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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Russian Delegates Start Rows in the Economic Conference in Genoa. INSISTING ON DISARMAMENT Lloyd Georfle's Plan for Ten-Year Peace Pact Germans Expect Discussion Dis-cussion of Reparations Senate's Tariff Bill Reported Progress of Fight to Save Navy. By EDWARD W. PICKARD LACKING the spirit that animnted the Washington conference, that of reaching aa agreement, the European economic conference which opened last week In Genoa may, nevertheless, manage man-age to evolve some comprehensive project that will meet the needs of the eld world. Premier Lloyd George, who Is dominating the meeting, believe be-lieve It will Many other eminent men and a great many Europenn newspapers news-papers are skeptical. Already It is evident that If any definite agreement of wide scope is reached, It must be through the yielding of France and the smaller nations that are members of the French "bloc." Soviet Russia, through Its spokesman, spokes-man, Tchltcherln, though accepting the "civilized nation test" of the Cannes agreement In order to obtain a seat In the conference, Is still Insistent In-sistent and almost obstreperous, being bolstered by the support of the Germans Ger-mans and certain of the neutral nations na-tions and by the universally admitted fact that Europe cannot be restored economically until Russia Is again one of the family of nations. At the very outset Tchltcherln, after accepting the Cannes conditions, precipitated nn angry an-gry debate with the French by Inslst- LLOYD GEORGE has ready for presentation to the conference a mutual guaranty pact, a variation of Article X of the League of . Nations covenant, by which wars In Europe would be prohibited for ten years. Lie thinks that If this were adopted, with a penalty clause that all other notions should unite against any power pow-er Invading or wantonly attacking another, the soviet Red army could be disbanded, and the little entente und eventually France could reduce the size of their land forces. France and Poland claim they must maintain main-tain large armies to meet the threat of Russia against the Poles, though It Is generally understood the French really have in mind action against Germany in case the reparations are' not paid. The delegates from the little lit-tle entente, though not entirely satisfied satis-fied with the form of this plan, it is said will support it on two conditions : That their right under existing treaties to invade Hungary In case of an attempted at-tempted Uupsburg restoration be Integrally In-tegrally maintained, and that the signatory nations agree to help one another by force of arms against nny one who breaks the pact. It was expected ex-pected that both France and Great Britain would support them in the first condition but that the latter would oppose the second, because she wished to model the pact on the Washington Wash-ington treaty in order to please America and because the British are not willing to engage to send troops to the continent Up to this time the Germans bnven't had much to say lri the confr3iTce, but In the first meeting of the committee com-mittee on finance Herr Hernias,' German Ger-man minister of finance, started something some-thing of a row by alluding to the reparations. Tlcard of France angrily objected to even the mention of the word. Of course, however, the Germans Ger-mans expect the subject will have to be handled by the conference : ultimately, ulti-mately, and in this they are supported by Premier Brantlng of Sweden, who really Is spokesman for the neutral nations. He declares flatly that the treaties of the entente with its former enemies must be revised; and he also approves of Tchitcherln's disarmament disarma-ment nrnnoftaliL assprtlnir that this Is 000. General Tul, the Japanese military mili-tary commander there, says Japan will remain until China fulfills every pledge made in Washington," LEADERS of the Free Stnte and republican factions 'of the Irish, together with several neutral but influential in-fluential personages, began a conference confer-ence In Dublin Thursday which It was hoped would result in the cessation of the hostilities and an agreement on the date of the elections. Arthur Griffith bad planned the election fo June, but De Valera objects to its being be-ing held on the existing register because be-cause it Is out of date. In the British parliament the opposition bitterly attacked at-tacked the government because of the Irish situation and the danger of a coup d'etat by De Valera during' the Easter recess. Winston Churchill la a brilliant speech defended the government gov-ernment THE senate finance committee's version of the revised tariff was reported on Tuesday, bearing the signatures of all of the ten Republican members except Senator La Folletta of Wisconsin. In this measure, as compared with the house bill, rates of duty have been shifted and the basis of ad valorem duties has been changed from' that of the American value, as proposed by tha house, back to the present foreign valuation basis. This makes the ad valorem rates higher, but the specific duties in many cases have been lowered. Agricultural Agri-cultural products and some classes of manufactured goods are given Increased In-creased rates. Senator MeCumber, chairman of the committee, says the bill has been written on the basis of both protection and revenue, no rate j being so high as to cut off reasonable I foreign competition or so low that American manufacturers cannot hold their full share of the American market mar-ket He gives assurance that there will be final enactment of tariff legislation leg-islation before congress adjourns. THERE is not much to be said concerning the coal miners' strike. President Lewis of the mine workers estimates that during the week 25.000 nonunion men joined the . strikers. lng that It was necessary to discuss disarmament Lloyd George soon Quieted the uproar by saying: "Gentlemen, we have agreed not to discuss disarmament, anil therefore our French colleague Is right, but we must not waste our time In argument Wa must get on. Nevertheless, In my opinion, tha conference will naturally nat-urally result In disarmament" Next day the Russians protested the preseuca of the Japanese and the Rumanians, because Japan and Rumania Ru-mania are "unlawfully occupylug Russian Rus-sian territories In Siberia and Bessarabia. Bes-sarabia. Viscount lahll replied that Jspan would take part In the conference confer-ence In spite of the Russian objections, objec-tions, and Bratlono, preinleT of Rumania, Ru-mania, asserted that Bessarabia, which Is mainly populated by his countrymen, had been awarded to Rumania by the allies. Tremler FiKla of Italy, who had hr eloct? ! permanent president of the conference, confer-ence, ruled that In any case the Invitations In-vitations were Irrevocable, and the Bolshevik delegates hugged themselves them-selves with glee because the ruling means that lhy cannot be ousted even If they Inter repudiate the Cannes conditions. Organization of the committees brought more trouble. The flrxt and chief one, to deal with Russian affairs. af-fairs. Is made tip of Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Russia. Belgium Bel-gium and Japan, and of Poland, Rumania, Ru-mania, Sweden and KwHwrlnml. elected elect-ed by the little powers. Tchltcherln detnnnded that Russia be glren two member on this committee because of her special position, but there yrn such strenuous objection that he subsided. sub-sided. Barthou fr France and Theunys for Belgium wanted Russia snd Gennnn.v excluded from this committee, com-mittee, to which Lloyd Georpe replied that In that case (he conference might as well be abandoned Immediately. Russia, It was stated In Genoa, was ready to give all the flnnnclnl gunmn-tees gunmn-tees demanded In the proprani which the experts of the allies prepHred IhsI month In London, but would not accept ac-cept the limine providing for mixed tribunals to fix reKponlblltty, considering consid-ering the bitter so Infringement 'f RitSRlun s-iyi relRtity. 1 lx soviet dtie-fttJu dtie-fttJu hnil n sltwwite plnn pre- the biggest thing before the conference, confer-ence, Russia says her budget is covered cov-ered by the revenues and that her army will soon be reduced from 5,000,000 to 1,000,000. Her representative representa-tive on the finance committee insisted on talking disarmament " ; SENATOR FRANCE of Maryland has Informed the statesmen In Genoa that lie Is pressing, in the senate sen-ate a resolution for representatloa xf the United States in the conference, and asks them to renew their Invitation Invita-tion to Washington. It is stated In the capital that the attitude of the, administration on his matter has not changed. Among the unofficial American Amer-ican observers In Genoa Is Frank Van-derllp, Van-derllp, and It Is likely his advice will be sought by the committee on finance. lie said in an interview: The question of the revision of the Gorman reparations is extremely vital to European reconstruction and therefore there-fore It Is regrettable that the conference confer-ence refuses to discuss It. In fact. It Is doubtful whether the conference will result in much unless the reparations repara-tions are discussed. It Is necessary to reconstruct Germuny ns well as the other nutlons on an economic basis, and surely Germany will remain In a bad state unless her reparations matters mat-ters are definitely settled here." JAPAN, while negotiating an agreement agree-ment with the Chita government of the Fur East nn agreement which Is reported to have been already sli el is- ruthlessly supporting the Vladivostok government, to Ihe extent ex-tent of fighting the CMtu forces continually. con-tinually. The hitter have been driven out of the neutral xcne between thein nnd the Vladivostok territory inul the Jnpunese and Vladivostok troops have moved far to the north. The Japanese press Is Insistent on evacuation of Siberia, but the mllitnry party refuses. As for Shantung, the chunees that China will ever recover that province from Japan are fndlnp. The Chine' are districted with their civil wnr unt! those who V iiow conditions ' csn see no way In which China enn rnlse the price which Jnpnn exact for tli" return of Hie. Khnntung developments noil the Klfui -Own loaned territory. This will rfiiiount to nt.ut j:(K).0O.- making a total of 75,000 recruits of that class. Iu some Ohio fields strikers strik-ers In large bodies made demonstrations demonstra-tions at mines still operating, and tha owners appealed for protection. Congressman Huddles ton of Alabama Ala-bama Introduced a bill giving authority author-ity to Judges of federal courts on tha application of the attorney general te appoint receiver to operate dosed mines. YJ-WWIR-,lv?erwr the, fht. vJ between theTtttf-rMrv'yv mef In the house and those who support the administration's Idens on this matter developed some fireworks last w ?ek. Tarty lines are broken, and Mr, Fsdgett of Tennessee, former chairman chair-man of the naval committee, led many of his fellow Democrats to tbe support of the administration. Hie most effective arguments of the latter were in a M?r from fSeerMary Hughes, read by Representative lagers. lag-ers. He urged that the stnndan 'Of the naval treaty of Washington be maintained unless the prestige of the United States was to be Impaired jand Its security put In Jeopardy. "Jimmy" Galllvan of Massachusetts suggested that the navy be turned over to the prohibition commissioners. ! TWO Republican ex-service fhen, Woodruff of Mliil:nn and Johnson John-son of South Dakota, united In threatening threat-ening Attorney General Ifciugr.erty with Inifn Rchment nod In dcmunillns w holesale con ris martini In the- IVar department They nsked that a select se-lect committee of the bouse Investigate Investi-gate H e liquidation of war-time Contracts, Con-tracts, charging fraud and corruption in the sale of property at ridiculously ridiculous-ly low -prices to favored Indlvldild. Secretary of 'War Weeks Issued a general denial and Invited Investigation, Investiga-tion, j GENERAL HEMENOKr. wh cMU hlmslf otamnn of nil the (Vw-mo (Vw-mo ks. Is having Ms troubles In (he t'nlled S'nies. Coming to mlse fuvls to renew warfare on Soviets, he ,ns urresteil In a civil suit refcilt'ng fifm n theft of good by his force ; inl Ihen t lie government n asked to i port hint, and A merlin officers V'bi Mcnafe c.-imnltiie rf tbe r.nT rn si0' committed by hi ;nr In SI,"Js i |