The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-22
French STiger" Issues Warning
to the Entire World.
Germany, With Russia and
Turkey, Behind Scheme.
MAKE CANNON BY HUNDREDS
Death Letter Fails to Disturb
the Former Premier.
Schools Declare Half Holiday in
Honor of CIemenceau.

New York. Nov. ga death threat
was received thru the mails today by
Georges Clemenceau. French war
premier. who delivered his first Amer
lean address last night at the Metro
politan opera house.
The letter, which was signed world
War Veteran" was turned over to the
police
d1ately given to NJ. Clemenceau- When
he went.to the New York Chamber of
Commerce this afternoon he was ac-
companied by about thirty motorcycle
policemen instead of the two or three
who had hitherto accompanied MIN
when he went out upon the streets.
The text of the letter follows:
Don't you dare Ito be) saying too
much about our country and Germany;
II you don't heed our orders. you VIII
hear bullets flying about your head.
. I'VE are sick Of you poulis poison
ing the minds of our people
"WoRLD WAR VETERAN"
NJ. Cleufenceau was not disturbed by
the threat against his life. During his
long career IN public life he had been
threatened many times and once a
would-be assassin wounded him.
Mary Cities Invite Him.
Clemerceau today was deluged with
telegraphfc Invitations to visit nearly
every big city and cross road hamlet
in the United States. That was the re-
ply to the speech made last night in
the METROPOLITAN Opera house which
the former French premier considers
the most important of his careers
Stacks of these invitations went un-
answered.
A.tho ne was up until 1 o'clock this
marnIne the Tiger was out of bed
at 5:51 O'Clock.
At ] O'Clock this afternoon he ad-
dressed the Chamber of Commerce,
afeer which a visit to Brooklyn was
cd Nuhara he 70 review
soldiers at drill. Half holiday was
declared in the boroughs to permit
$4,000 school children to see the for
mer premier. The ''Tiger" hoped 20
visit Grants Tomb on Riverside
Drive before evening
Something to Think About.
C,emenceau today had given the
world something to think about seri-
qus-y. His warning that chapter of
the world war was being plotted in
Germany with Russia and Turkey as
accomplices went round the earth
wherever telegraph wires, cable and
courier could carry it.
The thousands who last night heard
''the Tiger" say in the Metropolitan
opera house they are preparing war
again; they are making cannon by the
They recognized what had been fore
cast-that this was the most sgnffi-
cant speech of Clemenceau's career.
Germany the Dictator.
The Tiger" pictured the war he
fears as one more horrible than the
one Just concluded because it would
be a flood of Bolshevism and Moham-
mechanism with its whirlpools and cur
rents directed by Germans all over the
globe He declared Ludendorff and
Hindenburg were plotting a civil war
to stamp out the German democracy
so the junkers might again take COM
mend and officer the masses of Rus
SLAMS and Turks.
So ho
Metropolitan opera house They list
e1ed intently.
For an hour and thirty-one minutes
there was no sound but the steady in
dictment by the Tiger"
His lips trembled and he struck saw
aeely at the table to emphasize when
he cried the abyss behind is dark and
deep"
L. s. Failed in Promises.
There was no sentiment manifest in
Clemenceau charged that the United
states had made promises and then
had left the field without seeing them
thru
money" he said, and added:
You have too much. I want some
thing more than money-much more
valuable. I want you yourself, your
heart and soul"
Pieases Friends of League
washington. NOV. zz--1he appear OF
Georges Clemenceau Tor greater
American participation in European
affairs was received with mixed emo
tions today. judging from senatorial
comment on the Tigers Metropoh-
tan speech in New York.
Republican senators opposed to the
League of Nations were not favorably
impressed with the Tigers" views on
AMERICAS duty abroad.
Democrats friendly to the league
received his speech with more ap
proval.
SEES A GERMAN DANGER.
Allies Should Have Finished the War,