No one on our ship had ever seen or even heard of anything ap- proaching such a spectacle before. ST OF DIPLOVATS INMCSCOW GRONS | Representatives of Austria| and Italy Recent Addi- i tions to Colony. i ! SRR ! 1 THREE FULL EMBASSIES; Russians Hail Each New Arrival as Evidence of Change in In- ternational Status. ! BY LOUIS LEVINE. | By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News, Copyright, 1022, MOSCOW, Russia, January 21.—The | diplomatic colony in Moscow was !augmented a few days ago by the {arrival of representatives of Austria and Italy, with which nations Ru: sia has concluded trade agreements { Russians watch with satisfaction every new arrival as evidence of a | | change in the international’ status | Indeed, one cannot live long in M cow without becoming*aware of this |In various streets one sees houses flying foreign flags and bearing signs | “Mission So and So," and diplomatic cars driving everywhere. At the foreign office is a list of the diplomatic agencies in Moscow. It is a queer list, illustrating the changes in the frontiers and the international lations of Russia. Three full em- bassies—those of Persia, Turkey and Afghanistan—head the list. Then icome the five legations of Latvia, Poland, Finland, Esthonia and Lithu- then the plenipotentiaries of the new independent republics of the Ukraine, Georgia, Whige Russia and jthe Far Fast; then the chief Brit- ish agent, the plenipotentiary repre- senting Norway and representatives of Germany and Czechoslovakia. Care in Clansitying Diplomats. 1 { i Soviet diplomacy is rather careful in classifying_diplomats according to their titles. Vladimir Florinsky, for i many years in the diplomatic, service lof the czar and formerly -Russian ivice consul in New York, but now | secretary to Maxim Litvinox, sig- nificantly points out the distinguish- ed services of some of these new rep- resentatives. For instance, the Per- sian ambassador was formerly a sec- retary of the Petrograd legation and later ambassador to Constantinople. | The Turkish ambassador was former- ly a military attache in Rome, the Norwegian representative was form- |erly charge d'affaires in Petrograd, iand the British agent was formerly a consul in Vladivostok. Whatever reports there may be about the luxurious propensities of some of the Soviet commissars, there is no evidence of a desire to revive the brilliant diplomatic life of czarist | | Russia. Neither Lenin nor Kalinin holds court receptions and the com- missars give no official dinners or! parties. Most of them live lsolated[ in the Kremlin or cramped in one or two rooms in hotels. The “soviet community homes” all practice “fam- ine diplomacy.” The foreign missions give receptions. teas, dances and dinners, where Russians are invited. One may see at some of these recep- tions an old-time but now sovieted diplomat in a dinner jacket plaving bridge, or a newly backed soviet dip- lomatic official in his best suit sip- ping tea. TN Russians Work Hard. The new diplomatic class in Russia works too hard and has not learned the art of relaxation, but it forms an energetic, shrewd and ambitious crowd. They are learning to relish the pieasures of their new position: and with vistas opening up of an in-: ternational conference they are look- ing forward to a larger diplomatic {life_in Moscow. 7 While—-perhaps now—-it is carrying on negotiations for general peace, { Russia is now straining every effort to “jockey up” the red army. Pres- entation of red banners has been made by the Moscow soviet to the general staff of the military academy and to the 35th Brigade. | By this ceremony the Moscow soviet becomes | many, Russia and Europe and the re- things like that are reported every- where in Germany and evoke ill feel- ing FVe must admit that on the whole we are well received by the Germans. It is not the British way to treat a beaten foe like that and we ought to abandon our present attitude .toward the Germans. “My opinion of the Genoa confer- ence is_that unless Prime Minister Lloyd George. Premier Poincare and Chancellor Wirth and the leading men of Russia, Germany and other coun- tries attend, the meeting will merely De the league of nations over again. The league has adopted machinery dealing with all these matters, includ- ing_the making of treaties, but the leading politicians in the foreign offices of the various countries see in it a rival organization, and therefore are out.to smash it. “Nothing much _will happen at Genoa, unless public opinion insist that the big men themselves go there. The people of Britain want a real conference. If France refuses to take part, then wa must do without her. We have had to go ahead without the United States, and, If necessary, we can get along just as easily without France.” . Another British member of parlia- ment, who has been studying condi- tions in Germany. told me that he be- lieved Premier Poincare would suc- ceed in having a debt commission ap- pointed to supervise and control Ger- many’s financ “Personally,” ke said, “I do not be- lieve that Germany in the next few vears can pay the annual instaliments fixed by the reparations commission. but after a few years' time she will have recovered sufficiently to meet demands. At the same time, 1 do be- lieve that Germany is not trying to pay all ‘she can and that in some way or other she will have to be forced to pay all she is in a position to pay. A debt commission would be able to keep a close check on her finances and from time to time fix the amount she must pay regularly.” ~KING GUSTAVE BETTER. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, January 20. —King Gustave, who has been suffer- sni from a siight attack of influenza, 11 confi to his bed. He had no Promise of Assiatance.’ | The provincial authorities promise genuine assistance, and everything | Wil be done to obtain adequate labor and promote smooth working. ! “We know the almost incredible natural riches of our province,” the president declared, “but we are not in a position to develop them our- selves as we lack capital and machinery. It is to our interest to have them developed, and hence our invitation to foreign capitalists.” Siberia has experienced a remark- able financial panic. The peasants feared the issue of new notes at the rate of one ruble for 10,000 rubles of the old soviet money. This rob- bed them of the oll currency, which they brought to market sometimes in great bags. They bought everything and anything, and prices reached amazing levels Every one wanted to buy and no one to sell. At many stations be- tween here and Novonikolalevek the peasants refused to sell food for money, demanding watches, soap or something else in exchange. However, prices are now dropping sharply. —_— PROTEST POISON GAS. Villages Near Paris Object to Laboratory and Factory. By Cable to The Star and Chica N Covsright, Joza o T News PARIS, January 20.—The 6,000 in- habitants of four villages near Paris have protested to the prefect of the Department of the Seine et Oise against a poison gas laboratory and factory recently established i the vi- cinity by the artillery department of the army. The residents have been suffering from peculiar ailments which have been diagnosed by the local physicians as the effect of poison gas escaping from the factory. i WILL DISSOLVE PARLIAMENT. BUCHAREST, January 30.—The Ru- manian government has decided to dissolve parliament and hold a gen- eral election in March, it was an- nouaced -today. I chief of these military organizations. Similar ceremonies have bean held throughout Russia, putting regiments under the guardianship of local so- viets. Purpose Is Twofold. The purpose is twofold. First, it throws responsibility on the local soviets to improve the conditions ‘of their special regiments, and, second- 1y, it creates ties of loyalty between the soviets and the army. It em- bodies the -idea of the communists, repudiating the motto, “No politics in the army,” by striving to make the army the conscious instrument of the realization of the communist policies. —— SEEKS TO DOUBLE PLANT. German Arms Company Would | Float Bond Issue. By Wireless fo The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1922 BERLIN, January 21.—Germany has never grown tired of assuring_the world that she has “disarmed.” It is, therefore, rather surprising that the German Arms and Ammunition Com- pany, Limited, should announce its in- tention of increasing its capital and enlarging its plant. The company has approached a-group of large banks in an effort to float a bond issue and to ~ double its capital. Thus far the government has not sanctioned the new bond issue. —_— WILL STUDY IN U. S. Three of Five Swedish Scholarships Provide Training Here. STOCKHOLM, January 20.—Of five scholarships that have been donated by A. Wellenberg, prominent Swedish banker, for distribution by the Academy of Agriculture, three will be applied for studies in the Uniled States, it was an- nounced today. 5 Prof. J. G. C. Harthel, speciulist of the Agricultural Bacteriological Institute; Dr. Eden, the experimental institute’ specialist on cattle raising, and Dr. Samuelson, specialist on dairy farming, will _enjoy the benefits of the three sscmhumu for studying in the United \ PREDICTED IN FRANCE Tardieu Says All Premiers Who Do Not Stand For Rights of Nation Will Follow Briand Into Discard. : BY ANDRE TARDIEU, Former French Commissioner America. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, January 21.—The Poin- care ministry is probably only transitional. Considering its beginning, it will probably have a thousand difficul- ties. But after it you will see come into power the homogeneous group of men who fought the war and they will defend France's rights, inscribed in the treaties, as they defended the trenches before the German hordes. We Frenchmen are much less light than you Americans used to think. Remember that we aston- ished you at Verdun. We are go- ing to astonish you in peace also. | My readers foresaw Briand's fall, which I predicted ten weeks ago | amid general incredulity. Let me add that all others will | fall who forget that the French | people mean to have their treaty rights respected. I am a friend enough of the United States to speak to Amer- icans frankly. I conjure them not to judge France by stupld calum- nies. We want our rights respect- ed; nothing more, nothing less. | We are rather tired of being read lessons by people not quali- fled to give them. They do not impress us, neither do they worry us, but we rserve the right to con- sider them out of place, or, per- haps, comical. “Could Not Help Smiling.” i When. for ecxample, Senator Medill McCormick of Illinols asked Secretary Hughes for official docu- | ments as to the condition of our | finances and the extent of our military - expenditures, one could not heip smiling. It the scnator had taken the trouble to inquire he could have learned easily enough that our budget of 25,000,000,000 francs in- cludes 13,000,000,000 devoted to debt service. ' This is 6,000.000.000 more than in 1919, and it represents the intcrest on $0.000,000,000 francs FINANCIAL HELP to VIEWED ASKANCE BY FRENCH| borrowed to rebuild our 600,990 destroyed houses and, to pay to widows and orphans and invalids their pensions, all of which Ger- many should have paid. Everybody knows this, apparent- ly except Senator McCormick. Ap- parently he does not know also that our military expenditures are only 9 per cent of our budget. However, if he dces not know all of this, he perhaps knows that Germany hae been greatly en- couraged in her resistance to the treaty she gigned by certain politi- ‘cal ac s in 1920, to which Mr. Mc- Cormick and his friends are not entirely strangers. Twice Invaded In Fifiy Years. Senator McCormick must know also that France has been twice in- vaded within fifty years and will guard against a repetition whether he approves or not. You must understand, of course, that I do not take such manifesta- tions too serious.y. I only want the ‘American people to understand how unjurt they are and what bad effect tiwy create., Franc - has learned bitterly how little dependenee can be placed upon international signatures. She signed a treaty with her enemy, who instantly éscaped. She signed that treaty with two of her friends, cne of whom refused to ratify. while the other immediately began to mutilate. Is that not enough to teach us that we must depend upon ourselves? Let me tell you, my American friends, that you are showing as much credulity toward German propaganfa today as in 1916 and 1917, when it nearly cost you 80 dear. But this time you have no excuse, for you have been able meantime to judge Germany by her acts. Instead of denouncing French imperialism, which does not exist in this land of cemeteries, why not think of the German imperialism which only a few days ago, on January 18, celcbrated the anni- versary of its vuiture empire. 1 have spoken plainly today. If my words wound the feelings of those who think themselves in- forn:ed, but are not, I beg their pardon. But my task here is to tell the truth. (Copsright. 1922.) FOR RUSSIA Feel That Funds Should Be Speht in France Rather Than to Send More Money to Nation Already Owing $4,000,000,000. BY STEPHEN LAUZANNE. Editor-in-Chlef, Le Matin, Paris. By Cable to The Star and New York Tribune. | (Copyright, 1922.) PARIS, January 20.—France is skeptical about the reconstruction of Russia. When Millerand heard that at Cannes Briand had accepted the invitation to participate in the inter- national conference at Genoa for the economic reconstruction of Europe, he telegraphed immediately: “It is not without regret and ap- prehension that I learn of your de- cision to go and sit at a conference opposite Lenin.” That was the opening of the late ministerial crisis. There are some 90 per cent of Frenchmen who share the apprehension and regrets of their president, and not ten in a thousand who believe the famous conference at Genoa can result in anything reason- able or practical. Russia Can Buy Nothing. May I explain why? The confer- ence, they inform us, suggests the economical reconstruction of Ger- establishment of world trade. Now what is the meaning of trade? It is buying ant ‘selling. What can Russia buy? Nothing since she has no money to pay with. Her rulers have gold which belonged to the state and has printed banknotes by the hundreds and the billions. Last week on the Moscow exchange the gold ruble was worth 100,000 soviet rubles. Furthermore, they have declared that when one dealt with capitalists there is no obligation to keep one's word. This prevents them from buy- ing on credit, for when one buys on credit guarantees must be given, and what guarantees can the soviet give; what can Russia sell? Almost nothing, since she herself lacks everything. Has Great Natural Wealth. However, people say that Russia has mines, forests and natural wealth. That is possible and even certain.’ But natural wealth must first be exploited, enormous materials must be sent out there and then transports are needed —it will be necessary to make use of railroads and roads. Now_ there are no roads in_Russia and three-quarters of the . Russian railroads have been entirely de- stroyed. In order to re-establish them and put them in proper operation again, years, millions of dollars and workmen willing to work are needed not according to communist methods, but the methods of civilized states. ‘Where are the millions to come from, where can workmen be found? No one having so far given a satis- factory reply to these various ques- tions, the French shrug their shoul- ders when one mentions the recon- struction of Russia and they are not far from grinding their teeth when they are told that the reconstruction of their own devastated districts must depend on the economic recon struction of Russia and German France has not pillaged, murdered and destroyed her riches with her own hands, but she has not confis- cated the properties of foreigners, she has not disclaimed her debts, she has not imprisoned her engineers, learned men and architects, nor operated printing machines day and night to print banknotes. Crediter of $16,000,000,000. Furthermore she is the creditor of Russia for more than four billion dol- lars and Germany for more than twelve billions. She is therefore de- termined that she will not come after people who have done all these astounding things which I have just enumerated. Above all she is deter- mined not to pay them a =ingle cent. This 1 say is at least logical. If France has money to spare let her use it in_the reconstruction of Lille, Rheims, Verdun, rather than refur- nishing the private houses of Petro- grad and Moscow, whose contents no one was obliged to carry away. France has her own canals to re- construct before thirking of the re- construction of the Russian railways. The French say to their American friends: “At the present moment we owe you three billion dollars which you so generously loaned us. If, in- stead of thinking to reimburse you, we were to ask you for three billion more, after we had imprisoned your citizens, robbed your banks in Paris, ransacked our own resources ‘and if we were to come and demand these billions with threats and calling you a rotten na: tion and declaring we were ready to destroy your political regime and openly announcing we will never re- imburse you what we owe, because it is unnecessary to pay a debt one owes to a capitalist—it we were to do all this, would you loan us your money?"” Must Underst; France. I believe the reply would be doubt- ful. It is therefore necessary to un- derstand the reply and attitude of| France regarding the schemes for the reconstruction of Russia. At Genoa only speeches will be pronounced. It is scarcely possible z | | | | i i | | LONDON FILM DECREE BARS CH!LDREN FROM “ADULT” EXHIBITIONS By Cable to The Star. LONDON, January 21.—London | has decreed that children under | sixteen years of age shall not see certain “moving _plctures unless taken to the exhibitions by parents or guardians. The pew film censor- ship provides: “That films passed by the British hoard of film censors for ‘public’ exhibition be exhibited to adults only provided that this condition shall not apply in the cuse of a child accompanied by its parent or bona fide guardian, and and that this condition shall not oper- ate until on and after July, 1, 1922, That seemed a reasonable propo- sition, but a good deal of difficulty arose over the definition of the word.“adult.” The result was that an amendment was ‘added to this condition, and passed after a long discuss’on, in which the expression “adult” was made clearer. In this amendment the following words occurred: “Young person shall mean a person under, or appearing to be under, the age of sixteen years.” When . the amended condi- tion takes effect, therefore, o child under the age of sixteen years will 'be allowed to witness films that have been passed for adult exhibition only, unless ac- companied by a parent or guar- dian. The films that are passed by the British board of film censors are divided into two categories. The first are passed for “universal” exhibition and the second for “pub- lic" or “adult” exhibition only. It is only for the second class of films | that those who are not adults will be excluded under the new regu- | lations. POLITICAL TUMULT WAYING ENGLAND All Factions Stirred With Election Far in Future. LIBERAL PARTY IS sPLITI Lloyd George and Asquith to Hold On to Leader- ship. BY EDWARD PRICE BELL. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News, Copyright, LONDON, January 21.—Great Brit- ain is, so to speak, whirling in a mael- strom of political commotion. Con- servetives, coalition liberals, inde- pendent liberals, laborites ‘and com- ! munists are shouting and gesticulat- ing. All this without any prospect of a general election fdr several weeks or months. Yet the situation is full of significance. It is, indeed, the most interesting political situation Great ! Britain has known since the Glad- stone home rule bill split the liberal and produced the unionist party more than CHirly years ago. jOnce more the liveral party is be- liag split. One.section—tne majority { section of ft—follows Prime Minister Lloyd George. It calls {tself the coalition liberal party of the moment, but_the liberal party of the future. Ex-Prime Minister Asquith leads the other ection, called the independent lberal party, and this section com- { mands the old liberal machine and its | war chest. These seetions are in bit- | ter conflict. Lloyd George and As- | quith realize that they cannot agree. { Neither will yield the liberal leader- ship to the other. Consequently the Lloyd George or i coalition liberals are meeting in Cen- | tral Hall, Westminster, and forming {a so-called national liberal council, ! which will be an organization carry- ing the Lloyd George banner. This gathering is composed of nearly 3,000 delegates from ail parts of the coun- try, and its declaration of principles— | oppiosition at present to party strife, consistent opposition to class or in- dustrial warfare, party co-operation, public retrenchment, ~liberation of industry and commerce from inter- ference, no abandonment of the cam- paign for better social and industrial conditions for the people, persever- Ianue in the fight against povert | maintenance of statutory guaranties against the ill effects of age, accident, invalidity and unemployment; liberal: ity to ex-service men and their de- pendents—is well recognized as the cardinal articles of the faith of Lloyd George. Stage Is Crowded. The stage of Great Britain, pending political drama, is crowded and Lloyd George is the most fascinating and powerful figure on it. Neither the conservatives nor the bulk of the 1ib- erals dare to throw over. Whether they like him or not—and many in both parties do like him—both feel that they would be lost without him. Therefore the coalition will be main- tained for the present with Lloy I ' | troubles, which, if not so patent to the | ave and refrain from propaganda or ag- Yoperative basis. | This latter document, of course, re- vived the guarantee mature because of Mr. Wilson's fail- ure to get the backing of the Ameri- can people. the | otherwise. ‘For in elght days, or even | George at its head. The conservatives eight weeks, it is impossible to re-:greatest leaders, such as Chamberlain, establish the balance of international!and liberalism's most virile and mod- currencies, suppress an enormous amount of bank notes printed in Germany and Russia, reconstruct rallways and regulate questions of tariffs and customs, establish the equilibrium of the German budget and to find a currency exchange for Russia. For three years the French have heard nothing but mythical speeches made to them. The French people desire to live -and work. They de- mand order to be able to pay what they owe and, must be paid what is their due. (Copyright, 1922.) SEAPLANES ADJUNCT TO FISHERIES OFF THE COASTS OF NORTH EUROPE BY EDWARD PRICE 'E.l.l.. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News, Copyright, 1022. LONDON, January 21.—Seaplanes promise to become an adjunct of the fisheries industry-off all the coasts of northern Europe. France is leading the way in this enter- prise’ and Britain, Holland, Den- mark and Norway are expected to follow. France’s surveys off her west coast have shown the utility .of observations from the air in lo- cating porpoises, white whales and congregations at great distances. To sight these is to determine the places where fish are gathered. M. Heldt has explained his inves- tigations in this line to the Acad- * emy of Sciences. When the weather is dull and foggy the most con- venient height for seeing was from 50 to 100 meters (164 to 328 feet), but in normal or clear weather better observations over & wider range were made from heights up to 150 meters (492 feet). Floating seaweed, the distribution of nets and even the pulsations of felly- fish eould be distinguished from these heights with the naked eye. The varying nature of the bot- tom revealed {itself by cl s of color, showing the possibility of making maps of- great-use to trawlers. The fish themselves could be seen when swimming near the surface. A great sch of sar- dines appeared as multitudes of oblong specks traveling in the same direction, but continually changing their course. In the sun- shine sardines could be dis- tinguished from sprats, owing .to the characteristic differences in color. M. Heldt's pioneer work has at- stracted the attention of the leaders in the fisheries at all the chief centers of this industry. Either airplanes or - hydroplanes, of .course, can be used. These will be equipped with wireless apparatus to maintain constant touch with the fishing fleets, which will move promptly to those locations where are to be had the richest bauls of sardines, . sprats, herring and mackerel. CROKER’S CONDITION BETTER. By the Associated Press. s DUBLIN, January 21.'— Richard Croker, .who was stricken seriously ill after his return from the United States in November, continues to im- prove, it was stated today =zt his hoime, Glencairn, at Sandford, near here. He is still confined to his room, ‘but his condition is now such Dewapapers. that he can read the jern men, such as Churchill, support Lloyd George whole-heartedly. This puts any other possible coalition leader out of the running. What brings the ‘conservatives and the more forceful liberals into the same camp, even temporarily? Two things, fear of the Jabor and revolu- tionary element at home and the con- viction that only union of the great British parties can deal properly with the country’s almost overwhelming obligations and problems abroad. Conservatives and liberals alike fear the laborite. They detest labor's sec-' tional or class program. Lloyd George detests it. He is its most out- spoken and persuasive enemy in this country. Both conservatism and lib. eralism look upon Lloyd George a: the only living man who can save them from those elements whom they regard as bent upon the destruction of Britain's historic, political and social institutions. —_— FRENCH RESENT BOOK. «“Batoula,” Written by Negro Au- thor, Sharply Criticised. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily Ne ' Copyright, 1022, 0 e PARIS, January 21.—“Batoula,” the book awarded last year's Goncourt prize for young authors, is arousing bitter hostility against the author, Rene Mar#, a young negro, and against Goncourt Academy. All read- ers are dissatisfled because the book, one the one hand, attacks European rule over African blacks and on the other hand presents an unflattering picture of negro life and customs. Educatcd negroes assert that the| book represents their race as little better than monkeys, The Frenchare angry, Arst, because they believe the academy has favored a foreigner while overlooking perior French works; second, because the book, they claim, contains outrageous attacks on white domination and invites the blacks to refuse doing military serv- ice, and, third, because the Germans are getting . full propaganda value from the volume, enabling them to say to the world: . “Behold the ani- mals which France sends to' guard ouy women and o 2 BRITISH RESENTFUL: OF FRENCH ATTITUDE Treatment of Republican Geffi:any as Autocracy Watched With Increasifig_‘ Bitterness by Organized Labor. | ernment incurs some risk in assuming sole. responsibility for it now. The | proposals were possible only . because of an extreme desire to come to terms with France and because of the deen sympathy felt here with the Fremch people, twice invaded in llving mem- ory and subject for many years to humiliation at the hands of a mill- tant Germany. But apparently the Frenchmen for whom Poincare speaks are not satis- fied, They object fo belng bound These views the British cannot adopt. | af s further frommen Aetamlt o ven France must realize that we on our part {arations. Their financial policy is have _our own distinctive post-war|based upon the view that French ceds 3 take precedence of v se. Poincare also objects to our method of continued conferences. Our people haven't chosen this method of evoly- ing and applying policy. It has been forced by events, In so far as international adjust- ments are bevond the usual powers BY GEORGE ) British Parltam By Radio to The Star. LONDON, January 21.—The difficulty | with France's position today is that| she feels that Germany must be treated | now, when she ‘is under a republican | form of government, exactly as she treated others in the days of her eyes as destroyed towns and villages, are no less appealing to the heart. We have our two million unemployed, and their employment depends upon Germany and Russia as well as other countries being brought into the ambit of beneficial world trade. of diplomatic action we would rather A contrary policy of revenge is being | they were left to the league of na- watched with increasing bitterness and | tions. Lord Grey and other leaders resentment. especially by organizedl of thought are vigoreusly protesting labor. Labor has deciared for a policy | now against the league being con- which will not dwell unduly on theltinually kept in the background. But past when peoples now free had little | we have agree power, and which will recognize thatcil handling these matters, because peoples now rule where autocracy once | they have arisen out of the war, not held sway. out of the Paris peace treaty, and be- ‘When Lioyd George returned to Eng- | capse they have appeared to afford land a week ago it seemed that rela-!the best means of co-operaiion with tions with France were virtually at an|Germany and America. end. During the week, however, dis-| We should be willing now .to fall cussion at long range has continuedlin with France in any better way of between the two governments and the | reaching the goal. But we want a position is somewhat improved. European pact and agreement with Genoa Conference Final Effort. France as part of 5 If France prefers isolation and a The Genoa conference scheme has i 2 h been projected as a final effort o as. | Lequmption of naval competition. it. sociate all the big states in the| o % & AT economic reconstruction of Europe, | F2d€ship- The scheme included an agreement as | between France and Great Britain aal NAPOLEON SOFA STOLEN. one of its main provisions. The draft pact visualized a condition of {“Officers™ Carry Off Historic Relic in Jena, Germany. things under which each state would be under obligation to promote trade By the Associated Press. JENA, German: to the supreme coun- (Copyright, 1922.) gression of any sort against its neighbors, in addition to the helping generally in pacification on a co- January 15.—Four Great Britain voluntarily agreed to sacrifices of certain repardtions, and | ¢ Tepresenting themselves as Tn'a special supplemental draft treaty | French officers, entered the hotel {also offered to guarantee France for|known as the “Sign of the Night- ten years against German aggression. | ingale” last night and demanded of the proprietor the surrender ‘of the historic sofa upon which Napoleon is supposed 10 have rested during the battle of Jena. The hotel proprietor complied Wwith the request, and the gouch was carried off in ah automo- e. idea to which | and Lloyd George but which didn't President Wilson assented in 1919, The Lloyd George gov- (=== “Won’t you play - this for me?” Have you children in your home? Are they growing up without the refining influence of music? You owe them the best you can afford—and certainly you can afford to buy a Piano or Player-Piano and thus brighten their hearts and create an atmosphere of joy and happiness in the home when the purchase terms at Jordan’s are SO SMALL. L ssssesssassssTssEYs .Week Will Pay for a Good Used Piano in JORDAN'S January Sale of Used Pianos and Player-Pianos sewss: Huntington Piano (“a*) $195.00 Milton Piano e $210.00 New England Piano (&%) $225.00 Crown Piano igriss $235.00 Pool Piano (e $275.00 Player-Pianos s 75 Troubadour Player-Piano. . .. .$415.00 Kurtzman Player-Piano. . ... . :$340.00 88 Note : J(?Stfieégf& 138 dec ————