Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1922, Page 12

P\ o Sl g 12 SUSPEND PAYNENT OF PREWAR DETS Germans Not to Pay 600,- 000,000 Gold Marks Due This Year, Dr. Mayer States. SUM INCURRED IN TRABE Action Has Vital Bearing on Amount of Cash to Be Paid - on Reparations. Br the Associated Press. PARIS. July 16—Dr. Wilhelm Mayer, official representative of the German government, has informed the French government that Ger- many plans to suspend payments of her pre-war commercial debts on which 600,000,000 gold marks will be due this year, according to German calculations. This sum is entirely outside the subject of reparations and is a matter for the governments to consider as a basis for cash pay- ments in reparations. Tt is understood the French gov- ernment is firmly determined to re- sist any moratorium until the repa- rations will have exhausted all means given it under the terms of the Ver- sailles treaty to enforce collection of reparations. emier's Demands. tions given by Premler re insisting that the com- all make sure that Ger- ay interest on in- :ntil reparations have Premier Poincare I3 -ther resolved that this phase o The heatter shall be cleared up before considering what action the com- mission shall take on Germany's pos- ple default in reparations " B dirench | premier has decided that if Germany fails to pay accord- ing to the terms fixed by the repara- tions commission that commission many shall not terior loans u been exact shall notify the allies of Germany's defaunlt before ssing whether to grant delays in her pavments. It is understood that M. Poincare will in- sist upon this procedure as being the duty of the commission under the Versailles treaty. * The committee on guarantees is due « G The committee has forwarded word to the reparations commission that it expects to be ready to present its report on the German situation Wednesday. Payment in Sought. r Poincare has written the government proposing that the sbaden agreement governing payment of reparations in kind shall Ko into effect July 20. This under- standing becomes of supreme impor- tance to France, in view of the pros- pect that no more cash payments will be made for a time at least. The other allied governments have received all of the 500,000,000 gold marks coming to them this year in I while France has obtained only 5,000,000 marks out of the 900,- 200 marks allotted to her by the reparations commission. Hence, she is obviousiy anxious to get the agree- ment working as soon as possible. P. 0. TO ATTEST VOTES. Substitute Clerks Ordered to Act at Expense of Virginia. —Postmas- vesterday y First A ant Post- master General John H. Bartlett, at Washington, to attest the opening and sealing of envelopes containing baliots in accordance with the Vir- ginia state absentee voter law, and is instructed to have regular clerks perform the work, employing substi- tutes at the expense of the state or military authorities. The Six Big Divisions of Library Bureau Service Library Bureau has for 46 years satisfied the filing andrecord needsof Govern- ment departments, manu- facturers, banks, insurance companies, retailers, and practically every other kind of business and profession —large and small. 1. Special Service 2. Specialized Departments Library Department Schools of Flliag 3. Filing Systems — 4. Card Record Systems L. B. Sales Record Stock rive in Paris from Germany to-| WAR-MADE FORTUNES USED BY- JAPANESE TO BUY BACK NATIVE ART By the Associated Press. TOKIO, June 22 -Japanese mer- charts who made large fortunes during the war and built them- selyes fine homes in the ocities of Japan are sending to America and Europe for Japanese prints, paint- ings and curfos to decorate thein with. One New York dealer at least has sold numerous 'articles, which he picked up in Japan years ago fqr a song and which he was unable to sell in America, to these new merchant princes at. very profitable prices. For muny years American and collectors searched Ju- i ssfully for objects of art until nearly all the old works, of those in and museums, exported. Now the being unable to find What they want in this line at home, are sending abroad for them. Of course they want the real articles and generally some- thing to match pieces which they already have. . Articles for the tea seryice, such as lacquer trays, are in great demand. By the Associated Pre TOKIO, June 22.—The imperial family, heavy holders in shares of public companies, Is being urged by the moderate press of Japan to sell these holdi on the ground that the fa or their representatives are likely to become involved in the disputes that so frequently occur between the shareholders in Japanese com- panies. The question, which las frequently been mentioned, has been brought to the front again by the recent meeting of the Nippon Yusen Kalsha, in which the im- perial household ‘is a large share- holder, and in which a bitter dis- pute has been raging over a pro- posal to amalgamate with another steamship company. According to the Jiji Shimpo bloodshed was narrowly averted at the meeting. It is pointed out that when the imperial family invested funds in these companies it was done to encourage enterprises. Now that By the Associated Press. PARIS. July 17.—Father Mortil- I lac, the French monk, reported to have been the last lover of Mata Hari, the celebrated Dutch dancer who was executed by the French near the end of the war as a the Carthusian monastery at Car- tuja de Miraflores, Spain. Mortillac, who was prominent in French social circles, disappeared after a vain effort to save the woman about whom Vincente Blasco Ibanez wove his war ro- mance “Mare Mostrum." While leading Carthusians that the monk has entere order. it is affirmed in authori quarters that he is in the S mionastery attempting to bu sorrow for his lost love. woman was also known as guerite Zell. Mortillac is said to have been heartbroken when he discovered that Mata Harl, who was famous for her beauty,Avas a German spy. Afterward he learned that_she had a husband, a Scottish officer, who married her in Java, taking her from a Buddhist temple, where she was a dancer, and that he died of grief in Scotland after he had General Supply Schedule Items 1470-C-F 19%’ €« o« “« “ 10,000 “ @« 5000 “ - Items 1470-C & 1470-F on the General Supply Schedule. Phone, write or call for free samples and a copy of “Cards end fiting supplies.” R. O. SAUNDERS, Manager : 743 Fifteenth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. - - Salesrooms in 51 leading cities of the United States, Great Britain and Prancs BUSINESS TOO ROUGH FOR JAPAN’S IMPERIAL FAMILY, ADVISERS SAY LAST LOVER OF MATA HARI, WOMAN. SPY, FOUND IN SPANISH MONASTERY German spy, has been located in 4000 Foiders 5000 Folders ™ 1] o o o o o Visualize this saving in your files : A thousand ordinary heavy-weight folders require 201" of filing space; a thousand L.B. Reinforced folders require but 14 inches. Hence every thousand L.B. 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JEE P RAISED THe HUNDRED Butks BY SELLING A WATCH GIWVEN ™ Him BY * THE KING 6€ EAIGLAND, COMMISSION From SAR & €0 MUTT..c.0 dEfF.er e -/;mru there is no longer any flecessity for these encouragements and the houschold should invest its money in government securities, it is as- serted. The household officials are also being advised, and to some extent have taken the advice, to sell some of their land, much of which, both in the-cities and country, is lying idle while people are looking for places on which to build homes. According ;to the latest available estimate the imperial family owns 3,792,600 acres of land divided be- tween hereditary and ordinary property; 80,555, or one-seventh, of the shares of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha; 60,660 shares of the Bank of Japan, 60,400 shares of the Yokohama _ Specte Bank, 10,000 sharee of the Industrial Bank and smaller amounts in numerous other companies. The value of the shares alone is well over $10,000,- 000, while the, selling price of the there is a macket for the: land has in many localities trebled within the last few years. | g i discovered her in Paris and was unable to persuade her’ to leave a German to whom she had become attached. Mortillac is said to be passing his time in prayer and fasting. ROME CABINET SHAKY. Ministry’s Failure to Curb Fascisti May Force Resignation. By Cable to The Star and Coprright, 1 MILAN. Italy, ficulties of the Ttalian government are Erowing at such a rate that it isj possible the mimistry will be forced to resign this week. Besides its many other troubles it is evident that the government Is not able to cope suc- cessfully with the 'serious internal} struggles. The fascisti are still occupying Cremona undisturbed, as they already occupied Bologna. Almost without in- fterference in Cremona tley destroved the labor exchange and the co-opera- tive offices and ‘wrecked the office of the soclalist newspaper and the home of a Catholic deputy. The towns of Novara, Rimini. Adria, Viterbo and some others are equally under the terrorism of fascisti bands. T 3 Seve et Seve i 2€ 5 _ = i | A RolD-UD GUY FRSKED €N BUCKS | HELPING MUTT. SELL ME THE SAP SILVER sTeck! BUT He DIDN'T TS WORTHLESS! WHO SOLB 1T TO YouZ AnswerR “(mister DISTRICT ATTORNEY, IS THIS| TAKE THe STock! THeRES [~ IDisTRicT il o ING ROTTEN IN SOMETHIA B 215 U. S. RELIEF HAS 15,000 LAYETTES ATTORNGYL FOR RUSSIAN FAMINE BABIES By the Associated Press. A MOSCOW, June 14.—Fifteen thousand four hundred Russian babies born in this year of the tamine will be dressed from top to toe, from shirt to socks. in warm American clothes. This number of layettes for guture Sonias and Ivans has already been invoiced to the American Reliet Administration, and they are be- ing distributed from its ware- houses at Moscow to the uttermost limits of ‘the famine and plague- stricken districts. In addition to these there have been received some 18,000 clothing outfits in as- sorted sizes for larger children. Two thousand American Relief Administration food packages, val- | eding of famjshed phy- sicians who are #iding the Am icani Relief Administration in its inoculation program. Comparatvely few of the Rus- sian phys plague-stricken areas are able to earn enough by their pragtice for their own support. Many of them who have asked for American food have specified that they could ac- cept it omly on condition that they be permitted to work to pay for it. “Any Amerftan physician who has files of medical journals for the past three years to dispose of,” said Dr. Henry Beeukwees. chief of the “medical division of the American Relief Administration, “could confer né greater boon upon the medical fraternity of Russia than to turn them over 1o the American Relief Administration for distribution here. Many of the Russian doctors have not seen a Fodical journal from the outside orld for vears. They read them avidly and treasure them if one chances to fall into their hands. T'm Sorry for You, Bo! From Los Angeles Times. There's a man somewhere in world of men Whom I may never sce, Yet the heart of my heart goes out to him In deepest sympathy. He may be a Turk or a Chinaman Or a man of Timbuctoo. 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