The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1922-07-06

SubcommsSion on debts the details of
RuSSih's budget covering extraordinary
receipts and expenditures so that the
other powers may make q careful
study Of Russia's financial prospccts.
The subcommisson then practically
agreed upon cancellation of the Rus.
sian war debts and moratorium on
pre-war debts and interest. The
financial information thus dragged
from the Russians has hitherto been
kept scrupulously secret BY them
I'itvinoff told American CORE
spondents that the soviet government
had issued Il decree recognizing
post!rcvolution rights to private
property Of all kinds except land. The
allied and neutral delegates said that
If this decree were genuine, it was the
most important move the Russians had
made since the adoption Of their new
economic policy.
ERMAN nntionalists who had
~ been planning great demonstra.
t!cns for last week in favor of
ovcrShot their mark by the assassina.
tion Of DR.. Walter Rathenau. the min
lister Of foreign affairs and one of the
country'S wcalthicst Industrial mag
mates. The socialists and other groups
were so aroused by the murder that
drastic steps were taken which effec-
tuhlly stopped the proposed uprisings.
Chancellor Wirth and the cabinet i'm
posed restrictions that approached
martial law, state Of emergency"
being declared. The mOnarchists,
however, did not remain silent and
their societies joyfully celebrated the
dcHth Of Rathcnau. In Bavaria, where
tlicy are especially strong, the restrc.
tive measures were Ignored by popu-
lace and officials alike Stormy scenes
took place in the rcichstag in Berlin,
the nationaliSts being denounced as
murdcrcrS. In the German section Of
Upper Sicsia alone was there any
actual monarchst uprising. Govern.
lncnt troops and nationnlists fought in
several towns, and the affair then de-
veloped into pogrom, many Jews
being robbed and killed.
Rathcnau was considered one of
the nbIcst ministers in Europe and
was doing his best to restore relations
between Germany and the allied na.
tons. In France his murder was re-
Gnrdcd as probably ending any policy
of concilintion in settling the repara.
tions problem.
IRISH FREE STATE forces. with
thc aid Of English guns and advice,
fought ticrccly with the republican ir.
regulars in the very heart Of Dublin
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 one hundred The attack.
crS were hampcrcd by their desire not
to iniure the handsome building and
to spare the invaluable records 1t con.
tains. Eamon de Valera in an inter
view characterized the lrrcgulars as
INV plHNtSl pl lIlt UIiSc Ill our ma
ti"n." In other parts Of Ireland the
insurgents were active and the pro.
visional government issued three mani
fcstocs explaining why It was com.
PEELED to act against them.
T ATEST adviccs from China are
- not encouraging. Gen. Chen
Chung Ming. who drove Sun Vat Sen
from Canton, was said to have been
nssassinated while ut meeting Of his
military leaders. Doctor Sun himself.
who apparently is again free. is plan.
ming to rctake Canton as soon as his
troops arrive from the north and to
| re-cstabish his regime there. The
leaders In the Peking government are
In favor Of establishing the United
States Of China"
N ISAFFECTED Republicans OF
~ North Dakota, in combination
With the Nonparusan league, defeated
Senator Porter J.H McCumber for re-
nomination, naming in his stead Lynn
j. Frazier, former governor who was
recalled. McCumber has been in the
senate % years. chairman Of the
finance committee, and second in rank
on the foreign relations committee
His dcfent Is another blow to the "olG
guard" Wisconsin Democrats followed
the lead of those in Minnesota by Sc.
lecting woman for the senate. She
Is Mrs. Ben Q. Hooper Of Oshkosh.