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...billion gold marks as a starting point for conversations. And already advance notices of a new French statement of a most promising nature are filtering out. It is said that Premier Poincare's new bill will omit pension charges, will not require the Class C bonds unless her allies press their debt charges too hard, and therefore will reduce the total reparation charge to fifty billion gold marks. This is no more than enough to repair the damage which Germany herself caused in the war. No German can deny the moral obligation of Germany to pay this irreducible minimum...
According to recent press reports the Kuzbas experiment is still very much alive. "Kuzbas" is a Utopian colony located at Kamerovo, Siberia, where American radical workers migrated to carry out their syndicalist and communist theories " in perfect freedom." It was originally under the leadership of "Big Bill" Haywood, the I. W. W. chief who jumped his bail while under a 20-year jail sentence, but he was ejected by the colonists for incompetence. Following this, disillusioned members of the colony returned to America bringing back gloomy tales of the failure of Kuzbas and charging certain radical promoters of the venture...
Foreign nations have taken no little interest in the decision of the Supreme Court which forbids their vessels to carry liquor as part of their ship stores, or even under seal, when in United States waters. There was a storm of protest in the English and French press...
...contemporary quotations from the British press are: The London Star: ..." Unjust and unreasonable interference...
Under the headline " British comment on Liquor Decision," all of the above statements are " summarized " by the London correspondent of The Monitor thus: " The Press here gives considerable prominence to the United States Supreme Court's decision on the question of a ship's right to bring liquor into United States ports...