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4 France Driving To Barbarism, Publicist Sees Encouragement Given Mon- archists and Socialists Driven to Fas- cisti by “Coke War” in the Ruhr. Sees All Europe Threatened The “coke There is no party in France to militaristic policy, arrests and expulsions in the Ruhr.” Boom on the German stock exchange is due to people trying to exchange state obligations for sha France's endeavor to get money to meet her outstanding obliga- tions by using force is certain to The result will be encourag and will drive German rocialists to fascism. The coke war threatens to throw Europe back to barbarism, whers | | the creditor could enslave his defaulting debtor and utilize his corpse | | s an ascet BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN, Germany's Foremost Publicist. By Cable to The Star. BERLIN, February 3.—The “giant coke war” still is raging, but the Asague of nations seems still unwill- ing to regard the situation as a ‘threat of war," which, according to article 11 of the covenant. enables he ass vige a friendly right and give warn- ing to the disputants Equally there are no signs of the rrowth of a French party ashamed «f the clumsy militarlst policy, brutal arrests and saandalous expulsionsand ieady to protest against the abuse «f power which shames the victory «stensibly gained to produce “just :nd honorable relations between na- tions.” Paris Supports as an urgent neces- sity the Ruhr Invasion. 1L argued that the German government allowad some German mine owners to with- old payment of taxes. But at firs tne sum was placed at only 19,000, 100,000 paper marks. Then it was said to be thirty or more. Seventeen Billion Paid. The facts are that the first figures were right and 17,000,000,000 has al- ready been pald. The object was not \ keep trom paying reparations, but L aid In tiding over a crisis in the coal industry. 1¢ France could compel payment of sven 2.000,000,000 gold marks to ap- on reparations she would rob s coal mines of their working capi- tal. This would be no more advan- («gecus tc Germany's creditors than ould be the destruction of her mer- hant marine by taking the money . arigned to construct whips to take the nlace of those surrendered to the s boom on the German stock e es is no proof that German *than she says ehe is. The so- “<om 1s merely an effort to values in the face of iy falling mark. When the dol- equals 50,000 marks, a pound of ffoe costs 18,000, as compared with r quotation of, at the most, marks Therefore, a share which ominally has risen’ 50,000 per cent ut bourse prices really has not ad- anced to exceed ninety fold, and is xvallable to any one who possesses three twenty-mark gold coins. Seek Safety, Not Profit. ‘The hunt for stable securities is the result of fear by the man who % saved paper marke that he will aragged into ptey, and, with his family, will ve, owing to the unparalleied rise ric called MUSSOLINI SHAKES UP FOREIGN POSTS Diplomatic and Consular Services on Par, With Economy Watchword. the Assoct ROME, February {.—Premier Mus solini, in his capacity as foreign min- jeier. has decreed important changes in ihe diplomatic and consular serv- ices. abolishing distinction Dpetween the two services in so far as the rsonnel is concerned, and calling for economy in the conduct of the yarious embassles and legations. He further declared the day past +hen persons‘entering the diplomatie were required to have inde- This system he re- from the service service nende ected any « barring who by tri fiuded making way Sbyectionabie profiteers.” instead for Halians First on List. henceforth will be revresentatives of [taly whare no Itallan I8 diplomatic and con- be amalgamated. including those in Barlin _and_ Con- hrussels and Buenos No foreig appointed he tinople, measures of cconomy, all mem- diplomatic and consular id in dollars or pounds | suffer a 10 per cent re- lary, 2nd the others will ceordance with the ex- 2 of the Fren e r1l ambassadors and minist to reduce the expens ss by 20 per cent i be done. Signor Mussolini ithar by pockets, or Ly lowerin aries of th clerks, or by some. the sal- Ismissing The commissariat of emigration has ! been defin corporated into the forelgn ministry PREMIERSHIP OFFERED AUSTRALIAN TREASURER Bruce Considers Succeeding Hughes, Whose Resignation Was Announced Friday. Dy the Associated Press. MELBOURNE, February 3.—Official announcement of the resignation of ihe Rt. Hon. William Morris Hughes us premier of Australla was made sarly yesterday. Simultaneous with the announcement came the informa- ‘jon that Lord Forster, the governor seneral, had summoned Stanley M. Fruce, the commonwealth's treasurer, and inquired whether Mr. Bruce could form an administration which would be Jikely to prove stable. Mr. Bruce requested time to consider the pro- Josal before definitely answering and was given three daye in which to re- ly to the governor general. "t is thought possible that Lord Forster may dissolve parliament on the ground that legislative work un- der present conditions is impossible. Mr. Bruce {8 a nationalist. He was horn in Melbourne and graduated from Cambridge University, England. He fought in the world war and was 1wies wounded. He was awarded the military cross and the croix de Fuerre. " still rages, but the league of nations seems to see no reason to act to stop it under article 11. mely or the council to exer- | the | Germany’s bank- | on and birth are | franc. | ing it out of their ' Europe Back Declares Harden voice shame because of the “clumey res in a stable industry. meet defeat ement to the German monarchists jin prices. This fear causes people [to “exchange state securities and per money for sound shares and| as kuspicious ereditors belleve, to | |an insane desire to share in the fab- | | ulous profits of German industry Only one of the French arguments 1s valid. Franoe needs money to gild the pill of a 20 per cent increase in taxation for the korely tried peasant, | renter, “the middle classes und the like to prevent them being driven into the dangerous radcal political {camp at the next election. At the same time she needs coke to keep | the Lorraine blast furnaces going. France believes the only means to | tecure both {8 through the applicaiion { of force. The Rulr, so far as Belglum | is oconcerned wabsidiary matte and a means for diverting attention | {from the old language Struggle be- | tween the Flemish and Walloon | | schools which has blazed up afresh | over the University of Ghent. At the isame time it affords a means to give | K'rance definite proof on the part of | the Belglan government that they | have escaped from British tutelage and are determined to save what is possible from the promises made in {the treaty of Versailles. i Engendering Hatred. | | The French are forgetting their| raditional generomity wpich hitherto | |Lias been their pride. They zlso do | {not realtze how much hatred their| course is inspiring by the Imposing force of arms on a previously dis- {armed people, especially in a zone from which even German troops were excluded by article 43 of the treaty and by expelling families from their Lomes in a time of the most severe house shortage, because the head of the houte refises to obey an ob- viously (llegal military order. i The' result only can be fresh en- | couragement to the monarchist agi- | tation and drive the discouraged | rocialists into the arms of the Ger- | man facists. France controls th | Buar area, the greater part of Upper | Silesia, has the overhand in Poland and now prohibits the importation of coal or coke into Germany This will bring further unemploy- | ment to the utterly Impoverished masses. Does the conscience | France as a civilized nation tremble before this result? Paris government says it has been | compelled to adopt measures of ex- | treme harshness owing to the ob-| tinate resistance of the “Westphalia | iron heade." also is determined to at- tain its set goal at any price, even {if a march on Berlin lLas to be | orderea { Woe betlde him who was respon- { sible for unloosing this “coke war. It threatens Lo throw Europe back | {into that period of barbarism when the creditor belfeved himuself entitled | to en:alve his defaulting debtor and utilize his corpse as an asset (Coprright, 1623.) i [FRENCH PLAN TO HALT INCOME TAX EVASIONS | ‘Would Register Coupons of All Se- 1| curities in Effort to Bal- ance Budget. ot The | | By the Associated Press. 3—The commis- sion on finances of the chamber of deputies attempted agaln today to| balance the budget, which has a deflcit of 3.700,000,000 francs After : | hearing a report by Finance Minister | {de Lasteyre, the commission decided {to recommend a scheme for the re istration of the coupons of all securi- ! tles, whereby it expects to prevent jevasions of income tax payments {amounting to 1,200,000.000 francs. | .The commission is wiiling to ac- {cept a 10 per cent increase in the jexisting taxation, instead of 20 per! jcent. as proposed by M. de Lasteyre. It also proposes a reduction in the | {rate of interest on national defense {bonds, to trim another 230.000.000 | franes off the departmental appro- | i priations and. by e nating the | iprovision for a loan to balance the jDudget, another 250,000.000 francs inl annual interest would be saved The commission’s action followed ! jupon the decision of the senate| | finance commission yesterday not to! | consider the budget until the chamber substituted economles or higher tax- | iation for the loan project as a means | | of balancing the budgei. This would ‘have meant the necessity of the gov- jernment asking a further provisional | icredit for March, for April, | {but the chamber ssion now | j hopes to get the senate to discuss the | 24.000.000.000 bhudget of 1923 while !u[ ting the chamber's revised s GERMAN PLANE COMPANY | TO OPERATE IN RUSSIA Aerial Service From Sweden toi Persia Also Provided in Con- cession by Soviet. ted Press ! MOSCOW, February 2.-—An agree-| {ment miving the Junker Airplane| YCompany of Dess: ny, thel right By the Assoe to build and operate planes in Russia, and also to operate an aerial | service by way of Russia from Swe- | den to Persia. has been signed by the! jeouncil of commiesars. The month of January has witness- | ed concession after concession being ‘(rlnlefl by the council. i The economic cil has granted | a large concession of land in the Don Iriver district, near the recently{ awarded Krupp concession to an ltal ian co-operative farming society. A in the case of the Sinclair Oil conces sion, the British agreements with re- i gard to Georgia, which still remain to De signed. the terms of all the new concesslons are favorable to the Rus- sian government. i The soviet leaders here sav that these agreements show clearly that Russia. instead of preparing for mili- tary activity at a time when the Ruhr, Turkish and Belkan affairs threaten to raise a war cloud for the rest of | Burope, is turning all her efforts to | reconstruction. They add that thed trip to Tokio of M. Joffe, the soviet| commissioner, indicates an effort at | an agreement for economic co-opera- | tion between Russia and Japan in the east. BELGIAN TAX RAISE VOTED. | . BRUSSELS, February 3.—The cham- {ber of deputies has voted, 81 to 39, the series of bills presented by Premier Theunls, providing for increases in the income and other taxes. Decision has been reached by the minister of finance to raise the rate of interest on six-month trepsury notes from 4 to 415 per cent. | t | i tand !a debtor by beating him to death. fwith t jthe ione : Club.” PUBLIC DICTATED U.S. DEBT DECISION British Cabinet Forced to Ac- cept American Proposal, Says Editor. FRENCH ARE SUSPECTED Ruhr Invasion Causes Fear of Se- rious Disagreement Among Allies. BY A. G. GARDINER, Britain's Greatest Liberal Editor. By Cable to The Star. LONDON, February 3.—British pub- lic opinion compelled absolute ap- proval of the American debt funding plan. There was a great sigh of re- lief sverywhere when it was learned thet the cabinet had accepted It had been rumored that there was a strong division of the cabinet in opposition. This was sald to have included the premier. If s0. the 0ppo- «ition took fright very thoroughly be- fore the wave of public opinfon. Whatever may have been the popu- lar difference of opinion regarding the terms, there was only one bellef concerning the course of action With Europe going to pieces before their eyes, the sane Engllsh feeling was (hat nothing must be allowed to Interfere with Auglo-American rel tions. If kurope is ever to be patch- ed up again, America and England are tae only powers equal to the job. {The wood teeling between the two Is | the last asvet left in a mad world French Distrusted. How mad it is batlles description. 1 do not recall « more staggering blow than that delivered by the report that Poincare had been engaged in pri vite negotiations with the Turk be- hind the back of the Lausanne con- fere It was felt that, I true, the st rag of pretense of honor in public affairs was gone and relations with nce must end. The affair has been promptly ex- plained away, but & profound expres- sion of dizquietude prevails and pub- lication of all documsents will be nec- essary before confidence can be re- stored. Undoubtedly the obstinscy of the Turks at Luusanine was due to the conviction that the Franco-British breach over the Ruhr would be wid- ened, leaving France openly support- ing the Turks and the British in op- fon Chanak episode has not been forgotten and it is lmpossible to ex- clude the fear that a similar develop- entment may come from the Ruhr. It ix superficially inconceivable that France would wish to make the breach with England final and force the British government into a posi- tion of declared hostility. The Ruhr enterprise hourly grows more omin- ous. "It is rushing Germany toward unthinkable anarchy. but is_produc- ing no material results for France. The Lorraine iron foundries all are stopping through lack of Ruhr coke France is discovering that the bayonet cannot be substituted for the pick in coal mining. Meanwhile the collapse of the mark is followed by an ominous fall in the franc. It is notorious that the value of the franc been kept at an artificial level by possible device. The slump is beginning to alarm the nervous in- vestor and with every new evidence of the failure of the invasion the French government turns the screw afresh The immediate cause of the failure is the fact that France has not suc- ceeded in capturing the Ruhr worker. It was calculated his hostility toward the Ruhr coal owners and their profiteering tactics would make him accept French masters. This conclu- sion has been entirely baseless. Loy- alty to Germany was more powerful than hatred ot employers, even among the Ruhr socialists. But the lesson cmerging is the im- possibility of extracting money out of ou want & bankrupt to pay you, you ust let him live. Poincare has not vet learned this elementary lesson. ‘an’t pay, can't he? Then break every bone in his body. That'll teach him to pay.” League Is Hel B long Franca will be deluded s policy of mingled frenzy and folly. who can say? But the signs are not wanting that illusionment has begun. A significant movement is that French financiers are converting their wealth Poincare is engaged in a race. He either must produce results or Day penalty terly disappointed public. When France has sufficiently scorch- ed herself in her own flame perhaps something will be done. Meanwhile all lookers-on are helpless at the con- fagration. The league of nations 1§ helpless. England is helpless. Lau- sanne and the Turk tie our hands. It we do anything about the Ruhr we <hall hear from Angora. So we con- tinue benevolently neutral. which means we sit placidly watching the preatest public_crime perpetrated in the history of Europe—a crime which £ not stopped, will soak Europe in blood for generations. This Infamous paralysis of the moral sense of the worid must stop. gland and America must act to ve something of European civiliza- . if only for our own selfish in- teres 1s history to say the nations of Gladstone and Lincoln sat like dumb dogs forever while Europe Was converted into a howling wilderness” (Copyright, 1923.) THIN WOMEN IN CLUB. Paris “Broomsticks” Claim Height and Slimness Are Advantages. the Associnted Press. PARIS, February women’s clubs existing in Paris is hat calls itself the “Broomstick The qualification for a wom- France to rank as a “broom- is that she must be at least ve feet five Inches in helght an not weigh more than 130 pounds. There are thirty-six members of this club, and only a few of them are married. All the members declare them- elves keen feminists and maintain at tallness and thinness is not the vlightest drawback to a happy life How By an in stick™ if only for the reason that the mo- | distes prefer dressing them to their shorter and fatter sisters. Old Versailles Palace Rescued ‘ From Decay By the Associated Press, PARIS, February 3.—The palace of Versailles, which has fallen into an alarming condition of dilapidation, is o be saved. The chamber of depu- ties has voted an appropriation of 1.350,000 francs yearly for five years for urgent repairs to the palace and grounds and to the Great and Little The work Is to be started once, and in a short time Le Notre's splendid gardens will resume spects they bore in the palmy days of Louts XIV. Contrary to ‘some reports. the plans to revive the pristine glories of the city of Versailles have not been abandoned, and a ‘Versailles season” e planned for the coming spring with_sumptuous fetes in the gardens. The opera house, closed since 1355, may be reopened in an effort to supply France with a com- petitor with Beyrouth. [ LS into other currencles. { to an enraged and bn-| 3-—Among the | 'Holds Pan-American League Not In Conflict With World Body Bythe Associated Press. PARIS, February 3—At the closing session of the league of nations council today Dr. Juan Carlos Blanco, Uruguayan minis- ter to France and member of the council, read a declaration intend- ed to correct any possible misap- prehensions as to the proposed pan-American league of nations. He gald there would be no con- flict with the world league by such an organization, as has been talk- ed of by American states, but, on the contrary. co-ordinated efforts along the same lines. “Several questions of a financial and political nature of interest to American countries,” he said, ‘are on the program of the pan- ALL RUHR TRAFFIC HALTED BY CORDON German Mine Managers Re- pairing Property Dur- ing Blockade. ITALY FEELS INVASION Supply of Coal Cut Down From | | 300,000 to 100,000 Tons i Monthly. | i BY A. R. DECKER. Wireless to The Star and C News. Copyright, 1023 ESSEN, February 3.—The French coal and coke blockade seems to be working out well. The customs cor- don around the Ruhr area has been able to control the traffic so effectively that the German producers have ceased refusing to furnish trains ex- cept within the Ruhr industrial area. On the first day of the blockade all trains were stopped. but now the French are permitting trains to Hol- land and Italy to pass. The ltalians arranged with French to permit Italian coal t the Ruhr, but Italy is receiving only ! 100,000 tons a month, ns compared | with 300,000 formerly. The shipment | of coal to Italy by way of Rotterdam { has not been resumed The German mine managers in the Ruhr district have their own plan for | neeting the French coal blockade | against unoceupled Germany { Extending Galleries. | Instead of loading trains to bLe scized or halted at the frontiers they will utilize their labor forces in ex- tending the gallerics where mining is dificult. making repairs to the timber shoring_ and cleaning up generally As the French have not vet attempted to control the internal railroad traf- fic and are not expected to be able to find enough railroad men to regulate internal shipments. the coal and coke will be used ax much as possible in making iron and stecl plates, castings and coal tar by-products monia, sulpate, color bases and ben- zol. As the blockade By cago Daily the o leave | is not against these products they will be exported to be finished in unoccupied Ger- many. The Germans are preparing sidings for food trai and if the congestion is acute lorries will be| used. " Determined to Enforce Blockade. | ‘The French seem absolutely deter- mined to enforce « trafic blockade in ithe .Ruhr. While trying to run through the blockade one train was halted by the firing of rifie shots across the pilot of the locomotive. The French have established a military ecourt in Weitmar near Bochum, where a few minor cases are tried. Dr. Grimm, who defended the {German industrialists in Mayence, is defending the Germans in Weitmar One case was that of a merchant | {named Wehmann, who refused to sell | f{food to French soldiers. The French prosecutor asked for a fine of 200,000 {marks, which the court reduced to| 150,000 marks, or about $4. One of the' witnesses for the French soldiers was an Alsatian who could not talk ]rrencn and had to have an inter-| preter. H Another case was that of a_woman who objected to the French signs painted on her premises. Another woman was in court for refusing '°l sell coffee. Both the women twere | released. {CHINESE CUSTOMS NOT 1 | ENOUGH TO PAY DEBTS | I @ Deficit of $4.250,000 on conson-ll dated Loan Reported, With Noth- | : ing to Pay on Others. i ! | { i By the Amociated Press PEKING, February toms revenues for 1922 are not suf- ficlent to cover the loan obligations to which they were to have heen ap- plied, according to a2 memorandum is- sued by\Customs Commissioner A. M. | Len, and received here in Reuter d patches from Shanghai. i The commissioner forecasts the fail- ure of the loan service and estimates that the deficit for the current vear on the account of the consolidated loan will be $4.250.000, while nothing will be left to apply on the $36.000,000 loan. & H Len cited the failure of the salt and railway revenues to materizlize the agreed annual $20.000,000 to cover the consolidated loan. He concludes that {if the government places additional charges on the customs he will be un- able to continue. SPRING STYLES SIMPLE, BUT PRICES ARE HIGHER Green and Brown Will Be Most, Popular Colors, Experts ; Decree. PARIS, February 4.—Simplicity and “slightly higher prices” are features of the spring and summer offerings by the leading Paris dressmakers. Who are now showing the world of ’women what they must wear. There i ] { i i 1 H will be a wider variety in the styles for the duties on exactly what ought to be worn are growing more elastic. Green and brown arc announced as | the most popular colors. The sklru[ will remain a reasonable distance from the ground, except for evening gowns, which are ‘extremely long. These latter wiil be cut almost to the walst in the back. Hats of small size will be worn as the season opens, with the mode call- | ing for larger ones. as the spring advances. Stockings will be generally lght colored, preferably flesh tints. Kid ghoes in all pastel shades are crowding out the conventional satin | evening footwear. The gloves will be | i of the most fantastic description the glove makers can imagine, and last year's craze for a fancy handkerchief, attached to the wrist or neck. I8 being adopted for evening wear this season. Some of the kerchiefs will bear small portrait, sketched and signe by the artist, often a painter of| prominence. | sequently some of the Americans are American conference which is to meet at Santiago, Chile, March 25. There are also questions of uni- versal interest, among them the project of President Brum of ruguay looking toward a re- glonal ‘understanding among the American countri “This project has been in some cases erroneously Interpreted. I want to declare here that it is favorable to the league of nations. It is destined to collaborate with the league and facilitate efforts to_maintain peace. “This session of the pan-Amer- ican congress will probably have {mportant consequences for Amer- ica. It will be a mutual exchange of ideas for the unification of projects, but it will pursue the same objects as those we are working for here.” SUPPLY OF MARKS SHORT IN BERLIN| Tourists Unable to Get Change for American Money to Leave Country. PRESSES ARE SWAMPED Increase Denomination of Notes to Keep Pace With Falling Value Quotations. By the Amociated Press. BERLIN, February 3.—Americans in Berlin, particularly tourists, are experiencing much difficulty in ob- taining ready cash, due to what Is termed in financial circles a tempo- rary shortage In government bank- notes, owing to the rapid depreciation of the mark. The bankers complain they are subjected to many bardships and inconvenlences in getting hold of money, despite the fact that this week the government turned out 217,000,- 000,000 marks, a record output. The bankers say the answer to the money shortage is simply that the printing presses cannot keep up with the demands for cash brought about by the tumbling of the mark. The bankers are not the only ones with long faces, a# the shortage in the banks affects thousands of individu- als, particularly large employers, who ure at their wits' end in endeavoring to meet their weekly pay rolls Have Money, But Are ‘Broke.” The largest American tourist agency in Berlin recently has been able to obtain only from 200,000,000 to 300,- | 800,00 marks dailv from the Reichs- bank. This mum does not by any means met the requirements of th thousands of Americans here who de pend entirely upon travelers’ checks, and the tourist agency managers as- sert that paying them in dollars is altogether out of the question. Con- delayed " in departing for London. Paris or other points because they are unable to obtain cash with which to pay their hotel bills One of the measures to be taken by the government to meet the emer- gency I the issuance of notes of the denomination of 50.000 marks. The new notes will be ready within a few weeks. The largest denomination now in circulation is 10,000 marks - The sequoia. or big tres of Cali-| fornia, now confined 10 a few patches the Pacific coast of the United States. ranged throughout Europe and Asla, as well as across North| America,” durlng earlier geological | times armr JORDAN PIAND IS GRANTED BURIAL AMONG ANCESTORS Ex-King of Saxony Given Concession Which Death Alone Renders Operative. ALSO TO OCCUPY CASTLE Diet Decrees Privileges, Funds and Valuable Relics to Former Sovereign and Family. BERLIN, February 3.—Former King Frederick August JII of Saxony has been accorded the privileke of being buried in the courtyard of the Dres- den church, where Augustus the cestors lle. Thus, in death he may be recognized king, but he must first die to win the position of which he was depirved when the German republic came into existence. In addition to granting the ex- monarch space in the imperial bury- ing ground, the Saxon diet has also decreed that he and his family shall have the imperial castle of Moritz- burg, 150 pleces of imperial jewelry, including the Polish crown jewels, aoquired when Saxony’s king was also the ruler of Poland; many valuable historical relics from the Dresden museums and 14,000,000 marks, or about $350 at the change. Heirlooms Conmceded. Among the rare heirlooms given to the ex-king !s the golden egg which belonged to Augustus the Strong. The top of this egg unscrews; inside is a golden hen, which in turn contains a small gold crown containing a dia- mon Ex-King Frederick August has had & romantic but unhappy life. In 1891 he eloped with Princess Louise An- toinetts Marie, Archduchess of Aus- tria, whom he married in Vienna. To them five children were born. In 1903 she left Dresden with the German tutor of her sons and went to Lindau, Bavaria, where her sixth child, Prin- <cess Anna Monica, was born within a few months. Frederick August ob- tained a divorce and his former queen | married the tutor, but deserted him shortly and went to Italy, where she married a musician. Frederick August, say those near him, never took his high office very seriously. When the revolutionary committee visited him at the time of the overthrow of the monarchy and suggested his peaccful abdication he calmly answered: “Come on, if you think you can do a better job."” He was not disturbed after his abdication and has since lived quietly in Saxony with his children. He was not permitted to take any prominent part in the world war; consequently there is no such enmity against him as that entertained by many Prus- slans toward the former kaiser. The ex-king is now fifty-seven vears old and ex-Crown Prince George { Strong and his other celebrated an- rent rate of ex- thirty. ! HEEDS LEWIS’ DEMANDS. | Miners' Body Not Now to Seek Af- filiation With Reds. N. §. February 2—The! 4 of district No, Workers of America, last night voted onditionally to accede Lo] the demands of Pre: ent John L. Jewis, and withdraw its application to Moscow for afliliation with the red internationale. The condition was that the district be permitted to appeal from Lewis’ ruling at the 1924 convention of the mine workers' union. ~District Sec- retary McLachlan telegraphed the( board's ~decision from Glace Bay.| where It held session. to Mr. Lewis at Tndianapolis. United Min Coma | Fits neatly into a corner of Instantly Popular! Our Special Apartment Size Baby Grand Piano S Because it fits into the scheme of mod- ern furnishings and supplies the charm of fine music—this little apartment grand has in a few days gained great popularity. We have a new.lot of these baby grands ready for your selection— and suggest that you place your order early this week. JORDAN'S—G St. at 13th Home of CHICKERING Pianos Confusion in Europe Declared Due to French Leniency in Ruhr 4 re Tardieu Says Coal for Unoccu- pied Germany Should Have Béen Cut Off Long Ago to Get Results. ‘Tardieu Hopes . for Best Europe is groping in darkness with confusion, both in the acts and the minds of those directing the nations. Barring of Ruhr coal from all unoccupied Germany should have been tried at the outset of the octupation. Germany can pay for coal purchased in England, but te do so she will disrupt her foreign credits. Switzerland heas Cuno cabinet either wi soon fall or will attempt direct négotiations with France and Belgium. All ‘Europe is a tinderbox, and anywhere. it is dangerous to strike a match Should France stabilize her finances l-‘nd stabilize the W now all will be well. BY ANDRE TARDIEU, Former French High Commissioner to the United States. By Cable Dispatch to The Star. PARIS, February 3.—Europe still is groping In darkness. Great con- fusion reigns, uot alone in the acts, but also in the minds. In the Ruhr, as a result of the German government's mad resistance, the Franco-Belglan governments have, after three weeks of: groping, allowed their plans to become known. They have ordered all coal trains from the Ruhr barred from unoo- cupied Germany. I have insisted from the beginning this was necessary. What we are after is to oolleot from Germany, and to do 0 we must put pressure on her. Poincare sald January 11 we were to take 18 per cent from Germany. This did not succeed, for since Janu- ary 10 we have reoeived neither coal nor coke. The declsion of January 31 meant a change in methods. It now is be- ing sought to compel Germany to Jield by separating “her from the uhr basin and thus disrupting her | economia life. Whatever may be the result of this new plan it seems more logical than the other. If it had been applied in the beginning It probably would have been effective Orders British Co: Germany, which foresaw this blow, | has tried to counter it by ordering | ten million tons of coal from Eng- | land. She is trying to get more, and a8 her credit abroad totals ten bil- lion gold marks, she can pay. | But if this game is prolonged it will prove dangerous to her, econom- ically dangerous, because it would | place German trade on an artificial | basis, and financially dangerous, as| it speedily would exhaust her credit | 80 jealously placed out of reach of | the reparations commission. It also | would mean that her heart—the Ruhr | —would be placed beyond her control | for an {ndeterminable time. For all these reasons it is believed, notably in Switzerland, that the Cuno | administration will soon fall, or if it does not fall it will enter into pourparlers with France and Bel- gium. Let me add, and I have no| means of confirming this prediction and only set it down for what it is worth, that such action seems certain to come. No Split Apparent. The Ruhr events thus far have not further compilcated Franco-Britich | relations. This is due largely to the excellent discipline of the Franco- | Belgian troops. but alss in part to| 26, Bonar Law's sang-froid in resisting | Door certain pressure, of which the British ress has been full. It is lamentable, on the other hat the Lausanne caused at least P hand, conference has | apparent misunder- | standing between London and Paris. It i» said, however, this ls due en- tirely to false reports. Still, what ever the final decision of the Turks, it was essential that they should have been confronted by a united Europe. All Eyrope {s a tinder box and it 18 dangerous to strike & _match anywhere. The speech of Senator Reed of Pennsylvania pleased mran Frenchmen, first, becauss of the kin things he said about France, secondly, because it gave to Amerd policy of non-participation an ihter- pretation which, in view of existing circumstanoes, seemed very sane. Canuot Help Now. I already have explained why re ports that America would try to in tervene on behalf of Germany caused alarm. America’s help cannot be useful until Europe herself puts he: house in some sort of order. Reed sald the same thing in another we: What will tomorrow produce in many uneasy flelds? Nobody can say The French await the future calmly Political parties, excepting the com munists, of course, have adopted quiet and proper attitud Everybody must admit we &me no. acting like milltarists or tmperia! ists. We desire to stabilize the peace and re-establish our financer. If this double result can be achieved Franoce will at last have moral repose. which she has been seeking for three years. 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