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How World Views Philip Snowden An Interesting Sizing Up of Snowden's Action at the Recent Hague Con- ference Religious Fanaticism Bathes Jerusalem in Blood and Stirs the World A NEW HERO The Hague Gave Britain a new hero, for the frail llltio man witli tlie fiery temper who so boldly stated his country's position, united British opinion be^.iud him as no British statesman had done at any previous confert";ce since the World War. cf r- respnndents agree. And the world watched with amazement. Its open diplomacy liao "its first outstanding trial." jiiid correspondents described the thrill of an international confer- ence In which England was tlie ag- gressor Inrtead of the mediator What- ever reidjiistment if tJe Young plan may have been made or left unmade by the time this reaches the reader, all observer, seem to be aware that, at any rate. In the words of one of our odltora, "the factor of B.ltlsh patlance and self-sacrifice, on which everybody has counted for so long, appears to hav«i been playei' out." Others note the new I>ahor GDvern- mcnt'.=; di.stlnct break with th? pro- French pollcle.i in vosue »h?r Aus- ten Chamberlain was Foreign Secre- tary. Philip Snowden, as Chan.-ellor of the Exchequer, is in charge > f the Rritiih Government's finances, and in that (apacity l:e h?ad«i the Bri'ish dflogatinn at the conTerence culled at The Hague to give governnu-nlal sanction t;. tlie Young plan of repn- rations settlement drawn up at Paris last spring. Snowden. it will he re- membered, electrified the world and startled his fellw-conferees hy Hat- ty (iemandln.g on the very fir.-'t day three thin.gs â€" continuance of tbe per- centages arranged at the Spa cnn- ferenct for distributing payments from Germany, instead of the Young plan percentages less favorable to Brittuii: discontinuance of German pavnients "in kind," harmful to Bri- tish iisines.s; and a rearrangement of the conditii nal and unconditional pay- ments under the Y'oung plan sa as to give England a larger share of what Germany is bound to pay regard- less of circumstances. Whatever the outfome of the con- ference# Philip Snowden becomes "the most ci nspicuous figure in old World politics by his determination to speak the truth as England sees it." to quole one of George W. Hinman's dispatches from The Hague to the New York .American. Overnight this "cold aloi f figure," notes John L. Balderston in a London cable to the New York World "made himself the j most popular man in the country."! Newspaper readers here will recall â-  that no sooner had reports rf Snow-| dens lilunt speeches been spread! abroad than the English press, with- 1 out respect to party, rose to support him. .Vot only did his own chief.] Prime Minister MacDonald. is.-iue state- j menis endorsing his p-sitlon, but! emphaiic statements of approval came; from the Liberal leader, David Lloyd j George, and such conspicuous ron-j serviitives as Austen Chamberlain and Winston Churchill. I "Mr. Snowden is one man in ten ' million." says the Baltimore S'ln. ex plaining his unforeseen d^minanc of the conference. Frail an.1 crip- ; pled, "possess of inflexible will," he is] "poles apart from the type Bri'ainj usually sends to a conference; In-^ stead of the traditional figure of, suave approach, of reserve, of oau-, th n. of long-l'.caded instinct for bar- 1 gain, of willingness to forget the, trees olng enough to look at the: woods, there is the man who curtly i says 'Take it or leav* '.t! Snow-. ibti i-! ''lie of the clear, intense flames! cf Britisn lutellectual radi-'a'i'.'>i" re- read in 'lie PhiladelphiT Eveiiln? Pub-i I'c L-d;;i; "he has only hitter con-; tempt fo> the new war-lcrds and tho', phrewd pnd tireless ha,'"Icv< who| have oeen representin«c continental j diplomacy at all the debt confer- ; eiices." This vivid pic'ure Is drawn by Guy Hickok in one .if his llrooUlyn ; Eagle dispatches from The Ilagtie: "Philip Snowden Is an altm st help- less cripple, as a result of a bicycle ^ accident In his youth. At this ion-, ference it Is only with the air of - two canes that he walks from the council table to his car." A complete, paralysfSi of his hips makes it neces- i sary to brace his thighs agninst the tabl;> when he stands to speak. "His deatl'.ly white face with skin drawn tight over the skull is fur- n wed with hunejreds of little lint's Sf pain, and In repose, with its Iii)le?3 mouth, hollow cheeks and pa!« blue eyes. Is tike a German artist's mask of trigedy." Of this man. once called "the Kobe- spierre of the coming English revolu- tion." U. L. Duus writes as follows In the New '\'ork Times: •'?•! wilen Is the son of an English ^ weaver, and was born at Kreighley in lSfi< lie he:^an his career as a cIvM - "v-.e ca:ployee at the age of t wen' y two. A blcyole accident, whiih leTt hlra permanently depend- ent on two canes, forced him to give up this work and gave him time to think. He threw himself Into jour- nalism and politics. Joining the In- dependent I^bor party in 1894. "In 1903 f'e CI tton operntivos cf H;a;'<^.r;! s.^nt Snowden to Parliament H:» rise swiftly '" influence In the rrnk- of his pirty. made pood use of h's ii-,->inln:; in I'.ie Inland Hevonue Dt>raitment, an J when MacDonald MOSLEM RIDERS SWOOP DOWN ON SETTLEMENTS, LEAVING TRAIL OF JEWISH DEAD AND BRITAIN RUSHES SUCCOR Bitter warfare has broken out in Palestine between Jews and Arabs in connection with the wailing wall, ancient symbol of Jewish glory, now standing on Moslem ground. Over a hundred are already reported dead. British troops and battleships are being rushed to the scene. The photographs here siow (11 Dome of Rock (Misque of Omar), in Jerusalem, part of the wall surrounding which is tha famous wailing wall. (2) Sir Herbert Samuel, former high commissioner in Palestine, leaving Prague for London to consult with authorities, and who may be reappointed to th» Palestine post. (3) Port of Jaffa. Palestine, near which British cruisers will patrol to protect the coast. (4) Famous wailing wall, Jerusalem, the bone of contention rf Jaw-Arab conflict, (5) 10,000-ton British cruiser "iussex" being rushed under full steam to Palestine. (6) Valley of Jehoshaphat, which lies between Mount of Olives and Garden of Gethsamane. near Jerusalem. (7) "Ccurageous." British aeroplane carrier, sailing for scene with reserve troops and planes. took office five years ago he was the j logical candidate for the highest! bookkeeping job in Britain. His fiery utterances of past years hid ! made Conservatives apprehensive,! "Under the proposed Young plan.; the payments are to le divided iM[0| two classes. Of eash annual pay- ment, (560. 000. 000 marks is payable in foreign Currencies, unconditionally, but even hidebound capitalists had to I without the right of postponement, admit that his 1921 budget was fund- i Out of that sum. S50.000,000 marks, amentally sound. j or $142,000,000. is assigned to France. "The outstanding feature o; his; "That 'unconditional payment' isl financial policy has been not the con-j secured by a direct ta.x on all of Ger- fiscation of wealth, but stout opposi-| manys railroads; all other payments tirn to adding to the burdens of the come out of the budget of the Reich, British ta.\payer by remitting the war . and these latter payments from the debts. He retests the Bolsheviki. budget) may be appealed to th:; special and opposed theii recognition five advisory committee (f the proposed years ago. | international Bank of Settlements. "He is thin. pale, intensa, impati-' which it is planned to establish. 25 Rattlesnakes Killed in Attack On Nevada Den "The bank will then study Ger many's conditioii, and. at Its discre- tion, may grant postponement, not exceeding two years. , Something deeper than the financial objections stated by Mr. Snowden. is found by the New York World in, the new British position made manl-| ent of Inaccttracy, a good but not | moving speaker. During the war he had the courage to stand out against prevailing sentiment, and lost his seat in Parliament. He came back after Versailles, stnnger than ever. His wife, to whom he owes much, is is the daughter of a Harrogate alder- man. She was a suffragist though j f^g\ ^\ j^^g Haeue. The World sees , not a militant: writes much and; ^jj^ -break-up of the policy whlca speaks continu.all.v. making sometimes J reacljgj 5,3 zenith under Sir Austen | Chamberlain by which Britain wasj not the partner but the au.^iliary or France" The British Chancellor | of the E.xchequer at The Hague "ex-; Such Is the man who took the floor prggggd a resentment which has Ungi on the first day of the 19'J9 confer- N^^^^ smoldering in the British con-; ence of The Hague, and after admit- 1 geiousness." declares The New R*; ting that the Young plan was "tunda- ; public explaining- mentally sound." proceeded- | ..^^^ gnowden evidentally felt that i the time had come to cease making , concessions to France and to assert as many as 100 speeches in a single j year: knows how to dress, and is re- 1 garded as one of the cleverest wom- ' en in England." i California Scientist \ erifies the Stories of Reptiles' Congregation in Lairs Berkeley. â€" If a man reports having seen a legion of rattlesnakes sitting around in circles with tails buzzing like a swarm of bees, don't be too sure that he has indigestion or a suf- fering from the heat j For many years naturalists havs; tended to scotT at the idea that rattle- snakes congregated in dens, in spite of 1 occasional rumors and unconfiriueii I stories to this effect because thcr.>| never has been a scientific and auth- ; oritative rescription of such a find by ' a trained observer. I CURATOR VERIFIES STORIES j But this incredulity has been dis- 1 sipated. You may believe your eyes thej next time rattlers swarm around your | feet like a school of mackerel. For E. [ Raymond Hall, curator i,f maniab i:ij the' University of California Muscumoj of Vertebrate Zoology, has just re- ported the finding of a den that con- 1 tained scores of rattlers. As evidence of th-' find he has brought back vwen-i ty-five rattlesnakes with him. j Hall explains that he and Ward C. Russel!, a student at the university, were making a collection of specimens in the vicinity of Wheeler Peck, Xe-- rade, when they were toid of a den of rattlesnakes which residents of the town of Fly, seven miles away, had at- tacked with riflese, shotguns and dy- namite without avail. 149 PREVIOUSLY SLAIN Their informant, Lloyd Robison, j county game warden, stated that 149 snakes had been k'lled two days be- fore, but it hadn't made much dilTer- ence. for Hall and Russell found ap- proxin'.ately fifty more sitting on their tails with heads in air when they ar- rived. The den is situated at the south end of a butte in Spring Valley, V^hite Pine County, Nev.. about 25i) yards from the Pike's Peak Highway. The ; den proper is a sunken place in the ground which has been blasted open several times with dynamite in an at- tempt to kin the inmates. The snakes w-jre very slow and clumsy, Hall says and by stepping carefully they managed to approach the den with ankle shoes ani no leg- gings. They were armed v.-ith pistols loaded with the finest bird shot and killed twenty-five of the reptiles be- fore thev retired. DEN" FOUND FIVE YEAR.^ AGO Hall learned that the sit^i of the den was discovered five years ago by two sheep herders, Doyle C. Robinson and W. C. Kirkland who thought the rat- tling was caused by a swarm of bees. Each year sorties hava been made against the snakes in the spring and tVU, but It h.-.s been found aiipossible •<i kill them otT. Hall says that they probably pass the pi iter in the den and spre.-sd out over the va'.loy in tha sjinmer. Britain's Interest. He therefore created the crisis in the conference, certain that at the worst a sidetrack- ing of the Young plan wruld automa- tically resuscitate ths Dawes plan, whicti some British authorities felt should have been allo'ved to run on to its inevitable collapse, in order to get a really final settlement." "But Great Britain does object to the way the annuities are divided.' Great Biitiiiii objects to France get j ting fivesi.xths of the un~oaditionar payments, and also to Italy gettif.g, $9,720,000 more annually than phe would receive under the Dawes plan, j -Vfter they get their portions, there isj a negligible remainder for the rest of us. The expert? at Paris did not even make an attempt to explain,' justif.v, or defend the divisions they r':Comnieuded. /'I hope you will forgive my speafc ing frankly, but I wish to say this divisirn is inacceptable and utterly indefensible. j "Great Britain attaches the greatest] possible importance to lire proposed modllication in distribution, and in-j sists upon the Spa p?rcontage.s. Thos.. . were fixed nine years ago. and »!-' though since then there have been| five iff^iarhtlons conference;-.. ll.I.s is - . w « .,»„„., ^» »>... r-or th first time it was ever sugge.V.e.I '"-^^^gl^ ">« '":°''!r. "^fn L f Th« that thev be changed.'" ' '"»° Kmp.re to this r.ver port The The Snowden argument may be cargoes consisted of scrap steel, rem- easier to understand thrcugh this ox- nant. of the German h.gh soas fleet. Planation by Paul V. Collins lu the scuttled by the crews at Scapa How Washington St.ir: after surrender to the British. "Under the Spa agreement. France; The scrap goes to the Urupp smelt- was to receive, out of the annual pay.; Ing furnaces, to be turned, perhaps, ments Wv Germany 52 per cent., and Into plowshares. England" C2 per cent. j Thus the proud units ot the Im- "Under the Yo( ng plan. Prance perlal navy return to the place will receive, during the next thirt.v-' whence they came. Their armor six years. 52.5 per imt. and England plates, sttel turrets and other fixtures 20.5 per cent.â€" a red let Ion ot m perwere fashioned at the Krupp works, cent for Great Britain compared with ' which out of the remains of death- the proportlou she Uas been recelv- dealing engines will now manufacture Jag. - domestic ironmongery. The Fleet Returns As Scrap Metal Remnants of Navy Go to Krupp Furnaces Uuhport. Germany.â€" Dutch lighters Two Queens of the Court **'^ „,*^^.j0t as^ â- '-â- Â»â™¦'*' -J^ â- â- *' -^ -^ TWO POPULAR DEITIES OF THE TENNIS COURTS Betty Nuthall. England, .lud Helen Wills (rightl, America's outstanding tennis star, prior to their match in WIghtman Cup finals, won by the latter, whose victory was responsible tor capturing ot WIghtman trophy Ixy Americans Japan Views War Crisis As Big Bluff \X'ar Reports Discredited â€" , Tokyo Declared in Con- trol of Situation Tokyoâ€" Chinese charges that the Soviet is attempting to start a world revolt through the Manchuria crisis is regarded here as nothing more than Chinese propaganda. One ot the most gigantic games of blulf the world has ever seen is now in prog- ress in Northern Manchuria be- tween China and Russia, it is held here. Neither party either desires on intends to fight. China is much concerned since her original falutf â€" seizure of the Chi- nese Eastern Railway â€" has been met by Russia. The Soviet, partially re- inforced by world opinion is makiny the most of its opportunity. Both realize that Japan looms in the off- ing. While Japan will not do anything, even if a Russian expeditionary force enters Manchuria, provided it does not penetrate southward from Har- bin, still Japan -wisely and cannily refuses to give this assurance offi- cially. Nanking is uncertain which way Japan would jump, since Tokj-o might think that the seizure of the Chines* Eastern Railway to-day would be fol- lowed by seizure of the South Man- churian Railway to-morrow. Jagar. holds control of the situation and conversations between Baron Shidc- hara. the Russian Ambassador, and the Chinese Minister in Tokyo con- stitute the read, although unofficial. Chinese-Russian negotiations to-dav. Japan's decision how to act in the present crisis constitutes a vital factor, and that decision is not ex- pected to be warf.ire. Thf best index of future develonmcnts is the atti- tude of the Tokyo Government, which at present is unperturbed and unruffled, despite wild rumors and slight border clashes.