Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1923, Page 4

SEES DICTATORS with the intention not f annexing, | tlon of work, and @s the ocoupants| Conditions would have been differ-|Fronch and Belgians. would have| In other words, the reich's eapitu-| - f : : ! But of seizing praductive pledges i | confined themseives, by, the motifica- |ent If the allles had preveated Hor- [amerged masters of the reich, as well | lation brings less than it mighe v | ey, "THG,, Briend had bedly i the form of coaly and .gold, which | tion of January 11,'to “an appeal to|iin from feeding the Ruhr and hadfas of Ruhr production. Tho weak-|done, because of our blunders. But| uci and reimburse. he treceors would insure repgratiofs. . But as|the reich’'s good will," passive resist- | paid and fed it in Berlin's stond.lnnxn of the methods used produced |the moral advantage, which s Jost th gold marks for what spent nothing was done 'finanélally or po- [ ance Was established and the pledges [ The present victory then would have fonly the first result. Tho sccond re- | in 1920. has been regained. Premier| . thc Ruhr. pe litically to organise the continua- | rendered unprodustive. been a complete * victory, for the | mains to be obtained. Foincare, by frmness, has swept the (Copyright. 1923.) e ———————————— ————— s et ULE 1 GERMANY N ALARMING STATE| s e S Harden Notes Omission of “Renublic” From Berlin and Munich Proclamations. star yright, 19 ()l eptember Nothing { mine the true in-| rmany than the triply | instructiv that the word *re- | public” doesn’t appear in the procla- | mations of the Derlin and Munich | governments. that both governments employ dictatorial force instead of appeal to the forces of democracy | i and both dictato re Bavarians i In Berlin the supreme power hasi been handed over to Minister of De- fense Gessler, against whom both the Prussian and Saxon socialists{ have expressed the strougest lack of confidence, because they allege that he permitted the reichswehr to have connections with secret mon- archistic zation Dr. Kahr is the A lictator. never denied his mon; strongest s prophesied speech Rtupprecht of The German and publics” could not hav ter man. Kahr's part President von Knillir longs, fights for the house of Wit- tlesbach, whose chief is Rupprecht. an_ educated, cuitured man, who hitherto has avoided any foolish actions Little Chance for Wohenzollern: He knows there is little chance just now for the restoration of the zollerns, and it is possible £ the possibility of becom- and, as such. of restoring sndor of the cmpire, S Queen of RBelgium ix his cou and also his sister-in- porters—and pos. hope candidac r w not enpcounter insuperable obstacles from the western po: Stronger than this zroup hit! however, was the group led by Aust 1e Ludendorff, whose sol against the restoration of the Hohen . the incorporation of | Austria into Germany and alliance | with Hungary. Hitler and~ Ludendorft . more weapons 2 bett ] or- ganization. Kahr's party ite the fact t e Protestant. enjoys the prot the powerful Cath- olic = Churel Both undoubledly command finar arces, | and both t avanta ¢ Ea- | " old ipathy & the national nd_fruitless pol over the French occupation { varlan palatinate. Th ce | capital of Berlins e Doubt of Attitude. Whather the Kahr and Hitler pa tles will fight against ¢ more on personal on ma of prin s of the German people are not interested in the conflict, for th have heard €0 many threats of B: varian secession. It is not impos- sible, how that this new p mischief may bring a realizati the necessity of & democratic po which shall take the consequenc war and defeat and assure the per- petuity of the German republic by dignificd adjustment to the al civilized humanit Only conscienceless qua ots can > the peo { Chancellor Stresemann have avoided the present crisis had he taken a firm stand from the start. 8ix weeks sed after Chancellor Cuno disappearcd before the Ruhr conflict ended. Why did the govern- ment so long delay u decision whose inevitability was recognized from tpe | first day? “The answer given is that | this period was necessary to prepare the people for a painful defeat. One would not be surprised at such an answer in an absolutist empire, but a republic whose citizens can be de- ceived for months about a vital ques- tlon and who require weeks of prep- aration for the truth is a democratic republic in name onl. Cites Stresemann's Mistake. Chancellor Stresemann should have demanded that tho nationalists make £00d their threats to drive the French and Belglans from the Ruhr and the Rhineland and restore German so erelgnty In those districts. He would have been told that this required time and patience. Then he could have said: ’ ou stir the people up against the government and ai - us of weak-1 ness, but when the time comes to let | deeds follow words you make excuses and demand patience, because you know that Germany cannot wait longer. Responsibility for the fate of the German nation compels me to take the step tomorrow which you call capitulation. Every time your organs attack me T shall reply that you were not able to fulfili your promises and would have plunged the nation into a war in which defeat was certain.” The chancelior should also have in- formed the whole nation of the exact truth at once. A total of at least 9.000,000,000 gold marks has been paid out, without reckoning the tremendous losses duc to occupation —in other words, enough to have satisfled the reparations commission until 1937 or longer, without any mioratorium. The people belleved & defensive struggle was being carrled on with great privations, and that at least a partial victory was certain. The government could have won the support of the masses by telling the naked truth—that the struggle never for a minute promised to be success- ful, but would cause heavy loss Hesitated for Six Weeks. Tnstead of doing this, the govern- ment hesitated for six weeks, wasting more money and shatter he cur- rency, and then announced its re- treat in_a proclamation which re- peated the old accusations against France and Belglum in tones of moral indignation. The delay, which cost ten thou- sand trillion paper marks, and the proclamation, nearly every one of whose sentences is wrongly framed, are both products of fear. Pres dent Ebert and the present govern- ment share the responsibility with Cuno, because they will not admit that ' his policy ~w. false trivolous. Milita rule and other things about which they now complain would never have come to pass if they had not opposed technical in- dustrial control, but had acted as they did after the occupation of Dusseldorf, Ruhrort and Dulsburg, which has been regarded for nearly three years now as consonant with Germany’s honor. Another Source of Fear. But they were still more afraid of the communists and the nationalists. ‘The threats of the former were never dangerous, although the nationalists must be taken more seriously. They boast that they can arm and mob- ilize 600,000 men. Stresemann could have randered them inoculously ridic- ulous by such an ultimstum as I lave suggested above. If they now desire to act—if the Bavarian Hakenkreuz army of the Austrian Hitler and the Prussian Ludendorft desire to march into Eerlin “to restore order with fists and machine guns"—let them try it, d the sooner the better. If Bav- aria wants to secede from the com- monwealth, let her. Without coal or adequate industries she soon will re- turn penitent. (Copyright, 1923.) ’ H jGerman, the Peking’s Efforts to Raise Money for Troons and Fed- eral Workers Futile. e Associated Press. ING, September 23.—The pre- ¢ s finuncial condition of the Chinese government Is, causing much alarm In the northern capitol, where sidenuous offorts to raise sufficient funds to tide over the autumn set- tlements, have met with but little vecess The money raised from various sources is Inadequate to meet even a small proportion of the arrears in pay due the gendarmerie, soldiers and movernment' employes. It is reported that less than $500,000 is available to mect the numerous doémands. This um ,will enable the government to pay proportions ranging from 30 to 0 per cent of only one month's ar- the various categories of The pay of most of these empoyes is nths in arrears. Few Troops Paid. « only soldiers being paid with of regularity are those of ng Yu-Hsiang, the “Christian 5 Feng, who is in ch of the military guard of the 1, pays his troops from the local cus- ang Hu, minister of finance, who only recently assumed the post, is said t mte g relinquish- h 3 of the al- finuncing the FRENCH FIRNESS CREDIEDINRUR Berlin Surrender Held Vic- tory for Policies of Clem- enceau Party. BY ANDRE TARDIEU. By Cable 1o The Star. September .—The German now finishing where It recognizes of continuing e and permits the popu- t Rubr to resume work. Of the two wills which have been opposing each other for the last eight months, the vanco-Belgian and the er succumbs. The idea of expecting 4.000,000 inhabitants to live while forbidding them to work nd paying them to do nothing—and his with deprec d money—would have been absurd If Germany had not »d on foreign help. No Help From England, for several months looked to- ngland, whose ambassador, Lord D'Abernon, probably de ibed the position according to his own ide The expected help did not come irst Andrew Bonar Law and then Stanley Baldwin disapproved the Rubr occupation. A somewhat bitter diplomatic correspondence ensued. But nothing happened. The ult was not doubtfu! nunder these con tions. Did not President Ebe con fess in hi proclamation las week that passive resistance had cost the veich three thousand trillion marks? It was impossible to continue such a first time si ailles tr Germany has been obliged to withdraw because of the victor's firmness. My friends and nad demanded this firmness si - T intervened often in chamber and in the pres that all the concessions granted in successive conferences tended only to encourage Germany to violate her en- gagements. We tried to prevent ap- proval of the Hythe, Boulogne, Spa, Paris and London agreements, but we had no success. Mistake of Poincare. During these years Pioneer Poin- care himself voted—as a senator—for ministries which were demolishing the treatles, stone by stone, and de- priving us of our rights. We suc- ceeded in_ causing Briand's resigna- tion, bt Poincare, his successor, con- tinued the same pollcy for a whole year. The Clemenceau party, therefore, has the right to say that it was right from the beginning, when it main- tained that the difficulties would in- erease and the situation be rendered more complicated by vielding. The occupation has been unfortu- nately conducted. At first it was in- visibie; afterward it was inert and passive. The result has been that. though France and Belgium scored a political triumph over the reich, they have not yet conquered finan- clallv. When thev _entered it _was Japanese Tea Room 1802 M Street N.W. 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