| Show GOVERNMENT ROTTENNESS AND CORRUPTION AROUSING GREAT PUBLIC INDIGNATION I- I IBy I II By WILLIAM WILLIA BIRD Special 1 European Correspondent of The Tho Standard Ball Standard I COP right 1924 by the th Consoli- Consoli Consolidated dated dat d Pre Association PARIS Aug Au What 2 2 What of- of of official I bulletins described as he Bol Ik k propaganda anda but what Is le moro more properly med gamed popular Ind Indignation atlon ht at t the th rot rot- rottenness rot rottenness tenness and corruption In gO got got- tw Is seething today throughout tho th Balkans Balkins I Clashes between bet een Bulgarian peasants and the th police over agrarian laws are ar of almost dally daily occurrence e Roumania under martial law 11 Hies e In dally daily fear tear of a revolutionary outbreak while the Russian Red Hed army calmly awaits on the frontier Greece and Jugo are aro mobilizing troops ostensibly to put dem dorm dOTin n Mace Mace- Macedonian donian bands but r really ally In ex- ex expectation x of grove grave raT events It Is ten years ears ear today since Belgrade Belgrado nee as bombarded and German cannon mo moved moed ed upon the tho Namur torts forts In Belgium nil all because beca the Balkan pot boiled o er Perhaps the London con con- conferees con conferees frees remember this anniversary eary sary and that may be b partly responsible for the th speeding sip In th th last It few rew days da s of their Ir sluggish efforts eNoris to reach an agreement WIrE WHEN U V S I The writer r never nevor doubted that an agreement would be breached reached once one the United States Insisted In 0 tones An agreement that will permit Herriot to sa sate 0 Frances nce face tac has been bound by b the almost childishly simple sim- sim simple sim simple plan of permitting Her Iler- Herriot riot to propose as Frances France's solution the tery ery plan England and the United States had been vainly urging on her all this time As Rag Eng Ragland land Ind s a or Americas America's plan no French minister would hate ha accepted ha accepted It but as na trance France s a aplan plan It gG goes S 'S through One of the th moat most gratify Ing features Is that except for tor the ultra press which would oppose any nv settlement whatever there her Is not a B single olce raised In protest through through- throughout throughout out out trance France Does Dos this mean that th hit trance FranceIs Is beaten so far tar as ns her ber policy pol Ie the last laet four years ears earB is 1 I con con- concerned concerned concerned France Franc at last contents con- con tents to setting aside the treaty of Versailles and to superseding the reparations reparation commission which has been her fortress until now noir thanks to the majority sir she controlled In It It She Sh also resigns the th right to take separate spar t action against G Germany HOPES TO RIClA C But Dut Franco France has not made these concessions without hope of ing something In exchange ex- ex exchange chance ex-chance change The Th first and fore foro- foremost ton most mot most of or compensations I is America s a re-ent re re Into Euro Euro- European European European councils Despite all formal and official denials France Is tI persuaded that exe- exe execution ex cution cullon of the th Dav Dance Da es report whIch Bill eventually e mean In nt of or to t o 0 or three bl- bl billion bil billion lion American dollars In GM- GM n GM mIlD man railways s and lea and perhaps vastly greater grenter In- In Investment In Investment vestment In other European enterprises and WIll WIlle e lIy draw the United mates te Into parti participation In political arrange arrange- orran ments e- e ments which guarantee the tho I safety of these thee Investments It ItIs Itis ItIs j Is meant that within a 0 short time and probably before berGre the end of 4 the tho th ticklish ques- ques question question qu s tion of Bar nar dbl debts will Kill III be bo din dl- dis cussed around a table at t which the United States till III be bo rep rep- represented rep represented resented and as French finan finan- financiers financiers ciers elers see se e it any full discus discussion sion elon IGn of this subject must mut re- re result result re result sult In an sn arrangement that will KO go tar far toward to ard sta stabilizing french exchange FE Another ge antl ant ad that Franco France sees ahead Is operation operation o with Germany It ItIs ItIs Is precisely this possibility I Is giving British Indus Indus- Industry industry Industry try so mart man shivers these date da Indeed Indeed Premier Her Her- Herriot riot Her riot has not al awaited aUed termination termination termination tion of the conference before begInning direct negotiations with Ith German Germany His proposals for evacuation e of or the Ruhr according to the tn writers writer's In- In Information In Information formation are arc based on assurances assur- assur ances from Germany that commercial agreements pith Ith Franco Franca permitting German arman and French Industrial resources to toco operate co-operate In world orld trade trad will willbe willbe be tt s Thero There Is of course plenty lenty of chine chance that th these e far see farseeing Inc far Ing calculations c would be up- up upset up upset set t The Balkan an unrest unreal looms loom large laige on the horizon But ButI I that hat r Is equally dangerous for tor all Comparatively speak speak- speaking Ine Ing and despite her apparent diplomatic defeat France Is not coming off ott at all nil badly |
