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tonight’’, added M. Jasper, the Foreign Minister. “‘Don’t be too hasty’’, said Mr. Lloyd George, with one of his win- ning smiles, ‘I was otly discussing hypotbeses. It clarifies the judgement to examine all sides of a question’’. Mr. Licyd George and M. Briand really got on admirably ‘ogether, they are feillow-celts and not unlike eath other in temperament. they both arrived at the conciusion that what the German (ovt. and people required was an order, and an order that wou'd be obeyed, that otherwise Germany would wear out the Allies by continuously shifting the pbasis of negotiations- The troops sent into the Rhine ports will be the mini- inum necessary to maintain order. Ger- many will be notified that the troops will be withdrawn immediately the allied conditions are accepted. If Germany maintains an attitude of passive resis- tance, the allied Govts. will examine further means of coercion. The new levy on the Rhine at the bridgehead will be established by the inter Allied Rhine Commission. A plan has been worked out in all details and vill begin o oper- ate on Thursday. London, March Bth. This morning newspapers, with one exception, approv- ed of the Allies decision to penalize Germany for refusing to accede to the allied plan for reparations. The excep- tion was the Daily News. which com- pfained that Mr. Lloyd George "‘Had brushed aside solid German offers mak- ing for the peacetul soluticn of the situ- ation. Mr. Lloyd George, ‘‘The news- + paper continued,’”’ compleiely capitulated to France. The Allied decision was a triumph of the French Policy oi revenge and all the sinister impiications it con- tains.’’ .The newspaper urged there was no legal and seant moral justification for the step projected by the [Entent2 ‘and asked why the Allies could not havz wailted a forth-night longer for the re- sult of the Upper Silesian Piebiscite. It says three sequels are most inevitable. Germany will lose the plebiscite which will still further reduce her paying capa- city, the indemnity will become worth- less as an economic reality and Marshal Foch will find a ‘'convenient occasion to take over a vast industrial regior which France has long coveied.”’ Berlin, March Bth. The occupation of Dusseldort, Duisburg and Ruhrort by Allied forces, will not be opposed by the German Govt., it was indicated here ear- ly this morning. The Cabinet was in session until 11 o’clock and then dis- persed without taking action, calculated to meet the situation which has arisen between Germany and the Allied na- tions. It has been hoped that some means of avoiding a final break must be found, in the formal conferences between Dr. Simons, Mr. Lloyd George and M. Briand, during the past three days. Speaking of the Allied penalities, a cabi- net member stated after the adjournment 2.0 il%y ]s of the meeting, ‘We must bear them with dignity.”” Members of the Cabinet who were willing to talk viewed the sit- uation with a sigh of rvesignation and de- clarad nothing will be said or done, until the eff ¢t of the Entente invasion has been demonstrated practically. Ger- many’s coal deliveries to the *lies must pe effected by the present . .uation, if was indicated here last night. Although Eatente tro)ps may seize import: nt coal sinipbping points, they will have o go stili turther into the interior of the Ruhr dis.rier, in order to secure effective con- trol of coal produetion. P :sident Ebert, late last night, issued an appeal to the German pecple, urging them to meet this foreign despotism ‘‘with austere dignity.”” He also admonished them not to commit ill advised aects, and con- cluded his appeal saying, ‘‘Be patient, have faitti, for the Govt. will not rest unti! the foreign tyrants yield to our rights.”” None of the Cabinet members appealeid to have any definite idea as to the next move of the Allies aside from invading fresh German area. The Govt, it was said, was certain of support in the Reichstag in view of declarations made last Saturday, when all factions, except the Communist, went on record in opvo- sition to the demands formulated at Paris. A letter addressed to Her Royal High- ness Princess of Prussia’’ was recently refused for registration by a German post office at Hermesdors near Berlin, on the grounds that Royalties no longer ex- isted in Germany and that the letter should have been addressed to Frau von Preussen.—Barbados Herald, Feb. 19ih. In certain villages in Hungary an or- der has been published according to which all men over the age of eighteen who are able to maintain a family must marry within two months.—lbid. A part of a munmified skeleton is said to have been found in Pennsylvania which must have been that of a man nine feet high. He is supposed to have be- longed to a race inhabiting the country before the Red Indians arrived.—lbid. OSTRICH SKIN SHOES NEXT The first consignment of ostrich skins to be used in shoe manufacture has ar- rived in Boston. Shoes made from this material are ‘‘much superior to leather and will wear longer and cost less.”’ Such are the elaims. It is proposed to place them on the market about Easter time as an ‘‘Easter speciaity.”’ Some of them may last till April Fool, which is five days later.—The Pathfinder. SNOW IN CALIFORNIA. For the first time in the memory of Its oldest inhabitamt snow fell in Long Beach, a suburb of Los Angeles, Calif. and a blizzard beld up traffic in the mountalnous vicinity of San Bernardino. PRESIDENTS WHO SMOKED CIGA- RETTES Women who are bent on reforming everyone are objecting to the inaugura- tion of President-elect Harding on the ground that he smokes cigaretts. Other Presidents have smoted ihem more or less—for instance: Arthur, Cleveland, Benjamin, Harrison, Me Kinley, Roose- velt, Taft, and even our present Mr. Wilson. Senator Smoot, who introduced an anti-smoke bill in Congress, does not smoke. This leads some ecritics to remark that the reformers never do care for the things they to want prevent others from doing. None of the Pre- sidents named above were confirmed ciga- rette smokers. Roosevelt was opposed to the smoking habit, but he kept ci- gars and cigarettes on his desk for call- ers, and he would sometimes puff a coffin-nail with a visitor for social pur- poses. President Wilson smckes a ciga- retie only on rare ocecasions.—ibid Nearly two-thirds of the nations be- longing to the league have neglected to pay their dues. This is as might have been expected. f[here is- always the deuce to pay when the e is the dues to pay. Who ever heard ofa church, club, society. lodge or other organiza- tion in which the members would all do their full skare and put up their cash without being ‘‘jumped on’’? A few of the members always have to be depended on to do the work and foot the bills; the two human elements—- the doers and the slackers are found everywhere. The League of Nations members have merely displayed their human weaknessby leing hackward in coming forward when it ccmes to putting up the money. /s long as cra- tory and discussion and advice is all that is_in order, everything is ovely, but when the call for artual duty is issued, the volunteers are not so numerous. A good excuse for “‘ducking’ respesibili- ties can always be fcund by some people. But stili, the woild can’t step for such slackers. The people who have the capability and the ability have to take control and shoulder the burden.- Jbid. CAUBE §F RCOUT ROT IN CORN. Chemists of the derariment of agr'- culture hav discovered thet the cavse of the destructive ¢f corn disezse ‘reot rot,' orcorp "Iheuppticm .V is ipenfe cient acid in the stalk juices. It is be- lieved that as a lerult cf tle discovery the coin cicr will ke ircressed 10 rer cent. lbid.