The Holly chieftain., 1923-02-08

control and administration OF the oc-
cupied region. Great Britain seeming
ly has not yet made up her official
mind and is willing to wait longer for
results.
TT CANNOT be said that the Ger
mans show any signs of weakening.
Their war slogan, Hold Out" has
been revived and the passive resist
ance program is being carried out
quite thoroughly. Chancellor Cuno re-
iterates that the government will not
bulge from Its position so long as
there are French bayonets in the Ruhr
He asserted the French army Of occu-
patton is costing 1,O0O.000 gold francs
(s250.0 .000) more than the value of coal
payable under the treaty, and that pro-
ductivity was decreasing, and us re-
suit both countries we're suffering. The
German national council has appro-
priated 100000. 900. GOO marks for the
relief Of the Ruhr Inhabitants, nearly
1,000000 for each organized worker.
Moscow has donated $4,000 to them.
u EARLY in the week 1t looked as II
- Great Britain and France had at
last reached the parting of the ways
because Of developments in the Near
East conference at Lausanne. Lord
Curzon had the treaty ready for sub
mission to the Turks and announced
that the British delegation would de
part as soon as 1t was handed to them,
virtually serving them with an ulti-
matum to sign at once or fight. The
French promptly informed the Turks
that they would not leave Lausanne
as long as there was chance to
reach an amicable agreement, and it
When Wednesday came the treaty
draft was presented to Ismet and his
colleagues and Curzon energetlcnlly
defended 1t as q just and generous
settlement which would afford Op-
| portunity for Turkey to reconstitute
her national life without external In
tervention or internal scrvitude." He
then consented to stay In Lausanne
until Sunday night. The allied dele
cations and the American observers
appeared united In the opinion that a
| decision one way or the other could
not be delayed much longer, though
| 1smet had asked for several weeks.
II the difficulties are ironed out and a
basis Of accord is reached. as seems
likely at this writing, much of the
credit will be due to Ambassador Child,
who has been exceedingly active in
harmonixing the conflicting views Of
the allies and In persuading the Turks
to modify their demands and conclude
a speedy peace for the sake of their
drafted requires Turkey to abandon
her claims to the districts detached
and now under mandate of other pow
ers and also to Egypt and the Sudan.
The Martha river is fixed as the
boundary in J'hrace, Turkey getting
Adrianople and Greece getting Ka-
ragatsch. The dispute over the Mosul
district is referred to the League of
Nations.
The Russian delegates informed the
conference they would not sign the
convention providing for the control
of the Dardanelles.
Lord Balfour warned the League of
Nations council in Paris that the mo-
ment the Kemalists began movement
on Mosul Great Britain would insti-
tute blockade of Turkey, and he In
timated the other nations in the league
would be expected to support this
blockade economically.
THOUGH the league council may
i not act, or be asked to act, In the
matter of the Ruhr. it was busy with
other things. with good results. Repre-
sentatiyes of CZechoslovakin and
Hungary informed 1t that the leagues
proposal for the settlement OF the
boundary dispute had been accepted
by both nations.
The council adopted the suggestion
OF the last league assembly and de-
cided to call an internatioas! confer
ence to consider the extension of the
Washington naval restriction accord
TO those nations that were not given
opportunity to sign that pact. 1t also
| determined TO invite all nations. men,
bers of the league, to limit their annual
4 expenditures for armaments to the
amounts appropriated in 1913. An
other matter of discussion was the
welfare of the German minorities in
Poland.
LAVING defied the representatives
i ! of the allies to oust them from
Memel, the regular and irregular Lith-
uanian troops were still in control OF