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Show once again the wisdom of pas-sing the ship subsidy bill, pluclug ou the legislators legis-lators the responsibility for continued losses In the operation of govenimeut vessels In the event of their failure to act on the measure. In a tone of desperation des-peration he pleaded with congress to take definite action either for or against the subsidy bill. The managers of the filibuster that has prevented a vote in the senate uppeured unmoved by the President's words. SENATORS WADSWOUTIL Borah, , Ashurst, Lenroot and others strove the Turks would have the advantage In Asia Minor at the start and could speedily drive the British out of Mosul. On the other hand, Constantinople would be at the mercy of the British fleet end the British troops there could retire to Chatatja and there Join forces with some 100,000 Greek troops from the Maritza river line. If Turkey counts on the active support sup-port of soviet Itussla, It appears from dispatches from Moscow that she will be fooled. The soviet leaders, these reports say, have been holding a series of conferences and have come to the definite decision that Russia will not participate In any war growing out of either the Near East or the Ruhr situation. situ-ation. She will defend herself If nt-tacked nt-tacked but will not even help the German Ger-man workers should they start a revolution. revo-lution. COL. WILLIAM HASKELL, former head of the American relief work In Russia, has added himself to the growing number of those who do not believe the Turks are as bad as they have been painted for mnny years. After visiting Lausanne and Constantinople Constanti-nople he went to Moscow, and there told American correspondents he believes be-lieves America should feed the nOO.OOO Turks at Smyrna and Its hinterland whose humes were demolished wilfully by the retreating Greeks, Instead of aiding the Greeks and Armenians, who, he says, are sitting around waiting for America to give them their next meal. Colonel Haskell gave the He to stories of Turkish atrocities circulated In NEWS REVIEW OF GURRENTEVENTS Lausanne Conference Breaks Up and War Cloud Hovers Over the Near East THREATS OF TURK AT SMYRNA French Occupy More German Towns and Increase Stringency of Their Rule Italy Ratifies Navy Limitation Limita-tion Treaty President Asks Congress to Approve British Debt Funding Agreement By EDWARD W. PICKARD 1 N THE army appropriation bill . as passed by the senate there Is an allowance of $56,000,000 for rivers and harbors. Many senators sena-tors denounced this as "pork," and advocates of national defense de-fense asserted that cause was sacrificed In order to fill the "pork barrel." Does public sentiment sen-timent In your neighborhood support the action of the een-atet een-atet i .... ...... X In vain to stave In the "pork barrel" In the army appropriation bill the allotment allot-ment of $50,000,000 for rivers and harbors. har-bors. The budget bureau had recommended recom-mended the sura of $17,000,000 nnd there were various attempts, all In vain, to have It cut down to this or some other figure. Spencer, the new senator from Missouri, was strong for the "pork," declaring that even the $00,000,000 was Inadequate. THE government Is preparing for participation In the Pan-American conference that opens March 23 la Santiago, Chile, and eight eminent gentlemen gen-tlemen have been named as our representatives. repre-sentatives. The government In response re-sponse to a question from a South American nation, has declared against broadening the scope of the Pan-Amer-Icnn union so as to Include any nation or group of nations not located within the two American continent. The Intimation In-timation was that the League of Nations Na-tions mleht be willing to he rmresent American churches. On the contrary, he believes that the Greeks acted like barbarians. GERMAN opposition to the French In the Ruhr was considerably strengthened by a visit which Chancellor Chancel-lor Cuno made to Essen at the call of the labor unions. The food situation had grown acute and the union leaders made It plain that the government control con-trol of foodstuffs from the producers to the workers was the only way to save the Ruhr from a communist uprising. up-rising. Cuno consented to try the plan and appointed Burgomaster Schmidt of Dusseldorf as Ruhr dictator, with power to ration food and fix prices. Cuno and his cabinet then decided not to break off diplomatic relations with France entirely. It was sold they feared further French seizures, but the French went right on with the seizing. Across the Rhine from Strasbourg they occupied two Junction points on the Transalpine railway; In Ilesse they advanced to Goddelnu, apparently on their way to Frankfurt; and In the Wupper valley they seized several towns between the English zone of oc-cupstlon oc-cupstlon nnd Elberfeld, which city they surrounded with troops, preventing prevent-ing the export of any coal to southern Germany. The Germans have bren notified no-tified that persons found damaging railway property will be sentenced to death, nnd In other respects the French rppulntlcms are growing more nnd more stringent Still public opinion In France Is that Premier Polncare Is too lenient to the Germans. THE naval limitation treaty and the pacts relating to submarines and gas In warfare nnd to China and the Chinese tariff, negotiated In the Washington Wash-ington conference, were ratified on Wednesday by the Italian chamber of deputies. Premier Mussolini and his government had declared In favor of the treaties, so the opposition was negligible. neg-ligible. From Paris comes word that the nnvy trenty will soon be presented to the French parliament, with n recommendation recom-mendation for Its adoption, but with the understanding that the limitations on French armament shall not be accepted ac-cepted as establishing a principle. PRESIDENT nARDINO appeared be-fore be-fore congress and nsked that legislation legisla-tion be passed approving the agreement on the funding of the British wnr debt. He read the report of the Ameiicnn commission and heartily Indorsed Its statement that the agreement "Is a business settlement, fully preserving the Integrity of the obligations, and It represents the first great step In the readjustment of the Intergovernmental obligations growing out of the wnr." Bills to carry out the President's recommendation were Introduced nt once In both house nnd senate, with good chances of speedy approval. Mr. Harding took advantage of the opportunity to urge upon congress ONCE more war correspondents, last week, were looking up steamer steam-er and rail schedules to the Near East The headline writers found their favorite fa-vorite "war cloud" hanging over that part of the world again. The Lausanne conference came to an end, for the time being at least without the signing of a peace treaty, and the air was filled with the recriminations and defiant phrases of the British snd the Turks. In the last days of the conference the American representatives, ably seconded second-ed by the Italian and French delegates, tried earnestly to persuale Ismet Pasha to yield to Marquis Cureon's ultimatum. ultima-tum. The Turk argued that It was useless use-less for him to sign a pact which he was sure would not be ratified by the national assembly at Angora. He had In mind the fate of the treaty of Versailles Ver-sailles In the American senate. Curzon angrily departed for London and a day or two later the conference broke up. The British, the Greeks and the Turks all had been exceedingly active In a military way, anticipating the failure fail-ure of the negotiations, snd at this writing there Is real danger of an outbreak out-break of hostilities. For the time chief attention was centered on Smyrna. The Turkish governor there ordered all allied warships to quit the harbor within with-in a specified time. To this the French, British and Italian governments replied re-plied with an order to their vessels to remain and defend themselves In ense of attack. The British also hurried naval reinforcements. Preparations were made to tske the foreign colonies ahonrd ship. It was sold the Turks were mounting six-Inch guns on the south side of the Gulf of Smyrnn, where the shallow waters force ships entering the harbor to hug the Bhore. However, the' governor postponed the time for attempting to enforce his or der and Adnan Bey at Constantinople said the matter was not serious and would be settled soon. The Paris press was not so optimistic, nssertlng a declaration dec-laration of war wos Inevitable unless the Turks receded from their position. One American warship, the destroy, er Edsnl. Is at Smyrna, but dispatches said the Turks defined It ns a neutral and also outside the prohibited class In tonnage. IT IS not necessary to go Into details ns to the Turkish objections to the peace treaty that was submitted to them. Both Lord Curron nnd Ismet Pasha asserted they had gone to the limit In Concessions. Ismet bulked especially es-pecially at the proposed provisions for guarantees for the security of the persons per-sons and property of foreigners In Turkey, Tur-key, nnd at certain economic financial clauses. The French nnd Itnllnn delegates dele-gates warmly supported Lord Curron. In a formal stntement Curzon snld be rejected several overtures for the conclusion con-clusion of a separate peace between England and Turkey. It Is pointed out that In case of war ed In the union. The administration said It was desirous that there should be co-operation between the an-Amer lean countries snd the league or any other agency that promised better International In-ternational understandings, but that official representation of the league at the forthcoming conference did not appear ap-pear to be In harmony with the purposes pur-poses for which the Pan-American union was organized. After two montha of successful wort the Central American conference In Washington came to an end last Wednesday. Wed-nesday. A treaty of peace and amity, eleven conventions and three protocols designed to bring about closer relations w ere signed. OUR little "army of occupation from the Rhlneland arrived safely at Savannah and was given a boisterous boister-ous welcome. Sixty-three of the boys brought with them German wives, while five of them had Belgian spouses and three proudly Introduced French wives. TITO house committee on Immigration Immigra-tion has approved a bltl revising Immigration quotas downward and including in-cluding a provision which would prohibit pro-hibit the Immigration of the Japanese. The measure apparently will cut the number of aliens admissible In any one yenr to 180,4,17, as against 958,837; but the number will be Increased by the operation of provisions designed to prevent pre-vent the division of families. The senate passed s bill authorizing admission Into the United States of Armenian refugees, with speclnl provision pro-vision for admitting up to 23,000 Armenian Ar-menian orphans under sixteen years of age. THE Ku Klnx Klan must be chuc kllng In Its myriad throats over the troubles that bew?t Tolernnce, the Chicago orgun of the association organized or-ganized to combat the Klan. The publishers pub-lishers nnd editors of the paper are fighting among themselves, snd now several more or less prominent Chlca-gnans Chlca-gnans have sued the publication for large sums for nlleged libel because they were stated to be members of the Klan or applicants for membership. TWO serious mine disasters occurred oc-curred on Thursday. At Dawson, N. M-, an explosion entombed 122 miners, min-ers, and It was feared nenrly all of them would perish. A blast In the Cumberland mine on Vancouver Island. Is-land. B. C. killed 18 men snd Injured ns many more. In both cases the actual ac-tual cause of the explosion was unknown. un-known. ONE of Amertcn's lending astronomers, astrono-mers, Edwnrd K. Bernard of the University of ndr-eco and the Yerkes rhtervntory. died list week at WI1-Hsnvs WI1-Hsnvs Bay, Wis. Ills discovery of the f. fth snteillte of Jupiter In 1S02 brought him International fame and recognition. |
