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The Washington times., 1922-08-20
By LIT. COL. RE.PINGTON---
(The WeIIKnOWn British Authority On Military Affairs
The German Danger-Inenal DSaffeciOn is Not Pleasant
Situation Nor Pleasant Outlook But We Cam Only Hope That the
Lawabidng Citizens will Rally Round DR. Wh and Help Country
Ayoid Greater Disasters"

very carefully recruited Reich
wehr, and probably the Schultz
polizei, will be on the side Of order.
and that trained troops with few
guns and aeroplanes will easily
disperse mobs. but which side the
Reichwehr will associate with order
is another matter.
GETTING BACK TO 18O6.13.
1t is strange that the Germsn
government have not altered the
regulations which make the univer.
sity professors practically irremov-
able. nor have revised the schnol
books and histories which make
German youth imbibe Teutonic
fanaticism with such gusto. The
church Is also still an imperial pre-.
serve, while the mass Of the upper
class mourn the great past, and
detest the shabby and uninterest-
ing representation which a repub-
lie gives them. Every German
writer continues to spread the doc
trine that Germany was not re-
fponsible for the war. and that the
army was never beaten. To ths
average German these things are
not phantasies. but facts, and the
general result is that we are get.
ting back to 18o6.1o, and that the
weli.tended embers of patriotism
may any day burst into flame.
Genuine patriotism we must
admire. The Germans are q great
people with q fighting history.
Ten years ago they dominated
Europe and were in process Of
worming their way into the con-
troll of almost every sphere of
social, Industrial. and commercial
activity. Not having suffered
invasion. their country II intact,
and German youth, prompted by
the old imperial leaders. looks for
ward with eager eyes to the res
toration of Germany to her old
place in the world, and to the
recovery Of her former territories.
The real internal struggle has not
yet begun. So the fanatics of the
Right enter the murder organiza-
tions and start q reign Of terror
to help things on. They are daft.
for the murder Of men like Rattle
nau fatally Injuries q cause, and
provoses reprisals and investiga-
tons which bring to light much
/of the machinery of disaffection.
But there It il. The German
republic is not founded on any
sense Of abiding loyalty to the
government on the part Of the
majority Of the upper classes, and
hostility 10 fed from below by dis
satisfaction with Germany's lot.
high prices compared with wages.
aggravated by the collapse Of the
exchange. which hits every one
without an exception. 1t Is not .
pleasant situation nor a pleasant
outlook, but we can only hope that
the law-abiding citizens will rally
round DR.. wirth and help their
country to avoid even greater
disasters than those which it has
already suffered.
The Washington times., 1922-08-20
By A. ]. LORENZ,

<<UHE hand of Kwans su
reached out from the
Il Western Heavens and
saved the life Of his. friends SON."
Tchin Hao thus gave the reason
for the miraculous escape from
death Of Edwin DENLY. United
States Secretary Of the, Navy,
when the plane In which he sought
to cross the ancient wall Of China
fell from q height OF 1000 feet.
The keeper Of a little Chinese
shop in Clark street. remnant OF
Chicago's once flourishing China
town, voiced his pious belief in
the prophecy of the cyl King"
the Chinese Book Of Fate"
Tchin Hao still believes in the old
gods Of China.
He read the mystic symbols
woven in the scrolls Of the coats
of the figures of the "Three Stars"
embroidered in the tapestry the
late Kwang Su, emperor of China,
gave to Col. Charles DENLY. father
OF the naval secretary. when he
bade adieu to the late American
minister to his court at Pekin.
The enigmatic trigrams, family
visible in the photograph Of the
embroidered gift, held Tchin Hao
fascinatsa. f
"The figures OF the Three Stars
hold out a prophecy OF long life
for the friends of Kwang Su," the
shopkeeper, who 10 versed> in the
lore Of the Chinese gods, said.
.'The Three Stars are Fo. Lo
and Yu OF Chinese astrology. Fo
Is the central bearded figure, his
vestments bearing the imperial
five-clawed dragon. He u the em.
blem Of happiness.
10 represents prosperity. and
Yu, the figure OF the old man hold.
in~ tho 'rcnch ~ long life.' is sym.
The Washington times., 1922-08-20
MONTENEGRO, WIPED
off the Map by
CONFERENCE, REBELS
REBELS

He died . year ago. His eldest
son. Danilo. was famous for his
escapades and his gambling in
Monte Carlo. His second son,
George. took refuge in Vienna
during the war and died.
Nikita ruled his people in true
patriarchai fashion of Bible times.
He was king and judge.
The "Old Man of the Black
Hills" was astute. He married
one daughter to the Grand Duke
Nikolai Nikolaivitch. commander.
in-chief Of the cars armies. and
another to the present King OF
Italy.
The Austro-H Hungarian govern
ment. under Francis Joseph, paid
Nikita q yearly stipend to re
main good" That did not pre-
vent the Montenegrins from cut
ting off the noses and ears of Aus.
trian and Hungarian soldiers who
fell into their hands during the
almost perpetual border guerilla
warfare.
The Montenegrins hated the
Austrians and Hungarians with
the fanatcism characteristic Of
Balkan peoples.
When the war broke out Nikita
Joined the allied cause. but not
before he had sent kilograms to
his brokers that war was certain
and making . nice cleanup on
the stock market In Paris and
elsewhere.
The smallest OF the allies. Il
was not surprising that Montene-
gro was the first to be conquered
In the world war. In 1916 Mack.
ensen broke through the Black
hills and Nikita and his royal
family fled to Italy to Join his
daughter, the Queen, and latee
moved to France, where he died.
A considerable number Of the
Montenegrin army he took with
him to Italy. Nikita's wife. Queen
Milena, and tho minor son. Mich
ael. now king in name but without
crown. throne, or country. refuse
to accept the decision Of the am.
bassadors' conference a. finai.
The Washington times., 1922-08-20
By JOHN GOLSTROM.

UnivefsaI Service staff sCsrrespesdent
a N invention developed by ths
"a French during the war to
L u detect enemy operations
underground 10 to be used by the
United States Bureau Of Mines
to save miners lives. both in
warning them Of impending
crashes and rescuing entomSed
men,. II Is announced.
The invention Is called . geo
phone, and operates on the prin-
ciple of the seismograph, register
ing earth tremors. Experiments
have definitely determined its prac-
teal value, and a considerable re-
duction in mine fatalities is ex-
pected to result from its use.
The geophone will register earth
and rock sounds hundreds of yards
from their source. warning miners
Of explosions. fires and the break
iHS uoWu VI IuiniuB ChdthpStS VI
ageways. In tests conducted
at the Pittsburgh experiment sta
tion Of the Bureau Of Mines blows
with . sledge hammer on the coal
face were heard at . distance OF
$50 feet. with various rooms and
entries intervening.
On q suspended pipe line light
rapping with knuckles Of Q bare
hand was detected at q distance Of
$500 feet. Ordinary talking and
singing were registered through
$50 feet Of solid coal.
BY the use Of two geophones,
one instrument at each ear. It is
possible to determine the direction
from which a sound In coming
through the earth and thus to To-
cate the approximate position Of
an entombed miner. The bureau
has recommended signal code Of
poundings with hammers and
The Washington times., 1922-08-20
DID KWANG SU'S
WISH SAVE LIFE OF
SECRETARY DENBY?

bolic 81 the wish that members of
the DENLY family. reach an. old
age"
The late Colonel DENLY treas
ured the royal gift. For fifteen
years the American diplomat lived
In China with his sons. among
them Secretary DENLY. His ca
reer covered one Of the most in
teresting and turbulent eras Of the
Middle Kingdom.
Colonel Denby's friendship for
China was evinced in the stand he
took as mediator in the war be-
tween China and Japan, which
won him the gratitude OF Kwang
su and the Dowager Empress SEE
Hue. 70" y.
Whether or. not the tapestry au.
CURED old age for Secretary DENLY
and saved his life, DIR. Bertrand
Laufer, noted Sinologist Of the
Field Museum, concurred in Tchin
Hao's Interpretation Of the mys-
tic symbols. He lamented its loss
to the student Of Chinese art. as
the tapestry disappeared several
years ago when the museum at
Evansville, Ind, the DENLY home.
was dismantled. .s'.
1T is too bad that 1t was not
preserved. II seems to have been
a perfect specimen Of the symbol
ism in which the Chinese belief
abounds," DIR. Laufer declared.
The Washington times., 1922-08-20

and will lose no opportunity of
doing them q bad turn. This
hatred. rising even to fanaticism, Is
only kept in leash by recognition Of
the fact that Germany is isolated.
disarmed, and helpless; but a new
factor came into the calculation
when the Russo-G German treaty Of
Rapallo was signed, little though
the Right parties would touch
Bolshevism with pair OF tongs IL
they could avoid 1t. The Germans
have always known the Russians
better than any other people, and
though a Litvinoff and a Luden-
dorff are like oil and water, we
must in prudence regard a Russo
German alliance as formed, and
measure coolly the future con-
sequences Of the junction of 200
millions Of people without hope.
A purely monsrchical rising to
upset the Reich would be opposed
by the majority Of the German
people. The Left parties certainly
have with them the mass Of the
workers, and these men watch
closely tho proceedings and the
movements Of all ayowed mon
archists and potential leaders Of an
other Putsch. But the monarchists
have had their warning, and are not
likely to take part in another rising
SO stupid, so feeble. and so local as
that sterile undertaking. A great
deal will depend upon the amount
of arms in the possession Of the
two sides, and here we are in the
region of conjecture. We know, Of
course, what warlike material has
been given up to and destroyed by
the allied military commission,
whose services cannot be sufficient
ly commended. The figures were
siven by Colonel Stanley in the
House Of Commons on July s. hut
that only - negligible number OF
guns, machine guns, and rifles may
still be hidden" IL belief that the
writer does not share. especially
with regard to rifles. even though
the financial secretary apparently
stated the fact on the authority or
the commission.
The demobilization Of the Ger.
man arimes after the war took
place in q most irregular way.
many soldiers proceeding directly
to their homes, and the best esti-
mate Of the number Of rifles a.
the peace that the writer could OBJ
tain in Germany was 100000.
One may admit that Germany has
been deprived Of the war material
which would permit her to engage
in serious warfare against
properly equipped army, but that
there are enough small arms in
the country to render serious ris-
ings possible the writer is disposed
to credit. Almost every day Of
late there reach US reports Of the
discovery Of arms and even guns.
Whether these belong in the ma
jority to the right or left parties In
a matter Of doubt. The Germans
have become great plotters. They
have the traditions Of secret arm
ing. One \must assume that the
The Washington times., 1922-08-20
By KARL H. Won wIEGAND.
BERLIN, Aug. 10.

.... bEISLlINb aug As'
vvYITH q mere wave Of the
" hand, the powerful am
w bassadors' conference In
Paris. representing the allied
powers. has obliterated from the
map Of Europe one Of the most
picturesque little nations on the
Continent and which at the same
time was one Of the "allies."
The ambassadors conference
has blotted out Montenegro.
A dispatch from Paris merely
stating that the conference an
nounced that the little realm OF
King Nikita. Of the Black Hills,
has ceased to exist" attracted
little attention.
This Indifferent announcement.
made as It was without asking
the 900, ,0oo-odd population, was an
other evidence OF the disregard
of European diplomats for one Of
Wilson's famous fourteen points,
perhaps the most important point
--self.determinatio of peoples.
The conference decided that
Montenegro has become part Of
Jugoslavia, that Is, Greater Serbia.
In vain the Montenegrins. large
ly mountaineers and fanatical
lovers Of their independence. bonn
barded the powers at the Genoa
conference and the League Of
Nations at Geneva with appeals
for q hearing.
Again and again they pointed to
President Wilson'S "self-determi-
nation Of peoples"
Montenegro was the scene Of
Lehar's famous operetta "The
Merry Widow" and Danilo, the
former crown prince, was the hero
of that beautiful musical comedy.
Nikita, who as prince" of Mon
tenegro, began the war against
the Turks in 1876. eventuating
into the Russian Turkish war and
resulting in driving the Turks
far back toward eastern Europe.
won the Independence Of Monte
negro thereby and the right to
wear . crown and call himself
king. d.
The Washington times., 1922-08-20
Man of the Hour.


ireland "all IL over bar
- shouting are making sin
gular mistake. Ireland has still
within her enough combustible
matter to astonish the world.
A few days before his death I
chatted with Cathal Brugha, who.
not Michael Collins. was the brain
behind the I. r. A. and the most
dangerous enemy that England
had In Ireland. He said to me:
What England has still to reckon
with Is the invisible army"
Brugha was referring to the
littie.known fact that In Ireland
there is, and more than ever since
the breakup OF the Republican
forces in Dublin, "the army behind
the army"-that Is, the irrecon-
cilable element Of the gunmen who
will carry on despite all defeats in
the field.
These men. sincere with the des-
peration that is fanaticism's own.
some of whom / have met under
circumstances Of difficulty and
some danger, will now redoubls
their efforts to do what one Of
their commandants said to me at
o'clock one morning in the back
room Of q Dublin tenement
Smash the whole sanguinary Free
State about their ears"
The death OF Cathal Brugha,
regarded as the focus and inspirer
Of the Republican forces. at the
hands OF the Free Staters, has
turned the iron in the wound of
these extremists, who believe, and
have said It to the writer, that men
like Collins and Griffith are
traitors to Ireland.
1t is a terrible fact that Michael
Collins spd Arthur Griffith are
today menaced by serious danger
and they know II. Two OF the
bravest men In Ireland. knowing
not from what quarter may come
"the arrow that nieth by noon.
day." fatalists both. they move
about their daily duties apparently
unconcerned.
DE vALERA'S STATEMENT.
The belief which Is encouraging
and driving to extremes the Re-
publican leaders stin left Is the
belief which Mr.. De Valera. short
time ago. himself conveyed to me
at the Sim Fein headquarters:
England could never have
beaten u.s." he said. eff our own
men had not let her do so. Ireland
could not have been coerced and
could have held out indefinitely.
The Black and Tans had done. their
worst and failed"
Cathal Brugha, in my last con-
vcrsation with him. said: "The
British government could not have
done anything more to us. They
were at the end Of their tether.
We could have held out indefi-
nitely. We kept the offensive all
the time.
TT was the Free State faint
hearts who beat US at the negotia-
ton table-some Of them leaders
in the Irish Republican brother
The Washington times., 1922-08-20
VIENNA, Aug. 10.

~ ECIPIENT Of charity and OBJ
ject Of the whole worlds
~ philanthropy. It has been
said Of Austria that the monthly
delivery to her Of oneseventh Of
the reparation coal deliveries of
Germany which are now lying In
France unsold would have done
her more good than all the baby
feeding that the American Relief
Administration. the Friends Relief
and all other attempts have done
since the war.
Wanna. gay capital of music.
opera letters, and art, has been
reduced to begging her provincial
diets for delivery Of poodstuffs
and the acceptance Of commercial
and diplomatic threats and blows
from all the neighboring states
VINO cared to inflict them. And
vienna's population. dying from
malnutrition and attendant disease
in the midst Of luxury and IRE
sponsibility in her chief streets.
dies decorously and never whispers
"Class war"
Ths story Of Vienna, tragic ~
Il is, Is seldom told but In accents
OF pity and sympathy for the un-
fortunate victim OF Fate. That
there are self-appointed agents OF
that fate. that the case Of Austria
calls for indignation as well as
sorrow, is seldom mentioned; but
no Il does.
At the close Of the war the Aus
tro-Hungarian empire was broken
up along racial lines, with one
svowed and one unavowed object;
NE first being to give subject ma
tionalities separate governments,
ana the second being TO create
The Washington times., 1922-08-20
By SHAW DESMOND
(Rgdd On Both Sides of the Atlantic As An Authority On Ireland
ID is Only After Next Election I'm Ern After New and ReviSe
Register That Peace viii Come New Free State Which viii Thel
Enter Upon an Era of Prosperity Collins Hailed as the
Man Of fine H0ur

hood. Lloyd George concentrated
on Michael Collins and won"
That theory-that the Free
Staters have played into the
hands Of the enemy--is the driv-
ing force behind the Republican
revolt against the Free State.
E1 v Republican in Ireland. in.
cluding De Valera, who. contrary
to the press statements. has still
considerable power. believes that
II only the Free State can be kept
from functioning. whether by the
revolver or otherwise, then Ire
land will return to the status quo
antebellum. England will fear
American and foreign opinion too
much to resume hostilities, and
Ireland will get her republic.
In my peregrinations of the
last two months must have
spoken to over . thousand repre-
sentative men and women Re-
publicans who all took his view.
Those are the facts.
FIFTY GUNMEN."
The other concrete fact with
which the Free State ministers
are faced is the fact that in a
country like ireland fifty gun
men can hold up the country" as
one Of the gunmen themselves
stated to me with cold laugh
under an O'Conneil street lamp
post one midnight few weeks
ago.
In any other country the smash
ing of revolt in Dublin, the capital.
would mean, the end Of revolt gen
orally and the peaceful coming Of
the Free State. In Ireland It II
apt to mean the coming Of the
gunner. Government by gun
men" may yet cover the posters.
The third fact with which both
Downing street and the Free
State are faced Is the women.
Can you tame wild women?"
was a popular song some time
ago. In the case OF Ireland 1t may
be set down once and for all that
the man does not live who could
tame the members Of the Cum
mamma -Mban, or League Of the
Women.
In a long conversation which /
had a week or two ago with the
Countess Markievicz that most in
teresting lady made 1t abundantly.
even superfluously, clear that
whatever the men did the women
Of Ireland stood now and for all
time for the republic.
When ventured to point out
that physical force. whether in the
great war or the Irish war, al
ways ultimately failed, she replied:
THAT is what every doctrinaire
says. You don't realize that the
genius of the Irish people does net
lie in passive but in active resist
ance."
have met Rory o'Connor. the
chief of the Four Courts force. not
only inside the courts. but at the
house of one Of his friends, and
this young fire-eater. "the pet Of
the newspapermen," as he 10
known, with that cold restraint
which marks the modern Sinn-
Feiner, showed beyond equivoca-
The Washington times., 1922-08-20
Breaks Court Record
ATTLEBORo. Mass. Aux. 1s

ATTLEBoRo. Mass, Aug. 10.
John ]. BARRY broke court
records when he made his
fiftieth appearance for drunken.
ness since the establishment Of the
court in 1904. Judge Ralph c.
Estes decided to start Barry all
over again and treat him as a
first offender. imposing q fine
of ss
The Washington times., 1922-08-20

|" HE German constitution is
the last word of advanced
democracy, and II forms
of government could regulate the
conduct and secure the happiness
, OF states. the Reich would be the
most beneficent, most united. and
most pacific Of all governing in
stitutions. wis.
In practice It is the reverse.
because forms Of government are
worth little more than the spirit
Of the people who apply them.
and a large part Of the German
people only accepted the work
OF Weimar by the hard compul-
sion Of the times, and seek every
opportunity to upset It. German
politics are the most bitter
Imaginable. There are many
parties. because proportional rep
resentation allows every shade Of
minority to be represented. and
It Is q popularity that most Of the
new republics Of postwar Europe
cannot produce . solid parlia-
mentary majority Of men guided
by common principles.
That the mass Of the German
people outside east Prussia and
Upper Bavaria arc Republicans
IN one sense or another, and
especially In the sense Of being
anttmonarchical. In probably trus-
But at present the bulk Of the
men governing Germany were
born and bred under the old i'm
perial regime. and ara. insensfbly
Il may be, subject to its tradi-
tons and its memories. The peo-
pie on the whole retain their old
docility, II not all their old dis
cipline, and are easily led. On
the Right the so-called popular
representations are frankly mon
archical. II not always expressly
and openly advocates of this
cause. They own more than half
Of the land. are powerful IN the
universities. the church. the
army, and tho industries. and
have . large following among the
weIl-to-do classes. They have
practically the monopoly Of the
talent for governing. leading. and
directing. and the larger part Of
the Iress is IN their hands, a. well
as alost Of the largo fortunes.
They have honeycombed Germany
With their secret societies. in
which all the broken, dissp-
pointed. or bitter adherents of the
old regime are incorporated, and
restlessly abide their moment to
recover their old privileges.
SO-GERMAN ALLIANCE.
Worst Of all. perhaps. the people
Of every political shade are united
In loathing the treaty of Versailles.
and every act Of severity and COM
pulsion that has followed It. There
fore a movement aiming at resist
snce in some form to outside
pressure is more sure Of popu-
iarity than any other, and among
all their late enemies, the Germans
hate the French most cordially,
The Washington times., 1922-08-20
By III. mi. FLEMING---

Especial Correspondent International Boston,
I'm Downand0ut Austria-Vienna Gay Capital of Musc Opera
Letters and ART Has Been Reduced to Begging Her Provincial Diets
for Delivery of Dies Dec0OuSy and Never
Whisnere @rTaee Wor~
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1922-11-03
Vote For Thos. S. Williams
Fer Congress Tuesday November 9TH.

We want every Colored and for Hon.
Tos S. Williams for Congressman of District Nov h
be known that he stood by the Dyer Antyncng Bill when it
show down Ia Congress Thus he provedshm-
self loyal and 9rder worthy support repre-
sentative Of cur District He is opposed to the nchng and the
burning at the stake innocent Negro boys ard girls
He is opposed jcoWsm and segregation and believes
square deal for all regardless creed previous
diton OF seryitude.
He stood with and by and helped to push the Bill through
he House and it to to stand by hm and send him
back Congress for future usefulness in his and
equal rights to all and special privileges who stands
for an honest ballot and fair count.
The thing the Negro dos stand by his friends
Party that youchsafes him liberty and equal
of life Just put thus X in the large circle opposite
the word Republican fold and and hand the Judge if you
want to have a satisfied conscience