River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-08-04

forcements to the Silesian garrison
and agreed to meeting of the inter
allied supreme council in Paris Au-
gust 4. But she insisted the question
of strengthening the allied forces in
the region must first be settled, and
also warned the British that any hos
tile act against the French troops or
the Poles in the disputed area would
result in the immediate occupation of
the Ruhr basin, regardless of allied
action.
Premier Lloyd George, on his part,
consented to a meeting of experts to
examine into the Silesian problem, and
also conciliated the French by giving
the German government a sharp re-
buff. When France was preparing to
send more troops to Silesia, she asked
the Germans to supply the transpor-
tation. Berlin sent note to London,
asking If the British Endorsed this
demand. To this Downing street re-
piled CURLY that it was an interallied
affair and not discussibl6 with outsid-
ers. British Ambassador Lord D'Aber-
non in Berlin also told the Germans
that If the French or Poles were at
tackled the British would help in the
occupation OF the Ruhr basin.
For some time there have been ru-
mors that former Emperor Charles
was planning another coup to regain
the throne Of Hungary. Last week
Roumania, Jugo-Slavia and Czecho-
Slovakia signed treaty providing for
a declaration of war against Hungary
If Charles should return. 1t is Off
cially announced in Madrid that ne
gotiations are under way for giving
the ex-emperor and his family asylum
In Spain. The consent Of the other
powers is necessary.
Having destroyed considerable
part of the Turkish nationalist army
and advanced SO far that even AAgora,
the nationalist capital. Is threatened,
the Greeks are restoring their lines of
communication and preparing for the
ot>ou0 phaSC Va Lie OllCASlfC. oCh-
eral Pap0ulas, their commander-in-
chief on the Smyrna front, says: 1--WE
are not going to let up on Mustapha
Renal Pasha until we have SO COM
pletely dissolved his forces that he will
never again be able to put an army
in the field" Apparently Renal re-
allies that he is being thoroughly
whipped, for he has appealed to the
government at Constantinople to in
tervene and stop the warfare. How
this can be done is not clear. Kemal's
| own government Is said to be aban-
doning Angora and transferring its
archives to Sivas.
Evidently Renal has not been re-
ceiving the aid he expected from the
Russian bolSheviSts. Lenin and
Trotzky and their soviet crew are
themselves in hard straits due to the
rapid spread of famine and cholera
in Russia. They have appealed loud
ly for help, but the governments they
have so long fiouted are deaf to their
calls. Even the United States, al
ways generous in response to the walls
of the suffering, has told the soviet
government, through a note from Sec
rotary Hoover, that any relief meas
ures would depend largely on the
treatment of the Americans held pris-
| oners by the bolsheyists. This was re-
enforced by a note from the State de-
partment formally and CURLY demand
ing the release of those prisoners, and
the soviet rulers already had been told
there would be no consideration of
closer relations with Russia until the
Americans were set free.
The distress in Russia is such that
Trotzky has been given dictatorial
powers to handle the situation, and
all government projects except those
for relief have been suspended
The Irish affair is still in status quo,
De Valera and the Sim Fein cabinet
have been studying Lloyd Georges Of
fer, but have let it be known that it
cannot be accepted until the British
have released the imprisoned members
of Dali Eireann so that parliament can
have full meeting to discuss the
plan. The British government is will
ing to free these men If De Valera
win make the request, but the Sim
Feiners feel that for him to do this
would be in effect recognition of the
governments right to imprison repre-
sentatives Of Ireland. Lord High
Chancellor Birkenhead in a speech in
the house of lords, asked that parlia-