Evening star., 1922-08-13

The british Empire.-Irish irregulars nave
seized cable landings at Waterville and Valen-
tia on the Irish coast, putting out OF COM
mission the majority of the cables connect
ing the United States with Europe What, II
any, damage has been done is not known. To
put it gently the thing seems rather wanton.
The lines in commission are overwhelmed
I! with traffic. The irregulars have also put the
Marconi station at Clifden out of commission.
The Irish rregulars evacuated the city or
Cork on Thursday after blowing up or setting
afire important buildings, and national troops
entered.
The meeting Of the Irish provisional parlia-
ment has been postponed to August 26
The assassins of Field Marshal Sir Henry
Wilson were hanged in London on Thursday.
Swift is British justice
Lloyd George is preparing to write BOOK
SO is Mr.. Asquth--so is everybody apparently,
VINO hasn't already written one. The biblical
cynic said true thing.
King George has signed the Washington
conference treaties
Germnny.-The supreme council convened in
London on August T. Ambassador Harvey was
conspicuous by his absence.
On the opening day Of the conference Poin-
care and Lloyd George outlined Che former
in meticulous detail. the latter somewhat
vaguely the positions of their respective gov
ernments on the reparations problem. A brief
notice of these speeches will enable us sum-
marly to review Ga profitable thing) many OF
the principal considerations that enter into the
German reparations problem
Apparently cancellation of debts by Britain
was not limited at. That conception like
Ilatos one of the ideal city. is doubtless laid
up in heaven, but seems longer to enter
into the earthly calculations of Poincare or
anybody else.
..Poincare made the following points q have
allowed myself a certain Thucydidean freedom,
ana hl,ng ssa in gaps in the press report Of P1in
recent utterances by Poncare on the same
theme):
That, through lack of effort and through
deliberate obstruction. Germany had failed to
lnn. rulnil hef ohligatons under the treaty-in in
respect or disarmament and in respect of
reparations
That, though Indulgence had repeatedly been
granted to Germany in respect of cash repara-
.on ,aE;n, payments; eliminating in partial cash
the end, of 1924, although France had to date
received nothing in cash and had expended
eighty billion francs upon reconstruction
,,;rha That I France was in a desperate financial
interest on that huge of eighty billion
francs. raised by internal loans
the reconstruction of Europe and wished 20
be fair to Germany. That, however. the we'll
being of France dangerously threatened.
important to the general well being
of Europe as. say. the well being of Germany
ducng her army. replied that she fain would
do SO. but could not with a due regard to her
security, upon which matter she, though hos
pitable to argument, must be allowed to be
the judge
That France criticized for not imposing
heavier taxation. replied that the French tax
alton (much higher than the Germany could
not be increased, for variety of reasons
economical. social and political That it
should be borne in mind that the ten devas-
tated provinces can pay nothing and that there
few great fortunes in France.
That Germany, obligated repair the
devastation of France and Belgium. had ex-