Evening star., 1923-01-21
The Story the Week Has Told

of the area of occupation in the near future.
The Berlin government has ordered the
portation of coal to France or Belgium. II
remains to be seen TIM TINS Epsncb @ nd
Belgians have available competent railway men
IN numbers sufficient to handle the contemplat-
ed coal shipments to France and Belgium is an
interesting question.
What have the French accomplished? They
have seized ("requisitioned," giving acknowl-
edgments) certain trainloads of coal destined
to unoccupied Germany and rerouted them to
coal barges the Rhine destined for unoc-
cupied Germany and unloaded them on on tn the
western bank. The total amount SO 'reQuisi-
toned" is probably not great. They have
taken possession of certain state mines-the
CIR no. they have not. understand, yet taken
possession Of any mines of private ownership.
,veIopment Of the German passive resistance"
policy, could they work the mines? Assuming
personneD would the miners work? Their
gorge would rise, no doubt. but on the other
sWaioW their pride. or starve! E But W what Of
the German government, of SHINES Com
finish fight. or are they acting propagandishly,
making conditions as intolerable as possible.
in order to discredt France and ALLEVIATE Brit
ain and the United States from her?
1t is even rumored that SHINES and his pa
Germany Independent of the Ruhr. by getting
their coal from Britain and the United States
The answer is that 1t can't be done And except
from soviet Russia apparently no sympathetic
response has been received to Berlin's protest
policy of passive resistance" is to
immense suffering in Germany. There are in
case the blame would in general be imputed
TO SHINES Company rather than to
productive guarantees" he is open to
adequate proposal from Germany. involving,
guarantees He has made overtures sn that
sense. He is himself preparing offer to
time for its preparation that he caused the
reparations commission to grant Germany de-
nf of he oh
reparations installment due January Is.
And the report seems well grounded that
include Britain, France. Italy, Belgium, Ger
many. and perhaps also the United States.
Poincare is not likely to spurn Mussolinis
.fforts and it is plausibly rumored that Herr
Cuno. though too proud to approach Poin-
tiations If this indicates that the German in
dustrialists feel the pinch and see their true
advantage in support of the German govern
ment> in a policy of fulflment. Poincare's
main object in the Ruhr operation has been
gained.
OF Frances latest moves in seizing the Gus
toms machinery of the Rhineland. and the
Ruhr basin, and in taking order to levy the
40 per cent coal tax: of the reaction of Ger
many at large to the Ruhr occupation; Of the
great currency question, which would be in
volved should France find il necessary to pay
the Ruhr miners of Russian reaction to the
Ruhr situation: of how the mark descends,
while prices rise; of a dozen other important
and interesting things connected with the
Ruhr episode, l must be silent.
The Lausanne eConference.-Hassan Bey. one
of the Turkish delegates at Lausanne, was
sent TO Angora some time ago to procure more
precise instructions from the Angora govern
ment. He is back in Lausanne, and the
Turkish delegates, since his return, have been
more intransigent than ever.
Ismet Pasha on the 18th pulled off,
good one in the conference, when he declared
that the Turks since the beginning of the
conference had been making concessions and
sacrifices and that it was up to the allies now
to contribute something in that line.
The allies agreed that the part of the