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GITAKLOTTTE HEWS SUNDAY EDITION AND EVENING CHRONICLE SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 26, 1921. d J aps About To die unrdeuns Oim WoirH SECOND - - - - JJ " G RATER C H A R L 0 T TE'S HOME N E W S P APER" I SECTION J - . An Sad News IB RE OF U. Failing to Develop in the Air Nation Must Take Lesser Place. DOING ALL HE CAN Postmaster General is De termined to Train Airmen in His Department. Bv H.WPEN TALBOT. nTTl-Vt. 1fl21. by News HwblUhlns: Co. Publication Rights in the United King dom Reserved. ttVhinston, June 25. "Our future -the future of the world is in the j" if one may be permitted face iou?re?s. it might be added that our Vr' i? ver much in the air But 'riouslv. I nolcl tnat as we develop -'ail "to develop aernautics in the 'v.z years will determine whether re take 'first or a lesser place among V nations of the world. And more t'yn nv other one undertaking aero nautics is dependent on government e-.courasoment and fostering." Thi- i the way Will H. Hays, -.master-general and eighth of the n-Vners of President Harding's cabi rot whom I interviewed, answered my option as to his opinion of the cravot problem most urgently de- xaivT; solution by tne new aaminis tritiC'il. I; is characteristic of this, the vunccst member of the President's cf.al familv, to choose a problem hit r.ot i-ven "Weeks or Denby thought uas of paramount importance. The I--s:master-general is nothing if not cnsiaal to the extent of precedent- Firushmg unconventionality. RESTORATION IS VITAL. Ia making this statement," Hays continued. "I don't wish to have it aroar that I minimize the tremen dous importance of the restoration of Eumre to pre-war conditions. That, of course, is of vital importance to our cwri domestic well being. But with this much said, I return to my conviction that the country which takes and keeps the lead in the air will. have..the fewest problem;- el major importance to worry about. "I am not prescribing flying as . a panacea for every economic ill, but I am, unalterably convinced that under existing world conditions it offers this nation the biggest opportunity to in fare our future as no other one de vsiopment can. 'Before I go into the matter ol flying the mail, however, I want to tret Wore the eyes of your readers a pic ture wnich I am si re has never been saown them except in hazy outline and which I believe will be astonishing when its details are made sharp ;nt the public to become acquainted :th tne postoflice department "BIGGEST BUSINESS ON EARTH." "It's tiie biggest business enter prise on earth, to begin with. It employs 300.000 men and women, and it serves 100,000,000 customers. Its annual turnover is nearly $3,000,000,- . and its operating: expense each ar is $800,000,000 almost twice as auch as the Panama Canal cosi. That Part of the oicture "In ad3'tion we conduct tho biggest "press company business in the world. Handling nearly 3,000,000,000 packages i j ear. Also we are the biggest fing3 bank in the world in the mint- Of donositcrs. Although the postal savings pays J"' 2 Per cent, as against 4 per cent pa.a by most savings banks, and a.thou?h there has never been any -u fort to promote the business, ract remains that we have ap proximately twice as many depositors " any ether savings banks on earth. Ana this is still only part of the pic- in"!lvery hour of the day every day i" "le year, the postofflce department JncLes an average of 1,700,000 letters. meana that every time the second "ana of your watch moves postal era St""6 handlinS 472 Pieces of mail lnn5ales"0' amps. cards and enve 7e.0rst vear amounted to a total of 62,258,609. Every day our custom tJgbt almost 55,000,000 of these dr y, "ems- Our domestic money or tk .18inesB last year amounted to more 7l.LZ and a half billion dollars. im. . PernaPs. is enough of that '"other Bide. "LABOR NOT A COMMODITY." 'SUDnosirnr v-i - trntv, , '""ceil vj. kuui& a, &v - vw 1 dePartment, this postal ser- JCe Were, a i - , r-, in? j vnvn.e uuBinesst ouppua- foimH 1, r those conditions, a man Woi7m mselt made boss of it? What TphJ t -the question, I can only say "l I intend t i4 And hir Of doinp- t T cm y-n abk f T to Pint to only ne Prov. hlr-l !- In Ne York city alone i8 If, Postal business done Is twice Cani s ine entire Dominion oi 2s postal receipts have Increas liicfl3 Per cent since 1912 without any Jatoi t " nosiai racnities since inai thi i wnax other business In all lan can thi ntata nf affairm h .. in ' fluwu::1".011 tnls state of affairs be CSel?0Wher elB are workers de- fttv a? , yer eni more worK tnan d nine years ago? tod determined in all seriousness er ren that wo are 300,000 part- leu: to whatever thft i'8 ar-e necessary to sret rid of 1 enZ ,nce and for all that labor is time tw lty It: seems to me high "ent r. we m the postofflce depart that th Ve.d ln actions that we realize fcam ,ldea was abandoned 192 L "Emrf last Easter. befcI1 anly? Weare has long since ery bl; cePted as good business by ev !g to en finess concern. We're go ment !t ln the postofflce depart- ana we are going at it with a Continued II) IN AE ft RONAUTICS HAYS SAYS a Face Three.! GREAT POWER OF IS FAST WANING Lloyd-George Now Has T irons m the Fire in Every Important Capital. SHOWS NERVOUSNESS. Holds His Power Because a Logical Successor Has Not Yet Arisen. BY AVtlRF T A T?TVTf TT tomier Ycnch Commissioner to the stare Correspondent ot The News Special Cahlo 1liKn-.i. '.T. V. 8" Copyright mi. by -iTew. VuDmhlnrCo. Jr'aris, June 25. The KiirmiMn mosphere continues unsettled. Succes sive acts indicate tendencies and inoli. nations, but there is no fixed direction i-, ,1U pian OI action, no tan gible accomplishments. Affairs on the British side of the channel appear to hold the chief inter--est of the moment, and there are in dications that British government a-t5 are being influenced to a considerable extent by the political situation of Mi Lloyd-George, which is rather delicate to say the least. Three noteworthy facts stand out in England the continuation of th miners' strike, Lord Curzon's visit ?o Jaris, and .Lloyd-George's speech to the imperial council. GENERAL ECONOMIC IULNESS. The miners' strike is merely a coa crete manifestation of the general eco nomic illness from which England is suffering and which affects visibly the wnoie British foreign policy, explain ing contradictory actions. Lord Curzon brought to Paris pro posals lor diplomatic action, purelv for mal in character, respecting the Gree-io-Turk and Upper Silesian affairs, which fail to solve difficulties having their origin in a fundamental divergence of views between France and Great Brit ain. Simultaneously, the negotiations for a renewal of the Anglo-Japanese treaty continue. r Also simultaneously, there - begins talk or an Anglo-American entente, al though the precise objects, of, such an arrangement are not stated. This manner of putting irons in the tire in every big capital at once seems to indicate a certain ner vousness. Independently of the economic crisis which confronts him, lJoyd George must perceive that his per sonal situation is not all that it might be. He is, as a matter of fact, unpopular in all quarters and his present strength comes largely from the fact that no successor to him is in sight. Apparently the British premier is in search of some signal triumph which he badly needs, and he carries his optimism pretty far when he declares to an economic conference that the d:s armament and reparations problems are now settled. ' - v GERMANY DISARMED? Consider what is happening in Up per Silesia. Early in May the plebis cite zone was invaded by German con tingents, estimated at 5,000 men. Ec day's papers unanimously agree that the force now amounts to 400,oou men, fully equipped with modern war ma terial. Whence this equipment, if, as Llovd-Georsre affirms, Germany has been disarmed? Aerain. where is that good faith n' tributed by Lloyd-George and Briand to the new German government, if fa: prove and th.ey do that, for a whole month, men Jand munitions have been passing continuously from Germany to Silesia. General Lerond, president of the in ter-allied commission on Silesia, has been vainly trying to call the atten tion of the governments to this rapifl ly developing peril. For two years I had General Lerond under my orders when I was commissioner general of Franco-American affairs. His jud; ment is the coolest and calmest I. hav.? ever met. Everything he has predict ed at Oppeln has happened exactly as he foretold. Instead of following his ad vice and taking immediate action ts halt Germany's military preparations, the Allied governments are - undertak ing in violation of the treaty to have so-called experts revise the proposals of the president or tne mter-ainea commission, made in cpnformity with tin tra.tv. Such a procedure will hardly facili tate that disarmament which has been prematurely proclaimed by Lloyd George as an accomplished fact. NO PROGRESS MADE. Concerning reparations, we have made no progress. Only yesterday Ger many again increased her internal ex penses on the pretext of lowering the price of bread. . France, meantime, is doing her best to accommodate herself to the situa tion. In the first five months of this year we have succeeded in reducing our imports iy oevcu wnnvn """-"i, compared with the same period in But Germany fails to do likewise. We, have cut imports of raw ma terials to the point of shutting down factories. We are admittedly in an eco nomic crisis. ' Why? Because the means have not been found for a sat isfactory settlement from Germany. There are many reasons why Franca cannot share the ' satisfaction express ed by the British prime minister - in his speech the early part of the week. SOLONS REDUCING. , Washington, June 25.-The Congres sional belt measure is expected shortly to undergo drastic reductions, if pres ent plans continuo to ; progress. Under the rasping voice of a Marine corns physical instructor, fresh from his duties of putting the leathernecks through their paces, members of Con cress daily twist through the throes of the famous Swedish drill, the most try in physical drill ever devised by a Swede, or anyone else, to believe the marines who. have experienced.it. . . . cSSy? Battleship, Though Doomed by the Submersible, is Still Main Strength. IDEA OF NAVY UPHELD Bombing Experiments So Far Have Shown Airplane as Ally of Battleship. - t By W. ROBERTS NAYLOR, Staff Correspondent of The ei Copyright, 1021, by New Publishing Co. Langley Field, Va., June . 25. Elabo rate as are the experiments now in progress as to the value of air attack upon a naval fleet, no definite . settle ment of the controversy as to wnether or not the airplane has made the mod ern battleship obsolete is likely to be reached this month or next. Despite the sweeping assertions of the advocates cf the underwater boat ever since the first submersible took the sea, the battleship has remained the unit of strength in the navies of world. It was battleship which won greatest sea battle at Jutland dur ing the World war when the high seas heet of Germany was sent scampering back through the Kiel Canal to appear no more until in complete surrender. So now, with the development cf air craft to a high state of offensive effi ciency and power, the battleship once more has been -doomed" by the zeal ous advocates of the fast-swinging bomb-carrying plane. Thus far the experiments have prov ed beyond the shadow of a dqubt that the airplane is the scourge of the U boat. But this is a navy contention and the airplane, instead of wiping out the battleship as a unit of strength, has in fact wiped out one of the great enemies of the battleship. There is no question but that where aircraft can search out the under-water craft, the latter has but little chance for its life so long as it remains near the surface of the sea. . The only surprise of the experiments this week with the con demned German U-boats was the swift ness;-with which a single squadron "of naval planes sent a terror of the days of war to its last resting place fifty fathoms deep. FUTURE HOLDS INTEREST The bigger and more interesting ex periments are yet . to come. One will be thisweek when "dummy" bombs will be dropped cnthe battleship Iowa as sn is n i neuvc-red at sea with wire less control. This wireless control is the development of the invention of John Hay3 Hammond, Jr., and it is the first time jo, ship of the size of the old Iowa has been brought under this strange influence, by which a vessel, witn no living soul 1 on board, can be steered, started, stopped and held at a given speed. This will be the first moving target the airplanes have had and the num ber of direct hits they make fh the tests will be watched with extreme' in terest. Less than a month from now there will be a supreme test as to the effect of high explosive bombs on the decks and armor of a modern man-of-war. On this occasion the target will be the Ger man battleship Ostfriesland, surrender ed to United States and subject to de struction as were all the German craft yielded to the Allies. AN IMPRESSIVE ARRAY Am impressive array of army and navy aircraft here for the experiments will be sent against the Ostfriesland, but there will be no such rushing over whelming attack made on her as would be the case in actual war. Instead, a squadron of planes will be sent over the German battle craft, dropping first of all the smaller bombs. Whenever direct hits are obtained, "hostilities" will be halted while a group of experts goes aboard to observe and measure the amount of damage inflicted. As the experiments proceed, the bombs em ployed will be of constantly increasing caliber. . The army fliers, who have been anx ious to demonstrate how completely they could annihilate an attacking na val fleet off the coast of the United States, are not altogether satisfied with the rules of the game. . They would like to fffhg themselves at the Ost friesland with one grand continuing salvo, and they claim that if they were allowed to use their largest bombs, weighing two thousand pounds, they wbuld be able to break the battleship's backs in the first few minutes of action. The army men claim that one of these giant bombs, dropped within sixty feet of the battleship, and set to explode under the water, would crumple the thin shell of the battleship below, the armor belt, and send her to the bottom with the same speed that depth bombs often dispatched U-boats in the war zone. ALL. IS NOT SERENE All is not wholly serene between the army and navy fliers. The latter claim they are not likely to get a real chance to show t.'ie amoun tof destruc tion they can Inflict. . The navy auth orities are interested in the experi ments from a different and less spec tacular . angle. They, want to study the exact amount of damage each bomb inflicts and to , determine how best this damage can be provided against. The army would like to go in and smash the Ostfriesland in the least possible-time. Enough bombs have been concentrated here, it would seem, to wipe out all the navies of the world. The land abounds in T. N. T. - The tests are not under actual battle conditions and the fliers have all the better of it in that they are not being subjected to anti-aircraft fire from the ships as they calmly go . about their work of dropping the shrieking missiles of destruction. The airmen ' . claim, however, that no amount of anti-air- ...... (Continued .. on Fage . '.Jhres.) "' FIRST PAYMENT OFMGEBANS All Countries Except the U. S. Suffer from the Pay ment in Gold. SAY "I TOLD YOU SO." Better Understanding With France Greatly Needed to Effect Settlement. BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN, Germany's Foremost Publicist. Staff Correspondent of The News. Special Wireless Dispatch to The News. Copyright 1921, by New Publishing Co. Berlin, June 25. And so the eco nomic consequences of the peace have begun. France demanded her reparations in gold and the very first payment has set tne financial world by the ears. France rejected what we could give from our own store. She demanded that which we did not have, gold. To meet her demandsit became nec essary for Germany to buy American dollars, the only international - money based today on the gold standard and having the equivalent value of gold throughout the world. The demand for dollars sent them to a higher prem ium. Allied moneys dropped in conse quence, and thus we have the situation that what was gained from Germany was lost in the purchasing power of the franc. England, receiving but lit tle of the money, suffered in the mone tary decline. And yet. what else could be expect ed? The Allied Supreme Council ws warned time and time asain that the demands for huge reparations sunns would upset the economic world. Un der the pressure of France, the coun cil went ahead with iis senseless de mands and now it begins to look as J 4.1.-. 1 1 . . 1 J 1 a- 1 ii. me yiuuieiii wuuiu a.ve io De re opened and some new method of pay ment devised. I endeavored to point at the time the reparations question was under discus sion in London that it was not merely a matter of bargaining between two or three countries. I said very plainly that it was the greatest problem th; civilized world had ever faced. GERMAN LABOR SPURNED. We "offered France the manual labor of thousands of German workmen to rebuild northern France. Here was something tangible, some productivity, something creative. But France re fused. She said it might result in col onizing and that the inhabitants of the regions devastated by the war might not like the presence of so 'many of their former enemies. We offered machinists and technical equipment and farm implements but we were told this was impossible. "Le Boche pay era," The German must pay. Well, we pay and the first ', cons s quence is an economic crisis in France The surrender of our ships to Eng land orought down the price of ton nage everywhere until ships, priceless three years ago, are being allowed to rust in many a bone yard. Yet we still build ships to be surrendered tj the Allies, while the Allied shipyards are at a standstill. We offer coal to France and at a figure that England could not meet even if her mines were in operation. If we continue to offer this coal at a price below the cost of production England, what becomes cf Albion s export coal trade in the f: ture? U. S. GOES OWN WAY. Germany could continue to pay France in American dollars, and per haps the world would not be so upset if America would buy a sufficient quan tity of German goods. But America will not buy. She is the only country capable of paying for merchandise in standard gold money. She. could help Germany's paying capacity, but the American Congress is working with a will to shut out all foreign-made goods by a protective tariff wall. The Allied countries all are continuing to oppose the importation of large quantities of Germany dyestuffs and manufactured goods because they say , they do not want to imperil their own industries. The solution then, after all, has not been so simple as Mr. Lloyd Georpe and M. Briand seemed to think. My prediction that no mechanical means could be conjured up to make it so has been amply fulfilltd. WAVE OF SANITY? Meantime, what are the prospects of a Franco-German rapprochement? Perhaps a wave of sanity is sweeping over Europe. Perhaps it will take something of an economimc cataclysm in France before it can be realized. Per haps M. Loucheur, who had much to do with the preparation of the treaty, realized what the economic conse quences of Germany being compelled to pay in gold would be when he and Herr Rathenau held their recent con ference at Weisbaden. . , . ' In any event, the responsible offi cials of the two governments are gat ting closer together. I have wondered if the Wirth government might suc ceed in allaying some of the fears and suspicions of France. - Events would seem to prove that some progress is being made in that direction. - ' BUYS WHOLE TOWN. Vancouver, B. C, June 25. Major Charles Sydney Goldham, author capi talist and former member of the Brit ish . Parliament, has purchased the whole town of Nicola, a beauty spot in the mountains of British Columbia. He is now living in the courthouse, await ing a gang of workmen to commence putting the place in condition to care for tourists. ' In all 20,000 acres have been secured by the major, who plans to make a summer resort, stocking the lakes in the neighborhood with game fist. Major Goldham has written a num ber of books dealing principally ; with .the Soath-'Atrican war. .. , , - ideaiChristyGirl" Dreads Return To Eleven Fiances ft" v v' Virginia Lee. Seven Days In By JESSIE HENDERSON, , Staff Correspondent of The News. ' Copyright, 1U24, by News Publishing Co. New York," June 25. If you see a lady with a rose vine hanging from her shoulder and a June bug hanging from the vine, don't try to 'pick the rose or the bug. Take a second look. The lady' is doubtless wearing a lattice work headgear of chiffon and kid. It is the new trellis hat, just 'arrived on the Avenue, and the rose vine with its June bug is the most expensive part of it. Whethervthe trellis Jiat or the Win necke comet was the big1-event of the last seven days is an open question. Police . reserves, however, were not called out to calm that . sestion of the populace which' had 'seen the hat. There's a good . laugh -somewhere for everybody living outside New York when the news percolates that a con siderable part ; of the citizenry of the biggest city of the world fled to the police stations just because a wander ing star flicked its tail ten million miles above the Woolworth tower. - Perhaps .the sweltering weather lent color to the predictions of local astrolo gers as to what the comet would do to the Woolworth tower and Brooklyn bridge. On the first day of official summer, the thermometer shot up to eighty-eight; free ice began to be dis tributed in the congested sections, the asphalt skidded under foot, mosquitoes arrived around hotel lobbies, and in a twinkling all the - joys of summer were at full swing. - BOOTLEGGING ROUTES. The ice season, by the way, played right into the hands of an enterprising member of the hootch .squad. -Craftily he figured that speakeasies would be needing coolness for their goods, and basely he disguised himself as a dare devil ice man. Since he displayed an ice pick instead of a badge, his dis guise was perfect. Five blind-tiger proprietors formed, his first day's catch. Bootlegging, meanwhile, has risen, from a job to a profession and thence to an art. It is not an art to be practiced by the proletariat, either. One young man has just robbed a bank in order Blame The By ROBERT C. BENCHLEY. Associate Editor of "Life." Staff Correspondent of The News Copyright 1981, By . News Publishing Co. New York, June 25. Whatever else you might say about the bolsheviki, you have got to admit that they get around a lot.. With all they have to- do at home, keeping the rest of the population cf Russia in subjugation, and prowling about Europe and America mixing up in practically everything that goes i wrong, including, tonsuitis epidemics and spots on the sun, they have now taken to cruising about the various seas of the world capturing innocent vessels. . - At least, that is the explanation of fered by many high authorities for the mysterious disappearance of ten sailing vessels: from the high seas during the past year. When interviewed on tha subject, these authorities have express ed the belief that bolshevik pirates, sailing "about with nasty looks on their faces, and : nothing much to do, have seized these ships and carried them, crews and all, off to Russia. It would be just like ' those - guys. . , This is probably the ultimate in ac cusations against ; the bolsheviki. For thrpfi nr four vpars now. whenever anv thing has gone wrong, some one has' got together a committee and, after t short and reverend deliberation. ; has issued a report saying that, in the opinion of your committee, . the whola thing can be traced to bolshevik propa ganda. But -hitherto no one has had the . imagination to suggest that th- reds were amphibious. :. V If this be so, and if, in addition to flooding the world with propaganda and fighting the - various pinch-hitting gen erals who have been sent but against them, the soviet government has been able to train a crew of pirates who can walk up. to a sturdy American ship and slap its face, then we may see Ul the very near . future, items like ' ; the iollowios-in-; .'"daily press, New York, June 25. Who are the eleven men, New York is asking, whose ardent suits have won Miss Virginia Lee's "yes" and who expert on her re turn from abroad to become her hus band? Undulant, slender-hewed Miss Lee, whom Howard Chandler Christy en thused over as "the ideal Christy girl," has confessed to friends in Paris that she is afraid to return to New York "because I've got eleven fiances and they'll all be waiting at the pier." Among her friends in New. York the names of several men who may be on the list have been mentioned. There of these were in eager attendance, when Miss Lee appeared as a show girl in "The Greenwich Village, Follies." Recently her charms and ability in the ballet of the "League of Notions" in London won for Miss Lee the en thusiasm of the Maharaja of Kaputha la, a man of tremendous wealth. Miss Lee was born in Mexico City and educated in New Orleans. She is twenty-one years ojd. Accompanied by her mother and sister, she came to New York several years ago and met Christy. Immediately struck with her charms, the famous artist engaged her as a model. He described her: "My most marvellous model. She can express expression and "hold it." Li'lOF N' York to get funds to finance a bootlegging route. But hootch has not lately concerned the police so much as the toddle-top, or teetotum. Twenty-five years ago the game known as plgs-in-clover was play ed openly in the parlors of the pious Today its offspring, the toddle-top, is as much beyond the pale as the poker chip or the galloping, domino. Tomor row the police may swoop down on the erstwhile innocent tiddledewink But anyway, when a detective, on nis way to church, saw five hundred men an boys draped from fire escapes and lamp posts and jammed twenty deep along the curb, he decided to raid the J T CI ' . -. j. 4-Vt escapes and other vantage points. The detective was left with twelve astound ed prisoners who were muttering "two, take two., "-and . "all put." It's a. g!Jd thins: the pilgrims landed three centur ies ago. They'd find America a leetle mite too narrow today. CLEVEREST ROBBERY. While toddle-tops were being confis cated, the cleverest robbery - t 2C re ported in New York was consummated with a three hundred thousand dollar haul. The thief passed a guard on the first floor, made his way to the .twenty ninth story, eluded watchmen i dicing their hourly rounds, picked the, locks of a dozen doors and desks, and open ed three safes without a tool or a finger print. So d,eft was the job, so secret the' strongbox combinations, that :t looks as . though the tbie manipulated the tumblers by thought 'waves, ,; There's a baby crime wave m the Bronx. No sooner was the juvenile black cross gang broken up than an other crop of infant bandit appeared The second &ang had no members old er than fifteen. Vet it snatched a wo man's purse. -Feelingly, the magistrate recommended "sessions in the wood sheds,", but where in the Bronx is there a woodshed any more? .Perhaps. that's the whole trouble with city juveniles now. Grownups, however, are no better. (Continued on rage Three.) Bolsheviki PLUM BLIGHT DUE TO REDS, SAYS GRATC1I, Trained Biters Work at Night, is Expert's Opinion. Walter K. Gratch, of the American Solidarity League, told three hundred members of the cannin trade assem bled here in convention today that he was in possession of indisputable evi dence that , the . blight, which has been devastating the plum crop in this coun try for the past three months during the height of. the-plumming season, is the work of no other agency than - the soviet government .of Russia. "It would be . a very easy matter," said Mr. Gratch, "for a deputation oi bolshevik' plum-biters to land in this country, and, establishing themselves in the guise of school teachers in the fruit-growing sections, steal out under cover of darkness and climb the trees. Once in the trees, it would be but the work of a few minutes to nibble a small bite from each plum hanging on the branches, thereby completely spoil ing their market value, for who wants to buy a plum that, has been nibbled? I have , myself seen pieces of the fruit which bore teeth marks which could not possibily be ' other than those of an agent of the governntent of soviet Russia." . RED PLOT IS SEEN IN THEFT OF FLOAT. Summer Residents of Anybunkporc Up In Arms. The summer colony of this little I. seaside resort,' nestling in the f oothil Is of the - Maine coast, is in a state cf high excitement over the theft of float and soring board from the bathin ; beach, which was discovered early "this morning - when . James L. Spooler, a guest at the Hotel Ocean View, tried to swim out to it and found that it was not there. Before Ae became aware " of the fact that the raft was not in its usual place. Mr. Spooler hai (Continued Pz lhxe0l ANGLO-JAP PACT HURTS PLAN TO CUT ARMAMENT If Renewed it Will Be Al most Insuperable Obsta cle to Disarmament. ' U. S. CANNOT PROTEST. But Amreica Will. Not in Any Way Give Sanction to Alliance. By ROBERT T. SMALL, Staff Correspondent.' nf Tl. - xr.- ' Copyright 1021, By News Publishing Co, Washington. June 25. Th riW . ' bility that Great Britain and JaDah will renew their treaty of alliance within the next three weeks threatens to put an end to anv definite mnv at this time for international naval dis armament. The continuance of the Anelo-JanA- nese offensive and defensive alliance, nu matter wnat tne modified language of the pact may be, is regarded in gov ernment circles here as an all but in superable obstacle to world disarma ment. The famous Borah amendment to the naval bill, which would request Presi dent Harding to seek a conference with Great Britain and Japan on the sub ject, of limiting naval armaments. would mean but little if the Ane-i. Japaneso treaty is renewed. It woul j place the United States in a one-sided conrerence one nation against a com bination of the two other most power ful nations on the sea today. THE AGREEMENT It is agreed that if Great BritafrTani Japan are to ccntinuc in alliance an alliance in violation of the spirit if not the letter qf the covenant of the League of Nations to which both have adhered the only fair limitation of naval ar- mament would be a reduction of their combined navies to something like the relative strength' of the United States. It is agreed furthermore that England never would submit to . such a propo sition. Premier Lloyd George has saiJ as much. . therefore government officials " are asking why. the United States shoul.l live reduction with Janan. when Britain and Japan ore bound together in the most formidable alliance likely to exist in the world for some time to come, and would exert together a na val influence greater than any single power could command. t Cognizance is taken of course cf the statements made at the imperial con ference in London that the United States is likely to be specifically ex empted from, the scope of the Anglo Japanese treaty, that the British do 'ninians will . not be satisfied unless it be officially set forth in the document that none of its provisions shall apply against the United States, so that in the event of war between the United States and Japan, England would rol be bound to come in on the side of the yellow race. . WHQ NECESSARY?' - These statements carry considerable re-assurance to the United States, but they do not explain why in, the present condition of world affairs, a military al liance between Japuil and Great Brit ain is necessary or wise. " The United States has no right to protest against such . an alliance. It may feel glad it is not a party to the League of Nations if two of the leading powers of the league: feel that a sepa rate and especial alliance of offense and defense in the Pacific is necessary to their "special interests." The Washington government will not be brought at any time, into a discus sion of the Anglo-Japanese treaty eith er with England or japan. If these two powers, at the signing of the treaty should send their olflci assurances to Washington, they, must be acknowledg ed and that is all. .; American "approval" of the treaty, as some of the British dominions have indicated should be sought, will not be forthcoming. It is barely possible the Washington government may issue a statement at some time in the near . future that it would 'view with concern" any raovo which might threaten the maintenance cf "the open door" and equality of op portunity in the Far East. But that is. as far as) it. is likely to go in taking note of the Anglo-Japanese negotia tions. . . i TO REFUSE SANCTION . It will , not in any way be drawn "by hook or by crook" into giving sanction to the pact. ' ' 9 : The existing treaty expires July 13, and . the best word from England is that it. will be renewed with certain modifications which will remove the . United States from its purview. The binding clause of the existing treaty Is as follows: . ', , "If by reason of unprovoked attack or aggressive action, wherever .arising on . the part of any power or powers,' either, high contracting party should bf involved in war in defense of Its ter ritorial rights or special interests tneii tioned in the-preamble to this agree ment, the other high contracting paity will at once come to the assistant of its ally, and will conduct the war in com mon, and make peace in mutual agree ment with it." The question naturally is being ask ed In' Washington that with the Unit ed States eliminated from the operation cf the' treaty, ' what power or group of powers Would be likely to become Involved jn war with Japan?. AVhom does Japan fear that she seeks a renew al of the treaty, essentially along the old lines. - '. . The British argue that f they had not gone into the. treaty with Japan, the1 latter power , might-have., f els it necessary to ally" herself with Ger many. With Japan fighting with Ger? many in the recent war it is admitted the situation would have been serious. Britain feels grateful to Japan and, in " (Continued -on. Pajo IXhre, .'- .- ,.: . .' '
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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June 26, 1921, edition 1
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