Evening star., 1925-04-26

alton, but required time to work out
the details. He would remain faith
full to his we'll known and clearly
ayoWed principles. He ended signifi-
| cantly, II am and shall remain the
man who secured the adoption of the
income tax"
Referring to his great achievement
of 13 years ago. He has since stated
that among fundamental remedies are
increase and stern collection of the
income tax and rigid enforcement OF
| the law against export of capitalD
Speaking for the Unified Socialists,
| their leader, NJ. Blum, declared that
his party were by no means delight
| ed with the ministerial declaration,
! but would rally to the government
because of the tone of the opposition
| toward NJ. Caillaux.
NJ. Bertrand summed up the Ma
| tionalist attitude toward CaillauX as
| follows: Have we arrived at the point
where we must choose between finan-
| cial bankruptcy and NJ. Caillaux? Re
| instatement of NJ. Caillaux signifies
moral bankruptcy, which is far worse
| than the other"
Brands acceptance of the portfolio
! of foreign affairs was conditioned
| upon his complete independence in
| the handling of his department. NJ.
! Herriot has been elected president of
| the chamber. Parliament has adj
journed to May %.
| = 4 <
Germany.-The election for new
| president of Germany is taking place
| today.
The German cheka" trial before
| the Leipsiz Supreme Court is over
| Three Communists were condemned
to death, and 13. including / woman.
| received prison sentences. The court
| ~ I,a
ernment had planned the overthrow
| of the German government through
| the agency of those found guilty. II
| was proposed 10 produce an epidemic
| by use of typhus germs. The more
one hears of the Muscovite gang, the
more one likes pole cats
J Conditions in GeTmanN continue To
! improve with startling rapidity The
! iron and steel industries, in par
| ticular. are booming. Shipping ar
/ rivals at Hamburg in the first quar-
/ ter of 1925 totaled about 4.4O0.0 net
! tons. as against about $500 600 in .
| the corresponding quarter Of 1924.
! Unemployed. according 10 official fig
ures. totaled 467 900 on March 81. as
! against SIS 900. 600 on March Is and
! SIS. 900 on February Is.
:
BuIgaria.-Reports from Vienna nhe
/ l.
bolshevist agency declare that the
white terror stalks Il believe the white
| terror always "stalks9 through Bull
! garia. suspects are rounded up whole
sale by the soldiery and police and
shot without triai-"10.000 arrested
and 1000 shot"
On moderate estimate villages in!
habited by Agrarian left wing peas
ants surrounded and annlhilated by
| ~ fro of E,y+i-
IDENTIFY the creative ina gination is in
full swing. Giving the lie complete to
| such reports, the Bulgarian govern
ment asserts that, though acting with
prompt sternneSs as the terrible men
ace to the state required. establishing
martial law, making arrests of per
sons reasonably suspected, etc. it has
not in any sense stopped to repriSals,
it has INDUCED no Vengeful motives.
if there have been executions. they
| have been few and pursuant to cor
rect procedure under martial law, eA-
animation has quickly followed arrest
and the obviously innocent have at
once been relea sed. emergent measures
to meet an emergency. but carried out
with a definite margin of restraint.
| One reserves judgment recalling
that, though Christian benevolence
and even altruism are typical virtues
of Balkan governments such govern
ments, even in Bulgaria have geen
known to exceed the limits of just
sternness. a certain Associated Press
report is probably near the truth.
which states that about 1.500 have
been arrested, of whom many have
been relea sed. and that a few dozen
at most have been killed
| The Bulgarian government has doCu-
mentary evidence of the genuineness
of which it entertaine no doubt, that
the Third Internationale lin intimate
liaison. with the Bulgarian COmmun-
lists with the left wing of the Bul
garian Agrarians and with the Mace
donian Federalists) not only inspired.
but even directed down to rather small
detail. the recent outrages. This evi-
dence shows the Soviet government CT
Russia to be implicated by interio-G-
ings with the Third Internationale and
I liaiSon of the Bulgarian with other
Balkan Communists through the Pan
| Balkan Communist Union, an offshot
of the Third InternatiGnale. of course,
the London Daily HoElld is ready to
prove that the doc Hnents are for
geries.
Members of the Bulgarian govern
ment have been allowing themselves
the luxury of unrestrained comment
! on the situation. Not only do they
accuse (probably with justice) the
Third International and the Musco-
yite government, hut they also
charge that the Jugoslav governments
has been privy and asserting to ths
plots against the Tzankof govern
ment.
Probably these charges are without
| foundation. but it may we'll be that
the Jugoslav government has not
shown the proper curiosity concern
ing the activities of Bulgarian Agrar-
ian and Communist emigres in JuSo-
slavia.
1t will be recalled that the treaty
of Neuilly allows to Bulgaria the fol-
lowing named armed forces only: \
regular army of 10000. a frontier
corps of 5000 and 10000 police, all
volunteers. The Tzankoff govern
ment has repeatedly appealed to the
Council of Ambassadors for author
ity for increase of the army TO So
600 "a smaller force being made
quate to deal with the Muscovite
Agrarian local Communist menace)
and for return to the conscript sys-
tenn (the small pay and-t the long
term enlistment bringing in a very
low class of volunteers). The coun-
ell has permitted for the present
emergency an increase of the volun-
teer army by 10000, these recruits to
be disbanded by May 81 at the lat
est. 1t was reluctant to make even
so modest concession as likely to
furnish a precedent to which Hungary
and Germany might appeal.
1t is obvious how Il Soviet govern
ment in Bulgaria would further the
| Muscovite program and in partic-
ular Muscovite designs on Bessa-
rabia.
H.