Evening star., 1923-04-01
The Story the Week Has Told

Of the RR snS IN P Il the Is tn
ing by 1000 trained singers. likewise, a band
of seventy pieces dsGoursed
wrath on the enemies of the fatherland
becoming ciamorous in their demand for. in
crease Of unemployment pay and cheaper food.
doubtful il the Berlin government will be able
to continue much longer the unemployment
On Friday. Gen. De Goutte issued decree.
at re th ahe Gef to
return to work. under penalty of expulsion
however. ere that the men viii be given a a chance
to think the matter well over before ex-
The French have seized the VINEYARDS along
will sell the stored products and apply the
proceeds to reparatons account
1t is reported that the German workers
(some 10000 at all the coal and coke plants.
where the French have requistioned fuel. have
gone on strike @ II IS seems pretty M certain hs fnst
and coke plants to which requistiontng may
The frst death sentence for sabotage pro-
nounced in the occupied territory COM
muted by Gen. De Goutte TO twenty years i'm
prisonment.
Dispatches tell of some unsuccessful at
tempts to murder French sentries and Of the
severe mauling of a French officer by mob.
At Recklinghausen mob attacked pastry
patrol was summoned The latter at last
compelled to fire and one German was wound
ed. The important question. with reference to
taneous expressions OF popular feeling or en-
gineered by nationalist agitators. BY
and expulsion the French and Belgians
making a vigorous effort to rid the occupied
territory of nationalist agitators.
Only about sl2, o,ooo of the German govern.
ment's s500o0ooo gold loan: was subscribed
accordance with prior engagements. subscrib-
ed by the banks The industralists failed to
come across" leave the Interpretation to the
quidnuncs.
BULGARIA-The indemnity of S450.o0O.00
imposed Bulgaria by the treaty of Neuilly
has been reduced to s110. 600 Gradually in
creasing payments are to be spread over sixty
years: the first years payment to be $1,000, 900
To be at the end of thirty years. the ques-
tion Is to be considered whether Bulgaria is
able to pay the sum originally fixed: but no
body magines that 1t will seriously be
proposed to add to the reduced figure. Pay
ments to be fxed charge customs
receipts.
expensive reparations commission; its cost
has been almost as great as that of running
the Sofia government.
eminent Is one of the most interesting of po-
ability, that government will come cropper
financially; in which case the capitalist nations
dig down in their jeans and make it easy for
Bulgaria to return to the paths of economic
and financial orthodoxy.
RUsSIA-The soviet supreme court sentenced
TO death Archbishop Cieplak. head of the
Roman Catholic Church in Russia. and his
vicar general, and sentenced four other Roman
Catholic clerics to ten years imprisonment and
eight to three years Imprisonment. The details
have been cloudily reported. AS I understand
the matter. all the accused were charged (but
in varying degrees), with obstruction of the
soviet's policy of requisitioning church treas
ures and with counter-revolutionary activities,
and the vicar general charged with tre-
sonable correspondence with the Polish gov
ernment in 1920. when Poland and Russia were
at war. 1t Is to be remarked that Archbishop