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SUNDAY EDITION AND EVENING CHRONICLE (1 N Hj i I i " GREAT F. R C HARI.nTTE'S h n mf npucdadcd" I SECOND SECTION CHARLOTTE, N. C, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1921. Si 39 39 C. aflf Icaitioii Off FoorPower Treaty MY ESCAPE FROM LANDRU Amazing Experiences of Girl Who Was Sweetheart of French Bluebeard. LANDRU MOST ATTENTIVE LOVER My Family Charmed With Him Went Under Name of Lucien Guillet How Our Suspicions Were First Aroused. (We publish today the first instalment of one of the most human narratives ever written. It is the personal experiences of Mile Fernande Segret, who was an intimate friend an Landru, the French Bluebeard. Mile. Segret escaped from Landru's clutch es almost by a miracle, and in this narrative she gives a most graphic picture of the fascinating hypnotic personality of the man whose affairs with women startled the world. Mile. Segret tells of her first meeting with Landru, who introduced himself to her under the false name of Lucien Guillet, and almost imme diately made love to her and proposed marriage. Her mother's suspicions were aroused, however, when confirmation of "Guil let's" story of his career could not be obtained. As a result there were differences of opinion between. Mile. Segret, who was very much in love with Landru, and her mother.) BY MLLE. FERNANDE SEGRET. (Copyright, 1921, by the World-Wide News Service, Inc.) I met Henri Desire Landru first in the month of May, 1917. Havinpr obtained a few days' holiday, and having a lady friend as pue?t .1 decided to go out with her to do some shopping. When we were seated in the tram, I saw opposite me a gen tleman of about forty years of age, correctly and even elaborately attired. He was looking fixedly at me while he stroked his flow in? black beard with an impressive gesture. I had never felt such a searching gaze or one of such audacious fixity. The eyes speak ling with vivacity beneath a pair of shaggy eyebrows, held such a magnetic power that I felt myself get red with confusion, and lowered my eyelids. When I raised them again, the stranger, having (:io doubt divined my distress, smiled maliciously. Our Cost una tins nextfi eanf Arrived at our destination, we had on ly g?rib a few paces when a man ay f?a:e": before us, howed respectfully, and. addressing- himself to me. asked in a voice, whose charm and sweetness s:rrr:i-xl r.ie, if we would allow him :o aee-nv,,ai-y us for a few minir.e.3. It w.i? the stranger of the tram. We jrr.ilir.gly declined this invitation, and wa'.'itvi quickly away. rKOMISKS TO .MEET AGAIN I'v.t i.v.r follower would not admit hersw'.f b-aun. Not in the least dis-f-oia-ac-d. h continued, arguing not ir lV.oinii that in I'aris young Rirls pi ".it too often alone, and that tiy law tiicmssvlves open to all sorts or u:i k-:rab:e encounters. We bu:.-t out laughing at these re-r.-.arks. ar.ri, as laugnter has a disarm :r.5 l::f.; our follower joined in '-' .lir.ir .-.:iviost certain that we would Ji g-t ri-1 of him: wo exchanged vi :-'l.;y in playful vein, and he 1 ;h:v-.:gh:y at home with every ":". v.-h'.cii we broached. by '.;;:( we had arrived at the y-' ;: 1 '. t'-rniined to take leave of :;' ?:..!:!' .'-ovi. we bowed to him :r''! r-t.'-nt'-d a few step. He then i or p-nr.ission to see mo again, : !-': which I firmly refused. lie 'i-i'.-rl afresh, declaring that a con "wstmn is itt no consequer.ee and "11 rot in the least way compromise : . th-re was such a disparity in A';:- ,iy categorical refusal, he tried W Hs a last resource. ' '''.one in the world," he said rr-. with a somewhat theatrical ge-s-' "" :r;'; a frir-ndly affection would ''ir'h p h.i.,n to me. I will not leave !'U until yon have promised to moor ' :!. new n.orning at ten o'clock ,,. l.'Kioile, at the center of UaPram Avenue." . :;''''", v't rid of this obstinate ;' e"''- ;'' uuiesced with a look, ue ;o! the same not to fuli'll the V-f ; t' k'-nve'J ela-ueJ my -ana .-ffisively. and disappeared in the IT0V1. T"K TRM,F.R was THERE BEFORE ME My .!i!vi;r,s,.s completed, I was go t r-tiirn home, when, on stopping "5 '-vening paper, I seemed to ;.,.' "lr'is b hind me, a man slip uoerway. His silhouette -trantrelv of our in tt-Tlonu- If , Shop' at one hem ittle feel 11 hate J' . . same verse by Musset, wrho, I discever . ed later, was his favorite author. Encouraged by the impression which i he felt he had produced on me, he was bold enough to ask me details as to my ; private life. TOLD ME OF HIS HOME LIFE ! I seized the opportunity o ftelling I him about my sweetheart, and making ! him understand that we must meet again. I took good care, under the cir i eumstances, not to reveal to him that, even before the war, our relations had i worn rather thin, and that) the delays j of my childhood's friend, from time to time in celebrating our marriage had for a long time released: me 1 somewhat ' from my promise. j In a few words, the stranger, with ! touching modesty, declared that he i would not presume to put himself on a ' parallel with a young man, and quite ' somply he made some confidences re j garding his present and past life. He : gave his name as Lucien Giullet. It is in all sincerity that I must affirm here that ! it was c!i5y afher his arrest, two years later, that I learnt his real name was Landru. 1 He told be he was a tradesman and I the owner of a motor-car and a charm ! ing little property in Seine-et-Oise (Gam- bais), where he was fond of going for a rest from time to time. He informed me further that he was a native of , Rocroi, where his parents had run a fac I tory. He was twenty-seven years old j when he lost his father, whose business, ; then in an unsatisfactory condition, he I had taken over. ' In speaking of his mother, for whom ; he 'said he had a boundless affection, ! his face became animated, and he suc- ceeded in communicating to me a real He told his story simply, as from one good comrade to another, and lit tle by little, I succumbed to the charm of his words. FRESH CONFIDENCES After the war, I had to abandon tem porarily my career as an actress to take up a position with some friends who had a furrier's business. The fol lowing Monday I saw the so-called Guillet, who was waiting for me at the entrance to the shop. After a few commonplace remarks, aa I was in a hurry, we separated. He came back the following flay. That night he looked anxious and pre occupied. He admitted that he was not very well, but little by little his con versation became animated. "My dear little friend," he said, "you simply couldn't believe how glad I am to be with you. This is the only happy moment in my day, the moment I await with the utmost impatience. I have reached the stage of counting the hours you are not near me." He told me that he had been married at 24 years of age to a friend of his childhood, whom he had: had the mis fortune to lose a year afterwards. After that he had returned to his parents. Then came the death of his father, which left him alone with his mother and an old nurse, Mariette, who had brought him up. He struggled hard then at his work, and after some years he succeeded, thanks to his persistence, in giving a new prosperity to his father's business. According to him, this period of hard work lasted until the year 1914. What he did in Paris from 1914 until the day I made his acquaintance I 0 U'flQ 1 1. r . ri Air em,tl(,v T T ! , . i i T T nn e wnlinnnl rv i, civ,y mulling. At qq not KIIUW. Wttn vcij icliciil V'( nr r ri. r,r, U -v. "-'ci noon. ,;,, : ,:t v'T"i'ying more about the in v:..; 1 "'fnt home and dined gaily rny, but. oncp in bed, I re as is my habit tho differ. v''UR,''Jl"ms of the py- Then the n r,L th stranger came to trouble This ulr... V. i .. . . . -eu me, i saw once 1 a dream, the rlnrolnfitmc that l)n!fnnipn mm IT-, irr.ioa - ' 11 II1UII, J. 11.1 V Ull. in'-';, 111 t' i -cuii, Liit; u-'-mii- Tr s or tnat tilH voice 'i. . Mr ii . , (li i ir WMa iin- unknown sounded again ; w;hon throughly exhausted 'that I y ' morning. .A.rf'" ' i,'h' o'cbck I woke up. The i.',i,H thoughts of the nigbt before i.iUlJe.' fr. ,.v. - . ,i ,j, lVo, . '"'-s me. l ieu as 11 . -.-nous prAV (,..; , , nvtr poHsessea me. Lptr i oowever, to go to Place de -i v.-ith the secret hnno that the ;th.-' l !l l!lf' Wack heard would not Arr'-i j ' 't the appointed place by T'n0 ' ' around a furtive glance. v,w afn was there, and, having caught 'n,-rl! T",:SS!h'e to lraw back now. He f e sh.i sreat joy, and did not hide f'mr. h,s conviction that I' should ';'l;':y vXfd by such assurance, I !'r j,'; rwAy that I had come with fc;t ''itfjntlon of dismissing him. 3r3 r ,'r'''i: mf fa.milarly by the arm fin'. 1710 alona: the Avenue du "n 0 r,ot know why I did not re- 11 Set ".on Al,..n i : "iajn 1IUJ111 IU liuu If'Oki.fi ,;,"""nt to ?', ., , 'x 1Jse r"r getting rid of him, T ', " liim floeilelv vain frir all nronitious A . . ... ' J-nr-r xt an nope ol an- tfj h'-v, lf'f'fin- 1 ready to confes3 ss sl'M,Mt was true, namely, that I r'h';'lhi,V ' nRf-d to a friend of my rmn'J. :t tniH time a prisoner in 'ts .1 lP not give me time for rt"'Urw" Takir'g good use of all the isdr'? hla wlt lt(i me towards the rw Hr'lngue. 'J,Jn'lirp hy. the bauty of our sur-',f,f-lnef informed me that he was u ! le to the charms of Nature, wiving me of this he recited that subject, and only confided to me jthat he had installed his factory at j Clichy, where he worked for the Army, land that he had experienced great diffl- culty in the management of his busi- ness. WHEN LANDRU DECLARED HIS LOVE Some time later Landru came regular ly every Saturday to meet me at the shop, and I took advantage one day to accomnany him to the suburbs of Paris, 1 which he knew very well, and of which he was particularly fond. ! One day in the Forest of Clamart, as I was busy plucking flowers, he (brusquely seized my hand, stared me straight in the eyes witn. tnat peculiar look of his, and said passionately, "What do you think of me?" As I hesitated to reply, he continued "This life cannot last. It is silly. My patience is exhausted. I had thought ; myself capable of struggling against my (Continued on Page Two) FOR FUTURE PURPOSE. Will Place Country's Honor Above Partisan Advan tage in End, However. OnarlhPbase-Goodngll'lbward! MeftjjjliiH HARDING TRYING ffSwWSivMi TO IINDODAMAGE - 1 r tr . - r . . . , . ' . . tt: . rr7. hiii u an 7. ., ,,. - - - BERLIN -BANKS'' API? QTomif mi- milt u i iwim mi Wave of Consolidation and Extension to Other Cities Gees On. OLD AND NEW UNITE. One of . Oldest Banks in the Country and One of Later Institutions Join. By GEORG BRRNIIARD Editor-in-Chief of The Vossiche Zei tung, Berlin. Berlin, Dec. 24. Two great Berlin banks have just united. They have preferred not to make a real fusion which is the usual thing in Oermary. The taxes, which in consequqence of the rcpnrtaion, have risen to fabulous heights would alone have required a quarter of a milliard marks. In order to avoid this unproductive engagement of capital which according to the Ger man law cannot oe oooivect as assets Seven Days In Li'lGWYork BY JESSIE HENDERSON, j pleasant touches in this most modern stair Correspondent or VheXew. I of towns. The U. S. S. Wyoming at International Kens Staff Correspondent. the Brooklyn Navy Yard is a sea Santa New York. Dec. 24. It's an eel and ' --'0 youngers, in whose behalf the vitalities Vuietirie. Nnt. ven the fact :! ofceers and men have raised $1,200. No. I that it dropped several cents below the i y in hospital or prison, among the last year's price ha enabled the turkev i "'" an on- xne unempioyea no to crowd into the limelight. Eels has been slighted. Except, of first -rained nublic notice throuah the course, tne nonest, nara-worKing Dour- wail rising from the Italian sections when a shortage of those wriggly dainties impended. Eels, it seems, are to an Italian Christmas what the sax ophone is to the jazz band and the roar of dismay over their absence was relased from home to market to wa terfront till the glad news came that fishing boats full , of the fattest and friskiest eels were on their way. There was, however, no lack of vita mines, though these demure thing am mies drew an equal share of attention. Santa Claus, by agreement with the Board of Health, arrived on the East Sklo, with his pack . crammed with vitamines done up as packages of fruit, and toothbrushes bulging his pockets. To each of the under-nourished young sters in the child health station, he gave also a tube of toothpaste and a cake of soap. A far cry this, from the Santa, Claus of old, who flashed across ' the Winter sky and candy and dolls. But the children scrambled vigorously to get a tooth ; brush as ever they did to snatch a toy i and blithely accepted the cakes of I soap instead of resentfully laying down geois to wnom tnis is a nam Winter and for whose benefit no organized re lief is planned, and who wouldn't ac cept it if it were. There's even to be a dinner for homeless cats and dogs at the Bide-a-wee . Association head quarters, where stray animals will be welcomed. IS IT CHRISTMAS MAIL? Meanwhile, the New York PostofFice announces it is swamped beneath the biggest flood of Christmas mail in its history. Nearly eight and a half mil lion pieces in one day! The postmaster thinks these are chiefly Christmas cards, but a few moments reflection on the state of business brings the suspi cion that the bulk of its consists of letters from people in New York writ ing home for money. Just to add to the Christmas fervor, the prohibition agerits have promised ' 1 l V . J ! , 1 T .1 J 1 . 1 .. . ill iit r 1 1 . : I r u(i linf titmt m nmii as tne Winger ot siecis j " ,T , 'V JL , " . &riJI ll I LFBj fl II W 1 AIlTMIlflllDED MEM! UUIlWlUUbAlflEH AS RESULT WAR More White Women Than Men by Eleven Millions Since Conflict. BALANCE WAS UPSET. Nature Expected to Reme dy the Situation in 20 Years or So. "Kringle" has no place on their program It is lamentable, the merriment which their promise has aroused. Max Birnbaun does not share the holiday spirit. People keep interfering with his plans. Officious friends, for ex- Fragrant under the nip of frost and ! ample, butted in twice when he tried to 1- e -1 . J 4.1 .r,rl o-,-aIa11" nlpnrprl nff hi it must ho JUiiue ui lilt-in aiuuim ine ;msi.- riihart rn th Snnt and hnoirri mas trees- as officials half expected to contract onlv. Both banks will in- i bTllhaJ1t with electric lights, the mu- commit suicide lately. Three times with iuuipu.1 latiiitia licks iicive iu uiit; up in Madison Square, in Central Park, in a score of public places. Tonight there are bands of children singing enrols under many windows with a ' Christmas candle in it medieval and I (Continued on Page Two) crease their capital, each of them tak ing over the new shares of the other, the managers as well as the board be ins' comoosed of the same men respec tively. OLDEST BANK. The banks are the "Bank fur Handel nnd Industrie" and the "Nationalbank fur Deutschland." The sensation caused by this transaction is. to be ex plained by the fact that in this case the oldest German bank joins forces i v.ith a comparatively young firm in such a manner as to transfer the greater part of the management to the i latter. The "Bank fur Handel and Indus trie" was founded in Darmstadt, the capital of the former Grand Duchy, of Hessen, in 1852, a time when the Ger man Empire did not yet exist. Its godfathers wrere the brothers Emila and Isaac Pereire. to whom the French Emperor had a short time before grant ed the concession to found the "Credit Mobile" in Paris, the chief business of which bank was to be the founding of companies. The "Bank fur Handel und Industrie" called "Darmstadt Bank" by the people in honor of its home up to this very day was founded after the same pattern. Thanks to its activity and example, a great number of companies were founded in Germany during the few de cades before the World War. Later it has had to give up its leading part to other rising banks such as the "Dis kontogesellshaft," the "Deutsche Bank" and the "Dresdner Bank." In the mean time the headquarters of the "Darm stadt Bank" had been removed to Ber lin. In 1902 the bank nominated B. Dernherg manager. Dernberg's activity soon brought the bank to the fore. Still when he left his post to be Colonial Secretary under Bulow, he is said to have done so with a light -heart because the bank under his regime would have entered more engagements than was conformable with sound prin ciples. Since that time, the bank has never had a prominent manager. Af fairs are conducted by able bank ex perts. SPECULATIVE BANK. The "Nationalbank fur Deutschland" whclh will now conduct the affairs " of the syndicate, was only founded in 1S82, and for purely speculative pur poses. It has always been looked upon m . two nours Birnbaun made the at tempt, affording an admirable example of a man sticking to one idea. The third time he jumped head first out of a Ij : i V Capita! Men And Matters' (Continued on rage Two) 3Y ROBERT T. SMALL, Staff Correspondent of The News. Copyright, 1931, by News Publishing Co. Washington, Dec. 24. Some of our professional soldiers are thanking their lucky stars that a number of the "wonderful inventions" announced since the war ended were not invented during the period of hostilities. Some of these inventions might have been forced upon the army, and that is the particular reason why the officers are glad that virtually all of the machines designed to end the war came into be ing after the war was ended in the more or less orthodox way that all wars have been ended in the past by the sheer wreight of man power. A terrifying "invention" which has been much discussed recently is the so- called "wTheel of death," designed by Thomas Edison, Jr. It was planned to attach a steel wheel, or drum, some six feet in diameter, and filled with "T. N. T." to a Fordson tractor engine and release it after it had attained the enormous speed that would send it roll ing forward at the velocity of a high powered bullet The wheel would go a mile or so inside the enemy lines, cross ing trenches and cutting barbed wire like so much tissue paper, and ex plode at any given point desired. Army officers say these wheels would have had to be launched from the air on . front-line trenches, for it w-ould scarcely do to have such devilish things cavorting along behind one's own lines. Furthermore, it would have been necessary at times to launch some hundreds or even thousands of them &t once, and the prospect of a thousand or so tractors huffing it puff ing above front-line trenches in full sight of the enemy with all of his ma chine guns and all his sharpshooters is one to make a number of the A. E. F. howl with glee. Even at night they in less would have been annihilated time than it takes to tell. "Oh, yes," remarked a general of high rank in the war, "we had some great inventions during the war, but the greatest of all were our invisible aeroplanes. Nobody ever saw them in France." Attorney General Harry M. Daugh erty has been intensely interested the last day or two in reading the news from Berlin that a Herr Medical Coun cillor, Dr. Magnus Hirschfield, had announced the discovery of a - new theory in medicine. "Talk and get well," said the learn ed doctor; "air your troubles and re lieve your mind and soul and body of all their worries and all their grief." This item had a particular appeaLto the Attorney General. ( "The only thing is," he opined, bow ever, "that the doctor who ordered me to talk, got me in a pack of trouble years and years of it. It all happened while I W83 at college. I had con tinual troubles with my throat. My vo cal chords became affected and the doctor told me one day that I must ex ercise them more. He said just plain conversation wouldn't do. I must make speeches. "Well, I started making 'em all right, and then the fun began. When a fellow gets to making public speech es, he is gone. He is headed in but one direction. Politics will get him just as sure as gun is iron. "Yes, that's how it got me got 'me by the throat, you might say and I've been in hot water ever since." ' Elmer Dover, of Tacoma, Wash., confirmed by the Senate Thursday as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, is an old friend of President Harding's, London, Dec. 24. There are approx imately 11,000,000 more females of the white race than males today, as com pared1 with an excess of 4,000,000 be fore the war, according to statistics just made public here. The four million excess was swollen by the war to nearly three times its former dimensions, and the greatest proportion al increase was in women between the ages of twenty and sixty years. In another twenty years or so this excess should practically disappear by the action of natural sex increase if no disturbing factor should occur. The problem then will not be the want of balance of the sexes, but the pressure of population in the Old World, where, unless emigration takes on a more even sex flow, there will still be an excess of females, while in the New World the opposite condition will still prevail. Ten years ago the only parts of Eu rope in which males were in a majority were the Bankan States, Bulgaria, Greece, Rumania, Serbia (and Bosnia Herzegonia) and Luxemburg. RUSSIA AND GREAT BRITAIN Every other country showed a great er or lesser excess of females. Numeri cally it was greatest in Russia and in Great Britain, proportionally in Portu gal and Norway. Ireland, Germany, b inland bweaen and Switzerland all showed a persistent decline in the ratio of female excess. In Austria-Hungary and the Neth erlands a sharp rise from 1880 to 1890 was followed by a fall to 1910, wrule in Scotland a marked fall in the period 1881-91 was followed by a less marked rise to 1911. England and Wales, Belgium, Den mark, France, Italy, Norway, Portu gal and Spain all showed, however, a persistent rise in the proportion of fe males in the population. DISPROPORTIONATE INCREASE Practically all the countries which had an excess in 1911 will show an in crease of that excess in 1921, and in many cases, notably Geritany, France, Austria-Hungary and Belgium, this in crease will be, in consequence of the war, a nentirely disproportionate one. Italy may not be so much affected as would otherwise be the case, as so many Italians returned from America to en roll, but even then 1 the increase will presumably be a very large one. Further, it is probable that the ex cess of males in the Balkan States will have completely disappeared. Altogether the figures show an ex cess of females among the white races, of some eleven millions at the present time and make it clear that the emi gration of women cannot bring about a balance of the sexes so far as those races are concerned. It is true that in Europe a large pro portion of the excess of women was, as has been shown, at ages over sixty and that in America the preponderance of males obtains throughout life. But the proportion In Europe has materially fallen through the war, and it is doubtful whether of the estimated (Continued on Paee Two) (Continued on Page TjoJi, y BY ROBERT T. SMALL, StalT Correspondent of The News. Copyright, 1031, by News Publishing Co. Washington, Dec. 14. Although the events of the week have made it evi dent that no action can be taken un til after a long and perhaps embar rassing debate, it seems certain at this "time that the four-power Pacific treaty, applying to the mainland of, Japan aa well as to her Pacific Islands, will ul timately be ratified by the Senate. Conservative Senators of both parties frankly declare that, if the United States should repudiate any treaty and especially a treaty negotiated and . signed in her own capital this coun try would be placed in an intolerable position before the world. No effort America might make for world better ment in the future wrould be taken seriously by the other nations. In any future foreign intercourse requiring treaty action, the other nation, it is argued, might easily be justified in de manding that the American plenipoten tiaries bring with them' written assur ances from the Senate, or ratifying branch of the Government, as well as from the Executive, or treaty-making branch. Strange as it may seem in these days of f.iiifc and turmoil, there are still some Senators who place the honor of i heir country above mere partisan ad vantage. Therefore, while the Demo crats may in debate have some pretry bitter things to .say to the Republicans who wrecked the foreign policy of the Wilson Administration, it is generally ieved that m the end they will lend HUfnViont support to put the Pacific treaty safely through the surging Sen ate. There is a growing feeling in Wash ington that no reservations hostile to i ihe views of the American deleeation which negotiated the treaty will be successful in the Senate. President Harding and Senator Lodge hold the view that no reservations are needed to clarify the treaty or to define Amer ica's obligations under it. But reser vations are to be offered and fought over, and it is certain the Democrats will make much of these reservations in debate in order to bring out (for fu ture political use) what they claim to be the inconsistencies of the Republi can Senators, whose reservations threw the Treaty of Versailes Into the realm of .national politics anj into a Presi dential campaign. The foreign delegates and foreign correspondents in Washington have unquestionably been disturbed by the incidents of the week and the grow ing opposition to the American delega tion as to the exact scope of the com pact. Mr. Harding has done every thing he could to minimize this par ticulai incident, and has declared with a great deal of reason that after all, nothing has happened to change the real intent and purport of the treaty. The President's position that it is im material whether the treaty is held to apply to the mainland of Japan or not, is coincided in by many Senators, Dem ocrats as well as Republicans. There are not many persons in Wash ngton however, so "generous" as the President in taking the view that the point was so immaterial aa to have made little or no difference whether the American .delegates notified the president of their action in acquiescing to the mainland contention in the secret session which framed the treaty. Sen ator Lodge is under considerable fire for having failed to mention the main land of Japan as coming within the purview of the treaty. He mentioned virtually every other island within the entire , expanse of the "Lily sprinkled waters of the Pacific", but overlooked theJapanese mainland. Senator Lodge is likely to continue to bear the brunt of the blame for the incident involving President Harding, but he will also lead the fight for rati fication in the Senate. He will be sec onded, of course, by Senator Underwood, the titular leader of the Democratic minority. It is apparent now President Harding, after his own experience in the Senate, had the possible difficulties of ratification in mind when he selected he two party leaders of the Senate for he American delegation. With the lead ers of both parties committed to a treaty, made in Washington, it Is in conceivable that a successful fight could be made against such a convention. Even the talk of making reservations in connection with possible ratification is somewhat amazing to them. Senator Lodge, author of the reservations to the Treaty of Versailles, Is certain to fight all essential reservations to the Pacific pact. A reservation, for instance, declar ing the pact shall not apply to the main land of Japan would be a direct repudia tion of the American delegation, which recorded its view in secret session that the pact shall apply to the Japanese mainland. One of the most mystifying disclos ures in this connection is the statement that Japan did not want the pact to ap ply to her mainland, that she felt it was humiliating in a way that the pact should so apply. Yet the British dele gates, supported by America and France, called in at the last moment, Insisted Japan should come under pro tection of the treaty. It is explained, of course, that this was done to make it certain that the dominions of Australia and New Zealand and the territory of Hawaii came within the protective clauses of the pact, but the Senate op ponents of the treaty regard this as an insufficient explanation and will demand more light on the secret sessions which, preceded the presentation of the pacti in open conference. ' It is very evident from all of this; that the treaty debate will be acrimoni ous and long, but in the end both reason and the treaty unquestionably : will pre vail. -iT . ' , nAfa&v"