Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-06-24

Greeks permission to operate thelr
Brusa front from Ga1lipoli ana 10
blockade the whole Of Asia Minor on
the Black sea as far east as Batum
The latter measure has been adopted
because of the expectation that ne
Russians will try to send troops I'M
supplies to the Turks by water. Inc
Bolsheviki have considerable naval
forces on the Black sea, and a naval
conflict Is not unlikely.
The British have notified the TURK
ish nationalists that If they attempt
TO capture Constantinople Great Brit
ain will declare war on them.
In the Caucasus region General Blu
denny and some of his hard-nghting
cavalry units are advancing TO the as
sistance Of the Turks, passing through
Armenia. King Constantine himself
has been in Smyrna and made prepa-
rations to 60 into the battle zone.
Renal Pasha must defeat the
Greeks again In order to retain MS
leadership Of the nationalist. accord
ing to stories from Turkey. Enver
Pasha is his rival and II he can sup
plant Renal he will be given full sup
port by the Russian Bolshevists, since
he has promised to set up a soviet
state In Turkey, a thing which Kemal
has refused to do.
Over In Siberia matters are still
rather confused The anti-Bolshevists
retain control of Vadivostok. and the
soviet Russians are threatening ia
pan because, they assert, the japanese
troops disarmed the Bolshevists In the
city. This Japan explains by assert
ing that both parties were disarmed
because the japanese commander
! would tolerate no fighting In the zone
of occupation. The Far East republic
of Siberia, with headquarters at Chita,
has decided to adhere to the soviet
government Of Russia.
So much for the warlike aspects
Now for the other side. Two nations
that have been deadly enemies, and
two that many. have feared might be
come such, are moving toward a
friendly adjustment of their differ
ences. The first case Is that Of
France and Germany, and though 1t
may be too much expect that they
soon will love each other. at least 1t
appears they are likely soon to resume
amicable business relations. This is
the result Of a conference at Weis-
baden between Nj. Loucheur, French
minister of liberated regions, and DR..
Walter Rathenau, German minister Of
reconstruction. Both these men are
exceedingly wealthy industrial mag
mates and they debated for three days
over an economic entente between
their countries. They finally reached
an agreement for submission to their
respective governments, the main
points of which are that Germany IN
dertakes. and France permits, the re-
building of the destroyed in
France; and that France undertakes
to provide the German industrial sys-
tenn with adequate supplies Of iron
from the Briey basin now occupied By
French troops.
Nearly nine-tenths of the iron de-
posts of the old German empire are
In the Briey basin, and the Germans
expect, if they a get the ore from
there, that their now idle factories IL
the Ruhr and elsewhere will be re
opened and that they will soon bt
able to I'LL the markets of the world
with goods of German make Offered
at low prices. This Of course would
be most painful to British trade, anG
it is said the prospect of a r%approche
ment between France and Germany OF
the terms stated is viewed with alarm
in Great Britain.
Diplomatic settlement Of the vari
Gus questions pending between tn,
United States and Japan, without thu
necessity Of submitting any OF then
to theN council of the League of Ma
lions or any other international body
is near at hand. according to Wash
ington dispatches. Secretary of Stat
Hughes and Ambassador Shidehar,
have been negotiating TO this end
treating the disputes as an integra
problem. If an agreement is reached
1t is understood, the cable privilege
on zap will be internationalized
though japan may still control tn