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New-York tribune., 1919-07-29

KOlchak Loan
Proposed Here
New York Bankers Are Me-
gotiating With Anti.Bol.
shevik Leader With Z. S.
Governmental Approval

Negotiations are being carried on
with an international banking group
for loan to the Kolchak or Omsk fac
ton in Russia, which has ssfully
prevented the Bolshevik forces from
gaining control in Siberia The amount
mentioned by one New York banker
yesterday was S25, 100000 but in other
quarters of the financial district it
was lntimated that even larger sum
was under consideration. In the event
that the loan is made, it was said, there
would be no public offering of the
securities.
Inquiry among bankers who are
usually cognizant of international
financing arrangements elected the in
formation that the projected credit
to the anti-Red element in Russia was
being handled mainly in London. 1t is
understood that the transaction has
the approval of the United States gov
ernment.
Feelers continue to be put out in
this market for credits by foreign ma
tlons. Norway wants S30,00O,00O, and
arrangements are said to have been
practically completed for a loan of
s12.O00,000 to the City of Copenhagen
In the latter connection, it is said. that
the authorities Of the Danish capital
country and use it for municipal i'm
provements.
An interesting sidelight to the
present general discussion of foreign
financing was brought to light yester-
day by the statement Of one banker
that some manufac turers show a dis
inclination to cooperate in the pro
posed plans for obtaining support from
makers of American products. One
steel company, it was said, had ar
order from Poland for $4,000. 900 worth
of rails, but wanted its bank tc
finance the deal entirely. This the latte,
refused to do unless the company
agreed to indorse the Polish obliga-
rion.
If American exports are to continue
at the current unprecedented rate
bankers believe that the exporters vii
have 10 agree to accept European
securities, either directly or indirectly
as part payment
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Karolyi Says He Was
Betrayed by Socialists
Communist Government Form
ed as Result Of Intrigue Be-
hind His Back, He Declares

VIENNA, July 25 By The Associated
ss).-Count Michael Karolyi, former
Provisional President Of Hungary, who
is reported detained by the Czecho-
Slovak authorities at Prague, issued a
letter just before leaving Austria, in
which he said he did not intend to
have Communist government formed
in Hungary. The count said he was
betrayed by the Socialists, who agreed
to form new Cabinet under his Presi-
dency. but intrigued behind his back
to form a Socialist Communist govern
ment and seized arms to this end.
Count Karolyi declares he was
obliged to resign the Provisional Pres
idency to avoid bloodshed. His plan
was to prevent the disme mberment of
Hungary by securing the sympathy of
the workers Of the world. He still
believes, he says, the workers will
decide the fate of Europe.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Seve11 P0,uers to Pass
On Claims of Belgium,
Commission to Meet TODAY in
Paris to Settle Status of
South Bank of the Scheldt

; WASHINGTON, July % ASSOCIATED
Press).-A commission representing
seven powers will meet in Paris to-
morrow to consider the demands of
Belgium for reconsideration of the
Treaty of 1889, by which Holland an
nexted territory on the south bank Of
the Scheldt River, and the southern
part of Dutch Limberg, an elongated
strip of land between Belgium and Ger
many, says a Belgium official an
nouncement issued here
In view Of this meeting, the Bel
GUM Official Information Service has
Eebbelynck, rector emeritus of the
University of Louvain, reviewing the
treaties under which Holland obtained
possession of the disputed territory
and setting forth arguments in favor
of Belgium's claims.
DR.. Hebbelynck, who is now in New
York, declares that "the contention of
Belgium is that, both for the SAFE
guard Of its military security in the
north and for its economical develop
ment, it must have absolute control of
the southern half of the River Scheldt,
which implies possession of its left
bank" This left bank, from the North
Sea nearly to the Belgian port of Ant
" - r, AZ ~ 10 NOHI1 O44CO Oy 14OIIduE
Belgium, says DR.. Hebbelynck, was
compelled by the treaty of 1889 to rec
ognize Hollands sovereignty over this
territory, now known as Dutch Flan-
ders. In return, Belgium was 10 be
protected by treaties Of neutrality, the
futility Of which, he says, was demon
strated in 1914, when Germany called
them mere scraps of paper and in
vaded Belgium.
From the economical point Of view
it is an absolute necessity that Bel
GUM abtain the right to manage with
out hindrance, as asovereign and in
dependent power, the whole water
system not only of the Sche.dt River
from Antwerp to the sea, but also of
the low-lying lands of Northern Fland
ers and of the sip canal from Ghent
to the Scheldt River at Terneuzen."
Expounding Belgium's claims to the
southern part Of Dutch Limburg, DR.
Hebbelynck asserts that Hollands pos
session Of this territory lays the
northeastern frontier Of Belgium open
to all attacks, because the Dutch gov
ernment recognizes the impossiblity
to defend Limburg against an invader
coming from the East
"Belgium" he concludes. "does no,
want to grab territory from Holland
1t only Graves a reconsideration of the
lniquitous arrangements of 1913 to 1888
IN the light of modern principles"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
KOIchak's Declaration
In Note to Allies
Is IndOrsed at Onsk

OMSK, July 15.-Indorsement of the
All Russian governments policies as
given in Admiral Kolchak's note to the
Allies is expressed in a declaration OF
the Constitutional Democratic party
made public here to-day by the Eastern
division Of the party's central commit
tee. TIE declaration says the party vel
comes "the Allied note promising Rus
sia energetic help in it's struggle
against the Bolshivik tyranny"
Admiral Kolchak's reply to the AL
lies, the statement adds, Expresses
fully the opinion of the Russian peo-
Pile with regard to the problems touched
upon in the Allied note"
The point is made, however, that the
party considers "it our duty to state
that Russian public opinion repudiates
the idea that the struggle against Boil
shevism should be made at the expense
of Russia's unity. The task which all
Russian parties pursue is the re-
estab ishment of an united Russia"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Erzberger Story Declared
Distortion of Truth by
Former French Premier:
Actual Facts Recalled
Pope's Effort Rejected
Proposals F o m Vatican
Failed Adequately to Pro-
tect Belgium, He Says

the truth" was the eharacte scterioa ri1ation on
applied to-day by Alexander Ribot to
the recent statement by Matthias Err
berger, the German Finance Minister,
declaring Great Britain and France
made peace overtures to Germany
through the Vatican in 1917, whicn
Germany rejected. NJ. Ribot, who was
French Premier and Foreign Minister
at the time IN question, made this
declaration in statement to Marcel
Hutin, of the Echo de Paris" The
former Premier explained the occur
renee as follows:
Pope Benedict in August, 1917, sug-
gested proposals to serve as basis
for overtures to Germany. France and
Great Britain both decided to decline
the proposals. The politest acknowl-
edgement was made to the Pope, but
nothing more. The British Minister
to the Vatican, in his own came,
pointed out that the proposals did not
contain sufficient guarantees for Bel
GUM. Cardinal Gasparri, the papal
Secretary of State, NJ. Ribot continued,
seized upon this to telegraph Germany
for explanations on the subject Of
Belgium. 1t was an attempt to start a
conversation, NJ. Ribot declared. but
the British government cut it off short,
and the British Minister went no fur
ther.
II simply said to the British gov
ernment," added NJ. Ribot: DO not let
yourself be involved in an indirect
conversation like that and that was
the end of the matter"
The German government will pub
lish Immediately, according to the
frankfort Gazette" the British tele-
gram mentioned in the note of Mon
signor Fachelli, Papal Nuncio at
Munich, which Vice Premier Err
berger on Friday told the German Ma
tional Assembly contained peace pro
posal.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29

WillHurrv
French Treaty
Continued from page 1

against her to afford the opportunity
which it is said Article < denies to
Ireland. Are Senators prepared to
leave open for fermentation another
world war on the chance Of a change of
government for Ireland? l prefer to
hope that the end may be attained some
other way. If it is said the hope is
vain, reply that the history Of 700
years establishes that the one we are
said to close is no less So Under Ar
ticle X, on the other hand, an inde-
pendent Ireland would be guaranteed
BY all the world against attack from
the outside"
Irish Sentiment Strong
{ Senator Walsh said the sentiment in
the United States for Irish freedom
vas almost unanimous, but that the
same Senators who said Article X
6losed the way to American aid IN an
Irish revolution, always added in the
same breath that we must keep out
of the quarrels Of Europe"
Taking up the Shantung provision,
be continued:
"President Wilson eventually yielded
that Japan might be induced to come
into the league But if the treaty is
rejected. Shantung remains with Japan
and will remain with Japan until she
restores it to China Of her own free
1-ill, or until she is compelled to do
80 by force of arms. Are Senators
prepared to make war Upon Japan to
Compel the evacuation Of Shantung
tnina loses no territory by the Treaty;
sha simply does not get ] back what
she lost to Germany twenty-one years
Ego.
Sees Avoidance of Wars
"But what does China gain by Article
/! Germany has not been the only
sggressor against China. England and
France have despoiled her. Russia
ana Japan fought over Manchuria, a
Chinese province
> Replying 10 an assertion by Senator
Reed, Democrat, Missouri, that should
Bulgaria invade Rumania under the
article American soldiers would have
70 help repel the invader, Mr.. Walsh
said:
4: st apparently never occurred to him
that the boys of Great Britain equally
you'd have TO go-indeed the boys Of
every parc of the far-fung British
Enpire-as well as the boys of France
and Italy and Spain and Brazil and
those OF half hundred other nations
and that Bulgaria, in that situation
WOULD probably take counsel with her
self and decide that after all it would
be more profitable to submit whatever
differences she may have with Rumania
to the arb!trament Of the executive
council OF the league"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Americans in France to
Aid i'm RecOnstructiOn

PARIS, July 28. Representatives Of
many large American banks and bust
ness houses met here Friday with dele
gates from the devastated regions as a
session called by the American Cham
Der of Commerce 10 establish closer
relations.
Judge Walter Berry. president OF
this American Chamber Of Commerce
proposed the appointment Of com.
mission 10 study factory problems and
to aid in the building Of villages and
q special committee l.. aid the French
government In Fastening reconstruc-
ton work.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
$500 Prisoners Taken
By Poles Through Calicia

COPENHAGEN, July 2s.-The Polish
advance into Galicia, which the Polish
resulted in the occupation Of all
Galicia UP to the River Zbrucz, was
made, according to further advices, so
rapidly that Ukrainians had no time
to destroy the railways or bridges as
they retired.
The Poles, according to this an.
nouncement, took $500 prisoners and
forty-one guns, as we'll as vast quanti.
ties of munitions and railway equip.
ment, between July IL and July II.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Equal Voice for House
In Making Of Treaties
Urged in Griffin Bill

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-A bill to
amend the Constitution so that the
House shall have equal voice with the
Senate in making treaties was intro
duced in the House to-day by Repre-
sentative Griffin, of New York, Demo
crat. He pointed out that British,
French and Italian lower legislative
houses participate in treaty ratihca-
tions, and added eve are the only ma
ton among the great powers which re-
tains the ancient monarchical methods
of secret diplomacy and reposes the
treaty making power in the upper
house"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
HungarianReds
Driven in ROut
By Runaniians
Soviet Forces Compelled
to Flee Back of Thesis
River, Losing Advan-
tages Previously Gained

VIENNA, July % (By The Associated
Press) The Hungarian Soviet troors
have been thrown back in disorder
across the Thesis River by the Ru-
manians at Szolnok and other points,
according to reports received here
to-day.
COPENHAGEN, July 2S.-Rumanian
forces have been concentrated on the
Hungarian Soviet troops have with
drawn to the western side of the river,
according to an official report given
out at Budapest Saturday. The Hun-
garian report asserted the Soviet army
effected it's withdrawal without the
slightest loss of men or material"
PARIS, July 2s.-Troops of the HIM
garian Soviet government at BUdapent
were said to be about to abandon sup
port of Bella Kun, head of the Com
munist government there, according to
advices received here to-day from
Vienna Bella Kun's financial embar-
rassment was reported to be serious.
1t was said the Soviet leader had moth
ing but paper money that had ceased
to have value.
Nine Hungarian divisions launched
a drive on the Rumanians on July 90
with the intention, according to a
Bucharest dispatch by way of Paris,
of destroying Rumania, which is an
obstacle to the Bella Kun plan to link
up Hungary with the Russian Boil
sheviki. The Hungarians swept across
the Thesis River at several points,
overwhelmed the Rumanian advance
guards, but later suffered a .everc
check in the northern sector If the
fighting front. The Rumanians counter
attacked and on July "a announced
they had stopped the enemy with ar
tillery fire, although the Hungarians
denied this report.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Financial Collapse as Re.
suit of Peace Terms
Is Predicted in Newspa.
pers and Banking Circles
Crown Slumps to OPS
Payment of 5000, 900, 900
Interest OH War Bills
Is Declared Impossible

VIENNA, July 28.-The financial
clauses of the peace terms offered Aus
protested both by the newspapers and
by financial circles. Both these quar-
ters 60 so far as to predict the bank
ruptcy of Austria within a few weeks
unless the financial terms are modified
The currency has deprecated so the
crown is now quoted at 27z cents, the
lowest quotation in history.
1t is pointed out that the govern
ment now is under obligations to pay
5000, 100000 crowns (S60O, ,00O,0O0) an
which is regarded in financial quarters
as impossible, and the hypothesis of
bankruptcy is being freely discussed as
a means of getting rid of the foreign
as we'll as the internal debt and start
ing anew.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
q. S. Trade Agents
Haze Entered Germany
COBLENZ, July q (By The Asso-

(OBLENz, July 27 (By The Asso-
ciated Press).-Army headquar
ters yesterday gave permission for
five American commercial travellers
to proceed through the Coblenz
bridgehead on business in the in
terror of Germany.
Opportunity for the reopenirg of
trade relations between the United
States and Germany was thus def
nitely afforded, allowing American
firms to compete with European
houses in the German markets.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Bulgarian Delegates
Present Credentials
To Peace Secret0ri0t

PARIS, July 2S-The Bulgarian
peace delegation presented its creden-
tials this afternoon to the peace con-
ference Secretariat at the Chateau
Madrid in Neuilly, where the delega-
ton is quartered. AS had been the
case in the reception Of the other
peace delegations, the credentials of
the Allied delegates were handed to the
Bulgarian representative in exchange
for the credentials Of the latter.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Ukrainians Drive
Back Bolsheviki
General Petlura's Success Is
Admitted by Foe, Lon
don Hears

BERNE, July Further successes
by General Simon Petlura, the Ukra-
inian leader. against Bolshvik troops.
notably at Schmerinka, were reported
to-day in a wireless message from
Aamanetz-Podulsk to the Ukrainian
press bureau.
4 Russian wireless message to Lon
don last night quoted the Bolshevik
nil-tar yreports as announcing re-
rirements t'several places including
IN the direction of Kamenetz Po-
dolsk,' 235 miles northwest of Odessa.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
of Italian
Ambassador Is Denied

WASHINGTON, July 28 New re-
ports that the Italian Ambassador.
Count Macchi d Ccllere, soon is to be
withdrawn are characterized in official
and diplomatic circles here as without
foundation and as rccrudescence Of
similar reports circulated more than IA
year ago.
1t is pointed sut that if the ambas-
sador were TO be withdrawn he would
not have returned TO this country re
Gently.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Pogron,s Exaggerated,
Declares M0rgenthau

PARIS, July 27.-Henry Morgenthau,
former American Ambassador to Tur-
key, appointed by President Wilson as
head of the American commission to
investigate reported pogroms in Poland,
told newspa per men here to-day that
the short visit which he had made to
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Lithuania Is Seeking
Loan of 81. 100000

Dispatches from Paris to the Lithu
anian National Council state that the
Lithuanian government has decided to
issue an international loan of 10000
900 suksinas, or S7,5OO0OO
The issue will be in three series of
j = per cent bonds, guaranteed by gov
value,
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Auies Take Up Italy's
Plea for Resumption Of
Coal and Food RutiOns

PARIS, July 2s.-The Supreme Allied
Council considered to-day the PROPOSE
tion advanced by Foreign Minister Tit
toni of Italy to reestabish the system
of sharing coal and foodstufs among
the Allied peoples.
The council also named members of a
military mission to fix the boundary
between Germany and Poland.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29

Poland had convinced him that the re-
ports of the pogroms were tremen-
dously exaggerated
Mr.: Morgenthau added that the
Polish Jews sometimes overlook the
fact that equal rights involve equal
duties. If they wish sincerely to col
laborate with the state. he declared,
they must follow the example of their
American co-religionists, who consider
emselves above all things patriotic
Americans
New York Tribune
y Ashin5ton Bureau
WASHINGTON, July 28.- Complete
legal equality will be accorded the
Jewish population of Russia in the
future under guarantees made by Ad-
miral Kolchak, the State Departme ent
was advised to-day.
Secretary Lansing made public the
following telegram from the Omsk
government on June 6, 1919, to the Min
lister of Foreign Affairs, Sazonof:
ut is the duty of the government to
assure all the peoples of Russia, with
out distinction of faiths or nationality
complete legal equality, which would
guarantee the personal security of
every citizen. Manifestations of racial
antagonism cannot be tolerated, threat
ening, as they would, the peaceful ex-
lstence Of any part of the population. u
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
CSer,ain Says Report
Was Not authorized

COPENHAGEN, July 2s.-A dispatch
from Vienna says Count Czernin. the
former Austro Hungarian Foreign Min
lister, has published statement to the
effect that his report to Emperor
Charles. under date of April l2, 1917.
was handed to Matthias Erzberger.
without his knowledge, by certain ir-
responsible persons.
Herr Erzberger himself, Count
Czernin says, acted in good faith. and
declares the handing over of the re
port was link in the chain Of minor
intrigues, which caused him to resign.
Count Czernin asserts he will
shortly publish book clearing up
these matters.
A Copenhagen dispatch Of Sunday
said Count Czernins report had been
published at Weimar, the seat of the
German National Assembly. The prin-
cipal point of the report was the neces-
sity of opening peace negotiations be
fore our enemies are aware of our ex-
piring power"
The report warned Emperor Charles
of the deceptiveness OF hopes founded
on submarine warfare and emphasized
what Americas entry into the strug-
gle would mean.
Count Czernin's report was made the
subject Of an attack on Matthias Err
berger in the German National AS
semtly.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Thousands in St. Louis
Hear McCorn,ick and
Reed DenOurace LEAGUE

Special Correspondence
sands in the Coliseum tonight Sena-
The courier-index., 1919-03-07

much opposed to abolishing cotton ex- changes. I remember when there used to be an exchange in New Or leans called the Louisiana State Lot tery. The exchange was that people all over the land would buy tickets entitling them to draw something that they never got, and this congress abolished that because it was simply a gambling device. 1 have heard no one in recent years defend it, al
 though at the time it had many ad- vocates. It was just as legitimate business and it appealed just as much to legitimate business as do cotton exchanges as they are now manipu- lated. It was simply means of dealing in peoples credulity. and that is all that the cotton exchanges do
 You can go into cotton exchange and buy millions and millions of bales of cotton to be grown in 1919 when there is not an acre of cotton
 planted and nobody knows that there
 will be an acre planted. We presume there will be, but how many million
The courier-index., 1919-03-07
CARAWAY SCORES
 COTTON EXCHANGES
SHOWS HOW MANIPULATED
 MARKET HAS COST SOUTHERN FARMERS ssoo,ooo, ,ooo.-oFFERs RESOLUTION TO ABOLISH EVIL

In the course of an address in congress recently, speaking on a resolution he had offered to prohibit exchanges from speculating in cot ton, Congressman Caraway said in part:
 MT Caraway-Mr. Chairman, as said, I shall not use the time allotted to me to discuss this naval appropria- tion bill. I shall rather use it to call to the attention of the members of this house and ask of them relief from a situation which threatens with ruin the cotton growers of this country. They are being crushed by the manipulation of the cotton mark ct The gamblers in futures within and without the cotton exchanges are robbing the people of the south of all the fruits of their toll. Twenty millions of people, directly or indi. rectly, are dependent for prosperity upon cotton They have toiled early and toiled late to produce this pres
The courier-index., 1919-03-07

ent cotton crop, only to see the pro- fits of their toll destroyed by gambl ing in futures They now ask us as they have often asked before to make this thing impossible. Unless the American congress shall aid them they perish.
 Last summer the government esll- mate of the cotton crop was about 14,000,O00 bales The price then was around 30 cents per pound. As the season progressed the estimate fell. and as the estimate fell the price of cotton likewise fell In other words, this unprecedented thing happened The less the supply ana the greater the demand the lower the price. That could not happen and did not happen by any law of supply and demand. When this last seasons cotton was first on the market---I am speaking now of spot cotton--it sold at from 32 to 3S cents per pound.
 The government estimate then was tlldl lHe CTOp WOulu Uc dDOut lG,VVU, 900 to 13,000,000 bales. With each succeeding report the estimate was reduced, until finally it was around 11,500,O00 bales, and the ginning re- port indicated that that was about the correct estimate. We have crop of about 11,500.000 bales We had no visible supply of cotton when this crop was put on the marked. The estimated consumption of cotton was around 1S,O00,O00 bales. and yet since the cotton has been ready to market the price has steadily drop ped, until now there is no market at all for cotton. When you read the reports from the exchanges that cot ton futures are 22 or 23 cents, it does not mean that if you have spot cotton you can sell it for even 22 cents In fact, there is cotton now