Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1923, Page 3

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D C, JULY 29, 1923—PART T. — e e e ————————————— lAmericans Fail to Understand French Fear of New Disaster| BY FIRM'S RECEIVERS GUILTY: PRINCESS ~ MILDLY PUNISHED With Marguerite for Aid- ing Ehrhardt Escape. By MAXIMILLIN HARDEN, Germany's Foremost Publicist. BERLIN, July 28.—A princess—not akin to those who sing and dance and otherwise exploit their titles—but a real princess of a house nearly 1,000 years old, Marguerite Victoria, princess of Hohenlohe, has just faced a judge on a serious charge. Her family, which en- joyed a position of great power in Fran- conia while the Hohenzollerns there were still petty vassals, never before saw one of its members sunk so low. The court condemned the princess for complicity in_preventing the arrest of Capt, Hermann Ehrhardt, a leader In the Kapp revolution, and for perjury. This was done in a trial where addressed regularly as ‘“‘princ stead of the usual form, extreme penaity wa but she was sente y months, which probably will not be served to the end. She also loses no civil rights. So the serene skeletons of the princes and prin. f Hohenlohe may rest easy. Th endants a treated more mildly in republican Ge many than in the days of the Sought Fame Varlously. The Hohenlohes have sought fame and money in m; different departments of life. A Hohenlohe duke Henry on the German king's throne and thus helped to change the eastern Frankish kingdom into the Ger- man empire. One Hohenlohe was nown as a miracle man and cured Ba- varian peasants by prayer long before Christian science was known. house of Hohen- sian, Bavarian and Austrian _premiers, ambassadors, viceroys of Alsace, car- dinals, chancellors and business men. A prince of Hohenlohe-Oehringen &nd the duke of Ujest converted his upper Silesian coal mines. zinc mines and smelters into a corporation and formed with the still richer Prince Fuerstenberg the so-called princes’ concern. which neither brought last- ing profits nor had a pleasant odor. Even then the dead Hohenlohes 1y turned their but how they ve fe- volved' when the news penetrated their sarcophagl that a real Hohen- lohe and a girl stood before a re- publican court charged with crime! In the tle of her uncle, the Princess Marguerite learned to know over must in and to love Capt. Ehrhardt, the wild, | desperate leader of the free cor formed to protect German territory. Ehrhardt was married and the father of several children. At the order of his chief, Gen. von Luettwi he co-operated in the Kapp “putsch’ in 1920, and when that failed, placed himself at the disposal of Gen. von Beeckt, who still was commander-in- chief of the reichswehr. Over two years ago this general decree expressed his than confidence in sured him arrest, which 3 government, would not be executed. The government later sent the warrant by mail to this friend, into whose milita mp no civilian dared The warrant did not prevent from remaining months in the service and pa German republic against was fighting. Concealed Him in House. In \the spring of 1921 the writer recommended amnesty for all politi- 1 offenders, including Ehrhardt. Ehrhardt wrote this correspondent an effusive letter of thanks, signed as “Imperial Captain,” and ex- ntempt for his “pitlably comrades who urged him to act and then abandoned him. He wrote that he desired no amnesty, but wanted a trial before th court. He further expressed sadness &t being so long separated from his wife and children, but even then he 8tood in intimate relations with the Princess of Hohenlohe, who had fol- lowed him to Berlin and then to Munich, where she concealed him in her house. And after she had been informed of the consequences of per- jury she swore before the examining magistrate that she did not know Ehrhardt, Meanwhile rhardt had become the h of all the organizations formed for revolts and murders, but simultaneously the hero and the demi-god of the nationalist ma: and even a great part of the students. When, finally, after three years, he was _arrested. the writer's assertion of July, 1921, was confirmed: the authorities feared a trial because i might bring out unplea: dis closures. In prison all sorts of con- sideration were shown him. He e caped and was enthusiastically praised by his followers. He also could truthfully declare that he would have appeared before a competen court, but not before an unconstitu tional court arbitrarily constituted by the government. to and HEARING IN CHINA DELAYED. By the Assoclated Press. SHANGHAT, July 28 —Postponement until September of a hearing of the cases of Lawrence H. Kearney, C. V. Stein and the latter's wife, Ameri- cans, who are alleged to have figured in a plot to smuggle 160,000 rifles into China from Russia and Japan, was announced toda: o 3 Ways to Happiness! 1. The first way is upright in character —its use develops skill and _results in lasting pleasure. L jof in a public|¥ & |metallurgical production—should keep hich he ! Tourists in Paris, Admitting Need of Republican Germany Lenient; afqykets, Unable to.See Safety in Loans to Revive European Currency. BY ANDRE TARDIEU, Former French High Commissioner to the United States. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, July 28.—American visitors to France are more numerous today than ever before. The writer has had long talks with many of them—sen- ators, journalists and business men— and while all do not agree as to particulars, a general average of their viewpoints points to the belief that America is beginning to realize she goon will need European markets. The question of surplus, so agon- izing & one during the war, now is arising in an opposite form. In 1917 and 1918 the problem in America was to create a surplus for export, for Europe was in urgent need of every- thing. Today the problem is to find an outlet for the surplus, estimated by some American visitors at 10 per and by others at 20 per cent; the nation’s production. Indecd, the absence of export markets has tended to lower the selling price at times to below the cost of produc- tion. It has sharpened competition, and by reducing profits to a mini- mum, has forced wage cutting with resulting strikes and lockouts. There is only one way to remedy the situa- tion, and that is. to sell Europe. Lowered Exchange Rates. But how can one sell Europe when there three million marks to the pound, and the franc itself has lost more ‘than two-thirds of its value with respect to the dollar. While the United States feels impelled to seek customers on this side of the water it is not ready, for the time being at least, to give financial and political aid to help Europe out of Its present difficulties. No American loans are forthcoming for countrles whose moneys are depreciated and whose fu- ture "is so uncertaln. The United States will not lend to Germany, nor will she lend to France so long as the present imbroglio persists. Theré is a financial imbroglio and also ‘a political one. ‘All Americans ith whom the writer has talked at tach as much importance to the settle- ment of political differences as they do to the settlement of finances. Franco-German, as well as Franco. British_relati must be straight- ened out before the United States will be willing to employ its money in jEuropean reconstruction. And_ such reconstruction requires financial help which can come only from the United State: Opinion of France. Americans here are astonished that vigorous France, mistress of the left bank of the Rhine and of the Ruhr— one of the three world centers of demanding guarantees of securities instead of fixing the conditions sha deems indispensable to her safety. It {is hard for Americans to comprehend | !that France feels she is menaced by Germany. And from this_assumption to the conclusion that France's ap- prehension is felgned to cover what is called her militarism is but a step. The writer is convinced that many of the present American beliefs are the result of the campaign of orato: fcal alarm by the French govern- ment. France has strengthened the ! hands of those Americans who b lieve “European éntanglements” are fraught with danger by constantly | | Tepeating that Germany, through her {refusal to pay, is driving France into bankruptcy and by waving the spectre of a German attack which, however possible in_the future, 18| certainly impossible now. ! If France, in the dark da of 191 | HOWARD had cried that defeat was inevitable ‘American help would have been les: ardent and less - effective. Yet this is just about what France has been doing for the last three years, and she: thus has discouraged .&ll co-op- eration. No immediate remedy is possible for this state of affairs. be modest and patient Americans who distinctly distrust Europe mus have their confidence gradually re. stored by evidence here of a certain moral tranquility which does not now appear in speeches nor acts. Premier Poincare of France and Prime Minister Baldwin of Great Britain continue to repeat that they are counting on the United Statei But at the same time Poincare con- tinues to trace the most -horrible pictures of the situation and when Baldwin _wishes to express,‘in a phrase, his views of Europe he quotes Hobbs: “Man is a tiger for Without mixing in American party struggles, which do not concern this correspondent, it should be said.that much of the present sltuation would not have come to pass had the United States aigned the treaty of Versaille The past is past and regrets do not elp. BOAT GOES T0 RESCUE OF LOST EXPLORERS Refitted Schooner Leaves to Aid British Expedition Marooned in North Two Years. By the Assoclated Press. NOME, Alaska, July 28.—The ex- pedition to rescue Allan Crawford of Toronto and his little band of British explorers, who raised the British flag on Wrangel Island in 1920, will sail from here Monday in the Donaldson, a refitted trading vessel, under com- mand of Harold Noice. The first stop is to be in Kotzebu sound, where a crack dog team will be obtained. From there a direct course to Wrangel Island will be steered. Belleving that Targe inroads must have been made on the marooned party’s ammunition, the relief expe- ditlon will make every effort to reach the island this year If the Donaldson is blocked by ice, Mr. Noice plans to leave the vessel in charge of Capt. Hanson, a navigator of long experl- ence, and proceed, with a party of three Eskimos, over the pack ice to Wrangel Islan: Reports reaching here indicated that the Crawford party had not left the island for the Siberian coast. METAL GARAGES “Only the Best” As Low as $5 Cash, $7.50 Per Menth Phone Main 7984 WASHINGTON GARAGE CONSTRUCTION CO. 701 Continental Trust Bidg. THEATER i 7th and Tee Sts. N.W. 1 I WEEK BEGINNING JULY 30TH Held Over by Popular Demand for One More Week! 1 M-tinees—Tuudly—Tlmndly—Snnrday ! The Barnum & Bailey of All Colored Musical Shows |HOW COME! g Direct From the Apollo Theater of Brondway, N. Y. With Original Cast 402-404 Seventh of 100 People—100 BIG MIDNIGHT SHOW FRIDAY AT 12 3 SEATS NOW SELLING Street itne oo A Véry Special Event in Fine Silk Dresses You have your choice of the France must | X, $251,000 FEES ASKED | Naughty Child Sum Is About 8 Per Cent of L. R. Steel Corporation’s $3,- 000,000 Net Assets. By the Assoclated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., July 38.—Reports of the receivers of the L. R. Steel Corporation, submitted in federal court this afternoon, represented the net assets of the chain companies as approximately §3,000.000. Total assets were listed at $5,000,000, with liabil- ities at $5,000,000. ‘Today's reports were filed by the re- ceivers as supplementary evidence in support of the bllls for services total- Ing $251,000 presented Thursday by the designated receivers and attor- neys. The bills were taken under con- sideration by Federal Judges John C. nox and John R. Hazel. It was estimated that two-thirds of the gross assets of the corporation were represented in companies which had been thrown into bankruptcy, with the other third credited to units sgainst which bankruptcy proceed- ings have not been undertaken. Assets of some of the leading units of the chain have been estimated as follows: L. R, Steel Company, Inc., $2,750,000; Steel "Realty Develop: Company, $4,000,000; Mary Lincoln Candy Com- $250,000; Marrimac Anthracite , $400,000; Farm Pro- Corporation, $450.000; Federal Stores, $160,00 R. Steei Service Corporation. $150,000. Certain liabllities were sald to be charged against the assets of all of. these companies. Affidayits also were filed by recelv- ers and attorneys today supporting their compensation claims. The 000 asked is approximately 8 per cent of the estimated net ussets. —— A traveler can ride for seven hours 4 y train, or more than 300 between Singapore and Pe- . In the Federated Malay States, and not once lose sight of the rubber plantations. Store: 8 Wants to Annoy, Specialists Say By Cable to The Star and New York Tribune, Copyright 1923. LONDON, July 28.—The advice given to parents in “Alice in Won- derland” —namely, “To speak roughly to your little boy and smack him when he sneeses, for he can thoroughly enjoy the pepper ‘when he pleases”—received quali- fled support when eminent doc- tors analyszed the problem of the naughty child at the Portsmouth conference of the British Medical Assoclation this week. Many wseriously declared that most children revel in naughtiness for sheer pleasure, reducing par- ents to a state of mervous pros- tration. Dr. H. C. Cameron, a great au- thority on children, said: “Children indulge in =ll sorts of antics simply because it turns the limelight on’ them.” The doctor suggested that nerv- ousness in children is often asso- clated with the posture of the body, which led Dr. Helen Boyle to de- clare that ohild nervousness is largely due to imitation of their mothers. FERRYBOAT RUNS WILD. KINGSTON, Ontarlo, July 28.—The ferry steamer Mississquol, bovnd from Clayton, N. Y., to Gananoque, ran wild for three miles yesterday when the captain collapsed at the wheel, and finally crashed onto the rocks at Granite Island. ‘The plight of the steamer and her passengers became known here today When the steamer Isabel H. went to her assistance and pulled her clear. The boat was badly damaged and will g0 Into dry dock here. flOSSg»: 11 AND'G STS. 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