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Heavy Clouds
Gather Behind
British Ministry
Increasing Power of Labor
Party Expected to Manifest
Itself When Parliament
Reassembles on Tuesday
Home Rule Bill Redrafted
Money Situation, National?
isation Question and Irish
Problem Vital Subjects
LONDON, Feb. 8.-The British Par?
liament will reassemble Tuesday with
aeveral ot the weightiest problems of
reconstruction still hanging over its
head. The financial situation, the
Question of nationalization of mines
and railroads, and the Trish problem
are three of the most important sub?
jects with which the session is ex?
pected to grapple without delay.
Forecasts of King George's speech
predict it will be an unusually long
and important pronouncement. The
King's speech, read by His,Majesty,
but framed by the Cabinet, customarily
points out the principal topics of na?
tional interest and frequently fore
rhadows the course of legislation. The
full dress debate which follows the
King's speech gives an opportunity for
members of Parliament to engage in
irt? discussion over a wide range of
subjects.
Premier Lloyd George is expected to
begin the session with a review of the
general state of Europe and of the
British policy toward various develop
ment'j, such he relations with Russia
and the Polish and Italian situations.
The Laborites promise to move an
amendment providing for nationaliza?
tion ot mi?es, while the small delega?
tion of the Inish Nationalist party still
left in the House of Commons is ex?
pected to atttack the government's
policy o? repression, which they blame
for Irish disorders.
Among an' cuncements expected at
the opening se- ?ion is a statement of
whether the government favors the
proposed International conference for
discussing the world's ?mandai ail?
ments. Confirmation also is expected
of the government's previous state?
ments that Great Britain has pot con?
sidered asking further loans from the
United States.
Home P-ule BUI Overhauled
The Home Rule bill probably will be
brought forward at an early day, the
Cabinet having overhauled it during
the past week a^ conferences with Vis
coujnt French Lord Lieutenant and
Governor General of Ireland, and James
Ian ' McPherson, ' Chief Secretary for
Ireland. The bill may prove consid?
erably different from that which had
been expected. One proposal which is
finding support in England is that it
should be made an enabling bill rather
than one which would impose a new
system upon Inland, leaving it to the
Irish people to decide by some form of
referendum whether they will accept
it and try to put it into effect.
Heavy clouds appear to be gathering
behipd the coalition government, owing
to ?he steadily increasing power of the
Labor party. Some of the best informed
po?tic'ana profess to see the "hand
imp on the wall" that the formation
of'a-tew Ministry by the Laborites is
only a question of time and that the
hour'may strike, within the next few
?months.
.George Nicoll Barnes and George H.
Roberts, the last two Labor Ministers
in Premier Lloyd George's Cabinet,
have resigned, leaving the coalition
government without any representa?
tion of the party which recent by
elections have indicated is now numeri?
cally the largest political organization
in Great Britain. Meanwhile, men of i
widely differenFtypes, such as Viscount!
Ileldane and Admiral Sir John Arbuth- i
not Fisher, have come out for Labor.
Viscount llaldane, who was one of \
the most conservative members of the i
old Liberal government which brought
Great Britain into the war and a close
political friend of Herbert H. Asquith
and Viscount Grey, throw a bomb into
that group when he gave an interview
declaring that "the Labor party alone
has a vision which will enable it to
possess and sorve the future."
Henderson Possible Premier
Speculation as to the personnel of
the next Cabinet udvanees Arthur
Henderson, the Laborite leader, as a
possible Premier, Viscount Haldane as
Lord Chancellor, und Professor John
Laynard Keynes, British delegate on
the reparation eub-commissio? of the
Feace conference, and whose defection
rom the peace conference and book
dissecting the Treaty of Versailles
have made him one of the most promi?
nent personages of the day, as Chan?
cellor of the Exchequer.
Nationalization of industry and
opposition to armaments are two of the
strongest planks in the Labor program.
Premier Lloyd George contemplates a
bill giving the miners a large share
in the management of mines, but this
week refused a suggestion made by
representatives of the miners that he
embody in the bill the recommenda?
tions of the Sankey commission for a
large measure of nationalization. Talk
o? direct action, which means a gen?
eral strike to bring about nationaliza?
tion, has been revived.
Tho Paisley by-election, where
former Premier Asquith is making a
strong campaign for election to the
House of Commons on a Liberal plat?
form, is tho locus of political interest.
The result may not be the verdict of
the parties' relative strength, how?
ever, as numerous conservative Jour?
nals, even including "The Spectator,"
arc urging tho Conservatives to vote
for Asquith without indorsing his
principles, but on the ground that the
abilities of such a great parliamen
SfflnProSBm
OH-BOY
LAMPS
and
SEX SHADES
?Tost a suggestion from the un?
usual values in original homo
furnishings at McHujrh'i dur?
ing February at Jj$-40,38%
discpunt.
MCHUGH
Lady Bonham-Carter
She was Violet Asquith, daughter of Herbert H. Asquith, formerly
British Premier. She is said to have been invited to contest a constitu?
ency for Parliament, and is considering the proposal.
tarlan should not be lost to the
country in the present critical times?.
Wires Down in Ireland;
Sinn Feiner s Blamed]
_
interruption of Communication ?
Believed to indicate Renewal i
of Revolutionary An livitie.i !
BELFAST, Ireland, Feb. 8.?Tele?
phonic and telegraphic communication
between Droghoda and Dublin ceased .'
for public purposes at midnight. Ge .- ,
era] opinion associates the cessation
with Sinn Fein activity meant to syn?
chronize with the opening of the Brit?
ish Parliament.
LONDON, Feb. 8.?A dispatch tc
"The Manchester Guardian" from Bel?
fast says that much comment hrs been \
aroused by a speech made by Vis?
countess Massereene at. a Unionist
meeting in Antrinit in which she de?
clared Ulster was determined never to
surrender it3 rights and that if any
attempt was made to sever her from
the British Empire men will .swarm
over from England and Scotland to
assist against "the common enemy."
"The enemy is at our gates and must i
be fought," she concluded, "let's arm
ourselves with a clear consciousness ]
that Ulster will never surrender an i
inch of her soil or title of rights to the :
insidious bloody foe. And when the
time comes, let us be ready as ohe man j
to strike for the. Protestant faith, lib- i
erty, King and country, and the land |
: of Ulster will deliver such a buffet to j
i our enemies that these people will carry i
I its mark to the scaffold and grave." j
Separation Denied From
Man Who Scrubbed Floor
Court Tells Woman Husband j
Who Washes Dishes Cannot
Be "Virtuous Tyrant" ;
Supreme Court Justice Morschauser,
at White Plains, has denied the appli?
cation of Mrs. Ang?lique Reese for a
? separation from Richmond Jaffray
I Reese, Now York lawyer. The justice
cites the facts, brought out In testi?
mony, that Reese usad to wash the
dishes and scrub the floors for his wife
and cook his own breakfast, as refuta?
tion of her complaint tliat he was a
"virtuous tyrant." Reese is forty-two
and MrB. Reese twenty-live.
Witnesses for Reese told the court
I that his wife was affectionate toward ',
him in public, frequently addressing
him as "Pi?gy Pie" and "Wooly Lamb.
A letter written by Mrs. Reese declared
her husband was "so good he is im?
possible."
"The most serious charges failed in
proof," said Justice Morschauser. "The
defendant was very considerate of his
wife, The plaintiff is of a very quick
temper and was very exacting of the
defendant. He tolerated much of her
conduct.'' He washed the dishes, got
his own breakfast and even scrubbed
the floors at times. There seems to be
a prevalent notion that when husband
and wife have occasional unhappy dif?
ferences they can be separated by law.
This idea is a mistaken om:. It is the
policy of the law to keep husband and
wife together to carry out their marital
relations, and not to encourage separ?
ation; that the parties are not mated
is no reason why they should be sep?
arated. Separations are not to ho
tolerated for slight causes or occa?
sional unhappy differences or when
mutual love and affection, harmony and
peace have been temporarily suspended.
Occasional discord and striftr or mutual
aversion between husband and wife is
not a sufficient reason for separation."
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Alien Land Bill Urged
By French Government
PARIS, Feb. 8.-A bill Just intro?
duced in the Chamber of Deputies by
the government would prohibit foreign?
ers from acquiring or leasing houses
and real estate In any department on
the frontiers for a period of eighteen
years without authorization by the
Minister of the Interior.
Another bill presented dealing with
foreigners residing in France perman?
ently or temporarily would give them
lrandom of access, no passport beim:
demanded at the frontier. But this
bill stipulates control of the foreign?
ers would be exercised in tho case of
travelers or tourists by obligatory
declaration of identity and nationality
?t a hotel or other place or residence,
or In case of those remaining perman?
ently by the obtaining of a card of
identification.
Foreigners desiring to carry on com?
merce or industry, not including manual
labor or professional work, would be
required to make ?pedal declaration
at the <?ity Hall. -
French Exchange
Crisis Laid to U. S.
And British Action
Stockholdere of Bank of
France Told Interruption
01 Advances Ha? Caused
the Alarming Situation
PARIS. Feb.. 8.?Georges ' Pallain,'
governor of the Rank of France, ex?
plaining last night to a meeting of
stockholders the alarming situation
with regard to exchange, declared that
it was caused by the interruption of
advances Irom the English and Amer?
ican treasuries, which had thrown the
market on its own resources at the
moment the burdens of Franco became
heavier, through purchases for indus?
trial reconstruction.
."Le Journal," commenting on M.
Pallain's declaration, eays the difficult
situation is due to the lack of financial
solidarity on the part of the Allies.
In an editorial dealing with the ex?
change situation Andre Liesse, member
of the institute end editor of the
weekly financial journal "Economiste,"
points out that, in spite of ail the rec?
ommendations not to increase imports,
it is impossible to renounce the ob
tuining of raw mat?riels indispensable
to industries and economic resurrection
and foodstuffs such aa wheat.
"if tli? reproaches of the United
Slate.-, that ' wo have shown want of
foresight in our economic, and financial
policy since the armistice are exag?
gerated, because our transatlantic
critics are unable to appreciate the
depth and seriousness of our wounds,
i many of them are deserved," M. Liesse
says.
The writer admits that there has
been a lack of coherent policy, but de?
clare? individual initiative has pro?
duced results, proving it has been able
to act. With regard to international
conferences to remedy exchange, M.
Liosse does not seem hopeful. He says;
"Opiriona may differ as regards the re?
sults such conferences would give if
they could be held. They could hardly
take positive resolutions, owing to the
private interests involved. It is to be
hoped they would not involve too many
delegates, as that would result in fail?
ure. The delegates should bring defi?
nite plans fropa the governments and
the financial, commercial and industria]
, groups they represent."
In th;r suggestion of Carter Glass
i Secretary of the United States Treas?
ury, that European countries permit
the export of gold, M. Liesse sees i'l
kind of irony.' He points out thai
the 3,000,000,000 francs of France's
gold reserve would not weigh mucl
in comparison with the 20,000,000,000
franc deficit between her imports ant
exports last year. England, with he;
3,000,000,000 francs ox gold reserve, ii
not in a much belter position, he says
M. Liesse declares he thinks it pos
sJbie that loans cqvl?c] be raised fron
i American banks to finance exclusivel;
? the purcaase of raw materials and in
I dispensable foodstuffs. He coiicludes
'"America's leading motive is 'bulanc
j your receipts and expenses.' A gooi
commencement will be to reimburs
! the Bank of France with part of th
I forthcoming loan,Which will certuinl;
I be an element of confidence in the eye
1 o? those from who we demand credit.
MADRID, Feb. 8.?Dollars, whic
! evon some of the big banks fail t
I quote oil tho official lists posted a
j their entra?es?, had their innings las
week. Legitimate business demand
sent tho dollar up to 5.87 on Thursdaj
It declined to 5.70 on Friday and yes
terday hovered around 5.75.
British Trade
Acts to Ease
Exchange Crisis
Unless Situation Improved
England Is Bound to Turn
to Russia for Relief After
Some Political Moves
Appreciates U.S. Posilion
Germany and Austria Have
Nothing to Give in Return
for Britain's Raw Goods
By Arthur S. Draper
/''root The Tribune's European Bureau
(Copyright, 10?0, IS'ow York Trlbutin Inc.)
LONDON, Feb. 8.?British big busi?
ness appreciates fully the American
position regarding the exchange sit?
uation and already has undertaken
measures to relieve it. Unless ex- \
change improves England is bound to
turn to Russia for relief. Before any
material aid can be expected from that
quarter some political steps must be
taken.
A start was made when negotiations
were opened for dealing with the Rus?
sian cooperative societies. The next
move would be tho recognition of the
L?nine government and an offer to es
ablish relations for mutual material
sistancc. Max Litvinoft*, the Bol
levist representative, who was here
r a time in 1918 and who is now in
openhagen negotiating with Jamen
'Grady, the British labor leader and
incial ' envoy, might resume his old
ace hero, but u.ider much more favor
hie circumstances.
So far as relations with Germany
?nd Austria are concerned, Great
Britain has some raw materials avail?
able for trade, but the former enemy
nations have nothing to give in re?
turn. Great Britain might supply
the materials on condition that Ger?
many manufacture what she, required
for home consumption and reexport,
even to America. Tho feeling, toward
Germany and Austria is no longer so
intensely bitter and the government
could justify any action which it
thought wise to take.
Some banks here have already in?
timated their intention of stopping
further credits for the purchase of
American goods, unless these bo food
ur essential raw materials. Tho cotton I
smash encourages the British to be- j
lieve that this attitude would be bene?
ficial. Liverpool and Manchester are
tremendously excited over the decline
and mill hands are worried about the
future. Of tho large stocks of cotton'
held here, Americans are purchasing i
a considerable part at a figure, based j
on the exchange rate, lower than the
original price in New York.
An immediate lowering of tho cost
of living in tho United States is pre?
dicted here if exchange i ??mains at its
present figure. Mans for an interna?
tional ?conomie conference have
reached the point where views aro be?
ing exchanged ';V cable. It un?
doubtedly will be held in London.
French to Study Living Costs
Cabinet Names Commissions
Similar lo Those in U. S.
PARIS, Feb. 8.- The Cabinet, at a
meeting to-day decided to constitute
commissions analogous to those in the
United States and England, charged '
?with following the variations in prices j
of articles indispensable to life, to en?
able the government to take necessary!
action. The temporary indemnity for I
the high cost of living now allowed by j
the state is to be maintained until |
these commissions have reported.
M. Fran'OoiB-Marsal, the Finance
Minister, described the financial posi?
tion to the Cabinet and submitted ?
proposals for new taxation and the re- !
duction of budgetary expenses. The \
Cabinet, after an examination of the |
situation, decided that the 47,500,000,- !
000 francs ($0,500,01)0,000' previously!
estimated for the budget should be I
compressed to i?9,000,000,000 francs I
: ($7,800,000,000).
U, S. Consul Weds at Sea
Swedish Girl Is Bride of Repre?
sentative at Gothenburg
COPENHAGEN, Fob. 8.?Donald In
gram, American Gonpul at Gothenburg,
and Miss Ingcborg Alvomist, a Swedish
girl, were married on the American
ship St. Augustin, three miles off. the
coast of Sweden, Thur.-'day.
The plan of going outside of Swe?
den's territorial waters wus adopted
because of the extreme difficulties con?
fronted by a foreigner who seek3' to
marry in Sweden. The couple were
married by an English minister in the
presence of a small wedding party
which accompanied them to sea.
They are passing their honeymoon in
this city.
War Widow I Insets Wedding
Carlotta Giorgini, a widow with one
child, came, all tha way from Italy to
Ellis Island to marry Pasquale Gra
ziano, whom she had never seen. She
took one look at him and tha four little
Grnzianon and is now pleading that
they send her back to Italy.
"1 would rather take deportation than
marry him," she told the immigration
officials. "They never told me he had
four children."
"They" are friends of Carlotta in
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., who arranged the
: match before she started from Italy.
It is probable the woman will be de
| ported. Her husband was killed in the
I war.
j Sicilians iJse Sign Language
In Sicily the language of signs is uni
j versal. It is perfectly possible for a
Sicilian to carry on a long converea
j tion from a distance with hands, eye
j brows, lips and even nostrils. Even the
j children aro expert in silent commu?
nication, and when using ordinary
I speech they accompany their words
i with most expressive gestures.
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Berlin Fears
Civil War in
Call for Guilty
Continued from page 1
court, but mafce the following common '
declaration in the German language:
"I have merely done my duty as a-!
Gorman soldier. As such I refuse to
recognize u foreign court, and also de
cline to make any further statement."
One of the Germans demanded by
Poland for war crimes is Herr von
Kries, Vice-President of the Prussian
Diet. Herr von Kries was chief of the
civil administration of the occupied
districts of Poland during tho war.
PARIS, Feb. 8.?The more prominent
names on the extradition list are pub?
lished by the newspapers this morning.
Most of them adopt a pessimistic atti?
tude regarding the probability of Ger?
many giving up the accused persons,
and virtually all the papers dwell upon
what one of them terms "the change in
policy of Lloyd George."
The "Matin" says: "Asking for the
extradition of the generalissimo, the
former Chancellor and the admiral is
an act to which the high Allied com?
mand probably would not have sub?
scribed. Unless the delivery of the
former Kaiser is exacted from Holland,
von Hindenburg, Bethmann-Hollweg
and von Tirpitz can hide behind his
responsibility. Germany can plead in?
ability to arrest the culprits."
"L'Homme Libre" sa; s: "This is the
most critical phase of the execution of
the treaty. German resistance is as?
suming an intensity heretofore un?
known."
''L'Oeuvre" comments tersely: "The
Allied governments hesitatingly are
requesting the extradition and Ger?
many is unhesitatingly refusing."
"It is certain," says the "Petit Pari?
sien," "that as long as the officers and
diplomats of the former r?gime remain
all-powerful in Germany we cannot
hope for sincere adhesion to the Treaty
of Versailles."
GENEVA,. Feb. 8.? Anxiety is grow?
ing in Swiss official quarters lest many
Germans accused by the Allies of war
crimes enter Switzerland to escape
liability under the peace treaty.
Archduke Joseph in List
Of Austrian Criminals
Extradition May Be Complicat?
ed Because Many Named
?Ave in Neutral Countries
BASEL, Feb. 8.?The list of persons
charged with war crimes whom Austria
must deliver over to the Allies will be
handed to tho Austrian government at
an early date, according to a Vienna
dispatch. It is ready, but will be ex?
amined by the representatives at Paris
of Jugo-SIavia, Poland, Rumania and
Czecho-Slovakia.
The list is not long, but includes
Archduke Joseph, Field Marshal Arz
von Straussenburg, Field Marshal von
Koevess, General Potiorek, Governor of
Bosnia; Field Marshal von Broevic and
Count von Berchtold, former Austrian
Foreign Minister,
The extradition will be complicated,
It is said, because several of those
named are at present in neutral coun?
tries and others are citizens of states
which are friendly to the Entente.
Proposal Made to Allied
Power to Waive Demand
Germany Said To Be Ready
to Purchase Renunciation of
Order for Surrender of Guilty
LONDON, Feb. 9.?Germany has been
trying to detach one of the Allies from
the extradition demand by offering to
conclude a treaty with the power, ac?
cording to a statement attributed to
Mathias Er/,b?;rger, German Vice-Pre?
mier and Minister of Finance, by "The
Daily Mail's" Berlin correspondent. He
is reported as saying:
"I have gone so far as to be ready
to purchase the renunciation of this
surrender demand by the Allies at the
price of sacrifices of other kings. I
have, negotiated with one Allied power,
declaring myself ready to conclude the
negotiations if this power is willing to
bring its influence to bear over the
other Allies. Unfortunately, the assur?
ance given to one of my ministerial col?
leagues and m; self has not been kept."
"The Daily Mail's" correspondent
learns that the negotiations were of a
technical nature and did not conflict
with the spirit of the peace treaty, and
that the German government supposes
the negotiations have been reported to
I the other Allies.
ZURICH, Feb. 8.?Swiss newspapers
publish this evening what apparently
is an official or semi-official note say?
ing the government would refuse to
have Germans accused of war crimes
by the Allies tried in Switzerland, in
the event this is proposed by Germany.
The view is held here that Germany
may suggest this in reply to the En?
tente's note.
?Ripe Olive Deaths Now Six
Only One of Luncheon Party
Remains Alive
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 8.?Fatalities
attributed to poisoning due to eating
preserved ripe olives, served at a
luncheon here last Thursday, were in?
creased to six to-day with tha death
of ?!urrie Ivy, ten years old, son of
Uzell K. Ivy, who waa among those
who died yesterday.
Mrs. Ivy, the only one of the lunch?
eon party now alive, was reported in
a critical condition to-night.
British Land at Pandemia
Action Follows Capture by
Turks of Arms at Akbarh
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 8 (By The
Associated Press).?British marines
have landed at Panderma, the northern
terminus of the railway to Smyrna.
This action was taken because of the
recent capture by the Turks of a Tur?
kish arms depot at Akbarh, near
Chanek, on the Dardanelles. Small de?
tachments of the British are on guard.
Thus far there have been no casualties.
. French troops also have reinforced
the gendarmerie at Adrianople, and it
is reported that British artillery has
been landed at Ismid, the terminus of
the ^Bagdad railway.
?
Danes in Schleswig Plan
Fete for Plebiscite Day
HADERSLABEN, Schleswig, Feb. 8.?
Eleven committees are working ear?
nestly to make the plebiscite in this dis?
trict a day long to be remembered.
Following an old Danish yeoman cus?
tom, gaily-dressed heralds will ride
on horseback from house to house in?
viting the populace to join in the fes?
tivities. Though plebiscite day has
been fixed as Wednesday, services will
be held in all the churches, the Danish
worshippers going straight from church
to the poils.
Civilians Resent Being Barred
From Spanish War Ministry
MADRID, Feb. 8.?Resentment has
been aroused here, where the people
aro 60 firm in the maintenance of their
privileges, by an order of the Minister
of War prohibiting civilians from en?
tering the precincts of the War Minis?
try for any. purpose. It is stated that
the law gives every citizen the privi?
lege of entering any public office and
demanding to see official documents in
which he personally is interested.
Johnson HI of Influenza
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.--Senator
Hiram Johnson, of California, who is
ill at his home here with influenza, to?
night was reported by his physician to
be "about the same." The Senator has
been confined to his bed for several
days, but his condition was said not
to be serious.
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Odessa Seized
By 'Reds'; U. S.
Aids Refugees
Bolshevik i Force Way Into
Black Sea Port; Tell
of Bombardment by Brit?
ish Ships Lasting 2 Pays
Foreign Colonie? Depart
American Merchant Ship
Shelters Suffering; De?
stroyer Also in Harbor
LONDON, Feb. 8.?Bolsheviki troops
i have victoriously entered Odessa, ac
cording to a wireless message sent
out to-day by the Soviet government
?j at Moscow.
j A Bolshevik communication says:
"We fought our way into Odessa In
i he direction of Stavropol, we occupied
i Friedrichsfeld, Konstantinovka and
: Blagodatnoyi."
[Dispatches early last week reported
tho capture of Odessa by Ukrainian
forces. Later advices stated that a
large part of the Odessa garrison,
troop3 o? General Denikine, were made
prisoner when Odessa was taken and
that other Denikine troops were dis
armed in Rumanian territory.]
! CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 8 (By The
Associated PreBs;. ? Messages from
Odessa say the foreign elements began
evacuating the city on Friday when
British ships fired over the city
i throughout the day. The Bolsheviki
are reported to be within four miles
' of the city.
The British battleships Ajax and
Marlborough, the light cruiser Ceres
and the American destroyer Talbot are
at Odessa.
Two hundred sick and 150 refugees
from Odessa were taken aboard the
American merchant vessel Navahoe, the
advices say. The poiicy is to remove
the sick and wounded and women a:id
children first, and then the men who
have been actively opposing the Bol?
sheviki.
TOKIO, Feb. 8.?Count Tsunetada
Kato, special Ambassador of Japan to
Siberia, in an interview at Seoul on his
way here from Omsk, said that Japan
was compelled either to withdraw her
? troops from Siberia or to determine to
; assist Russia unreservedly and find a
j new center of influence in Siberia with
| which to cooperate. He declared that
the Cossacks undoubtedly were still an
influence in Russia.
It is officially reported that Vladi?
vostok is under martial law.
HELSINGFORS, Finland, Feb. 8.?
George Lansbury, formerly a Socialist
member, of the British House of Com?
mons, has departed for Petrograd
bearing a power of attorney from the
Finnish Foreign Minister authorizing
him to negotiate for the release of
Finnish prisoners held in Soviet Russia.
Russian Peace or Strike,
Assert Polish Socialists
WARSAW, Feb. 8.?The Socialists an?
nounce that a general strike will be
procljinved throughout Poland if the
government rejects the Bolshevik peace
offer. They assert that all the labor
parties, would support such a strike.
The chief council of the Polish So?
cialist party to-day passed a resolution
demanding the immediate opening of
peace''negotiations upon the basis of
recognition of the independence of
Poland and other nations that pro?
claimed the desire to exist as free
states after the fall of the Russian
Czar. The council has called a confer?
ence of trades unions, workmen's coun?
cils and Socialist members of the Diet
to consider action to influence the
government. I
Germany Declared Stagnant
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H. S. Dudley Says Central Em?
pire Needs Food Badly
H. S. Dudley, president of the Anglo
American Corporation, who has been
abroad on a business trip, returned
yesterday on the White Star liner
Adriatic from Southampton with the
opinion that Germany and Austria
must be fed. Germany, he said, was
stagnant with nothing to sell and noth?
ing manufactured. He believed unless
the people of the? Central Empires are
fed soon Bolshevism will sweep cen?
tral Europe. He said if the rate of ex?
change drops much lower all imports
from this country will stop.
Among others on the Adriatic were
J. F. Byrnes, Mrs. Joseph Lindon
Smith, Samuel Vauclain, Clarence E.
Searle, Viscount Ronald Clarges Jervis,
his daughter, the Hon. Ivy Lorna Jer?
vis; Christian Storjohann, vice-presi?
dent of the Swedish Sulphite Manu?
facturers' Association; Baron John
Mannerheim, known as the wood pulp
king of Sweden; Lady Lucille Green
Price, Algernon Aspinall and Wilfred
Purfoy.
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the Democrats can obtain in the forth?
coming Se?are battle.
"I think the President's letter he?pi
the situation in the Senate," .^aid Sen.
ator Hitchcock, "lie goe? further in it
than he has ever before gone in th?
matter of reservations."
Senator Walsh, of Montana, who was
one of the Democratic member? of the
bi-partisan conference that reached M
agreement ten days ago on all reser?
vations except those on Article X and
the Monroe Doctrine, expressed the
opinion that President Wilson wpuid
accept "the best the Democrats csi? -
get."
"The President's letter to Senator
Hitchcock does not affect the treat/
situation in the Senate," Senator Waisi
said. "I cannot ; elieye the President
will discard the work of the frier.di
of the treaty when we have dene th?
best we can. I think we are going to
get together on the treaty."
Senator McKeUar, of Tennessee, g
Bryan follower and one of the princi?
pal Democratic advocates of a com?
promise on reservations, said that many
Democratic Senators will supporta mod?
ified form o? the Lodge reservation on
Article X, but he declared there will
be no revolt against the President.
"There is no disposition to further
conip icate the situation by agreeing to
something that the President would
not accept," said Senator McKellar.
"A great many Democrats, however, un-,
doubtedly would support a modified
form of the Lodge reservation on Arr
ticie X, in the belief that the Presi?
dent would accept it if it was the belt
that he could get."
Borah Sees Stumbling Block
Senator Borah, of Idaho, leader ef
the Republican "irreconcilables," de?
clared the treaty should not be called
up in view of the President's declara?
tion in his letter that he would not
accept any reservation on Article X
that specified the United States as?
sumed no obligations under the league
covenant to protect the territorial in?
tegrity and political independence ef
other nations.
Senator New, of Indiana, one of the
"middle ground" Republican Senators
who favor ratification with strong res?
ervations, said:
"The President continues to be the
one great obstacle to ratification of the
treaty. His letter shows that he con?
tinues to oppose ratification on a basis
that is acceptable to our associates,
satisfactory to the world and duly safe?
guarding the interesta of the United
States.
Treaty Being Violated
By German Exporten
French Brokers See Need for
Action to Control System of
International Payments
PARIS, Feb. 8.?Leading brokers here
appear to agree that an international
finance conference cannot apply any
permanent remedy to the situation, but
believe that some arrangement may be
made lor credits that will greatly im?
prove it. They point out the methods
of the German exporters as showing
the necessity of action to control in?
ternational payments.
All offers of goods made from Ger?
many to French buyers stipulate that
payment shall be made in Swiss francs.
This is calculated to improve German
exchange in Switzerland, while, at th?
same time, lowering the value of French
francs in comparison with the Swiss,
the German exporters thus gaining
both ways.
r is eid here that the Germans are
trying in this way to avoid the terms
or the treaty of Versailles. It is fur?
ther asserted that the Germans are
violating the provision of the treaty
that no export tax shall be imposed on
German goods.
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