New-York tribune., 1920-12-30
Rumania Appeals TO Paris
Against Russian and
Hungarian Menace; Po-
land Also Asks Help
Foch Is Preparing
Report to Allies
Energetic Note Alarms
Berlin; Time Is Up,
but Disarmament Halts
By Ralph Courtney
Spcc,ai Gable 10 Tho Ttlbnnc

PARIS, Dec. 29.-Europe is on
tic eve OF another crisis.
The Bolsheviki are concentrating
on the frontiers Of Rumania and
the Baltic states; Poland has de-
mandod a formal military alliance
with France; Hungary is mobiliz-
ing; Rumania has cabled to France
calling attention to the activity Of
Hungary, who, she considers, is
threatening her territory, and Ger
many has told France that she cam
not keep her disarmament engage
ment.
If +he situation S not Immediate
ly improved France will place a
new rational government in power,
probably headed by Poincare.
Marshal Foch has his staff work
ing ten hours a day, preparing the
military report for presentation to
the Council Of Ambassadors next
Friday.
If by January the Germans have
not fulfilled the Spa disarmament agree
mehts, the Allies are entitled to invade
her territory. Foreign Minister Walter
Simons of Germany already has de-
clared officially to the Council of AM
bassadors and to the Allied roprcscnta-
tlves in Berlin that Germany cannot
dlsband her citizen guards as the Spa
agreement stipulated He also has in
timated that the Allies will not get a
reparations contract at Brussels if they
insist on disarmament
Perturbation in Paris
French Official circles tonight talk
with restraint Of the crisis, but they
do not conceal their perturbation.
Simons paid a special visit to Charles
Laurent, the French Ambassador TO
Berlln, IN order to inform him Of Ger
many's inability to disarm her pollce
organizations. The French are par
tlcuiarly angry that Germany should
nave linked the reparations question
with disarmament, although Simons ex-
planned that he had nc desire to an
pear to be trying TO blackmai France.
Slmons said his position was very
weak. lie WAS surrounded By men who
were violently opposed 80 d reparatious
contract and who would use any excuse
10 upset the plan almost perfected in
Brussels. lie begged France not to
make an incident Of the German dis
ar,nanent arm, laliure. IN Germany the cit
zen guards were considered absolutely
necessary, and if France insisted on
aDo1shlng these II would help the
enemies of the reparations AGREEMENT
to accomplish q rupture Of negotiations.
To-ni~ hi German Ambas ador Naver
visited Premier Leygues, and in a long
conference renewed the Simons argl-
mcnts
France fully admits the difficulty Of
Simons's position, but she consid
ers that she cannot easily permit
The German reactionary elements,
which admittedly are arming again 10
night France, 70 dictate q breach Of
agreement by the German government.
The semi-offcial Temps tonight saws
The German government is not hoip-
ing the task Of the Frenchmen who
want peace
Appeal Sent 10 Lloyd George
France is anxious TO know i Emp
land viii upport or oppose ner il sho
should occupy the Runr district fol
loving the refusal OF the Germans 70
dlsarm the Einwolnerwehr in East
PRUSSIA and Bavaria, and Premier
leygues tonight sent another pressing
invitation to Premier Lloyd George to
meet IN a conference.
The British Premier does not appcar
very eager for conference Just now.
and there is gseat fear here that
England will use the present crisis to
draw still further away from France.
France greatly hores for England's
support. but greatly fears her oppo-
sition.
The French government insists on
knowing the worst, and it is said Pre-
nier I.eygues is even prepared to 20 to
London If there is 10 other way of Sec
ing Lloyd George. The latter already
has refused an invitation to a confer
encc on the Riviera, thereby inflicting
considerable humiliation on the pres
ent government, and it is said he con-
siders it beneath his dignity TO rush to
the south OF France to discuss Euro
pean affairs with stop-gap govern
ment such as that headed by Leygucs,
whose days are numbered.
Hold Spa Pact Violated
according to the Spa agreement. the
Allies mec.- seize the Ruhr district in
case Of Germany's S failure to carry out
its terms, and the refusal to disarm the
inwohnerwehr is held to violate one
Of these agreements.
The Action Francais demands that
Lefevre, the retiring War Minister, be
elevated TO the Premiership. 1t saws:
The present government will bring
war on US any time between the next
six and eighteen months, whereas this
could be avoided by occupying the
Ruhr district.
"The error of 1913 was incrcdusity
about the violation Of Belgium The
mirage of 1920 is the belief in the in
barrier of the Rhine. The err
ro1 of 1920 is faith in the control and
disarmament Of Germany. Leygucs
talks in 1920 just like Viviani in l0l4-
Nlviani, who, one month before tho
war, refused 20 see war. These same
kind Of stupidities are liable to cost ux
another million and a half men and
another democratic INVASION
The Democratic Nouvelle, arch sum
porter Of invasion, says: "To iucreass