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was needless. The slope was alive
as far as the eye could reach with
crawling, heaving, loathsome effer-
vescence of small black insects.
1t was the deadly "Skakalatz," or
Jumper, kind OF locust, that made
its appearance IN Montenegro during
the war, when nothing could be done
to stop it's ravages. Last summer it
devastated the plains round Podgo-
rita; this year, as is feared, the
pest will spread ruin through the
whole country. At present it is but
emerging from its eggs, and the
peasants were trying to destroy the
unholy thing before it grew strong
enough to fly. All over the district
there were parties similarly occu-
pied. But the hillsldes are big, the
men are few, and ! went away feel
Ing that their task was pretty hope
less.
Such is the position in Montene.
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In All Europe Montenegro's Plight Is Most Pitifu

total population of Montenegro is IN
the region of 2OO,oO0) will be
starving.
The people themselves are doing
what they can to stave off the COM
ing disaster. Every little patch that
there is labor to cultivate is under
crops But the country has been
drained not merely of its resources
but of its manhood. There are not
men enough left to do the necessary
work. "ln the little town of spuzh,
for example" said Mr.. Ettinger. Of
The Post" II learned that Of the
o73 men who went out to fight at
the beginning Of the Balkan wars
only seventytwo had come back. and
many of these were cripples. The
population is largely made up of
widows and orphans. But, indeed.
thanks to the splendid work of the
Americans and to the generous COL
iaboration of the Serbian govern
ment, it is nowadays rather an ad-
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When in Columbus the Governor
and his wife live at a hotel.
Cox has a build like football
back, except for waistline that
would not be tolerated by the most
lenlent of coaches and which he
struggles to reduce by fairly regu-
lar golf and horseback riding. The
Governor considers himself pretty
good golfer.
He is of medium height, broad of
shoulder and he walks with an
aggressive swing. His head is bull
let-shaped, and his chin is strong
and backed up by an assistant chin.
His mouth is firm and turns down a
tri1e at the corners.
When Al Shartle, a Dayton boot
black, makes his daily visit to Gov
ernor Cox's Office in the News
building he drops his brushbox to
the floor, flops down on his knees
and then, as he begins to polish,
asks:
well, how's 'Fightin' Jimmie to-
day." and the Governor replies:
Fine, AL. How're your"
All in all, there is hardly likely
to be a person in the world who
would call him Grady cat"
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Of the League Europe Has Still Another Wa

that their shares were disproportion-
ate to their prospective contribu-
tions. The French found themselves
in Syria with greatly restricted
sphere, as consequence Of British
diplomatic triumphs at Paris, and
in addition gravely hampered by the
restrictions made in favor Of the
Arabian kingdom which the. British
had created during the war. The
Italians found themselves with an
even smaller gain as a consequence
of British and American support OF
the Greek claims.
A situation naturally tense was
rendered critical by the occupation
of Constantinople by the British and
of Smyrna by the Greeks, with Brit
ish encouragement. AS conse-
quence the Italians at once pro-
claimed that they did not purpose
to send troops to Asia Minor and
were thus to be counted out of the
association for liquidating the Turk
ish estate. The French after some
delay followed suit, and French pol
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vantage in Montenegro to be an
orphan. Whenever you see chubby,
red-cheeked child, you may be pretty
sure he is an inmate Of one of the
many orphanages they have set up.
The little ragged, white-faced speci-
mems are those who are so unfor-
tunate as to have a living father
Locusts Killing the Crop
The land is being cultivated, but
this year there will be no crop in
Montenegro. At a place called
Izarey Lag, or the Wiping Out of
the Sultan-famous in Montenegrin
history for slaughter, so they saw.
Of 10000 Turks early in the eigh-
teenth century-at Tzarey Laz !
came across a troop of peasants
mysteriously occupied in flogging
the hillside with branches freshly
torn from the trees. I stopped the
car to ask them what in the world
they were doing, but the question
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supplants the Turk, Italy will find
her future limited.
Thus Italy and France more and
more tend to support the idea that
the Turkish treaty should be modi-
fed, that the Turk should be per-
mitted to hold OH to his Armenian,
Anatolian and other lands, while the
British, for the moment, at least,
back the Greek, who is supplying the
men and thus the force to evict the
Turk. All Of which is only one more
example Of the fashion in which in
ternational rivalries have worked
for centuries and continue to work.
If Greece Loses
What remains to be discovered
now is the extent to which the
Greeks are able to carry out the pro-
gram which Venizelos has pro-
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nationalistic aspirations. The thing
would be ridiculously amusing, SO
closely are the two circumstances
alike, were it not for the gravity Of
the crisis itself, which threatens to
set the Near East aflame again.
On the whole it would seem that
British policy is sound in backing
the Greeks if only Venizelos is
strong enough and the Greek army
efficient enough to dispose Of Renal
Pasha's Turkish forces. Then the
future will belong to the Greeks
and to their British allies, who will
most certainly direct Greek policy
in channels which, while immensely
profitable for the Greeks, will fol-
low British wishes. What the Brit
!sh really aim at is using Greece, as
they strove for half a century to
use the Turks, as a basis for an
Eastern policy. If the Greeks can
acquire western Asia Minor, if they
can in time take Constantinople as
we'll, then the British fear Of see-
ing one of the rival great powers
established at Constantinople and
menacing both Egypt and India will
disappear: In Greek hands Con-
stantinople will never be danger to
the British, and with British support
the Greeks will be able to hold it.
The French on their side are now
playing the game of the Turk, as
the British played it from the Cri-
mean War to the eve of the recent
World War, not so much from any
fondness for the Turk, but in de-
sire to checkmate the British, who,
they feel, have obtained practically
all the gains in the Near East grow
ing out of the recent war. If the
Turk stays in Constantinople, if he
retains Anatolia and both the Arme-
MAN and the Greek regions, he will
still be a considerable fellow, and
the French plan to be his friend, as
the German recently was and as the
British have become the Greek cham
pions. Thus we have two national
policies working against each other
through the medium of minor states,
just as Russia and Austria moved
Serbia and Bulgaria against each
other in the years before 1914.
Italy's Future
The Italian policy is based upon
still third set of reasons. The
Italian is nearest to the Turkish
Empire. He dreams of restoring the
Levant, the old commercial and politi-
cal influence of Venice. The British
and French together-the former iy
Egypt, the latter in Tunis, Algeria
and Morocco-have excluded him
from the desirable regions of North
Africa. His future in a very real
sense is locked up in the development
Of the Near East.
And in these regions he finds the
Greek as his great rival. In Albania,
in the islands of the Egean, in
Smyrna and the Egean littoral,
Greek and Italian claims conflict,
and the British support of the
Greek has led to the landing of a
Greek army at Smyrna and the
rapid expansion of Greek influence
into the interior. Thus, if Anglo
Greek policy prevails, if the Greek
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The Clash Between the Turks and
the Greeks May Inflame
Southeastern Europe


stantinople included, established the
separation Of all of the Arabian prov
inces and allotted to the Greek GER
tain regions about Smyrna, while at
the same time inviting the United
States to undertake the creation of
an Armenian state, with frontiers
fixed by President Wilson.
Whose Job Is 1t?
In theory this was solution, but
in fact the question at once arose. as
it has invariably in similar cases
since the close of the war, Who is
to carry out the terms of the settle
ment? Under the League of Nations
principle it was for the combined
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ITUSTAPHA KEMAL PASTA, commander of the Turk
~ sh forces pchich opposing the Greeks

claimed. It is an ambitious pro-
gram. The task of dealing with the
Turk singlehanded is one that would
have seemed a little while ago far
beyond Greek resources. One can
not help recalling what bad affair
the Greeks made of it just twenty
five years ago, when all Europe
watched the Turk win his last war,
and Greece was compelled to sur
render territory and pay indemnity.
But this was before Venizelos came
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icy is now plainly directed toward
the resuscitation, not the execution,
OF the Turk. In word, the French,
like the Italians, now decline to sup
ply troops to occupy any portion of
Anatolla, and have already entered
into an armistice with the Turks in
Cilicia.
Thus the whole task of liquidating
the Turkish Empire would fall upon
the British were it not for the
Greeks, but the latter have con-
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Conflicting Claims Of British, Freney
and Italians Are an Added
Complication

from Crete, and Greece has changed
much since teen.
But if Cseece should fail, if Greek
armies Should be defeated, the Brit
ish would find themselves in some
thing Of fix. To abandon the
Greeks would be to lose prestige and
influence all through the Near East
and to see Turkey restored and be-
come logically the tool Of British
rivals. To support Greece would
mean a new war, would mean the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
PREMIER VENIZELOS the "stromo nao1 of Greece 9rbo
IS darectamg the Greek policy IN the present crisis

force of civilization to undertake the
task, but at the very outset the
United States fatty declined any
responsibility and at the same time
indicated that no American troops
were available for such an opera
ton.
There remained the British,
French and Italians, but the diff
Guilty thenceforth lay in the conflict
of ambitions. To the French and
Italians both, it seemed at once clear
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sending of British troops, and white
troops at that, to Smyrna; it might
mean a return to CONSUMPTION in
Great Britain. At all events it
would mean a domestic political
crisis, which from Lloyd Georges
point of view is the thing most to be
dreaded now.
Of the three policies of the nations
engaged in the latest act of the
Near Eastern drama the French
seems on the whole the most disap-
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siderable army, q very great states-
man as their Prime Minister, and
see in the present situation the
opportunity to establish Greek
claims in the Near East in such
fashion as to make certain that in
the next few decades Greece will
once more become a considerable ma
ton and the economic and political
force in the eastern end Of the Medi-
terranean.
The Greek Ambition
Actually the Greeks have now in
their minds, as they have always
preserved it, the dream of restor-
ing the Byzantine Empire and thus
Of making Constantinople their capt.
tai once more.
This Greek policy falls in we'll
with the British purposes. Unques-
tionably the Greeks are the coming
race in the Near East. Almost ten
millions of them live in the region
between Trebizond and Cairo, and
their commercial colonies are scat
tered all over the Mediterranean.
At the moment the problem is to
find troops to dispose Of the Turks
in arms in Asia Minor. Such troops
as the British and French have
available are mainly native troops
from Mahometan colonies, the
French from North Africa, the Brit
ish from India. For religious rea-
sons it is dangerous to use these SOL
diers.
But by contrast it is next to i'm
possible to get any but native
troops. The French require their
white troops on the Rhine and are
in no mood to undertake new wars
in remote regions. The British have
most of their regular army tied up in
Ireland, India and Egypt, where the
local conditions are critical, and to
find white troops for the Near East
it would be necessary to resort to
conscription, thing in itself I'M
thinkable, given the present temper
of the British public, which, like
the French, is in no mood for more
wars.
Now, this is about the situation
which the recent Polish events dis
closed. Then Poland undertook a
war against the Russians because
she had an army available, whereas
none of the Great Powers had any
troops available for a Russian cam
paign. But in the Polish case it
was French policy which most
strongly advocated an attack upon
the Bolshevists, having the most to
make both by the erection Of a
strong Poland and the destruction
Of the Bolshevists.
On the Other Foot
Thus, while the French press de.
Tended the Polish operations and
urged Allied support, to-day in the
case Of Greece it is the British who
indorse. And as British newspapers
were filled with criticism of Poland
and Of France a few months ago,
the French, and for that matter the
Italian, press is now decorated with
denunciations of British Imperial
ism" masquerading behind Greek
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parts. And such is the congestion
on the line that it takes, l am told,
something like four months for a
wagon of goods to pass from Brod
to Zelenika-as for the other five
days consumed in dragging the stuff
Gin Biblical bullock-carts) up among
the clouds over to Cettinje, needn't
mention them. Before the war
things were different Dalmatia and
Montenegro were fed for the most
part by sea. The people of the
coastlands possessed an efficient
little mercantile marine, by the aid
of which Dalmatia lived in luxury,
and Montenegro Through Cattaro
and Antivari and the Bojana) had
enough. But at the armistice it was
all commandeered-by France and
Italy, as lam info, med. It does not
seem too much to ask that this fleet,
or at lea& reasonable portion of it,
should now be restored.
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How England Might Help

If England can persuade her al
lies to release these ships she will
already have done much to save the
situation; and will, in addition. earn
the gratitude Of all the peoples of
Southern Slavdom, for whom their
retention is contant ranking sore.
IT further she desires, or is able, to
send help. of a more direct kind.
it should, in my opinion, take the
form Of motor transport. Actual
relief work, if I may say SO, can
be overdone; and there is sometimes
regrettable divergence of opinion
between donor and recipient with
regard to the latter's real neces-
sites. If transport were available.
Serbia could pour supplies into the
land, from her own stocks and those
of Croatia, by way Of Sarajevo and
Gacko. Let England then, if in the
intervals of saving her enemies
from the consequences Of their own
nisdeeds she cares to bestow a
thought upon her friends, let Eng
land present to Serbia, ear-marked
for the service Of Montenegro, a
score OF those heavy motor trucks
at present rotting in her depots. If
this is done. the people Of the land
will be enabled to save themselves
which 10 ali they ask.
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gro. There is no food in the coun-
try, and there is little chance of it's
growing any. But the worst of it is,
that importation Is practically at a
standstill. Montenegro is to-day suf-
fering from a combination of cir
cuinstances which may not unjustly
be described as amounting to a spe-
cies of blockade.
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Worse Days Ahead

But, bad as things are at present,
they are bound to get worse At
one time the country could reckon
on some share in what was over
after the Allies had done with. them
of the military stores left by the
Austrians at Cattaro and other
places on the Dalmatian coast,
These were long ago exhausted.
Serbia does her utmost to help, but
that, as you will see in a moment,
is not much.
Last winter and spring conditions
were greatly eased by the inter-
vention Of America, which imported
and distributed large quantities. Of
food, clothes and medicines. This
help, it seems, is now to cease.
America is on the point Of with
drawing, and it is estimated that
by November, unless the situation
mends, well on to $4,000 people (ths
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
Merchant Fleet Taken Away

At present the little narrow gauge
railway that climbs laboriously over
the Bosnian mountains from Brod on
the Save to Zelenlka on the Bocche
is the only means whereby not only
Montenegro, but the whole of Dali
malta so far as it is in Jugo-Slav
hands, can be fed. Along that single
line have 10 come all the corn and
sugar and clothes and Goals that the
district needs, plus all the people
whose business lends them to these
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
r oNTENEGRo was always
a poor country, but before
= the war it had at least

enough to live on, enough
to rear a race that for 500 years
till January, 1916-defended it's
liberty against all attackers. The
Austrian occupation was blow
from which the country will take
ages to recover; all its little wealth
was systematically plundered; valua-
bles, furniture, linen, food, live
stock-everything, down to the hens
on the doorsteps-was swept away,
and now the land is struggling for
bare existence. There are people in
it to-day who for weeks have not
had a grain of corn in their cot
tages, people who have not stitch
Of clothing to bless themselves with.
and who dare not, for very shame.
cross their threshold in the day.
light. They steal out when dark
ness falls, grub up the leaves of the
asphodel--a plant the omnivorous
goat rejects--boil the bitterness out
OF them, and feed on the nasty re-
mainder. In one village, consisting
perhaps of twenty houses, ten fam
lilies were recently counted, who by
such means kept body and soul pre-
cariously together.
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By Frank H. Simonds

"\HE statement OF Venizelos
that Greece was prepared,
if necessary. to put half q
Evening journal., 1920-07-23
ELIMINATION MEET
PLANNED WITH FAIR

The physical department OF the VIII
mington Community Servke is busy
making preparations for the four
track and neld elimination meets.
which win be held during this and
neat month In preparation for The
State championship games, to be hold
in connection with the Delaware state
Fair. Four athletic leagues in The
city have entered contestants for the
events. while unattached athletes will
be given an opportunity TO enter under
the Public Athletic League
The elimination meets viii he held
as follows: Industrial Athletic League,
July "a: Public Athletn League, Aug
ust 7: Catholic Athletic League, Aug
ust IS; Church Athletic League, Aug
ust 81
An OF the meets will he held at the
| Delaware State Fair Grounds at Els
mere. under the direction Of Joseph
G.. Berger. physical director OF the
/ Community Service, who is also re-
ceiving the entries OF the individuals
The entries FOR the various elimina-
ton contests must be in the ofllce OF
the Community Service not later thar
Tuesday OF the week in whhh the
meet Is 10 be held.
Evening journal., 1920-07-23

Manager Givens has called the
Eleventh Ward Club Of the All-Wil-
mington League for practice at 6
o'clock tonight at the diamond at
Eighth avenue and Duncan street.
Every member OF the squad Is asked
90 report promptly.
parkside champions will workout
al 6 o'clock this evening at the Park
side grounds at kirkwood Park. The
players are requested 10 be on time.
Tomorrow is the day and Harlan
Field is the place. fans. The contes-
tants are parkside and Eleventh
Ward. The occasion is a iwo-gamc
series OF baseball TO determine the
leader OF the All-Wilmington League.
You have II all, fans. Go 10 IT, Both
Managers Brady and Giyens are con-
fdent today OF success.
Evening journal., 1920-07-23
BRANDYWINE TAKES
WALLOP FROM WEST

In a fast and cleanly played ball
game al Baynard Field last evening,
West Church League team defeated
Brandywine TO T. The feature was
the playing Of the West inleld which
is conceded by all 10 be the fastest
in the Church League. This Is the
FIRST game in the second half Of the
league West having won the frst
game and incidentally one leg on the
silver loving cup which is 10 be given
the winner OF the League pennant
on saturday afternoon West will
play First-Cenlral at Rockford Tower
Score
Evening journal., 1920-07-23
GREENHIL SImnr

At the request OF a number OF the
club members Greenhih will repeat
tomorrow afternoon the program Of
last week.
The iS-yard championship medal
has proved TO be a popular event.
William COyne and Jack Kaiser have
already secured legs on this trophy,
while Simonton and Swayne are tied
for a third leg. The fourth leg will
be competed for on a program OF 80
targets, at iS yards rise.
Double target squads are again
proving popular events at Greenhlll
and the regular program OF ~ pairs
OF doubles viii be shot, with the win
ner listed for a leg in the double
target trophy.
Enthusiasm for the Saturday shoots
is again picking up and the club is
looking forward 10 a good attend
ance. Several Of the old-time regu-
lars are planning to attend in order
TO get in trim for The tournament
OF August z.
Evening journal., 1920-07-23
Pdrkside-IIM Ward Are
Ready For Crucial Series

Backers Of the Champions and
Browntowners are making all sorts
OF freak wagers that their idols will
win both ends Of the double bill.
Neither team has lost a game This
year and with the season more than
half over the fans have had plenty
Of chances 10 get line on the play
ing Of bOlh machines, which are
evenly matched.
The regular weekly meeting OF the
league Will be held tonight in The
Evening Journal office. President
Walsh requests that all managers or
representatives be present Tags will
be distributed for the games and um-
pires Will be assigned President
Walsh asks that Manager Bevis, Of
Sllverbrook, and Manager Carbone at
tend this meeting.
Evening journal., 1920-07-23
ST. PAUL's TO PLAY
IENAPE SATURDAY

The St. Pauls Baseball Team viii
travel TO Lenape Park tomorrow
afternoon where they will meet the
Toughkenamon Stars. A large crowd
Of rOOters from St. Pauls Church
plan to go along and will enjoy a
picnic lunch at the park after The
game. The straw ride will be con
Quoted by the Christian Endeavvor
Society Of the church Anyone de-
string to go along should notify
Miss Alta CastelOw, phone 1926 be-
fore 10 a. m, tomorrow morning.
The players and those going for the
straw ride will leave from the church
at Tenth and Jackson streets at i.3O
p. m.
Get the habit OF telling your need.
through The Wants.-Adv'
Evening journal., 1920-07-23
LIBERTY A. G. WINS Am

The Liberty A. G. won their thirty
fourth consecutive victory by de-
feating the North End team a to 3
in seven inning twilight game at
Eighteenth and Van Buren streets
last night. Lichensiein won his own
game in the seventh when he doub-
led to night field scoring Davis.
The score by innings:
Liberty A. C.. ... 0O2 90 IA 4 0
The North End management claim
that they weer defeated through an
unfair decision OF the umpire in their
game last night with Liberty A. C.