The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-05-18

added that it will be received with
indignation and contempt by all the
civilized nations that retain a feeling
for right and Justice The Berlin
government made formal protest to
the powers against the sentences.
Another French court-martial SEN
fenced to death Albert Schegeter,
leader Of band Of seven dynamiters
of railroads in the Ruhr. Another of
the gang was given life Imprisonment
and the rest received sentences of
from five to twenty years. Testimony
at the trial showed the men received
money from the Krupp works at Essen
through Count Won Beifel, paymaster
of the factory.
THE BRITISH government was
4 much vexed because France and
Belgium rejected the German repara-
| tions offer without consulting the other
allied powers, and at the close of the
week 1t sent to Berlin its own reply
to Cuno's program, with the alleged
support of Italy. This note, it is I'M
derstood. held that the offer is insult
| ficient and that Germany has been
culpably tactless on the question of
the Ruhr, hut that Cuno's propositions
show that Germany is willing to pay
and they should be the basis of re-
newed discussion on plans for final
settlement. This British note was not
at all pleasing to France, which still
insists that reduction Of her demands
on Germany is wholly contingent on a
scaling down Of Frances war debts.
Her position is thus set forth in for
eign Office statement:
'"This government has always con-
sidered the interallied debts as an in
tegral part of the worlds economic
problem and therefore indissolubly
linked with reparations. Any reduc-
tion Of our reparations claim of 80 per
cent of the 132.OOO,0O0,OO0 gold marks
($3S, O00, 0OO,O0O) fixed by the London
agreement of 1921 must be accompa-
MED by corresponding reductions in
our debts to the allied and associated
powers"
Washington, naturally, is officially
silent on the proposition that America
shall look to Germany for payment of
the war debts to this country Of
France and Belgium; but unoficially
the idea is received with no more
favor than when it was first preached
many months ago.
THOROUGHLY exasperated and
l. disguised with the actions of the
Russian soviet government, the Brit
ish government has sent peremptory
note to Moscow which, in the opinion
of competent observers, is almost GER
tain to result in a rupture Of relations.
Indeed, it is more than limited that
this is what the British really desire.
Lord CurZon'S note demands that
within ten days the soviet government
give satisfactory assurances concern
ing propaganda, admit liability for
various offenses against British sub
jects and ships and undertake to pay
compensation for these offenSes, and
unequivocally withdraw the two COM
munications framed by the soviet gov
eminent in reply to the protests
handed to the Moscow foreign office
by the British representative, Robert
M. Hodgson, in connection with the
recent religious prosecutions. The
note specifically states that the Brit
ish government has no intention of
embarking upon controversy with the
soviet concerning the accuracy of its
charges, which it asserts rest upon
unimpeachable authority"
T AUSANNE was thrown into excite
~ ment Thursday night by the assas-
sination of M. Vorowsky. whom the
Russian soviet government had sent
there to represent it in the Near East
peace conference. He was killed by
Swiss officer who formerly was in
the imperial Russian army and who
said the bolshevists had tortured to
death his father and uncle. Vorowsky
had already been threatened by the
4
Swiss Fascist.
TN ANNOUNCING the treasury's
L program for May. Secretary Mellon
said the federal finances were in so
sound a condition that it appeared
probable the budget would be bal
anced from year to year and that
economy in expenditures and the
process of gradually reducing the pub
lie debt could be maintained steadily
from this time. He predicted the na-
tional budget for the fiscal year eld-
ing June 80, 1923, would show a sur
plus of more than s125.00O.0O0 in rev.
enues over expenditures.