Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-01-04

THREE GREAT SYSTEMS
 CLASH OVER PEACE MOVE
 PARIS, Dec. 30 (Delayed).- The extraordinary session of the Cham Der of Deputies which lasted straight through the night until g o'clock in the morning, merits the closest at tention in the United States, for it indicates that the recent optimism of the American peace delegates is perhaps misplaced.
 It appears that France will enter the negotiations with ideas quite diff ferent from those of America. Prem fer Clemenceau said he was in dis agreement with President Wilson on several points, and that he supported England in the matter of the freedom of the seas. He declared himself in favor of the old system of defensive and strong special alliances.
 Generally speaking it appears more and more clear that there are three great movements, each aspiring to dominate the reconstruction period.
 First comes the Bolshevist move ment, symbolized by Lenine and Trotzky, which desires to spread revolutionary communism throughout the world.
 The second movement is the con- sarvatism, symbolized by M. Clem- enceau, which desires to utilize all the old paraphernalia of virile na- tionalism, such as strong armies and navies, strong alliances, wide colonial domains and the establish ment of defensive frontiers and forces.
 Wilson Heads Third Move
 The third movement is that sym bolized by President Wilson and the idea of League of Nations, which desires to bring about disarmament compulsory arbitration, strong in ternational peace and international equity.
 Virtually all of the existing com plex disputes can be reduced to one or another of these formulas, and it is between these three that the world is now called on to decide.
 The declarations in the Chamber of Deputies confirm my dispatch early in December about the decision of the French Foreign Affairs Com mission to demand inclusion of the Saare basin in the Lorraine frontier and the naturalization of the left bank of the Rhine. The French ad- init that the Saare basin is inhab- ited by Prussians, but they claim it on historical grounds.
 In reality this question is entirely economic. It is question of coal, which at the present moment is the key to the whole industrial situation in Europe. Before the war France produced annually 40,000,O00 tons of coal and imported 23,5O0,000 tons, get ting from Belgium 5,OO0,OOO tons, from England 100000 and from Germany 100000 tons. The restor- ation of Alsace and Lorraine to France will increase the coal deficit by about 100000 tons, that mount being con- sumed by the Alsatian industries. Thus even when all the French mines are again working France will need to import more than 30,000,O00 tons.
 Coal Shortag ge, Handicap
 Germany before the war produced 2SOOOO, ,OO0 tons and England nearly as much. Both England and Ger many exported coal. The shortage of fuel in France was the chief handicap to French industry. Whereas, the English manufacturer paid for coal II francs ton and the German IA farncs, the French paid 25 francs. Where the German metallurgists paid for coke 15 francs the French paid 34 francs.
 On the other hand Germany before the war used 6O,OO0,000 tons of iron ore a year, of which she was obliged to import 14,OOO,OO0 tons from France, Sweden, and even Spain. Most of the German ore came from Lorraine, which produced more than 2O,OO0,OOO tons. With the return of Lorraine to France, German industries will be obliged to import more than 36,OOO- OOOO tons, while France will produce far more iron than she can use. In other words France will have vast quantities of iron, without sufficient coal, but by annexing the Saare basin the total production of which is IT, O0O,OOO tons a year, France would make the cal deficit.
 That is why France wants the Saare. The mediate coal deficit will undoubtedly be party remedied by coal indemnities from Germany for the Northern French mines which the Germans destroyed. These in- demnities to the date of the armls- tice were reckoned at 222,OOOO, 900 tons. Some economists insist that what ever arrangements are made regard ing the Saare basin, and other coal ln- demnities, Frances surplus iron and Germany's surplus coal are so great that these two ions will be obliged to agree to a ,terchange. How ever the Frenc m at present seems to he to try t clement the lack of coal as far as ble by the develop n