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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS British and French Premiers Given Giv-en Votes of Confidence on Genoa Policies. FORMER MAKES GREAT SPEECH Ruooians Warned Partial Recognition Pepsnds on Good Behavior De Valera Trying to Upset Irish Free 't State Progress of the Coal Miners' Strike. t.' By EDWARD W. PICKARD HAVING triumphed over his enemies ene-mies with a vote of confidence 872 to 94 In the house of commons, Premier Lloyd George, Instead of resigning, re-signing, has gone to Genoa to lay before be-fore the economic conference his plans for the regeneration of Europe. On the same dny as the British test Premier Pre-mier Polnerre laid his foreign policies before the French chamber of deputies, and they were approve! by a vote of 484 to 78. Whereupon he also decided to intend the conference as soon as his official duties at home would permit, lloth the British and the French have been growing more hopeful dally that good and definite results will come from the Genoa meeting. Probably Lloyd George never made' a more effective speech than that which preceded the vote of the commons. He Bpnbe for an hour and a half, setting forth eloquently the conditions that his country and Europe generally face, and replying with humor and keen satire to the attacks of his opponents, who frequently fre-quently joined In the applause. Defending De-fending the I'mitations placed on the scope of the conference, barring the discussion of revision of boundaries and of reparations, he argued that no one of his hearers would wisli to go buck on the clauses of the treaty of Versailles by which Alsace-Lorraine was restored to France, Poland resurrected resur-rected and the independence of the Slavonic populations of Austria-Hungary recognized. Nor, said he, was there any use criticizing the reparations, repara-tions, since to alter these would simply transfer the burden from Germany to France, Fngland and Belgium, but mainly to France. He asserted France should not be asked or expected to forego the right she won at such cost, o'- lo submit to the judgment of a nference in which not only her former enemies but also neutrals are it-presented. Germany's ultimate capacity ca-pacity to pay, he nflded. must not be judged by her enpacity at this moment. Discussing the main theme of the conference, con-ference, the establishment of peace, credits, currency, exchange, transports and the machinery of international trade, the premier dealt largely with ltussia and said he believed Its present pres-ent rulers had been brought Into a new frame of mind by the famine and would now recognlr.e the conditions Imposed Im-posed and accepted by civilized com-m com-m unities, acknowledging Russia's debts and promising to cease their attacks on the institutions of other countries. He pledged that there would be no full diplomatic recognition of the soviet government until the powers Should be entirely satisfied that Russia was r-ally endeavoring to carry out the tei in? of such ai 'indertaking. Mr. Lloyd George eaj have been over-optimistic about the repentance of the Russians. The soviet delegates became more and more cocky as they made their way toward Genoa, and in Berlin they arranged for close co-operation with the German delegation, reached an economic understanding with Chancellor Wirth and Foreign Minister R&thenau and made agreement', agree-ment', with the representatives "f German Ger-man industry and finance. RntHOnau explains that his ."i ?cord with the Russians Is due'to the position posi-tion taken by the allies on the reparations. repara-tions. Among the recent demands made on Germany by the reparations commission is the payment of GO.oOO.-OtXI.OOO GO.oOO.-OtXI.OOO marks h Increased taxa'Ion Tilt demand. It Is said, the German povorttment has rejected, claiming ii c m invasion of Germany's sovereign r'g'Ts. U- , - t'ritnlu last week eave a Jolt to her debtor nations In Europe by notifying them that they must begin paying Interest on their debts to her next October, or make some new arrangement ar-rangement then, so that Britain can pay the Interest on what she owes the United States. The French believe this will cause the whole matter of inter-allied debts to be brought up In the Genoa conference. MICHAEL COLLINS and his provisional pro-visional government of the Irish Free State are facing a critical situation situa-tion and it is n debatable question whether they will survive officially. This despite the fact that the British government Is assembling large bodies of troops to go to their support in case of necessity. It Is believed De Valera and the radical republicans are planning the establishment of a military mili-tary dictatorship, and continuous raids and outrages by republican bands lend support to this belief. Murders, ambushes am-bushes and seizures "of arms are of dully occurence, and in northwest Ireland Ire-land it is- said large districts which had supported the Free State have gone over to the republican camp. As was Intimated in these columns last week, the peace pact between the Free State and Ulster Is quite Ineffective Ineffec-tive In restoring peace to the island. Catholics and Protestants, Free Staters and republicans, are In never ceasing conflict, and when they cannot do better the Irish get up "private fights." CHARLES, ex-emperor of Austria-Hungary, Austria-Hungary, who died of pneumonia ut Funchal, Madeira, may have left a legacy of trouble for some of his former subjects. On the receipt of the news of his death, the royalists of Hungary got busy and started a movement move-ment to declare his son Otto, nine years old, king of that country. The legitimists in the parliament planned to Introduce a measure for Otto's Immediate Im-mediate return to Hungary and his education under Hungarian teachers. There is no likelihood that a majority of the Hungarian people would favor restoration of the Hupsburg dynasty, nor that the allies would permit it. OPPOSITION to the allied plans for reviving the Turkish empire is growing in Greece. Thrace and Smyrna, especially protest against being restored re-stored to the sultan, the former demanding de-manding the status quo and the latter autonomy. The Thracian deputies in the Greek chamber have wired to President Harding, Secretary Hughes and the chancellors of other nations that "tbe Greeks In Thrace would sooner die than return to Turk slavery." London hears that the Greeks of Smyrna are ready to revolt and set up an independent state rather than have the land turned over to Turkey. They have an active committee com-mittee In London and are raising money among Greeks everywhere. It is believed the leaders In this movement move-ment may use Smyrna as an excuse for a coup to return Venizelos to power in Greece. ALTHOUGH efforts to bring about agreements that will end the coal miners' strike are continuous, it cannot be said that they are meeting meet-ing with any conspicuous success. The house committee on labor Is taking the lead In these efforts and through its chairman, Representative Nolan, invited in-vited the miners and the bituminous operators of the central competitive field to a joint conference. The operators opera-tors of western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio already had refused to take part In such a conference, but President Lewis of the mine workers said the men would accept the invitation invita-tion If sufficient tonnage was represented. repre-sented. Then declinations were received re-ceived by Mr. Nolan from practically all the other groups of oiverutors, chiefly because they felt a conference of fragments of the central field would be unavailing. Besides, they asserted they had been and still were willing to meet the miners of their own states or districts for separate wage settlements. settle-ments. In the anthracite field the conditions were more promising, for the miners' and operators' subcommittee was In continuous session In New 1 ork and both sides were submitting their casev. In non-unionized regions a god many mines were In operation, but fh" nion orgrtnlzeis were busy nn. 1 claimed to have made large galrr-J galrr-J there. This the operators disputed. The great majority rt the strikers are enjoying their period of leisure and making plans for extensive fishing and camping trips. In Kansas the Industrial court ordered that the present wage agreement be continued for thirty days, and the Southwestern Coal Operators' association agreed to this. The operators declare that the ultimate ulti-mate goal of the union miners is the nationalization of the coal Industry, and of course they oppose this, though they are not able to confute the assertion asser-tion thut the Industry Is, as Secretary Hoover says, one of the worst functioning function-ing Industries In the country. It Is always In a chaotic condition, as regards re-gards both production and distribution. distribu-tion. When President Lewis went before be-fore the house committee to present the case of the strikers, he said the miners could see no permanent solution solu-tion of tlrelr difficulties without nationalization na-tionalization of the ceal mines. But questions brought out that while he would favor the establishment of a governing board to bring about stabilization of the industry, controlling control-ling the production, distribution and price of coal, he would oppose the creation of a tribunal with power to fix wages. Nnturally he did not get far with such a one-sided proposition. ONE THOUSAND AND SIXTY-FOUR SIXTY-FOUR bodies, Inst of America's dead to be brought from the cemeteries ceme-teries of France, were landed last week at Brooklyn and the heroes were honored with a solemn pnrade and Impressive Im-pressive funeral ceremonies at the army base there. Prominent army and navy officers, high representatives of the government, governors of several states and many other distinguished persons took part, and President Harding Har-ding sent a message and a wreath. IV THE presence of President and Mrs. Harding, cabinet members, high government gov-ernment officials and arctic explorers, a handsome memorial was placed Thursday on the grave of Rear Admiral Ad-miral Robert E. Peary in Arlington national cemetery. Following a suggestion sug-gestion made by Peary during his last illness. It Is In the form of a huge spheroid of granite, representing the earth, with the North pole, which he discovered, marked by a gold star. The memorial was unveiled by Admiral Peary's daughter, Mrs. Edward Stafford, Staf-ford, who has born In the Arctic regions re-gions and was long known as the "Snow Baby." PRESIDENT HARDING has not yet yielded to the demand that he give specific reason for the sudden dismissal dismis-sal of Director Wllmeth and all division di-vision superintendents of the bureau of printing and engraving, merely stating that It was for the good of the service. Louis A. Hill was made director di-rector and a committee began checking check-ing up the stock of the bureau. Re ports that there had been a wholesale duplication of Liberty bonds were a1 first denied, hut later Mr. Hill ad mltled there might le basis for th rumor. This bureau cleanup smarted talk of Impending wholesale dlsmissuls in other departments. SECRETARY OF THE NAVY DENBY has taken official notice of the activities of certain treasonable societies "having their origin in foreign for-eign countries" and has warned the officers and men of the navy to beware be-ware of their "sinister propaganda to undermine the morale of the navy and to insinuate into its personnel elements ele-ments of disloyalty and disorder." REPRESENTATIVE TINKHAM of Massachusetts, a consistent opponent op-ponent of the Anti-Saloon league, made a hot attack on that organization organiza-tion on the floor of the house, denouncing denounc-ing its political activities and charging charg-ing it and its subsidiaries have frequently fre-quently violated the federal statutes by making false returns, fie admitted It would be useless to ask a congressional inquiry because the league etmtroli congress completely, and therefore h made a public request that the Depart ment of Justice investigate the fact! he had submitted. The latest display of the power of the Anti-Suloon league was the passage pas-sage by the house of a bill for the de-portntinn de-portntinn of aliens who violate tht I rohlbition and narcotic laws. Severn emlers protested that the bill merel aide the United States safe for nei lean boot-leggers, but It went '.I t t by h vote of 2 to 73. |