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HOW PUBLICISTS OF THREE POWERS
MOST INVOLVED VIEW RUHR SEIZURE
FRENCH
French Will Solve
the Impossible,
Says Tardieu.
BY ANDRE TARDIEU.
By Osble to The SUr.
PARIS. January 13. —At the very
moment the French government was
proceeding with the seizure of the
Essen region, America let it be known
that she was withdrawing her re
maining troops from the Rhineland.
The coincidence emphasized the di
vergence of views which nobody
longer can doubt. The course, after
the refusal to ratify the treaty of
Versailles, was perfectly logical, but
the time chosen gives a meaning
which telegraphed comments of the
American press further accentuate.
Friends, always, but not in agree
ment, Such is our situation. You have
too much respect for honest opinion
to be surprised if 1 speak frankly.
For four years an effort has been
made to keep together the combina
tion which began disintegrating im
mediately after the armistice. Its
failure today is obvious. This does
not mean that our good feelings and
good relations are not to be preserv
ed, but it means a waste of time to
pretend to agree, where we do not.
The Americans and the English
criticize us for considering only poli
tics and neglecting economics, where
in they preach solidarity. But when
your two great countries, immediately
after the armistice, brusquely de
stroyed the war organizations which
controlled coal, exchange and trans
portation, were they thinking of
economic solidarity? No, they were
thinking perhaps, rather narrowly, of
their own interests. We, with even
more reason, now are doing the same
thing, in declaring that after three
years of continual concessions we
won’t go bankrupt and are tired of
paying billions every year for Ger
many, for the ruins she caused.
VaUt Effort* to Convince.
Tou yourself have often said you'd
do the same thing if you were in
our place. But you are not in our
place. You are not us. It seems all
the effort we have expended to con
vince the English and yourselves has
been completely fruitless. It seems
also that, with Germany and the
soviets excepted, all Europe agrees
with us, which fact seems worthy of
arresting your attention. You may
reply, we are all mistaken, hut we
eav the same of you and the English
and we think your indifference con
cerning the treaties a formidable
cause of anarchy, not alone political,
but economic. Thus, as you can t
change our conviction any more than
we can yours, X say again we must
change our methods.
For mvself I have tried every way
by voice and pen for three years to
reconcile our viewpoints, 1 have not
succeeded, Nobody has succeeded.
When you exploit a mine and find
no more coal there you don t keep
digging. At the present moment it
would be vain to hope to get anything
out of that allied and associated
mine, which, nevertheless, was so rich
during the war.
So we are going to try alone to
put some order into the old continent.
We will cease annoying you by ask
ing your opinion on questions which
do not interest you, as your domestic
questions do not Interest us. We
will try to apply those international
contracts which you refused to
ratify after signing and the English
refused to execute after ratifying;
international contracts which cannot
be abandoned without condemning to
death of all of those central European
states which 1 myself heard you ac
claim so often when it was a question
of liberating them from the German,
Austro-Hungarian and Russian yoke.
We will try to do our own business
ourselves, gently, if possible, other
wise, If compelled.
Words Misunderstood.
It wasn't we who invented the
phrase “■Speak softly, but carry a big
stick.” Our honeyed words have been
misunderstood. Therefore we turn
to the stick. The future will show
which is best.
We are doing what the English and
Americans have done in other times.
If it was right for you, then why is
it wrong and unjust when coming
from us? You will watch us as we
watched you at the time of Cuba and
the Philippines and as you watched
England at other times.
Tou will be witnesses of results
and we’ll cease vain, irritating dis
putes. Whether we or you like it or
not, a new epoch is beginning which
will last many years. If we succeed
you’ll see we will be good payers and
remain good friends. It is the way
of wisdom and the only way to guar
antee the future.
The other method, which in 1918
saved the right and liberty, had my
preference. It is not France's fault
If it became impracticable.
(Copyright, 1933)
REICHSTAG BACKS
GERMAN ATTITUDE
(Continued from First Page.)
expression by a well known demo
cratic leader, who said tonight:
Enters “Dark Tunnel.”
"Germany has arrived at the en
trance to a dark—a very dark —tun-
nel.” He referred not only to pos
sible reaction from Paris to the Ger
man official attitudCj the German
government considering the treaty of
Versailles abrogated, but also was of
the opinion that the internal situa
tion was fraught with grave danger.
Since the coal syndicate eliminated
Itself from the further control of
the Ruhr mines output the independ
ent owners and operators have tacit
ly agreed to supply France and Bel
gium against cash payments, as they
are no longer able to hold Germany
financially accountable for their de
liveries. Official quarters are not in
tervening in this situation. Inasmuch
as it was not certain in Berlin to
night that the French authorities in
the newly occupied area would enter
Into such an agreement. >
Just now the government Is glv-
Ing serious consideration to the
adoption of emergency economic
measures calculated to meet the sud
den turn in the situation throughout
Germany without anticipating diplo
matic and foreign economic ratifi
cations which may become urgent is
sues at an early date.
Session In Deep Gloom.
Today’s session of the Reichstag
took on an aspect of pronounced
gloom as the chancellor’s statement
failed to strike the inspiring note
which the deputies and crowded gal
leries expected. Chancellor Cuno lib
erally amplified his previous state
ment on the present Invasion and its
relation to the treaty. The party
leaders who followed him also failed
to lift the debate out of the atmos
phere of perfunctory protest.
Chancellor Cuno said France’s ex
tremely costly military action had
ostensibly been undertaken for the
small arrears In the deliveries of ooal
and timber, but the economic grounds
BRITISH
Britain Is Advised
to Adopt Waiting
Policy on Ruhr •
BY A. G. GARDINER.
By Cable to The Star.
LONDON, January 13.—France is in
the Ruhr, and England awaits the
developments in the drama anxiously
but calmly.
The effect of the breach with
France is beginning to operate
powerfully in the public mind. Hith
erto the hypnotism of the war has
obscured the realities of French
policy. Criticism of France has been
regarded as a sort of blasphemy.
The tide of this feeling has turned
solidly, but without anger and with
out hesitation. Not since the days
of the war has the voice of the press
been so unanimous in support of the
government. Today all events since
the armistice are being reviewed in
the light of this crowning act of
spoliation.
"What course should England pursue
in the light of this challenge? That
question is occupying ail minds. In
some quarters it is urged that our
continuation in the occupied territory
is impossible in view of tho action
of France, which is not Indorsed by
us, and is declared to be contrary to
the provisions of the peace treaty.
Says Troops Should Remain.
It is maintained that the presence
of British troops on the Rhine is in
consistent with the attitude of the
government, and renders us liable to
grave complications. On the other
hand, it is argued that withdrawal
of the troops at this stage would be
premature. It would accentuate the
breach beyond ail hope of accommo
dation, and deprive England of the
power to exercise a restraining in
fluence on the course of events.
I think the latter view Is the wiser.
Nothing now can check the adventure,
and withdrawal would inflame France
to wilder courses. The prevailing
opinion Is that France must be al
lowed to burn her fingers in the Ruhr
furnace until she recovers her sanity.
True, this may mean the final ruin
of Germany, already on the brink of
the abyss, and with Germany goes
the last fragment of the central nave
of Europe. But France will only be
cured by the discovery that her policy
doesn’t pay and that Germany is as
empty as was Mme. Humbert’s safe.
Moreover, the plain fact now is be
ing realized that France is the mili
tary dictator of Europe and that no
power exists to resist her artysjitures.
She and her allies have disarmed Ger
many almost to her last man and her
last gun. France has a larger army
than at the beginning of the war and
is more powerful than all of the other
nations west of the Vistula. She
commands a practical monopoly of
the manufacture of armaments in
Europe.
Half a million black troops are in
reserve with which to hold white Eu
rope by the throat. All this is due
to the policies of the last four years,
but England refused to recognize this
significant fact. Now the significance
is plain to all. It is the governing
factor of the situation, and France is
conscious that her unchallenged
power can turn the screw’ without
fear of effective interference.
Advises Waiting Policy.
A confident feeling prevails that
France will experience a speedy dis
illusionment in the face of the passive
resistance of the German industrials
and that when she finds the cupboard
is bare and the franc begins to tumble
she will be more disposed to listen
to reason. Perhaps the wish is father
to the thought.
No action is possible. We can only
wait and see. Meanwhile Nittl’s new
book on the decadence of Europe is
creating a tremendous impression
His somber and terrific indictment of
French policy and his powerful anal
ysis of the catastrophe of the peace
of revenge is the first time that the
British public has been presented
with the full case against France, and
coming at this critical moment the
effect is terrific. Especial feeling has
been aroused by his disclosure of the
Infamies associated with the use of
black troops in the heart of white
European civilization.
This iniquity now is arousing deep
indignation. It is felt to be an out
rage not on Germany alone but on
the whole of European society. Nittl’s
appeal to America generally Is echoed
here. England has don© her best to
check Europe’s plunge to barbarism,
but now’ is reduced to the role of an
idle spectator of the catastrophe. The
moral and material power of Amer
ica now is the only influence left to
save the wreck of the continent.
English opinion agrees with Nltti
that America is justified In refusing
help which only would be employed
in preparing armaments for a new
war. England, now free from en
tanglements shares Nittl’s views that
Anglo-American co-operation in a
policy of peace, with a revision of the
treaty, solution of the reparations
and restoration of sane economic con
ditions in Europe is the only hope of
salving anything from the wreck of
the old world.
(Copyright, 1923.)
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for the invasion of the Ruhr, he add
ed. were equally as small as the
legal grounds. Continuing, he said:
“As long as the present situation
lasts, Germany will not be in a po
sition to carry out her obligations
to the powers who brought about the
situation. Outwardly, we can offer
but little opposition to this act of
violence, but inwardly W’e can do
more—namely, by a display of will
and determination.
“The German nation is manifestly
stirred. The depth of its emotion maj
not perhaps be fully realized, because
the nation is accustomed to carrying
Its burden with unvarying patience. Not
one among us but shares this feeling of
suffering.”
Vrgtm Vigilant Prudence.
Herr Cuno urged the necessity for
vigilant prudence and self-restraint, lack
of which would bring most disastrous
consequences for the community. He ap
pealed to all Germans to stand together,
during the coming distressful days.
“Injustice, misery and deprivation
are our fate today.” he exclaimed. "Free
dom of life is our aim, and unity our
path.”
After the chancellor finished his
speech, Gustav Stresemann, In behfclf
of the non-socialists, denounced the
•Ruhr invasion. Ho supported the gov-,
emment’s attitude and appealed for
unity.
Then, Deputy Mueller, speaking sos
the socialists, also denounced the
French, but aroused the non-socialists
by recalling what he termed “Germany's
own imperial adventures in the past,
especially the expedition to China.”
Several of the rlchist ‘deputies, to
show their disapproval of these re
marks, left the chamber. The vote on
the policy of the government was then
taken, sixteen of the deputies abstain
ing from casting ballots.
CHILE GETS GERMANPROTEST
SANTIAGO, Chile, January 13.
The German minister today present
ed to the Chilean government the
German protest against the occupa
tion of the Rohr.
THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C- JANUARY 14. 1923-PART 1.
GERMAN
Germany Bayonet
Driven, Avers
Harden .
BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN..
By Cable to The Star.
BERLIN, January 13.—Dark days.
Indeed, have come to Germany. But
France’s march Into the Ruhr should
not surprise the world. She has had
her eyes on that productive valley
ever since the armistice was signed
and the ridiculous treaty of Versailles
was negotiated.
Germany signed the treaty under
protest. Now’ she protests against the
breaking of that treaty by the latest
French aggression. But who is to heed
the protest?
Germany, Impotent, has been wait
ing for some one to come to her res
cue. but no one comes. The govern
ment has thought the United States
would act—has frankly said that it
expected economic aid from the United
States. A few weeks ago tills expecta
tion sent the mark sailing upward.
But now, in the darkness, the mark
has gone deeper Into the cellar,
Germany, like a toothless old dog,
is driven into her kennel at the point
of the bayonet.
No one can say as yet just what will
coni© of the occupation of the Ruhr.
Germany lias for months been racing
toward the abyss.
England Stands Alone.
But to the world at large there is
perhaps a more important and cer
tainly * more definite development.
England no longer is a European
power. She stands in isolation It is
now the continent for itself. England
ooks for friendship and possible fu
ture alliance across the broad waters
of tile Atlantic. Her influence no
longer prevails across the narrows of
tlie channel.
France has broken away from Brit- i
ish control. France, with her power- |
iul army and submarine fleet, her air- I
planes and bombs and torpedoes of a j
destructive pow’er hitherto undreamed,
seems to ail opponents of a brutal I
military spirit a hindrance todav to j
peace, progress. civilization 'and I
democracy.
Tomorrow France can threaten
England s life as well as Germany’s.
England told her she ought to dis
arm, especially if reparations In kind
were approved by all the Versailles
signatories and a four-power pact
were arranged whereby England.
J-rance, Germany and Italy would
agree not to make war on each other
without a plebiscite. Such was the
thought of the commercial mind.
British Plan Rejected.
But Franc© rejected the British
plan, which would give her a maxi
mum of thirty billion gold marks, and
would remove the protecting fence of
Versailles. She mocks at a pact
which could not prevent a pro-war
plebiscite in Germany nor prevent
Germany Invading Poland, the Bel
gium of Czechoslovakia, and won't
sacrifice a single bayonet to such a
phantom, for her army seems indis
pensable on the Rhine and at Pas de
Calais, without which she would be
helpless against British despotism
and caprice.
The engagement rings exchanged
under the Christmas mistletoe are
broken and England, which wanted
to give Prance a choice between a
free hand on the Rhine with oriental
concessions or be Isolated and pil
loried as a disturber of the peace,
now sees herself isolated. Belgium.
Italy, the little entente. Poland-all
are on the side of Prance. Ehgland's
isolation, the first since Salisbury's
time, is truly splendid. She has the
dominions and America on her side.
She can lure Russia to her net bv
recognizing the soviets. She can try
to split Islam by re-establishing the
former sultan in Mecca, but the wise
ones in the foreign office doubtless
realize that ail these trumps cannot
win dominant power on the con
■ tinent.
So out goes England. But how will
France use her new power? Will i
she, too, be greedy, or will her people 1
at last see that Europe must create
a new order from her own strength, j
according to her own needs, and no I
longer endure the guardianship of a|
great power which really has been
more strongly interested in and for
other continents than for Europe?
■
United States of Europe?
God moves in mysterious ways His
■ I miracles to perform. What if there
should ensue from the latest seemingly (
untoward happenings in Europe that (
dream of ail far-seeing people, a United !
States of Europe?
The first dawning recognition that
England no longer is a European power
is more important than any of the
latest phases of the reparations quarrel,
and a race now is beginning in Paris for
an agreement with the Russia of tomor
row. England, worthy of the greatest
admiration as an unsurpassed model
state and the center of history as the
most powerful empire, should realize
that a united Europe could guarantee
her an open door for her exports and
free access to her territorial possessions
in Asia and the North sea, and would
do so if she would promise to abandon
all interest in Europe's internal affairs.
For the time being it is only the in
stinct of the people which is stirring,
■ but soon reason will be awakened and i
will show both French and Germans the ;
way of collaboration. The exchange of j
rings then will be unnecessary, but the j
third party, who publicly advocates j
union while secretly desiring dissension 1
and preaches resignation when his own I
pockets are full, must finally abandon I
the authority of guardian and the pleas
ures of the gallartt friend of the house.
(Copyright, 1933.)
WOULD INVITE CANADA
TO PAN-AMERICAN PARLEY
Argentine Paper Says Congress i
Will Sot Be Complete With
out Dominion.
By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, January 13. -—The
fact that Canada has nc* been in
• vlted to participate In the Pan-Amer
ican conference is criticized by La
Nacion in an editorial article today.
The exclusion of the country that had
done so much toward the common
progress of the American nations Is
; unjust, the editorial argues, partlcu
, larly in view of the fact that Canada
is engaged in drawing closer her re
’ lations with Latin America.
, “The legal scruple” that Canada
lacks sovereignty Is no good reason 1
for barring her out, contends the
newspaper, which notes that Canada
• is a member of the league of na
■ tlons and also participated In the in
ternational labor conference in Wash
ington in 1918 and had delegates in
1 the Washington armament oonfer
: enoe last year.
. The term “Pan-American.” it ar
gues, is hostile to any omission and
’ extremely so in the case of a coun
’ try with the prestige of Canada,
I
i BANKERS TO CONVENE HERE.
Washington has been selected for
the annual convention of the Invest
• ment Bankers' Association, which will
be held In October, according to a
message received yesterday by
’ Joshua Evans, jr„ vice president of
1 the Riggs National Bank and presi
-1 dent of the District Bankers’ Asso
’ elation, from Eugene C. Thomas, mem
ber of the* board of governors of
the Investment Bankers’ Association,
i The convention will bring to Wash
ington about 1,000 members and their
. wives from all sections of the United
States and Canada. *
1 Modem Japanese girls do not look
’ with favor upon the suggestion of their
parents that they marry military men.
FRENCH WILL PAY
FOR RUHRGUTPUT
Mine Owners Agree to Re
sume Deliveries After Cash
Is Promised.
ASSURE WORKERS’ WAGES
Authorities Hopeful That Ship
ments of Coal Will Be
Started Monday.
By the Associated Press.
ESSEN, January 13.—M. Coste,
French Inspector general of mlnee
and head of the industrial mission in
the Ruhr, today assented in principle
to the German mine owners’ demand
for cash payments on coal deliveries
1 to France and Belgium, and the own
ers expressed their readiness to re
sume deliveries Monday if satisfac
tory terms were arranged with the
individual mines.
The mine owners demand 80 per
cent advance cash payments every
ten days, the balance being payable
within three days after accounts for
deliveries are rendered.
The situation was discussed at a
conference at which approximately
twenty-live directors, representing
twelve mines on both sides of the
Rhine, were present, as well as the
allied commissioners and civilian
engineers. No military officers at
tended the conference.
Agree on Cash Payments.
. Obviously referring to the removal of
the coal syndicate, M. Coste opened the
sitting by asking why the mine opera
tors had changed a system of long years
( standing. The question was not an
j’swered and Fritz Thyssen, brother of
! August Thyssen, speaking for the direc-
I tors present, called attention to Gen.
j Devigne’s announcement at yesterday’s
j conference that the orders of the Ber
lin government no longer applied to the
Ruhr district. Herr Thyssen declared J
that the German law still governed the
Ruhr, and as the federal commissioner
had ordered that no more payments
should be made by Germany for repara
tions the coal mines could not make de
liveries.
M. Coste replied that he was not em
powered to discuss the question ©frights,
and demanded resumption of the ship
ments.
Herr Thyssen said it would he im
possible to make deliveries, unless pay
ments were provided for the workmen’s
wages, but the Germans were ready to
discuss deliveries on cash payments.
M. Coste said they would be paid
for "as heretofore,” and a long dis
cussion on the significance of this
phrase ensued. The directors then
presented a statement in which they
announced their readiness to make de
liveries to France and Belgium if
paid in cash, according to the sales
prices fixed by the national coal as
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PVT AGAINST CLAIM
OF GERMAN POVERTY
Despite Germany’s alleged poverty
It Is interesting to note the great
Increase In privately owned automo
bile* In Germany during the past
year over the figures for 1921.
July 1, 1922, according to figures
just Issued in Berlin and forwarded
to the Department of Commerce by
Commercial Attache Charles D. Her
ring, there were 165.315 automotive
vehicles of all kinds In Germany,
compared with 118,640 on July 1. 1921.
The increase In the year amounted
to 39.3 per cent.
Out of this total 82.505 were tour
ing cars, 43,687 motor trucks, and
37,941 motor cycles. The remainder
were other types of motor-run vehi
cles, such as tractors, street clean
ing and fire-fighting apparatus, etc.
The 1922 census of automotive vehi
cles shows a ratio of one automotive
vehicle to each 380 of population, or
one touring car to each 720. The
corresponding ratio in 1921 was one
to 500 and one to 1,000, respectively.
sociation, providing no conditions to
the contrary were prescribed by the
federal coal commissary.
Deliveries Planned.
M. Coste agreed in principle to cash
payments, but Insisted that the past
deficit In Germany's deliveries must
be made up.
A second statement by the directors
was then presented, declaring that
the marking of the deficit in deliver
ies was out of the question. It was
explained that this was due to the
removal of the syndicate, and individ
ual mines could not enter Into a
wholesale delivery agreement. It was
added that because of the occupation a
reduction in the output of the mines
must bo looked for.
The directors’ statement announc
ing the above terms of payment ex
pressed readiness to begin deliveries
Monday if satisfactory arrangements
could in the meantime be made by
the commission with the mines. Thus
it appears that the commission's next
step will be negotiations with the
owners Individually w ith reference tu
specific agreements.
Deny Pay Will Stop.
The population of Kssen continues
quiet, while the extension of the
French occupation is gradually pro
ceeding. A majority of the rooms in
the leading hotels and the whole or
part of six schools in the greater
city have been requisitioned by the
French and Belgians, who have also
been provided on demand with quar
ters for the establishment of a French
bookshop.
1 I’av dav at the Krupp works passed
without incident, but the workmen
warmed to a report in circulation
to the effect! that, next Saturtday
when the first full week of work
under the -occupation will be com
pleted. no money would be forthcom
ing. the management referring them
to the French mission for their
wages. The Krupps management
late today denied any such intention.
There also has been much propa
ganda among the working classes
that the French would increase the
working day to ten hours. Gen.
Degouette, however, issued a pro
clamation today informing the coal
miners and working men generally
that the French occupation authori
ties have absolutely no intention of
interfering with the ejght-hour day.
tjueen Wilhehnina of the Netherlands,
who will celebrate her jubilee on the
throne next August, is the only woman
in the world who is a reigning sovereign
in her own right, ‘ a position she has
held since IS9B.
NEW PARLEY HINT
WSINTEREST
State Department Advices
From Europe, However,
Fall to Mention Report.
Unofficial Intimations from Paris
that the Poincare ministry is consid
ering: a call for a new reparations
conference created wide interest In
government circles here, although it
was said definitely that no hint of
such a development was given in
State Department advices.
The Paris dispatches referring to
the possibility of a conference came
on the heels of an authoritative dis
closure here that administration offi
cials viewed the Hughes' commission
suggestion as still alive and before
the French and other allied govern
ments. Whether unofficial talk in
Paris points to a possible resort to
the principle advanced by Mr. Hughes
is not known. It is generally as
sumed, however, in view of the tone
of yesterday’s report from the Ruhr
as to the difficulties surrounding the
task before the French technical
forces there, that economics rather
than politics must be the basis of any
new conference approach to the crisis.
That would be wholly in line with
the Hughes’ suggestion.
Depends on Kvents.
It goes without laying that the na
ture and scope of any future steps to
restore allied solidarity as to the
course to be followed with respect to
Germany depends almost entirely on
the turn of events in the Ruhr re
gion. This has been emphasized In
all reports reaching the Washington
government from Its own agents
abroad.
There can be no question that fears
of the gravest nature have been en
tertained both here and in London
that violent disorders might accom
pany the French occupation. As time
passes without such complications,
coupled with action of the repara
tions commission in extending the
moratorium to the end of the month
and the Franco-German agreement
reported from Essen for resumption
of coal deliveries, presumably inter
national tension Is lessening In away
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HARMING new brocade trimmed Satins—also Patent
FjM Leather Colonials with Spanish Louis heel. A special
LOT purchase from one of the finer Slipper Manufacturers
ME—■! of Brooklyn. Bought at a price'that enables us to offer
them at an unusually favorable figure. At all our stores.
| And New $5.95 Spring Oxfords |'
|| The “Town Oxford’’ “Cut-Out” Oxfords The “Lexington” ||
A mannish, plain v this Ox-
H toe Blucher Oxford „ fford wlth wing-tip || /
| of *«» Calf 4 skln With at the side. P The I
low heel. An unusu- model pictured is of J an f Vn usuall y H
| ally practical, as well Patent Leather Shapely and full of |
as attractive style. rubber tapped “pep."
$5.95 $5.95 $5.95
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| “Clearance “Florsheims' |
Women’s up-to*date Our entire stocks of
H $5.95 to $8.50 Shoes Men’s $lO and sl2
marked down to High Shoes, now
I $3-45 • s§.Bs I
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CONTINUING this re- A sale for men who dc-
markable sale of hun- mand High Quality rather
dreds of pairs of desirable than merely low price,
shoes from our regular Everv pair of <T , or .
S More of them added Hi S h Shocs now I
II this week. ' S B - 83 ' I
All are desirable fashions Comparison will show that ||
■ from this season’s stocks. this is the best Men's Shoe
Boots, Oxfords, Colonials and Sale of the year. Not only be- ||
E, Strap Effects, in tan, black and cause of the superior excel-
Patent Leathers —also Satins lence of “Florsheims,” but be- ||
and combinations. cause the styles included are ||
ALL styles which will be all fresh and new. Practically
(US! worn throughout the Spring every pair has been in our ||
Season, we’re letting them go stores less than 60 days. Many
because sizes are incomplete— of these same styles will be re
nt $3.45 pair. ordered for spring.
At all our stores except k
| “City Club Shop.” A * M our stores. |
'I Special Sales I
Women’s Hosiery • |
| 79c *!■*> J |
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*1 CO *1 9S 41* 9th St. I
g ' X - "City Club Shos" 1914.1 S Pa. Ave.
I 1318 0 St. |
SOVIET EXPLORERS
FIND BIG COAL VEIN
IN ARCTIC SIBERIA
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. January 13.—The Russian
trade delegation her© made tt known
today that the Russian mining survey
expedition to northern Siberia ha* re
turned home after an eighteen-month
investigation, reporting tt ha* located
huge coal deposit* to the extent of about
ten thousand square versts. (A verst is
about two-thirds of a mile.)
The members of the expedition de
clared they had found it possible to
work the mines under polar conditions.
[ They discovered what they believed
to be a new Island 200 verst* from the
mouth of the Yenisei river, and reported
* also that they found a mall bag which
i had belonged to the arctic explorer
Amundsen.
; In the Yenisei region, they said,
graphite seams were found fifteen meters
i in diameter at no great depth.
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to foster hope for a new understand
ing among the powers.
Interest In V. 8. Attitude,
Should France determine to call an
allied conference, and, as suggested
from Paris, invite American partici
pation interest will center In the
American attitude. In advance of
such an invitation, it only can be rc
iterated that the administration has
steadily refused to become Involved
in any discussion of a political nature
relative to European conditions, but
has strongly supported on many oc
casions the idea of exchanges of
views by international experts in eco
nomic matters.
Decision of the Washington gov
eminent as to participation in the
Brussels economic conference, pro
jected before the break-up of the pre
miers’ council in Paris, never was
j made, because no invitation ever was
'extended. It can be said, however,
that there was strong inclination here
to join in the conference, provided it
was held strictly to economic mat
ters.
If another conference proposal
emerges from the present crisis, pre
sumably the American attitude would
be determined by the scop© and pur
pose of the meeting.
TEUTONS ORDER BOYCOTT.
Hamburg Brokers Act Against
France and Belgium.
HAMBURG. January 13.—The Ham
burg bourse and grain brokers have
adopted resolutions not to trade
either directly or Indirectly with
French or Belgian firms, in protest
at the occupation of the Ruhr.
| AMERICANS MAY DROP
RUSSIAN RELIEF WORK
Col. Haskell on Wky to Athens for
Anatolian Aid Cam
paign,
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. January 13.—1 t has prac
tically been decided to withdraw tho f
American Relief Administration from
Russia by the next harvest unless
some unforeseen development occurs
in the famine situation, it was stated
today by Col. William N. Haskell, di
rector of American relief in Russia.
Col. Haskell Is on his way to Athens
to assume the directorship of the
special emergency relief for the Ana
tolian refugees, instituted by the
American Red Cross. He will go t<?
Lausanne early next week to confer
with Rear Admiral Bristol and others
conversant with tho near eastern sit
uation. f
BERLIN POLICE ON TRAIL
OF TWO IN NOWAK DEATH -
One of Hen Suspected in Case of
New York Buyer, Found Dead.
Believed to Be Chemist.
i By the Assoclited Press.
BERLIN. January 13. —Tiro for
i eigners, Herman Beltn and a man
named Mueller, alias Wleczlnskl, are
being sought by the police in tbedr ,
’■investigations into the death of Rob
ert Nowak, a New York buyer, who
1 was found dead in his room, ap-
I parently from the effects of chloro
! form, yesterday. . , ,
Nowak is known to have had buvi
ne.iS transactions with both men. and
was Sf»€*n in Relink company »n
> Kretdrichslrassc several hours before
Jus death. Both suspects, according
: to the police, made a hurried d. -
! parturc from Berlin yesterday. Belm.
! reported hard pressed lor funds, re
j deeming a watch on which a pawn
broker had advanced him 50,000
• marks several days previously.
The official chemist at police head
quarters claims the drug of which .
traces were found on Nowak is tho
same as the highly scented mixture’
discovered in the lodgings occupied
by the suspects. He pronounces it
a chemical combination of actylene
tetrachlorid and patchouli perfume.
Mueller is said to be a professional .
chemist. The police believe both men
are bound for Paris.
The body of Nowak is being held
in the municipal morgue.
Though she is past seventy-one years
of age. Mrs. John Sneeringer of Me
-1 Sherry town. Pa., has secured a fishing
license.