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BATISH LABORITES ARE CALLED ‘REDS London Paper Claims They Have Affiliated With the Communist Party. HAND OF SOVIET IS SEEN Revolutionaries Gradually Gaining Strength in Laborite Coun- sels, Is Claim. By Cuble to The Star and New York Tribune. Copyright, 1922. BY WARRE B. WELLS. TLONDON, December 30.—Is the British labor party going communist? The Morning Post, most conservative of the London newspapers, claims that it is and is taking up a drive to prove it. The basis of the charge which is being developed in a series of articles is the discovery of an al- leged scheme -for reorganization which the communist party in this country recently adopted and which is now being put into operation. The disclosure of this scheme, the authenticity of which there is norea- son to doubt, is most interesting, but whether the official labor party is im- plicated in the revolutionary aims of the communists is an entirely differ- ent question. The Morning Post claims that the communists are now the dominating force in the labor party and that theyv are working with the help or at least the connivance of official laborites and that those members of the official narty who are neither overtly nor secretly communists are unable to ex- ercise any restraining influence. A Revolutionary Party. That the British communist party itself is revolutionary is not open to question. It is recognized by Moscow and is a member of the communist nternationale. The scheme of the re- organization of the party is likewise avowedly revolutionary in intent. Ac- cording to the Morning Post, this scheme is due to Karl Radek's cen- sure of the British communists on account of their failure to derive rev- wlutionary results from the strike of last year. The communists are now planning to form themselves into a society with a secret nuclei behind the open groups, with centers in every town nd district, and agents in every ial class. They alm to penetrate with revolutionary purpose every political, industrial and social organ- ization in the country. Thelr main Earth Is Wobbling On Its Axis, Says Danish Scientist By the Associated Press. LONDON, December earth is wobbling on its axis,’ ac- cording to Col. P. Jensen, the Dan- ish sclentist, who returned re- cently from a degree measuring expedition into Greenland. He re- ports that Greenland is moving westward at the rate of twenty yards @ year. This seems to con- firm the recent reports of surpris- ing climatic changes at the north pole. It Is now established that there is a perfodic shifting of the la tude of the north pole. The movement Is difficult to detect be- cause of the small area of the pole—about the size of a tennis court. Some authorities say that the poles are gradually changing their positions and that this alter- ation to the world's axis will in time mean that reglons which are at present ice-bound will become warm'and habitable countries. EVES OF EUROPE TURN T0 AMERICA Crisis in Relations of England and France Seems at Hand Over Reparations. ENTENTE IN BALANCE Hopes for New Year Center in U. S. Taking Lead to Save Civiliza- tion From Ruin. i i BY A. G. GARDINER. England's Leading Liberal Editor. By Cable to The Star. Coprright, 1922. LONDON. December 30.—The New Year opens with a spirit of mingled hope and anxiety. What has the first week In store? Will Baldwin's mis- one side? Will the Paris conference | ease it on the other? {cannot be said that the omens are |®00d. It is obvious that the declara tion by the reparations commission {that Germany is in default over her jtimber deliveries creates a new danger. The matter itself is trivial. 'but the decision is not trivial. It sion to America ease the situation on | Taking the latter question first it} DENIES U. S-BRAZIL ALLIANGE EXSSTS Ambassador Tells Argentina Naval Mission Mere Friendly Aid. WAR WOULD END WORK Sending of Officers Carries Out Law of 1920, Which Permits Help—Some in Peru. By the Assocated Press. BUENOS AIRES, December The status of the United States naval mission to RBrazll, which has been {criticized in Argentine government | circles as well as, in the press as lundlng to show an alliance between H | | the United States and Brazil, was explained in a -written statement presented today to the minister of marine, Admiral Domecq Garcla, by the American ambassador, John Wal- lace Riddel. g The sending of the mission, said the statement, in no way signifies an alliance between the two govern- ments. nor does it involve any new departure in the foreign policy of the United States to which any sig- nificance should be attached. Wil Withdraw in W “Certainly,” the statement con- tinued. “it denotes no®change in the sincere desire of the United States government for Pan-American soli- darity and closer relations with each and every country. The statement answers the ques- tion raised in the Argentine press as to what the United States would 1o if Brazil got into war by stating the contract between the two govern- iments provides for withdrawal of jthe missfon in the event it should { become necessary in the Interest of either government, and says that in case war is imminent between Brazil and any other country the United {States will withdraw the misslon at once. Fven in the case of civil war in Brazil the mission will cease its efforts. Ofcers Loaned Peru. The statement explains further that the mission was sent by virtue of the law enacted in 1920 authoriz- ling naval officers to accept offices {with South American government jand the end in view merely was to { co-operate in effecting good organi- zation of the Brazillan naval .forces. improve working methods and train} { the personnel. » {_Another point which the statement mentions s that the United States was asked on several occasions purpose, in the Morning Post's words. (represents a victory for which Poin- |lend officers to friendly governments, | to “insure the incessant activity of every branch of the revolution from teaching children to preparation of an armed insurrection. All this may seem to open up a most alarming prospect for England. but just extracts from a secret report outlining the scheme of reorganira- tion upon which this newspaper re- es throw rather a different light on e situation. The report shows that the communists are now reorganizing due to their self-confessed failure to achieve anything worth while up to date, Beaten in Election. Stating that the communist party is now in existence two years, the re- port goes on to say: “Yet in these two years with all the opportunities and the tireless activities and th encrgy of individual workers the party has made no real progress either numerieally or in terms of in- fluence.” Later in the report the communists ave another interesting confession {care has worked ceaselessly. He has {defeated England on the eve of the |critical Paris conference and will use {his advantage to the utmost i Stand Three to One. { Poincare’s capture of Italian sup {port is very significant. Hitherto th {tendency of the Italians has been to ielde with England on the German lissue. Now Mussolini has changed ithe current and now Poincare is as isured of a three-to-one majority, Bel- {Rlum being consistently on Irance side. | With this tactical victory on hand what will be Poincare’s procedure? He is unlikely to anticipate the con- ference by independent action. Equal- y it is unlikely that England will disavow the action of its own mem ber of the commission. Even if Ger- many is declared in default England 11l will be compelled to disagree the policy of forca advocated by | !France, especially anything in the inature of occupation, either military jor economic, of the Ruhr. There can without a responsible hold on the D no recovery of Europe on such working class movement.” {lines. But France never has sur- The' communists, in sizing up their [Tendered her policy of occupation ax own' present position of influence, |2 Means of securing the political dis- uld not be improved upon, and their {integration of Germany. admissions are borne out by the re- Crucial Issue Reached. sults of the general election. When | Yre have now reached the crucial e Eebar o the house of |i8sue which France and England have commons. mcial taborites botng | LT 008INE for four years. wil So far as the official laborites being | po; 7 doRiinated by the communiate, W | Ciocere take the plunge jon Trom Cryder b communist member |reparations commission. He claims whips and, if most of the 243 offictal | the right to act alone according to Jaborites are communists, you would | the terms of the treaty, as in the case ot think so to hear real communists {0 the occupation of talk about MacDonald, Clynes, Webb, ; France then hoped to stan Snowden, Trevelyan and other labor |allies into consent. but failed. Now ieaders—all of whom are indeed thor- |{he Problem assumes a final charac- oughly bourgeois types. ter. 1t France acts alone, contrary to W hile the® ofeta) laborites laugh|the English definition of the text of out of court the charge of the ex- the {reaty and contrary to the whole treme conmervative that they are plan- { motive :‘fl!fi:}:"" policy. the entente ning a revolution, at the same ti axfl;‘,"‘ R iy oo ey retort that the extreme conserv H oincare is ully 171"'are o t‘ e ves are staging a secret society di- e entertains |Eravits of the step. . any doubts the conference rected against labor. rany § SE i The basis for this charge is the ap- |QUFINg the next few days will en pearance in this country of - 1 lighten him. The plain fact is that ; 1ot i " |England and France mean diamet- Srwanizer and founder of this sociciy |lences any longer conceal that this is is Col. Walter Faber, the well known %0: We want Germany to get on her tory “die hard.” This organization(feet in order to pay and trade. mects benind guarded doors and main. | Erance wants Germany permanently tains an claborate ritual, in which the jdisabled. No diplomatic ingenuity e “horbaed Trom ‘medevial cra. [can reconcile these conflicting pol- sadérs plays a prominent part. cies. One must yield or the crash Recruiting Drive. {must come. i All Eyes Tura to U. §. From ite headquarters in Lomdon _ s 5 ; this society has been carrying out a: With this menace overshadowing recruiting drive up and down the!paris all eves turn westward. Bald- ountry the Jlast few months and| = claims” adherents in every district.} visit to Washington is impor- We hope terms will be I'he ‘avowed obfect of the socfety s to'jtant to us. pring back the spirit of the crusade arranged which will make the burden lish form of fascisti and the Ameri- {this is not the main reason why at- can Ku Klux Klan, tention centers on Washington. De- This view is_supported by a state- |8pair_of diverting French aims from ment of Maj. T. H. Hague, the cru-|the Ruhr are deepened by the sig- sader grand semeschal, to ‘an inter-inificant action of Italy. If England viewer that “From the little I know !is left alone to oppose the French of the Italjan movement I am not at |Policy the prospect i{s hopeless and all sure but that it would not be a|all eXpectation of European recovery 'We are only scattered individuals straggling up and down the country = zood thing to have here.” vanishes. That i{s alarming enough So far, however. the British public | for Europe, but not for Europe alone. seems to see no reason to get worked |If Europe clatters back into the abyss up over these threats of secret socie- {0f war America can hardly escape lies, aiming at revolution -nm..-lbem: involved. Is that catastrophe ‘rom the left or the right side of the |to put the last nail in the cofin of solitical and economic fence. iwhite civilization? Is the white man {to confess that all of his genius for % iorganization ends in failure because ONLY m UNEMPLOYED ihe cannot organize peace with his d ineighbors? s That is the issue that is back of IN PARIS AND VICINITY | tnis iite-and-death struggle. ~Amer- fea cannot be indifferent. All hopes o that the New TYear will bring the Vi Banks DQM w - | world out of this er shame center HSavings ts Show In- |8 or e S ea Sho helped save clvilise: crease in Wave of Pros- tion from ruin in the war. Can she jrefuse to help save it from unutter- perity. !able ruin in this deadly peace? Re- 2 £ iports,as to the intentions of Wash- Ry the Associated Press. . ington regarding the ealling of an PARIS, December 30.—The entire|oconomic conference raised high el wl hopes here. May they soon be fal- department of the Seine, of which fll!’od. wning men catch at strawa Parls s the Ereatest part, boasts of|,nq Turope {s drowning. Throw us y 300 unemployed. .. |& raft before it is/too late. ‘Green Christmas, full churchyard,’ zays the pr:verhb. S23t the mild e e weather saved the Paris municipal i sl i T, il FRENCH DEPUTIES 0. K. <now fallen it could not have been Uleared away for lack of labor. The| GUARANTY TO AUSTRIA streets of Farls need repairing, but = ‘ -ontractors find it impossible to ob- in workmen. Poincare Gets Request for Commer- One of the largest employers of iabor in France has places for 3,000 cial Arrangement With persons of various trades, but cannot Prance. et them. Forf seventy-nine vacancies > in the Paris post office thero wers | By the Amciated Press. only”pine applicants, and an adver-| "pARIS, December 30.—The French ment offering ninety-five positions | government’s share of the guaranty n sll:to manufactories brought two|joan to Austria, which, under the replies. . 1 e of nations plan, {is designed In spite of the apparent prosperity zmtore the country’s finances, was and lack of unemployment, the official | approved by the chamber of deputies Parisian pawnshops have never done | today. <uch an enormous business since their In the course of the debate on the ‘oundation. According to the official { measure Premier Poincare sald he report of the manager, the articlsa|had received a request from the Aus- pawned this year show an increase of { trian minister, Dr. Eichhoff, asking 0.000 units over last year. These for opportunity to apen negotiations les represent the value of 35,000,-} for a commercial arrangement b 000 francs. . tween France and Austria. M. Poin- Savings banks deposits show an ‘n-{care replied that the French govern- ent would be happy to undertake, ‘ such_negotiation: 4 e ! <rease of a-litile more than a hulf b lion francs 1921, but wes unable to do so until the, passage of a law making such pr ceedure posaible. Since the law was | {enacted, such a request from [I'er has been complied with. (VOLSTEAD ACT CLAIMS ' NEWEUROPEAN VICTIM | ! {Jean Monnet Quits 4,000-Pound { Job to Rehabilitate Wrecked | Liquor Business. i i { i By the Associated Press. { PARIS, December latest | | 30.—The is Jean Monnet, deputy secretary of |the league of nations, who has been {obliged to resign his £4.000 job to return to the little village of Cognac { to repair the devastation wrought on his liquor business, largely because| |of_American prohibition. | i When the war broke out, M. Monnet i the | was selling large quantities of his|them with circuses stands a cl strength of the declaration of the|own brandies in the United States and | Caesar Wwho Canada. Exempt from military serv- | { France in London. uch qualities as a negotiator that ! at the special request of Lord Robert Cecil the French government approv- !ed his nomination as representative | of France on the league's secretariat. {_ M. Monnet and Sir Eric Drummon were the real negotfators of the set- tlement of the upper Silesian ques- tion., M. Monnet also had a great in_Paris|geal to do with the final efforts to|credible only a few months afte ave Austria. He took such an im- Ithal his resignation has caused con- | sternation. Premier Poincare has endeavored to induce him to retain his position and nly take an extended leave of ab- sence, but M. Monnet was of the! ;opinion that he could not keep such ian important post in the league while | feeling that his business needed him. i While M. Monnet was helping Eus_ rope out of her difficulties, his own firm in Cognac was getting into them very deeply as a result of prohibition, “The surrender of a position paying a quarter of a million francs a year is sald to be the first example of such abnegation on the part of the public functionary in the annals of Europe, but those who know M. Monnet say that after he has brought his own firm safely out of its difficulties he will return to do his best for Europe. — TENANTS REFUSE RENT; LANDLORDS DODGE TAXES Glasgow Government Disorganized by Lack of Revenue—Courts Powerless. By the Assoriated Press. GLASGOW, December 30.—A chaotic situation has developed along the Clyde side owing to the refusal of. tenants to pay rent for many months past, at least 20,000 householders in Glasgow alone participating. The re- sult is that the landlords are not paying their taxes to the local gov- ernment, and in consequence the ad- ministration is disorganized. The courts are powerless to inter- vene owing to a recent decision of the house of lords in the tenants’ fa- vor on a technical point connected ‘with war-time restriction legislation. ‘The Glasgow landlords will lose £l,- 260,000 if the decision is not altered. ‘The trouble be in 1920, when a majority of Scottish:agents for land- lords failed to serve formal notices to tenants before raising the rentals and glving them opportunity to give up their tenancy i! they did not wish to pay the increasss. e house of lords held that the omission rendered all the Increases that were collected il- 1 '8:‘ uent) ; the tenants are “sit- ting tight” until such increases are liquidated in respect to the future HANIHARA TO SAIL. By the Associated Prese. HONOLULU, T. H., December 30.— Masano Hanlil newly appointed am- bassador to the United States, will sail from Yokohama by the Cbrea Maru January 16, according to cable advices Seoeludflvm‘l'ouo o mef‘l'm:u‘(, ese newspaper, here. . Hani~ y.:;’.‘"-m succeed Baron Who | THE SUNDAY ST iwinter resorts no useful - WASHINGTON v » "BELIEVE upon the principles Carrier—aged 12. The Star Carriet’s Creed of Washington as a newspaper of the people and for the people. whose just power is derived from the devotion of its readers. @ A fine city and a fine newspaper—from District welfare inseparable: founded service, truth and wholesome reading. @ 1 therefore believe it ig my duty to my paper (as a regular Star carrier) to serve it diligently, loyally and faithfully, and to uphold it above all other newspapers. DAVID FREILICOFF. | in The Evening Star of patriotism, public 1308 Que st. n Ha o #) MAXMILIAN HARDEN. iermany's Foremost Publicist. By Cable Dispatch to The Star. Coprrigh. 19: BERLIN, December rope today is making Uncie Sam New Year visit. It is both materlal and socfai in character. and the dia- Jogue between them Is well worth the attention of the whole world. “What a terrible year 1922 was.” she groans. “At the beginning it seemed that the sky over my house was brighter. Threads of hope were spun at Washington, at Cannes Genoa, but they soon broke like cob- webs. Only from Washington was there something remaining. and. while it seems about to be ratified after long hesitation, it does me no kood. From all other summer ani plan ha emerged, despite nolsy enthusiasm. “T had thought the worst was over European victim af the Volstead act (and imagined that the world, which, must realize our worth, would help us back to our old position and wealth. But today is almost darker than a year ago. John Bull complains of unemployment and increased tax- ation Marianne Paris b ans ‘her money scarcity and the impossjbility of rebuilding her devastated regions. Where the Roman Caesars fed the people with bread and entertained lian suddenly has changed his red shirt for a black one and is ice he undertook missionary work for|endeavoring to force the imaginatlon He has never|of the masses back into a clean but | Frankfort. | taken the slightest interest in politics { narrow bed of patriotic anti-foreign | stampede_the | or international affairs, but he showed { emotion. “Sounds Scarcely Credible” “People are trying to convince me that things are getting better to the relgned for four years. Property rights now are recognized and trade is_permitted. This counds scarcely the reports of famine and cannibalism, portant place in the league's work |but even if this is true. what Is theling on the good to me? My old carcass, covered with the scars of the surgeon's knife. won't hold together until order is restored between the Black and White seas. ‘New states are busy arranging themselves, while-in the old people cannot buy or sell. Germany, with a great industrial sell for a long time because she of- fers goods cheaper than her com- petitors and can buy because she pro- duces a means of payment on a print- ing press and pays her workingmen one-fourth of what they would get in America for the same work. But en this beggar prosperity is fading 1 and there is a decline in all i dustries, and where formerly Ger- many had much to export, now she is compelled to import. How much longer will this be possible? “The German harvest is below the average. Cattle cannot exist through- out the winter without foreign fod- der. The dollar a year ago bought 200 marks. Last July it bought 500; now it is 7,000. Honest trade is im- possible with such fluctuations, which within a year have varied from 168 to 9,174. The soundest and most re- jpectable business men are forced to ate. w, Uncle Sam, this is a plcture of our conditions. You are the only one who can help us. Has your tender heart turned into hard metal amidst your heaps of gold? Nobody here understands how you have stood the sight of this misery 5o lon, “ghort, Mocking Laugh” Follows. A short mocking laugh comes from the mouth which releases the pipe, and then comes the answer: “Bravo! You have learned your lesson very well. The only wonder is that you can expect it is going to have any effect. You know the story of Rothschild, who when the poor Russian told his sorrows to him for a long time, rang for his servant gand said: ‘Throw -this man out, he is breaking my heart’ That's how we feel about u. I have given more charity to ybur children than ever before was given on earth. I never asked thanks, but I don’t want to hear any more about your debts, repa- rations, low standards of living and depressed exchange. Your constant begging is almost worse than your old mfllwy trumpets and soldier play. You Imagine you are in- dispensable and believe Almighty God insured you first place in the universe until the end of time and reckon we are going to heip you with our money every time you do something stupid, which is very often. You want us to throw our people’s wealth into the ttomless pit. . M"Wa have claims for gold which are being paid not in gold but in goods, which we don’t want, because we are exporters ouggelves and must protect our industries with a tariff. For this reason we are most interested in'the younger industrial countries, conse- qnmt‘ly w(uz. interests "nh Rm; sia 18 not the supposed change o fro the fact that under com- 7 ek e rden Depicts Mrs. Europé n New Year Visit to Uncle Sam and at| | facing east, where the bolshevik terror has | 6rganization, could | German Publicist Declares “Dialogue Be- | tween Them,” Which He Quotes, Well Worth Attention of the Whole World. farms and smali holdings have sprung up. Demands Gu: ntee Against Wars. will help you as soon us I have trantee that you won't begin new which, as experience shows, both victors and vanquished; ! that you will not regard new paper money as income wealth and that your business will he gulded by econ jomlc reasoning instead of national | jealousy. That is all_we ask in ex change for our help. Don't pout. you think we have been spending weeks on councils of bankers and diplomats for nothing? France igland agreed under the Christmas mistletoe o accept any reasonable reparations proposal from Germafy !and they knew ahout what to expeect. That was our doing. Now see what ¥ou can do alone. Happy New Year:” |” Mrs. Europe, slightly disappointed but full of hope, turns slowly"and leaves. ° 600D TIMES FORECAST s wars, ruins Do { ' Story of “Clairvoyant a.nd Corpse Recalled by Prophecy. i | BY the Associated Press BERLIN, December 30.—With 192 Germany as a formidable ngb!inn mark. the story of “The Clairvoyant and the Corpse.” azain is Zoing the rounds. Exactly two years ago seven men {and one woman occupied the eight | seats of a train compartment, travel- rallway line touching ;Frnnk(on. Halle, Bitterfeld and Berlin. the train was running along the men began a discussion oll" the prices of butter, €ggs, cloth and other features of the “hard ~time: and spegulating on the prospectsti the coming year. One of the men casually turned to the woman and asked her opinion of the situation. Good Times im 1923. rmany will sce daylight ahead at the turn of the year 1922 the wom an responded confidently. “In 1933 she added, “Germany again will get her feet and good (i toT;he'c?‘umry. e fellow travelers of the woman laughed and demanded what founda- tion she had for such a prediction. “It doe: ot matter how T know it; I just do.” she said. “And it's just as suTe as the fact that a dead man wil r‘l‘aly n this compartment. this ver: | Prediction Impresses Men. Notwithstanding the general round | of laughter, amid which th, X left the train at Halle, the men who had heard her prophesy were filled with a certain feeling of disquietude. They were {n the midst of a continu. ation of their discussion as the train was about to pull out from the Bifter. feld station, when a portly man, b\l?-' Christmas * packages, | dened with rushed breathlessly into the 2 ment, exclaiming that he had bare: arrived in time to catch mw]ng t;msk ?iye,m h settled back in his seat. Five m later he .was dead. He ev‘ldentll;lufit:l; been stricken with apoplexy. The story is vouched for by several well known German Journalists of Berlin who were amohg the woman's audi- tors in.the'compartment of the train, U. S. BUYS PAINTING OF RODMAN’S ARRIVAL Picture Wil 'Be " Sent From Lon- don to Washington for Navy Department. By the Associated Press. ' LOXDON, December.30.—The Atheri can military attache has ::n"urx'.\ecx;lé that the Navy Department has pur- chased the painting of Bernard Grib- ble, the noted English marine artist, depicting the arrival of the American battleship squadron und Adpiral it'olg,mm at Scapa Flow in ber, The foreground of the picture ‘rep- resents the quarter deck of the‘dread- naught Queén Elizabeth with Admiral Beatty leading the cheering of British~ bluejackets as ‘they' enthu- slastically watch the long line of American ships approach on the hori- zon. - 25 Admiral Beatty expressed keen ap- preciation of ‘the painting.-when he. called at the embassy recently. The pieture will be shipped to Washing- ton, where it will-t= hung in the Navy D. C., DECEMBER 3% 1922—PART 1 IERENCH WORSE OFF ' ASTHEGOESON Tardieu Declares Borrowingi Has Continued and Taxes Increased. | i DISCORD HAS GROWN ! l 1 | Lloyd George Blamed for Present Crisis in Anglo-French Rela- tions Now Apparent. BY ANDRE TARDIEU, i Former French High Commixsioner to { i the United States. ! By Cable Dispateh to The Star. Copyright, 1922. | PARIS, December 30.—Does the year | end Better than it began? | Neither for France nor for Europe can the question.be answered affirma- tively. Throughout 1922 France continued {to borrow to repair the ruins caused by German aggression. She already has spent in this way for reconstruc- tion ‘and pensions more than elghty billlon francs plus expenses of the army of occupation. The debt service absorbs over thirteen billlon franes | annually, mot counting our foreign debt upon which we haye not yet paid | any interest. { All that we have collected from | Germany is 1,720,000,000 gold marks, | These receipts, which amounted to an i average of 63,000.000 monthly in 1920- 21, fell to 22,000,000 during 1922 Reparations in kind, except coal, are | going badly and as a consequence France must borrow continually while taxes have risen from four and one half billion francs in 1913 to twen one billions in, 1922. They cannot be increased indefinitely. Even so the debt service shows a deficit in the 1923 budget of over four billions. Discord Shown. past year grew worse inctead of bet- ter. Will the coming Paris conference show progress either financial or political? It would be rash to say so. The discord between France and Britain has been demonetrated in the reparations commission where Brad- bury, the English representative, with strange partiality refused td agree with his colleagues that Germany had {fafled in deliveries in kind, although this fact was obvious. Lloyd George, by imposing sacrifices | on France for two years without | offering the slightest compensation, the prime author of the crisis i Anglo-French relations. France, b her pro-Turk attitude in 192122, com {mitted similar errors, which, happily, were somewhat retrieved at Lausanne, Nevertheless London and Paris are | far from intimate agreement, which is an indispensable condition to Turo- pean equilibrium. Considering this disassoclation of the entente Premier { Mussolini_asked, not without reason. wherein the disagreement consisted. H Conguered Show Activity. | Those conquered in 1918 are showinz disquieting activity in 19 Rapallo treaty revealed the close of Moscow’s relations with Berlin, whereof a thousand new symptoms are coming into evidence. There also Is u close relationship between the Kamallsts and the soviet and through them with Berlin. Worse yet, the re- venge idea, which course has animated these three governments, seemed cap- {able of practical realization since the Turks effaced their defeat, reinstated themselves. in- Europe, retook Con- stantinople and eastern Thrace and eliminated ecffectiva control of the straits by the western powe: | ILLICIT RUM FLOW Suggestion Made Dominion Montreal Star Points to Enormous | Special Dispatch to The Star. the Canadian government wishes to jplay United States it will apply to alcohol the restrictions that it enforces re- garding noxious drugs, is the con- tention in vagious Canadian quarters. Dominion customs and excise officials are getting frequent reminders that This shows our situation during the {199 Much Canadian liquor is being allowed to leave border points for | Problem so that it can be used as i {the American side. The unfairness of {allowing consignments of Canadian {liquor to points while the American adminis- tration s tryinz to enforce the Vol- stead act is emphasized. er ¥ fication it is in places as Valle, is (the conveyance' liquor to the bo a; American dians tional border are actin in th, {In some ihere have been far bewo law, 3| possible transient Dplain. Morcover, the continua. ing of large stocks of 1i i the borde. Iseem to complaint. versed, and | place of the i brote able | States should *tual icalculated betger t 1 Turk Says U. S. Observers Take . Part in Parle By the Associ IRUSS ASK CLOSER TESWITH AMEREA iLausanne Situation Compels Country to Fortify, M SITUATI e Press. e LAUSAX December — 30.—1 thought the Americans were here simply as observers; 1 did not know they were having any part in this treaty,” was the caustic remark made by Riza Nur Bey, the second Turk- | ish delegate today, in the subcom- mission on minorities. This was in the way of retort when the chairman of thé subcommission, Signor Mon- tagna, alluded to the position the Americans took on'Friday in present- ing a memorgnduny urglng that pro- vizion be made 6o that refugecs from . Turkey could be enabled o return and reclaim their property there Tchitcherin Declares. ON 'STILL TENSE Turks Agree to Meet British Ex- perts to Discuss Mosul ' Frontier. By the Associated Press, LAUSANNE, December 30.—M. Tchit~ cherin, the TRussian soviet foreign minister, made an appeal for recogni- { tion of the soviet federation today in a statement 10 the Assoclated Press “The sovict reubli he said “earnestly hopes that the beginning of | the new year will bring us into closer i collaboration with the Amerfcan | people for productive work and for ths | opening of our natural resources to i mankind. : most earnest desire is uni- v aval disarmament, as well i3 | disarmament on_land. peace and pro- {ductive work. The sovlet republic 19 { strong enough to resist aggression, but we must regret that the scheme which has prevailed at Lausanne will { compel us to arm and fortify our souti coast and will divert us from o fundamental aim—production.” ! Soviet New Year “Sermon.” | The entire sovier dvlegation livered & °New Year sermon to the { powers, “taking as a text “Russi: isympathy for oppressed peoples.” AL ;0.—1f | Tehiteherin distriubted to all the dele- gations at Lausanne a memoranduii declaring that a solution of the uear east problem is possible only by abana donment of the policy of conquest aud intervention toward Turkey. Hupily the soviet's advent to pows in Russia had saved Turkey from total disintegration. Unhappily, however at Lausanne, according to the memo- randum. the great powers continus their old policy of domination and ¢x-’ pansion and seek to settle the straif: STIRS CANADIANS Lend Aid to U.'S. Dry En- forcement Officers. BORDER NOT_PROTECTED Increase in Liquor Ship- ments to Country. OTTAWA, Ont., December a friendly part toward the basis of attack against the Black sea countries. The memorandum sides with Turkey for sovereign freedom, und insist< that imperiaiisti, ations must cea e to consider Moslems &s inferfors. In behalf of the Moscow governmen: Tchitcherin recommends the calli of a s=pecial conference to exam irto the status of the minorities of countries, and declares that the o way to establish peace in the valic: of the Danube and in the Balkans is the formation of a confederation b the peoples of those regions, ea state retaining its autonomy. UNION OF SOVIETS - BECOMES REALITY Congress Acts to Centralize Governmental Affairs in Moscow. warmiy 1 her struggle tak be sent to United States “If there is one direction in which | icism may be directed with Justi- regard to the sale of he border and at such Field, from which of large stocks of er is a comparative. s the Montreal liquor at Law Not Obeyed. c operation between (tanada the United States to enforce an law so long as the Ca: this side of the intern s ¥ wit _ But there is good reason _that such is not the cuse instauces the liquor sules nd what the 1 population justified under the and even farv beyond what any business could ex- imp- | quor along | near Rouses Point would 4 legitimate cause for | If conditions were re-] Neafound ourselves in the ed States. we should e strongly inclined to lodge a moral | otest. at all events. “It is in the highest degree dest: n th < esir- that Canada and the United |By on law ual poj e MOSCOW, December 30.—The uni: of socialist-soviet republics became £00d will. Nothing could be o disturb that good I3 STIRRING GERMANY: mes will return ! Russian and German national i enco raged Ly the Kemali suce is awake. The German press Wwith provocative paragraphs. icherin's attitude at Lausanne jequally disturbing. . Europe Better in 1914. All this_is happening in jorganic Europe. Onl ‘an(e that safety lies {unity cnables them. moreover. to store themselves economically. ithe other hand the status of the {lations between them and the wes: {powers, England, France, Ttal Belgium, is undefined. We've 1 to day without defining Trase for agreemeng and not prapa; for any. There~ is no contine ipolicy any more than a policy {tween the continent and the An Saxons. In 1914 Europe. despite shakiness. was better ordered tha I an the in unity and {there can’t be resuits until th will for them. Wil 1922 bring it 1 i jElaborate Celebrations Planned at | Fashionable Hotgls and Clubs, i Equaling Broadway's Best. ( | B the Associatea press. | LONDON, December 30.—The New {Year will be ushered in tomor 1 {night by jazz-loving merrymakers at y{the fashionable hotels, restaurantst elaborateness and clubs with an jworthy of Broadway at its best. filled | Tchit- | little | nte countries seem to understand There is dmple room in this chaos | or great efforts and great results, but JAZZ LOVERS TO GREET -~ NEW YEAR IN LONDON . {will than the fe: ism, 3 iem-{that owing to eling in the Jaxity i enforcement of tire law. being severely handicapped. i-iinvolve no suggestion is | between Quebec and the iliquor law force un- | ince.” law were more strictly in some places in this pro thi ve- on re- i tern and ived an ring ntal be- the United The Star says: lend themselves to | bootleggers scandal. | government has opened a { pensary at Valley Fi hoo | demand for liquor with whic 8lo- | ply the ill! trade across the bo itsider. In Bri is scarcely less than second dis states Canada the in America is It would of collusion States, if the { taken to bring about the centraliza en- The Toronto Star also calls for more activity on the part of the Canadian officials in co-operating with those in | extent to which some parts of | 3 the de gnS Of American rum runners and It is gaid that the Quebec use of the | g to sup- i Columbia the condi reality today. At a special congres: attended by more than two thousand delegates representing Russia and all allied states, definite steps were continue to live in mu- tion of governmental affairs at the " { capital. Moscow. . Stalin, commissar for natios orities, who was the principa! speaker, de¢lared that the event wus {of historical importance to united Russia and marked a new turn in the ogress of the soviet regime. The fon centralizes state authority at Moscow, giving the Moscow execu- { tives power to act in the interests of all the members of the federation handling railroads, finances, foreig - | affairs, war negotiations for peacc. ty ratifications, general economie - and taxes under the supervision parliament, which will meet annual | {m in | tions are equally discreditable. “Here in Ontario a_Canad: i toms official opposite Detroi after hours until recentl Kivin i clearanca to rum-running v is a sels, an | paid by the breweries. The Dominio ! employe even moved his bed down t | ! dark might be facilitated. ivflle for Mexico when i not going to that country { poseibly get back to Canada. “Countries should encourage the ox‘fi will is dlmost sure to develop where {a nation connives at the breaking of servance of one another's laws. iits neighbor's statutes. 1 mpathetic action in support of the laws of other nations temperance should be taken by Ottaw —_— 'MOVIES NOW INVADE Tow n cus- worked d| |1t 1s understood that his overtime was | ) i the river front =0 that the efforts of { - 5 the smugglers to dolige the United | Liraine by 3 States temperance law officers in the And small {boats have been cleared from Belle- it was fairly obvious that the liquor on board was and might - PICADILLY CIRCUS i The constitution provides for a cen . | tral committee with legislative powe: {to be appointed later, and also united council of commissars. The & | congress of delegates was selected by i-Ru n congress to deal espe- cially with unification. Russla, with her eight autonomous republics, was represented by 1,737 delegates 64, the four Caucasu: republics with 81, and White Russia 33. Representatives of the non-socialis- tic states of Khiva and Bokhara also attended and spoke hopefully of eventually entering the union. { _ {MEXICO TO ESTABLISH NEW BANK OF EMISSION Inauguration of Inmstitution by February 1 Possible Through Speed in Congress. ssoctated Press. MEXICO CITY, December 30.—Both branches of congress planned to work until midnight tonight and then se! back the clock if necessary to com- the | The manager of the Savoy ,Hotel, | {which furnishes shelter for perhaps plete pending legislation before regular session expires. A last-minute conflict over the ap- hew passenger | more Americans European hostelry, has that 2,500 guests will find entertainment of a notably sort within its walls. 1 of bottles of champagn. for toasting 1923, tras will play. .000 hothouse fl bfed soldiers. Notables at. the Berkeley. London hotels. - Claridge's, whi, one of the most exclusive hostelries OF Earobe Wikt contribats e orics of New Year galety with the sistance of three dance orchestras. |Wa! The foyer of the hotel has been con- verted into a watteau temple deco- other holiday flora. plum puddin, than any other Many hundreds e will be ready | while eight orches- The foyer will be ow- | By the Associated Press. remind them of the homeland. as- | war day: the circus for the first time and |theater, which play dance music. The Carlton, which {ican star. is patronized extensively by weal 1y, although on a smaller scale. MAY WED IN JANUARY. Mathilde McCormick Soon. ‘ BASLE, Switzerland, December; 50: flance —Friends uf Max Oser, Swis; of Mathildé McCormick, dau Harold F. McCormick of Chi sure that the couple will ‘be married some time in January. * The McCormick party, accompanied by Oser, has returned to Switserland from Italy and is visiting the scenes of:" winter. sperts at 8t Morits ATQER. Ay e S fflmdlotmxxpeetllrflm"_’fi 1thy less concerts, .. old-warld mansio; cepter: ok London’ the American revofution. ; JFar under the: house cellars thtél ong vin! ‘of“Europe. cdnducts {ourlsts umtffi:-z which was tl ot are Bu e El)nknus No Longer B:igm. But LONDON, December 30.—As the year s draws to a close, Americans in London e Prince of Wales and th, cha in the city which of York are among the notables whe | oo ‘T ot he b 2 Wwill enjoy the after-dinner dancing A at the Berkeley, known as one of the | though there is still no “owl" car serv- quietest and most fashionable of the |ice, so-that the late wagfarer must hail ch is!g taxicab or an ancient hansome, Picadilly circus is no longer dark and deserted at midnight as in the pre- ‘The blaze of electric lights and the blare of dance music in the district which is the center of London ith holly and mi 1ght Iife recalls’to the imaginative Siher he oraC mistletos and | HECL, an Broadway at 42 street ‘The Cecil Hotel has arranged an|Only last week the movies invaded extensive program for its 5,000 guests who are expected to consume 1,500 pounds of turkey and 500 pounds of | musical shows, is now exhibiting the Five orchestras will | latest picture of a prominent Amer- formerly featured A short distance along Piccadilly Americans, will celebrate sumptuous- | s Devonshire Houseswhich has been temporarily turned fnto a miseum for the benefit of the hospitals. Wire- the latest American craze, have been transported overseas to entertain visifors as they awalit guldes to-show them through this social lite before 6 wine 1 'ufl" Tarest . guide .t lrchgd vaults, lighted only by candles, he offers the stock jest, “Here, ladies and gentlemen, are the famous wine cellars of the successive Dukes of Devonshire of the last two centuries. alas, the vaults are now as dry pointment of various court magistrates has caused protracted debate, holding . up approval of several bills on which ear Resembles 42d and no discussion is expected. lavish | Party leadeérs were agreed toda Broadway. that the manner providing for estab lishment of a bank of emission a ! submiited earlier in the week by special committee would be adopted making inauguration of the institution possible by the first of February. The bill desigmates it as the sole bank of emission, with the name Bani of Mexico. The government will hold 51 per cent of the stock, The initial capital is fixed at 50,000,000 pesos. The chairman of the board of direc- tors at all times is to be the secretary of the treasury. Article 27 of the Mexican constitu- tion, dealing with the retroactivity of oil leases, will not be modified at the present session, party leaders relter- ated today. —— SAYS JAPANESE SHIPS TRAIL U. S. ON PACIFIC By the Associated Press. TOKIO, December 30.—The prevail- ing condition of Japanese steamers on the transpacific service *is a national ‘humiliation when it is compared with the boats of the American and Britieh lines,” declared Yonejiro Ito, pres dent of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, d! cussing the ‘reported refusal of t department _df finance to include in the estimate a vote for the assistance of shipbuiMing asked by the depart teiit of communications. The que jop "will be.debated in the diet. Tto said his company had planned to build half a million tons of ships, but this could not be realised without governmeintal support. Viscount Maeda, minister of com- munications, declared that his depart- ment Intended to continue its efforts to_obiain. the. subsidy. a