Show 1 1 RAFI 1 P it 1 r R 5 arz i n i lk AM Z t 8 1 smyrna and its it harbor from which turkey has ordered all allied warships to depart 2 german train in the ruhr manned by french troops troop who are trying to break the strike orrall workers wor kera 3 mrs mr T 0 winters winter prel proal dent of the th federation of women clubs whose statement that thai had been offered her to support a certain bill before congress will be investigated by congress con grest NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS franco german contest grows more intense araj britain may break entente LIBERALS LOOK TO MICA AMERICA prospects in near east are improved pork barrel S batore reused by presidents op opposition aorl investigation of the vet erans eran bureau sureau to Is probable by edward edwand W PICKARD u 1 1 4 senate has adopted a t T THE r resolution c s 0 aution submitting to the 0 it states a constitutional amend 0 under the of 0 0 merit ment provisions 0 0 which the president and vice 0 0 president would be inaugurated f the third monday in january 0 0 after their election and the I 1 0 newly elected congress would begin functioning the first monday aday 0 in january does doe this plan P 0 it to make the government almost 0 immediately responsible to the 0 0 0 will of the voters meet with t 0 0 1 your approval 0 j IN N VIL face of increasing opposition from the germans tile the french are displaying a corresponding increasing determination to have their way in the ruhr kuhr moreover they last week let great britain know that they wished her either to operate cooperate co to a certain extent or get out of her way minister of public works le Tro quer equer and general payot in charge of communication in the went to london to ask that the british turn over to the french a strip of tile occupied territory in order to bontol the direct rall rail route for coal from the buhr the demand was rather embarrassing to the british government which cannot make up its mind whether or not to withdraw its troops entirely from the 11 blite it Is bellev pd such withdrawal would be ordered abonce at once were it not tor for tho the fear that the immediate result would be the setting up of a buffer state bbate there with the support of the french general godley commanding the british at colgate favors remaining thero there as long as possible for title tills reason only it Is said that in a recent report to downing street godley pointed out the impossible military position of the british on the rhine through mr bonar laws repudiation tion of f the french policy on occupation cu warned the cabinet that the british forces were liable to be mixed in the french and german clashes if they became widespread and drew attention to the fact that the r rench french were likely at any time to violate tile the british zone lone by transporting across it RIMS MINISTER BONAR bonan LAW P and lord curzon in the parliament abates on the kings speech both impressed i pressed disapproval of the preach freach policy mr bonar luva I uw said tp ape le british troops might hayo haye to be retailed recalled at any hour and that this meant the almost certain rupture of tte do entente no ile told of the london and 11 paris conferences saying that efrom from the first he saw it would be impossible to agree with france because the french themselves tad two films alms which were incompatible they wanted money but they feared to allow alg germany to become stron strong g enough to pay they were determined from i the first to seize tile the gluhr although they were going to get nothing out of lt but because french public opinion would be satisfied Batts fled with nothing less on the question of bf reparations the prime minister said the french feared to fix any sum which tile tho germans would be able to pay off in a reasonable time fearing they would then be able to prepare for a war of revenge marquis curzon addressing the lords was equally certain that the frenly policy Is unsound and closed J al is speech thus an A merlc eric S ss la ier her views are against intervention in european mutters te r 0 la Is closely and absorbingly interested e a t ed in this question we lue have had indications from froin time to time that she may move 1 I should be ba hopeful as regards the value of her intervention and if intervention does not take place or cannot through the league or it if it Is impossible to invoke inoke the league at this 6 stage stae do not let it be thought that I 1 for a moment deprecate the idea of international action to solve tile the problem eat I 1 think it only can be solved soheil by international action sooner or later that secretary II If plan for a commission of experts to report on reparations is not dead was shown by the action of 0 the two wings ft ings of the liberal party in parliament they a greed agreed on an amendment to the address from the throne reading in part pait arid and humbly represent to your our majesty that inasmuch as the future peace of europe cannot bo be safeguard ed cd nor the recovery of reparations by tile the operations of 0 the french and bel glon glan governments in the ruhr it Is urgently necessary to seek effective securities against aggression by in I 1 lei L I 1 mat national lonal guarantees under the he league of nations find and to invite t the he council of the beag je without delay to appoint a commission of experts to report upon tile the capacity of germany to pay reparations and upon the best method of effecting such payments and that in n view of the recent indications of cf on nn the part of the government of the united states of america to participate in a conference to this end the british representative senta tive on tile council of the league should hp he instructed to urge that an invitation be extended to the american government to appoint experts to serve upon the commission of more geann 0 occupation towns by the french the prohibition of shipments of manufactured products from the ruhr to other parts of germany erminy arrests of many officials for de defiance flance of french orders and decisive steps toward the operation of trains rains by french crews marked the he week in the occupied region first and then Gel dien chen declared complete strikes against the he F reach french and the latter town was ined fined one hundred million marks for violation of military orders and bei cause calls e of a clash in which two french soldiers were werd wounded refusal to pay the alne resulted in the arrest of the leading bankers of the place the boycott of the french all over the gluhr grew more effective dally and the he retaliatory measures increased Increase dIn in severity tho the french ordered all belch and state officials to stay out of the ruhr because the visits of some had resulted in stirring up more trouble the berlin government decided to test this order by sending two cabinet members into tile the territory the outcome Is not known nt at tills this writing one of the latest of Ge general de gouttes gout tes orders was that the german security pollee police in the occupied region should be ills disarmed orme d URNEY insists that lier herb decision tto to close the ports of smyrna and to allied warships Is irrevocable and that tile the vessels wb there mu leine leave at once and tile the harbors are being thickly sown with mines lint but up of to date the warships have hae not departed nor lime love they been fired on con Is still optimistic I 1 believing le nn an agreement arre ement will hill be reached soon though each side Is h waiting for the titer other to talle the initiative fur renewal of 0 tile the peace negotiations turley turkey has called out 11 t tark arf film ses nikl and it la Is suld lit adrian ople liae have till nil the ill id inell women and dien to in mima tie ile cite asa as a dinv inv 1 I kemal und and li lislie slit T nal IY are jn in angora hy hi aliis ih and it it 1 li 14 4 belley believed til they would i 1 IDA influence u anee on t IQ I Q na I 1 and that the laia r of f de wils growing more newte the 1 I in government lins has ug reed it 1 inthe the co conclusions islona which tile frent li offered to ismet titter bord curion left Iau lausanne sanne and the allies ore will ing to yield on v artal n other points 0 o the signing of it pence peace amaty inny not be very long deferred THU united states j en nite ite antel 1 the british debt funding ml bill on friday after several deys of taire inure or less inconsequential definite de linte an amendment offered by robinson of 0 arkansas was accepted limiting tile the present legislation to file agreement with great creat britain aud and providing that congress con eress and not the president shall approve of 0 other funding arrangements di E termination of a majority ot of abe senate to have expended on river and harbor improve may possibly lend lead to td the vall ailing of an extra session of congress after march 4 in order that ill the my appropriation bill may inay be hessed president harding according to veracious reports thought he had discovered a way wa to circumvent tile the pork birrel barrel brigade and planned to instruct tho the department of war to spend no more than the which the budget bureau recommended and to turn the balance buck back to the treasury tills this made the pork senators exceedingly cee angry and they let it be known that they would organize a filibuster and prevent the passage of the army bill unless they received satisfactory is assurances as that flat the entire would be expended senator caraway of arkansas was the tha recognized head bead of the crowd making this throat threat tie ile asserted in the senate that the president was has mo making king a blurt bluff in order to win votes otes for the debt settlement and the mhd ship subsidy measure mca siire secretary of war weeks said that president hording had given no directions ions regarding the expenditure ot of money appropriated for rivers and harbors that would not be necessary said secretary weeks 1 I saved saed a tar largo go amount of money last year on the war department appropriation but I 1 had no specific order from tho th president to do so the tact fact that this war department engineers told cor gress as required by law that they could expend this year on river and harbor improvements la Is in no sense a recommendation that this amount should be expended N MOTION of Seri senator tor walsh of 0 ON massachusetts the sante adopted a resolution citing charges of waste extravagance and made against tile veterans bureau and directing the committee which investigated the treatment of disabled ex service sen ice men in 1031 to report on tile nAvis advisability ability of instituting a new inquiry into the affairs of the bureau for some time a shakeup in the affairs of the bureau have been expected find and it Is believed in washington that tills his to Is now at hand it was heralded by the resignation of colonel forbes the director who Is now in europe probably he will be succeeded by either col george I 1 B 11 igims ims assistant director or dr li B bogers now in charge of the medical dIv division slon its ELIX N NOLAN of san M francisco war a sw sworn 0 rn in ast monday to succeed tier her late husband congressman gres smila john 1 I nolan folan site she to ti the woman of the present house iler her election was also to the next congress congre s of anch site she la Is now the only woman elect COnDINO to a resolution adopted aed accordino AC by the voundy in rome presided over by premier Pre ailer mussolini aa A man cannot be it a fascist and a mason at the same clite the faciso who belongs to a lodge wast must resign from either one or the other organization the reason for this stand Is that the masonic orders in italy are largely political leal and fascism i does not admit of anny other political lower which has fins been organized inac it ecret cret party moreover tile the italian 1 masons masona are too much internal internationalists it sait file who tire are super suler nationalists the head of the set dalah etite Ifil masons sons of italy to t count Pal erml I 1 and he has haa all I 1 Is members to hey the lie fascist order for the go good d of the country tou almost tile the entire country suf fawl last week from the coldest old cold gilve of the winter sub zere I 1 I 1 temperatures nod and ley icy gales prevailed and train rain ken iter vIre ire in the northwest was demoralized d fur several days in the tha such a huge institution and its affairs sire are so complicated heated that to pass any judgment on its management mann moni gement in nl ad vance mince of a complete roni inquiry would ba b worse worce than foolish |