Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-04-06

ng erected in Washington.
thOrized to do. 1t is understood the
commission has decided the advances
in price have nothing to do with the
increased tariff and will recommend no
reduction of the duty.
a LII opposition parties in the house
"A of commons made a massed at
tack last week on the British govern
ment's policy of inaction in connection
with the Ruhr situation, and the debate
brought out a statement indicating that
Intervention by Great Britain may
come in the near future. Chancellor
Baldwin, speaking for Prime Minister
Bonar Law, said: 1.-THE government
could have done nothing more than it
has done. Premature interference by
a third party in any dispute inevitably
leads 10 disaster, but l believe the
moment may come when u services
to our allies and to Germany may be
Of immense value. The moment we
believe hat an Intervention suggestion
or anything else in the way of a step
towards settlement may prove sue
cessful, we will act"
Rosenberg, German foreign minister,
says Germany is ready to negotiate
French to get out of the Ruhr, but he
thinks it will be months before any
arrangement is placed under discus
sion.
Premier Poincare says he hopes
Germany will yield before the end of
May, but when questioned sharply by
the opposition in the chamber he de-
clared France would engage in no
conversations with Germany, direct or
indirect. at is odious to attribute to
France designs Of annexation" he as
serted, while the radicals laughed.
1--WE went into the Ruhr to get repara-
tions and for no other reason. We will
leave the Ruhr when Germany pays
and not before"
Socialists of England, France, Italy,
Belgium and Germany, in conference
in Berlin, devised a ~reparations. pro-
gram to be submitted to the convention
of allied Socialists in Paris. Their
plan embraces these main projects !:
First, that the PREPARATIONS total be
based on the reconstruction costs Of
northern France and Belgium, that the
sum must be fixed by a special commits
sion, and that it must not include pen
sions and similar charges. Second,
that some settlement of the interallied
debts, including money owed to the
United States, be reached in connec-
ton with the reparations problem.
Third, that England and Italy and, If
possible, the United States, join in
guaranteeing Frances security against
German aggression.
COVIET Russia last week vas on the
verge of committing an act that
would have outraged the feelings OF
the civilized world. Archbishop Yep
LAX and Mgr. Butchkavich of the RIO
man Catholic church were tried before
the Supreme court in Moscow for
counter-revolutionary activities and
were found guilty and sentenced to
speedy death. Protests were received
from Poland, the United States State
department and the pope, and Russia's
amnesty department committee grant
ed a temporary stay of sentence and
referred the appeals for clemency to
the central executive committee. 1t is
predicted the Bolshevists will be salts
fed with the deportation of the church
men.
TWO of the worlds greatest pack
l. ing concerns, the Armour and Nor
ris companies, were consolidated last
week after months of negotiation. A
new holding corporation was formed
with a capital Of $550,OO0, 900. Morris
& Co. was purchased by the North
American Provision company, a sub
sidiary of Armour & Co. of Delaware
in turn a subsidiary of Armour q Co
of Illinois, for approximately $27,450s'
900. payments to be made in cash ano
stock. With the liquidation of Morris
& Co., Armour & Co. will have total
assets of approximately $~53O,0OO,OOO
according to available balance sheets
of the two concerns. In 1921 the ag.
gregate sales of the two companies
were approximately $SS0,00O,000.
CARAH BERNHARDT'S astonishing
- fight for life came to an end las
Tuesday, and France, and with hel
ali the world, mourned the passing o.
the greatest actress of the age. While
messages of coincidence by the thou
sands poured in from every land, the
body of the Divine Sarah lay in the
rosewood coffin she had made for her
self many years ago, and on Thursday
after a most imposing funeral, she was
laid to rest in Pere La Chaise.