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THE STAR PUBLICATIONS ARE THE ONLY WILMINGTON PAPERS tSING FULL DAILY LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF ANY DESCRIPTION 1 _ .1 -- 1 ~ ’ _ ■ - ' - ' ■ ‘ ■ , /-'... .i- i.-~4i.---—---—-—--- ■ - .... ■■■ ■ ■ ■ ' '■-'■v©;:.o — Weather Fair Today and Tomorrow. J?; 8 Pages Full Day and Night Service of the Associated Press. 100 PE1$ djNT AMERICAN -—, , . FOUNDED A. D, 1867--—-VOL. CXIL—No. 120. WILMINGTON, MONDAY^ jRNING, JULY 2, 1923. ■Mr H OLDEST DAILY IN THE STATE. SrHNir PROTECTION BACK OF BRITISH AIR PROGRAM GARDINER MAINTAINS While Favoring Disarmament Can Not Remain Idle While the French Mobilize FRANCE REAL MENACE TO ENGLISH SAFETY $ -- Had Not Noticed Military Pol icy of Former Ally Until Ruhr Rupture By A. G. GARDINER SperiP-1 Cable Dispatch to The Morn ing: Star. (Copyright. 1923, by the Wilmington Star Company.) 'Self-protection has forced England to plan the aerial program officially announced by Premier Stanley Bald win and is a direct reply to the Frenoh aim of supremacy in the air, Mr. Gar diner says. England honestly favors disarmament, but can no longer re Inajn idle in face of the fact .that France has amassed an aerial strength exceeding, that of all the rest of Eu rope combined. France’s claim that her military preparations are directed against Germany are untrue and Gar diner declares England has been driven to the utmost limits of surren der to maintain friendly relations and will go no further.) LONDON. July 1.—England has been forced to enter on an extensive pro gram of aerial development for self protection. Premier Baldwin’s an nouncement. however disguised, Is a direct reply to the French aim of su premacy in the air. No British polit ical partv is anxious to enter on a policv which, if pursued to the end, must eventuate In new competitions in armament. Public opinion through out England Is weary of war and mili tarism and is genuinely ready to adopt any measure of disarmament agreed on in regards to land, sea or air. Until the rupture caused by the Huhr occtipancv the country turned a blind eye to the military preponderance. France had adopted. We affected. to believe that ther preponderance hail no relevancy toward the British position. The first feeling of concern wa$ ; aroused by the French Inslstance on I submarines at Washington. This j passed, but the disquiet was revived . when France adopted an independent i line in the Ruhr, Then attention was [ directed to the overwhelming super!- j oritv of the French In the air. It 'was realized that London, for the first time In her history, was vulner able to an attack against which no I effective means of defense existed^, . This situation was aggravated by the knowledge that the French superiority j in arms was exercising a powerful influence on the diplomatic situation everywhere. At the back of the Lau sanne conferences lurked the shadow of France’s military power and the en tire episode of the-Ruhr rested on the same assumption. It became obvious that, consciously or unconsciously, France was assum ing a dictatorship in Europe by virtue of her unchallenged military power. This situation rabidly has become both intolerable and dangerous and though public opinion deplores the necessity of the new pojlicy it unanimously agrees no other course is possible If England is to preserve her security and liberty of action! The significance of the movement Is quite understood in France. It is claimed that French aeroplane build ing is directed only against Germany, but the facts of the situation make non sense of that claim. The Germans ar» forbidden to make war planes at all while France is equipped with 140 squadrons, a total far exceeding all of the rest of Europe put together. The seriousness of this fa^ct Is appreciated only when consideration Is given simi lar French preponderance .in the field; her equipment of allies like Holland, her readiness to finance Rumanian militarism and her control of practi cably ali armaments on the continent west of the Vistula. These are the considerations behind thlfj week’s announcement and Poin care fully understands that England has been driven to the utmost limits of surrender and will go no further. What the effect will be on the French policy remains to be seen. Whether Poincare takes the hint an® rails a halt he alone can tell. Much depends also' on the result of the long prolonged Anglo-French negotia tions in respect to the reply to the German note. Three weeks have passe# since the latest German offer was .re ceived and It still is .unanswered. Bishop Urges Methodists to Demand Enforcement p t Law LAKE JTJNALTJSKA, July 1—Fail ure of church people to demand law enfortement and the statement that this country by Its aloofness In the peace councils of the world has failed to maintain the Interest law of Christian love, marked Bishop James Cannon's sermon here today, at tn.e opening of Southern Assembly of the eMthodist Episcopal church South. If it were not for Americas con tributions to Russian and the near east relief this country would not nave a friend in Europe, Bishop Cannon said. He was speaking on "The , Christian !n the World” and deolared that the world today is the best possible world that God could have mad* for his pur pose which he said are to afford an opportunity for development of Christian qualifications. ■ "God leaves his children in tne world,” foe said, "to get the most they <san out of It and to give the world the best they have.” More than 1,000 persons attended iVtiA onenlng of the assembly at which ^as launched the social service con ferences by Which the members. of the chur«T Propose to'discuss Hve Issues and to set forth plans to enable the Ohurch . to take a'hand in shme prac tical phases of life. Subjects which it was announced1 will be taken up in clude negro migration race relations, industrial problems and questions, and questions affecting divorce and fami y life The conference will continue through July 8, *nd wil lbe addressed by men and women prominent In the south and nation- ‘ % Immigration Authorities Handle Hundreds of Unchm Sam’s Lattest AdditC ns Rocky Mount Merchant Killed by Two Negroes; Posse Scours Country ROCKY MOUNT, July 1.—After an all night man hunt, officers are cer tain tonight that they have one of two negroes who killed W. S. Bigles, and seriously wounded W. W. Andrews, proprietor of a store, late last night. The two men were closing up for the night when the two negroes said to have been loitering in. the store, opened fire on them. After rifling the cash drawer, the negroes made their get atyay, supposedly on a passing freight train. Peeling ran' high and posses of citi zens joined officers in the search which extended for many miles. At Selma a pitched battle is reported to have occurred on top of a freight car but the negroes escaped. The negro captured . today gave h is name as Jim Jones, but letters found on him indi cate that he is Ben Spence of Dunn. He was taken to an unnamed destination for safe keeping.* BOYDEN, REPARATION OBSERVER, RESIGNS; AT IT LONG ENOUGH Washington Announces That it is Because of Personal Business PARIS. July 1—(By Associated Press.)—Roland W, Boyden has resign ed as unofficial representative of the United States on the reparations com mission effective • August 1. "I have been here long enough” he said. WASHINGTON, July 1.—The resig nation of Roland W. Boyden as Amer ican observen. with the reparations commission, which was announced In Paris tbdhy, is due-to his desire lo re sume his professional practice at the bar, the state department said in a formal statement. His duties, it was added, will be taken over by his as sistant, Colonel James- A. Logan, Jr. Both Mr. Boyden and Colonel Logan have been sitting with the commission virtually since its organisation under the terms of the Versailles peace j treaty. The latter was one of the economic experts attached to the Amer ican peace commission and is thorough ly versed in all details of questions comirfc before the commission. Whether an assistant will be named to Colonel Logan was not in^jated'here today. Both officials have oeen maintained at the expense of the.United States but their staff of 21 persons has been pror vided for at commission expense. ‘‘Mr. Roland W. Boyden, American observer with the reparation commis sion” the department announcement said "being desirous of resuming his professional practice at the bar, has tendered his resighation. and expects to return to the United States in August next. Upon his departure from Paris his duties will bar taken over by his principal assistant, Colonel James A. Logan Jr." ■ Mr. Boyden was- appointed originally to the commission with the expecta tion that he would become an official member upon ratification of the peace treaty. Mr. Boy-den's status, uf>on refusal of the senate to, ratify the treaty was made that of an unofficial observer sitting in an advisory capa city with the commission, a status which was renewed by the Harding administration soon after his induc tion into office. In addition to his service with the commission, he has acted from time to time on financial missions and with other ecdnomic committees, although his duties related primarily to ques tions before the reparations commis sion especial reference to the coBts of the American army of occupation, shipping matters, Austrian and other relief subjects and the effort of repara tion payments on foreign exchange. FORECAST BY .STATES WASHINGTON, July 1.—Virginia, dorth and South , aCrolina: Generally 'air Monday and Tuesday, moderate temperature. , . . . Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi: Partly cloudy in north and local, thun lershowers in south Monday and rucsdsy* ® Florida, Kentucky: Fair and mild Monday and Tuesday. Island Place of Happiness For Those Who Passed the Inspectors FULLY HALF OF THOSE WHO CAME Itf OKEYED Today Will Be Fully as Strenu ous a Day on the Au thorities NEW YORK, July 1.—Ellis Island, facing Its greatest onslaught of immi grants sinoe the enactment of the thfee per cent law by congress, was a place of happiness today as would-be citizens with few exceptions i were quickly passed for entry into the United tSates. Medical and immigration inspectors working until nightfall scanhed the streams of humanity taken to the is land from four of the 11 ocean liners anchored at Quarantine. More than 1, 000 of the 2,704 aliens arriving at the island, it was estimated, were per mitted to go to New York. The July quotas for various nation alities, which had haunted the aliens as they speeded across the ocean and waited aboard ships to dash for quar antine on the stroke of midnight, wei;e not reached during the day at Ellis Island. Quotas for Greece and a num ber of smaller nationalities were ex pected, however, to be filled tomorrow. The total number of persons who un derwent examination today either on shipboard or at Ellis Island was 15, 582. Of these 5,971 were aliens and 4,000 were members of the crew of the various vessels. The others were cabin passengers. Commissioner of immigration Henry H. Curran, who assumed office today, said that 2,243 immigrants would be taken to the island tomorrow. The race to port aoross the imaginary line denoting entry into American waters, was made by 11 liners, carrying approximately 10,000 immigrants from 23 nations. The first vessel to arrive officially was the President Wilson which made quarantine directly aftef midnight, standard time. The Washington came next. Others tn their order were The Canada, Polonia, King Alexander, Nieuw Amsterdam. France; Stockholm, Presidents Adams, Aquatania and Giulce Czar. The inspection at Ellis Island was rapid. The aliens were given physical examinations and each was made to show that he had $50. The literacy test, forty words in any language com pleted the examination. Fourteen stowaways were found aboard the ,Guilce Czar. With stow aways on other liners, they were herded at Ellis Island for speedy de portation. There were four such un bidden guests on the President Wilson. Most of the beer aboard the Presi dent Wilson was given away to pass engers as the ship neared American waters. The rest was thrown over board. Sixteen of the 205 steerage passen gers on the Polonia were found to be suffering from contagious diseases and were isolated. CHINESE APPROVE EDUCATION SAN FRANCISCO. July 1.—Proposal for the formation of a world wide edu cational organization^ was approved by the world conference on education began sessions here yesterday. The proposal was made by Dr_ W. P. Kfao. head of the Chinese delegation to the JJational Eduoatton association conven tion in Oakland. The objects of such an organization, Dr. Kuo. said, should . be cultivate international good will, to secure unity and co-operation In educational, and to tfserve as a clearing house for international educ tion information.” FIND BODY CASHED TO RAILROAD CROSS TIE CLEVELAND, July 1.—The body of a man lashed to a railroad cross tie, was found floating in Lake Brie by a fisherman late today. It was clothed in full length over alls, a jumper, heavy canvas apron and working phoes. j Police are endeavoring to determine whether the, man had been murdered and then lashed to the tie or whether he had been fastened and then cast adrift to die from exposure. LYNCHING IN INDIANA . NEW ALBANY, Ind., July 1.—Ed ward Daugherty, 25, negro, said by of ficers to have criminally assaulted a White married woman at Mitchell, Ind., Friday night, was. killed near Bradford today by a posse headed by the sheriff of Harrions county. Daugherty was hiding in a barn and when the negro refused to surrender he was shot dead. TWO DROTPltSD HAMMOND, Ind., July 1.—James Bloomer, 30, and Alexander Duncan, 28, both of Chicago, were drowned near Griffith 10 miles south of uere today, when an automobile in which they, with two others, were riding, skidded in making a shorp turn and overturned in three feet of water in a ditch. All occupants of the car were pinned beneath, it. The two were dead when taken from under the oar by their .companions. STRIKERS' RIOT SYDNEY, S., July 1.—Scores of riot-1 ere were Injured several of them ser iously In a clash tonight with police and soldiers near coke ovens of the British Empire Steel Corporation plant. The fighting started about 8:30 p. m., when ttn-hatted soldiers preceded by mounted police charged the mobs with fixed bayonets. The disorder contin ued Intermittently until midnight when the hostilities ceased and the soldiers and police retired behind their stockades. RESIDENT Clll RUNG PROGRESSIVE: IN ALL HIS MID-WLi;T TALKS Montana and Maj^o Addresses ’"Were Tinge®With a Bit of Rad|c9jiism .By DAVID A, WHENCE (Copyright, 1923, tar iiifllmlrlgton Star CornM-n/) HELENA, Mont.1.—President Harding la aspiring*© role of moral leadership which g^y^iWoodrow Wil son and Theodore I§K#i«ivelt their hold on that great h0<iy:?i>f Independent voters, some time# jelled "Progres sive*” who swlngK't)^ balance of power in the Amt^cidi electorate to day. t ' '. ' % Tinging hie spee|hej{ in Idaho and Montana with a llfel& Jo'f what might in other days havelbjin called ‘'radi calism” the President made these significant deolara’tjjpnfji First, recognizing; t^t his Hutchin son, Kans., speech^ d dn’t go to the root of the farm prbbWn, he came out four square for tl|e Principle of co operative marketing Fiy the producer with a hint of co-ojiej&tive buying by the consumer if'thfj. middleman didn’t take warning. , Deficit®: plans have not been worked out biB #?11 be submitted to congress next fall. ,l2 Second, he struck b$dly at those Republicans of the (fcr^rvative variety who since the camjihlgji of 1920 have sought to convey (repression that with^ Harding in white house, union labor would tjje j^pught with the influence of the fecrer4j.;j administration and that the "op.en ijiop” would be made the rule ratlypr r,|han the excep tion. ‘4 'f., Third, the Presidedt^preached a ser mon on . the proper’JresEjition of woman to the home but pojni^d out that .so cial justice demaiiHefe living wages for the father lest m^tnother, too, be compelled to work j tUi: support the family. Mr. Harding}^ statement in his speech here th^t^he high scale of wages brought the war had done a great deal tayrjprrect inquities in America’s ecoposfilivr system was coupled with remarR^that he didn’t sympathize with tho$hjwho shout for "deflation of labo#’ is who advance the argument that|”y|j^ges must come down and union lat>0)'«crushed.” This will have an imporfiSjrjfbearing on the next campaign. ’ „ Fourth.. prea-chlp^S^e outlawry of war. ..the ^Preside-.a -leaf 4ut.. of. Senator Borah’s booki&j^ Ideals in the senator's own state. Spcii^entally, the eagerness of Senator jjprah to be seen with the President irfiildaho and the | interview given, by hiij^'approving Mr. Harding’s wopld cei^H scheme as amended in the St. Logfjis speech means nothing more nor less«Jhan a recogni tion on the part of MK Borah that in the campaign of 192'fijfehe must be a regular Republican ij»h Idaho if| he wants to be re-elecjiitji. Mr. Borah has slowly but surelj^been disavow ing connection with t, third paoty movement for president. Idaho Re publicans say Borah ,*jnust come1 in line and be a regular jf he wants to be renominated. Theijpi have success fully amended fthe tySmary law so that .Min Borah mustfe cater to the regular organization . ;-jn the state which is pro-Hardlng-lg! in© way, mat Ihk the world It will he notea, o, Mr. Borah doesn’t t court program wilt M finally acted upon by the senate fjjfj the next ses sion of congress whwjh fits in with the prediction made bSitlthe writer jni mediately after the Sji Louis speech last week, namely i^i&t the world court controversy ha^,- been shelved until after the 1924.infection for If it isn’t acted upon at t3^e next session, as Mr. Borah prophefiiesr there will not be another meetjMg.. of congress until December 1924. ffiThls also will give plenty of time t^.negotiate with foreign government ;£the suggested changes in the world i^purf's constitur The Helena speechgilwas distinctly pro-labor. It was ut|®rly unlike any previous addresses in etjiich Mr. Hard ing was won’t to balance wliat-nlce things he said about $4iSbor with some equally weighted phi^Ses . about ' the rights for capital. TlpfPresident felt this was an opportune, occasion how ever to rid his administration, If pos sible, of the taint if|f employer in fluence w-hich Samuel;! Gompers and others have been persistently attemp ing to fasten on it es*roially-since Mr. Harding didn’t recognise* their candi dates for secretary mu outset and sfhce Charts G. Dawes of Chicago, intimate friei$ of Mr. Hard ing, started hie "minufs men orpnl zation to help the “|j%en shop in American industrial warfare. “I am quite aware, i&atd the^Presl dent in his prepared sfftech ^Helena “that there were somcfe;who Imagined before the present adrftntstratlon was voted into Presponsibil||. that it was going at least to acqiifofce if not defi nitely sympathize witMtjirojects *°r th deflation of labor an<|;!the_ overthrow of labor organization!*! Before this time these have come.-Jb realize their error. Nothing has bW the purpose of the present administra tion than any thought:' of destroying the right of either J|or _or to' organise and eachwto deal in its organized capacity.” §ji Mr. Harding in onf ,part of ' his speech made answer t$ithe contention of Samuel Eea. president of the Penn sylvania railroad, who^thsigts that th United States rallroac&labor board Is wrong in rebuking tfift Pennsylvania for tailing to recogi],(<se the elected spokesman of shop cw*ft and clerical unions not affiliated wi the labor or ganizations created ajjj$ managed by the Pennsylvania itself]* ; ’“The right of organization and or co-operative dea!in_gs/V.taid the Presi dent in this connection, “is not any longer the special prerogative of man agement and of capitals* The right of men, and brains and e^ill, and brawn, to organize, to bargalnijpShrough organ izations, to select th<rtf own leaders ind spokesmen, is no ■jf^t less absolute han is the right of ljDinagement and >f capital to form antf ; work through ‘.Continued on;:i*age 2) , * - ■- v m Fiscal Report Shows U. S. Has 309 Million Dollar Surplus; Owes 22 Billion Custom Duties Total Over 500 Millions; Income Taxes Ex ceeded Expectations CLAIMS TARIFF IS CAUSE OF INCREASE ■ $ - t 'r/yf .;>• Has Refunded Seven and a Half Billions of Short Term Obligations WASHINGTON, July 1.—Complete figures ooverlng the government’s fi nancial operations for the flsoal year ending yesterday, made public tonight by the tyesaury show receipts for the 12 months of $4,007,135,480 and ex penditures of $3,697,478,020 Indicating a surpplus of $309,657,460. At the close of business last, night the government owed $22,349,707,365 on outstanding securities. This total represents a reduction In the 12 months of $613,674,342, of which $402, 860,491 was taken Into acoount in compiling the. ordinary or budget ex penses of the government. From the surplus on hand the treasury applied a total of $210,828,851 to reducing its obligations. I Part of the success In building up a surplus while at the same time the public debt was reduced ' was traced by the treasury to the administration's tariff policy whloh it was declared, re sulted in the establishment of a, rec ord,- receipts In customs duties total ling $561,928,866. This total Is almost' 60 percent greater than for the, fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, when* duties of $356,443,387 were reported, making a high point for customs revenue to that time. Income and profits taxes( paid Into the treasury during the last'l2 months, like the. receipts from customs col lections, also exceeded expectations, the total being $1,678,609,428 while the estimate given in the budget last December which was $1,600,000,000. Other forms of internal revenue gave the treasury an additional $945,865, 332. The government started the new fiscal year today with $370,939,121.08 in the treasury’s general fund. . A year ago the genesal fund was $272,105, 6112.62. , '-’■*Du'rff,g,v - - 'fF tfronths," 'a formal statement Issued by the treas ury today said, “about $4,500,000,000 of government debt matured and was either retired or refunded, thus com pleting the treasury’s program for re funding the seven and a half billions in short dated debt maturing within about two years which was outstand ing at the beginning of the administra on. "In other words, since the refunding ogram was announced on April 30, 21, about $4,070,000,000 of Victory tes have been returned treasury cer icates of indebtedness have been duced from $2,820,000,000 to about ,030,000,000 all maturing on quarter tax payment dates, and war savings curities have been reduced from 13.000. 000 to about $90,000,000 while w treasury savings securities to the count of about $245,000,000 and about ,100,000,000 of treasury .notes, ma ting on various quarterly tax pay snt dates during the years 1924 and 27, have been issued and are now tstanding. During the same period, e’gross public debt has been reduc about $1,650,000,000. “In the fiscal year 1924, which be ns July 1, 1923, there will be public bt maturities of about $1,390,000,000 eluding about $1,030,000,000 of treas y certificates of indebtedness, about 10.000. 000 of treasury notes maturing me 15. 1920 and about $50,000,000 of ar savings certificates of the ,1919 ries, maturing January 1, 1924., In dltlon there are stjll outstanding iout $95,000,000 of 4 percent victory ites which matured or were called for demptlon during the fiscal year 1923, id about $30,000,000. of war savings rtifleates of the 1918 series which atured on January 1, 1923. These e being presented for redemption om day to day, and the amounts still itstanding are being gradually re duced. prgnch authoress dead * RIS, July 1—Mary King Wadding luthoress and widow of the prom French statesman and diplomat Villiam Waddington, is dead. She JO years old. Mme. Waddington, an ■lean before her marriage, wrote ssting memories of her expen . as a diplomatist’s wife. Her publications included "Chateau Country Life in France,” and “My Diary.” QUIET AT MOUNT HOLLY MOUNT HOLLY, July 1.—All is quiet here* tonight, following the killing last night of Tom Fields, of Thrift, by ah unidentified man, believed by the po lice to be a negro, known as Brad Gordon. Fields, two women and a man were accosted on'the public road by Fields’ slayer and when an altercation ocourred Fields was shot to death. A posse of 16 or 20 officers and citizens of Mecklenburg and Gaston counties continued their search for- the slayer today but no trace of him was found. News of the killing aroused intense excitement here, where a mob of sev eral hundred men formed last night, and officers had feared trouble if the slayer was apprehended. MRS. IDA COLLINS DEAD, ,FUNERAL AT LUMBERTON LUMBEB.TON, July 1.—Mrs. Ida Col lins, wife of George Collins, died sud denly last night about 8 o’clock, her death being due to heart trouble. She was 35 years old, and is survived by her huBband and. two daughters. F*uneral services were conducted by Rev. L P- Hedgpeth this afternoon at the ' Collins burying ground near Smyrna, where interment was made. r-lV Three Prisoners Break j Robeson County Jail i (Special to the Star.) LUMBERTON, .July 1.—Bob Green, Elliott Potts and Frank Dobson es caped from the Robeson county Jail sometime between 12:30 o'clock and daylight this Aorning. They effected their escape by filing bolts from the hinges on their cell door, thereby gain ing entrance to the hallway and then going to the roof through a skylight. They reached the ground by means of a rope fashioned by tying their blan kets together. All three were in their oell at 12:30 when Jailor A. H. Prevatt locked up two prisoners who had just been brought in. Grqen Is a white man who has had a. varied career in crime and was awaiting trial at the next term of superior court on a number of liquor offences. Pptts and Dobson were white youths ■who were charged with robbing a drug store in Pembroke after they had escaped from the South Carolina re formatory. DRASTIC REGULATIONS IN EFFECT FOLLOWING DEATH OF.BELGIANS Announcement Made from the French Headquarters; Ruhr and Rhineland in Scope ESSEN, July 1.—(By Associated Press.)—The penalties imposed because of the Duisburg bomb explosion whioh killed 10 Belgian soldiers and injured 43 other persona were announced today at French headquarters. They affect all the Ruhr and Rhineland and include the closing of the frontier as ordered by the Rhineland commission. Ilnter urban tramway service in the Ruhr is placed bgck on.a normaI(;basis as prior to the occupation. Since passive resistance was inau gurated by the Germans and the seiz ure of all railroads by the French, the interurban street car lines have been jammed day and night with passengers and freights. The service has been more than doubled since the occupation, the cars transporting mail, merchan dise and even coal. General deGoutte’s new decree obliges tne Germans to re duce the service to conditions existing a year ago and infraction of the new order by officials is punishable by five years imprisonment anil one hundred million marks fine. Further penalties may be enacted within a few days, it is said, in military circles. < German civilians to the number of 223 have been arrested at Duisburg by the Belgian authorities, most of them for violation of new orders, and a state of siege was declared after the bomb explosion. The cities and towns sur rounding Duisburg, Including Mulheim and Hamborn, ' have been notified by the Belgians of the- statb of seige and civilians are warned against entering Duisburg after dark, when all traffic is prohibited and everything is closed tight. t is announced that all villages and the Reich government'will have to pay for damage done to railroads and other property in case of future attempts and that the Duisburg community and the Reich are held responsible for indemni ties which will be exacted in behalf of the families of the Belgian victims of I yesterday’s bomb outrage. A German was killed last night at Herten for disregarding the curfew or der. Frenjh troops have seized four coal mines of the Frederick the Great group, belonging to Hugo Stinnes. SHOULD RETIRE MOSCOW, July 1.—Bishop Antonih, who a year ago was the moving spirit in the formation of the New church and the chief church advocate of the government’s appropriation of treasur ies for famine relief, has been ousted as the Metropolitan of Moscow by the New church, council he helped to form. The laconic announcement by the official press says the church council has decided that Antonin should “re tire.” Splendor of Grand Canyon Leaves Harding Speechless GARDINER, Mont., July 1.—(By As sociated Press.)— Preslcent Harding’s poweg of speech failed him today, the first time .since he left Washington 10 days Standing at Artists Point overlooking the grand canyon of Yellowstone National park, the chief executive was asked what he thought of the scene before him he admitted his inability to reply, saying j that the granduer of the canyon was beyond his power to,describe. The trip through the canyon came to the president and Mrs. Harding as the climax to their two days stay in the -nation’s greatest playground. Tonight the president’s party re turned to Gardiner, again boarded their train and headed directly for the Paci fic coast. The first stop will be .made tomorrow at Spokane, Washn., where the president will deliver one of his principle addresses, speaking on re clamation, waterpower development and the problems of the far west. Tuesday Mr. Harding will speak at the Oregon trails celebration at Mea cham, Oregon. He will spend the fourth of July in Portland. On July fifth he will board the naval transport Henderson at Tacoma, Washn., for the voyage to Alaska. Leaving the inn near Old Faithful, where they spent the night, the preel dent and Mrs. Harding today aat£ mountains,' valleys, rivers and lakes as presented in some of the most beau tiful and impressive natural settings. Although it was the first day of July, the presidential party traveled fl»tf miles through trails which led to many places through snow fields. The snow still lay across the conti nental divide and for a few minutes the president’s automobile stood on top of 'the continent. To either side were the waters of Ifa lake, which drain to the Missouri and eventually Into the Atlantic and also into the Snake rtrea and into the Pacific. I V -,,V >: -"-Vl GERMAN MENAGE CAUSE OF FRENCH ARMAMENT PLANS TARDIEU AVERS English Intention to Remain^ Supreme in Clouds Fraught With Danger MAKES TOMMIES AND POILUS TURN IN GRAVER Declares Only Belgium Stands1 By France’s Side Against Hun Revenge By ANDRE TARDIEU Former French High Commissioner t» the United States. (Special Cable Dispatch to the Morning Star.) (Copyright 19t8, Wilmington Star Co.X (England’s offlcla announcement that she Intends to be supreme In the air Is fraught with the gravest danger, Tardleu points out. The bellicose speeches In the House of Commons, he says, make the Tommies and Pollus who died in a common cause turn lit their graves. He defends France’s armament becauee he Insists Germany again threatens, especially from the air, and argues France stands with only Belelum against a Germany “In flamed with revenge.”) PARIS, June 30.—England’s official announcement that she Intends to be-* come supreme In the air is fraught with j the gravest danger. Whoever rem«i>' I bers the past, and thinks of the future* must reject such a project founded onj the basis officially etated by Premies' Stanley Baldwin. The world war overwhelmingly justified the entente cordiale, yet only five years afterward that policy Is treated as Irrevocably damned. This fact, and the psycholo gy it reveals, is far graver than Iso lated disagreements like the Ruhr be cause the whole moral foundation ot Anglo-French policy seems crumbling. Just at the moment that the Anglo French experts are meeting in London trying, in collaboration with Spain, to solve the ancient and vexatious Tan gier question, comes these noisy speeches in the House of Commons. They must make the Tommies and Poilus who died for a common causa turn in their graves. This debate revolves around military, ayiation. Britain, . which,, formerly In-, slsted of!' this two power naval standard now asserts her air’forces must equal the strongest nation. Naturally she looks toward France. It Is declared the number of military planes In the British Isles is Inferior to the number in France. Therefore, It is announced by Baldwin himself that Great Britain ■henceforth shall have fifty-two squad rons,and the whole empire eighty-two. Though he hastened to add that the question ought to be regulated by an International conference, like that of Washington which settled the naval strength, nevertheless so far as the im mediate future is concerned, Britain will launch a tremendous air program with France’s aerial strength as the excuse. 1 If France maintains airplanes and armies today it is because she stands alone with Belgium against a Germany which has revolted against peace trea ties, is inflamed with revenge and al ready is stronger numerically than her neighbors. These British ministers who affect alarm at France’s military pre cautions are singularly u njust for they should know France is obliged to taka precautions because of the non-execu tion of the treaties. The Anglo-Ameri can policy is the cause of France’s iso lation and this isolation Is the causa of her armaments and the prolongation of her Rhineland occupation. That’s not all, either, for unmistak able new- threats are coming from Germany. That country never executed the disarmament clauses of the Ver sailles treaty ^even under the disarma ment commission and that body has not operated since January. Much war ma terial can be manufactured in six months and Germany has not failed to: take advantage of this fact Aviation especially has been systematically de veloped by the construction ottheso called commercial planes which can be transformed Into war planes in a few hours. These facts do not appear in Bald win’s speech, or in any of the others. That’s what puts the serious aspect on the Anglo-French relations. One might think when reading these speeches We were not on the morrow of a common war but on that of Fashoda. And the worst is to see the public on both sid.es of the Channel follow the discussion with inert indifference. A French novelist wrote yesterday! "The world seem* like a vast oper-' (Continued on Page 2) J
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