The Holly chieftain., 1923-11-15

times last week and received several
long communications from Poincare.
Neither has yet made any public state
ment, bnt 1t is understood the French
are not disposed to press at this time
their contention that reduction of Ger
man reparations Is impossible unless
the debts OF France to America and
Great Britain likewise are scaled,
down. Mr.. Hughes was said TO be
| willing TO cOncede that the. legality
of French occupation of the Ruhr and
other questions pertaining to II should
be declared outside the Jurisdiction
of the committee of experts, though
he cannot see how Germany's ability
to pay can be explored without TAX
ing into consideration the productiy-
ity of the Ruhr.
London dispatches assert that Bel
gium and Italy have joined Great
Britain In the demand that the In
quiry into Germany's financial and
economic condition shall be free and
unlimited. and that If the United
| States and France cannot come to
an agreement. the three nations will
probably unite in such an investiga-
! ton. Certain correspondents are in
sistent in their reports that France
Is about to be Isolated, but with some
| of them the wish may be father to
the thought. Belgium officially ad-
mits that she is seeking to act as
mediator and Is "hopeful of estab-
fishing an accord between France and
England"
Ambassador Herrick, just returned
to France, in an address at the Nav
arin farm where the Rainbow division
fought beside General G0uraud's
army, seemingly committed the Unit
ed States to the duty Of helping re-
establish Europe. Said he:
I'VE put our hands on the piow.
and we are ready TO run the furrow
through. for we know II the present
problem Is not solved, and justly and
quickly solved, then truly America will
have fought the war In vain"
This stirred up the ''irreconcil-
ables" bit, but in Washington 1t
was understood that Mr.. Herrick was
merely expressing his own views.
Paris, however, believes the American
government has made up Its mind to
take hand in European affairs, main.
ly because 1t is convinced that during
the coming winter America must pro-
vide Germany with hundreds and
thousands of bushels Of wheat on long
time credit to prevent wholesale star
vati0n.
THE council of allied ambassadors
L demanded the re-establishment of
allied control over German military
equipment, which has been In abey-
ance since the occupation Of the Ruhr.
and limited that France might be
forced to take military measures for
protection against "reactionary mill
tarist parties who exercise power in
considerable part of Germany"
Stresemann's reply was to the effecr
that attempts Of allied officers, espe-
cially French and Belgian, in uniform
to check up the armed strength Of
Germany would be extremely danger
GUS and that the German government
cannot take the responsibility Of
guaranteeing the safety Of members
of the commission If they insist on
proceeding with the work.
IF THE recommendations Of the i'm
1 perial economic conference in Lon
don are adopted by the British parlia-
ment, and they probably will be, the
United States will be given strong
dose of the tariff medicine It has been
administering to others for many
years. These recommendations are
! that Great Britain put a tax OF i've
shillings hundredweight on raw
. apples from foreign countries; a duty
. of ten shillngs hundredweight on
canned salmon; duty Of six pence
: n gallon on fruit juices. and 25 per
! cent duty on foreign tobacco. The
first, second and fourth of these pro
, posals would hit America especially.
5 1t was pointed out that the whole
/ basis In considering these questions
, was whether dominion trade can cx-
5 pand rapidly enough to supply all
British needs, and in the case of ap-
pies 1t was stated that the supply
, would easily equal the demand.
A DvANTAGE In the elections of
"A last Tuesday was claimed by both
the Republicans and the Democrats.
) The former recaptured the Twenty
fourth congressional district of New
York, where Benjamin Fairchild was
elected, and won in Vermont, where
t Porter Dale was chosen United States
senator. The Democrats elected three
| | governors = Richie In Maryland,