Show t ra V 4 WW 1 national guard troops on duty in tulsa to stop flogging 2 dedication Dedi catlon of soldier monument in agawam park southampton long island 8 ane of the big beacon lights installed to guide the dar and night PUB of the new boast to coast air mail service NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS chancellor of germany suddenly assumes dictatorial tat orial lal powers WILL FORGE RICH TO PUT PAY poin cares skillful reply to britain shows france to be unyielding american government prepares to cope copa with threatened anthracite thra th clis miner strike by EDWARD W PICKARD E Is virtually in tho the hands bands of a dictator at last chancellor disgusted with tile the condition into which ills country lias has degenerated and with tile the everlasting political squabbles ot of tho the fact factions Jors in the reichstag retch stag has taken matters into his own hands and determined to carry out ills hla measures without consulting the ret chatag and without regard to whom they hit ile he says he believes hu he can restore financial and co order within tour four weeks and that it he ha falls faill there Is no hope for germany and all Is in lost 1081 from a quiet and conservative man herr St has become suddenly a leader much like mussolini of swift and determined action and ready to lo go to any length laying his plans before ills cabinet ho received its promise of unqualified support and the loaders leaders of the parties in the retch S tag also alsa agreed to permit him to carry out ills his measures without interference thereupon ho he announced that fir stolle must have about of tile tho huge sums which the industrial magnates have accumulated and hidden in foreign banks tills this lie he expected na as 0 voluntary contribution but said it I 1 necessary ho he would confiscate between I 1 a fourth and a third of nil all foreign moneys held by them everyone was to be to state under oath ills his holdings of foreign currency currency and those who falsified the returns would be se be geroly punished ile ho Is prepared to follow this order with another confiscating one fourth to of nil all private property in germany according to president ebert these decrees will scarcely affect the working and middle classes as the utter collapse of 0 the mark has bag practically wiped out private ownership by them the upper daises classes including the industrial magnates will have to do tile tha paying and it Is presumed the latter at least will not doro daro to resist for the present chief concern la Is the internal welfare of ger manyi many and the first money he obtains will bo be used for the purchase and importation por tation of fats fate and other foodstuffs foodstuff that tho the country lacks afterward Att orward ho he hopes to collect funds for reparation payments and for restoring financial and economic stability the present situation Is highly pleasing to the communists ts who wkho are looking for a real revolution next october or nove november M ber when they will proclaim alm a red nt regime Their llopes are bolstered by the tremendous increase in prices and the abor shortage tage of food the lack of coal for the winter and the great increase in unemployment german coal coat la Is tor for 28 25 a ton though english cool coal can ahad bo had for 12 the monarch monarchists lits also espe especially those of bavaria are getting ready to try to set act up a military mill tory dictatorship nerr herr went to bavaria at the end pt of the week to study the situation there though be was ans warned that his life would be in danger on the trip indeed ono need not he surprised to read any day that the chancellor has been assassinated its it t said nn an attempt to kill him film in hla big berlin rest resl dence was frustrated a few days ngo ago and that the alie assassins were members of the same monarch Istle organization that tha t killed erzberger Erz borger anti 49 atas A S LUMINOUS as tho the skies of arx france and as hard ni lor lon rattle steel Is tile tho way the paris matilt characterizes the reply or of premier to lord Ot cursons irons recent recen 11 note je th answer wa wasi waa A harde handed 1 to UZI british and the he other powers Int interested in midweek and was ft na found as predicted to be a restatement of the unyielding attitude of france its politeness Is in marked contrast to the curzon note and its 14 firmness Is no whit less witt with extraordinary skill and adroitness every point made by curzon Is met and 1 l refuted and tho the french position Is set forth more explicitly than ever before As well summarized by a paris correspondent the note declares that france desires to continue negotiations with the allies refuses to substitute any other body for tile the re reparations commission In insists that germany must continue payments in kind during the cash moratorium necessary for the rehabilitation of her finances refuses to treat with germany until passive resistance in tile the ruhr lias hag ceased refuses to evaluate the ruhr except in proportion to reparations payin tenta received Is willing to accept as a minimum gold marks plus sufficient 0 bonds to pay frances debts to great britain and the united states recognizes these debts but refuses to pay them until she has been reimbursed by germany for tile the war devastations tat ions proposes that germany shall pay in the brie briefest kest possible time gold marks corresponding to the actual french and belgian damages and wants the rest of the german debt and the whole question of war debts postponed for consideration after this first payment hits has been effected the occupation of the ruhr was made obligatory in premier Polli cares opinion by what he calls the deliberate debasement of germanys germanas Germ anys finances with the avowed intention Intent ibn of escaping payment of reparations but he again denies any intention of annexing tile ruhr the premier replied pointedly to Cur zons intimation llon that great britain may soon be obliged to ask france to pay her br war debt lie he 1 Fr france ancle has never n ever repudiated her debts and clever hever will but she Is con placed thu th no british government will eyer ever onn fo on on ally the pressure that the LO london Y ain cabinet does not ind find it possible to apply today to the former ene enemies of france no british official clai comment on coln cares reply has been made yet but the london press falls to ond find much encouragement in it prinle prime minister baldwin and his cabinet will not net meet for several days and in any case precipitate action by the government Is 14 not to be expected the parts press almost unanimously supporting position apparently believes the entente has come to an end but does not seem utterly cast down by that I 1 it la IR bell believed eved that mr air baldwin and BI U icare will soon meet for a personal discussion of tho the whole repairs re paira tlona problem SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY LJ MELLON who returned from ills his extended trip in europe ls Is rather optimistic concerning the situation there and believes tho the reparations rind and other serious problems vill be satisfactorily solved ile he found both england and prance fairly prosperous and does not think ger germany any will III stage a revolution becomer or become communistic because the germans are a people of great organizing and constructive force while nd ad tho the occupation of the ruhr has haa not accomplished the results sought mr mellon does not sero seem to blame the french tor for their course 0 VIM here in the united states the tha matter of chief cot concern just now Is the prospective strike of the nil thra cite miners on september 1 the ley between their leaders and the rep of the operators at atlantic city collop collapsed sed last week and it seems that tha only some ns as yet un deter lillne step by the government can ann keep the mines running when tho the conference broke up tip Ch nirman laam alani mom bioni of the coal commission conferred with president Ps I 1 lent coolidge and then with OF the other ter members of tile the commission bogn began preparation of that blodys report fixing the responsibility for the and making recommendations menda tiong ions alij ng to the course of notion to lie token thuen by y the government president coolidge next summoned neli F it federal fuel distributor and acting aitchison of the he in I 1 ter state commerce commission ao 0 o the whito house housa and the decision was reached to establish at once aco pera vera tive federal and state organ li for speedy and systematic distribution 0 bituminous coal coke an and pother dother substitutes utes to the anthracite consuming states governors of all the eastern end new england states were asked to send representatives to a conference with the interstate commission in new york august 28 to consider distribution plans mr ift Wad wadleigh legh believes the consumer can and should bo be educated in the use of 0 fuels other than anthracite with plenty of bituminous coal coke and oil the prot problem lern Is mainly ono one of distribution president lewis of the united mine workers says the union ivill ad administer mints to the operators the trouncing of their careers chairman S D war riner of the operators policy commit tee says th the operators are standing pat on their offer to submit every disputed issue to arbitration the gasoline price ajr war in the middle west Is still going on and has spread even to seattle incidentally it has served to cause politicians to consider governor mcmasters of south dakota who started tt it as a possibility tor for the republican vice presidential nomination next year L LAST AST wi was TOS nn an eventful one for american rivia aviation tion F first arst an and most important was the successful test of the air malls contemplated coast to coast service this trial lasted several days and involved day end and night flying the pilots being guided at night by big beacon lights it Is intended that tho the service between new york and san francisco shall raqul require re not more than thirty hours and the tests show that this will be entirely possible wednesday evening the barling bomber the largest airplane e ever v er constructed ted was given its first test iest at wllbur wilbur wright field dayton 0 and it surpassed even the fondest hopes of its designer an englishman under whose Ai direction it was built for the unito united states army tills this plane which Is propelled by six liberty motors lini has a i wing spread of feet and weighs pounds its fuel tanks have a capacity of 2120 gallons it carries seyen seven machine guns and bombs totaling ling pounds in weight one ona of its ts most valuable features Is its slow speed on takeoffs take offs and landings earlier in the week the air sei get vice carried out a series of maneuvers under simulated war conditions in which on an armada of sixteen great martin bombers flew from langley field hampton ampton ll vi va to bangor banger me ile SW miles in eight and a half actual flying hours going through numerous offensive maneuvers en route and finally saying saving tho the maine city from a suppose supposed 4 naval attack at mitchel geld field long island the bombers were 1 jolie joined 1 by se venDe venDo haviland Hav lland swift pursuit planes S SPAIN PAIN Is having a very disagreeable war with rebellious rebellions moroccans cans la in tho the celita district old general geneval weyler the butcher of cuban days was called on to command the spanish forces but declined because the goy eminent ern ment would not glye him dictatorial li power libiger biver probably the government could aon coon put down the rebellion were it not afraid the necessary expense would cause a popular uprising OREST fires lave have laid waste a large FOREST foren area in the beautiful french riviera familiar to tourists and and many ono villas illas have been destroyed about acres of forest land were destroyed and eight per persons s ons perished Is LOGGING parties 1 which became fio r so popular in oklahoma that the governor put tulsa under martial rule have spread to throe thred other southern states texas georgia and F lorida florida and under orders order of the governors investigations are going on with promise of drastic action V ING like n million do llara S daniago damage was done in the arana arkansas 3 1 valley in colorado by the hr enkIng J f tit alic river dam wednesday after a 11 cloudburst A great wall of water swept down the valley carrying houses livestock live stock and other prop arty apty with it railroad and satimo bile 1 jame was demoralized befort the telephone wires went down ahr inhabitant bad becu warned |