Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1922-04-06

on an agreement made under the
armistice and that evasion was
mere technicality. Senator Underwood
agreed as TO the technicaIity and ther
said this in effect:
Nevertheless, payment rests in the
reparation commission. The supreme
war council-not to be confoundeo
with the supreme council of the League
of Nations--was given charge Of wind
ing up the war. We had representa-
tive on that supreme council until af
ter the defeat of the Versailles treaty.
That supreme council turned over to
the reparation commission the ad
ministratiOn of the funds to be col
lected from Germany to pay the troops
on the Rhine. The commission is now
handling these funds. The only way
we can get our share is to sit in at the
reparation table,"
Close observers in Washington say
that the Presidents informal utter
ances indicate that he would look
with favor upon the appointment by
congress of an American representa-.
tive on the allied reparatiOn COM
mission. He will not propose it, but
ne thinks congress should realize its
necessity.
T LLOYD GEORGE has announced
IL that he will attend the Genoa con.
ference. NiScOunt Peel has accepted
the post of secretary of state for
ho
it. So it looks as if the British cabt-
net crisis growing out of the indiscre
ton and enforced resignation of E.
S. Montagu is over. Back of it, how
ever, is condition of worldwide
interest-unrest and concerted action
in the Moslem world of quarter of a
billion fanatical religionists. What
the Moslems consider the i'll treatment
of Turkey since the World war has
bound them more closely together and
Quickened their activities. They ap
pear to be in touch the world over and
propaganda is everywhere. The de.
mand Of the Indian government foI
the restoration of Turkey is cOnvinc
ing evidence Of Moslem solidarity The
sultan of Turkey as caliph of Islam
Is leader of all MOhammedans.
IL danger of a devastating plague OF
typhus, according to the health depart.
ment of the League of Nations. Ten
million emigrants bearing typhus
germs are bearing down on the west
ern frontiers of Russia and no bar
rier European nations can erect win
stop this panic-stricken horde OF
peasants fleeing from famine and
death. Already the Polish barrier has
been broken down; 100000 Russians
have swarmed into Eastern Galicia
Everywhere the route of the hordes
is lined with unburied cOrpses. In
the famine districts they are dying
so fast that little effort is made to
bury the dead. The league will at
tempt to establish a sanitary Gordon
Bayonets will be abandoned and ar
attempt made to cleanse and cure
the millions.
MAINE furnished the first test o1
1N1 strength in the congressional
elections. John E. Nelson, Republican
| defeated Ernest Mclean, Democrat, il
a special election in the Third dis
trict. The Republican victory was
in the face of Democratic weather.
The Democrats cut down the majority
however, in a district which is normal
ly strongly Republican, basing theil
campaign largely on the bonus an(
treaty issues. Query: What does th'
test of strength show?
Q TEFANSSON, the Arctic explorer
~ has planted the flag of Great Bri
tain on Wrangell island and claimed
1t for the British government. Jus
the same, in 1881 Capt. c. L. Hoppel
of the Corwin and Lieut.. Robert NJ
Berry of the Rodgers landed on Wran
gell island, erected an American flag
took possession in the name of tn
United States by right Of discover.
and left a written record in cairn
The island is importantly it is i'm
pOrCanC-DocduSe Ol SlrdIoSlc uOml
| nance of northeastern Siberia.
THE United States Supreme cour
has held valid the New York ren
law of 1920 curbing the rent hog
The court held that the social emer
gency caused by a shortage of dwell
ings warrants the use of police powe
by the state.
Anyone desiring to study moderl
warfare should visit the trenches OF
Ireland.