Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-07-07

suDcommlSSlOn on debts n details OF
Russia's budget covering extraordinary
receipts and expenditures so that the
other powers may make a careful
study of Russia's financial prospects.
The subcommission then practically
agreed upon cancellation of the Rus
sian war debts and a moratorium on
pre-war debts and interest. The
financial information thus dragged
from the Russians has hitherto been
kept scrupuIously secret by them.
Litvinoff told American CORE
spondents that the soviet government
post-revolution rights to private
property Of all kinds except land. The
allied and neutral delegates said that
If this decree were genuine, 1t was the
most important move the Russians had
made since the adoption of their new
economic policy.
ERMAN n~ationalists who had
" been planning great demonstra-
tlons for last week in favor of
restoration of the monarchy, decidedly
Overshot their mark by the ~assassina-
ton of DR.. Walter Rathenau, the min
lister of foreign affairs and one of the
country's wealthiest industrial mag
mates. The socialists and other groups
were so aroused by the murder that
drastic steps were taken which effec-
tually stopped the proposed uprisings.
Chancellor Wirth and the cabinet i'm
posed restrictions that approached
martial law, a estate of emergency"
being declared. The monarchists,
however, did not remain silent and
their societies joyfully celebrated the
death of Rathenau. In Bavaria, where
they are especially strong, the restric-
tive measures were ignored by pOpu-
lace and officials alike. Stormy cenes
took place in the reichstag in Berlin,
the natlonalists being denounced as
murderers. In the German section of
Upper Silesia alone was there any
actual monarchist uprising. Govern
ment troops and n~atiOnaliSts fought in
several towns, and the affair then de-
veloped into a pogrom, many Jews
being robbed and killed.
Rathenau was considered one of
the ablest ministers in Europe and
was doing his best to restore relations
between Germany and the allied ma
lions. In France his murder was re
garded as probably ending any policy
Of Cancellation in settling the repara-
tons problem.
IRISH FREE STATE forces, with
L the aid of English guns and advice.
fought iercely with the republican ir-
regulars in the very heart Of Dublin
last week, and at this writing the
issue of the battle is undecided. The
republicans held possession of the
-Four Courts building and also of
several hotels in the vicinity. The
Free Staters surrounded the -Four
Courts and attacked with rifle and
artillery fire and bomb-throwers, and
by Friday the casualties were some
where near n hundred. The attack
ers were hampered by their desire not
to injure the handsome building and
to spare the invaluable records it CON
tainS. canon de Valera in an inter-
view characterized the ~irregulars as
"the bravest of the brave in our na-
hon." In other parts of Ireland the
Insurgents were active and the pro-
v~isional government issued three mani
festoes explaining why it was COM
PEELED to act against them.
7 Attest advices from China are
~ not encouraging. Gen. Chen
Chiung-Ming, who drove Sun Vat Sen
from Canton, was said ITO have been
assasslnated> while at a meeting of his
military leaders. Doctor Sun himself.
who apparently is again free, is plan
ming. to retake Canton as 0 as his
troops arrive from the north and to
r~e-estaBlish his regime there. The
leaders in the Picking government are
in favor of establishing the United
States Of China"
n 1SAFFECFED Republicans of
~ North Dakota, in combination
with the Nonpartisan league, defeated
Senator Porter ]. McCumber for re-
nomination, naming in his stead Lynn
]. Frazier, former governor Who was
recalled. McCumber has been in the
senate '23 years, chairman of the
finance committee, and second In rank
Oh the foreign relations committee.
His defeat is another blow to the "old
guard" Wisconsin Democrats followed
the lead of those in Minnesota by Sc
lecting a woman for the senate. She
IS Mrs. Ben C. Hooper of Oshkosh.