ALL MERCHANDISE ADVERTISED IN THE ' TRIBUNE IS GUARANTEED Vol. LXXXI No. 27,31 3 First tc Last? the Truth, (Copyright, 1921, New York Trlbnne Inc.) SATURDAY, noun* News ? Editorials?A advertisements AUGUST 27, 1921 THE WEATHER Fair to-day; to-morrow partly cloudy; moderate temperatures; southeast and south winds. I'all R*u-rt on Last Pace .* *. TWO CENTS In Greater New York THREE CENTS Within .00 Mile? FOCR CENT? ___M-W?___re Bandit Raid OnWhiteWay rVetsWAOO? Five Men, Wearing Masks 0f Red Silk, Hold Up Old Tokio Restaurant; Rob IS Craps Shooter* Theft and Escape Occupy 5 Minutes j ontrshorePaylineCowed ; Aged Man Shot for Re ?.sting; Loot Another'L' ? rift?." bandits committed a series of ?Ve daylight hold-ups in New York City within twenty-four hours ending late yesterday Bftcr_oon. One of the rob? beries occurred at Broadway and Forty ._;_ Street, one of the busiest sections of the city. Five armed bandits, fashionably at t?w. and wearing red silk masks .Rtered the old Tokio restaurant, ?4? ir.d 14" West Forty-fifth Street, withii t few doors of Broadway, just before I o'clock, and at revolvers' points robbe. fifteen crap shooters in a private dinin? room at the rear of the place of $10,00i in cash and jewelry. The men drove uj in sn automobile and escaped in it The robbery occupied five minutes. When the alarm was telephoned t? (ha West Forty-seventh Street statioi by Benjamin Salvin, proprietor of th instaurant, who was among thos robbed, more than three hundred detee tires were hunting the city for fifteei other bandits who had perpetrated rob heries during the day, among ther being a hold-ur, of the M. J. Donava _ Sons' pay office, at the foot of Wes Fortieth ?>treet, with a loss of $t,600 ?he slug?*i"g and robbing of Thpma Doyle, a restaurant supplies man a :':e Bush Terminal docks, $.00 bein ?btained by the bandits, and the hole ip pi* an elevated station agent at Dei brosses Street, where the robbers faile *o obtain $1,200 that was in the statio safe. Engine Kept Running In the Forty-fifth Street robbery frap? game with high ?5take.s involve ri? ?-a'id to have been running a fternoon. Among those in the roo itere Saivin, former proprietor of t! Tokio Restaurant and owner of tl ding, who.e address ia 400 Rive Drive; Thomas Marks, describ? Is a capitalist, of 60 West Sixty-fir S-reet; Joseph Gohen, who lives at tl Monterey H.tel, Broadway and Ninet fourth Street, and Joseph Grossma ao has an apartment above the re u-ra.'.t. Eleven others said to ha been gambling refused to give th< names. According to Salvin only three ba .its entered the restaurant. Two i tnained on guard outside. One of the ??as the chauffeur, who stood besi ; le automobile, a big touring car which the engine was kept runnir W'hen the three men entered a prive (lining room, Salvin said, they spre out about three paces apart, each lev Hug two revolvers at the players a erderinur "hands up." Everyone obey tie order. One of the bandits seized money tl .as on the table, more than $4,500, i ?ording to Salvin. Another rilled 1 [lockets of the fifteen lined up ngaii j wall and the third stood guard w t*o revolver?. Moved Deliberately According to Salvin's description '??t men as given to Detectives Di *r.d Farl*:;-, all were well dress Une member of the party said the ri berg were red masks, but according later police information the masks w >*ed hat linings pulled down to obsc We upper part of the robbers' fac.s. Saivin Baid the robbery was c .?acted with deliberation and that th '?'ere no ?h]*o motions. ?le said '-andits did not raise their voices ab a convarsational ton., but made pi weir intention to shoot if interfe v;th. When all ? aoney and jewelry the par'.y had been gathered the th '?en ba'-Ke . out of the room and in 1 '?i-*, thirty seconds w.-re being h ?:ed away in the car that awaited th Detective! Daly and Farley w '.ined within a few minutes by De' ?Wea Maney and Flaherty. Deteci ?flaherty ..;d last night that ;*_onnt stolen had been overstated '?at 12,000 would cover it. This assied by the victims. Pay Line Held Up rhree _r:n?d and masked men 1 'P the paymaster's office of M Uenovan & Sons stevedores, o y>r.- Street, on Pi.r 80 at West 1 ?Jeth Street yesterday and esca *w_ $!,f,00 in currency. Twenty ?Wnhoremen standiiip- in line to .aid _.re compelled to stand ? I Continued _n p?j, fly?) Debs Case May Be Tak? Lp by President To-_l *0 Intimation Given a. ^hi'th^r Attorney Genen Will Rcrommend Panlor ^ WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.?Dis] ?on of the case of Eugene V. T ??prisoned Socialist leader, ma?. *',< th? heb?i ease to any p FJW regard to th? ?.o-called offei y this class __ well as the P?*ti ?Wares of the D?-r,j ease Individ' '? ! rid ?cation of whether ?r i ?aH'/n fur Debs would be r< *a*.d-H. v.Hn forthcoming a*. th< nttmtnt, where officiai? ?aid th ,". matter was or,o for final d.< President U.u.' v? th? qu< /'??'! I Ot a d ? . ??? President had acted, Brown Asks Hylan To Oust O'Malley Mayor Refuses to Remove Commissioner, Who Is Termed Menace to Inquiry by Prober; Market Deals Raise Food Cost Elon R. Brown, chief counsel to the Meyer legislative committee, in? vestigating the city administration, requested Mayor Hylan yesterday to remove Edwin J. O'Malloy, Commissioner of Markets, from office imme? diately, on the basis of the committee's alleged graft disclosures involving his department. The Mayor at once replied he would take no action until the investiga? tion of Commissioner O'Malley's department had been completed and all the testimony for both sides heard. If he then concludes, he wrote Mr. Brown, that the Commissioner had been derelict, in duty or guilty of misconduct, he will take such action "as is merited.' lu his letter to the Mayor, Mr. Brown ' insisted that Commissioner O'Malley stood "as a menace against drawing o'it further evidence of corruption in that department." He added that "the evi? dence clearly showed that O'Malley hadl abundant notice of the activities of his inspector. Winter, who appears as the most guilty one in these extortions, more than a year ago," that sugges? tions of the extortions, sufficient to warrant drastic action, appeared in investigations before Commissioner Hirshfield, and that the Mayor now stood in the position of indorsing j O'Malley's stand for the exclusion of ! permittees in the markets, who hay? suffered from extortion." Mr. Brown also said that the al? leged practices in the markets tended directly to increase the cost of living. The Mayor, in reply, referred to ' Mr. Brown's letter an "extraordinary," ' saying that it was shocking to the in- j stincts of fairness to punish a man : "not only in advance of the compte- ' tion of the testimony directed at his de? partment, but immediately following j a deliberate refusal to permit him to i be heard in relation to the matter by j the very one suggesting his punish? ment." j Hylan's Reply to Brown The Mayor further said that Mr. ! Brown's letter "con only be understood as a publicity incident of the impend- i ing municipal campaign." In empha- ? sizing his stand that he would not take, i any steps until all the testimony for \ both sides had been heard he said be ; "will be doing precisely what you j would be the first to insist should be done in fairness to you if you wore ! similarly situated."" Commissioner of Accounts Hirsh- I field also issued a statement yesterday : expressing great indignation at the alleged misconstruction of testimony ! given yesterday involving his name : with the Markets Department scandal. ; He summoned a deputy commissioner of ? the latter department to his office dur- < ing the afternoon and took testimony : from him purporting to refute the statements and reflect on the credi? bility of Barnet Cohen, one of the com? mittee's witnesses. Commissioner Hirshfield also announced he had or- '. dered his attorney to bring libel actions against several morning newspapers in connection with the printing of Thurs? day's testimony. Special Prosecution Urged There were intimations yesterday ; that in the event that District Attorney ; Swann's office does not soon filter upon ? a vigorous prosecution of the alleg?ju grafters exposed by the committee Gov- ! error Miller would be appealed to lo \ convene an extraordinary session of the I Supreme Court and to uppoint special ; deputy attorney generala to act as ; prosecutors. Assistant District Attorney Joab II. ?? Fanton in this connection said yester? day that the*District Attorney had nad a perfect understanding with the Meyer committee's counsel last Thursday on i the matte.-, in which Mr. Brown was j given to understand that the District ? Attorney's office would give the Meyer committee its full cooperation. He said , it then was agreed that as soon as Mr. i Brown would send a transcript of the j testimony to the District Attorney's of- ! fice it would be taken immediately to ! the grand jury for action. Mr. Swann, said Mr. Banton, had ? designated Assistant District Attorney | George Brothers to present the ovi- ! dence in these cases to the grand jury. ? Mr. Brothers is a Republican und was j appointed by former Governor Smith. Letter Sent to Mayor Mr. Brown's letter to the M?y?>r reads: \ "1 am constrained to writo you in J the performance of my duty as coun? sel to the legislative committee, ra- ! questing the immediate removal of j Edwin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Markets. "While you advised him, 'for rea- ? sons of expediency' to revoke the can-? cellations of permits held by two wit- | nesses who had testified to extor? tion by the Department of Markets, he ; stands there as a menace against draw- ' ing out further evidence of corruption i in that department. The mere revoca- , tion of these cancellations will not re- ? atore any degree of confidence in per- ? mit?es, and investigation by the com- ? mittee shows that some permitees have preferred to appear before the commit- ; tee and commit perjury rather than ex.- i pose themselves to his wrath. "? may add that the evidence clear? ly show? that O'Malley had abundant notice of the activities of his inspector Winters, who appears as the most j guilty ono In these extortions, more ! i than a year ago; that suggestions ofj 1 the extortion",, sufficient to warrant j i drastic action, appeared in investiga , tions before Commissioner Hirshfield, ? ami that you now stand in the posi? tion of indorsing O'Malley's stand for the exclusion of permitees :n the mar-: kets who have Buffered from extortion. Their punishment, according to your letter, is merely delayed. "Such practices in the. markets, be , ?Ides defiling the city administration In this important branch of its work, '?? t?:nd directly to increase the cost of (CcntlniiwJ on pa?o Ihrer! Engine 'Detrestles' Woman ! Trainmen Drag Her and Some of Her Money to Safety WATKRTOV/N, N. V.. Aug. 26,- Mr?. F r?:d Schord, while walking on n rail road trestle to-day, was Btruck by n ? locomotive end propelled into Beaver River. The ? n?/ir:?* was stopped and Mrs. Bchord rescued fron? drowning by train i men. li<-r pocketbook opened oh she 1 f?il! ar,d on ptj?, five) Foeh Sees Herriek to Announce Visit to U. S. (lulls Unexpectedly at Embassy to Tell How Delighted He Is at Projected Trip PARIS, Aug. 20 ( By The Associated Press).?Marshal Foch, unannounced, to-day walked into the American Em bassy here without formality, took ;i seat in the reception room and, like the ordinary caller, sent up his card ask? ing to see Myron T. Herrick, the ara? bas! ador. V* hen the presence of the distin? guished visitor became known a secre? tary immediately ushered him into the imbassudor'a office. Marshal Foch told Mr. Uerrick that ho had com? to the cmbusaj in person to say definitely ??ha? he was going to the United States. "1 wanted to come and tell you defi? nitely," said the officer who command? ed the Allied armies during the World War, "that I am going to America, 1 also wanted to toll you directly, by word '.r mouth, instead of by letter or in any formal way, how deeply touched I i?ave been by the echoes from Amer? ica of my projected visit. I wanted to tell you how delighted f am that I am going. "The visit of the American Legion, he said, "has brought me In closer touch with America than I have been nco the American army was here, and I appreciate (reply the desire of the Vmerican legion that l go to their con? vention in Kansas < ity.' Miners Revolt After March Is Called Off Decision to Follow Advice ! of Leaders and Return! Abandoned; Train Is Captured; Several Shot Warning Issued by U. S. Army Officer! * i 4No Half-Way Measures,' j Is Word Sent by Bank- ' holtz to Union Heads ! Pveeial Dinvate.h to The Tribun, CHARLESTON; W. Va., Aug. 28-, - After officials of the United Mine Worker? Union had succeeding in breaking up the advance of 5,000 i miners toward Mingo County and in- ? ducing the men to abandon their an- j nounced intention of unionizing the Mingo coal mines by force, some of the minera revolted against the union officials about midnight to-night. ?Several persons were shot in the dis- ' orders accompanying the rebellion. Several hundred armed miners left the main camp to-night, commandeered a Chesapeage _-. Ohio passenger train at I Danville and started for Blair, in bogan I County, according to _-ord received ? here by state officials from Boon. County authorities. The situation is reported to be teilte. General's Arrival Tnrned Tide The decision pi most of the miners' army to disperse came as the result of an appeal to them by Frank Keeney, president of the local union. The ar? rival of General H. H. Bandholtz, of the War Department, on the scene, wns the turning point of the day. In a conference at the Governor's office he told President Keeney und his sec-. tetary, Fred Mooney, that it* the miners continued on their march the govern? ment would take a hand and disperse the insurrection at all costs. General Mitchell, chief of the Air Service, ar? rived during the day and made a num? ber of trips up Lens Creek and Little Coal River, reporting that the sit.ua- j tion was quiet. He said the miners sought concealment under the foliage of trees when they heard the whir of his airplane and he could not estimate the number of marchers. Says 2,000 Marchers Wore Uniforms ; Mr. Keeney, returning to Charlesto'i I to-night, said he never saw so many | men in a march before, excluding ? troops during the wpr. At Racine this i morning there must have been M.OO0 ? or 9,000 and at least 2,000 of them i were former servie?; men, wearing uni? forms of the array, navy and marines, the district president said. In his speech to the men, Mr. Mooney told them it would bo suicide for them to advance further. "General Band? holtz seems to command the state," he asserted. "He summoned us I Keeney ' and Mooney) at 4 o'clock this morning i and shortly after we left Charleston. ; You must give up your plans for the i present." General B-ndholt7. told the union of? ficials that he would be reluctant to '? have Federal troops come into West Virginia to oppose the army of armed men. But unless the men ceased their present operations and dispersed, they i would be opposed by Federal troops, he said. No half-way measures would be ! taken in routing the army of miners, j the general asserted. General Bandholtz pointed out that, in his opinion the men began assem? bling for the proposed march into Mingo County without realizing the j seriousness of their step or what would be the consequences. The situation, he believed, had become more serious : than the men had anticipated. Advance Guard Dispersed MADISON, W. Va.. Aug. 2*i (By The A*8ociated Press).?A meeting of the advance guard of about 200 marching minere was held in the baseball park ; here to-day, the men occupying the ! grandstand. F.nough stragglers had ? come in along the Peytona-Madison road to swell the gathering to about: 600. The men listened intently while Mr. j Keeney and Secretary Mooney ex- I plained the details of the conference they had with Brigadier General Band holtz. Two or three of the miners, who, were said to be leaders among the men, ; also addressed the meeting. The more ? conservativo of these speakers urged the men to take such advico as Mr. ! Keeney had to offer. Mr. Keeney promptly told them to go j hack home. That broke up the meet-, ing and some of the men who bad joined the marching force from this vicinity immediately started for their homes. Newspaper correspondents were stopped ut the gate wlu-n tbey sought (Continua, on paa* four) Senate Ready To Complete Berlin Peace Declaration Troops Will Come Home Carries Ex? planation Move is Not Connected With Treaty Some Democratic Objection Expected Way Cleared for Liquida? tion of Foreign Debts and Parley on Arms By Carter Field WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.?Assurance j that the American troops now in Ger? many would be brought home in a fa'rly snort period was given at the White House to-day, though it was ' mado clea1- that the reason for this was to relieve. Germany of the eco? nomic burden and had no connection with the peace treaty. The troops of the Allies, it was ?pointed out, are being maintained in Germany despite the fact that the Al- ? lies long ago concluded their treaty of peace with Germany. Not only that, but a provision of the treaty just signed with Germany makes specific provision for Germany paying the cost ! of maintenance of the army of occupa? tion. No legal point is involved in keeping : troops in Germany even after the peace ' treaty is ratified by both countries and j the ratifications are exchanged. It is ?' explained that this country still has troops in China, stationed there with the consent of the Chinese government ever since the Boxer uprising. Senate Katificatlon Soon Ratification of the treaty by the ? German Reichstag is expected late in .September when that body convenes. ' Ratification of the treaty by the Sen? ate, a canvass of that body to-day dis? closed, will probably be accomplished i with little delay. ? With the publication of the treaty] with Germany and the views of Secre- ' tary of State Hughes on it it became : more certain than evef that the treaty ; will be ratified by the Senate without ; great opposition. . : Up to this time no Republican Sena- j tor has come out. against the. treaty, i On the other hand, the general dis- j position of Republican Senators is 7o ' line up for it and, more than that, to \ indorse it enthusiastically. The indi? cations are that all the Republican . Senators ultimately will vote for its ratification unless it be Senators Borah and Johnson, and it Is not certain they will oppose it. Senator Porah says he ; wants opportunity to study it bafore committing himself. Senator Johnsan i ?S out of the city. j Republican leaders in the Senate ? have canvassed the situation informally I and have come to the conclusion there ? will be little if any Republican opposi? tion and that many of the Democrats also will support the treaty. Democrats Silent To-day Democratic Senators for the ; most part said they did not want to j commit themselves until they had -jtud- j ied the document. Th??? was thought ' in some quarters to forecast a fight ! against ratification. Inquiry among Democratic Senators, . however, revealed the fact that there is no decision among them to oppose ; the treaty. ! Senator Hitchcock, Cornier chairman of Foreign Relations and j leader of the Wilson Administration j light for the Versailles Treaty, is com? mitted to it. It is well known that ! other Democrats intend to vote for it. I Senator Pomerene, of Ohio, a lead- I ing Democrat on the Foreign Relations i Committee, came out for the treaty. Senator Pomeren,? said: "1 think Secretary Hughes has done ' some pretty good work. In my judg ment the treaty will be ratified. We! have acquired all the benefits of the Versailles treaty, all of which .ire ? acknowledged by the German govern- ; ment, without assuming any of the ! political obligations of the Versailles1 treaty. Without, having had an oppor? tunity to go over it critically iu con- , junction with the Versailles treaty, P [ urn disposed to think it ought to be I ratified." In a Hard Place I What will happen is that, the Demo- i cratic Senators will hold a conference i soon after the recess and try to de-! cirie on their course. The Democratic I politicians would like to find some ' way to turn the new treaty to political j account, but they are in doubt as to I how to do it. effectively. The Democrats, especially the Wilson I Democrats, are saying that ihe Ger- ! man treaty as given out by Mr. Hughes is based on the Versailles treaty minus ? the League of Nations. When the treaty comes to the floor they are likely i to try to jeer at the Republicans for accepting a large share of the Ver-! sailles treaty. At the same time, they (Continued on paga three) Youth Blows Out Eyes, May Die, Gleaning Powder for Hunt Trip ,Tohr> Filomeno, twenty-oae years old, of ?31 F.ast Broadway, was probably mortally injured yesterday while trying to manufacture ammunition for a 45 90 Winchester ?porting rifle in an out? house at the rear of his home. The young man hud planned a hunt? ing trip on Lung Island for his vaca? tion and a.skeil his parents for money to buy rifle ammunition. When they refused he tried to fill old Winchester ?hells with powder and bullets removed from discarded Krag-J?rgensen army rifle cartridges, of which he had in some way secured 300 round'. Tony Filomeno, ten years old, a younger brother, was also badly burned. Both are sons or Frank Filomeno, a manufacturing jeweler, lie refused to advance the money for the ammunition because h? believed hi.i "on ibould not use a high powered rifle on Long Island. Later John obtained 300 rounds of discarded United States Army cart? ridges from a dealer. He said nothing of his plans to any one tint his younger brother, Tony, who was to have ac I eurnpanied him on the hunting trip. ?Together they worked nt the bench m ?John's, small workshop behind the 1 Filomeno home The latter u led a vice I to hold the loaded cartridges while he extracted bullets with a pair of pliers and poured the powder from the shells into a tin can. The can was almost filled with powder when une of tiw cartridges exploded as John tried to extract the bullet. The can of powder also blew Up. John waa thrown across the shop, his face burned black and his clothing set on lire. Hl* was Timed unconscious. Young Tony, his clothes ablaze, ran for assistance! * Firemen of Engine Company 9, at 57 East Broadway, intercepted Tony and extinguished the flames that enveloped him, John was removed to Gouverneur Hospital, where it was said he would lose the sight of both eyes if he sur? vived. The explosion of the can of powder. followed by a popping of cartridges -?et ofl by the fire that ensued, eaused ex? citement in the neighborhood, report being made to the Oak Street police station that a bomb had exploded in the Filomeno home. Detective Hermann Storyhamm, de? tailed to investigate the accident, filed charges against John Filomeno for vio? la! n .?!" Section ho ?f the Penal Codo forbidding manufacture of ammunition in ijpsidence promi ?? ?. Lloyd George Warns I Irish Truce May End, j As Offer Is Rejected Text of De Valera's Letter And Lloyd George's Reply LONDON, Aug. 26 (By The Associated Press).?The text of Eavion de Valera's letter to Premier Lloyd George proposing a basis for peaca in Ireland and of 'the Premier's reply rejecting (he proposal follow: Lloyd George's Reply * Sir: The British government are profoundly disappointed by your let ter of August 24. You write of the conditions of the meeting b-tween us as though no meeting had ever taken I place. I must remind you. therefore, that when I asked you to meet me six weeks ago I made no preliminary : conditions of any sort. You came to London on that invitation and ex- ] changed views with me at three meet? ings of considerable length. , The ! proposals I made to you after those j meetings wore based upon full and j sympathetic consideration of the \ views which you expres3e?l. They were not made in any hag? gling spirit. On the contrary, my colleagues and I went to the very limit of our powers in emieavoring to reconcile British and Irish inter? ests. Our proposals have gone far beyond all precedent and have been approved as liberal by the whole of the civilized world. Even in quar? ters which had shown sympathy with the most extreme of the Irish claims they arc regarded as the utmost which the empire can reasonably offer or Ireland reasonably expect Farther Parley Futile if Some Basis Is Not Found The only criticism of them T have yet heard outside Ireland is from those who maintain that our pro? posals have overstepped both war? rant and wisdom in their ?berality. Your letter shows no recognition of this, and further negotiations must, I fear, be futile unless some definite progress is made toward acceptance of a basis. You declare' . Old Breaches Healed If Terms Were Accepted We could not have invited the Irish people to take their place in that commonwealth on any other prin? ciple, and we are convinced that through it we can heal old misunder? standings and achieve an enduring partnership as honorable to Ireland as to the other nations of which the commonwealth consists. But when you argue that.the rela? tions of Ireland with the British em? pire arc comparable in pri'iciple to those of Holla'nd or Belgium with the German empire I find it necessary to repeat once more that those are premises which no British govern? ment, whatever its complexion, can ever accept. In demanding that Ireland should be treated as a separate sovereign power, with no allegiance to the crown and no loyalty to the sister nations of the commonwealth, you are advancing claims which the most famous Nationalist leaders in Irish history, from Grattan to Parnell und Redmond, have explicitly disowned. Grattan in a famous phrase de? clared that "The ocean protests against separation and the sea against union."' Daniel O'Connell, tno.t tloqueni perhaps of all the De Valera's lutter The anticipatory judgment I gave in my reply of August 10 has been J confirmed. I laid the proposals of j your government before the Dail j Eireann, and by a unanimous vote it has rejected them. From your letter of August 13 it was clear that the principle we are asked to accent was that the ^geo? graphical propinquity" of Ireland to Great Britain imposed the condition of the subordination of Ireland's right to Great Britain's strategic in? terests, as she conceived them, and that the very length and persistence j of the efforts made in the past to compel Ireland's acquiescence in a foreign domination imposed the con? dition of acceptance of that domi? nation now. Opposed to Principle Of "Sheer Militarism" We cannot believe that your gov? ernment intended to commit itself to the principle of sheer militarism, destructive of international morality and fatal to the world's peace. If a small nation's right to independence is forfeit when a more powerful neighbor covets its territory for I military or other advantages it is supposed to confer there is an end i to liberty. No longer can any small | nation claim the right to a separate existence. Holland and Denmark can be made subservient to Germany, Belgium to Germany or to France, Portugal to Spain. If nations that have been fdrcibly annexed to an empire lose thereby j their title to independence there can be for them no rebirth to freedom. In Ireland's case, to speak of her seceding from a partnership she has nit accepted, or from an allegiance which she has not undertaken to render, is fundamentally false, just as the claim to subordinate her in? dependence to British strategy is fundamentally unjust. To neither can we, as representatives of the nation, lend countenance. If our refusal to betray our na? tion's honor and the trust that has been reposed in us is to bo made an issue of war by Great Britain we deplore it. We are as conscious of our responsibilities to the living a3 we are mindful of principle or of our obligations to the heroic dead. Disclaims Seeking War, But People Will Fight We have not sought war nor do we ask war, but if war be made upon us we must defend ourselves, and shall do so, confident that whether our defense be successful or unsuc? cessful, no body of representativo Irishmen or Irishwomen will ever propose to the nation the surrender of its birthright. We long to end the conflict be? tween Great Britain and Ireland. If your government b? determined to impose its will npon us by force, and antecedent to negotiations to in? sist upon conditions that involve a surrender of our whole national position and make negotiations a mockery, the responsibility for the continuance of the conflict rests ! upon you. On the basis of the broad guiding principle of government by the con- I sent of the governed peace can be ! secured?a p-eace that will be just ! and honorable to all and fruitful of i concord and inducing to amity. To negotiate such a peace the Dail Eireann is ready to appoint its repre? sentatives, and, if your government accepts the principle -proposed, to invest them with plenary powers to meet and arrange with you fur its application in detail. I .1 m, Si r, Faithfully Yours, EAMON DE VALERA. spokesmen of the Irish national cause, protested thus in the House of Commons in 1830: "Never did monarch receive mo:-? undivided allegiance then the present King from the men who in Ireland agitate the repeal of the union. Never was there gro.sser calumny than to assert that they wish to pro duce separation between the two countries. Never was there a greater mistake than to suppose that we wish t?) dissolve the connection." The Premier then quote? a letter written in 1854 to the Duke of Wel? lington by Thomas Davis, "a fervent exponent of the ideals of young Ire? land." as advocating the retention of the Imperial Parliament an Further Parley Futile if Secession Is Insisted On, Says Premier in Reply to Dail Eireann Time Limit on Decision Forecast De Valera Note Refusing Proposals Announces Willingness to Fight rrtrm The Tribun?'? European Purnam CopyTiRht. J921. New York Tribune Ine LONDOK, Aug. 26.?The reply of Eamon de Valera, "president of the Irish republic," to Premier Lloyd George's refusal to let Ireland secede from the empire, was rejected to-day by the Prime Minister and hia Cab inet as unsatisfactory and extremely disappointing. At two long sessions the heads of the London ministry considered the note from the Sinn F?in leader and found in it nothing that held out any hope for peace with Ireland. The communication from De Valera said that although the Dail Eireann had refused the British terms the Sinn F?in parliament was ready to appoint representatives to negotiate for a secure peace "on the basis of the broad, guiding principle of government by the consent of the governed." Parley Called Futile To-night the Premier dispatched a new communication to Dublin, ad vising De Valera that his attitude a.? set forth in his letter was irrecon? cilable with the British position and showed no conception of the true basis of peace. In view of the Dai! Eireann's unanimous rejection of the peace formula offered Ireland by Lloyd George, the Premier asserted that further negotiations would bo not only futile, but dangerous, and that the end of the truce would ultimately be involved. The Brit? ish government, he said, could not continue the exchange of notes, until Sinn F?in could comprehend the extent of the concessions offered Ireland and some agreement could be reached on the basis for negotia? tions. Lloyd George offered to mert D? Valera and his followers again in con? ference, but as for the Sinn F?in re? quest for further discussions on tne basis of government by consent of the governed the British Premier pointed out that Ireland was not a separat* nation, but a part of the British Em? pire and that the British peace offer covered this request. No British government, would ever let Ireland secede, the Premier point ed out. An offer giving her control of her internal affairs bad already beer made and rejected, he said. Ail the world, except Ireland, had recognized the breadth of the concession? made he continued, and unless some common ground were reached it would be use? less to go on. Talk of Republic Dropped The British Premier's reply to Dt Valera came at the end of a tiny o< counsel, in which the extreme disap pointment of the government leader? was brightened only by the fact tha* in the most recent communication from the Sinn Fein leader there was no mer tion of a republic for Ireland. Lloyd George met Lord Fitzalan, Viceroy of Ireland, and Sir Hamar Greenwood. Chief Secretary, in separate confer? ences before discussinsr the situatior with the Cabinet. The prevailing opin? ion in official circles was that the Dail Eireann had closed the door or peace, but that, as long as it had not been bolted some hope remained. There is no expectation here to-night that Premier Lloyd George will order a withdrawal of the suspension of the government of Ireland act or permit the abandonment of the martial truce in Erin until he has heard again from De Valera. But the Prim?- Minister i?, understood to be preparing to fix ? time limit within which the leaders cj south Ireland must come to terms. Lloyd George's reply was carried from Downing Street by Art O'Brier. head of the London branch of the Irisi Self-Dotermination League, and Com mandant Robert Barton, who acted a = emissaries yesterday !n bringing De Valera's note. They called at the Pre mier'a residence at dusk this evening Lloyd George had delayed his depart ure for Yorkshire, where he vas to at tend the wedding of his secretary, Sii William Sutherland, in order to finish the note and send it to Dublin. Th? reply that comes to it must determino whether all peace negotiations shali end. Whole Cabinet Share? Decision At the first Cabinet meeting th? members discussed De Valera's note The Premier called in Austen Chamber? lain. Edward Shortt, Sir Laming Wor thington-Evans, H. A. L. Fisher ar some other advisers for separate con ferences. He then reassembled th< Cabinet as a whole after luncheon an< worked out the plan of procedur. which the government will follow r De Valera fails to yield. While these conferences were it progress in London exciting scene1 were bei:-g enacted ?in Dublin, wher? the Dail Eireann was reflecting De Va lera as its president and choosing othe officers. A great ovation greeted th? words from De Valera, thut "those wh. thought they enuld divide Ireland wer ?loomed to disappointment." Whateve happened, he said, there would be to split in the Sinn F?in movement. H<