Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 158, 16 April 1919 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM WEDNESDAY, APR. 16, 1919. J

U.S. TO RETURN 275,000 MEN IN

PRESENT MONTH

Number to Fall in May Be

cause of Lack of Transports,

Declares Baker. (By Associated Press) PARIS. April 16. American troops to the number of 275,000 are returning to the United States from Europe during the present month, Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, said today upon hi s arrival in Paris from Brest In May, he added, the number will fall to 250,000 because of lack of transports, but in June the number probably will rise to 300,000, which will be maintained as the monthly rate until all of the 1,400,000 men still here are returned. Secretary Baker said that if any agreement should be reached by which American troops would participate indefinitely in the defense of the Rhine, the only soldiers used would be those who volunteered for such service. Mr. Baker expects to go to Coblena and the former fighting front with General Pershing, and to return to the United States within ten days. The secretary declared that no decision has been reached concerning the disposition of the docks, warehouses and other permanent Improvement constructed in France by the United States government He said that large quantities of captured guns and other war material would be taken to the United States as trophies. Much American heavy artillery equipment also will be returned, but no disposition has been made as to the disposal of automobiles and motor trucks.

PEACE CRISIS

" Continued From Paae One. pie of Hungary, Germany wa9 contemplating refusal to sign the treaty of peace which had been practlcall formulated during the President's absence, and would offer passive resistance to its enforcement Peace Conference Panic. Then there was a panic. In this panic there were at least signs which seemed to indicate that Lloyd George and Mr. Wilson were agreed in a policy which consisted in reducing the terms which had been sketched so far as Germany was concerned in the hope of persuading Germany to sign. An official commission was sent to Hungary and semi-official or unofficial delegates were dispatched to Russia with the apparent purpose of seeking to find a basis for a peace between Bolshevism and the alliance represented at Paris. The result was almost Instantaneous the French had not yet received the judgment of the peace conference on any one of the great questions which were for them a matter of life and death. There was no settlement of the Rhine frontier as a military question, of the Saar coal region as an economic question, of indemnities and reparations as a financial question and rightly or wrongly the French decided that their interests were being sacrificed by America and by Britain to the desire to get a prompt peace with the Germans and to effect at least a truce with Bolshevism. As a result, there was Immediate and inconceivably strong French reaction and protest and bitterness against both the United States and Great Britain which grew out of the feeling that France after her terrible sacrifices, was abandoned. French unrest reacted almost immediately in Great Britain. Lloyd George had come to power once more in the recent elections in which he had pledged himself to make a strong peace against Germany, by which Germany would be made to pay the costs of the war. British conservative members of parliament, British conservative Journals and at least a very large part of British opinion, believed that Mr. Lloyd George was engaged In making an easy peace for Germany which would let Germany escape from paying the costs of war; and they recognized that as a result of the progress of events In Paris, France was rapidly becoming alienated from Great Britain and the alliance which had saved the world from Germanism was pracking. Lloyd George Bows. Thereupon there was an immediate storm in Great Britain, and every Bort of emphatic notice came to Lloyd George in Paris that he must change his policy, that he must restore the understanding between Great Britain and France by supporting French claims, and that he must drop even the appearance of willingness to deal with Bolshevism. To this storm Lloyd George bowed. He had been carrying on a bitter and unwise quarrel with the French Journalists, which had cul

minated in a threat to take the conference away from Paris. Almost overnight he shifted his course, began issuing interviews praising France, and proclaiming British agreement with France, advocating in the council of four French demands which he had hitherto looked on at least coldly. In the meantime, in France similar

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reactions had led to an outburst in

the chamber of deputies and later to

a declaration In the French senate

The French press began to break away from the ironclad censorship which had held it and to protest violently against the seeming willingness of the government to sacrifice French

interests to foreign friendship, and Clemenceau found himself face to face with a national reaction against further surrender to the United States or yielding to Great Britain, which it was not possible to let go unheeded. It is fair to say that Clemenceau had at no time sacrificed French interests, but that up to that moment he had found himself powerless to achieve anything for France in the presence of Anglo-American opposition In the council of four, which was supported by Italy. Wilson Sends for Ship. When Lloyd George decided to bow to the will of the British parliament and British public opinion, he not only made public statements supporting France, and declarations in the council of four In support of French demands, but he also Indicated reluctance on the part of Great Britain to accept amendments to the league of nations covenant which had been de

manded by Republican opposition in America, and were essential for Mr. Wilson If the President was to achieve the ratification of his treaty of peace when he went home. The President therefore, found himself not only alone in the presence of European reaction against further adjustment of European matters In accordance with

his views, but also saw in the immediate future the possibility that Eu

rope would refuse to consent to changes in the league of nations covenant which were essential to hia own polit

ical future, and to the success of the

principles which he had come to Eu

rope to advocate. He saw, in substance, all of a sudden a British support disappearing, isolation in the con

ference unmistakable, and the safety of his league of nations plan in danger. This was the point at which he

sent for the George Washington. The days that followed were days when every sort of rumor flowed back from

Paris to America, but not even in the

presence of the threat of going home did Lloyd George modify his position or the Anglo-French rearrangement

collapse. Lloyd George was compelled

to stand firm by the pressure in his

own country and Clemenceau,

strengthened by British support, was able to maintain his position unshak

en, we had a aeaaiocn wnen jur. vvuBon threatened to go home and the British and French representatives,

supported by the Italians, showed no

disposition whatever to surrender European interests further to Mr. Wil

son's conception of how the fourteen points must be interpreted. Mr. Wilson Surrenders. After a certain time the inevitable accommodation occurred. Settlement of the French demands, which never Included annexation, which were without imperialistic or chauvinistic consideration, followed. The military frontier of the Rhine as a guaranty, the practical possession of the Sar coal region, absolute ownership of the coal mines, the assertion of the principle that Germany must pay the costs of the war, all these things were at least temporarily settled witty American approval, and, following an elo-

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INCREASED LUMBER PRICES PREDICTED

(By Associated Press') CHICAGO, April 16. Problems growing out of wartime conditions occupied the session of the national convention of lumbermen today, the second of their annual meetings, which will close on Thursday. The American Lumber congress, which opened the gathering of men of the trade, will continue until tomorrow when the an

nual convention of the National Lumber Manufacturers association will convene. The latter body will be addressed by Walker D. Hines, director general of railroads, Henry Solon Graves, chief of the United States forest service and Burwell S. Cutler, chief of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. The opinion was expressed by many of the lumbermen that prices would advance during the summer. Charles R. Keith, of Kansas City, Mo., chairman of the association's committee on federal relations, said he believed the alvance in price would be one

third over present prices before ta end of the fall season. A, "The cost of production has mounted 217 per ecent", Mr. Keith said,' "moreover, we face the loss of 105,; 000,000,000 feet accumulated In Eu-? rope during the last five years. Russia and Austria-Hungary used to furnish 55 per cent, of the worlds supply! and Russia will be out of the market, for at least four years. Production in the United States likewise has fallen to 70 per cent, of thepre -war out put. The reason Is in insufficient government price and the taking of the most efficient employes Into national, service." ;

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Photo taken at peace conference shows Serbian Minister M. Vesnitch at left. Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia in center and Iswolsky, Russian ambassador, at right. While Serbian leaders at the peace conference are bending; their efforts to obtain proper reparation for Serbia in the settlement of war claims the Serbians nave overthrown the ruling dynasty and set up a republican form of government. Crown Prince Alexander, regent for his father. King Peter, has been at Paris as a representative of the old govern znent. as has M. Vesnitch. Serbian minister.

quent speech of the President on behalf of the amendments of the covenant of the league of nations, in conformity with criticism of United States senators, British opposition disappeared. It is still too soon to say that anything was settled, because all these questions may be reopened, but for the present at least the danger of permanent deadlock and collapse was avoided by necessary surrender on the part of Mr. Wilson a surrender which amounted to recognition of the French necessity, generous rather than the most literal Interpretation of the fourteen points, and in return Mr. Wilson received European indorsement of his amendments of the league of nations covenant. But there was something more In this collision than the momentary tension. We had in fact reaction of Europe against American control of the affairs of Europe, and American regulation of European questions without regard to European conditions, traditions and necessities. France reasserted her right to live despite any possible provisions of the fourteen

points and Great Britain rallied to the i support of France, both on French is- j sues and in the matter of reparations,

which was only less Important to the British than to the French mind.

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