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4 PARIS CONFERENCE | DOOMED AT START Tardieu Says Right and Jus- tice Rules Attitude of French. GUARANTEES ARE DENIED Proposal to Take Over Gold in Debt Settlement Also Attacked. BY ANDRE TARDIEU, Former French High Commissioner to the United States. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, January 6.—There could be no agreement between Great Britain and France at the conference which was 50 suddenly ended. There was no possibility of compromising the Anglo Saxon and continental viewpoints. It s more and more apparent once again that words do not have the same meaning here as there. ‘To England reparations mean. wvival of business. To France it means reconstruction of her Tuined terri- tory. In ngland the question is whorein new solutions can be im- provised at any moment, while in France and other davastated coun- tries, it all is @ question of right and Justice Astounded by British Plan. The British proposals simply as- tounded the French. Belgian and Italian delegations. That is the first point for American public opinion to bear in mind for such an unanimity is significant and rarely has been en- countered in the last few vears. It is true that never at the worst mo- ments has Britain ever been so direc Iy attacked and during that entire period Britain nev before so direct- 1y assailed the rights of continental countries, which Gern y sacked. The British plan constituted a pure and simple repudiation, not only of Versailles, but of the schedule of payments ‘adopted in May, 1921, which Britain signed and ratified. When, in 1920, America rejected the treaty, many Europeans regretted the fact, but never denied her right to do so. Britain, Bonar Law's new plan to the contrary, now repudiates formal engagements in which she actively participated and which bind her the same as any other signatory. Insist on Definite Total For many months the British circles, favorable to reducing the war debt, have been insisting on fxing a defi- nite total, but Bonar Law's plan does not include th The reduction accorded seems fours fitths of the total. Belglan priority, which should be considered sacred. is infringed, as well as Italy's rignts, Whereas Britain unhesitatingly of- fers to Germanvy a complete ears moratorium and a half mora- orfum for four years thereafter, every security is refused creditors, who through Germany's default, have had to involve themsclves to pay re- construction and damages so that our 1923 budget shows a deficit of over tour billions. Future reparations also would be rendered illusory by transferring them from the reparations commis- sion to an international cou pre- sided over by the German finance min- ister, who is to have the deciding vote in case of disagreement Would Take Gold. On the pretext of liquidating the Furopean war debts England would immediately take from France—al- though Germany is -given a mora- torium—nearly one and a half billion gold francs in cash and two billion #old marks in German bonds, and from Italy half a billion gold francs and a billion and a half gold mark Thus England alone gets any immedi- ste receipts. I might prolong this analysis, but this is enough to show the character of the British document. It is the same thing as the Balfour note, on more so. Kor three years Lloyd George revised the details of the Ve wailles treaty demanding successive sacrifices from France, and always without compensatio Bonar Law has done the Fame thing by whole- wale in one paper. His intentions, ¥ say, are good, but it is unfortu- ite that the obvious results are bad. To all such suggestions the reply of France always will be No! We do not deny great difficulties are coming. For the most part they are the con- sequences of Loudon's forgetfulness of her solemn engagements. France will face her difficulties in agreement with the countries which see things as she does, but never willingly will #he accept being guillotined as Bonar taw, perhaps without fully realizing it, proposes. (Copyright, 1923.) GERMAN POTASH FIRM re- TOSIGN U. . CONTRACT By the Associated Press. BERLIN, January 6-—The direc- torats of the potash svndicate has been authorized by the syndicate's supervisory counci! to conclude a contract with the Potash Importing Corporation of America. with head- quarters in New York city, providing for the supply of all the foreign pot ash required in_the United States during the next five years. The council at. the same meeting confirmed the report that Germany produced 13,000,000 double centners ¢1.300,000 tons) of pure-potash last year. Since December 1 last the do- mnestio demand has fallen off, due in 2 large part to the considerable in- crease in.freight rates. On the ground that grave dangers threaten the ~mational economics through insufficient fertilization of the land under cultivation, the pot- ash syndicate petitioned.the govern- ment not to_apply to artificial fer- tilizers the 70 per cent increase in freight rates prescribed to become effective January 1 and also to offset the rise in prices of coal by permit- ting the fertilizing industry propor- tionate reductions in coal taxes. The minister of food and:agricul- ture declares unfounded certain com- pladnts recently lodged by the nitro- ®en oducers regarding the supply of rollswg stock. Up to September 20 ast, according to the minister, the supply of railway cars was such that virtually na nitrogen stocks were 3eft on hand. Since then potato and grain shipments had to be given priority. The car shortage decreased from some 60 per cent In October 1o approximately 30 per cent in No- ~vomber. Statement Delayed. NEW YORK, January 6.—American Tepresentatives of the German potash syndicate = declared today that no statement concerning the reported authorization of a large five-year contract with the Potash Importing Corporation of this city would be avrrl:.bla until next week. ‘They refused to dimclose the per- sonnel of the Potash Importing Cor- poration, which {s not listed in cur- rent business directories. Local officials of the French-Al tian Potash Syndicate stated th ¥rench potash interests were not con- corned in the Potash Importing Cor- poration and that the keenest compe- tition was being waged between the French and German potash evndi cates for American business.. It was suggested. that bly the German reparations question and its effect on sxports of German goods had led:to the formation of an American com- ny here to handle the Germen i cate’s businesw In the United Bta | | four | i | COSTING TWO MORE TO LIVE THAN ONE, UNEMPLOYED WED By the Associated Press, LONDON, January -6.—Some of England's unemployed are gotting married because two can live more expensively than one. The unem- ployment dole is increased when the workless workman takes a bride and there is, of course, the further consideration that some brides can add to the family in- come by working themselve This situation is having its effect on the servant problem. Persons seeking such help are writing to the newspapers and the labor ex- changes that their servant girls are leaving good jobs to marry men with no employment, no pros- pects and no home to which to take their wives. —_—_— | GERMAN INVENTIVE GENIUS IS REVIVED Scientists Again Devote Themselves to Curing llis of World. FORGET BLIGHT OF WAR German Editor Says Their Ex- ample Should Be Followed by Allies. BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN, Germany's Foremost Publicist. By Cabie to The Sta BERLIN, January 6—Europe has not mado a forward step in the last vear and Germany is headed toward tho abyss. Despite this, Teutonic science has demonstrated that it still is worthy of support. A German engineer, chieferstein, has invented a new system of vibration which utilizes machine encrgy far better than ever dreamed, from the simple mowing machine to the finest electro mechan- Ism. 1t lessens the loss of energy and gives new motive power to indust An American company has purchased the patients, which will prove more important to the world, so far as economy is concerned, than any amount of new laws and new treaties, The Krupp firm has decided to de- liver all goods to Russia payable from the proceeds of the future harvests. This may lead from money chaos to a & em of free exchange. rerman scholars and research students have succeeded in curing and obviating the danger of the spread of syphilis. They have deter- mined that the malady which, since 1916, has decimated entire provinces can be engendered in animals by ar- tificial cultivation of germs, and thus have provided an easy method of treatment which now has the disease under control The French Demands, Post-war distress has developed the fixation of ~atmospheric nitrogen, without which Germany would® be obliged to import even: more food- stufts, thus increasing her unfavor- able trade balance and destroying all possibjlity of paying her creditors. Despite this France continues to de- mand in reparations in kind 60,000 tons of nitrogen, equivalent to 1,500, 000 tons of wheat, and bases that de. mand on a statement that Germany does not need nitrogen. How ignorant European countries are of the needs of their neighbors. As these scientific advances are use- ful to the whole world and not to Gerntany alone, so the spirit of re- search and technical science is being animated toward new creations, and a people often wrongfully discredited is opening new vistas for humanity in many spheres. Remember this when you hear whines and angry curses coming from Germany and think the Germans never do anything else. No statistics yet are available regarding the cost of the fruitless conferences at Cannes, Spa, Genoa, The Hague, Moscow, Lon- don and finally Paris. If counted, the sums spent in this fruitless manner would total a huge sum, and if the equally unproductive cost of the oc- cupation of the Rhineland and a dozen and a half German parliaments, whose rhetoric flow was unheeded. were added it would certainly reach two bililon gold marks, which might huve been utilized in repairing the European chaos without causing suf- fering to any one but the favored few office holders. Even then the reckon- ing would not include the principal items of armaments and burcaucracy. The Hughes proposed conference of experts surely would be more effec- tive than the meeting of superannu- ated politicians, but even the greatest financial expert would be influenced by his own country’s special interests. Even “King"” Morgan did not forget the customs tariffs in his recent state- ment, So perhaps the result would again only be a compromise between conflicting national egoisms. Yet the problems arc soivable if Europe would only arouse herself to a unity of majestic common sense, realizing that reparations, though a Pprominent symptom, are not the cause of the sickness of the world, and that evil caused by war cannot be cured by one nation alone, no matter how guilt but by collaboration. Because this is the simple truth it is driven into a dark kennel like a dog barking, while hundreds of lies warm them- selves on the hearth like fat pigs. Lk & Cost Advances. January, 1922, break cost 10 arks: an egg. a quart of milk, a pound of beef, 24; u tram ticket, 200d coal per fon. 430: cast iron, 000. 1In January, 1923, these prics are respectively: Bread, 320; egg, 9 milk, 200; beef. 640; tram, 70; co 23,000; fron, 154.000." The dollar has risen from 187 to 7,400, the gold mark from 45 to 1,800, The weekly minimum cost of liv- ing has advanced from 1,200 to 25,000 marks, the floating debt from 265 billion to 1,600 billion paper marks. Only blind folly can believe that a lank sunk to such conditions is ca- pable of producing within its borders enough of an industrial surplus to heal the sickness of an entire conti- nent. That this land can produce anything more than is absolutely necessary for itself sounds almost iike a miracle, yet it is true, (Copyright, 1923.) SNOWSHOES 2 WEEKS, BRINGING DEAD MAN OVER 70-MILE TRAIL By the Associated Press. COCHRANE, Ont., January 6, After two weeks of snowshoeing along @ eventy-mile snow- pounded trail behind a dog team, facing blizzards and intense hard- ship, Provincial Constable Kenny has just arrived at Moonbeam with the body. of Patrick Kelly, a trapper, who was frozen to death on the upper Metagami river. Kenny's ears, feet and cheeks were frosen. Kenny left Kapuskasing Decem- ber 6§ to bring the body to Moon- beam. Kelly had fallen into the Metagami, but managed to scram- ble ashore only to be frozen to death, THE SUNDAY BTAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 7, '1923—PART 1. [STRUGGLING ERINS WOES GRON APACE War-Weary People Facing | Economic Chaos in Wage | and Rail Problems. | PURPOSES ARED AT LAST Paris Parley Break Serves to Bring British and French Into Open. ENGLISH PUBLIC = ANGRY German Recovery, Denied by France, Key to Prosperity of Island Kingdom. BY GARDINER, Brital Greatest Liberal Editor. By Cable to The Sta LONDON, January 6.—The moment- ous Paris conference has brought rope down to bedrock realities at last. Kor four years England and France have been trying to pretend they wanted the same thing. Now the naked fact Is revealed that they desire entirely different and Irrecon- cilable propositions which, at last, ‘are frankly avowed. However serious is the situation thus created it Is an enormous gain to have gotten rid of the shams. Bo- nar Law has done the world an in- viluable service in stating the Brit- ish policy frankly, even bluntly, for the first time and bringing the con- troversy to an open issue after four years ' Had this course been taken at the beginning Europe now would be well on ler way toward reconstruction. Instead it is now only realizing the tremendous fact that all along France had intended that Germany should be kept in permanent economic and political serfdom. Reparations has always been a secondary motive in Paris. The main purpose has been to keep such a strangle hold on Ger- many as to prevent any possibility of her recovery. Stands Made Clear. Hitherto England refused to come to grips with the allles on this point. Now the issue is joined and hence- forth England stands for enabling rmany to recover and pay and France stands for preventing Ger. many paying in order to prevent her recovering. Law's hand was forced by the in- ternational tuation in Germany. Unlike France, England is not self- contained. She depends on ker for- eign trade for her existence. Without a revival of urope the terrible de- pression in British industry must con- tinue. German recovery is the key to European recovery Hence the German question becomes a most vital British question. A strangle- hold on Germany is a strangle-hold on England The French policy of administering Germany as a bankrupt with Afri n troops in the background to keep the German people under cont would mean the final eclipse of Euro- pean civilization. 1f France chooses to tread that path alone she will be compelled to establish an undisputed military hegemony in Europe and to it in perpetuity. It is an ible dream. Napoleon only succeeded in doing It for a decade tand Poincare will discover that the {world did not dethrone Prussian mil- itarism in order to make France the | military dictator of Europe. The point-blank refusal care to discuss the British scheme has created a most unfavorable im- pression in the mind of the- English public. Sympathy with France and hostility toward Germany s0 ingrained in the people here that it now to readjust the but the events of the last few da. have wrought a profound change. Tt is agreed on all hands that there is no possibllity of reconciling the French and British view | Britain Willing te Pay. If only money were in dispute England would pay any price for a real settlement in Europe with peac: and disarmament assured. The ques. tion of Germany's capacity to pay is one on which the experts of all coun- {tries are in agreement, but France is not concerned with the economic facts and refuses to comsider them In her present frame of mind France will consider no_ solution that does not provide for the political suppres- sion” of Germany. Meanwhile, the hand of France has been greatly strengthened by her position in regard to the Turk. The deadlock at the Lausanne conference is mainly due to the critical relations between France and England. The Turk. a past master in exvloiting all idifferences between Christian powers, never was in a stronger position than now. When France backed him against the Greeks and provided him with guns she gained his friendship. Now the Turk is in undisguised con- flict with the British. Much anxiety prevails as to the course of events in -the near east f the Anglo-French entents actually 8 at an end and France carries through to the finish her planned independent action in Germany. The Turk will become a powerful pawn in support of the French policy. Whether France will use this as a means of keeping England compla- icent or to add to her complications is & nice question. But events at Lausanne will give a clue to the in- tentions of Paris. Europe has entered the New Year under dark skies. Perhaps light will break from the west. We have none here. (Copyright, 1923.) PRINCE ANDREW PLANS TO SAIL FOR NEW YORK Exile Charged With Greek Debacle Announces He Will Stay in U. S. Several Months. By the Assoclated Pres PARIS, January 6.—Prince Andrew of Greece, who was exiled after the Greek revolution on conviction. of clmr(g-x that he had contributed to the Greek debacle in Asla Minor, call- ed on Myron T. Herrlck, the American ambassador, and announced that he would sail for New York on the liner Olympic next Wednesday. Prince Andrew told the ambassador he intended to join Prince and Prin- cess Christopher of Greece in New York and probably will remain in America several months, —— “BOCHE” OFFENDS FRENCH. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, January 6.—The correc- tional tribunal holds that the expres- sion- “boche,” even if not preceded by the war-time “dirty,” constitutes a grave insult when applied to French-Alsatian. The court has just sentenced a Frenchman to pay a fine of 50 francs and dam amounting to 300 francs for applying the obe jectionable "term to an Alsatian named George Dreyfus. of Poin- has_been minds of the is diMcult even point of view WRECK TIE-UP CLEARED. GREENWOOD, §, C., January 6— Trafic on the Southern raflway ‘b tween this city and Greenville was resumed at 9:30 o'cloek this morn- ing after being Interrupted since 7 o'clock last night, when the tender and malil car on passenger.train No. 16, southbound, Greenville for Co- iumbla, left the rails at Cothran, four miles north of here:- The roadbed.and tracks wera torn up for. fifty rail lengths, rallroad men sald. 'a_one was injured, The cause has not been determined, Stinnes Done as Or Plans Industrial Coup !Rise of Cuno to Chancellorship Oddly Obliterating Man Who Furthered French Restoration. BY JOSEPH SHAPLEN. By Cable to The Star and New York Tribune. Copyright, 1023. BERLIN, January 6.-—Is Hugo Stinnes facing eclipse or is he pre- paring some great industrial coup which will overwhelm his opponents and enémies and restore his mastery? His .. power _has. been considerably ourbed since the advent of Cuno to the chancellorship and the split in the national “assqeiation of German in- Qustry, of which Stinnes was until recently dictator. Stinnes reached the zenith of his prestige after the conclusion of his famous agreement with Marquis de Lubersac for the delivery of large yuantities “of material for the res- toration of devastated France. At that time Stinnes was termed the “in- visible chanceltor.” He was credited with possessing o great. comprehen- sive plan for Franco-German indus- trial “and economic co-operation, a mild forerunner which would serve as the foundation for Franco-German economic understanding, and would clear the road for a direct solution of the reparations problem between Germany - rance. That in this plan Stinnes had the support of an influential section of French industry is certain, but the greater part of French industry, as well as the French government, refused to lend Stinnes' plan their approval, and the Lubersac agreement remained a flash. Feared Risc of Stinmes. In Germany this agreement, which on first announcement was greeted with crles of joy, likewise met with a reversal of judgment, first because it developed to be a good piece of business for Stinnes with no particu- lar advantages to the country, and second, because Stinnes’ great com- petitors, the Thyssens, Krupps, Sie- mens, General Electric, Hamburg- American line and so forth, heading a large group of other industrialists in the national association of German industry, began to fear that Stinnes, if unchecked, would really rise to the position of the nation’s economic di- rector. ‘They, therefore, rofused to co-operate In the executjon of the Lubersac agreement, leaving Stinnes himself to bear the obligations he as- sumed, and revised thelr previousap- proval of Stinnes’ scheme for the sal- vation of Germany —direct under- standing and with France. Today Anglo-American orlentation prevails in the national association of German industry, an orientation rep- resented b uno, who as director of the Hamburg-American line was Stinnes’ great competitor on the sea and was chiefly responsible for Stin- nes’ exit from the Humburg-American. Today Cuno has behind him the great majority of German industrialists. Sorge, general dircctor of Krupps. represents him as president of the | National Assoclation of German In-| dustry, and in recent statements has | indicated his disagreement with Stinnes’ reparation policy, which Is built on one policy—pay no repara- | tions until the allies agres to reduce | them to the minimum figure, and | e that reduction by economic| pressure on the allies. | ¥all of Mark a Weapon. | Stinnes saw in the downfall of the mark & powerful weapon against the allies, and up to a certain point Ger- man {ndustry was behind him. Today the greater part of German indus- EMGRATION TOAD " DLENESS N TALY Mussolini ~ Will Supervise Service to Place 300,000 Persons This Year. co-operation { By Cable to The Star and New York Tribune. Copyright, 1923. | ROME, January 6.—Italy’s great | problem of what to do with the thou- | sands of men out of werk owing to | the government's reforms on the rail- | ways and the other branches of pub- lic service will be solved by emigra- tion. Premier Mussolini has placed the commissariate of emigration under the direction of the foreign office, so as to be able personally to fnspect and to.reorganize the system of nego- tiations regarding the placing of emi- | grants. i Guarantees Work for 300,000, The project guarantees work to at ' least 300,000 emigrants this year in various parts of the world. Mussolin | is hoping that expert workers will be | allowed in by the United States, in ! view of the exceptional circumstances, ! though the pre-war emigration, which | amounted to 500,000 yearly, will never | be reached again. | For the present year the foreign of- fice is arranging for intensified emi- gration to France, where Italy’s ex- perts, builders, roadmakers and agri- culturists are ‘needed for the re- construction of the devastated regions. | It is helieved that last year's nsure:' of 70,000 will be exceeded. Thousands of Italians are veady to start for Belgium's coal mines, and agricultural workers have also been' contracted for in Africa, Morocco, Tunis and Brazil. When _the treaty with the Turks is signed Italian firms are ready to ful- Nl their contracts with the Turkish authorities for the rebuilding o Smyrna and the other towns destroye: in_the war, Owing to her own unemployment problem, Switserland has closed her frontier to foreign workmen, though it will be willing in the near future to_allow {mmigrants. The Italian workmen. masons and | builders, have to wait for the stabili- zatlon of the mark before entering Germany, Austria or Hungary, a8 ow- ing to the deplorable exchange the terms are disadvantageous. and they | would be unable to send their fami- | lles in Italy suffictent funds. DIRECT FROM A pe, erbrean | puce and lgl'!clovu. § and Leader trialists fear they can no longer af- ford to permit the matk’s coutinued | decline—that the mark has now reached the danger point at which it is beginning to cut against German industry {tself. _German industry feels that while Stinnes is fortified by huge supplies of foreign exchange international ramifications, his business structure can continue work- | ing on a basis of the uninterrupted decline of the mark, but that German | industry as a whole cannot. That is why it has turned away from the oid Stinnes pélicy and followed Cuno. This develpoment dates no longer | than from the Cuno accession to the chancellorship. This schism between Stinnes and the rest of German jn- dustry 5 being followed by 3 sim- flar division in the people’s party, whose principal leaders, including Stresemann, likewise turnéed against the Stinnes policy. Stinnes is ac- cused of favoring the oocupation of the Ruhr, where the great part of his coal and iron Interests lle. Stinnes, 80 his enemies say, favors the ocoupation of the Ruhr because he wants to put his business in that reglon on the franc basis and thus derive increased profits. His defend- ers, however, while admitting in full the charge, say that Stinnes’ real aim is to beat the Frenth on their own ground. He believes the French iron and steel industry, especially in Al- sace-Lorraine, is badly managed and that by beating the French on their own ground, he can force them to accept co-operation, which they have thus far.rejected, and come to a general understanding with Germany. The greater part of German industry now apparently realizes that Stinnes’ eration—Flour Mills and Ship- yards May Shut Down. BY WILLIAM H. BRAYDEN. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1923. . DUBLIN, January busine land to chaos. ings 6 pence a week, it would cease running, 1and has become a risky adventure. leave so large a towns, and announced perilous gample, and that Franco- Gorman industrial oo-operation is | Pridge the gap between expenditure near {and revenue on condition that it took impossible—at lcast future. in the over the control of the Great South- HIGH PAY STIFLES TRADE Largest Railroad Would Cease Op- 6.—The * wage question combined with the check on due to the destruction of the railways threatens to reduce Ire- The Great Southern raflway, Ireland’s largest line, hav- ing failed to induce the workers to accept 2 cut in their wages of 3 shill- erved notice on the government that after January 8 s its ex- | penses were falling short of its reve- nues by 11,000 pounds & week. Every | day sees destruction on some part of | |its system by irregulars, and traffic over the greater part of southern Ire- The government could not afford to territory entirely unprovided with railway facilities, the absence of which would ruin many its willing- game Is too dangerous, that it i8 & ness to furnish sufficlent funds to ern, but that it would pay no divi- dends on the company’s stocks. Wil Make Struggle. This provoked a panlo on the stock exchange and railway shares were thrown on the market for what they would fetch. As the stocks ars most- 1y held by small favestors and as .he large holders are mainly churches, convents and charitable institutions, the work of which would be stopped by a cessation of dividends, a grave situation was created, and the com- pany, of which Gov. Gen. Healy, be- fore his appointment, was a director, decided to refuse the government's offer and make a fresh struggle to keep going. But the wage question, which af- fects all the lines, remains unfaced. | Irish railway workers are receiving | higher wages than in Britain, and the same is true of most of the other workers. Dublin has made a prom- ising attempt at shipbullding, but as the wages here are 65 per cent high- er than on the Clyde, competition is {impossible and it is feared that this !industry must be discontinued. | 140,000 Unemployed. | | Irish flour millers, pressed by Amer- | |ican competition, have announced a | cut in wages of 20 per cent on the| present weekly wage of 62 shillings. | This has been refused by the men, the | conferences have broken down and if | | the dispute is not adjusted every flour | mill in the Irish Free State will be obliged to close. In the provinces | some of the newspapers have ceased | publication in consequence of l’llel disputes with the printers, and this| difficulty may soon extend to Dublin. | There are already 140,000 unemployed | in the Irish Free State, and if. the | present conditions last this number may speedily be doubled. ! The war atmosphere is killing trade, | and hence there is a passionate desire for peace at almost any price. The | |latest proposal is for a s month truce pending a general election and the storing meanwhile of all arms under a guard agreed on by both sides, all prisoners to be released | once the arms are stored. and the| | press censorship to be abolished. 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