The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-11-14

toward the end of the week it was re-
ported that they had modified be-
tween 10000 and 10000 troops along
the Thuringian frontier for a march on
Berlin, that reinforcements were flock
ing to the royalist colors from all sides
and that $1,000, Bavarian reichswehr
at Bamberg were ready TO join. This
body Of reichswehr troops was kid
mapped" from the central government
by Bavaria and she s%tubhornly refuses
the demands Of Stresemann that they
be restored. Socialists in the Berlin
cabinet rage at Stresemann for what
they consider his mildness toward Ba-
varia, but he refused to press action
against Munich until he had settled
his troubles with the Saxon govern
ment. That he appears to be doing,
for the Saxon cabinet retired from
office at his demand and another min
istry was formed exclusively of So
c~ialists. This has offended the more
radical Socialists.
In various parts of the Rhineland
the separatists held out against the
attacks of the police, the workers and
the Socialists, but they did not make
much Roadway. The British govern
ment announced that it would not
countenance the establishment of an
Independent republic within the Dor
ders of Germany since the allies in
the treaty Of Versailles had guaran-
teed the integrity of German territory.
NJ. Poincare in reply denied that either
France or Belgium had given the sep
a~ratists assistance and said the Rhine
land republic was developing as freely
without encouragement as without
hindrances.
Former Crown Prince Friedrich Will
helm has asked permission of the
Dutch government to return to Ger
many. Holland does not object but
would not permit him to return again
| to -thatLcountrE~It-is-said the Ger
man government will allow the ex-
prince to go home provided he lives
quietly on his estate in Silesia.
Whether his request has any connec
ton with the royalist movement is a
question
DY VOTE of the Angora assembly
- Turkey was declared a republic
last week, and Mustapha Renal vas
elected its first president. Ismet Pasha
was appointed premier and formed a
cabinet. Great Britain has asked Tur-
key Il open pourparlers on the Mosul
question, and it Is said both the Brit
ish and the French are offering the
Turks loans and concessions in the
effort to obtain the things which they
failed to get by diplomacy at Lausanne.
DIPLOMATS of the United States
~ and the British empire have set
tied the rum running issue between
America and Great Britain and agreed
upon a treaty. This pact will give our
prohibition enforcers the right to
search suspected liquor smuggling yes
sells as far as IAN hours sailing from
the American shore'-the proposed
twelve-mlle limit not being mentioned.
In return America will formally affirm
the three-mile limit as governing Brit
ish maritime rights generally, and,
what Is more important, British ships
will be allowed to carry liquor under
seal into American territorial waters.
Washington will undertake similar ar
engagements with other nations.
Thus, so far as the diplomats are
concerned, all Is lovely. But the
United States senate is still to be
reckoned with. OF course the drys ap-
prove Of the extension of the search
limit, but some Of them will strenu-
ously object to the section that per
mits British vessels to bring in liquor
under seal. In this they have the
purely selfish support of American
shipping interests. Wayne B. Wheeler,
counsel for the A%nti-SalOon league,
doesn't believe that part of the pro-
posed treaty would be constitutional.
IN THE controversy with Governor
L Pinchot over what he calls the fail
ure of the federal government TO en-
force prohibition, Secretary Mellon
has taken up the cudgel In behalf Of
the administration. Rather it should
be said Pinchot forced the cudgel into
MELONS hand. The governor In q
letter to the secretary placed on the
federal permit system the blame for
the breakdown Of prohibition en-
forcement in Pennsylvania and de-
clared that Mellon, as secretary of the
treasury, has the power TO cut off the
food of Illicit liquor at its source by
reyoking the permits. In reply Mellon
said the treasury is invoking every
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