Evening star., 1921-05-08
THE STORY THE WEEK HAS TOLD

United States government has accepted the
invitation in part. The American ambassador
to Great Britain will take part as the repre-
sentative of the President of the United States
in the deliberations of the supreme council!
The American ambassador to France Will JOIN
the amba ssadors conference as unohcial OBJ
server. Roland W. Boyden will sit in an un-
official capacity the reparatfon commission
Quo tendimus" Precisely where are we going:
The German cabinet--von slm"ns. Fehren-
bach ct cie-have resigned. This Development
though important. will not be allowed to delay
allied action.
Meanwhile an interesting side-show is in
progress in Upper Silesa. Armed detachments
of Poles (ostensib'y civilian) have crossed the
border from Poland into Upper Slesia and are
tryin. to take possession OF all the districts
which voted Polish in the recent elections
Whether. the Germans claim. the thing was
carefully plotted in advance. or the cause was
spontaneous reaction to a false rumor that the
supreme council had decided to give Poland
only certain very limited districts or. as lie
Temps suggests German preparations on the
SieSian border were responsible. at any rate.
piece after the noble models of DAnnunzio and
Zeligovski is a-playing, with that very able
person, korflnty, in the chief role The in
vaders have clashed boodily with Italian
pebiscite detachments The Germans say the
French are abe;tin& thc Poles: the French
them. Doubt less the French will DO their duty,
though admittedly it against the grain.
Their temperament serves the l'0 cS well.
tistical]y and socially. but politically. In
this instance the Poles have erred artistcall!.
The seIf-determnation stunt and the fat
compli have become a bore.
Has any mentioned the millennium
lately?
GREAT BRITAIN-There was no important
development during the week in the miners
strike The men not showing any DISPOSE
tion to back down.
The transport workers are again debating a
sympathetic strike refusal to handle coal.
In the Mersey more than $50 vessels lying
idle, unable to get coal. Unemployment in in
dustries dependent coal is increasing. At
the labor exchange 100000 are regis
tered unemployed. In addition many
part time The government is paying per
week for unemployment benefits about 100, 900
pounds. The defense force costs 400. coo
pounds per week The commons have pro-
lonsed the governments emergency powers. 1t
may be found necessary to import coal and if
in such the railwaymen and transport
workers should refuse to handle it, only the
emergency powers could save the situation
An effort is being made toward resump-
ton of the conference between the owners and
the miners chiefs
And all quite .preventable and durable if
not collectively such an incorrigible
X X X
HTSSlA-1 register a respect
in. al: dispatches from Siberia, and especially
Eastern Siberia They may be true. but
much more likely to be propaganda. Some weeks
ago the far eastern republic, Chita govern
ment. seemed to be fairly launched tunder its
new constitution, closely resembling ours)
a respectable career: it was reliably reported
that the minority communists recognized their
to be hopeless and operating in
good faith with the government. Now
one hears that these reds are violently agitat-
ing for union with Moscow.
Remember the caveat. SO long it
be made to appear that Eastern Siberia offers
Il bolshevist menace. long will there be color
for retention of Japanese troops there. For
j pan the Siberian issue. bluntly stated,
annexation of Eastern Siberia to Japan
cultivation of the most cordial and intimate
commercial atoms with Eastern Siberia,
whose coal, iron. etc. are very necessary to
japanese industry. Possibly the Japanese
mitarists are looking for pretext for an
nexation; but such would be ruinous to
Japan and one must credit them with the sense