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I: M l.ii:'1 IP i IMPORTANT NEWS WORLD OVER IMPGftTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OjTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN f THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH What Is iking Place In The South- . land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Domestic ' - The temDoranr personnnel of the .1 ;: J navy has teen fixed at two hundred and twenty-five thousand j men, exclu sive of officers, for the fiscal year be ginning next July. , Departure from - France of five transports with more than 650 officers and 15,0.00 men has beer announced by.; the wai department. , ;; Twenty buildings in the heart of Fairbanks? Alaska, have been destroy ed by a 4re which started, early in the morning recently. Navy officers at "Pensacola, Fla., expressed complete satisfaction with the success marking the j first exper iments at the naval air station there in firing a torpedo from a dirigible. Charged with excessive "cruelty to children under her care, (Mrs: Naomi V. Campbell, who conducts a private orphans' home eight miles from At lanta on the Marietta 'road, In Cobb county, , Georgia, .was held for the grand jury, underlbond of $750 follow- tng a lengthy hearing" at ore Ju3tiqe of the Peace .'Marietta be ll. V Greer. The federal government has been asked' to take charge of the general e,1 Washing entire work- Jtrike situation In Seatt ton, where prac tically the ing force of the city is on strike. Plans of; a most comprehensive na if are to bring about conditions which will make 'possible a marked improve ment in the express service through out the country have been announced ; by , R. H. lay, Atlanta representative t the American Railway Express com- X Ipany. A j "better service campaign Jwill be undertaken by the 135,000 men the express ' And women employed in - business for the purpose of raising the - standards jof packing, wrapping and marking express shi pments. . George .T. Page of Peoria, 111., pres ident of the American Bar Association, announces that he 1 has been informed IE ; V after a conference with Secretary Ba- ? ber and Major General Crowder that I V reviews (Ofj all sentences passed under j findings1 of general court-martial are I "being reviewed by lawyers in the Ma- dPGeneal 1 Crowder. r e Governors of the " cotton growing . Elates will be urged to set In motion v'U) a campaign for reduction cotton acreage which wtll of the 1919 reach every : individual I grower, as the result of a ) conference held in New Orleans. An other resolution urges the farmers not to sell thej balance of the ton crop until 30 "cents is present cot- secured. j v iThe grain dealers appeared before the national house agriculture commit tee and proposed that the governmfit pay the guaranteed price of $2.26 a bushel for the 1919 wheat crop and sell it to the consumer at the world mar ket price, which they estimated would fbe about $2.25. feuropeap t " TVio haw The new German assembly was har angued by the temporary chairman, who said 1 that Germany was not at all pleased with the developments since the armistice was signed,; and that, Germany could yet fight, though ; : she starved. The allies may , present new armistice condition to be sign ed by. Germany. - - Herr Eichhorn, the former police chief of Berlin, is in Sweden accord- ' ing to report form Stockholm. - Two railway coaches, recently hand- :. ed' over tb France by Germany, play- ;ed a most important part in a puzzling accident on the Paris-Metz railway line In which five persons lost their lives and sixteen were injured. Train No. 47, bound for Metz, had I Just entered the tunnel at Nanteuil, when the pas- sengers occupying the two ' coaches handed ever by Germany began to ex- perience trouble in hreathing and stronsc, obnoxious gases up the cj aches. began to fill .Friedrich Eaert, the German chan cellor, opened the first session of the recently elected German national as sembly at Weimar. It is probable that the chairmanship will be taken Dy me uiuebi muiuor ot me assem- . bly, probably : Herr Pf annkuch. - It Is reported that Alsace-Lorraine f sent may members for the " first sit ting of the new German assembly. The najme of Herr ESchhorn, the for- .H4.;1, z -j i lJOUCe' wno was-ousted during the troubles with : lu k e'J; ;TKen irom roll of mtembership of the new German kssembly, as his whereabouts is not known. I -The' new German assembly has in tited Austria to become; a part of the new German republic, No answer has been returned by the American delegates to the peace con lerence as to what is k said to be , an almost unanimous desire of the othex powers that the United j States under take to act as mandatory for Armenia and the other severed provinces' of Turkey. Such of the American dele f gates'-as will discuss' this t plan say they are disposed to resist this devel opment holding that It Is the business , -r ' ' wvgo rEurope to Ik afte tnl the neotile of th Near rt ... , Alliances between the 'various na tions will not. be affected by the exist encVof the Society of Nations now in process of formation. The English' for eign secretary, asked the direct ques 'tion, whether the; formation of the world society would involve the abro gation of alliances, said: . "The consti tution of the league of (nations will in volve no modification of the treaties of alliance previously concluded." Government : troops 1 Fhave ': entered Bremen after heavy fighting and have occupied the town hall md the stock exchange.! The .Anarch i is have re treated to Groepsingen. v The yiius of thench fever and that of Influenza and pf some forms of nephritis have been isolated and iden tified, according to the report submit ted tothe director general of the Brit ish army by -a number; of army medi cal officers in Fi ar.ee, who have been investigating the causes of these diseases;"-' i ' '':' ' Heavy losses have been inflicted on the Anarchists in the Archangel, Rus sia, sector, by the American forces, and the erfemy has been driven back in disorder ". from the tavka. 'on the Vaga. casualties were five ki village of Vis The American led and several wounded.- Many prisoners were taken by the Americans. It is stated that Chinese and ' Man elm" troops have ' joined the Russian, Anarchists, and are fighting in their armies. jThe treatment accorded pris oners by j the Manchus is described as horrible. 1 ' ' A satisfactory settlement of the London railway dispute . has I been at last reached, i is officially stated. .'. It is understood that the settlement In cluded the tubes and jail the London railway systems. Prof. Edward de Valera,' the Sinn Fein leader, and Milroy and McGarry, also Sinn Fein members of parliament, esecaped from the prison at Lincoln, according ;to a dispatch from Lincoln to the London Evening News. A dispatch from Dublin, . Ireland, says it is definitely stated there that all the Sinn Feiners interned in Eng land will! be released. For refusing to obey tect the ; front of the against the Bolsheviki an order to pro Siberian army In' the region of Kungur, southeast of I Perm, 250' Sol diers and ten officers have been tried by courtmartial and shot for insub ordination, j The Turkish authorities have requi sitioned the Constantinople palace of Enver Pasha, the former Turkish min ister of war, as a residence for Gen. Franchet j d'Esperey, the allied com mander in European Turkey. Washintoii " A Paris dispatch . announces that Marshal Foch.will go to Treves Febru ary J7 to fix the conditions for a third renewal of the armistice and the dis cussion of the conditions to be im posed will take up considerable time before the supreme war council. Foreign dispatches j state that the feelhig in the peace conference Is that the Germans are more and more for- scums lueir position; ana it is . ex-1 pected that the supreme war council will take measures to bring them to a sense of the reailties. Sutystaatially one-half of the draft 0f the constitution . for the society of nations has been covered by the chief conference commission dealing with this question. The acceptance of all additional articles will be provisional. It is possible, it is siated, to secura action on the articles. before President Wilson sails for home. American steamers will soon steam j up the Rhine, using Rotterdam as a base,, according to, information ema- ! nating from Paris, There is a feeling hinted in the dis patches from abroad that the war end ed too soon for the more adventurous spirits on all sides of the contention. The Prohibitions appeared before the house Indian appropriation com mittee and urged that the use of the intoxicating peyote bean by Indians be inhibited. The bean is used by many tribes in their religious observances and efforts last year use failed. to prohibit Its During the hard fighting from Sep- tember 1, the German! losses were api palling, the figures showing a drop in their strength from 1,339,000 to 856,- 000 November 1. During the same pe riod the allied forces!" dropped only from 1,688,000 to 1,485,000. .. f : A total of . 24,234,021, men were en rolled for Uncle Sam's armies under the selective service act. : When the armistice was signed Uncle Sam had n,, ltwo rmV nf 9em9a men,and the work of handling, classi fying and utilizing Uncle Sam's . mail power was just getting into perfect swing, wnen tne enamg or me war brought it to a close. Government agents are said to have started, an inquiry into the operations of a .wire tapping" gang, operating in Florida and other parts of the South . WKin, aithv vtmi'H.t. o. to which wealthy tourists are attract ed. The investigation is proceeding from Chicago.. The total casualties for the. drees in the Archangel, Russian, region are given, as 409 j . The i force originally numbered - 4,927 i Figures showing the rifle strength of the allied and enemy forces of thd enemjrforces of the western front dur ing the last eight.months . of the 'war have ; been received i by the war de partment, ;t They show that up to July 1 v. the allies - "were outnumbered . from two hundred ' to three hundred thou sand men, but that they reached their ...l, o V. . , . , , . -W88.000 opposed to the Annans' V 1 Representatives of the soldiers and worlmen's, council conducting ing In Berlin. 2 Russian men and government. ; 3 Beautiful figure of decorated for the meetings of the NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Progress With the League of Na tions Plan, Big Nations Yield ing to Smaller. OLD ALLIANCES MAY STAND f , : : America Likely to Be Asked to Gov ern Constantinople Russian So viet Government Consents to Conference German Na . tional Assembly Con venes in Weimar. ay tuwnw rv. r-ivrxn. Though the peace conference's com mission on the league of nations is making very considerable progress with its task, the drafting of the plans for the organization is not without serious difficulties. These last week centered in the diversity between the desires of the great powers and the claims of the smaller nations as to representation in the league. Before the close of the week' it was an nounced the commission had agreed provisionally on the preamble and two-thirds of the articles, but what these are was not revealed. TVt) general plans were laid be fore the commission. The first, which was favored by the small nations, pro vided for a legislative .branch on which the large and small nations! would be equally represented, each as a unit ; an executive branch consist ing of two members from each of the five great powers and nine members chosen from the small powers; and arbitration of International disputes! by three arbitrators. In the secondj plan the legislative branch was left unchanged, but the executive branch was made to consist chiefly of thej great powers, and Instead of arbltra tion. there was substituted an execu tive council of the great powers as a trihimni fnr ' Indirinir international sues. . -"' . In a word, the creat powers fears that if all nauons are given equal . . A 1 III representation in me league, tney wins j find . themselves in me minoruyj though their Interests might be much greater, .am; the small powers fear that if hot equally represented, .. they will be swamped. But the big five'1 shows signs f yielding enough to sat4 lsy them. Concurrently with the work on the league, .the . conflicting territorial claims of the various nations are be ing heard and studied, bot the estab lishment of a principle m which suchi claims shall be decided depends . scf. much on the creation of the league g nations that action ,on the report ot the territory commission is , not ex pected before the other matter is set tied..: '"'...' - - Just where the United States is go ing to "get on" in all this Is a ques tion that is worrying many others ber sides our senators, who debate It fref quently., If the orders pf the league are to be backed by force, it might be necessary to lacd European troops in a. South American country, and that Is in direct violation of the Mon roe doctrine. If the former German colonies and parts of the Turkish em pire are to ; be governed by manda tories of the league, the United States Lcannot well evade some of the Tespon)- sioiuty and might oe called on to ad minister the affairs of Constantinople and the ; Dardanelles, maintaining military as well as civil forces there. Aonceivaoiy, mis wouia. arouse the bitter opposition of a considerable portion of our population, but as we. through President ; Wilson are taking a leading part In the reconstruction of the world by the. nations that defeated Germany, we cannot - avoid shoulder ing our share of; the resultant labor. - Another interesting- angle to the situation : was dlscloseil by the state ment by British ; Foreign ' Secretary Balfour thirt the establishment of the I uuiivni turn IUC COiailllPUlllCIll. Ul ' U16 ,eagueof nations would not require I .....-.i." the abrogation of - International : alii 4nce hltHerttr entered ;finto. i Appar women belh;;trained as rifle shots in a Liberty in thi salon of the French ministry of foreign affairs which was re- neace delegat ently Great -Britain, France and Japan are not entirely sure of the full effi cacy of thdf jeague and would have their offensive and defensive alliances to fall backupon 'Jin case of need. Mr. Balfour's statement also gave jrise to the opinlonthat the allied nations might decline to abrogate thej secret treaties they entered into for the di vision amofig them of certain terri tories of th1 central powers. France Is perhaps especially interested in this, as thi- secret treaties not only gave her AMaceLdrralne, but also the entire coal district of the Saar; valley, and p'rovided that the German ter ritories on the lef bank of the! Rhine should.be freed from all political and economic dependence ' on Germany. Lenine's foreign minister. Tchlt- cherin, has sent out a wireless message saying the soviet government is kvilling to participate in the proposed (confer ence on the: Princes' islands. He also intimates that his government will cease Its propaganda in other countries if the entente povjrers will undertake not to interfere with Russia's internal affairs. The other Russian factions, as represented at Parts, were rather sur prised by Tcjiitcherin's action anid were not at all pleased. They are strongly opposed to the conference arid had hoped a refusal by the soviet govern ment would, relieve them of the! neces sity of rejecting ? he plan. "The bo! ShevisW or to give them thej more fitting appelation, the anarchibts, In northern Rifssia, after a series of suc cesses agai"st the! American and al lied troops irhich were due to the dif ficulty the patter experienced in get ting suppliel, went a bit too far and were given stiuging defeat fey the Yanks at VHstavkn on the Vagaj river. About the fsame time the Siberian troops undf. General Gaida practically annihilated $tvo divisions of the an archists at Kungur, 50 miles southeast of Perm, relieving ;the latter city from the danger $f attack. GeneraU Gaida then advanced on archists took some Ufa, which the an time ago. The cen- tral soviet of , Moscow has called; to the colors; all men between the ages of twenty-nine ,iand forty-five years, say ing they will be thrown into thej war If the conference on Prlnkipo island is a failure. ' :, ' ' , In some , directions the successes of the anarchies of Russia were contin ued. They were reported to have cap tured Windau,. Coiirland's port, land to. have gained-control of virtually the whole of the. Ukraine. ' The Polish and Czecho-Slovak! troops that had been fighting on the.Sllesian front signed van armistice which,; it is presumed, will pefmi- the emissaries of the peace . conference to settle the quarrel between the two nations. In the "Athens of Germany Weimar, the capitalf-of the dticfey of, Saxe Weimar, the German Rational iassem- bly began Its sessions last Thursday. Chancellor Friedrih EbeVt called tjie chair to Herr Pfaakuch.the oldest of the members. . After the preliminaries were over the assembly got dowu to . the work of formulating a government for Germany. The Ebert or Majority So cial 1st government was transferred teraporartTyt to Weimar, but it consid ered that Its mandates expired with tli e 'convening of the assembly so it at oTfce proceeded to. organize a hew cab Majority Socialists, Inet made np of Democrats and Clericals. The Spartjicans, who die hard,; made their latest big. play at Bremen, gain ing control of that city and holding it for a ." tlme.f! Then government troops trom Berlihihombarded the place, bat tering .some of its historic buildings, and drove the Spa rtacans to Groepsin gen. Threats of. the reds tq attack Weimar when the assembly met were forestalled ehen the loyal garrison was re-enforced by a large body of i govern ment troops. I - I ' V The authorities of the allied nations maintain ? their aloof attitude! toward the - German . "revolution, never per mitting themselves; to, be quoted con cerning it nor , paying the slightest at tentlon to fthej, lucubrations of hypo crites ; such : as Bernstorff. But they are watching with , interest the inter? national conferences : of Socialists and trades' unions that are' In session In. teme. Switzerland.. . The former seems to be virtually dominated by the - pro-Teuton elements , Jhe: Tradet their business In the reichstag build free class established by the soviet Union conference, in which are dele gates from the United States and Eng land; is discussing international labor legislation In conjunction with the Socialists. Turkey let out a loud wall recently In protest against the proposition to put Constantinople, the Bosporus and the Dardanelles under international control. This Idea Is being promul gated Irt Paris especially by the en tente nations, and they ' assert that the controlling nation should be the United States as the one disinterest ed power that could handle the terri tory. The Ottoman liberal party, which has been anti-German through out the war, asked President Wilson to save" Constantinople to Turkey by giving it a chance at self-determination. Several days later the sultan himself sent a. secret letter to the lib eral Turks in France and Switzer land, 'appealing to them to return home and save their country from the starvation and lawlessness prevalent under the regime by which the nom inal ruler is dominated. Many com munities , and municipalities under Ottoman s rule have sent petitions to the American peace delegates asking that I hey be put under the protec tion of the United States. The labor situation in America and Great Britalnwa' getting worse in stead of better last week, and if the opinion "of certain British high officials and of many persons In this country is correct, it will hot improve much until the alien anarchist leaders, are completely squelched. These profes sional disturbers are held to blame, especially for the strikes in the Unit ed Kingdom, many of which are not authorised by the governing bodies of the trades unions. London : was badly crippled by strikes of nearly all transportation workers and the en gineers on some of the steam rail roads went out in sympathy The government refused j to interfere ' on the i ground . that the controversies were solely industrial, but tried to re lieve the situation by starting a mili tary motor service to supplement that of the . buses, which were still run ning. , The mechanics of the army service corps in 'depots adjoining Lon don, to the 'number of 4,000, refused to go on duty Thursday because they wanted to be demobilized and to con tinue work as civilians. The United States was hit hardest last "week at points widely separated New York and Seattle. In 'the. metropolis . building operations were virtually .tied up by a lockout , de clared by the Building Trades Era-' ployers' association ; which affected 25,000 workers and which threatened to spread throughout the country and Canada. - -', ' In Seattle the 30,000 shipbuilders who are on strike received the sup port of a. general strike which was started on Thursday. Practically all union laborers quit -work, though the engineers 7 in the municipal lighting plants were exempt. : The textile workers in Lawrence, Mass., struck for a 48-hour week with 54 hours' pay. One more "greatest war revenue bill In the country's history" was pre sented to the house last week by Chairman Kitchin of the ways and means committee. As fixed un hv the conference It provides for the col lection of about $3,000,000,000 in taxes from the American citizen, and in ad dition it gives a bonus of $60 to each soldier, sailor, marine - and woman nurse in the American forces. Pretty nearly everything -one possesses or does will be subject to tax. Even the: president : and , all -ther . fedef-al officials , must pay tax cn their ni comes, though state officials do not. The normal ; income tax for 91 8 19 6 per cent on Incomes up to $4,000 and 12 per ; cent on higher , Incomes. After 1918 t the normal Is ,4 per cent . on. Incomes up to $4,000 and 8 pei cent on those. over $4,000. The pres ent : normal is. 4 per cent, v .r .. ;' Th e Income surtax rates begin at 1 per cent on Incomes of $5,000 to $6,- 000 and ran to 65 per cent on incomes of over $1,000,000. . . , . : ' ; Provision Is made for both, war and excess profits taxes in the fiscal year, 'but! after Vfbat; t he j wa r profl ts ta 1 'comes offj except '4n certain ? specified cases where war. contracts run', over ta-later years. .-.. , : EXPRESS METHODS TO BE REFORMED A "BETTER SERVICE CAMPAIGN" INAUGURATED BY 135,000 EM- PLOYEES OF COMPANY. STUPENDOUS -DRIVE NOW Oft Rules Now Existing, R elating to Box- ' ing and Packing of Shipments to Be Rigidly Enforced Charlotte, N. C. Plans of a most comprehensive nature conditions which will to bring about make possible a marked improvement in tie express service throughout the country, hava been announcedby Mr. W. S. Hall, uanotie lepreseniauve oi me Amer ican Railway Express Company, a "Better Service Campaign" will be undertaken by the 135,000 men and women employed in the express busi ness, for the purpose of raisng the standards of packing; wrapping and marking shipments. The drive started qn February 10, in every city and town in the coun- of. education and appeal among ex press employes simultaneously with a widespread effort jfed operation of the shipping public along the same lines.- No new packing or marking rules have been adopted for the campaign, but express drivers and receiving clerks will hereafter to insist firmly but court eously, that the rules already in force be strictly j adhered toj The chief purpose Service Campaign" is for all, the waste of of the "Better to cheek, once ;ime, effort and money that result from lost or dam aged shipments. It is! a source' of die satisfaction and annc y ance to both shippers and 'the carrier and tends to impair the I express service. It " is ex pected that all who ship by express, and 300,000,000 shipmc nts are annual ly traveling that way will be keenly interested jin the forthcoming drive. because it so intimately concerns the transportation end of j many different some - of which trades and' industries,! depend almost exdlusively upon the express service. Regarding the conditions which led to a decision for a national drive of this character, an e ppress official made this statement: "It is an ac the average regards a sat- knowledged fact that American businss man isfied customer as a direct asset to his business. He would do nothing that might jeopardize his good rela tions witli that customer. But if the goods he sends to the customer arrive in bad 'order, it the contents are dam aged . or pilfered because they were exposed during the journey, or if, may be, entire ahipments are lost because of inadequate marking a .. ...La' - i - ; - Iacking, tle customer may not wait but place his V - long for ejxplanations business elsewhere." I- Start Express Shipments Right" is a , slogan which w 11 be carried throughout! the campaign and which if adhered to will mean a great) savinf customers. to business and their . i 18 DIVISIONS OF GERM ANJ ARE ON THE WESTERN FRONT . London.British newspapers of alt shades of opinion are devoting seri ous attention to the attitude adopted bv the German government toward the armistice, conditions. The Dai y News Paris correspond- ent sends a dispatch tive sources" on the subject in which he says his" informal! told him that he had the best reasor to believe that Germany i s not coc t nuU g to demobilize'- ;! "She has now concentrated more than 18 divisions undar yon Hinden burg on the western ; frott," the cor respondent quotes his informant as saying. !We also hai re the best rea sons . to believe that G ermany is keep ing her troops under arms on the pre text of; economic necessity. Some of the military authoiitijjs think- that Germany has squghtj more material to give necessary armament to '3,000, 000 men. German demobilization is a condition to our iter lobilization. GERMAN NEWSPAPER USES AIRPLANES FOR. DELIVERY- - Berlin. Am Mittag is the .first pa per to employ air service in newspa- ner distribution. It. Will send its is- Mr sues to Leipsig and abline the paper to weimar, thus en- be distributed to in . the early its subscribed houses hours. Herr Ullstein decided to up- tly thie national assembly at Weimar with a regular service of newspapers a and chartered a which left with morning edition. number oi airplanes. Vossiche Zeitung's JAPAN COERCES CHINESE v ' DELEGATES IS CHARGED. London. Japan has" notified China must work in harmony with Japan at , the ' peace conference and must un dartake not to reveal to the con ference secret Chlni-Japanese agree ments, according; to i Reuter dispatch from Peking, dated! February 3. iThe correspondent says ; his ; Inf or tmatlon i comes .from! Chinese " sources and Reuters says' it ishouidt be regard ed wlth 'somjarewTfe: " , ,1
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