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BRITISH MITES ARE CALLED "REDS' London Paper Claims They Have Affiliated With the Communist Party. HAND OF SOVIET IS SEEN Revolutionaries Gradually Gaining Strength in Laborite Counsels, Is Claim. It Cable to Star mad Now York Tribune. Copyright, 1922. BY WARRE B.

WELLS. LONDON, December the I IpVi 1 nirtv ffnlntr cnmmnrisf I The Morning- Post, most conservative of the London newspapers, claims hat it is and ia taking up a drive to orove it. The basis of the charge which is being developed in a series of articles is the discovery of an alleged scheme for reorganization which the communist party in this wintry recently adopted and which I is now being put into operation. The disclosure of this scheme, the authenticity of which there is no reason to doubt, is most interesting, but whether the official labor party is im- Plicated in the revolutionary aims of the communists is an entirely differ- i ent question. The Morninf Post claims that the communists are now the dominating force in the labor party and that they are working with the help or at least i he connivance of official laborites and that those members of the official who are neither overtly nor secretly communists are unable to exercise any restraining influence.

A Revolutionary Party. i That the British communist party itself Is revolutionary is not open to question. It is recognized by Moscow and Is a member of the communist nternationale. The scheme of the re- organization of the party is likewise avowedly revolutionary in intent. Ac- 1 cording to the Morning Post, this scheme is due to Karl Radek's censure of the British communists on account of their failure to derive rev- olutionary results from the strike of last year.

The communists are now planning to form themselves into a society with a sect'et nuclei behind the open groups, with centers in every town 1t district, and agents in every so-j ia! class. They aim to penetrate with revolutionary purpose every political, industrial and social organ- ization in the country. Thefr I ourpose. in the Morning Post's words. i is to "insure the Incessant activity of every branch of the revolution fromlc reaching children to preparation of an armed insurrection." jl All this may seem to open up a most alarming prospect for Kngland.

but just extracts from a secret report outlining the scheme of reorganiza-jI tion upon which this newspaper lies throw rather a different light on the situation. The report shows the communists are now reorganizing due to their self-confessed failure to achieve anything worth wnne up to i date. i Beaten in Election. Stating: that the communiFt party is now in existence two yearn, the re- port goes on to say: "Yet in these two years with all the opportunities i and the tireless activities and the i energy of Individual workers the party has made no real progress either numerically or in terms of In- I fluence." Later in the report the communists another interesting confession: "We are only scattered individuals, straggling up and down the without a responsible hold on the working class movement." The communists, in sizing up their own present position of not be Improved upon, and their j1 admissions are borne out by the re- I of the general election, when thoy were not able to return more J. rtrait a single member to the house of i So far as the official laborites being dominated by the communlitn.

J. W. Newbald. the communist member! i rom Clyde, does not receive party whips and. if most of the 242 official! laboritea are communists, you would not think so to hear real communists Talk about MacDonald.

Clynes. Webb, i Trevelyan and other labor of whom are indeed thoi- i oughly bourgeois types. While the official laboritea laugh of court the charge of the ex- rreme conservative that they are plan- ning a revolution, at the same rhey retort that the extreme conserva- tives arc staging a secret society di- rected against labor. f. The basis for this charge is the ap- pea.ran.ce in this country of a inyK- terious society calling itself "The Most Noble Order of Crusaders." The organizer and founder of this society I is Col.

Walter Faber, the well known tory "die This organization meets behfnd guarded doors and main- rains an elaborate ritual, in which the 0 ytfit borrowed from medevial cru- plays a prominent part. Recruiting Drive. From its headquarters in London this has been carrying out a' recruiting drive up and down the ouritry the last few months and I laims adherents in every district, The avowed object of the society is to raring back the spirit of the crusade'a to everyday life, but the radicals i charge that it aims to become an Eng- 1 sh form of fascist! and the Ameri- an Ku KIuk Klan. This view is supported by a state- inent or Maj. r.

h. Hague, tne cru- grand to an inter- viewer that "From the little I know of the Italian movement I am not at all sure but that it would not bo a a s-ood thing to have here." So far. however, the British public to see no reason to get worked I up over these threats of secret socle- aiming at revolution whether rom the left or the right side of the olitical and economic fence. tv It ONLY 300 UNEMPLOYED IS IN PARIS AND VICINITY Savings Banks Deposits Show Increase in Wave of Prosperity. Rt the Associated Press.

PARIS, December entire department of the Seine, of which Paris is the greatest part, boasts of only 300 unemployed. fhrljitmaH. full chiirrhvtnrf says the proverb. But the mild weather saved the Parle municipal I council considerable trouble, for had snow fallen It could not have been cleared away for lack of labor. The streets of Paris need repairing, but '-ortractors And it Impossible to obtain workmen.

One of the largest employers of tabor in Francs' has places for 3.000 persons of various trades, but cannot net seventy-nine vacancies in the Paris post office there were i "nlv nine applicants, and an advertisement offering ninety-five positions in state manufactories brought two i eplies. In spite of the apparent prosperity and lack of unemployment, the official I'arisian pawnshops have never done such an enormous business since their oundation. According to the official eport of the manager, the articles nawned this year show an increase of over last year. These urticles represent the value of 35.005,"on francsSavings banks deposits show an 'n T-caee of a-little more than a itf bii1 francs over 1921.. Earth I8 Wobbling On Its Axis, Says Danish Scientist IS7 the Associated Press.

LONDON, December earth is wobbling on its axis." according to Col. P. Jensen, the Danish scientist, who returned recently from a degree measuring expedition into Greenland. He reports that Greenland is moving westward at the rate of twenty yards a year. This seems to confirm the recent reports of surpris lng climatic changes at the north pole.

It Is now established that there Is a periodic shitting of the latitude of the north pole. The movement Is difficult to detect because of the small area of the the slse of a tennis court. Some authorities say that the poles are gradually changing their positions and that this alteration to the world's axis will in time mean that regions which are at prrsent Ice-bound will become warm'and habitable countries. rvrc nF niDnpp LILUUI LUI1UI TURNTOAMERICA Crisis in Relations of England and France Seems at Hand Over Reparations. CWTCWTC IU DAI A UPC i fa.iv i b.iv i ft- iiv ununivuu I Hopes for New Year Center in TI.

S. Taking Lead to Save Civiliza- tion From Enin. i I A. G. GARDINER.

Gaflaiid'N Leading Liberal Editor. By Cable to The 8tar. Copyright. 1922. LONDON'.

December New rear opens with a spirit of mingled i Tope and anxiety. What has the first week in store? Will Baldwin's mis- sion to America ease the situation on )ne side? Will the Paris conference it on the other? Taking the latter question first it be said that the omens are rood. It is obvious the declara- ion oy tne reparations commission hat Germany is in default over her imber deliveries creates a new langer. The matter itself is trivial. the decision is not trivial.

It a victory for which Poin are has worked ceaselessly. He has lefeated England on the eve of the rritical Paris conference and will use lis advantage to the utmost. Ntaad Three to One. Poincare's capture of Italian sup- is very significant. Hitherto the endency of the Italians has been to with England on the German ssue.

Now Mussolini has changed I he current and now Poincare is as- tured of a three-to-one majority, pel- i rturn being consistently on Prance's With this tactical victory on hand vhat will be Poincare's procedure? i le is unlikely to anticipate the con- 'erence by independent action. Equal- it is unlikely that England will lisavow the action of its own mem- 1 of the commission. Even if Ger- nany is declared in default England itill will be compelled to disagree the policy of force advocated by ailj Willis III IMC lature of occupation, either military economic, of the Ruhr. There can no recovery of Europe on such ines. But France never has surrendered her policy of occupation as means of securing: the political dis- ntegration of Germany.

Crucial Isaac Reached. We have now reached the crucial ssue which France and England have dodging for four years. Will 'oincare take the plunge on the strength of the declaration of the -eparations commission. He claims he right to act alone according to he terms of the treaty, as in the case the occupation of Frankfort, 'ranee then hoped to stampede the i lilies into consent, but failed. Now he problem assumes a final characer.

If France acts alone, contrary to he English definition of the text of he treaty and contrary to the whole notive of British policy, the entente annot survive. Poincare is fully aware of the rravity of the step. If he entertains! my doubts the conference in Paris luring nesi ipw win ighten him. The plain fact is that 1 ingland and France mean diametically different thing's and no preences any longer conceal that this is o. We want Germany to get on her i eet in order to pay and 'ranee wants Germany permanently lisabled.

No diplomatic, ingenuity an reconcile these conflicting polcies. One must yield or the crash oust come. All Eyes Turn to V. fi. With this menace overshadowing all eyes turn westward.

Baldwin's visit to Washington is imporant to us. We hope terms will be rranged which will make the burden asler for the British taxpayer. But his Is not the main reason why atentlon renters on Washington. Depalr of diverting French aims from he Ruhr are deepened by the sigliflcant action of Italy. If England left alone to oppose the French idicy the prospect Is hopeless and .11 expectation of European recovery anlshes.

That is alarming enough or Europe, but not for Europe alone, Europe clatters back Into the abyss war America can hardly escape icing involved. Is that catastrophe put the last nail in the coffin of i-hite civilization? Is the white man confess that all of his genius for rganlzation ends In failure because is cannot organize peace with his leighbors? That in the issue that is bark of his life-and-death struggle. Amerra cannot be indifferent. All hopes hat the New Tear will bring the rorld out of this bitter shame center America. She helped save clvillzaion from ruin in the war.

Can she efuse to help save It from unutterible ruin In this deadly peace? Retorts as to the intentions of Waahngton regarding the calling of an economic conference raised high topes here. May they soon be fulllled. Drowning men catch at straws in a Ujnropo 19 uiuwumg. xuruw UB i raft before It ls'too late. FRENCH DEPUTIES 0.

K. GUARANTY TO AUSTRIA Poincare Gets Bequest for Commercial Arrangement With France. ix the Associated Prcee. PARIS, December French roverament's share of the guaranty oan to Austria, which, under the eague of nations plan, is designed restore the country's finances, was ipproved by the chamber of deputies In the course of the debate on the neasure Premier Polncare said he iad received a request from the Ausrlan minister. Dr.

ElchhofT, asking or opportunity to open negotiations or a commercial arrangement beween France and Austria. M. replied that the French governnent would be happy to undertake tuch 'V DENIES U. SMIL ALLIANCE EXISTS Ambassador Tells Argentina Naval Mission Mere Pripnrilv Aiii iviimij WAR WOULD END WORK Sending of Offioers Carries Out Law of 1920, Which Permits in Peru. By the Associated Press.

BUENOS AIRES. December The status of the United States naval mission to Brazil, which has been criticized in Argentine government circles as well as in the press as tending to show an alliance between the United States and Brazil, was explained in a written statement presented today to the minister of marine. Admiral Domecq Garcia, by the American ambassador, John Wallace Riddel. The sending; of the mission, said the statement, in no way signifies an alliance between the two governments. nor does it Involve any newdeparture In the foreign policy of the United to any significance should be attached.

Will Withdraw In War. "Certainly." the statement con tmueti. "it aenoies in me sincere desire of the United States government for Pan-American solidarity and closer relations with each and every country." The statement answers the question raised in the Argentine press as to what the United States would do if Brazil got into war by stating the contract between the two governments provides for withdrawal of the mission in the event it should become necessary in the interest of either government, and says that in case war is imminent between Brazil and any other country the United States will withdraw the. mission at once. Even in the case of civil war in Brazil the mission will cease its efforts.

OfBeera Loaned Pern. The statement explains further i that the mission was sent by nf thu law In anthnrli- i ing naval officers to accept offices South American governments, and the end In view merely was to co-operate in effecting: grood organization of the Brazilian naval improve working methods and train the personnel. Another point which the statement mentions is that the United States was asked on several occasions lend officers to friendly governments, but was unable to do so until passage of a law making such pro- ceedure possible. Since the law enacted, such a request from J'eru has been complied with. VOLSTEAD ACT CLAIMS tirui rnnnnriti innriii NtwtUKUrtAN VlUIIIVIi Jean Monnet Quits Job to Behabilitate Wrecked Liqnor Business.

By the Associated Preas. PARIS. December latest European victim of the Volstead act is Jean Monnet. deputy secretary of the league of nations, who has been obliged to resign his job to return to the little village of Cognac to repair the devastation wrought on his liquor business, largely because of American prohibition. When the war broke out.

M. Monnet was selling large quantities of his own brandies in the United States and Canada. Exempt from military serv- ice he undertook missionary work for I France in London. He has never taken the slightest interest in politics or international affairs, but he showed such qualities as negotiator that at the special request of Lord Robert Cecil the French government approved his nomination as representative of France on the league's secretariat. M.

Monnet and Sir Eric Drummond were the real negotiators of the settlement of the upper Silesian ques M. Monnet also had a great I deal to do with the final efforts to save Austria. He took such an important place in the league's work that his resignation has caused consternation. Premier Poincare has endeavored to induce him to retain his position and only take an extended leave of absence, but M. Monnet was of the opinion that he could not keep such an important post in the league while feeling that his business needed him.

While M. Monnet was helping rope out of her difficulties, his own firm in Cognac was getting into them very deeply as a result of prohibition. The surrender of a position paying a quarter of a million francs a year is said to be the first example of such abnegation on the part of the public functionary in the annals of Europe, but those who know M. Monnet say that after he has brought his own firm safely out of its difficulties he will return to do his best for TENANTS REFUSE RENT; LANDLORDS DODGE TAXES Glasgow Government Disorganized by Lack of Powerless. Br the Associated Press.

GLASGOW, December chaotic situation has developed along; the Clyde side owing to the refusal of tenants to pay rent for many months past, at least 20,000 householders in Glasgow alone participating. The result is that the landlords are not paying their taxes to the local government. and In consequence the administration Is disorganized. The courts are powerless to intervene owing to a recent decision of the house of lords In the tenants' favor on a technical point connected with war-time restriction legislation. Tk.

will 1 250.000 if the decision Is not altered. The trouble began In 1020, when a majority of Scottish agents for landlords failed to serve formal notices to tenants before raising the rentals and giving them opportunity to give up their tenancy I.f they did not wish to pay the tncreasis. The house of lords held that the omission rendered all ths increases that were collected Illegal. Consequent) the tenants are "sitting tight" until such Increases are liquidated in respect to the future rent. HAN1HARA T0SAIL.

By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, T. December Masano Hanlhara, newly appointed ambassador to the United States, will sail from Yokohama by the Cbrea Maru January 15. according to cable advices received from Toklo by the Nlppu Jlji, Japanese newspaper here. Hr.

Hanihara will succeed Baron Shidehara. who retired from the Wartilngton poet owing to ill health. Cn finfl believe i HL U' ot Washing of the peopl whose just from the devotion of (J A fine city and a fii District welfare in! upon the principles service, truth and wh I therefore believe paper (as a regular it diligently, loyally a uphold it above all otl DAVID 11 12. Harden Depicts On New Year Vi German Publicist De ticeen Them" Whii Worth Attention oi MWMILIAN HARDEN. Germany's Fopemost I'ubliciat.

Bt Table Dispatch to The Star. Copyright. BERLIN. December Europe today is making: L'ncie Sam a New Tear visit. It is both material 1 and sociai in character, and the dialogue between them Is well worth the attention of the whole world.

"What a terrible year 1922 was." she groans. "At the beginning it seemed that the sky over my house was; UP ro snun at Washington, at Pannes and at Genoa, but thev soon broke like cobwebs. Only from Washington was there something remaining. and. while it seems about to be ratified i after long hesitation, it does me no 1 good.

From all other summer anil winter resorts no useful plan has emerged, despite noisy enthusiasm. "I had the worst was over and imagined that the world, which must realize our worth, would help us back to our old position and wealth. But today is almost darker than a year ago. John Bull complains of unemployment and Increased taxation Marianne Paris bemoans her money scarcity and the impossibility of rebuilding her devastated regions, Where the Roman Caesars fed the people with bread and entertained them with circuses stands a civilian Caesar who suddenly has changed his red shirt for a black one and is endeavoring to force the imagination of the masses back into a clean but narrow bed of patriotic anti-foreign emotion. Scarcely "People are trying to convince me that things are getting better to east, where the bolshevik terror has reigned for four years.

Property rights now are recognized and trade is permitted. This sounds scarcely credible only a few months after the reports of famine and cannibalism, but even if this is true, Is the good to me? My old carcass, covered with the scars of the surgeon's knife, won't hold together until order is restored between the Black and White seas. "Se states are busy arranging themselves, while -in the old people ootl Ccrmanv u-Ith a UanilUk wu VI great industrial brganiaatlon, could sell for a long: time because she offers goods cheaper than her competitors and can buy because she produces a means of payment on a printingpress and pays her workingmen one-fourth of what they would get in America for the same work. But even this beggar prosperity Is fading fast and there is a decline in all industries, and where formerly Germany had much to export, now she is compelled to import. How much longer will this be possible? "The German harvest is below the average.

Cattle cannot exist throughout the winter without foreign fodder. The dollar a year ago bought 200 marks. Uast July it bought 600; now it is 7,000. Honest trade is impossible with such fluctuations, which within a year have varied from 168 to 9,174. The soundest and most respectable business men are forced to speculate.

"Now, Uncle Sam, this is a picture of our conditions. You are the only one who can help us. Has your tender heart turned Into hard metal amidst your heaps of gold? Nobody here understands you have stood the sight of this misery so long." "Short, Mocking Laugh" Follows. A short mocking laugh comes from the mouth which releases the pipe, and then cornea the answer: "Bravo! Tou have learned your lesson very well. The only wonder la that you can expect it la going to have any effect.

You know the story of Rothschild, who when the poor Russian told his sorrows tb him for a long time, rang for his servant and said: 'Throw this man out, he Is breaking my That's how we feel about you. I have given more charity to your children than ever before was given on earth. I never asked thanks, but I don't want to hear any more about your debts, reparations. low standards of living and depressed exchange. Your constant begging is almost worse than your old military trumpets and soldier Imoirlnfl von a rn in.

dispensable and believe Almighty God Insured you first place in the universe until the end of time and reckon we are going to help you with our money every time you do something stupid, which Is very often. Tou want us to throw our people's wealth into the bottomless pit "We have claims for gold which are being paid not In gold but In goods, which we don't want, because we ate exporters and must protect our Industries with a tariff. For this reason we are most Interested in the younger Industrial countries, consequently what Interests us In Russia Is not the supposed change of front but the fact that pnder communist rale many millions of new 1 Carrier's! The Evening Star ton as a newspaper and for the people, nnwer derived its readers. ic separable; 1 patriotism, public olesome reading. I it iq my duty to my i tar carrier) to serve nd faithfully, and to fa i fa her newspapers.

FREILICOFF. I 1308 Que st. n.w. a I 1 a 0 i 6 1 Mrs. Europe isit to Uncle Sam i i nltirtm He Quotes, JFeM jl the Whole World.

farms and smali holdings have sprung up. I)rmand? Gnarantee Arainat Wan. "1 will help you as soon as I have. a guarantee that you won't begin new wars, which, as experience shows, ruins both victors and vanquished; that you will not regard new paper money as income wealth and that your business will he guided by eoon- omlc reasoning instead of national jealousy. That is all we ask in ex- change for our help.

Don't pout. Do you think we have been spending weeks 011 councils of bankers and diplomats for nothing? France and England agreed under the Christmas 1 mistletoe to accept any reasonable reparations proposal from Oermafiy ia and they knew about what to expect. That was our doing. Now see what 1 you can do alone. Happy New Mrs.

Europe, slightly disappointed hut full of liope, turns slowly and leaves. GOOD TIMES FORECAST IS SIRING i i Story of "Clairvoyant and Corpse" Recalled by Prophecy. 1 By the Press BERDIN, December 1923 facing Germany as a formidable Nfcuestion mark, the story of "The Clairvoyant and the Corpse." again in goinpr the rounds. I Exactly two years ago seven men and one woman occupied the eight seats of a train compartment, travel- on the railway line touching Frankfort. Halle.

Bitterfeld and Berlin. As the train was running along the men began a discussion of the prices of buttef. eggs, cloth and other features of the "hard 'times" and speculating on the i the coming year. One of the men i casually turned to 'the woman and asked her opinion of the situation. Good Times in 1922.

"Germany will see daylight ahead at the turn of the year 1922." the woman responded confidently. "In 1923." she added. "Germany again will get her feet and good times will return to the country." The fellow travelers of the woman laughed and demanded what founda- 1 tion she had for such a prediction. "It does not matter how know it; -5 I Just do," she said. "And it's just as suTe as the fact that a dead man will 11 sit in this compartment, this very day." a Prediction Impresses Men.

Notwithstanding the general round of laughter, amid which the woman left the train at Halle, the men who had heard her prophesy were filled with a certain feeling of disquietude. I They were in the midst of a continu- ation of their discussion as the train was about to pull out from the Bitter- feld station, when a portly man. bur- dened with Christinas packages, 1 rushed breathlessly into the compart- ment, exclaiming that he had arrived In time to catch the train, Filling pipe the new passenger settled back in his seat. Five minutes later he was dead. He evidently bad been stricken with apoplexy.

The story is vouched for by several well 1 known German Journalists of Berlin i who were amoti; the woman's audi- tors in the compartment of the train. 1 U. S. BUYS PAINTING OF RODMAN'S ARRIVAL i Picture Will Be' Sent Prom Lon- don to Washington for Navy Department. By the Associated Press.

LONDON', peccrober.30.?The Ameri- i can military attache has announced that the Navy Department has pur- 1 chased the painting of Bernard Grlbble, the noted English marine artist, depicting the arrival of the American battleship squadron under Admiral Rodman at Scapa Flow In December. 1917. The foreground of the picture rep resents tne quarter aecK or the'dreadnaught Queen Elizabeth with Admiral Beatty leading the cheering 'of' the British' bluejackets as they enthu- slastieally watch the long line of American ships approach on the horl- 1 son. Admiral Beatty expressed keen ap- i preclation of the painting when he called at the embassy recently. The 1 picture will be shipped to Washing- ton.

where it will-be hung in the Navy Department's INCH WORSE OFF AS TIF GOES ON rardieu Declares Borrowing nas uurumueu artu i axes Increased. )ISG0RD HAS GROWN Joyd George Blamed for Present Crisis in Anglo-French Be la- tions Now Apparent. BY ANDRE TARDIEI 'ormer French Hitch C'ommiulantr to the Lnltrd Coble Dispatch to The Star. Copjrirht, IP-- PARIS, December the year better than it began? Neither for France nor for Europe an the question be answered afllrmaively. Throughout 1912 France continued borrow to repair the ruins caused German aggression.

She already ias spent in this way for reconstrucion and pensions more than eighty i francs plus expenses of the rmy of occupation. The debt service bsorbs over thirteen billion francs nnually. not counting nur foreign cbt upon which we have not yet paid All that we have collected from Jermany is 1,720.000,000 gold markp. receipts, which amounted to an of 63.000.000 monthly in 1920- 1, fell to 22.000.000 during 1022. teparatlons in kind, except coal, are roing badly and as a consequence "ranee must borrow continually while axes have risen from four and one lalf billion francs in 1913 to billions 1922.

They cannot be ncreased indefinitely. Even so the lebt service shows a deficit in the 923 budget of over four billions. Discord Is Shown. This shows our situation during the ast year grew worse instead of beter. Will the coming Paris conference mow progress euner nnanciai or It would be rash to say so.

"he discord between France and Iritain has been demonstrated in the eparations commifeion where Brad- 1 the English representative, with trange partiality refused td agree vlth his colleagues that Germany had ailed in deliveries in kind, although his fact was obvious. Lloyd George, by inyiosing sacrifices France for two years without ffering the slightest compensation, is he prime author of the crisis in tnglo-French relations. France, by ler pro-Turk attitude in 1921-22. comnitted similar errors, which, happily, cere somewhat retrieved at Lausanne. Nevertheless London and Paris are ar from intimate agreement, which is indispensable condition to Euro- equilibrium.

Considering this lisassociation of the entente Premier 1 Tussolini asked, not without reason. 1 rherein the disagreement consisted. Conquered Show Activity. i 1 Those conquered in 1918 are showing lisquietlng activity in 1922. TheP treaty revealed the closeness Moscow's relations with Berlin.

rhereof a thousand new symptoms coming into evidence. There also a close relationship between the Camalists and the soviet and through hem with Berlin. Worse yet. the re- enge idea, which course has animated hese three governments, seemed cap- ible of practical realisation since the effaced their defeat, reinstated i hemselves in Europe, retook tantinople and eastern Thrace and eliminated effective control of the traits by the western powers. Russian and German nationalism, ncouraged by the Kemalist success.

ne uernian press is tilled rith provocative paragraphs. Tchlt- herin's attitude at Lausanne is qually disturbing. Europe Better in 1914. 1 All this is happening in an un- 1 rganic Europe. Only the little intent? countries seem to understand j1 hat safety lies in unity and this j4 mity enables them, moreover, to re- 1 tore, themselves economically.

On 5 he other hand the status of the re- ations between them and the western wwers, England. Prance, Italy and Belgium. is undefined. We've lived rom day to day without defining any rase for agreement and not preparing i or any. There' is no continental any more than a policy be- ween the continent and the Anglo- In 1914 Europe, despite its hakiness, was better ordered than in 925.

There is ample room in this chaos or great efforts and great results, but here can't be results until there is a vill for them. Will 1923 bring it? Ij IAZZ LOVERS TO GET ft 1PUI 1 IP NtWYtAK IN LONDONI; i i Elaborate Celebrations Planned at Fashionable Hotels and Clnbs, Equajing Broadway's Best. 11 ly the Associated Press. LONDON, December New i I Tear will be ushered in tomorrow I light by jazz-loving merrymakers At 1 he fashionable hotels, restaurants clubs with an elaborateness vorthy of Broadway at its best. The manager of the Savoy vhich furnishes shelter for perhaps nore Americans than any other! European hostelry, has announced hat 2,500 guests will find New Year of a notably lavish iort within its walls.

Many hundreds i bottles of champagne will be ready 'or toasting 1923, while eight orches- ras will play. The foyer will be lecorated with 35.000 hothouse grown bv at the Berkeley. The Prince of Wales and the Duke it York are among the notables who will enjoy the after-dinner dancing it the Berkeley, known as one of the luietest and most fashionable of the I hotels. Clarldge'e, which is of the most exclusive hostelrtes Burope. will contribute Its quota New Year gaiety with the asilstance of three dance orchestras, rhe foyer of the hotel has been concerted into a watteau temple deco-ated with holly and mistletoe and holiday flora.

The Cecil Hotel has arranged an xtenstve program for Its 5,000 guests who are expected to consume 1,500 bounds of turkey and 600 pounds of pudding. Five orchestras will )lay dance music. The Carlton, which patronized extensively by wealthy kmerlcans. will celebrate sumptuousy, although on a smaller scale. MAY WED IN Mends of Oser Expect to Mathilde McCormick BASLE.

Switzerland. Max Oser, Swiss fiance if Mathilda McCormick, daughter of larold F. McCormick of Chicago, are that the couple will 'be married tome time in January. The McCormick party, accompanied Oser, has returned to Switzerland rom Italy and is vlslttnx the scenes if. winter sports at St.

Morlts and troaa. Turk Says U.S. Observers Take Part in Parley By tbo Press. LAUSANNE. December thouglu the Americans were here simply as observers; I did not know.

they were having any part in this treaty," was the caustic remark made by Itiza Bey. the second Turk- ish today, in the subcomrnlssion on minorities. This was in the way of retort when the chairman of the Hubcoramisston, Signor Montagna, alluded to position the Americans took on Friday in presenting a memorandum urging that provision be made so that refugees from Turkey could be enabled return reclaim their property there. 1 LLICiTHOW SIS CANADIANS i i Suggestion Made Dominion Lend Aid to U. S.

Dry En- forcement Officers. BORDER NOT-PROTECTED I Montreal Star Points to Enormous Increase in Liquor Shipments to Country. Special Dispatch to The Star. OTTAWA. December If Canadian government wishes to 1 liny a friendly part toward the United States it will apply to alcohol restrictions that it enforces regarding noxious drugs.

Is the in various Canadian quarters, i Dominion customs and excise officials ire getting frequent reminders that too much Canadian liquor is being allowed to leave border points for American side. The unfairness of allowing consignments of Canadian liquor to sent to United States while the American administration is trying to enforce the Vol- stead act is emphasized 1 "If there is one direction in which may be directed with justi- 1 Reation it is in regard to the sale of liquor at the border and at such places as Valley Field, from which the conveyance of large stocks of liquor to the border is a comparatively easy matter." says the Montreal Star. Law Obeyed. "There is no international obliga- i tion for co-operation between Canada ind the United States to enforce an American law so long as the Cana- liana on this sWe of the interna- tional border are acting strictly with- in the law. Hut there is good reason i believe that such is not the case.

1 In some instances the liquor sales lere have been far beyond what the ictual population justified under the 1 aw, and even far beyond what any possible transient business could ex- plaiu. Moreover, the continual dump- ng of large stocks of liquor along ihe border near Rouses Point would I seem to be a legitimate cause complaint. If conditions were re- versed, and we found ourselves in the of the United States, we should strongly inclined to lodge a moral protest, at all events. "it is in the highest degree desirable that Canada and the United 1 States should continue to live in mutual good will. Nothing could be calculated better to moi ftuua cvill than the feeling: in the states owing to laxity in Canada the enforcement of the law in America is severely handicapped.

It would involve no suggestion of collusion between Quebec and the States, if the liquor law were more strictly en- forced in some places in this province." The Toronto Star also calls for more activity on the part of the Canadian i )flleials in co-operating with those in Lhe United States. The Star says: to Bootleggers. "The extent to which some parts of Canada lend themselves to the de- signs of American rum runners and bootleggers is scarcely less than ai, scandal. It is said that the Quebec! government has opened a second dis- at Valley Field because of the I Jemand for liquor with which to the illicit trade across the bor- ic-r. In British Columbia the condi-.

Lions are enuallv "Here In Ontario a Canadian cus- toms official opposite Detroit worked ifte'r hours until recently, Mearnnco to rum-running vessels, and Is understood that his overtime was by the breweries. The Dominion even moved his "bed down to the river front so that the efforts of the smugglers to dodge the United States temperance law officers in the iark might be facilitated. And small loats been cleared from Bellerille for Mexico when it was fairly ibvious that the liquor on board was lot going to that country and xnight got back to Canada. "Countries should encourage the ob- servance of one another's laws. Ill 1 will is Almost sure to develop where i nation connives at the breaking of its neighbor's statutes.

"Sympathetic, action in support of the temperance laws of other nations should be taken by Ottawa." now mm IVIUIII.U IMIIIUU PICADILLY CIRCUS Darkness No Longer Beigns. But Besembles 42d and Broadway. the Aiwiated Preaa. LONDON, December the year Jraws to a close, Americans in London many changes in the city which remind them of the homeland. AlLhough there is still no "owl" car servce, so that the late wayfarer must hail a tazicab or an ancient hansome, Ptcadllly circus Is no longer dark and leserted at midnight as In the prewar days.

The blase of electric lights and the blare of dance music In the district which Is the center of London I ls? tA tli a ImacinnttvA American Broadway at 42d street. Only last week the movies Invaded the circus for the first time and a theater, which formerly featured musical shows. Is now exhibiting the latest picture of a prominent American star. A short distance along Piccadilly Is Devonshire has been temporarily turned into a museum for the benefit of the hospitals. Wireless concerts, the latest American erase, have been transported overseas to entertain visitors as they await guides to show them through this Old-warld mansion which was the center of- social life before, the American revolution, under the.

house are the wine cellars which once- field the rarest vintages of' Europe; and A3 guide conducts tourists through the arched vaults, lighted only by candles, he offers the stock lest, "Here, ladies and gentlemen, are the famous wine cellars of the successive Dukes of Devonshire of the last two centuries. But. alas, the vaults are now as dry RUSS ASK CLOSER ties mm' Lausanne Situation Compels Country to Fortify, M. Tchitcherin Declares. SITUATION STILL TENSE Turks Agree to Meet British Experts to Discuss Mosul Frontier.

By A MOT is ted DAUSANNE, December Tchitcherin. the Russian soviet foreign minister, made an appeal for recognition of the soviet federation today in a statement to the Associated Press. "The soviet reublic," he said, earnestly hopes that the beginning of the new year will bring us into closer collaboration with the American people for productive work and for opening or our natural resources to mankind. "Our most earnest desire is urnvernal naval disarmament, as well disarmament on land, peace and productive work. The soviet republic stroni? enough to resist aggression, hut we must regret that the schema which has prevailed at Uausanne Will compel us to aim and fortify our south coast and will divert us from our fundamental Soviet Yenr Seriuon." The entire soviet delegation delivered a 'New Year sermon to the powers, taking as a text sympathy for oppressed peoples." M.

Tchitcberin distriubted to all the delegations at hausanne a memorandum declaring that a solution of the near east problem is possible only by aban- donrnent of the policy of conquest and intervention toward Turkey. Hapily the Soviet's advent to powin Russia had saved Turkey from total disintegration. Unhappily, however, at Lausanne, according to the memorandum. the great powers continue their old policy of domination and ex-' pansion arid seek to settle the strait problem so that it can be used as a basis of attack against the Black sea countries. The memorandum warmly sides with Turkey in her struggle for sovereign freedom, and insists that imperialistic nations must cea to consider Moslems as Inferiors.

In behalf of the Moscow government. Tchitcherln recommends the calling of a special conference to -1 Ilu iuc tsiaius oi me minorities or countries, and declares that the on? way to establish peace in the valle: of the Danube and in the Balkans is the formation of a confederation the peoples of those regions, ea. state retaining its autonomy. UNIONOFilETS BECOMESREALITY Congress Acts to Centralize Governmental Affairs in Moscow. By tii, Atworistcd Pr.s..

MOSCOW, December union of socialist-soviet republics became reality today. At a special congress atienaea dv more than two thousand delegates representing Russia and all allied states, definite steps were taken to bring about the centralisation of governmental affairs at the capital. Moscow. M. Stalin, commissar for minorities, who was the principal speaker, declared that the event was of historical importance to united I Russia and marked a new turn in of the soviet regime.

The union centralises state authority at Moscow, giving the Moscow executives power to act in the interests ol all the members of the federation in handling railroads, finances, foreign affairs, war negotiations for peace, treaty ratifications, general economicami taxes under the supervision of parliament, which will meet The constitution provides for a central committee with legislative power to be appointed later, and also a united council of commissars. The congress of delegates was selected by the all-Russian congress to deal especially with unification. Russia, with her eight autonomous republics, was represented by 1,737 delegates. I'kraine by 364. the four Caucasus republics with 91.

and White Russia. 33. Representatives of "the non-social is- tic states of Khiva and Bokhara also attended ami snnliA linnefnllv nf eventually enteritis the union. MEXICO TO ESTABLISH NEW BANK OF EMISSION Inauguration of Institution bv February 1 Possible Through Speed in CongTess. By tJic Associated Press.

MEXICO CITr, December branches of congress planned to work until midnight tonight and then se' back th? clock if necessary to complete pending legislation before the regular session expires. A last-minute conflict over the appointment of various court magistrates has caused protracted debate, holding up approval of several bills on which no discussion is expected. Party leaders were agreed today that the manner providing for estab 01 a. oajiK crruiasivn earlier In the week by special committee would be adopted, making: inauguration of the institution possible by the first of February. The bill designates it as the bank of emission, with the name Bank of Mexico.

The government will hold 51 per cent of the stock. The initial capital is fixed at 50,000,000 pesos. The chairman of the board of directors at all times is to be the secretary of the treasury. 11 Article 27 of the Mexican constitution. dealing with the retroactivity of oil leases, will not be modified at the.

present session, party leaders reiterated today. SAYS JAPANESE SHIPS TRAIL U. S. ON PACIFIC By Associated TOKIO. December nrevail- inar condition of Japanese steamers on the transpacific service "Is a national humiliation when it is compared with the boats of the American and British lines," declared Yonejlro I to.

president of the Nippon Yusen Kalsha. dlscussimr the 'reported refusal of the department Of finance to Include in the estimate a vote for the assistance of -shlpbuiMlnc asked by the departiheilt of communications. The question will be debated in the diet. Tto said his company had planned to build half a million tons of ships, bui this could not be realised without Bovernmelntal support. Viscount Maeda, minister of com- munlcations.

declared that his depart- Vment intended to continue Its 1 BWih tha. 1..