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vrrc divided in the war, half of them
fighting with the Germans.
"They fcll in German uniforms," he
<i<'cl;;red,, "and shot down Frenchmen,
British and Italians who were fight?
ing for their freedom.
"I s>.o Korfanty has said that the"
Poles in Silesia would die rather than
svrrender. If they had thought that
carlier, when the battle for Polish
freedom was being foujrht, there would
have been fewer British, French and
Italian lives lost. But they only think
of it wh?n the Germans are disarmed
and hotpless.
"The Polish government has repudi
ated responsibility, and I am bound to
accept that statement a* reprosenting
their views, but it has happened once
too often.
Will Permtt No Defi.ii,. .
"To say to Germany, 'Here is your
province, here is something which haa
been decided by the Treaty of Versailles
either for or against you, but the Poles
are to be allowed in defiance of that
treaty to take it, and you will not be
allowed to defend yourselvcs in a prov?
ince which has been yours for 200
years and which certainly has not been
Polish for 600 years,' is discreditable
nnd not worthy of the honor of any
land. I am not certain that will not
bc the attitude the Allies wili take.
The only thing which I would like to
say in behalf of the government is this:
Whatever happens, we cannot accept a
fait accompli. That would be to per
mit a defiance which might lead to
eonsequences of the most disastrous
kind.
"For the mothent," he said, "we have
overwhelming force on our side and
Germany must submit. But the future
is dark and uncertain, and nobody can
tell what it is charged with. The only
thing I venturo to predict is that force
will count less and less with the
Treaty of Versailles and the honor and
credit of Germany, her signature to
her bond, will count more.
Most Adhero to Treaty
"But if circumstances change and if
the power of thus? 60,000,000 people
very powerful, as we know from ex?
perience, and able, courageous and re
sourceful?becomes more vital because
of changed circumstances, it ought to
and will count more and more.
"Then it would be a bad thing in the
reckoning if Germany can say: 'You
aro asking us to honor our bond, what
did you do with yours? When it was
against us you insisted, you thrcat
ened to blockade us by taking over our
coal mines because you wanted to com
pel us to carry out the Versailles
Treaty. Were you equally as insistent
when Poland defied you over Silesia?'
"We must adhere to the treaty," he
declared, "whether it is for or against
us."
The Prime Minister concluded with
reference to Russia, which he said now
was broken but would be a powerful,
dominant country and would have
word in the future of the world. None
knew, ho said, what Russia's views
would be or with whom she would side.
Those wishing to destroy the Treaty of
Versailles, Mr. Lloyd George declared,
should think of the possibilities of the
rest of Centrai Europe.
Can't Pay if We
Lose Silesia,
Says Dr. Wirth
(Continued from flrst pase)
fact has a tendency to draw that mon
archistic party into the Cabinet. Dr.
Gustav Stresemann, leader of the
People's party, virtuaily apologized
yesterday for his party's refusal to
yield to the Allied ultimatum, but his
statement only provoked a storm of
violent criticism from the Socialist
ctowd which heard him. The Social
,itts accuse the People's party and the
whole Stinnes group of refusing at
the last moment to accept any respon
ribility in the life and death question
of reparations, while persisting in
their appetite for power. It is certain
that the Majority Socialists are trying
to draw the Independent Socialists,
who have righty seats in the Reich?
stag and who approve of the govern
ment's action in yielding to the Allies,
to join the Cabinet and thus assure
the safety of the government. There
il some hope that this can be accom
plished.
Look for Allied Support
Leaders of the Independent Socialist
party have told The Tribune corre
spondent that they are willing to con?
sider joining the ministry if the Peo?
ple's party followers are excluded defi
nitely. Should the Democrats, how?
ever, follow a policy that forced the
withdrawal of the Socialists, the gov?
ernment would have opposition that
would eventually force the dissolution
of the Reichstag ana the calling of
new elections.
The Socialists of both groups oppose
the entrance of the Poople's party into
the government because they believe
that it would raise grave doubt in the
minds of the Allies regarding Ger?
many's good faith in the reparations
question. The maintenance of a gov?
ernment made up of honest Democratic,
Socialist and Centrist elements eager
to find a solution of the present diffi
culties for the benefit of Germany and
the world at large will go far toward
convincing the Allies of the sincerity
of Germany's ??fforts, government lead?
ers believe. But they insist that the
success of the present government de?
pends now largely upon the attitude
cf the Allies toward the Silesian ques?
tion and the treatment they give the
present heads of the Berlin adminis?
tration.
Dr. Goeppert Resigns
BERLIN. May 13 (By The Associated
Press).?Dr. Goeppert, Director of the
Peitee Section of the Foreign Office,
has resigned. He was a close adviser
of Dr. Simons, former Minister of
Foreign Affairs. His resignation is
declared by the Vossische Zeitung to
be due to the fact that he regards the
terms of the Allies, formulated at Lon?
don and accepted by Germany, as ex
ceeding the limits of the peace treaty.
Duesseldorf To Be Held
Until June 1 Payment
French Officers Refuse to
Transmit to Council Request
for Withdrawal of Troops
DUESSELDORF, May 13.?(By ihe
Associated Press)?French autborities
here have declined to transmit to the
Supreme Allied Council the request of
President Gutzburg of the Provineial
government, asking that this city and
the zone about it be evacuated by
Allied troops. The refusal was based
on the ground that the French officials
here were not qualified to communic&te
the President's representations to the
Council.
President Gutzburg was informeu
yesterday that Allied occupation of
Duesseldorf is likely to be maintained
until Germany pays the 1,000,000,000
gold marks due on June 1. The Presi?
dent's request for a withdrawal < f
Allied troops was supported by figures
purportmg to show that occupation of
the Duesseldorf area alone is costing
9,000,000 marks a day.
LONDON, May ' 13.?The German
Reparations Recovery Act. under which
German exports are taxed 50 per cent.
in Great Britain in pursuance of the
Allied plan adopted after the refusal
oi the Germans in March to accept the
Paris terms of the Allies, will not be
abolishcd immediateiy, the House of
Commons wa? informed to-day by Aus
u>n Chambisrl&in, tho Government
leader.
A, Bo Hongiiton
Forecast for
Berlin Envoy
Coming, N. Y., Representa
tiveBacked by Republican
Organization, Hughes and
Party National Leaders
Authority on Economics
Director in Financial Insti
tutions, Received Part
of Education in Germany
By Carter Field
WASHINGTON, May 13.?Alanson B.
Houghton, of Corning, N. Y., probably
will be appointed Ambassador to Ger?
many as soon as diplomatic relations
with that country are reopened, prom
inent New Yorkers here declared to?
day. Mr. Houghton is serving his sec?
ond term in the House of Representa?
tives from the 27th New York District.
His appointment will not only make
a vacancy in the House but will make
room for another member of the New
York Republican delegation on the pow?
erful Ways and Means Committee, to
which Mr. Houghton was transfarred
this year from the Foreign Affairs
Committee.
Both of these eommittees are unusu
ally good for a man of such short serv?
ice in Congress, and demonstrate a
high regard for Mr. Houghton by his
colleagues in the delegation and in the
House.
State Organization Sapports Him
What are regarded as the exccptional
qualifications of Mr. Houghton for the
Berlin post have been strongly urged
on President Harding and Secretary of
State Hughes. In the first place, the
New York Republican organization is
solidly behind him. Senators Wads
worth and Calder have talked person?
ally to the President, and Mr. Hughes
is urging his appointment. while Na?
tional Committeeman Charles D. Hillea
has added his strong indorsement. The
members of the New York Republican
delegation in the House are practically
a unit for him, and such other Repub?
lican leaders in tbe state as Samuel
Koenig and State Chairman George
Glynn have indorsed him.
Getting outside the state organiza?
tion lines, the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, of which Mr. Houghton was
a member for two years, is strong for
him, and several national leaders nave
gone out of their way to urge his ap?
pointment on President Harding.
Secretary of State Hughes. is an old
personal, friend of Mr. Houghton and
is known to have a high admiration for
his abilities. The President is under
stood to be much impressed by the
weight of the indorsements, as well as
the qualifications of Mr. Houghton for
the place. ,
Mr. Houghton, who is one of the
scholars in Congress, has demonstrat
ed keen business ability in the opera?
tion of the Corning Glass Works,
where he is the employer of four thou?
sand men. He 'has personal knowledge
of the labor problem and of the rela?
tions of employer and employee. He is
familiar with financial affairs, being a
director of several banks and of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
Called Authority on Economics
Former Ambassador James Bryca
acknowledged in his. introduction to
the first edition of his "American Com
monwealth" indebtedness to Mr,
Houghton for the chapter on American
finance, Mr. Houghton being a highly
regarded writer on financial and
economic subjects.
Mr. Houghton was educated at St.
Paul's School, at Concord, was grad
uated from Harvard in 1886, and de?
voted the three next years to post
graduate work at the universities of
Gottingen, Berlin, and Paris. He has;
traveled all over Europe, and speaks:
German and French fiuemtly, thus
meeting the strong desire of Mr.
Hughes for diplomats who talk the
language of the covyitry to which they
are accredited.
The appointment of an Ambassador
to Germany will not be made until all
form&lities with regard to the restora
tion of technical peace have been com
pleted. Just when this will be depends
on the working out of the reparations
situation more- than on anything else.
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of
Columbia University, conferred with
the President to-day in regard to appli
cants for appointment to diplomatic
poats. He told the President that in
his estimation the four most important
places within the gift of the govern?
ment to-day are those at Tokio, Peking,
Berlin and Constantinople. Dr. Butler
stated emphatically that he recommend
ed no one for any post, nor did he seek
preferment himself. He said that he
has been tendered diplomatic posts by
eight Presidents, and that he did not
contemplate accepting one at this time,
Commenting on the foreign situation,
he said that German industry was heav
ily subsidized by the government.
David Jayne Hill, former Ambassador
to Germany, called at the Wbite Hbuse
to-day and passed some time with the
Spanish Royalty Near
Death as Car Vpsets
MADRID; May 18.?King Al
fonso and Queen Vlctoria had a
narrow escape from death to-day.
They were motoring to the Hippo
drorae to atrtend the racea when a
tire on their automobile burst,
causing the machine to skid and
finally overtum.
Officers of the military eicort
camo quickly to their aid. The
King and Queen were much
shaken up, but received no serious
injury.
President. He has had several confer?
ences with the Secretary of State, Mr.
Hill denied that he was to be named
Ambassador to Germany. He sails for
Europe May 21 and w.ll be gone for
several months. He ihdicated to the
newspaper men that undoubtedly he
would be named to some diplomatic
post by the President,
Silesia Rebel
Leaders Ask
's
(Continued from first pagn)
General said: "We were not here to
right. French soldiers do not use their
rifles against civilians. The British
and Italians here, naturally, complain,
but their governments should have
given them soldiers to back them up."
General Lerond was not on the
ground when the trouble occurred, but
was ln Paris. When he returned, he
asserted, the whole country was aflame
and the population was up in arms.
Security Police Reach Brieg
The German forces on the left bank
of the Oder are being gradually aug
mented by the arrival of former Ger?
man soldiers from Breslau, and a
number, it is known, are- coming from
Germany. Several hundred security
police from Hamburg and Kiel, and a
few from other German cities, have
reached Brieg, twenty miles northwest
of here.
The French deprecate statements
published by the Poles that. the Allies
have accepted the present battle lines
as the new frontier between Germany
and Poland. They declare these state?
ments tend to excite the German popu?
lation, making reestablishment of or?
der more difficult.
A German counter-offensive, it is
believed, cannot be prevented unless
the Poles evacuate their positions, the
impression prevailing among German
leaders that if the Poles are permitted
to hold territory they have occupied
the Germans would have simllar rights,
should they succeed in driving out the
invaders and occupying the same re?
gion themselves.
Food Shortage Serious
Reports from the industrial district
Bay the food shortage is becoming
serious. The fsituation is much com
plicated by the fact that the workmen
were not paid to-day, their semi
monthly pay day, as the Reichsbank,
which usually ships the funds, refused
to take chances of plundering by the
Poles. German circles express belief
that this may precipitate a financial
crisis, as Korfanty's following is large?
ly dependent upon these shipments for
sustenance.
The Poles are reported to have
violated local agreements for a sus
pension of hostilities at Kreuzburg
and Rosenberg, attacking south of
Kreuzburg and cutting the raflro'ad be?
tween there and Guttenberg. Kreuzburg
and Rosenberg already have been sur
rounded.
German Workmen End Strike
BERLIN, May 13.?The general strike
begun by the German workmen at
Oppeln, Upper Silesia, in protest
against the attitude of the Inter-Al?
lied Comrnission toward the Polish in
furrection, has been called off, accord
ng to advices from Oppeln this morn?
ing.
Prince von Hatzfeldt, the German
plenipotentiary in Lpper Silesia, has
resigned because of clissatisfaction
over the attitude of the Inter-Allied
Comrnission there. Count' Pi-aschma,
deputy of Prince von Hatzfeldt, will
carry on the duties of plenipotentiary.
. a
Austrian House Agrees
To Vote on German Union
VIENNA, May 13 (By The Associated
Press).?The advocates of fusion with
Germany, overriding the government's
position that the time was unpropitious
to bring up the question, to-day suc
?ceeded ln forcing through the National
Assembly an amended act providing
for a plebiscite on union with Ger?
many, to be held on a date not yet
fixed. The measure, which was intro?
duced by members of the Great Ger?
man party and supported by the Social
Democrats provides that on a date to
be fixed the government shall take a
referendum to enable the people to de
cide whether Austria shall request the
League of Nations to sanction such a
union with Germany.
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Sinn Fein jGets
All but 4 of
Republicans Make Clean
Sweep in Ffarliamentary
Nominations Except for
Unopposed Imperialists
Polling Dispensed With
All But 52 Placcs in North
Wdli Be Contested, 32
on Nationalist Ticket
Speeial Cnble to The Tribune
Copyrijrht, 1881, Now York Tribune Inc.
DUBLIN, May 13.?When the nomina
tions for the Parlitnnontary elections in
south Ireland ciosed this afternoon,
128 members out of a total of 180, rep
rescnting twenty-six out of thirty-two
Irish counties, were declared elected
without opposition.
All but four of the members nre Re?
publicans. The oxceptions are rep?
resentatives of Dublin University.
Twenty-fivo of the members declared
elected are in jail. Eamon Dc Vafera,
Sinn Fein president, was returned for
County, Clare. Arthur Griffith was
elected from Cavan, and Michael Col?
lins, head of the republican army, was
chosen from County Cork.
Sinn Fein Author Elected
A notablo fact in the election is the
choice from Kildare and Wicklow of
Erskine Childers, author of the famous
spy story Riddle of Sand, who served
with- the British fleet during the war
and is now connected with the Sinn
Fein propaganda department.
Tha southern Parliament is now fully
constituted. For the northern Parlia?
ment, on the other hand, all fifty-two
seats are contested by rival nomina?
tion B made to-day, thirty-four eandi?
dates going forward on Sirin Fein
tickets.
The nomination day surprise in the
north was the appearance of indepen?
dent prohibition candidat.es from some
of the Belfast seats. Joseph Devlin,
speaking in Belfast last night, aaid it
was the duty of the Nationalists to
smash the northern Parliament. Eight of
the Republican eandidates in the north
aro in prison and othcrs aro interned,
but one was released yesterday from
the Ballyktnlar intornment camp, and
it is expected that others will be freed
for the election campaign.
Day Passes Without Disnrders
No nomination day disorders were re?
ported in any par} of Ireland, although
party feeling is running high in Bel?
fast.
The Republican members of the
southern Parliament will not meet
until the northern elections on May 24,
when, according to The Tribune corre
spondent's information, the abatention
ist eandidates elected in Ulster will be
summoned to sit with the southern
members as a new Dail Eireann. There
will be a Republican body representing
all Ireland to negotiate with Unionist
members returned for the northern
Parliament, representing the Ulster
minority.
The nomination of a total of 245
eandidates has cost the Sinn Fein alto
gether about $106,000, most of which
was subscribed locally.
DUBLIN, May 13?(By The Associat?
ed Press)?No poMing was necessary
in to-day's elections, as, according to
the British custom, when only one can
didate is nominated, the polling is d's
pensed with. ln this way the 128 seats in
the southern Parliament were fillect, as
the four Imperialist nominees, who
were named for Dublin University, also
were unopposed.
Two of them, Thrift and Alton, are
Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin,
while the other two are Sir James
Craig, King's professor of medicinti,
school of. physic, Trinity College, and
^Gerald Fitzgibbon, eminent member of
the Irish bar.
In Donegal also there was no con?
test, the single Unionist candidate,
Major Moore, having at the last
moment withdrawn, leaving six Sinn
Feiners to be returned unopposed.
They are all either in prison, in in
ternment camps or in hiding.
For the Northern Parliament De
Valera had the remarkable numfcer of
900 nomination papers, many of them
signed by Catholic priests. His chief
Unionist opponent is Sir James Craig.
Devlin is nominated also for Antrim
and West Belfast.
275 British War Craft
v Disposed Of for Junk
England Denies She Sold Any
Ships for Transfer to
Japan
LONDON, Mny 13.?-Some 2W de
stroyers, twenty-five battlaships and
fifty light crulsera have disappeared
from the British navy list during ro
cent months, The British Admlralty
has isaued an explanatory announce?
ment eaying the vessels were all sold
to British firrns for breaking up.
This statement was the result of re?
ports circulated in America that Great
Britain waa making extensive aales of
warcraft to South American goyern
ments for eventual transfer to Japan.
"Tho only ships disposed of to for?
eign governments since the armistice,"
the Admirnlty informed The Associated
Press, "are the battleship Canada and
two other vessels, all of whjch were
sold to the Chilean government, for
which they were originally built; one
sloop to Donmark, two sloops to Portu
gal nnd one sloop to Belgium."
a .
Mexico Won't Sign
Protocol to Obtain
Recognitioii of U. S.
Obregon Declares His Nation
Will Pay for All Losses
Suffered in Revolutions
and Stand by Promises
MEXICO CITY, May 13.-Mexico can
not and will not sign a formal protocol
as a condition to recognition by the
United States, PreBidenr, Obregon told
newspaper men last night, in referring I
to President Harding's policy, as out-1
lined in dispatchea received here on j
Tuesday. He declined to comment on the I
policy pursued by the United States
further than declaring ho had received
letters recently from friends in Wash?
ington, who' assured him they "see in
President Harding, Secretary of State
Hughes and Assistant Secretary of
State Flctcher three men with extreme
!y cordial feelings toward Mexico, who
apparently ?re inclined to reestablish
relations between the two countries."
Although President Obregon baa in
sisted that this government cannot
sign a formal treatv or protocol, it is
known here that an informal exchange
of communications between the two
governments, which would be tanta
mount to formal conferences, w'ould
not be rejected by the Mexiean govern?
ment. Close friends of President Obre?
gon assert he is wi'.ling to give the
United States any information it de
sires relative to conditions in Mexico.
Assurances have been given as to safe
guards and guaranties for foreign in
vestments, and various public declara
tions by President Obregon indicate
he believes such as3urances aro ample
and sufficient to prove the nation's sta
bility and its right to recognition.
Referring to Great Britain's evident
intention to withhold recognition until
safeguards are given, the Foreign Of?
fice stated last night that the "Mexiean
government wishes at all times to re?
turn all confiscated property to its
legitimate owners and to pay for dam?
age suffered during revolutions."
"Not for one moment," the statement
added, "does the Mexiean government
wish to abrogate its promises, much
less to appropriate good3 belonging to
another, either a foreigner or a
Mexiean."
?,-?.? "?
Allies Expel Schulenberg,
War-Time U. S. Prisoner
COBLENZ, May 13.?The inter-Allied
High Comrnission has ordered expelled
from oecupied territory Franz Schulen?
berg, who was arrested in the United
States during the war as an alleged
German agent and charged with im
plication in plots.
A dispatch from San Francisco De
cember 26, 1917, said that a woman,
designated only as "H" and said to be
prominent in the German secret serv?
ice, directed the activities of a Franz
Sehulenberg, arrested as a spy and
heldon a Presidential warrant. Schu?
lenberg was said to have been aetive in
plans to destroy bridges and public
buildings ln Canada and vessels and
warehouses at Pacific ports. The
woman, Federal offieials at San Fran?
cisco said, had been the agent of Wolf
von Igcl, former secretary to Franz von
Papen, the military attache of the Ger?
man Embassy at Washington and head
of the German e3pionage system in
the United States.
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ficers Fire on Paraders
City Under Martial Law
Denionstratioju Against
Outrages by Radicals Is
Terminated in Rioting
MEXICO CITY, May 13 (By The Asso?
ciated Press.)?Virtual martial law
prevailed to-day in Morelig, capital of
Michoacan, the scene of Thursday
night's fighting between the police and
radicals on one side and Catholics on
the other, in which there were more
than 100 caaualties.
Correspondenta of Mexico City news?
papers in Morelia give varied estimates
of the number of the killed. El Demo
crata says the dead aggregated ten and
the Excelsior fifty, while El Universal
says merely that there were 100 vic
tims.
Federal troops last night displaced
the city police, guarding the streets
and restoring order, and to-day, ac?
cording to dispatches received here,
they were patrolling the streets as a
precautionary measure against further
clashes which were said to be immi
nent
Details of last night's occurrences in
dicate that several thousand Catholics,
including many women and children,
rnarched through the streets, carrying
banners and protesting orally against
the radicals, who were charged with
many sacrilegious outrages.
The police, under Chief Inspector
Vicente Coyt,- attempted to disperse
the paraders, and when they refused to
acquiesce the clash followed.
According to the reports, the officers
were immediately reinforced by radi?
cals among the spectators, many of
whom carried arms. Within a few min?
utes the streets were filled with fight?
ing men, women and children. Shots
were fired and clubs and fists were
freely used before Federal troops could
be rushed to the scene to quejl the
rioting,
The latest dispatches from Morelia to
the Excelsior indicate intena* bitter
ness is being manifested against the ex
treme action of Coyt, which is believed
here to have been unwarranted. Coyt,
who led the police personally, was in
jured, and three of his men were among
those killed. Isaac Arriaga, Socialist
leader in Morelia and head of the agra
rian commission there, also was killed.
?
Duchess of Marlborough
Given Absolute Decree
The Former Consuelo Vander
bilt Accused Hfshand of Mis
conduct at Trial in November
LONDON, May 13.?The decree of
divorce granted on November last to
the' Duchess of Marlborough, formerly
Consuelo Vanderbilt, which dissolved
her marriage with the Duke of Marl?
borough, was made absolute this morn?
ing. Under the provisions of the Brit?
ish law six months must intervene be?
tween the granting of a divorce decree
and the issuance, of a judicial rule
making the divorce absolute.
At the trial of the case lsst Novem?
ber aliegations of desertion and mis
conduct were made by counsel for the
duchess.
Britain Fears
Allied Split
Over Silesia
French Support of Poles
in Scizure Will Have
Bad Effect on Trade,
Already at Low Ebb
London Expects U. S. Aid
Feels America Is as Eager
as England to Avert
Hiteh on Reparations
By Arthur S. Draper
From The Tribune'a European Bur*.au
Copyrlght, 1321, New York Tribune Inc
' LONDON, May 13.7-French , policies
in apparent support of the Polish in
aurgents ia Upper Silesia are drawing
British fire and thers are indications,
reflectod in Lloyd George'a declarstion
in the House of .Common* to-day, that
Anglo-French relations are becoming
stralned over the attempt of the Poles
to seize Silesia bv force of arms.
That this situtftion should develop
immediately after the German repara?
tions questions have been settled is
particularly distressing to the British.
1 With hardly an exception, British
, newspapers condemn French military
proceedings in Upper Silesia, and ail
I reg^ret the apparent lack of Allied
j unity.
That the French policy is really di?
rected against Germany is perfectly
I clear to all critics, but that it is bound
I to have sharp repercussions on British
! trade and industrial life is equally
\ certain.
For more than a year it has been a
j well recognized fact that France had a
! dominant hand in Poland and that the
I affairs of the new republic were being
j managed from Paris. But it remained
for the Silesian outbreak to show how
j far the Poies would dare go.
There is every indication of an early
j meeting of the Supreme Council to dis
j cuss the Silesian situation, and in their
j present temper British offieials will
I make some frank comments at that
| session. It is frankly admitted that
| the Polish invasion of Upper Silesia
j has embarrassed the plebiscite settle
I ment, but the British do not intend to
| be dictated to by the Poles and are by
\ no means ready to repudiate the terms
of the treaty they signed with Germany
at Versailles,
On moral ground3 alone the British
feel that their position is well f*., T~
but there are strong ?atS ?**?
why the British vifw wHh a1s!!!*^?
recent turn of events in Sileii, r '
many has agreed to pay ?nd *# r*
financial benafits are to come to G*?y
Britain out of that atrreement ?*.***?
fields of Upper SilesKna?^^^1
many and Angio-German trade iBB,V'w*
revived. un **
A Crisis ia England
Just now Great Britain ia jn _ . .
way industrially, and tha labor ait?
tion li growing worse. lasuS *^
showing steady improvemen* B.4-' l
trade is falling away in an alarm'
mannar. Everybody is jn , T.3
whereas prophets a few meath* ,?
were predicting that a big boom ?
mdustry and commerce would b* !
full swing. The settlemest of iX*',
between the Allies and Germany raiaS
hopeB, but the coal strike and its _*7
alvzing effects are too serious te ??**
rait oi any optimism.
With recent development* in ""j*..:.
the German situation has chaneed ir.
terially and the British feel that the
are almost back to the place they ?.?
before the Berlin government fe'l
Downing Street believes it is j-,*;
fied in expecting American cooperatian"
in opposmg the French-Poli?h poiiei*,
in Upper Silesia. The attitude of th!
Harding Administration as exprea?*d
in the notes to Germany incident t
the recent German reparations offlt
gives support to this expectation
Britons believe. Although no Arneri
can interests are dircetly affected hl
the Silesian squabble, it is held here
that an improvement of tbe genera1
situation is of almost as much intereat
to America as it is to Great Britaia.
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