Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1923, Page 4

i U.S.STILL SLENT ON CERMAN OFFER No Comment Required, View Here—Hughes’ Proposal Held Solution. D. C., MONDAY, By KESSLER. MAY IEXPECT BIG BOOST | | OF GERMAN OFFER Reparations * Tender Likely| to Reach 80,000,000,000 Marks, Diplomats Think. Indians’ Representative Who Died Here Saturday French Aviator Crosses Channel In Flivver Plane By the Associated Pres SAINT INGLEVERT, France, May 7.—Georges Barbot, French aviator yesterday crossed the Eng- lish channel to Lympne, and re- turned, winning the Matin's 25,000 franc prize for the first airplane with a maximum cylindric capa- clty of 11 liters to make the raund trip. The conditions called for a Fsinch airplane with a motor of less than fifteen horsepower, for which a little more than half a gallon of petrol was thus provided Earbot crossed to England in one hour and one minute and re- turned In forty-three minutes using only ahkout three-quartsrs ©f the power of his thirteen horse- powgr motor. The distance in all is sWmething over fifty miles. BRITAIN SUGGESTS NEW GERMAN OFFER WITH BETTER TERMS (Continued from First BATISH MAJESTIES ELCOMED N RONE B the Associated Press ROME, M, Queen Mary HAMITES AND PARTLY SEMITES IN MANY WAYS THEY DIFFERED FRom THE ASSYRIANS . THEY VERE CAREFUL OBSERVER® OF ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA - CHRONOLOGICALLY SPEAKING THE CHALDAEAN SOBJECTION AND ASOVRIAN INDEPENDENGE WAS ABODT 1250 BC. ¥y 7—Kinz George and of England arrived in o'clock this afternoon o z-planned visit to Italy Victor 1 Crown Prince tome at i I 4 their lor T King Anu Quen 5 Humbert 1 | Also) He the other royal prinee greeted them at the station cluded in welcoming 1 Mussolini: Gen Revel a navy; the ena, ne Y DAVID LAWRENCE. Characteristic silence is maintained by officials of the United States gov- srnment s notes are exchanged be- tween Germany and France with re- | spect to the reparations dispute. | As a matter of courtesy, the French | gave the American ambassador in Par copy of what they said to the Germans, but since no communi- i cation was addressed directly to the | United States, the Department of | State takes the position that comment | is not uired. About the only thing said offici however, which carries with it some ficance is that no change of olicy the part of the United States contemplated BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Diplomatic observers in Washing- ton, American: as well as forcign, are confident that Germany's repara- tion offer of 30,000,000,000 gold marks will speedily be followed by an offer of 50,000,000,000. Eventually they expect the Germans to raise their bid to 80,000,000.000 marks. Insiders know that the shoe is pinching G. many beyond much further ance. The great industr pull the strings at Berlin &piring Chancellor Cuno's maneuvers. As their plight be more unbearablo Cuno will receive offers up- Events once again are at a point where decisive developments are momentarily expected i i Purpose in View by France. France is belicved to be holding out for approximately the 132.000.- 000,000 gold marks fixed by th all s fixed by the allies in .‘\1nj',‘1921 She is thought to be epared to compromise on the bas 80,000.000.000 in immedinte of somi-immediate cash and the balan on time. Meantime the Ruhr, with its vast wealth of mines and fac- !n‘l’h‘fl. will be held as collateral and evacuated plecemeal on the scale of #0-and-20 many millions of marks per sBquare mile, with Bism '3 ex- ample in France as a model 3 Thoughts of permanent o rupation of the Ruhr, despite a growing an- nexationist school in Paris, are firm- Iy disavowed by the Poiicare goyv- ernment, as they have been from the the par cabinet, head Di representing the meml by Admiral ar Wy 4 residents of ti of the their The rated w 1d the membe Pritish embassy staff, w station was profusely de. endur- ists are h flowers and plants and 1h who Ital in- of England carpet had the train t Member militia lined niry compa dered King G uniform mend = on 1l nationa n, and an it its band, ren ally, i i the with honors appeared in full dre ed with t T and was on is - Britain to mediate between Rel- &lum on the one hand and Germany on the other. To this, after their experience of the last three years, France and Belglum will not willing- i1y consent. They believe that they {now at last. owing to the Ruhr occu- ipation, hold the whip hand in the ireparations controversy and that they {intend to act independently. H remier Mussolini, in diplomatic dispatches has described the German offer as “dangerous and diabolical.” REPORT CUNO TO RESIGN. Many Views Here. Oficially, of course, there are many views on the wisdom of the French attitude towsrd the latest German proposals. The argument contained in the French note on the one hand the Ger n offer on the other 1ers down to @ question of guar- and good faith. Even if the rmans had expressed a readiness the full sum demanded by the the French would have asked guirantess and since none would wvailable more satisfactory than tention of the Ruhr, this would pro- a stumbling block to an agree- { indirectl | sands of G demoer Journal teen ce Stinnes ne supplie and directly to thou- includin; socialist Cabout ws bu lin pa applaudi and the buildings along the » dec a with f) ple route wo fif- | g u 060 marks nistor] telegraphic and welcomed them U the unadulterated | capital. The royal cortege, preceded an well disy followed I rassiers in_ the man: e distorti ng breasty and helmets | manufact his news bureau at a brilliant and impressive | Bielefe ad, to ind cle, ! th . 'h ing the ' ] t an i oF | several ! new; repor ith t no paper this ted = royal palac. Berlin Paper Says He Will Quit After Reparation Failure. with £ ounced {in big type that the French were about 1o “massacre two or three hundred { thousand residents of the Ruhr | ipanied The Nerele would written only other possible guarantee be the flotation of a loan under- by the -DAVID LLOYD GEORGE AT THE AGE Of FIVE USED By Wireless to The Star and Chicago Dally Copyright, 1023, (Copyright 1623.) ling with eredits now United States in the last analysis, E loan would have to de- nd on © numbers of in- in All hints about \ gencral readjustment of interallied war debts e passed by here as hard- orthy of comment If the Eu- N governmen by this time not le t both the re- publican and ¢ tic administra- ons have (ted themselves szalnst such a policy and that if the: hadn't it would furnish a dangerou ipaign issu for the opposition varty her have missed the eanins of developments on this side : antic in the last five years. S. Favors Commission. one bit of help to of- ready today, as it did A0, ssist in the stion, namely, \ international co anciers and _busine would cxamine the whole commend to thelr re- ments what they think ought to pay. Secrctary Hughes has been the father of that idea and he is still of the belief that only by some such plan can the world et a tion of what Germany's capa ¥ really is or will be ‘s word will not be taken by atter is too much tilled with azonisms of the our to look upon reparations from a business ndpoint rather than sentimental one Me hile _the world doesa’t W the ct: Until they brought forth, diplomatic correspondence will get nowhere and the condition of Germany will tend 10 grow worse instead of better with a corresponding ill effe on the eco- nomic position of the French—this is the viewpoint here. And it is one with which the B h are ympa- thetic, though they have not yet pub- licly expressed their approval of the Hughes pl Germany Willing. The Germans have officially stated their willingness to abide by the de- clsion of a commission such as Mr. Hughes proposed. The question now is how long the French will continue to believe direct negotiations with Jermany will yvield a better result with a more sitisfactory guarantee than some co-operative settlement in which all the allies participate. Only the French can answer that. and so the American government believes in watchful waiting while events and facts have their effect on French polic and st ral 1 ccution ths (Copy Changes in Stations of Army and Navy Officers Of Interest to Capital Army. Maj. Albert C. Arnold, judge advo- te at Baltimore, Md., has been as- ned to duty in the office of ‘the judge advocate general, War Depart- ment. Maj. John N. Hodges, Corps of En- cinecrs, has been transferred from Memphis, Tenn., to Fort Sam Houston, Tex. Maj, Defandorf, judge ad- vocate, of the office of judge advocate seneral, War Department, has been Urdered to Baltimore, Md., for duty. Second Lieut. Thomas E. Kokjer, air service, under treatment at Wal. fer Reed General Hospltal, this city, nas been honorably discharged from the service of the United States. The resiznation of Second Lieut. Alexander G. Kirby, tield artillery, has been accepted by the President. Maj. Donuld M. Beere, field artil- Jory. and Ca Paul J. Mueller, in- fantry, at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., have been ordered to this city for duty with the historical section of the Army War College, Washington Bar- Tack! Warrant Officef Clarence W. Brindle Chilkoot Barracks, Alaska, has ordered to Fort Hayes, Ohio, for Jason bee: duty. Officers detailed as military instrue- tors at_educational institutions are: Lieut. Col. William G. Doane, 22d In- tantry, the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, N. lloyd R. Besse, 25th Infantry, at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, College Station, Tex.; Capt. Sentus J. Raymond, infantry, at Cor- nell University, Ithaca, N. and capt. Thomas W. Jones, field artil- lery, at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Lieut. Col. George L. McKeeby, judge advocate, has been relieved from duty in the office of the judge advocate general, War Department, and ordered to Fort Sam Houston, Tex., for duty. Navy. Commander Harry A. Baldridge, at the Naval War College, Newport, R. 1. has been assigned to the battle- ship Tennessee. Lieut. Commander Charles T. Black- burn has been assigned to the battle- ship Wyoming. Lieut. Commander Samuel A. Clem- ent of the scouting fleet has been or- dered to the Washington navy yard for duty. Commander Herbert M. Tolfree, Medical Corps, at the Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, N. H., has been assigned to the fifteenth naval district. Lieut. Earl E. Dockery, Medical Corps. has been transferred from Mineola, N. Y., to Key West, Fla. §;1Ilmmnmuuuumuwmuinlmnmummmu 5 = = 1119 17th St. M. 1790 Apartment House 'lfllmll!flflllifl[flfllfll!flmmmflmlmmfllm H A dandy apartment-house proposition in 1700 block M street. _ First _commercial zone, Yearly rental, $6.180. Ideal for turning first floor into offices, Price, $60,000, and $10,000 will swing it. W. C. & A. N. MILLER AR D.; Capt.| | i tions note jannounces {and Belgium violated the treaty 7.—Chancellor Cuno's to Tremier Poincare's repara- will be his resignation, according to the Berlin Welt an Mon- tag. _Gustav Stresseman Cuno's successor., FULL DEBT DEMANDED. reply is mentioned as France and Belgium Criticize Vague Offer of Germany. By the Assoctated Pres: PARIS, May 7.—France and Belgium have categorically refused to con- sider Germany's recent offer of thirty billion marks as reparations. The refusal is contained in a joint note sent the allies and delivered to the German embassies in Paris and Brussels last evening. note criticizes point by point German offer, and in doing 50 the 'determination of France and Belgium to be paid in full nd not to consider any proposal until German resistance in the Ruhr ceases. Surprise is expressed at the Ger- man pretensions, which, the note say would mean tearing up the Versailie freaty. In the final paragraph it re marks: “The German government, if it will only look into its own heart, will not be “astonished that such a bargain should be refused.” After mentioning a number of ob- jections to the German proposals, the note continues: Not Fourth of Debt. “The French and Belgian ments should add that the present proposition of Germany is altogether acceptable from several points of view. Germany's offer does not repre- sent even one-fourth of the eum fixed by the reparation commission and recognized by Germany as the amount of her debt fo the allles. France and Belgium have declared on seve occasfons, and they are led to repeat now. that they cannot accept a re- duction of their own shares and. although they are ready to offset them with interallied debts, they are obliged to collect the remainder to repair the terrible disaster the (er- man invasion inflicted upon the two countries.” The note lays strong emphasis not only on the inadequacy of the money offer, but condemns the vague terms and rejects the idea of an interna- tional commission replacing the repa- ration commission and the allles as final tribunal. It also emphasizes German failure to offer security that her obligations, as enunciated in the new note, would be met, remarking that under the German plan, with all its shortcomings, it would “once agaln only to some words on paper.” ~The note denies the truth of the German assertion that France ¥ entering the Ruhr, but, on the con- trary, asserts that the Germa.. offer in several essentials is imcompatible with the treaty. The document sets forth how the treaty procedure was followed In a legal way by fixing reparations, which Germany formally accepted, and ada: Obligations Unmet. “Since then she has not kept the en- gagements she made; a partial mora- torium was granted her, but she has not even fulfilled her reduced obliga- tions. France and Belgium, it is pointed out, hoped for pacific co-operation in the Ruhr by the industrialists, but Berlin prevented this, for “it was not the population but the German gov- ernment that willed and organized resistance.” The note further says: “The treaty obligates Germany not to consider as an act of hostility any penalty im- posed after the reparation commission has declared her in default”” It re- cites phases of German resistance and then repeats the declaration: “The Belgian and French governments can- not take into consideration any Ger- man proposal 80 long as this resist- ance lasts."” 1t is set forth that France has ad- vanced one hundred biilion paper francs, chargeable to Germany, while Belgium has advanced fifteen billion and “there remains for each of them, besides their pensions, more than half of their damages to repair. Justice Demanded. “The economic interest of France and Belgium, the economic interest of the whole world and justice itself.” continues the note, “require that the avaged countries shall not be con- demned to ruin themselves longer t promote enrichment of their debtors. The note refers to German building in the Ruhr and elsewhere, while the devastated reglons suffer, and declares: “Belgium and France are resolved not to_suffer this iniquity. Tt analyzes the thirty-billions-mark offer, quoting the German note's phrase that part of the sum is “clas- tic.” and remarks: “The figure you in- dicate would, according to the Ger- man government, be the maximum, and it would be easy for Germany again to put it into controversy be- fore it became a reality.” Recall German Protest. The note re¢alls the German pro: tests against the uncertainty of rep: rations as damaging to her credit, asserting: “Germany sald and re- peated that what precented her from keeping her engagements was that she did not know the final figure. Now she reduces the fixed part of her debt more than three-fifths, reduces the indetorminate part more than soven-eighths, but retains the inde- terminate featurs It asks if the allles have not some reason for believing that Germany may again revert to her original con- tention and declare that only the fixed part of her debt can be had, under the pretext that she does not know her total obligation. It is pointed out that twenty billion gold govern- marks payable in 1927 means a four- year moratorium, and that that sum, discounted at 6 per cent, would be worth only 15,820,000,000. ““These _uncertain _propositions,” adds the note, “are accompanied by reservations that will enable them to be put in question in a few months, particularly as even this payment is amount | TO LOVE TO ARGUE WITH HUGH <JONES' THE VILLAGE DLACKSMITH AT LLAMYSTUMDWY, WALES» the balance interest at not guaranteed in full, unpaid being subject to 5 per cent.” The German terms respecting se- curity for payments are described as “most vague and obscure. Guarnntees Vague. “Quiet as vague and quiet as visionary are the indications given by the German government regard- ing the guarantecs of security she is ready to offer France,” the document continues. “She doe& not speak of Belgium. and that oversight seems to all at least strange, when it is recalled how Germany acted toward the country whose independence she promised to protect.” The German note, it is declared, “from beginning to end is a badly veiled systematic revolt againts the treaty of Versailles; if it could be considered, it woutd in the total and final destruction of the treaty in the necessity of nego- tiating another and in the moral economic. political and military venge of Germany." The joint note sums up all of the German expressed and implied condi- tions with their unfavorable effects on France and Belgium, and say: “In return for all these sacrifice France and Belgium would receiv once again some wonls on paper.” In commenting on the German sug- gestions for international procedure looking to peace. the note declares: { “France and Belgium cannot content themselves with the new German declarations, they must have certain- ties. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va, May 7.—The tenth annual meeting of the Woman's Missfonary Society of the Baltimore conference of the Methodist Episco- pal Church South will convene in the M. E. Church South, here tomor- row and end Friday afternoon. More than 200 delegates from Virginia, Maryland and the District of Colum- |the rough country as the bandits fled bia will attend. The meeting will be opened at 2 o'clock tomorrow after- noon, when the executive committee conv, served. At 8 o'clock In the evening the openihg services will be led by |the Tuchuns (military governors) of presiding elder Rev. T. J. Lambert, of the Alexandria district of the M. 1., Church, South. A message from China will be given by Miss Sallie Lou McKinnon, Huchow, China, and following the musical there will be an address by Mrs. C. C. Bush, Belge, Africa, The opening ression Wednesday will be led by Mrs. T. J. Copeland. Baltimore, state president.. The day's program Includes presidant's mes- sage, Mrs. Copeland; review of year's work, Miss E. V. Peppler, and “Our Finances,” Miss C. M. Board. When the office of City Treasurer | gy the Associated Press, Thomas W. Robinson closed Saturday afternoon exactly 4,315 persons had paid thajr capitation taxes. This is 313 less than the number who qual- ifled last year. Less women qualified than last vear. Those who failed to pay the required tax will be unable to take mart in the primary August 7, when & state senator and a dele- Rate in the house of representatives to represent this city will be nom- inated. ? About fifty membres of Takoma Park, Md.. Post, No. 850, Veterans of Foreign Wars, ' yesterday afternoon enjoyed a shad bake at Occoguan Falls. The affair was staged in front of the old mill and a number of Alex- andrians who motored to that place enjoyed the hospitality of the vet- erans. The affair was presided over by John E. Donker, commander of the ~post, and Robert Burdette, & member of the post, was chairman of the shad bake committee. A coroner's jury, summoned by Dr. T. M. Jones, will meet at 8 o'clock tonight at Wheatley's -mortuary chapel for hearing testimony in the case of Wallace Hospkins, who was fatally injured Thursday afternoon near Franconia by & northbound pas- senger train. Thousands of herring were caught in Occoquan Falls yesterday after- noon by amateur fishermen from Washington and the surrounding country and the flsh were placed in gunney sacks and carried away in automobiles. It was the largost catch made at this place this spring. Fire about 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon completely destroved the residence of E. E. Davison, Franconia, Fairfax county. A part of the con- tents was also lost in the blaze. Ald was asked of this clty and En- gine Company No. 5 responded and succeeded in saving some of the out- bulldings surrounding the house by the use of chemicals. A defective flue is thought to have caused the Llaze. A bed on fire in a house on Payne street, directly north of King street, caused an alarm at 8:10 o'clock last night. The blaze was extingulshed betore any ‘material damage was one. The circuit court, Judge Samuel G. Brent, presiding, convened this morn- ing. The docket was called and cases set. The subpolice station, recently es- tablished at Rosemont, is now operat- ing with a twenty-four-hour service. Three policemen ‘are doing duty at this station every eight hours and at night two policemen patrol that sec- tion. The last meeting of the retail mer- chants’ bureau of the chamber of commerce before the annual meeting of the State Assoclation of Retail Merchants is scheduled to be held Wednesday night in the rooms of the chamber of commerce. —— In the days of Queen Elizabeth fashionable women in England wore wonderful thimbles for ornament. They covered the whole finger and were frequently made in preclous metals and set with jewels or em- graved with the family u-eur result_certainly | nes, and at 5:30 supper will be {10 keep up with the fast pace set by U. S. SPEEDS ACTION TO SAVE AMERICANS SEIZED AS CHINESE | BANDITS KIDNAP 150‘ (Continued from First Page.) a graphic tale of their experiences. The bandits, they said. started firing upon the train before it was derailed and swarmed about it, smashing the windows with their hatchets when it was brought to a standstiil. They then entered the cars and robbed the passengers. of valuables, visiting some of the coaches three times to be sure of missing nothing. One forelgner was killed, but his identity was not known to the party arriving here. Six Women Captives. It was nearly two hours after the train had been stopped that a warn- ing whistle was blown and the ban- dits decamped with their captives. A few of the foreigners escaped by hiding in the long grass. Six women were among the captives. Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Pinger were left behind when it was found they were unable the bandits. Maj. Pinger and his wife kept in touch for a time by shouting to each other, but the voice of the major, who was ahead, grew fainter and finally ceased, and his wife returned to the train with her younger son About 115 Kidnaped. It is estimated that about 115 pas- sengers were kidnaped. most of them in their night attire and without their baggage. They were forced to walk barefoot over the broken glass in the vicinity of the train and were hustled by their brutal guards over in fear of pursuit Soldiers arrived at the scene soon after the departure of the raiding party and the government ordered the necighboring provinces immedi- ately to take up the pursuit. . Acomplete list of the kidnaped for- eigners is not available here, but an American broker named Henley, an Italian lawyer named Musso and a number of "English women are be- lieved to be among them. MISS ALDRICH FREED. American Reported Killed—Others in Grave Danger. SHANGHAI, May 7.—One American was killed by the bandits who held up the Shanghai-Peking express train near the Shantung border and carried off the 150 passengers early yester- day, according to a message from Lincheng, but all the women captives, including Miss Lucy Aldrich, sister-in- law of John D. Rockefeller, jr.. have been released. The men, still held, are sald to be in grave danger. The message sald the bandits had notified the authorities that all the men among the foreign captives would be killed unless troops were with- drawn. Miss McFadden and Miss Coralll were relensed with Miss Aldrich, the report added. Troops were pressing the bandits on both sides, firing &t last advices. Plot Originated in Shanghat. The kidnaping plot is belleved to have originated in Shanghai, when it became known that a large party was leaving to attend the ceremony inci- dent to the completion of the Kung- chapa dyke at Tsinan. The bandits stopped the train b: removing the fish plates from the tracks, causing a derailment, accord- ing to reports received in Shanghai, It was sald that there were 1,000 bandits in the attacking party. Miss Aldrich is reported ill from her experfences. The Aldrich party, | K. } tured, Italian attorney, who was among the | captives. According to an unconfirmed re- port from a Japanese News agency, Magal, governor-general of the Japanese colony on the Island of Sakhallen, and another prominent Japanese, the president of the Hako- amber of Commerce, were aptured by the bandits. They were supposed to have left Nankin for Peking yesterday, but messages ad- dressed to them at Nankin brought no replies. U. S. CHECKING UP. Lacking Official List, Authorities Search Passport Records. Although they had no official list of Americans involved in the raid by Chinese bandits in which 150 were cap- officials here checked over carefully the lists of names carried in press dispatches and sought to es- tablish the facts so far as possible from passport and other records. At the War Department it was sald there was no Army officer by the name of Roland stationed in the Phil- ippines, and it was believed possible that mention of such a name was due to a confusion in the name of Maj. Roland W. Pinger of the ordnance department, who Is In China, accom- panied by his family. The residence of his mother is given in depart- ment records as 4206 Harrlett avenue, Minneapolis, and he i a graduate of the University of California. Maj. Robert A. Allen is an officer in the Medica Corps, who was born in Lena, Ill, and before entering the service was a practicing physician at Tacoma, Wash. He I8 a graduate of Beloit College and Northwestern Uni- versity. Check up on Others. State Department passport records show that Jerome Arthur Henley, 641 Post street, San Francisco, applied for a passport to visit China. He is believed to be the J. A. Henley in- cluded on the list of Americans on the train. Leon Solomon, .of 352 West 118th street, ew York City, also has a passport to travel in the Far East. cording to the records, went to Italy from the United States and there ob- tained an extension to his passport which may have been used by him in China. He gave his occupation as chauffeur. J. P. Powell, an insu- ance agent of Memphis, Tenn., ob- tained a passport to China, but the records show no extension. Nothing |1s known here of a Powell connected with the “Weekly Review.” Miss Edith Schonberg of Nauga- tuck, Conn., holds a passport and may be the Miss Schonberg mention- ed in press dlspatches. Mixs Aldrich Well Known. Miss Lucy T. Aldrich is well known in capital society, her father, the late Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode 1sland, having spent a number of ¥ here. Her brother is Repre- Sentative-elect Richard S. Aldrich of Warwick, R. T Robert' Scripps, another member of the kidnaped party, maintains an office here in connection with the Scripps Newspaper Alliance, but_ his residence is given as San Diego, Calif. for a tour of the world. SCRIPPS PARTY HELD. By the Associated Pres, TOLEDO, May 7.—Mrs. Negley D. Cochran, wife of the former editor of the Tolédo News Bee, received word from headquarters of the Scripps- Howard Newspaper Syndicate today that Mr. Cochran and daughter Dor- othy are among those held captive by Chinese soldlers in Shantung, China. The communication said that all members of the party of I. W. Scripps, who set out early in March for a tour of the orient on the Scripps’ private yacht Ohio, are held by the soldiers who captured the Americans with the purpose of hold- ing them until the Chinese govern- ment pays them back wages due em. e last word Mrs. Cochran re- ceived, until advised today of the cap- fure of the members of the family, was received a week ago and said that the party had left and arrived in hanghal, SR feports trom the Scripps- homeward bound, reached Shanghai ten days ago. Miss Coralli is secre. tary to G. D. Musso, a prominent We =5 =S sSssss oo couch covers, tablé co cleaning, you'll find drudgery reduced to a Housecleaning lF you'll send all draperies, portieres, cur- tains and hangings, all blankets, pillow and d_Syndicate today sald that ot dScrinps, son of E. W. Scripps, was the only one held captive. Task vers and rugs to The Hoffman Company for a complete Spring your housecleaning minimum. Try It and Become Convinced! CALL MAIN 4724 CLEANERS & DYERS Main Office: 720 13th Street N. W. John Powell of Pittsburgh, Pa., ac- | He left here last fall with his family 1 i i i | outset. “The French recognize the political folly of placin, fo hly under” thelr Yok four miilion cer mans, including a million of their most skilled workmen, and their x)r!r’\clp:llhfuunflsn industrial cities, - ';“.Wll more than 100,000 popu- Duration of Ruhr Occupation. This is the seventeenth successi week of the French grip on the Ruhr. It has brought France neither coal nor | cash in any appreciable quantities. It | therefore represents in direct results a serious financial loss. But neither | fuel nor money was Franc'e main ¢ jective. What she was bent upon the gradual, but deadly, exercise of | pressure upon Gern as a repara- | tions defaulter. The French have pur- | sued the tactics of a giant wrestler, | termined, however long drawn out | the process might be, to force his an- tagonist’'s two shoulders to the mat. In the case of the Rubr the foe the French had to overcome was the all- pr)\\%"rh:l German industrial barons the Stinn Krupp, Thyssen, Hani Mannesmann and Kirdort groups. It was nec ¥ not only to se! and dominate the actual sources revenue of these “smokestack ons,” as tha Germans call th. by ‘oppressing them cause bring Berlin to terms. ernment is nominally a liberal-soclal- 18t regime, Dt in fact, tterly ander | the thumb of ‘the Rhenish-Westpha- | lian industrialists. France thus had | two tasks. She first had to tie up the Ruhr barons’ property and then irk them Into compelling Berlin to sue for peace on French terms. Poincare and Degoutto between them believe vie- | ory along those lines is w s is within their | Facts Impressed on “Autocrats. Stinnes and his fellow autocrats now have had more than four months | in which to realize that the French mean busine: " The Germans never ceased to hope that France's patience would give out before their own Or-! ganized passive resistance crumbled. | It is precisely the strategy that Hin- | denburg thought wou triumph over ! Foch—that French breath would stop | before Germany's ceased. The soli- | darity of French public opinion be hind Poincare has been @ revelation to | the Germans. It has proved as potens | a factor in bringing Berlin and its ers around as e ce -1 on lroaie the Ruhr occupa ! Stinnes is_undoubtedly the pivot of | the German situation. When he says the word there will be adequate vielding He is sald now to dominate two-thirds of Germany, industrially and fAinancially His own operations are viewed by the French as disposing effectually of the German plea that reparations of the magnitude France demands cannot be paid. 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