Evening star., 1923-09-30

drew in their horns. The Bayarian minister
president called up stresemann on the long
you should have suspected u.s." said he. ave are
passionately loyal to the reich. We made
attempts on the established power, whether
state or reich. and whether from right or left.
don't think that the decree was directed par.
h tihculariy against Bavaria, whose loyalty is
So there's end tperhaps) for the present
to the Bavarian danger to the reich.
goes off according to Schedule. the ehd Rhineiand
separatists wiz pull off a well advertised coup
a, Rhneland republic INCLUDING the Ruhr)0
whether within without the reich does not
big chief says: I'VE hope there will be no
bloodshed; but If necessary we have shock
Meanwhile the communists have not been idle
They They have & declared general raj strike in the
of the response. But no doubt there is great
demoralization among the Ruhr workmen For
months they have been drawing doles. fddling
and othrwise amusing themselves. They have
lost stomach for work. The order for cessa-
ton of passive resistance means end
this utopian existence. and they resent it. All
over e, the reich the communists are ready. with
commissars uhat there be no delay.
Brer Poincare. he lie low. We must give
muddle resulting from passive resistance. We
are not convinced (note the tone of Strese-
man heart respecting the fufllment of obli-
cations Our policy remains unchanged. to w.t.
to collect reparations"
X X X X
Italy.-We have authentic information as
to the terms offered by Mussolini for a
Fiume settlement, to the reaction of
the Belgrade government thereto. Rumors are
legion and are more or less plausible. Rather
less than more.
The commission composed of French, Brit
ish and Italians, with a Japanese president ap-
pointed by the conference of ambassadors to
investigate the murders Greek territory of
the Italian members Cncluding attached per-
sons) of the interallied commission for the de-
port among other things whether no the
Greek government had exercised due dill
to the apprehension of the murderers, reported
that the Greek government had not exercised
ambass dors ordered that the fifty million lire
deposited by the Greek government in the
Swiss National Bank a guarantee be paid at
once to the Italian government. See my sum-
mary of September Is for the other monetary
The Italians fulfilled their engagement and
evacuated the seized islands on September 81.
1t may seem a little curious that, in this
altruistic world that has emerged from the
war to end war" the voice of government
has been raised upon the account of the Ar
menian orphans slain in the intrepid Italian
sault on Corfu. But, perhaps. the Italians were
acting an altruistic part They provided spirit
ual home for the homeless waits. children
without country.
BulEaria.-For years now Muscovite propa-
ganda and intrigue in the Balkans have con-
centrated Bulgaria. The coup of June g.
which overthrow the agrarians and transferred
the power to the bourgeois and the military
gave the communists their chance, for 1t in
sured, IL not the active support Of the peas
antry in any communist movement directed
against the government, at least their
neutrality. The communists seem to have
skillfully exploited" the hatred of the peas
ants for the bourgeois The report is prob
able that they had been financed and
supplied with arms from Moscow. No doubt