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Vol. LXXVIII No. 26,39]
[Copyright. 191I?,
New York Tribune Inc.]
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1919
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two CENTS ] *",???:r_*?;_y?.r*Bnd i THRt'K ^-r
Bolsheviki
Feed Lies to
, Schoolboys
pr. Calvin V. Campbell
Fears Results Unless
Propaganda is Cheeked
Simons Modifies
East Side Charges
Two Forum Meetings
Break In in lively
"Red" Demonstrations
In a public address yesterday, Cal?
vin A. Campbell, a teacher of the
Commercial High School, charged
that seeds of Bolshevism and
anarchy were being sewn in the
public schools of New York. He
said the propaganda was myste?
riously financed.
The Rev. Dr. George A. Simons,
who last week before the Over?
man Commission in Washington,
testified that New York's Last
Side was a breeding place of
Bolshevism, amplified his charges.
When closely questioned by some
indignant Jews he modified his
statements.
Henry J, Skeffington, United States
Commissioner cf Immigration
for the ?New England states, de?
clared in an interview that the
government had the Bolshevist
leaders in custody and said the
menace no longer threatened.
At two of the forums in New
York the after-meeting question?
ing developed into Bolshevist
(iemonstratiens. Attacks were
made openly on American insti?
tutions of government.
Evidence that Bolsheviki are seeking
to kindle the spavk of revolt in the
minds of pupila in public schools was
?P??m, yesterday in t.u address which
Dr. Calvin V. Can ; II i ivi red at the
BfeirtSdc Branch V. M. ('. A., in Fifty
seventh Street.
He had rei ;;? believe, lie r-aid.
that the circulation or" inflammatory
pamphlets an ong American school chil
?.? of re .oiut. ion was
reit a c pporting enterprise. To
his mir.-.i t vn ; ?ear that money was
being' fed into the effort from an un
rc<.
: i ' element
'emen! ; nd fum the minds
? : boi pir as .?????? inexperienced
? r-, f>r. Campbell said.
tab'] hed Sunday
he declared.
!'??'.'' i ?h at
oo?. F?e had in
. : , ? | :.,; hed
Social S ?
? - of the bo;?--?
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.. .-.,:? read
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.-?.? d the
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then had nut to
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T* r:r''' ? foe? of law
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??ye ?t, to Dr. Campbell said that he
WH foi a nickel
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A*l ''';''/ ' ' :-' ' ' '? letter to the
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i '?"? boy km /-, ? //;. . .-, brand new
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Continued </n. page neuen
British Plan Capital-Labor Parley
I ONDON, Feb. 16.?The government has decided to convene,
probably within the present month, a national conference of
representatives of capital and labor to seek a settlement of the
present industrial unrest.
It is understood that representatives of the employers and all
the leading trade unions will be invited, and that the Premier is
devoting himself actively to the promotion of this conference, which
will be the most important ever assembled to deal with labor prob?
lems. It is expected that there will be a sitting before the threat?
ened miners' strike begin'.' in the middle of March.
Wilfrid Laurier Daniels Says
Is S t r ick en League Means
Bv Paralysis No More War
Former I Vom irr of Canada,
77 Years ()!d. Reported
"Vf orse" This ?Vlorniiii:
OTTAWA, Feb. 17, _:20 A. M.?The
condition of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, for?
mer Premeir of Canada, who was
stricken with paralysis at. his home
here' yesterelay, was reported "worse"
early this morning.
Sir Wilfrid was stricken while he
was dressing for church yesterday
morning. It was two hours before he
recovered consciousness.
Sir Wilfrid attended a luncheon of
the Canadian Club on Saturday, worked ;
at his office in the afternoon, and was
said by his friends to have shown no
sign of fatigue in connection with his
duties as leader of the Opposition. He
has been extremely busy, however, of
late, preparing for the session of
Parliament which opens Thursday. He
was also engaged in organizing the
Ontario Liberal conventions.
Sir Wilfrid is nearly seventy-eight
; years old.
The physician attending Sir Wilfrid
; issued a bulletin last night saying that
his patient was in "no immediate dan?
ger."
"i do not think there is at. present
any cause for grave anxiety, but at Sir
I Wilfrid's age- such an attack must
necessarily give rise to concern," said
? the physician.
Slavs Ready to Submit
Coast Dispute to Wilson
PARTS, Feb. 17.?-The Serbian, Croat?
ian and Slovene delegation to the
peace conference has formally written
I to Premier Clemenceau, president of
the conference, that having full con?
fidence in the "high spirit and justice
? of President Wilson," they are ready,
? with the full consent of their govern?
ment, to submit to him for arbitration
territorial differences between the
kingdom of ihe Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes and Italy.
? .. ( lemenceau is asked to take cog?
nizance of the- fact and communicate
it to the conference. It is added that
a similar communication has been sent
to President Wilson.
Johns Hopkins Expert
Finds New Anaesthetic
Special Corre.npondence
BALTIMORE, Fi !.. 16. Dr. David
I. Macht, ? :' the pharmacological de?
partment cf Johns Hopkins Univer
. ! disco\ ered ;. new local anaes?
thetic that aboi forl y I ?mes less
to x ?e : lian < oca no,
Thi drug itself benzyl alcohol or
n me' hylol i ?? not new luit it::
propertie i producing local anaes
? ? ? . an the nal u re ol a con
plete i' ; 'CO4, ei \ thai is ai tract ing
much .4>4 t< t.' :<?!. in medical and surgi?
cal circle: .
Dr. Machi ha pp< nod lo ta te a mi
nute particle of the benzyl alcohol
: ? : nui : tongue completely an
thetized. The re v. as a si ight
. Lability and this v, as followed, he
paid, by ; icnsation of numbnes -.
cooine --iiiel harelne? . very much
like i m;i* caused by cocaine sol ut ion.
A .- ? rie ??? of car ?ful e; p< riment fol
lowed, and after the benzyl alcohol
had been tried out successfully in
ca ? ?ftpr case on dumb animals, :t
tricel sue ce ' s ful ly in the: cli n ic.
Chicago l nions (lall
Election Day Strike
( UK AGO, Fe b. 16. A general strike
of union h bor < -, April I, the date of
the n :? ici| .: r] ct on, for the purpose
of aiding the new labor party's ticket,
-.?.;, approved in re olution? adopted to?
day by the Chicago Federation of
I.abe,i-, -.?, h ich r "i ai eel it .. expre ?sion to
declfl in ' . ? ay ?,tr < n making ni ofit
for the bo ? e ."
!' was announced that the milk
drivci had adopted the "strike" plan,
| but we>uiel deliver milk up t<? midnighl
before the election and after 12 o'clock
the- night of April 1. Labor men even
talked of suspending all elreet car ser
vicc on Elect ion Day.
Belgian Soldiers Kont
Spartaeans in Duisburg
DUISBURG, Rhenish Prusnia, Fob.
16, In view of On- disturbance- here
Wednesday, Belgian troops arrived in I
th>- city last night, reaching the town
hall imultancously ?-?? s' 11 tlsre-e- Spar
ta?ide leaders from Uamborn, who <le
? i r'-'i to compol the Burgomaster to
surrender fifty rifles that had been
? /? ?1
The Spartaeans tried t'> etfeape In a
motor car and hurled hand grenade
a? the Belgian . Three ol the- Sparta-1
,,.i ... ;< ? .erely v-ounded
The Belgians have occupied the town ;
hall ?o e,rele?r to protect the: administra?
tion of the town,
!,;irtli'jit;skr- HhakcS Whole
O? Southern California
LOS ANGKLK8, F b. 16. An earth
quitk? laxttng almost a minute was fell
at. X:4f; o'clock this morning a? Virtu?
al!?/ every point in Southern California.
No damage wu:> reported from any
?section, however.
At Cathedral Service He
Hails Covenant Bringing
End to War for All Time
_
Wars arc at an end, Secretary Dan?
iels yesterelay assured an overflowing
congregation at the Cathedral of St.
John the Divine. The covenant of the
League of Nations, he declared, was
an event second to none in the his?
tory of the worhl save the words of
the Sheperds of Bethlehem: "We
have seen His ?Star in the Fast and
come to worship Him."
The Secretary spoke in behalf ot
the Interchurch Emergency Campaign,
a combined effort of Protestant. Chris?
tian bodies to raise If10.000.n00 for
after-war religious work. The day
marked the climax in the campaign
and similar services were held in
other churches.
Men will call the covenant a new
Magna Charta, saiei Mr. Daniels, ana
"Peace on earth, good will to men" is
vouchsafed a suffering world. The ;
Secretary continued:
"To us has come the honor of liv?
ing in this event ful day, when in the
fulness of time, 'arter massacre, after!
murder,' Christians and Jews, and men
of ill nations and creeds have agreed
upon a covenant for the end of all wars
of aggression and our ears have heard .
the bells ring in 'a thousand years of
peace.' "
Praises Makers of Constitution
There is almost u perfect parallel'
between the adoption of the Constitu?
tion of the United States and the
league of nations, saiel Mr. Daniels. He
cont inued:
"No more patriotic body of men ever
assembled to form a government of
the people, by the people and for the
people than the great men who com- j
posed the constitutional convention.!
When it was presented as the result
of their -mature- wisdom, some men of
the fervor and love of liberty like
Patrick Henry, decried it as a central?
ized instrument which would destroy
the rights e>f the states and the liberty
of the Deopic.
"Time has demonstrated its strength
and flexibility and confounded all who
huel forebodings of ill in the written
compass by which our mariners have
safely steered Cue gooel old ship of
state, freighted with the hopes and
fears anel happiness not. only of its
millions of passengers, but with the
blessings and safeguards of liberty for
all humanity.
''In the- future, as men look hack
to this hour, when the- fate of the world ;
Continued on page four
No Illiteracy
Relief Bills
1 his Session
Two Measures Ready forj
Next Congress Aiming
to Educate the Aliens
Flare in Cabinet Asked
Legislation Favored Seeks
$100,000.000 Appropri?
ation and Department!
New York Tr bunt
Wei ihingtmi Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. The Demo?
cratic Congress will close March 4
without answering the appeal of Secre?
tary of the Interior Lane and of or?
ganized labor for legislation to assist
the states in wiping out illiteracy anel !
in Americanizing the foreign-born. Be- '
cause of this advocates of the legisla- ?
tion will make a strong effort to ob-!
tain favorable consideration in the next
Congress.
Two bills are now before the House
and Senate Committees on Education.
If, as is expected, an extra session of
Congress, is called by the President ?
they will be reintroduced as soon as
possible after the session convenes.
!)ne? of the measures introduced by
Repr?sentative William B. Bankhead
has the indorsement of the Secretary
of the Interior. It appropriates $12,
500,000 annually feu4 work in coopera- '
tion with the states to educate native
illiterates and aliens who cannct speak
English.
Sep?rale Bureau Suggested
The more? comprehensive bil? is that
introduced by Representative II. M.
Towner, of Iowa, calling for creation of
a separate department of the govern?
ment to be known as the Department
of Education, with a member of the
Cabinet, te> he known as the Secretary
of Education, at its head. At present
the administration of educational
affairs, as far as the Federal govern?
ment is concerned, is parcelled out
among eighty different bureaus, boards
and divisions of the several depart?
ments, the only attempt at centraliza?
tion being in collection of statistics
and dissemination of information,
which is in the hands of the. bureau
of education of the Department of the
Interior.
Under the Towner bill all these
widely separated activities would be
conce.'ntrateel under the Department of
Education, the specific duty of ?A'hich
would be to encourage the states, in ,
the development e,f public educational
facilities. Authorizations are. pro?
vided for investigation or research in
the fields of illiteracy, immigrant
education, public school education,
especially rural education; physical
and heaith education and recreation,
preparation of supply of competent
teachers ane! other educational mat?
ters. It authorizes encouragement of
higher and professional education,
anel appointment of educational at?
tach?s to foreign embassies to investi?
gate and reporl on the educational
systems of other countries.
One appropriates $100,000,000
As against the $12,600,000 annually
called for by the Bankhead bill, the
Towner bill, which has received the
Continued on page four
Foch Refuses Armistice Delay;
Pich?n Urges Action in Russia;
French Hint at a New Alliance
Wilson's No indemnity
and INo Annexation Idea
Is Regarded as Perilous
Reparation Made
{A) n troll i us Is? i i e
Complete Demobilization
of Germany and Contin?
ued Blockade Sought
By Frederick Moore
New York Tribune
Special Cable Service
Copyright, lf>19, New York Tribune Inc.)
PAULS, Feb. 16. - President Wilson
has gone home with his draft of the
constitution for the league of nations,
but it. is definitely understood here
that the final acceptance of that draft
by the peace conference will depend
upon his acquiescence in many of the
ideas entertained by France in the first
instance and hy Italy and Great Brit?
ain in the second. Should the Presi?
dent continue to insist upon a re?
stricted interpretation of his pc'icy of
no annexations and no indemnities
France, it is predicted, perhaps rashly, j
may endeavor to substitute a defensb e
alliance uraonii tho present Allies for '
the league of nations.
Nobody believes the French could
succeed, because of the importance and
value the British place, upon reaching ?
accord with the various nations outside
of Europe, the inclusion of America
being of overwhelming importance in
their opinion.
Premier Clemenceau's frank state?
ment to President Wilson at the table
during one pi the ?-econt five-power
conferences* is explanatory of the situ- l
ation. The Premier said he had made
concessions to the President's idealism
and theories and had supported his
league of nations project, but the de- j
fence and interests of France were in ]
his bands and he did not propose to i
sacrifice them.
The problem of Russia, which stales
men agree is ?lie gravest before the
peace conference, is still unsettled.
The President's proposa! of the Prin
kipo conference has come to naught, I
and in any case it is believed it would
have harl no effect upon the tragic con
Co ntinucd on next page
Issue Broader Than Prinkipo'
Par ley9 Says French Minister
PARIS, Feh. lf? : By The Associated
| Press). Stephen Pich?n, the French
Foreign Minister, discussed again to
1 ?'." with the foreign correspondents
the vai ous questions involved in the
pei ? negotiations.
1 : rs I s? ct ?on missing ).
The question of a plebiscite de
i manded by Germany to settle the fut
'. ure of Alsace-Lorraine, M. Pich?n
holds, has already been decided by the
i acceptance of Presieient Wilson's point
J relative to righting the wrong of 1870.
! The elections to be helei shortly in
? Alsace-Lorraine, he added, would af
I ford occasion to confirm that under?
standing and ho predicted that not a
single delegate would be elected to the
French Chamber of Deputies from the
recovered provinces who would oppost
1 their return to France.
The French government, the ministei
said, opposes the projected union ot
the German part of Austria to Ger?
many, which matter is now bein?:
studied by a commission.
Experts Plan
Boycott to Arm
World League
Check on Raw Materials
Finances and Product!
Urged by Business Mei
WASHINGTON, Fen. 16.-?America:
financial and trade representatives no\
in Europe have devised extensive plan
for using the economic boycott as
weapon against nations failing to abid
by the decrees of the proposed leagu
of nations. According to official infoi
mation here to-day, they are preparin
to urge upon the peace conferenc
adoption of measures making possibl
close international cooperation in th
application of economic pressure to vc
place the use of armed force to a gres
extent.
No specific machinery for puttin
into e'fi'ect measures of economic boj
cott has been agreed upon., even by th
American representatives, pending fin
thcr development, of the plan for tli
league of nations. It has been suj
gested, however, that some sort of it
ternational trade commission be estai
lished to gather information conceri
ing the commercial, industrial an
financial operations of each country.
Officials of t'ne United States Treasur
the Department of Commerce and tl
War Trade Board familiar with t?
plans eif 'he American representative
at Paris said to-day this body migi
he intrusted with powers to investiga
unfair trade practice-, which mig]
easily develop into international irrif
tion and war, as well as to set in m
tion the economic for?es against n
tions transgressing international agre
ment s.
Fuder the American plan the mani
u'ation of the supply ef raw materia
and of purchase of manufactured pro
nets and of financial arrangements b
tween countries would be the princir
means of effecting a boycott. If the
measures could be made thoroughly^
fective, the American representativ
believe, they often would eliminate t
necessity of using arme?! force.
The international ce remission al
might develop broad constructive pow
to work out better plan- for in ten
tional financial cooperation, sue!;
establishment of a foreign exchan
gold pool and standardization of t
multitude? of trade laws and practic
The international high commission,
eluding only North anei South Ame
can nation?, might be taken ai a p
tern for development of some of t
functions.
Officials said the American p!;
which will be unfolded gradually a
subjected to general discussion, woi
necessitate continued cooperation 1
tween t'ne government a44.el business
this country and possibly modificatic
of the anti-trust laws or their appli
tion.
Eco nom is t Ad v is es
Inter-Allied Bureau
To Handle Indem ni
PARIS, Feb. 16 (By The Associa
Press). An inter-allied financial
linr.ee is strongly advocated by
iiund Tliery. the French economist,
the "Figaro." It should tak?? the fc
->f a special organization, he says,
receive for join! account nil si
laid by Germany, Austria-Hungt
Bulgaria and Turkey, which it. wo
transform into liquidation bonds.
be distributed among the Allies."
M. Thery suggests that after
signing of pe-ae-r the richest ente
nations will seek to consolidate tl
financial situation as rapidly as |
?ible on n golel basis. Sueh consol
lion wotilel augment the? difficulties
the less favored allies in e-onvortin
???old the claims they recover from
onemy.
France had given her full support
to the league of nations, but that there
was need of measures in addition to
'.':?? plan as it stood had been voiced
by ?VI. Bourgeois. Unanimity would be
preserved, however, in the discussion.
Amendments will be offered and will
be referred to a special commission,
whose work will go on in the absence
of President Wilson, as capable men
bad been left to represent the Presi
; der.t.
An effort will be made to-morrow to
] find a solution to the Russian question,
which, M. Pich?n said, was no longer
: merely a question of a conferece at
Prinkipo, but a much broader one.
? Something must be done, he added, to
terminate the present situation there.
Referring to the desire of Holland
to be heard by the conference before
action is taken on the Belgian demand
for the annexation of Dutch territory.
the Minister said the Belgian them?
selves had favored consultation with
: Holland in such event.
Wilson Plea
May Modify
Senate Debate
Party Men Say President
Plans to Strengthen League
Position While at Home
By Carter Field
*?>'."?? York 1 ribann
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.?In the
opinion of mi ny leaders of both parties
here to-night, President Wilson hopes
to go back to France on March 6 in a
much stronger position, as the spokes?
man for the United States, than he :
held on the trip now ending.
Administration leaders who are sup- '
porting the league of nations plan, ]
such as rhairman Hitchcock of th" !
Foreign Relations Committee, do not
think tiiat the President will attempt
to have a resolution put through
either the Senate or both houses of
Congress indorsing the proposed con?
stitution of the league of nations. They
point out that, even two or three vigor?
ous opponents could prevent, in the
short time remaining to the present
Congress, the passage of any such
resolution.
"1 have no advices as to whet the
President desires." said Senator Hitch
cock to-night, "but it would be impossi
blc to pass, a resolution indorsing- the
Ten Commandments before March I."
Mr. Hitchcock speaks from sad ex- ?
perience. Two yea^s ago in the clos-!
ing hours of the Sixty-fourth Congress
he led the fight to fore?" through the
armed neutra.ity bill, which was de-i
feated by the "Wilful Twelve."
Counts on Tacit Approval
Democratic leaders, therefore, expect
that the President is counting not so
much on any positive action as on a :
tacit approval of the proposed league |
of nations.
?n the meantime the President's
request for silence until he gets the
chance to tro over the constitution
"section by section"' with the Senators
and Representatives will have a certain
effect. It will not head off all discus?
sion of the league of nations idea, j
There will certainly be some, probably [
a great deal. But there will be less
than if he had not made that appeal.
The invitation of t!.e fu:l member?
ship of both foreign relations com- !
mittocs to dinner, while it would have
created scarcelj a r?pple in the Roose?
velt or Taft administration is dis?
tinctly an event in the Wilson r?gime..
It is the first time Mr. Wilson has done
anything of the sort. The nearest ap
proach to it was during the Panama .
Canal tolls. light, when all the members
of the Senate committe were invited
to the White House. That was a night
conference rather than a dinner, how- ,
ever, and the House committee mem?
bers were not invited.
Leaders here believe that, the Presi?
dent expects to bring the full force of
his admitted ability to persuade men ?
to his way of thinking to bear during
that dinner, with the result t.h.at the
criticism of the league of h?tions
plan, and of President Wilson himself,
will he so soft and docile that it will
not spring- up to embarrass him in his
fight to obtain final approval for the
plan from the peace conference on h?3
return.
Points to Clemenceau Conflicts
It is pointed out that virtually every
dispatch from Paris tells of the con?
stant conflict between the President
and the French Premier, Clemenceau,
not only on the league itself but on ,
lb?1 economic blockade of Germany
and other very important points to be
determined bv the peace conference.
Evidently the President, just before
leaving Paris, discussed very- frankly
this difference with M. Clemenceau.
telling visitors that Clemenceau had.
called him the "most stubborn man" he
had ever met. At. the same time the ?
President made it clear that he rc
?garded this economic question of rais- i
ing the blockade on Germany as of the
highest importance. The dispatches all
agree that he spoke of it with the ut?
most earnestness.
Men reaching Washington from'
France in the last few ?lajs say that ?
('ont in tied on next page
Truce Must Be Signed by
6 o'CIock Sunday Is
His Final Ultimatum
Terms of Tre.ilv
Cannot Be Altered
Erzberger Warne?! That
Agreement Will Lapse
on the Hour Specified
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 16. ?Replying
? to a request by Mathias Erzberger,
head of the German Armistice Com
! mission, for a delay in the signing of
| the armistice terms until .Monday
I noon. Marsha! Poch declared that the
i armistice expired at 5 o'clock Mon?
day morning, and that the last hour
for signing would he 6 o'clock Sunday
afternoon, in order to be able to issue
the necessary orders to the troops.
If not signed then. Marshal Foeh
saiel, he would be obliged to leave
Tr?ves, and the armistice would no
I longer be in force.
Answering Erzberger's counter dc
I man?is, Marshal Foch said the new ar?
mistice terms had been fixed by the
beads of the associated governments
and that he was unable to alter them.
A Weimar dispatch under date
of Saturday, February 15, says
the German government requested
an extension of twenty-four hour?
in which to reply to Marshal
Foch's proposal for a prolongation of
the armistice. It was urged that,
owing te? delay in receiving the armis?
tice commission's report, a reply could
not be returned by o' o'clock, as fixed
by Marshal Focb.
A Havas dispatch from Basel Satur?
day night reported that the armistice
had been extended indefinitely, and that
the Germans are required to eras? th? . r
offensive against the Poles and carry
out the previous terms of the: armis?
tice until completed.
Foch Ex pert et I to F se
Iron Hand to Make
Teutons Accept Terms
Nein i <?>'?? T. ?
.?? p-ein! Cnhle Se I ???<
?e ?[,? right. 1918 S'ew Toi h i
PARIS. Feb. 16.?The armistice ne?
gotiations ?.t Tr?ves are the subject
of the deepest, interest The possibil?
ity is seen that Marshal Foch will find
it necessary to insist vigorously on
the. new conditions. It is suggested
that Herr Erzberger, chief of the Gci ?
man delegation, is tho object of vi?
olent attacks in Germany.
Moreover, the National Assembly at
Weimar insists upon control o
conditions before they are signed.
Herein is a possibility of a waste o?
time, which Marshal Foch. ??.-..
empowered, will not countenanc
Coinciding with the armistice d scuts*
sion.the Epeech of German Foreign Min?
ister Count Brockdorff-Rantzau arouses
the suspicion that the German i are plan?
ning 'a definite move. The "Intran?
sigeant" remarks: "What is disquiet?
ing in the menacing tone <>r Germany
is not the eventuality of the resump?
tion of hostilities?materially impos?
sible on her part?but the certainty
that it gives us that her spirit is un?
changed."
The hope that Germany would come
to herself, says the paper, must be re?
nounced. "Germany is to-day ju-jt
what she was in the spring of 1918,
when the? surprise at the Chemin dea
Dames gave her fabulous hopes and
when in the Forest of Pinon Kaiser Wil?
helm pronounced that arrogant speech,
predicting the signature in Paris to a
crushing peace to wh:ch be saw us con?
strained before the ?summer."
The "Temps" sees in BrockdortFs
speech the indication of the adoption
of the traditional German policy of re?
liance on the- colossal, ill-organized
Russian mass for trie? crushing of the
intervening nations and the struggle
against the Western powers.
"It should not be? thought that this
combination has ceased to be danger?
ous for the peace of the world." says
the newspaper. "Russia overturned
finds ?4: Germany instructors ami in?
dustrial material. Germany blockaded
finds in Russia raw materials and hu?
man material in abundance. If this
cooperation is organized rather if it
continues, for the Ce'rmans and Bol?
shevik; have never ceased to help each
other against us Germany, to which
is added German Austria, would have
gained infinitely more in the war than
she? lost. In a few years she would
possess an immense colonial empire,
.stretching from Polan-1 to Siberia."
/Veit? German Peril
Seen in Chemical
H capons of Future
PARIS. Feb. 15 (By The Associated
Press). "There never has been any
disagreement on the fundamental prin
ciple's of a league of nations between
the French delegates and the delegate?
of the other powers," saiei Professor
Ferelinand l,amande, dean of the Paris
Law Faculty and one of the French
delegates on the league of nations com-,
mission, to day.
"The only differences of opinion
were those expressed yesterday by