Washington Post, The (Newspaper) - August 12, 1920, Washington, District Of Columbia Member of fee Associated Press Tile Associated Preu 1> entitled to the use tor of all newt dis- patcher credited to it or not otherwise credited In paper and the tool newa The Post Is member of tns Associated receiving the complete services of the world's greatest lowed by by night and not much change In Temperature 73. 130. AND ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER D. O. AUGUST 12, 1920. 1920, BT THS WASHINGTON POST TWO BACK Premier Reports of New French ADMITS VIEWS CONFLICT All Possible Military Aid ised by Paris Foreign ACCEPTS GENERAL'S PLEDGES French Government Also Notifies Representatives in London to Have No Dealings With Leonid Krassin and Other Soviet saries of Over- throwing Bolshevism and lishing Democratic Government Seen by Com- petent Military the Associated Aug. Lloyd George said in the house of commons today that he had received no in- official or that the French government had Gen. Mr. Lloyd George said that at the Hythe conference no proposal was submitted for recognition of Gen. He added that neither the foreign office nor the French em- bassy had received any information that recognition had been given and he could only assume that the report was Liberal Leader announcement was regarded as deepening the mystery of the reported recognition of Gen by Prance news of reached London from Pang in a news agency The matter was raised in the house of commons hv Sir ald the liberal who declared if this was the actual tion taken by France that that try must go on alone He said he did not believe Great Britain would allow herself to be pledged to un- limited military ad This declaration was loudly ed by the labor Lloyd George proceeded to admit conflict of between the French and government respecting Gen but he added that neither government under any obligation respect to Gen either to each other or to feel said the Premier Millerand had had it in his mind to issue a proclamation Gen he have intimated it to the allied I must come to the conclusion that some unfortunate mistake has occurred in the given through a very reliable agency and that the French has not In view of the uncertainty of the and in response to the urgent request of liberal and Lloyd George has consented to have the house of reassemble Monday instead of adjourning tomorrow until October as had been it learned today France Recognize s Aug It the Associated government has decided tn recognize Baron Peter Wrangel as head of the defacto of South Russia In making this announcement the minister of foreign affairs said this recognition applied rendering Gen Wrangel all possible military France aend a high commissioner to the foreign of- fice Two reasons given by the for- eign office for recognizing Gen. The first was his promise to assume all the obligations of the former Russian The second was ise to give sia a democratic France notified Premier George yesterday of her action to this effect it was The French likewise is notifying its commercial attache in London to have dealings Leonid Krassin and the soviet emissaries in the British Expects Harsher The French foreign office regards the soviet terms to which the British premier read in the house of commons last as only nary and it Is convinced that the soviet government later exact much harsher peace In announcing the recognition of the south Russian the ministry of foreign affairs said the soviet government's anxiety with re- gard to Gen. Wrangel's successes was due to its knowledge that he the most competent an leader had yet The French believe Gen. shows more promise of the bolshevik regime than did the Gen. or Admiral chak in their operations against the Gen. the French point is meeting with great success in all the cassack tribes against the of military In Reds Progress Little In Converging Move On Polish Capital Associated Aug. ation of Warsaw is little judged from the scant news reaching Paris It seems that the con- verging movement on the cap- ital has made only slight and that the est danger still lies from the The road Is now cut on a length of thirty and the vik cavalry continues to creep along the Prussian The reds also are advancing west of the Middle Bug Ington of the establishment within Russia of a force that might fully combat the bolsheviki was strengthened yesterday by the an- of France's decision to give de facto recognition to Gen. Wrangel as the head of the south Russian Gen. Wrangel has conducted a successful campaign against the red forces and the action of France is expected materially to strengthen his position since he now will be able to draw upon the outside material Similar recognition of Gen. by the United States is not at least until the Russian situation becomes clearer than it is at this It was stated officially that this was not to be interpreted as meaning that the American government was not in sympathy with the action of POLES DELAY PARLEY Send Officers to Arrange New Armistice Session BLAME SILENCE OF REDS Soviet Reassures Britain of of Poland's Aug. 10. the Associated chief of the diplomatic and Maj. Stamirowski due to leave Warsaw for Minsk tonight to ar- range the actual date for a meeting the Poles and the to negotiate armistice Officials explained that they are only authorized to flx the date for a ing of the peace The emissaries are to explain land's side in the misunderstanding with regard to the wireless note sent by Poland accepting the soviet suggestion for a meeting at Minsk but never acknowledged by the Moscow Red Officers on Aug Polish gates did not go to where an armistice meeting was to have been held on account of the failure of the Russian soviet government to reply to the Polish note of August 5 relative to armistice and peace Russian arrived at the Polish advanced post at the pointed time to await the Polish gate 3- the Polish foreign has therefore ordered cers to visit the bolshevik lines to de- termine the armistice If it is ascertained that the soviet ment is willing to conduct tions on the basis of the Polish note of August 5, a Polish delegation will be sent to Reassures Aug. of the Russian soviet delegation here today to Premier Lloyd George a message received from cow concerning the proposed Russo- Polish peace conference at The message from the soviet sent in French to saw It asked the date when the Polish delegation would arrive and also requested the names of the newspaper correspondents desirous of accompanying the It added that no difficulty would be difficulty would be place in the way of Polish couriers or of the use of the radios in communicating with the note have no Intentions ble with Poland's ence and sovereign We the same Plan Line Near Advices from from a source usually well informed say the Polish general staff plans to retreat to a fortified line running just to the north of Modlin through to a point near This would bring the line to proximately 12 miles from The Polish it is believes the Poles would be able to hold np the advance on this line for several at A steady push westward by the Russians along the Bug is reported n Tuesday's official statement from received indicating a continuing closer approach to by the sovett the statement When you think of think at Officials Confident Allies Cannot Ignore Plain Terms of POLAND MAKES DEMANDS Next Mere Expected to Define At- of Foreign Willingness of America to Cooperate on Russian Question Depends on Asks United States to Be More Specific in of Diplo- mat Deemed Colby to Amplify Official W. 1920, by Washington Post Now that America's attitude toward the Russian question has been for- mally interest centers on the effect which Secretary of State Colby's communication will have on foreign particularly Great Brit- Italy and These governments cannot ignore the ment that the United States regard with satisfaction a tion by the allied and associated ers that the territorial integrity and true boundaries of Russia shall be The next move must therefore come from these allied and associated they agree that territory belonging to the old Russian with the exception of Finland ethnic Poland and sucht territory as may by agreement form a part of the Armenian shall be restored to the Russian they don plans to build up so-called pendent Russian such as Georgia and despite the fact that their commercial interests would have to abandon hope of rich rewards in the way of oil and other Japan pledge abandonment of Russian territory In Siberia Will Great Britain and France agree to a policy of friendship and gratitude to the and will they differentiate between the Russian people and the present soviet Will Premier Lloyd of Great Britain cease negotiations with the on the basis of their and the project for a don conference between and representatives of Poland and the states bordering on Russia be Answer Seems It is difficult to see how the allied and associated powers can escape answering these Upon the answers depends the willingness of the United States to cooperate with Europe on the Russian For the time is in the position of logically awaiting No move on the part of the United no participation in economic pressure upon Russia either by the blockade or other means and no assistance to the Polish forces is be even considered by the United States until the international tion is In one Secretary Colby has fired a 16-inch surcharged with high-powered American into the ranks of the European and Asiatic and he intends to ascertain the effect ofr the sion before contemplating further Colby Keeps Efforts on the part of men to have Mr. Colby define cally what he meant by saying that the United States would employ available to safeguard land's political independence and integrity met with no en- In a communication of prime importance it is not always possible for a statesman to be too specific as to In other if he is too specific along this he is not a The effect of the Colby note would admittedly be jeopardized if he restricted ally the purport of its Under these there was some surprise in official and circles when it became known that Count the Polish had issued a public statement virtually inviting the United States to say what it meant by available The minister's which is given in full later adds that this is no time to into the theoretical discussion of what is meant by the phrase available Procedure Is These are admittedly critical times for so that the Minister's rather unusual procedure In ing to commit the United States to assist Poland now is being viewed there Is nothing in Mr. Colby's officials that warrants the Minister's sumption that the United States Is at this juncture considering aid to the Polish forces against the The note in fact makes it very clear that America's policy does vot imply the use of American directly or indirectly against the Certainly is no thought of this kind of action until the State ment knows where the allied and powers stand on the sian Poland's independence is not challenged from any so far as officials Evan the Soviets no plan to deprive Poland of independence or territorial There is nothing to show the Russian armies in the field have any tion of fighting for the acquisition of territory or for the destruction of Poland's officials the time for using available to pre- serve Poland as a free nation has not arrived and may not arrive at The situation is difficult It is without attempting to cope with problems which have not de- Opposition May It not cause surprise If sharp opposition to the American policy de- in some quarters of Europe and in There is already a sharp note of dissent manifest here from representatives of the so-called independent Russian Walter M. of New formerly representative in and now legal and political sentative of those republics issued a statement yesterday defending the He said In making this proclamation through Mr. Mr. Wilson repudiates and tramples under foot the doctrine of tion which he so loudly proclaimed at Each of the Baltic and casian republics that I represent is radically different in religion and civilization from Slavic Each has in Its history and religion all the elements of the rights of elements that differentiate them radically from the Russian Slavic Each fought bravely with the allies against the Germans and has since fought and the bolsheviki to the yet our standing most alone among the nations of the denies them recognition of their But I repeat this not of Mr. Colby's is not the voice of The Polish who wants credits extended to and wise desires to purchase from America's surplus war Issued the following the note of the American to the Italian Ambassador the United States points out its view as to the necessity of maintaining an independent Poland while firmly ing its attitude toward the Russian people and The can true to which for a hundred years have been those of has sounded in this critical hour a true tion for Poland's freedom and In this the United States government maintains the position toward Poland taken by President Wilson at the peace statement that the United States will employ all available means in the Maintenance of a free Poland I am inspire Poland with a new spirit of hope as soon as it is But immediately the question presents itself as to what is meant by the phrase available which the American ment states it is willing to render in defense of Poland's independence and territorial who know what is taking place m Poland at the present the organization of thousands of their need for rifles and the influx of refugees who have fled westward be- fore the advancing tide of the red Increasing the the dreaded who realize this will readily understand what Poland needs and immediately before it is too aid is tive by the of the viet terms of Not only do they require the demobilization of land's but behind their terms they seek to clear for the red army the passage to Germany and even This is therefore no time to en- ter Into the theoretical discussion of what aid might be meant by the phrase available Poland Is continued accusations directed against Poland that she is istic mean to me that in the minds of many there is a complete standing of the psychology and tics of Bolshevism is only possible by the continued advance of the red army and through the cation of communist revolution in other Poland and her have long understood and in order to prevent annihilation by the advancing wave and to protect others forced to under- for defensive an of- fensive is not and never was a war with the Russian for whom Poland has a sincere and true This realized by some of the most eminent the great writer politicians of high such as a leader of social and many others who appealed to the Polish tion for assistance for This cooperation of some of the most liant representatives of Russia with the Polish government and Polish army gave conclusively that the real Russia is on our side and that the policy of the United States toward as stated in thia is that of Oil New Aug. directors of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Cor- have declared an initial quarterly dividend of share on the preferred payable August 15. This stock was recently issued in exchange for Its per cent con- vertible gold By Abandoning Motor Trip Will Not Call on SPEAKS TO SOLDIERS TODAY Governor Will Shoot Few Target Hounds at Cap Police Hunt Strike New Aug. and agents of the Department of Justice today toured the city in automobiles seeking persons who placarded ished subway stations in Brooklyn with posters signed Com- munist Party of the United and calling for a general strike in support of soviet Candidates in Columbus Nominee Promises to Them thing Every After ber at Camp Perry Will Open His Strenuous By T. 1920, by Washington Post Aug. closely the national presidential is interwoven affairs in the State of Ohio was illustrated today when Gov. Cox and Senator found themselves in the State Senator Harding came over from Marion to make a speech and to play a round of grolf at one of the Columbus clubs and Gov. Cox came on from outside of to attend to a few duties before taking to the road in earnest in furtherance of the fortunes of the Democratic Tomorrow on his way to make an address at Camp the famous military shooting Gov. Cox will pass through At first he expected to motor all the way from but on account of the condition of the northern de- late today to make the trip as far as Toledo by Would Have Called on If he had gone by automobile the governor said late today he surely would stopped off enough in Marion to pay his respects to his The two men have been friends for a great many tor Harding did not come into the center of the city stopping at the Golf Club in the northern out- skirts and returning to Marion Gov. Cox heard today that Senator Harding and his managers at Marion were much interested In his He said that while tis speaking dates were somewhat at the moment and would continues so September 3, after that time he hem something every one can't be any more lar than added the Says to The campaign for Gov. Cox is on in He said good-bye to his home at this morning and will be constantly on the go until election returning to Columbus from time to time to dispose of any matters demanding his attention in the governor's Politically the most important move made by the governor today a long talk over the telephone with Gov. of at respecting the situation there as to the ratification of the suffrage Roberts assured he said had shown the amendment would be ratified by the legislature and hoped the ratifying resolution might pass both branches of the by Suffragists Still While Gov. Cox was talking with Gov. Mrs. Abby political manager of the National Woman's was seeking an in- with him on the Tennessee and was about to demand that he give the matter his sonal Mrs. Baker was going to ask that Gov. Cox send a personal representative to Tennessee by the first train and was going to supplement this by the demand that if the personal agent could lish Gov. Cox must give up his other engagements and go there The suffragists plainly were worried by the delay in getting the thirty-sixth State in line for the amendment and thus Jeopardizing the chance for many millions of women to vote in the presidential contest this It developed this evening that Gov. Cox has had several conversations SEES WORLD PERILS Harding Says Civilization Has Not Yet Become FIND RIGHT HE URGES Senator Declares Menaces as Great Today as in Midst of Nominee Speaks at Picnic in Honor of Brother's Roads Give Him Theme of Wants America to Stand as rier to for Better Understanding Among Men ON SEVENTH The Bright Eyes of Danger THE thrill of the lure of the tle the appetite for adventure these and more in WIND by George Barr a new Blue Ribbon Serial in next Sunday's Don't miss the opening of this did a red-blooded yarn of love and told in his best vein by a master Order Your Copy of NEXT SUNDAY'S POST HARRY 1920, by Washington Post Aug. Harding again left the front porch this afternoon to make an This time it was at a a ering of some 600 members of the Kiwanis Club of Columbus and the Worthington Chamber of in honor of Senator Dr. George T. us get back on the right road the nominee United States must hold a firm no matter what the immediate surface conditions Senator Harding He likened the conditions In the world and in ica today to the He had he that in driving to Worthington there was bad spots in the road and detours were necessary but always as quickly as possible he got on the right road Right Track Biggest The biggest need of the hour in the nominee the biggest need of the hour in Europe is to securely steady to take stock and to know where we have drifted in the great tumult of war and then to get our feet firmly on the right track Senator speech in think I would rather be the brother of the doctor today than to be a visitor who is never anly longer permitted to forget that he is a for We have been this and In the tions of a motor while driving so carefully that one could look from I found self likening modern travel to some of the problems of I discovered JOint going wae smooth we ajong speedily and and then occasionally we found spots of road so so thoroughly out of repair that we had to but I observed that as quickly a we could get back on the main way again and I likened that to a very recent experiment of condition of the world took us temporarily off the main for- ward track and I think it the business of the people of the United States of America to get back on the main Then I thought of another somewhat similar parallel that when yu build a road you expect humanity to travel over you must not only build for ture but must commit self to the of the and I likened that to the experience of You must not only build on a foundation for the future but it is perfectly futile to build if you do not give some attention to the and the biggest problem in life is the of modern I noted one other a There has never been a perfect highway builded since ern civilization began if it did not have a good and my mind ran back to some sections in our country where we builded the old corduroy roads and they were always passable because underneath the face were the lumber and logs that made the foundation and you could always get Urges Hold on make the application if you have a you can always get no matter what the Immediate surface and again I make the application for the the United States of America must hold to firm tion no matter what the immediate surface conditions may I won't take these things to have a partisan my I am not thinking of partisan out loud at any The world has always foundations necessary to I am not looking I am Just clinging to The story of civilization is a very one and I think I can make the plication to this meeting this after- gret on in life by touching elbows and exchanging That is the story of Must Understand Each has progressed throughout the Just as ideas have been exchanged and men have come in contact with one And when they began to ideas they began to exchange And then came the expansion of the I liken that to your association of various lines of activities and I want to preach to you as a fellow not as a candidate for the supreme necessity of the gospel of If there is anything the world needs in the present state of in the present state of unrest and fevered rection and aye and tt is the understanding of men and women with one brother was referred to as a I do not know bat what world a nerve or the brother of Just the biggest need of hour in the biggest need of the hour in in all 16 to securely steady down and take stock and to know where have drifted in the great tumult of and to get our feet firmly on the right track and in on to future accomplishments and the tri- umph of World Is Still do not think I am but I tell my there is Just as much of menace in the world this evening as there was in the midst of the tumult of has not become steady There are wars in Europe threatened industrial tions throughout the there is an assault on our inherited tion and I wont our country to steady down to come to an under- standing of our and let America stand as a barrier against the of revolution and de- struction throughout the We of America have had the supreme in- heritance and it is the patriotic wish of every quite without re- gard to political affiliations to pre- serve that inheritance Sometimes some of us may differ as to but I beg to speak this afternoon seriously and let ue hold fast to that came to us first through the sacrifices of the fathers and then through those who gave us the preservation of this and to cling to the firm certain can always go on safely and then make effort to get back on the right track again and go ahead in the United States of Picnic in Honor of Senator Harding left Marion at and motored to the Scioto Country just outside of with Harry M. he played eighteen holes of After lunch he drove to the home of his Dr George T. near members of the Club of Columbus and the Chamber of Commerce were having a the occasion being the birthday anniversary of his He was accompanied by Mrs. Mr. Daugherty left tonight for cago to confer with Chairman ROBINSON Stricken in France When About to Begin Automobile Special to The Post Aug. of New York and died day of heart disease as he was about to leave Vichy by automobile for He was taken to his ment in his hotel in summoned but he died a few minutes after ing the The body will be to Paris Arrangements for the funeral e not been CARAWAY LEAKS Little Aug. 11 the Incomplete un- official returns tonight from day's Democratic State primary in- that Thaddeus H representative in Congress from the First Arkansas district had defeated United States Senator F Kirby for the senatorial nomination Figures compiled by the Arkansas Gazette tonight gave the following It is estimated that this accounts for about two-thirds of the total vote Senator Kirby's record was the chief issue of the sentative Caraway centered his at- tack on the senator's opposition to measures sponsored by President just before the United States declared war against Germany The figures on the contest tonight indicated that former Congressman Thomas C of had won the the vote and Harding Urges Protection Of Industries in South Special to The Aug. ren O. in an interview about the South published in tomorrow's issue of the Manufacturers' it will be my aim to the utmost extent of my ability to know neither North or East or except as to geographical divisions I the has passed when there should be any feeling of anywhere in this and I trust that I may be to some ex- tent instrumental in bringing into closer touch and harmony of ment all sections of the country am in hearty sympathy with the aspirations and desires of the South to bring about a full utilization of its No man can ever again question the devotion of the South to the nation and to the progress of the whole It is my tion that the policies are to the development of New England and the West are the policies which would be equally favorable to the in the matter of a protective I the South needs protection more than other the things need a fostering Its sugar industry was practically destroyed by the trade policy of the Underwood and that the essential unity of the fabric of all parts of the We are paying in the scarcity and ex- high prices of the penalty for the mistake of applying a policy to this we well-nigh destroyed the There are other industries in the South need protection in the same The peanut are protesting against the heavy tations of peanuts raised in the Orient by labor is earning only a few cents a paid for at parents and children doing most of the as I and they are calling upon the Democratic nominees to declare in favor of a tariff on and several of them have done that the sentiment is eo strong fro protection on peanuts that In some it Is no man could be sleeted who had not declared In favor of tariff for I STATE CLOSES Financial Wizard Admits Two Prison INSISTS HE CAN PAY DP Trust Company Loans Says HANDLED ACCOUNT Treasurer of Declaring That Payments of Had Been Through That Institution for Asserts Institution Is Blame for An- other's Crime in Ponzi While Conviction In United States Was Due to a the Associated Aug. who has handled millions of dollars of other people's money in the last few confessed in a formal statement today that he was a former While he was making this statement the Hanover Trust Com- in which Ponzi was a director and a shareholder and through which he had done a large checking was closed by order Bank Commissioner Joseph 0. Ponzi at the same time announced his resignation from the bank's di- Commissioner Allen said that he had taken action because his ex- had found that the bank had made loans which excessive and beyond the legal and loans that are either bad or are of very doubtful value He ex- pressed the fear that the bank's capital had been Few Bad Says The executive committee of the Hanover Trust Company in a ment late said the committee believed that there were few poor loans on the bank's that there no reason to believe that the bank would not continue to meet its and that it had a cash re- serve of three times the amount that the law requires William S treasurer of the paid that Ponzi did not owe the bank a that any bank in the country have been glad of his and that Ponzi had out through the Fonzi P confession followed the lit morning newspapers of stories of the of in Montreal Confronted with these stones Ponzi conferred his attorneys and ihen gave to paper men a statement in which hr admitted that he and were the same man that he had served 20 months in prison in treal for and that he had served two years in the Federal penitentiary at Ga for smuggling Italians into th s country Assumed Another's He asserted that his sentence for forgery resulted from his assuming the blame for a committed by a banker in Montreal by whom he had been employed and who fled to Mexico I aro not trying to pose as a he added As to the incident Ponzi declared that he did not Italians Into this country Within ten days of my the Montreal he was asked to escort five Italians the States I did not smuggle them in I crossed the border on the train openly and was placed immediately under He said he had not previously marie known these incidents in his career because he that 'the Hail very little bearing on the present I made a I paid fur he said had every reason to believe that society owed me another Ponzi in a later previous assertions that he wa- solvent and could pay all notes out- standing against him as a result of his operation of the Securities Ex- change It was the large business done by this company offered to pay 50 per cent interest in 90 days on all loans and which in fact redeemed many notes with that inter- est in 45 days that resulted In the in- pow in progress by ral and State Ponzi claimed that through his tion of international postal reply coupons in various European countries he was able not only to pay the interest Bate to but in to make huge profits for When an auditor was employed by Federal authorities to go over books and determine announced that he accept no more loans until the investigation was but that he would honor all outstanding For lact his offices and
