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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Franca Occupies tho Ruhr District Dis-trict and Germany Offers Ffsjivo Resistance. BUR'S. TREATY V13LA7ED American Troops Recalled Frcm the Hhlneland Near Cast Situation Relieved by Mutual Concessions Deaths of Rabbi Hircch and ' Former King Constantlne. By EDWARD W. PICKATD p r GERMANY asserts that France Is making a grert economic mistake' In attempting to collect reparrtiona payments by force. The Cnglich and many , Americans agree w.th tn.s view. The French, the Belgians and the Italians do not What Is your cp'nlon? ; v o CnAN'K tir mndc punt her ihrent ' "fo mvup.v the Jtiilir. the Iniltistrlul tiwirt of Onminy. for the purpose f fnfnrollljr th piivtnont of repiinit'on Belgium slirnlOe h-r spprnvnl by aerH trie A small lnuly of troops across the Rhine, not Itnly (five morn I support. Grent nrlfiili stnnds nloof. frowning ly. The t'n'teil StHte government In-fominlly In-fominlly illsnpproves. Itnss'n foresees another b'ood.v wur nnd inenuces Poland Po-land In mso Hint eon n try should nt-tuck nt-tuck nennnny In support of her nlly. France. Oertnnn.v. !rt'!imnnt and sullen, hns Aer-hired a "inoriil wnr" on r'rnnee and Belgium : Its mlopted nieiisnrea for pitRKlve reslstnnre In the occupied re-pton. re-pton. sntl lui Miwerted ofhVlully thnt tli trentr of Versailles tins been vl-luten vl-luten an:' she will niiike no further there nil bookkeeping and statistical documents. "The personnel of the Germitn administration ad-ministration and the representatives of Industrial and commercial bodies uiiiKt, under piiln of sever' punishment, punish-ment, put themselves nt their entire disposition for the accomplishment of their work." In the course of his note the premier pre-mier Raid "the French Roverniuent counts upon the good will of the Herman Her-man government mid upon (hut of nil authorities," hut this of course wns merely a diplomatic phrase. As s matter mat-ter of fact the Germans announced that every dllllculty possible would be placed In the way of the. French engineers. en-gineers. The colli syndicate led the way by removing Its headquarters and all Its documents to Hamburg. The chambers of commerce of Essen and -ill other Ruhr towns followed suit by moving nwny. At this writing the attitude at-titude of the union workers In the district dis-trict Is uncertain, except that they tle-'lded tle-'lded to put on n brief strike of protest. pro-test. If they refuse to pet out coal :ind to operate the factories. France Is prepared to curry on with French workmen. Herlln's first response to the French action wns the recall of the German ambassador to France nnd the German minister to Ilelgiuui. and It was believed be-lieved complete severance of diplomatic diplo-matic rehltlons would follow. Chan-ellor Chan-ellor Cuno called the premiers, of all the German stales to a conference, and President F.bcrt proclaimed Sun-diy Sun-diy ns a national day of mourning. For fbe first time In several years Germany Ger-many prcf!eH pract'cnlly n un'ted front to Its adversaries. The nationalists nation-alists nnd socialists, evpn In P.avarln. hnve adopted a common policy of mak-Ins mak-Ins the French position In the Ruhr unproductive nnd untenable. This unlflcnilon may go fur toward frus-I frus-I rut Ins the French plans. HAVING Informally ndv'sed Frnnce a en Inst the steps she has taken, the American administration has done the only other thing It could do It has ordered General Allen to bring home at once bis "army of occupation" occupa-tion" from the Rhlneland. President Harding was asked to do this In a resolution adopted by the senate nl- Turkey agrees that England shall hnve exclusive exploitation of the oil fields, nils. If true, removes the chief obstacle ob-stacle to peace. The Turks have agreed that the Greek putrlorch may remain In Constantinople If he abandons aban-dons till political and administrative activities. It has practically been decided de-cided that some 400,000 Moslems now residing In the Hellenic peninsula shall be removed to Turkey, nnd that about .000.0(H) Christians now in Turkey shall he token to Greek territory.. This compulsory com-pulsory m'grution will entail grent hardships, but the conferees liclleve It Is necessary to the maintenance of peace In the Near East. The Greeks in Constantinople and the Moslems In western Thrace, It Is understood, will i not he disturbed. Much time was spent last week in trying to devise a formula for Judicial guarantees for foreign residents In Turkey that would be acceptable to Hie Turks. SENATOR REED of Missouri Is making himself very prominent of late. His wns the resolution calling for the recall of the Amerlca'n troops from Germany, and he followed It by urging that complete severance froisj "European entanglements" be achieved by the recall of Roland W. Hoyden, our unolliclal member of the reparations repara-tions commission. On Wednesday Reed came forward again with a vigorous vig-orous speech In support of his resolution resolu-tion requesting the President to open negotiations with Hje Rrltish nnd 1 French governments looking to the acquisition by the United States of the Hrltlsh and French West Indies. "We are getting our troops out of Europe," said Senator Reed. "Let us hope that we are getting ourselves out of European entanglements and European disputes nnd problems. I think this nn exceedingly appropriate time to take a preliminary step looking look-ing toward the getting, of foreign nations na-tions out of American waters and the removal of the guns of foreign nations from possessions where they command com-mand the passages of the sen which are vital to the commercial welfare of our country nnd doubly vltul In case of hostilities." London correspondents say there Is reason to believe the Prltlsli government govern-ment might seriously consider such a payments 'or a force is being em-ploved em-ploved fli'tilnt her. That, br'efly. Is the present situation, situa-tion, nnd be'ore long the wor'd will find out whether the German. Erltisb nnd AtncHiiiii ec n"in'sts are rlirht In their predlct'ons thnt the course adopted adopt-ed bv France N worse than futile and Is likely to re ilt In her own financial ruin: or -het'or the French are correct cor-rect In the'r bid'ef that the method they are pursu'iia Is the only one left thnt w'll ci.iiii Germany to fulfill her promises and save France from bankruptcy. bank-ruptcy. PTEMll'l! I'lMWAI'E formally notified noti-fied Gcmuinv, of France's Intentions Inten-tions on Weill. eila v, nnd nt 4 :4" o'clock Thursday morn'nii the advance iruiird of the French ncctipntlonnry x forces entered len. Everythlne hud been pret'ineil for the movement nod cavalry. Infantry, artillery, tanks nnd aviation forces poured stead'ly across the Rhine. In bis note to Germany M. I'oincare said : The French pnvcrnment declares It has no tbott'.'ht of procecdina at this tnomenl with an operation of n military mili-tary nature nor occupation of a political po-litical chnrncter; It simply sends Into the Ruhr a niNs'on of engineers nnd functionaries wl ose ob.lect Is clearly defined. It duy Is to ssMire the re-gpect re-gpect by Germany of the obligations contained In the trenty of Versailles. "It seeds Into the Ruhr only those troops necessnry to sufejiU'ird the mission mis-sion and guarantee the execution of its mandate. No disarrangement and DO change, therefore, will he caused In the normal life of the population. h!ch can continue at work In order and In calm. . , . "The engineers nnd functionaries of this nilfs'on wilt hnve full powers to rotnpel the ndmlnlstratlve organs, chambers of commerce and employers', workmen's. Industrial, commercial, etc., bodies to communicate to them all statistical or other Information they think it useful to demand. They will hnve the right t' circulate circu-late thrm;:tiout the occupied territories, territo-ries, to enter ofllcos, mines, factories, railroad Hutions. etc.. and f ccn.sult most unanimously. There were only 1.200 American troops left In Cohlenjs. and their retention there or their recall re-call was really oely .1 matter of sentiment. senti-ment. The argument that If there wns trouble between France nnd Germany the presence of the doughboys mlcht Involve the I'nlted States In renewed warfare was hunk. Most of the American Ameri-can soldiers there heard the recall order or-der with deep rerret. for they hnve been having a tine time In Cohlen. with good pay nnd plenty of beer and wine, nnd have endeared themselves to the people there. Moreover, their post In the Plilne'and. according to General IVrsh'ng. has been an Incomparable Incom-parable training school. However, I hey must now come home to harder work and arld'ty. The I run- port St. Mihlel bus gone to bring the hoys back. SOVIET RUSSIA'S reaction to the news from western Europe Is In-lerest'ng. In-lerest'ng. The official press declares thnt If war does not follow. France's action will eventually lead to more conflicts, "drowning humanity In blood and ruining what remains of European civilization after the World war." Which sounds queer coming from n gang of r.olshevlkl who hnve drowned their own country In blood nnd brought It to the verge of utter ruin. As for Russia's Intentions, here Is what Trotzky, minister of war, said recently: "When France Invades the Ruhr. France's ally, Poland, tuny decide de-cide to march with her to crush Germany. Ger-many. If such Is the case. 1 doubt that Russ'a will refrain from taking part." Rolshevlk Interest In Germany Is based on the I" lief of the R"ss!ans that Germany will be the next communist com-munist Mate. MTTt'AI, n-'ess'ons have relieved the trailed t-'tunt'oii In the Near Eio-.t pence eonfen-nce at Lausanne Lau-sanne i ml t"d;iy it n-p-:ii pro!.h; that a satN-I.n tory tre-dy will be negotiated. ne-gotiated. It Is reporli-d tl :lf a sopv rate A-nvlo T::i li m cord !:'is been reached on !'v M w'i! ;-i-'Co'n, land coneiil.m; T.irl.i y' c i-im to tor-ritorlul tor-ritorlul posHcsi Ion on Vmt re;;. on while transaction provided the white population popula-tion of the Islands approved. I STANLEY BALDWIN and Mnntnaii C. Norman. Britain's debt refunding refund-ing commissioners, have given the American commissioner solemn assurance as-surance that Great Britain Intends to pay every penny of her debt to the United States, nnd also have submitted submit-ted the facts and figures on which they base their plea for more liberal terms then were fixed by congress-full congress-full payment In 2." years nt not less than 4'i per cent Interest. It now lip-pears lip-pears almost certn'n that this request will be granted. The American com mission will soon make n re'-ommencn-tlon to the President, who will submit It to eon-'ress for approval or disapproval. disap-proval. Mr. Harding Is convinced "that the funding of the debts of any foreign country to the United States Is Imposs'ble without a modification of r-strlctlons In the law creating the debt funding commlss'on." according to n statement from the White House. Such a modification would niean the granting of easier terms. EMIL O. HIRSOtl. for years pns-tor pns-tor of S'nal congregation In Chicago, Chi-cago, Is dead. He was perhaps thf most eloquent Jewish pulpit orator In Amerlcu and one of the most eminent scholars of his race. More than that, he wns a foremost figure In nil movements move-ments for civic betterment. The Influence Influ-ence of bis work was felt throughou the nation nnd he Is mourned by Jew and Gentile al ke. ('Histamine, deposed king of Greece, died Thursday In his pluce of exile. Palermo. Sicily, Ills demise was unexpected, un-expected, result Ing from a cerebral hemorrhage. Thus a stormy career lime to nn end. In n'ne years he sat upon the throne of Greece twice nod twice was forced to nhd ciite. The lirst ( 1 1 : i lie was driven out he-'ause of his pro-Gc ritiitn ntt'ttide dorng the v, ar. I was recalled In llVJl) nfler the ihvifli of his s iti, King Alexander, and , (eusod t' e second time lust huHhiiii I heoiii-,' of the d'saMer to the Ureas' ui uiics In Asia Minor. |