Show NEGOTIATIONS IN RUHR CASE UNDER UNDERCOVER COVER England Wonders What Proposition Will Be Made To Joh John Johi Bull BY A G 0 G C Britain's t Liberal editor CopyrIght 1923 1 23 LO LONDON DOX Apr il 14 lions hons are arc going coin on under CO cover coser er to settle clUe the Ruhr stalemate There IS little doubt that this Is la so des des- despite despite des despite pite tho the official attitude The visit of oC M Louis to Premier Bonar Law continues shrouded in mystery Premier Poincare in Paris Paz Insists it l as unofficIal and repeats the dreary formula that France Iranee Is in tn the to stay Bonar Law remains E who kno knows realizes he did not come to total tal talk about the weather or to all air his private ate lews His visit ob obviously 1 was to beguile the British of oC the gO go into reco recognition Buhe adventure ad In some wa way Poincare must realize that he has bitten oft off more than ho can canche che chew He Ho had hoped by a brilliant sho mS in to the British op- op opposItion opposition op opposition position This T having failed lie he Is 13 mo moe move ments e unable to make mako an any further ments while the miners continue 5 ed to change chance the whips hips of ot of J 1 mine owners for tor the scorpions the French troops troop Incidents like lIce the Essen killings complicate the sItuation I RF HAItI IURI TilT JIlT The French are are hard hit lilt bv by the of ot the failure No 10 coal no 1 and enormous costs borne not bv by the allies but by France and the tho growing le anger 0 over el the deadlock adds dds to the seriousness nes of the out out- out outlook look book Italy Haly and Belgium no longer heartedly wholeheartedly support the program tn these circumstances Poincare fells feels the ground rocking under his feet If It thel e is not a change a domestic upheaval must Collo ollon la is the danger point It ItI Itis I by no means Improbable that France vet et mav may go co the way of ot Italy Haly unless the way ay out of oC the deadlock of oC the Ruhr I In iii found 1 hese considerations explain e the sudden desire de lre of the Poincare tol fol- fol following lowing loing to 10 secure British support for thel their r program Characteristically call cally eally the mO Is hy by a much discussed cd sault assault upon I England in the attributed to C rightly or wrongly WT With Ith Italy a disaster Is Inevitable liable sn- sn iy in less ho he can resume friendly tn-I tn ic- ic et fr lations with sith ingland 1 This t Is a position after 1 tram tram tram-pline pling on the British sie view le leIn in the war ar sar council and the truc true truculent truculent announcement that tip tip- apProaches ap approaches by the allies allie- on the Ruhr Ruhl would be con considered lly and would be b disregarded BIG JUG But the tho bl big question now Is u cihat hat terms France rance will offer us 1 s q she at last ready to submit the th German po pa ment pO possibilities to 10 economic experts Is she Ohe prepared to accept t the leas league of nations as a a n guarantee to peace and a complete disarmament pro pro- program program tram pro gram for herself herselt Will she re- re re redeem deem deem the outrage of ot having black troops troop in the heart of Europe If It the French will 1 do this Eng Eng- England land Enc land is h anxious to co operate Eng I but hut mo lIO no British leader dare daro contemplate again brine being involved In a hope hope- hopeless hopeless hopeless less policy of strangling Germany under the pretense of getting rep rep- reparations rep reparations p- p out of the pockets of ot a Corpe Wo We have come to the end of the discussion ot of schemes that are de- de designed designed de designed signed entirely for the benefit or of orthe the French Our breach with over the Ruhr Ruhl marked the nd of o II a a chapter which cannot lannot be reopened English public op opinion hall bias been but the limit has been reached A |