The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-16
Forst~-Crisis Since Signing of
. Peace Prevails.
Dissolution of AngIo-French
Entente Threatened.
BRITAIN FRIENDLY TO GERMANY
10 Question But That Two Ma
tons Drifting Apart.
French Cabinet Opposes Stand
taken by Premier Poincare.
tBy the Associated PressJ

Rambouillett, France. Aug. Is
The French cabinet. meeting here to-
day under the craftsmanship OF Pres
tdent Millerand, decided not to call
an extraordinary session of parlia-
ment, since the government is consti-
tutionsly empowered to make deci-
sfons during parliamen tary rsceSscs.
The French cabinet ~-unanim ously
approved today of the German repa-
rations policy of Premier Poincare
and congratulated him on the stand
he took at the London conference of
allied preniers.
The plan, which is reported to have
been prepared in case the reparations
commissions decision on the mora
torium question pronounces Germany
in willful default of her payments,
deals with measures to be taken in
Alsace Lorraine and the French oc-
CAPPED territory of the Rhineland. 1t
" understood no military measures
have been contemplated thus far.
New York, Aug. 16-collapse of the
allied indemnity conference in Lon
don and subsequent developmen to-
DAY drove home to European and
American statesmen and political OBJ
servers that the perils confronting
Europe are more deadly dangerous
than at any other time since peace"
was declared.
With Great Britain and France
slowly drifting apart and dissolution
enedA new European alliances are IN
the making.
All the peace treaties growing out
or the great war are confronted with
either modification or complete revi-
Four Great Problems.
There are four great international
problems confronting Europe Great
Britain and France hold widely diver
gent views upon all of themG These
issues, roughly grouped, are:
j. German indemnity with a mora
tcriunI and possible reduction.
2. Russian problem. embracing con-
faitions on which the soviet would be
reco gnized.
g. Solution of the Near East tang1e
In way to end the war between
Greece and Turkey
-. Cancellation of war debts.
Premier Poincare may ask the
French chamber of deputies for sane
ton to direct independent action
nnent of indemnity and private debts
such action. no doubt, would take the
form of further military occupation of
German soil by France. Should
might precipitate the real European
crisis that has so long been feared.
s BritaiR~SuppOrted by Italy.
Britain is showing friendship for
Germany and is supported by Italy.
France, saVagely hostile towards Ger
many, is supported by Belgium.
France has entered into actual treaties
or agreements with Belgium, Poland,
Gzecho-Slovakia, Rumania and ma
tionalist Turkey. Germany and Rus
STA have entered into am agreement
which may become an actual military
alliance if allied pressure against
Germany increases Italy is virtually
Isolated, so far as an alliance is con-
cerned.
All of Europe seethes with unrest
and some parts with absolute chaos.
There is war in the Near East and
Ireland. Labor in Britain Is FESTIVE.
Germany fears civil war unless the
a7fferences between Berlin and Mum
fch are definitely settled. italy has
just passed thru a whfrIwfnd of vio-
lence.
There is deep gloom all over Eu-
rope and the next few months should
tell whether it is to end in an earth
quake or sunny skies