The Holly chieftain., 1923-03-08

police the French have deported large
numbers of them and have placed
| many of the officers under arrest. They
met with the stubbornest opposition
In Bochum. Both the French and the
Belgians have seized large sums of
German money In the occupied regions
on the ground that 1t was sent to help
in the fomenting of trouble. General
DegOutte announced measures for col
secting the 40 per cent tax on Ruhr
coal and said refusal to meet this obli-
CATION would result In the court mar
tial Of the offenders and the seizure
OF coal at the mines. Shipments of
coal to Holland and Switzerland are
not subject to the assessment.
DOLAND and Lithuania agreed on n
1 truce In their squabble over the
neutral zone, but 1t was not very
strictly observed during the week. The
Poles claim to be trying to avoid any
clashes and assert that German officers
are leading their opponents. There are
reports that the Germans in East
Prussia are armlng to retake Memel,
and other reports that the Poles are
planning to seize East Prussia. The
chances for serious trouble in that
region are still excellent.
ELLIOTT WADSWORTH is in Paris
u for the American treasury trying
to collect the $25O,OOO,00O due the
United States for the upkeep Of our
army on the Rhine, and reparations
commissioners Of the allies, as finan-
cial experts, are examining the ques-
tion. Really there doesn't seem much
to examine. for 1t was agreed after the
armistice that Germany should pay
the expenses Of the forces of occupa-
tion before anything else in the way
Of reparations, and the allies already
have collected these casts.
CZECHOSLOvAKIA comes forward
~ as the first of the conti-
mental European nations to plan def
nitely for the payment Of its war debt
to the United States. In its budget
for 1923 is an item of nearly $4,000
900 to apply on that debt. which Is es-
tlmated at about 100000 600. Foreign
Minister Benes says commission will
come to Washington soon for the pur-
pose of settling discrepancies, and that
his country hopes to get as good terms
as any allied debtor to America.
That Finland also intends to pay thu
United States is shown by the fact
that DR.. Axel Leonard, the Finnish
minister In Washington, has begun pre-,
liminary conversations with Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon on the matter
OF refunding Finland's debt, which
amounts to more than $4,000, 900. with
| S115OOOO Of accrued interest.
DY AN order Of the federal railroad
u labor board issued Wednesday,
wage Increases of two cents an hour
were awarded to $4,000 railway freight
handlers and laborers and the eight.
hour day was restored to all Of the
821 600 members Of the brotherhood Of
Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight
Handlers, Express and Station En-
ployees. The decision disposed Of the
last of batch Of wage cases that
had been pending for months, and
follows one of several weeks ago. in
which the board restored the eight
hour day to 5000 railway signalmen.
The wage increase amounts to half OF
the decrease In pay ordered by the
board last July.
/ GOVERNOR BLAINE of Wisconsin
" saved the states National Guard
from being abolished, sending to the
legislature a special message praising
the efficiency Of the organization and
urging its continuance at strength
to meet national requirements. 1t is
interesting to note that while Senator
La Toilette declared his opposition tt
the bill abolishing the guard, Mrs. Ii
Toilette announced that she favored
the measure.
wv BOURKE COCHRAN, congress
wv man from New York. died sud
denly Thursday as the result Of {
stroke of apoplexy. The previous eve
ming he had participated in lively de
bate on the farm credits bill. He cele
brated his sixty-ninth birthday Wednes
day. Mr.. Cochran was famous oratol
of the old school and the Democrats
, elected him to congress several times
He was prominent in the party coun
ellis and was familiar and popula
, figure In national conventions. In re
t cent years he gave the Irish peopl,
/. valuable help in their struggle for in
, dependence.