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read the letter he had received on Au?
gust _4 fi-.m Lloyd George, and there
was some unenthusiastic applause from
the 1 ...?:. but the atmosphere seemed
too serums for a demonstration.
in authoritative circles here it is
???luted out that if Sinn F?in rejects
the attitude so; forth by Lloyd George's
letter to-night, civil war between north
and south Ireland might easilv bo the
sequel. It is suggested that De Valora
has repeatedly avoided the fundamental
issue the necessity of some sort of an
agreement between Ulster and Sinn
Fein?and until he mnkes an effort in
this direction the peace negotiations
?will continue to be a failure. The rad?
ical differences in the points of view
in north and south Ireland are sticking
out at every step. There is no belief
here that Lloyd George' will abandon
his stand, and the jockeying for posi?
tion now must be left to De Valera.
He alone holds the key to peace.
Reply Surprises Sinn F?in
DUBLIN", Aug. 26 (By The Associated
Press).?The letter of Premier Lloyd
George to Eamon do Valera was re?
ceived in Dublin late to-r.ight. Its con?
tents came as a surprise to the Sinn
Peinera. They hud expected further
arguments on the claims of Ireland they
had raised instead of ft repetition of
the essential conditions of the British
(.overnmer.t made known to Mr. de
Valera at the conference ir. Downing
Street a month ago.
A meeting of the Dnil Eireann was
hurriedlv summoned for to-morrow
mornintr' at 11 o'clock to consider the
situation. .
In Dublin Castle quarters to-night
the last sentences in the Premier's
letter are considered as making possi?
ble further meetings for discussions of
the situation with representatives oi
the Sinn Fciners, unless they regard
the words of the Premier as a challenge.
There is reason to believe that the
people do not desire a resumption of the
warfare at which the Premier plainly
hints as a possibility in case there is
delav in ending the controversy. It is
thought the fear expressed by Lloyd
George in this respect is based on re?
ports he has received of widespread
drilling throughout the country by the
Sinn F?iners. They declare that they
do not regard such activity as a breach
of the truce, asserting that equal activ?
ity has prevailed in the military bar?
racks and that machine gun practice
awakens the Dublin citizenry every
morning.
The general impression in Sinn F?in
and other circles here to-day was that
the exchanges between Mr. de Valera
and Lloyd George constituted only a
new stage in the prolonged negotia?
tions.
De Valera Again IS anted
Head of 'Irish Republic9
Re-elected After Dail Eireann
Hears Reply to Britain; to
Seek 20 Million Loan Here
DUBLIN, Aug. 20 (By The Associated
Press).?Eamon de Valera was to-day
re?lected to his post as leader of the
Irish republicans with the title of "Pres?
ident of the Irish Republic." Arthur
Griffith, founder of the Sinn F?in, was
elected "Vice-President and Minister of
Foreign Affairs," and the-other members
of the Dail Eireann Cabinet'were again
chosen to membership in that body.
The Dail Eireann took this action at
a public session at which Mr. de Va?
lera read his reply to Premier Lloyd
George, declaring this summed up the
Dail Eireann's position on an Irish \
settlement, which he said is and must
remain unchanged.
Seek $20,000,000 Loan in U. S.
At the sume session the Dail sanc?
tioned loans of ?500,000 in Ireland and
$20,000,000 in America.
After reading the letter to Mr. Lloyd
George to the Dail Mr. de Valera said:
"That reply sums up our position,
and I do not think it necessary to deal
with it now, particularly as we haven't
got a reply from the British govern?
ment.
"Our position is unchanged. We can?
not change our position, because it is
fundamentall?xound. Ju--'t the moment
we get off ___. fundamental rock of i
right and justice we have no case what
soever. ?o fight can be made .except
on that rock, and on that rock we shall
Stand."
When Speaker MacNeill took the
chair on the opening of the session Mr.
de Va'era tendered the resignations of i
himself and the Cabinet.
Then John J. McKeown, who recently
was released from prison after having
been sentenced to death, proposed Mr.
de Valera as "President of the Irish
Republic," first in Gaelic and then in
English. None, he said, had shown
such ability to "beat our ancient foe.''
He had beaten them both in battle and
in diplomacy, Mr. McKeown asserted.
Richard Mulcahy, Chief of Staff of
the Irish Republican Army, seconded
the nomination, and. in a speech com?
pared the present generation in Ire?
land with p'ast generations, which he
declared had always arisen at the call
of their country. "To-day," he said,
"we say with boyish delight, T.amon
de Valora is our leader.' "
Lord Mayor O'Callahan of Cork made
an eloquent address in Gaelic in sup?
port, of De Valera, and after othor
speeches Mr. do Valera was re
elected unanimously.
Count Plunkett, who has been acting
as Foreijjn Minister, was named a*
Minister of Fine Arts.
Finance Chief Recounts Difficulties
Michael Collins, the. Finance Minis?
ter, brought the first smile to the gath?
ering when, in speaking of the work of
the trustees of the Irish republican
funds, he referred to the warm wel?
come he had received when "on th.
run," and the assistance the trustees
had been in conducting financial affairs
"when I was bus,- elsewhere."
Mr. Collins - lid proposals regarding
loans were ready before the truce was
promulgated and that arrangements
for the loan in the United States had
been completed. It was the intention
that the first drive should be made in
;he United States, he added, and a
?tart would be made in Ireland tho
? of October. He estimated ex?
penses for the next six months at
?200,000 and accounted for past ex?
penditures on foreign affairs, consular
service, agriculture, local governrneat,
education and the boycott against Bel?
fast.
Just before adjournment was taken
at 1:10 o'clock this afternoon Mr. de
Valera ?aid that if the Irish gave the
government now established the same
?U.eiance as had b""n given during
the last two years, "no power on earth
or in hell" could drive out of Ireland
the government the Irish people bail
established. The Irish nation had men
and woman who, he declared, if the
members of the. government were re
moved would one by one take their
place?, and that th? British govern?
ment, if it tried force against thern,
I be gap.,, before the Irish gov?
ernment was broken.
Women Prominent in Throng
Long before the hour set for the
meeting of the Dail Eireann the street
1n front of the Mansion House wBi
crowd'd, the majority of the people
there being women. They applauded
the leader? of the Sinn F?in movement
a?, they walked Into the Mansion House
or drove op in frort of the building.
Tickets had been issued for every
the hall of the Mao
?ion House, where the parliament r.at,
and there were many standing around
th< rotunda in hopes oi being able to
?n'f-r.
Th? portrait of Pamell b.d been
placed In _ more prominent position
ov?i >';,. Speaker'*! i\.-...rl where i(
'."-??"? ; ?? . r< is I ?.' every on? in
tl ? ball, ft '*'?- ? ? . o ... .. ..., .i., .
walked down __a ?isle to the inclo? ?:
Text of Lloyd George's Reply
(Contlnueri from paga ana)
poor laws, tithes, tenures, grand
juries and franchises.]
The British government, Lloyd
George continues, offered Ireland, all
that O'Connell and Thomas Davis
asked, and more. We are met only
by an unqualified demand that we
should recognize Irelnnd as a for?
eign power. It is playing with
phrases to suggest that the principle
of government by consent of the gov?
erned compels recognition of that de?
mand on our part, or that in repu?
diating it we are straining geograph?
ical and historical considerations to
justify claim to ascendancy over the
Irish race.
Enduring Peace Impossible
That Ignores Limitations
There is no political principle,
however clear, that can be applied
without regard to limitations im?
posed by physical and historical
facts. Those limitations are as nec?
essary as the very principle itself to
the structure of every free nation.
To deny them would involve the dis?
solution of all democratic states. It
was on these elementary grounds that
we called attention to the governing
force of the geographical propinquity
of these two islands and of their long
and historic association, despite the
great difference of character of the
races.
We do not believe a permanent
reconciliation between Great Britain
and Ireland can ever be attained
without recognition of their physi?
cal and historical interdependence,
which makes complete political and
economic separation impracticable
for both.
I cannot better express the Brit?
ish standpoint in this respect than
in the words used of the Northern
and Southern etates by Abraham Lin?
coln in his first inaugural address.
They were spoken by him on the
brink of the American Civil War,
which he was striving to avert:
"Physically speaking," he said, "we
cannot separate. We cannot remove
our respective sections from each
other now and build an impassable
I
wall between them. . . . It is im?
possible then to make that inter?
course more advantageous or more
satisfactory after separation than be?
fore. Suppose you go to
war, you cannot fight always, and
when after much loss on both sides
and no gain for either you cease
fighting, the identical old questions
as to terms of intercourse again are
upon you."
I do not think it can reasonably be
contended that the relations between
Great Britain and Ireland aro in any
different case.
No Settlement Without
Recognition of Sovereign
I thought I had made it clear, both
in my conversations with you and in
my two subsequent communications,
that we can discuss no settlement
which involves a refusal on the part
of Ireland to accept our invitation to
a free, equal and loyal partnership
in the British commonwealth under
one sovereign.
I am reluctant to precipitate this
issue, but just point out that a pro?
longation of the present state of af?
fairs is dangerous. Action is being
taken in various directions which, if
continued, would prejudice the truce
and must ultimately lead to its termi?
nation. This would indeed be de?
plorable.
While therefore prepared to make
every allowance as to time which
will advance the cause of peace, we
cannot prolong a mere exchange of
notes. It is essential that some def?
inite and immediate progress should
be made toward a basis upon which
further negotiations can usefully
proceed. \'oor letters seems to us,
unfortunately, to show no such prog?
ress.
In this and my previous letters I
havo set iorth the considerations
which mast govern the attitude of
his majesty's government in any ne?
gotiations which they undertake. If
you are prepared to examino how far
these considerations can be reconciled
with the aspirations you represent
I shall be happy to i..oet you and
your colleagues.
LLOYD GEORGE.
space between the audience and the
Speaker and looked down on the mem?
bers as they deliberated on peace
terms exceeding anything Parneli had
ever hoped for.
Members of the Irish republican
army directed traffic in the street out?
side the Mansion House, acted as ush?
ers in the hall and assumed all r?les
which in any other part of the world
would have been the duty of the police, j
_
Kelly Cables De Valera
V. S. Will Support Stand
Major M. A. Kelly, secretary of the
American Association for Recognition
of the Iri3h Republic, last night cabled j
to Eatnon de Valera an expression of
support in his adherence "to the prin?
ciples of self-determination for which
we sacrificed so much." The message
said the United States would have to
recognize the Irish Republic "or break :
faith with its heroic dead."
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Gitlow, in Jail, Picked
To Head Radical Ticket
Rose Pastor Stokes for Prcsi.
dent of Manhattan; Soviet
Rule in America Asked
The radical ticket for the municipal
election was adopted at a meeting in
Webster Hall last night, which was
presided over by Edward Lindgren.
The ticket as approved is: Benjamin j
Gitlow for Mayor, Edward Lindgren'
for Comptroller, Mrs. Rose Pastor
Stokes for President of the Borough of ;
Manhattan and Henry Winitsky for i
President of the Board of Aldermen.
Gitlow and Winitsky are in jail.
The platform adopted includes: ?
"Emergency legislation to stop wage
reductions, laws to protect workers
against open .shop drives, laws to aid
the unemployed, hands off Mexico, Pan?
ama, the Philippines and Hayti and
recognition of the Soviet Republic of
Russia."
The platform states that the only
way to accomplish these Tesults is
through the establishment of a soviet
republic of America.
Spain Ends Recruiting Here
Europeans Filling Foreign Le?
gion Ranks, Says Embassy
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.?Recruiting
in the United States by Spanish ofT,
cials for Moroccan service has been
suspended on orders from MacTrid, the
Spanish Embassy announced to-day.
"The Spanish government, in view of
the large number of European volun?
teers who have joined the Spanish For?
eign Legion for service in Morocco,
has suspended further enlistments in
the United States," the embassy's state?
ment said.
Recruiting for Moroccan service has
been going on principally in New York,
the Spanish consulate there having ob?
tained about 250 recruits up to last
Monday. So far as known State and
Justice department officials took no of?
ficial notice of the recruiting, although
it admittedly held the possibility of
raising a number of international ques?
tions.
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Villa Asks Men Be Paid
Cites Agreement With Govern
ment at Time of Surrender
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 2C?Francisco
Villa, the former Mexican bandit, has
sent an urgent request to government
officials here, asking that forty of his
followers be paid in accordance with
the agreement signed by the govern?
ment when the men surrendored. He
declared that the men had received no
payments for the last six months, it is
said in reports current here. The re
quest was made through General En?
rique Martinez, commanding federal
troops In the state of Durango, and he
transmitted it to the War Office here.
Secretary of War Estrada is under?
stood to have issued orders that pay
j ments be made to Villa's men.
j Ex-Police Sergeant Pleads
Not Guilty to Murder Charge
Jeremiah Haggerty, former acting
I detective nergcant, who recently was in
, dieted by a Bronx grand jury for mur
! der in the first degree, entered a plea
| of not guilty when arraigned yesterday
j before .Justice Francis Martin in the
Bron < County Court.
The plead of Haggerty's attorney for
! two week? in which to change the plea,
or make possible motions for his client,
was granted,
Haggerty was accused of shooting and
" Joseph Lazzaro, of 229 EaHt
Fourteenth Street, on August If?, at
Gunhill Road and 213th Street, by a
frii 7 of th< victim'? who w,:i present
when 'he shooting took pia?*?-.
Dry?, Sobered by Fight
On Beer Bill, Get Timid
Volstead Hints Followers Are
Not Anxious to Press More
Prohibition Measures
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.?Chairman
Volstead of the House Judicsary Com?
mittee said to-day he had not decided
whether he would press any more pro?
hibition legislation when Congress re?
convenes next month. He indicated,
however, that the drys were not
nnxious, in view of the bitter opposi?
tion which the Willis-Campbell anti
beer bill encountered in the Senate
last week, to propose any new meas?
ures. Mr. Volstead expressed the
opinion that the. anti-beer legislation
would go through soon after the recess. !
Senator Stanley, author of the Stan- j
ley amendment to the Willis-Campbell j
bill, which was superseded by the con- j
ference compromise, to-day received a !
letter from John D. Carroll, of Ken- ?
tucky, former Chief Justice, indorsing ?
the Senator's efforts to prevent any i
kind of a search without a search war?
rant, and pointing out that there was a
growing tendency to put aside the Con?
stitution on such police matters.
Senator Pa^e Will Retire
Entitled to Rest After Complet- j
ing Term, He Says
HYDE PARK, Vt., Aug. 26. Half t\'\
century of public service entitles a I
man to a rest, United States .Senator j
Carroll S. Page said to-day in announc?
ing that upon completion his present ;
term in March, 1923, he would not be ?
a candidate for reelection. He felt, he
said, that he had done his full duty,
adding that he was the oldest member
of the Senate and that when his term
expired he would have entered upon
his eighty-first year.
"The time has come when home is
the dearest spot on earth, and I want
to spend the years remaining with _ie
back with my old friends in Vermont,"
he said.
Senator Page entered public life as a
member of the State Legislature in
1869. He has been in the United
States Senate since 1908.
Legion Honors Lafayette
Visitors Put?Wreath on Tomb
in Picpus Cemetery
PARIS, Aug. 26.?The American Le?
gion members visiting France went to
Picpus cemetery this morning, where
Major John O. Emery, National Com?
mander of the Legion, accompanied by
Marshal Foeh, placed a wreath on the
tomb of Lafayette and another for La?
fayette's officers and men. They were
greeted by 500 Americans, with French
orphans, each carrying the Stars and
Stripes.
Later the Military Club here gave a
reception to the visiting Legion men at
; which General Berdoulat, Military
| Governor of Paris, delivered an address
I in which be recalled the feats of the
! First and Second American Divisions
while under his command.
Premier Briand tendered an informal
luncheon to Major Emery at which
Franklin D'Olier of Philadelphia, the
first National Commander of the Le?
gion, and Henry D. Lindsley, of Dallas,
past National Commander, wer.
present.
Brooklynites to Celebrate
Battle of Long Island To-day
The 145th anniversary of the battle
of Long Island will be observed to-day
with exercises at the band stand in
Prospect Park, Brooklyn, under aus?
pices of'the Kings County Historical
Society.
Representatives of more than 100
| patriotic and civic organizations will
I attend and addresses will be made by
| Major General Robert Lee Bullard,
! Herbert L. Bridgman and Francis P.
: Bent. The chaplain of the day will be
'? Chaplain Charles W. Rceser. of the
< 18th Coast Defense. Commander Charles
A. Ditmas, president of the Historical
Society, will preside.
; Harding May Shift Coast
(.uard to Navy Department
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.?TransfeT
of the Coast Guard Service from the
i Treasury to the Navy Department was
understood to-day to be under con
: ??deration by President Harding.
Should .he President decide to mnVe
the transfer, it is? said, the ('oast
, Guard could be incorporated into the
j navy by Executive order. During the
, war the ('oast Guard was under naval
command, but was returned to the
Treasury two years ni-o.
The President is understood to have
before him recommendations suggest?
ing the transfer <>n the grounds of
efficiency and economy.
Senator France
Gets Home With
Plea for Russia
Mrs. Harrison, Released by
Reds in Accordance With
Relief Terms, Also Is an
Arrival on the Rotterdam
_
She Wants to Forget It
?
Legislator Urges Early Re?
sumption of Commercial
and Diplomatic Relations
Senator Joseph I. France, of Mary?
land, who was admitted to Russia to
study the possibilities of trade re?
sumption between the United States
and that country, announced on his
return here yesterday that; he was
confirmed in his opinion that America
ought not to delay dealing with the
Soviet-ruled nation. Also, he said
America ought to open diplomatic re?
lations with Moscow.
Aboard the Rotterdam of the Hol?
land-America Line, which brought
Senator France home, was Mrs. Mar?
garet E. Harrison, Baltimore news?
paper woman, who was imprisoned for
ten months in Russia.
Senator France issued a statement
saying it contained all he would have
to say at present. This statement
reads:
"I left America three months ago
declaring that America should not de?
lay resuming trade with Russia. I re?
turn confirmed in this opinion, and
further, insistent that We should open
diplomatic relations. I see no reason
why we should be nlarmed over a
relationship which obviously holds no
terrors for Great Britain or Germany,
both of which are doing their best to
develop a maximum of trade with
Soviet Russia.
Pleased With Relief Steps
''There is little communism in Rus?
sia. Extreme experiments in that di?
rection proved unsuccessful, and the
constructive party, at the head of
which L?nine stands, was courageous
enough to force an abandonment of
the Mnrxian theory and a restoration
of certain sound capitalistic policies,
which are now in effect.
"I am delighted that the famine re?
lief work by America is getting under
way, for this is the first step in my
program. I am confident that it will
be followed by an American trade dele?
gation sent under government aus?
pices, and that America will do her
share to revive Russia, thus to aid
world trade revival and thus directly
to benefit our own farms and factories,
which so desperately need aid of just
this character.
"I expect to issue a fuller statement
from Washington early next week."
Mrs. Harrison, who did not show any
outward effects of her imprisonment,
passed the voyage from Plymouth in
her stateroom, writing her experiences.
She said she owed her release from
prison to Senator France.
Learned a Lot in Jail
Mrs. Harrison went to Russia two
years ago as a correspondent for Th?
Associated Press, The Baltimore Sun
and The New York Evening Post. She
is the first American prisoner to reach
this country following an agreement
in connection with relief measures
made with the Soviet government by
Secretary of State Hughes. Mrs. Har?
rison, who is the daughter of Bernard
H. Baker, former member of the Ship?
ping Board, was accompanied by her
son, Thomas B. Harrison, who went
abroad to meet her.
"I am so glad to get back I don't
want to say a word or give a thought to
Russia just, now," she said. She said
she learned more about Russian condi?
tions in jail than she could have learned
by touring the country.
The Rotterdam brought 1,221 pas?
sengers, 995 coming over in the two
upper cabins. Passengers reported a
race with the French liner Lafayette
while Hearing this port. The Rotter?
dam reached Quarantine ahead of the
other liner.
Russian Famine Dooms
Legions. Says Patriarch
Head of Church Sentis a Plea
to Bishop Manning for the.
Help of North America
Tho tragic appeal of Patriarch Tik
hon, head of the Russian Church, to
the people of North America, cable i
from Moscow, was issued for publica?
tion yesterday by Bishop William T.
Manning, to whom it was addressed.
In it the. Patriarch of All Russia said:
"Through you I appeal to the North
American nation. There is famine in
Russia. A great part of her popula?
tion is doomed to a hunger death. The
corn of many provinces, formerly the
country's granary, is now burned by
drought. The famine breeds epidemics.
Most generous aid is needed immed?
iately. All other considerations must
be cast aside. The people are dying.
Tho future is dying, because the popu?
lation is deserting homes, lands, fields,
farms and is fleeing eastward, crying
for bread.
"Delay spells an unprecedented
calamity. Send immediately bri'ad and
medicines. I am sending a similar ap?
peal to the English people through the
Archbishop of Canterbury. Pruy may
God avert His wrath."
In commenting upon the cablegram
Bishop Manning said:
"This message needs no commenda?
tion. It makes its own urgent and
tragic appeal. Its words have singular
force coming from the heroic head of
the Russian Church, who, in the fuco
of the present regime, has at daily
risk of his life continued openly to
serve God and to minister to his peo?
ple, playing a part similar to that of
the noble Cardinal Mercier in Bel?
gium.
"All Americans ot wiiatever creed
or political view will wish to do what
: they can to aid our government in its
measures, under the direction of Mr.
Hoover, for the help of the people of
Russia in their untold suffering and
need, brought upon them in large part
by the follies find crimes of those who
at present rule over them by force
aiiii terror.
"It would be an immense reassurance
to us in this country, and also to his
own people, if the Patriarch Tikhon,
the man most trusted in all Russia,
Could be brought into direct relntion
with the work of our American relief
administration, Is it not possible, for
this to be arranged?"
Coolidge and Family at Home
After ViHiting Hi? Father
NORTHAMPTON, Muss., Aug. 26.?
Vice-President Calvin Coolidge, with
Mrs. Coolidge and their two Bons,
Calvin jr. ami John C, motored to their
home last night after two weeks' stay
at the homo of the Vice-President's
father, Colonel John C. Coolidge, in
Plymouth, Vt. Vice-Prcsident Coolidge
said to-day that he expected to ro
main in his home city until after the
150th anniversary celebration of the
town of Willlamshurg, Septcmbor 4,
at which he \h to bo a speaker.
Quezon Sees Hartling
On Philippine Plan, j
President Says U. S. Will Take
!\o Backward Steps
in Policies
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.?President ?
Harding in an interview to-day with
Manuel L. Quezon, president of the
Philippine Senate, said that the United
States would take no backward steps
in its policies toward the islands, ac?
cording to a statement given out by
Mr. Quezon. The President also said,
Mr. Quezon added, that he could not
discuss the question of independence
for the islands prior to receiving the
report from General Leonard Wood and
former Governor Forbes, now on a mis?
sion there.
"I informed the President that the
people of the Philippines earnestly
want independence and are of the be?
lief that they will bo granted inde?
pendence at an early date," the* state?
ment said. "I told the President that
the financial situation there was not
as bad as it was pictured to be."
U.S.D^attTWill
Attend Russian Aid
Meeting in Paris
Hoover Approves Send ins- of
Brown; Opposes Interna?
tional Relief Pool; Wants
America HandleO wn Work
WASHINGTON. Aug. 26.?The Rus-!
sian relief situation developed a new
problem to-day with the calling of an !
international conference on the subject !
to meet in Paris, presumably with a
view to coordinating relief measures.
In response to urgent requests from ?
abroad, the State Department has des?
ignated Walter L. Brown, who nego- ?
tiated the relief agreement at Riga, to
attend the conference and make a
complete survey of European opinion
as it develops there. Whether he' will
be empowered to participate in the pro?
ceedings has not been revealed, but it
was learned that he is undertaking the
mission with the approval of Secrotaty
Hoover, who, as head of tho relief j
movement, has insistently opposed pro?
posals to make an international pool
of all Russian relief facilities.
At the State Department informa?
tion was refused to-night as to the
purposes, or scope of the conference
or the details of its organization. It
is assumed, however, that the invita?
tions were issued by France and that i
all of the European nations interested
in the Russian tiingie will be repre?
sented. There has been no indication
that the meeting will delay American
relief work.
Since the negotiations over the send- .
ing of supplies into Russia began the
United States has insisted that what?
ever relief work is undertaken by this
country should be exclusively under !
American control. It is said that Sec?
retary Hoover and his advisers still
hold to that view, but it is pointed
out that this government scarcely
could refuse to confer on the subject
when urged to do so by the European
powers.
??'RIGA, Aug. 26..The Rosta Agency, ;
official Bolshevik news disseminator in
the Baltic, announces that 1,800,000
bushel", of seed grain, or approximately i
one-third tho amount, needed in the
Volga region, has already been coi- \
lected in Russia and that a large
amount is due at Reval from abroad
in a few days.
The "Pravda." of Moscow, in its
comment is slightly more optimistic j
than it has been recently. This is said
to be due to the successful outcome of
the national tax.
LONDON, Aug. 26.?Approximately
?10 per cent of the people residing in
tho department of Kazan, Russia,
have subsisted on "food substitutes"
since May. says the Moscow corre?
spondent of "The Daily Herald," who
quotes from the report of a special
delegation which conducted an in?
quiry there. The delegation was un?
able to find that anybody actually died
of starvation, but reports that many
deaths were caused by the eating of j
"unnatural foods."
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Greeks Engage Main Turk
Forces at Sakaria River'
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Nationalists Heavily Reinforced
bv Caucasus Divisions in
Battle in Asia Minor
SMYRNA, Aug. 26.- The Greeks in I
Asia Minor, aft?'r lengthy advances on
both banks of the Sakaria River along
the great sait desert, have got into
contact with the main Turkish Nation?
alist forces at the eastern confluence
of the Sakaria, says an official state?
ment under date of last Tuesday made
public to-day.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 23.- Six
Caucasus divisions now have entered
the line of battle, which is raging be?
tween the Greeks and Turkish Nation?
alists about twenty-live miles from the
Sakaria River, on the side of the
Turks.
The Turkish center of six divisions '
has been reinforced by two divisions!
along the railroad, while four divisions
are on the right wing and four on the |
extreme left wing of the Turkish army. :
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Senator in Patrol Wagon
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McNary, of Oregon, Accused of
Traffic VioSation
From Th,- Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. Senator
Charles L. McNary, of Oregon, and
George Francis Rodgers, a ship build?
er, who accompanied him, had the ex?
perience of a ride in the auto patrol
here 1 ist night.
Senator McNary was charged with
going oast a trafile signal at a crossing
when it. was set against him. Traffic
Policeman E. R. Dempsey challenged
the Senator und Rodgers, and alleged
they were offensive. He asked them to
drive to the First Precinct Station. ?
They refused and he called the patrol
i?nd had both removed to the station
house.
Senator McNary told the policeman
he was a Senator, but the officer re?
marked: "You have spoken too late."
The Senator and his companion pro?
tested at their treatment at the sta?
tion. They were released on furnish?
ing collateral, the Senator .5 and Mr.
Rodger. $10. The charge was dis?
orderly conduct. Both furnished the,
collateral to-day.
Constantine Recovering
Greek Kins Has Good Day Fol?
lowing Serious Illness
ATHENS, Aue-. 26. King Constan?
tino, whose illness at Eski-Shehr, Asia
Minor, was reported yesterday, is mak?
ing satisfactory progress townrd re?
covery, soys a report from his phy?
sicians. The King enjoyed n good day
yesterday, following his serious india-'
position on Wednesday,
Erzberger, Foe
Of Pan-Teutons,
Assassinated
German Ex-Viee-Chancellor
Is Shot Dead by 2 Youths
While on Walking Tour;
12 Bullet Wounds in Body
Comrade Wounded Also
Slayers Escape; Theft Not
Motive; Victim Center of i
Political Storm in War;
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BERLIN, Aug.?2C (By The Associ?
ated Press). -Mathias Erzberger, for?
mer Vice-Chancellor and Minister of
Finance, was assassinated to-day while
walking through the Black Forest near
Offenburg, Baden. Twelve bullet
wounds were found on his body.
The assailants of Herr Erzberger,
two y.cuths who accosted the politician
while he was walking with the Reichs?
tag Deputy Diez, have not been found.
Just what was the motive is not known,
but it has been definitely ascertained it
was not robbery.
Pan-Germans Opposed Him
Erzberger, for a long time one of
Germany's most powerful politicians,
had for somo time been tho object of a
violent campaign, sponsored by pan
German circles, which accused him of
being the author of the policy of the
present Chancellor.
Herr Erzberger had left Bad-Gries
bach, where lie was taking the cure, in
company with Deputy Diez for a foot
tour of the Black Forest. An hour
later both men were confronted by the
two youths, who separated them and
then emptied revolvers into Erzberger,
who was killed instantly by bullet
wounds in the head. Diez also was
wounded.
A judicial commission, accompanied
by police dogs, proceeded to the spot
on receipt of news of the attack, Which
occurred between 9 and 10 o'clock this
morning.
Tailor'-s Son Who Rose to Power
Matthias Erzberger was born Sep?
tember 20, 1875, the son of a tailor, was
educated at Freiburg, Switzerland, at
the expense of a wealthy friend, and
became a schoolmaster. He wrote sev?
eral works on political economy and
entered politics as an advocate of the
Christian Labor Union movement, being I
a delegate to the International Labor |
Congress of 1897 at Zurich. He was '
elected to the Reichstag in 1903 from j
a? constituency composed largely of |
small farmers who were Catholics! Ho j
at once renounced his labor union doc- !
trines and became a Conservative mem- \
ber of the Centrum, or Catholic, party.
Having a gift of fluent speech, he soon :
made his way to leadership and event- ?
ually outranked Dr. Spahn, who had j
been tho head of the Centrum.
At the beginning of the war he was
chosen chief German propagandist, and |
was intrusted with the sum of 2S.00O,- ?
000 marks with which to corrupt the
press not only of Germany but also of j
all other lands to which he could gain ;
access. Much of the pro-German prop- \
Uganda in some American newspapers !
originated with him, and he was the j
patron of Bolo Pasha and other in- i
triguers in France and other countries, i
In this work he was not conspicuously
successful,?.because, as the "Berliner:
Neueste Nachrichten" said, "he affili- j
ated himself only with those papers |
whose corruptibility was no secret.' j
Failing to tempt neutral countries into j
entering tho war on Germany's side, he !
then reversed himself and started prop- j
Uganda against war. He was the hei.d
of the German peace intrigues of 1917, j
and when President Wilson put forward
his scheme of a league of nations
Erzberger became its champion and j
wrote a book in its favor.
Champion of Frightfulness
During the war he was conspicuous ?
for his advocacy of "frightfulness,";
coupling that policy with incessant in?
vocations of the Deity. He exulted in
the use of poison gas and flame-throw
ing devices, and went into raptures
whenever news came of the killing of
women and children by the dropping of
bombs upon unfortified towns. "The
greatest ruthlessness is the greatest
humanity," he said. "It would be bet?
ter to destroy the whole of London
than to let a single German soldier
perish on the battlefield. For every
German ship taken by England an Eng- ?
lish town or village should be de?
stroyed by our airmen."
Meantime he was intriguing against ;
his colleagues, and it was largely :
through his underground work that
Chancellor von Bethmann-Holiweg was
forced out of office. His egotism was;
considered immeasurable. "Let me sit :
with Lloyd George and the others at?
table," he said, "and in half an hour we
will have an immediate peace." H,i j
took a prominent part in the arrange
ment of the armistice, being then a
minister without portfolio in the Ger
man Cabinet, and he. was a member of j
the armistice commission which nego- '?
tiated with Marshal Foch. When the
Treaty of Versailles was completed h1.
favored the signing of it by Germany
When the Bauer Cabinet was formed
in 1919 he was made Minister of ,
Finance and Vice-Premier.
Erzberger's attitude throughout the '
armistice negotiations aroused against
him the indignation of German military \
authorities, and in June, 1919, it was ;
reported that his residence hr.d been
fired upon by a Berlin mob. A plot,
said to have been formed by members,
of the officers' corps at Potsdam, to as- ?
sassinate him was revealed in Septem- ;
ber following.
His Peace Plan Opposed
He roused a storm in Germany in !
July, 1917, more than a year before the
armistice, by propo:*ing a resolution in
the German Reichstag in favor of a;
peace without annexations and for ;
parliamentary reform. Chancellor von
Bethmann-Hpllweg declared this for- ;
mu?a, was unacceptable, and Dr. Karl
Helfferich, former Vice-Chancellor, i
subsequently blamed Erzberger's peace
proposal for the moral collapse of the
German people. The former Vice
Chancellor accused Erzberger of high
treason, denounced him as a "menace
to tho purity of our public life" and ?
invited him to bring suit for libel. He
declared that Erzberger must be re- j
moved from public office "if our po- ?
litical life is again to became healthy'
and normal." He usserted also that \
Erberger's fortune bad been made dur- j
ing the war by utilizing his political
and parliamentary position.
Erzberger accepted this challenge ?
und began a libel suit against Helf-j
fcrich, which opened in court on Jan- ;
uary 20, 1920. Dr. Helfferich resolutely j
stood by his charges, and declared that t
Erzberger was a menace to the purity:
of German public life, and that he
must h?' removed from office if political
life was again to become healthy and
normal.
The suit was won by Erzberger on
only one count. The ex-Vice-Chancel?
lor failed to prove that Erzberger in
tended to denounce Dr. Helfferich to
the Entente. Dr. Helfferich was fined
300 marks ami costs.
Shot by Student on January 20. 1920
Erzborger was shot and wounded on
January '.'?, 1920, as he was leaving
the Criminal Court Building in Berlin
after attending ? hearing in the libel
suit. His assailant gave his name as
Mathias Erzherger
Radical German exponent of "Hymn
of Hate," who was assassinated
yesterday.
Oltwig von Hirschfeld, a former cadet
officer, twenty years old, a student, and
son of a Berlin bank official. Von
Hirschfeld was arrested and was
quoted as saying he considered Erz
berger dangerous to the empire. The
assailant fired two shots at Erzberger
as the minister was entering his auto?
mobile. One bullet glanced otf the
victim's watch chain and another en?
tered his shoulder. Von Hirschfeld
was sentenced to eighteen months' im?
prisonment for the shooting.
Erzberger retired from the Cabinet
shortly after he recoverd from the at?
tack. The libel suit hurt him politi?
cally. He remained in private life for
a time, but ran for the Reichstag in
the election of June, 1920, and was
chosen a member of that body. Latterly
charges of sending capital abroad and
other offenses were made against him
by his political opponents, and last May
the Reichstag lifted his parliamentary
immunity.
In the same month he made a politi?
cal speaking tour of western Germany
and was reported in Berlin dispatches
to have advocated tho seizure of pri?
vately owned gold and silver, the im?
mediate imposition of a capital tax
levy and the enforcement of several
socialization schemes.
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Rioting Natives in
India Still Bent on
Murder and Loot
European Beheaded and His
Bungalow Burned; Calieut
Quiet; Lahore Committee
Boycotts Visit of Wales
BOMBAY, British India, Aug. 26 i By
The Associated Press).?Looting by
riotous natives in southern India still
continues, according to a message re?
ceived from Calicut. A band of fanat?
ics is reported to have entered an
estate at Pullengode, where a European
named Eaton was surprised in his
bungalow and beheaded. The bunga?
low then was burned. Eaton's wife
had left the estate recently.
It is reported that an inspector of
special reserve police was murdered
by Moplah rioters and his body thrown
into a river.
LONDON, Aug. 26.?The latest in?
formation of the British Indian staff
at Simla with regard to the Moplah
riots in southern India is that the
situation at Calicut is quiet, Reuter's
Simla correspondent cables to-day.
The detachment of troops at Mala
puram, thirty miles southeast of Cali?
cut, which has been under pressure
from the riotous natives, has not been
further attacked and relief is on the
way from Calicut.
The railway from Calicut to the
south, the advices state, is being
cleared, although risings are continu?
ing in some districts. Advanced troops
sent from Podanur as far as Pattamlu,
it is added, report the situation nor?
mal and the line clear.
Band? of insurgents are concentrat?
ing around Tirur and Ponani in the
Malabar district, nnd ure apparently
bent on mischief, says ano.ther Reuter's
dispatch from Calicut. A mob has
looted a police station and the public
offices at Tirur and carried off muni?
tions. Tho rioters liberated prisoners
and held up seventeen, policemen, the
dispatch declares. A green _ag bear?
ing the Turkish Crescent is said to have
been conspicuous in recent disturbances
along the Malabar coast.
Another Reuter's dispatch from La?
hore, northwestern India, says that a
mass meeting presided over by Lala
Lajpat Rai, Indian Nationalist leader,
passed a resolution stating that "while
the wounds resulting from martial law
in Punjab are still unhealed, the Khila
fat. pledges are unredeemed and famine,
conditions prevail throughout the coun?
try, the people of Lahore are not pre?
pared to extend a welcome to the
Prince of Wales, who is due in India
on a visit this fall."
Two speakers opposed the resolution,
urging that the prince should be given
an opportunity to see present conditions
and expressing confidence that he would
redress wrongs.
The Lahore municipal committee also
decided to boycott the prince's visit.
Cresson Shows ??u?lard Note
To Justify Bergdoll Action
OMAHA, Aug. 26.?Major C. C. Cres?
son, judge advocate at Fort ("rook,
whose prosecution of Major John E.
Hunt, in connection with the escape
of Grovor Cleveland Bergdoll. draft
evader, recently was criticized by a
majority report of a Congressional in?
vestigating committee, to-day made
public a letter from Major General R.
L. Bullard to refute the charge that he
had been lax in his conduct of the
case.
The letter, written from General Bul
lard's headquarters at Governor's
Island, N. Y., where the case was heard,
declared the writer liad especially
noted the "zeal ,and interest for the
government" shown by Major Cresson.
Major Cresson's interest, 'he letter
said, seemed to General Bullard to be
"too great."
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General Nicholson Succeeds
B?rdet.-Coutts in Commons
LONDON, Aug. 26.?The bye-election
for Parliament in the Abbey division
of Westminster for a successor to the
late William L. Ashmead Bartlett liur
dett-Courts resulted in tho election of
General .lohn S. Nicholson, who re?
ceived ?3,204 votes, while Colonel K. V.
Applin received 4,070 und Arnold Lup
ton ?363.
Tho election was largely fought on
the issue of "anti-waste," or economy
in the administration of the govern?
ment departments. General Nicholson,
the successful candidate, is an Inde?
pendent Constitutional Conservative.
He favored economies, but Colonel Ap
piin and Mr. Lupton, the latter an in?
dependent Liberal "anti-waste" candi?
date, advocated far mon' drastic re?
trenchments in state expenditure.
Plea Is Made
For League by
Viscount Bryce
In Final Address to Insti,
tute of Politics He Con,
tends Permanent Tribu,
nal Might Preserve Peace
Speaks of Amendments
Says All Important Govern,
ments Should Be Inelud.
ed in Such Organization
WILLIAMSTOWX, Mass., Aug. 26_
?Specific indorsement of the League o'
[Nations, "with whatever amendments
j may be found necessary," was made by
j Viscount James Bryce in his final ?<?.
? dresl before the Institute of Politics
to-day. He said:
"Those for whom 1 venture to speak
workers who have nothing to do with
our respective governments, mean to
persevere in supporting the league as
the only plan yet launched with a pros
pect of success. We are nearer to the"
conflagration than you arc, but prair?
fires spread fast.
"The old-fiishioned system of defeni.
ive alliances among individual states i?
open to as many objections as is the
concept of the super state. Could an
alliance be made by a large number of
states directed not against other states
but against war itself by providing
means of averting it?" K
Although Viscount Bryce avoided
answering this question in
many
words, his substantial conclusion was
that such an alliance was potentially
possible.
Permanent Tribunal Needed
"Such a combination of states would
begin by developing and extending the
scope of the methods of arbitration and
conciliation. These two methods may
be made to cover every sort of dispute
that can arise between states," he said
adding that for this combination of
states "there must be not only a per?
manent tribunal to hear and decide
controversies, but a council of some
sort to apply methods of conciliation to
disputes not fit for legal determina
tion.
"Any sort of a guaranty of ?
status as to existing territorial rights
i of the member nations ought to be
? uccompanied by ample provision for
an examination of the causes of dis
[ content and their removal. This may
j seem a heavy task, but it must be
I undertaken if a permanent peace, and
: good will, the foundation of peace, is
i to be secured. The sooner it Is
| undertaken the better, and a combina
, tion such as we have been considering
i is the fittest body to undertake it
"The idea of a super state embrac
: ing the whole world, a federation of
peoples ruled by a parliament of man.
; Appeals to the imagination. It is
splendid, fascinating, and inspiriting.
But it is a phase which has no clear
relation to anything in the world of
the concrete. No one, so far as I
know, has presented it in a concrete
form by showing what the organiza?
tion and government of such a world
federation would actually be in prac?
tice.
Large Number Best
"If the backward peoples were e!<
lowed to exert their power of numbers,
either by the direct voting of their
citizens en masse or by the number of
representatives assigned to them on
tho basis of population in the ruling
general assembly of th? federation,
the result might be to throw back in
?tead of to advance civilization. By
what other means is mankind to pro?
tect itself against such storms as that
which broke upon it in 1?14? Could
an alliance be made by a large num?
ber of states directed against war by
providing means for averting war? -
"It would seem that such a com?
bination should consist of a large
number of states, so large that the
special interests of each would be over
ruleil by the general interest of a!!,
the maintenance of world peace. It
should include states so important that
they would possess not only material
strength but also a full volume of
educated opinion sufficient to consti?
tute a moral force.
"What should be the organs by which
such a combination will conduct its
business? A c'nief aim is to avoid by
direct interchange of views the delays
and misunderstandings which arise in
diplomatic correspondence between a
number of states. There must be.
therefore, not only a permanent tri?
bunal to bear and decide controversia*
but a council of some sort to apply
methods of conciliation to disputes no:
fit for legal d?termin?t ion."
Root Discusses War Effects
Elihu Root, speaking to-night st th?
farewell dinner given to tho institute,
! emphasize?! the effect of the war in
producing many new democracies. Thcs?
democracies, he said, had much to
I learn, but "because people can !e?rn
the art of free self-government I he
lieve they can lenrn the art of interns
. tional peace." They must become "fr
ternationally minded," he added,?"?
must learn "the limitations upon t",'r
national rights."
"The war has !efi many changes, but
one of the greatest is the change w
the possession of power in the goven>
ments of the world." Mr Root saic.
"No1 only do democracies hold m their
hands the power of government,
but the effect of war has been to se.
free the millions of people who c?r*'
stitute these new governing boci?
from their old habit of respect to??*
thority in matters of opinion. "?
demand the right of decision. J?
follow closely upon the heels of tne ?
representatives and dictate what W*>
j shall do. , .
"The old autocracies understood w*
ternational affairs th ? -rJt./7
old autocracies were utterly ???j*j
The new governi ?? i lCra? -V
generous. Thev mean what ii f-S
they arc honest, they wish for pe??i
they abhor war. but they are most w>
perfectly forme.:. Many of them*.,
cuite oblivious to ti*..-' fact that w
are different factors, different w???
thinking and feeling among the pe^*
of other countries. They ass urn?i ?^
their own idea- arc '.he lc*s.., ?,
ought to prevail and which Will P
vail. ?
"Old Passions Still Sway
T ? nati? r .-e mucl
They
must learn that the i?'-'-1 ?: *,liVl.hf.:
not only ju itice to themselves and ^y
families, but justice to other--,
liberty is not only that they *!>??'
free, but that they shall be ?'??<- *"
others are free. f<
"The peoples had hope?! ft'r,,a,y..
and better result of the World "<X
They find that the old Pa?io?' !?vk
7way the world; that personal. i|PJJ25
interests arc ruling, ami that the
of interests still goes on fna firid
reaction from the exalted virtw??
bv th- war is over. It is ."""L.*
action, and thev don't know what o??
to be done or bow it ought to De ?
"Now this is quite pian-: n " $t
is to sail if. an airship he .*-"l*" ?f.
builder to know how. and if *ne trcl
mocracies of the world are to co
the international affair? of clv|llIf'r
thev must make it their duty io . fJ.
the business, for without tnM ?
will make havoc and have to coir.
their lesson through sad exP"' .??j.
They must learn, these p?*?" ^?????
the limitations upon their B?*
rights."