Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-09-16
GEORGE
BURDENED BY
MANY CARES
Greatest Problems Ever Con-
fronting Prime Minister
Demand Attention.
QUESTIONS MULTIPLY

LONDON, Sept. 16.-Never in the long
and crowded history of the British en-
pire has q prime minister-the helmsman
of the British ship of state-been bur-
densd with such mountainous cares and
responsibilities as rest today upon the
shoulders of David Lloyd George.
Three immediate crises confront the
Welsh statesman;
Widespread turbulence and sssas-
sinations throughout the United
Kingdom If Terence MacSwiney, the.
hunger striking Lord Mayor Of Cork,
dies in Brixton Jail or any Of the
eleven Sim Fem hunger strikers die
in the Cork jail.
The increasing menace Of actual
civil war in Ireland, now that the
negotiations between the Sim Fem
military and civil authorities and
the Irish moderates for a domin-
ion home rule scheme have broken
down.
The national labor strike on Sept.
%. which threatens to plunge the in
dustry of the nation into chaos and
may possibly spread into actual in
dustrial war.
DOMESTIC PROBLEMS
NOT ALL OF WORRY.
In addition to the tremendous domestic
lions of world wide magnitude, demand
ing the immediate attention Of the
premier.
Lloyd George acted as the intermedi-
airy between soviet Russia and the allies
during the negotiatiins that were in
progress, while the Russians were ad-
vancing through Poland and took the
lead in the movement to prevent the
allies from being drawn into a new
war.
These negotiations have been halted
but the premier is still working to effect
a commercial agreement between Russia
and the allies.
The premier is expected to go to
Paris within the next week TO confer
with Premier Millerand on the Russo
Polish situation.
DOES NOT WANT
To BE SOLE ARBITER
The premier desires to be relieved of
sole responsibility for negotiations be-
tween Russia and allied Europe and
wants the entente to enter with Great
Britain in a united policy so that the
allies can show the soviet a single front.
Lloyd George and Italy were respon-
stble for the movement for a moderate
policy toward Germany which would
give the German government concessions
: in the execution Of the treaty, but this
and differences over Russia came peril
ously near bringing Great Britain and
France to an open break.
These differences have now been
patched up and a new ambassador is
going to Paris to cement the entente,
but there are still possibilities OF fur
Their trouble over the execution Of the
treaty Of Versailles.
COMES TO AID OF
FOREIGN OFFICE.
The critical situation in the near east,
where the BoIshevists are threatening
Indian and British interests in Persia,
is actually q matter for the foreign Of
fee. but the hand of Lloyd George is
seen in all decisions that are taken in
that direction.
The British government is hard
pressed for money.
Taxes have mounted to unprecedented
heights and gigantic expenditures are
necessary daily to maintain the military
establishments in Ireland, Egypt, Ana
tolia, MesOpotamia and India.
1t is the bad financial plight of the
treasury that increases the fears over
the labor situation.
A coal strike and resultant paralysis
of industry would add to the already
heavy financial burdens Of the govern
ment.
Even some Of the labor leaders are
anxious on this account.