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tain order under .conditions. of unexam- pled difficuity and danger. It is my ost earnest hope that all secfions-of gne people of Jreland will insist upon a return to constitutional methods which alone ecan put an end to the terrible events which threaten ruin to that country and make possibie reconcil- iation aund a_lasting peace. Then an- nouncing briefly the passage of the home rule bill, the speech continued. I sincerely hope- that this act, the fruit of more than 30 years of c2ase- less - controversy, will fi.ally bring about unity. .and fricadship. b2tween all. the peoples of my kingdom. The King ~oncluded by recounting the measures passed during the course of he parliamentary session. He referred i) unemployment as the darkest cloud on the horizon, springing less from in- ternational causes than from contraction of the export.trade arising out of the poverty of nations and their inability to secure credits The Govt. he said, was giving unremitting attentionto the problem. The session was somewhat unisual, It was expecteq} that parlia: ment would prorogue. about 8 o’clock, but.there was: difficulty. in adjusting the differences ~ between the two Houses over the Agricultural Biil, which had been to-shed about from lLerds -to Com- mons and from Commons to ‘|Lords g:wughou-t} -the evening. ~ Ihis resulted ‘delay. Fhough the Lords insisted in theiri amendment - the ~govt. iuffered four ~defeats; in succession and _in most of .-these.:gases - the House ot Commons had:s-perfotce .to ‘accept ‘these amend- ments -to. prevent the Bill from becom- inga dead letter. : ; IR - New York, Dec. 23rd.—New York’s erime -epidemic . appeared tobe waning rapidly:today before intensified police ae- tivity supported by drastic measures of criminal court' judges. 84 men, most of whom had been released on low bail, were -sent to jail by ju~ =in the court of general sessions .whe' . .e amounts of the sureties were raised®o high the pris- oners could not furnish them. Bail #mounting to $150,000 was ordered for- peited in the cases of60 others, who fail- ed to appear when ordered. Bail of one prisoner, who the record showed had been at liberty on $5,000 on .wo separate charg- es was Increased to $35,000 by-Judge Mc Intyre, who declared thatifthis was not forthcoming he would raise the amount -stil}-higher. Announcement was made that on Monday 500 men willbe started on a course of intensive training prepa: ratory to joining the reguilar police force. Few serious crimes were reported today. Numerous arrests were made however, and several prisone_rsl\%ere__befd,on charg es of earrying.concealed weapons.. Newark,: gs J.. Dec. ;%T(f,:ffudges!tol. lowiag the precedent established inNew “Work. today decided to fix hig:batlm cas- -8 where prisopers are’ cl rgéd with ‘gsing - or, possessing Wea’ OnS Those 51, CROI™ A Y ill> using revolvers or black jacks will be held in $20,000, virtually double the max- imum in the past while $5,000 was fixed as the sum in cases Wwhere the prisoners are charged with having such weapons. Berlin, Dec. 23rd.—General Hoffman, ex-chief of staff for the German East army who played an important part in the Brest-Litovsk negotiations, declares in an interview published in the Berlin Russian Daily Rul that Bolshevism hav- ing ceased to be regional, is a world pro-, <blem now which can be solved only by armed intervention by the great powers acting in concert. Anp international army, under the leadership of Generals Per shing, Joffre or Foch should occupy Pe- trograd, General Hoffman says, then march an Moscow, which he asserts is bound to fall before any well equipped and properly officered force. With the occupation of Moscow Trotzky and Len- inc would be nnhorsed and their 3,000 commissaries overthrown and the mem- bers of the whole regime would ask ‘‘safe account to pass by the shortest way to oblivion”. He teels certain that the Rus- sian workmen Wweuld be glad to desert taeir present leaders at the first- indica- tion thar cheir overthrow was imminent.. Moscow must be: spoken to. in the lan- guage of Brest-Litovsk not in the lan- guage of Mr. Lloyd George in Leondon. To remcdel bolshévism. is. impossible Any entente attempt .to” incorporate Bolsaevism in. the. European conecert would ‘be powerless.. Any trade rela- tioas with. Russia 'would oply furnish- a cloak. for red propaganda, for Bolshey- ism .wil'bea ‘w_t),_i'l?é.\iolu_t’io?. .. Trotzky had studied tbe hijstory "of the French Revolution and ‘knows the ‘use of the scourge. = Under this system no man-can rise to power from the army, the ap- pearance of a new Naroleon in' Russia is out of the question: The crash of the Soviet regime woild be inevitably fol- lowed by a reign of unparallelled anar- chy. The only thing that remains is armed intervention. by the great powers. As chief of- the staff of the Eastern Arvmy during the war I directed the pro- paganda against the Russian. army. T'he general staff made use of every pos- sible means to break through the Rus- sian front. Onegof the means was poi- son gas, another was Lenine. The Im- ‘perial regime despatched Lenine to Rus- sia from the Swiss frontier in a sealed car for a definite purpose., With our consent - Lenine and his friends disor- ganized the Russian army. Voo Kubhi- mann, former G2rman S-:cretary for Foreign Affairs, Couat Czernin, Austro- Hungarian Foreigng Minister ard[ then closed the Brest Litovsk treaty, so that we codld torow our Arny against the western .front. While in Brest we were convipced~ thar the BRolsheviks chuld ast hold phwer more than throe weeks, on .ny wardof honoar -as a Ger- man Geazeral. © In spite of the valuable service Trouzky and Lenine rendered we neither knew or foresaw the danger to humanity from the curse of this jour- ney of Bolshevism to Russia. At that time we weighed the matter with as little consideration as the entente does now. Would the Alliecs and especially Mr. Lloyd George carry om megotiations and make concessions if they fully re- alized the frightful danger which Bol- shevism represents. General Hoffmann says that the army command realized the danger anda plan was laid before the supreme command of the eastern arm; for the overthrow of Bolshevists: but events developed so rapidly, follaws ing upon the assassination of Couss Von Mirbach, the German Ambasss- dor to Russia in Moscow, and the situa- tion on the western front had become so critical, that it was impossible to force the issue. - Paris, Dec. 26th.—''Le Journal ‘‘Says todey that it learns from Berlin that it isreported in political circles there that a manifesto has been prepared by the Austrian Government addressed to the League of Nations asking that Austria be attached t> Germany. Dr. gimon:;, the German Foreign Minister and Coust. Cludenitz, forme! Austro-Hungdridan for- eign minister, are -said to have drafted the document., The Petit Parisien dé~. clares that the recent tieaty signed ¥ ltaly nd Jugo Slavia specifically. pts . vides tor reciprocal support to prevelt the restoration of the monarchy ‘either in Austria or Hungary. ‘A Copenhagen despatenh of December Bthi., qw;:tc -the Berlin correspondence of the h%, 4 said that Cludenitz was .in.Berlin:dis- cussing the possibility of upity 'with Germany and Austria, following: the.lat ter’'s admission into the league of Na- tions. e Dublin, Dec. 26th.—Two' men who tired on the Crown forces at ‘l'ralee were shot. dead by the artiilery when they tried to escape. They had revolvoers and “*dam dum’’ builets in their possession. Iriest, Dec. 26th. —ltalian regulars have reached the faetories on the edge of tiume and are.closing in gradually on D’Annunzio’s stronghold. It is ex- pected Firume will be taken this eveniayg or tOMOrrow merning. o Rome, Dec. 26th. -* 'ne world. is aff- ected by five great plagaes, said Pope Benedict, replying to the greetings ‘of the Sacrea Collgge presented by Car- dinal Vanuteili at a reception to the Poauff. The VYope enumerated’ these as Lhe negation .6t authority, hatred among brothers, thirst for pleasure, dis- like for work and forgetfulness of the supernatural object of life. These evils can only ‘be overcuome wiih the aid of the Gospel, said the Pope and therefore he would never cease to remind the peo- ple of'l',” this being his mission and his urteativa -of - his predecessors, cele- brated: three mid. ight masses in the Pauline Chapei, which was beautifully decorated. R TR P BT