less emphaiic, agree in saying that Mr. Bonar Law’s resignation is certain to have crasidarabhle wlitical effects, and that it probably wii! materially weaken the coalition Govt. Paris, March 19th. —ls Germany pays France, France will emerge trons her financial difficulties, notwithstanding the colossal burdeuns left by the war. I she does not pay, the proklem is insoluble. This statement was made in the Senate yesterday by . Cheron in presenting the s2nate finance committee’s report on ~he 1921 budzet. ['ne French debt which in August 1914 stood at 27,000,000,000 franes, he expiained, amounted on Marech Ist of this year to $07,000,000,000 irancs, to which must be added, in the future, pensions and war damages estimated at _ anotner 218,000,000,000 franes. France, thus far, said M. Cheron, had paid out 38,000,000,000 franes to Germany’s ac- count, and there would be 100,000,000,- 000 franes more, with interest, to be added to her obligations, if Germany did not pay. London, March 19th. -Sir D. Drum- mond [raser, the Manchester baiker and finapcier, has been appointed by the economic and finance committee of « the League of Naiions as organizer of the seheme of international credits, pro- posed by Dr. Tremeulen, the Dateh fi nancial expert at the Brussels Financial Conference last Getober. Sir Drum- mond’s first task, it is said will be to visit impoverished countries for the pur- pose of making a report on the extent to which they wish to take advantage of the plan. Briefly th: scheme is to finance cssential imports into these countries by the issue of gold bonds, se- cured by assigned assets in the import- ing countries. . London. Mareh 19th --Leon Trotsky le ding the attack which .resuited in the if: 1l of Kronstadt, had no thought for the terribie sacrifices which the as- saully entailed. according to advices re- ceived here. by why oi Stockholm. He attacked with overwhelming forces, in- cluding Chin:se and women, regardless of the jheavy loss of life which his fol- lowers were suffering. Kroastadt was engaged from two directions, the main attac% zoming from Oranienbaum, the big §guns -of the defenée could not be used, but the machine guns of the fort- ress mowed down the Bolshevik, until piles of dead covered the ice. The man who is described as the ieader of the revnlution, M. Petrichenkork, is now at Terooki enjoying popular confidence. General Kroslovski, another of the revo- lutionary leaders, applied to the Firish commander for protection for the re- fugees. General Koslovski is convinced that despite defeat the Kronstadt epi- sode has ‘'Knocked a hole in the Soviet system. Helsingfors, March 18th. —General Koslovski, leader of the Russian revo- lutionaties, who w:s forced to evacu- 1. ORUEX A NS ate Kronstadt hetore the. repeated as- sault of the Bolshevik, gave an ac- count of the rising toda,. On March 2nd, he decelared, the Kronstadt Gov- erament informed the Petrograd author- ities it dia not reengnize the Soviet Gov- ernment. The Soviet commisssaries and leaders of the fleet were arrested and a committee of sailors ard workmen elec- ted. Former Officers offered their ser- vices and on March 3rd a Kronstadt So- viet was formed. The military members proposed an attack >n Oranienbaum on the Gulf of Finland, opposite Kronstadt, but the provisional committee refused and the garrison began the defense of the fortress. The hostile attacks became fiercer and fiercer