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SORWHEtilS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OFTHIO j AN D OTM E R ' NATIONS FO Ft !' .'" .SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE - HEWS; OF THE.; SOUTH What It Taking Place In The South, j land -Will - Be 1 Found -; Brief ' Paragraph ' I1 I Domestic ' . . A decision which is expected to end the strike of eastern . textile, workers was given by- the - war labor board; of international labor, marks the pass when a temporary working basis of an ing over safely of an obstacle which eight and a half hour day and a five the labor leaders expected would pro day week was announced in Chicago, voke a bitter contest. This article pro Fire driven by a wind almost reach- vides that at the proposed internation W the nronort ions of a" gale, swept al labor conference the representa- Hutchinson Island, the site of the Sea board Air Line terminals,- at Savan nah, resulting in a loss of three mil lion dollars. , No loss of life , is re ported. The state-wide prohibition law has been held unconstitutional by the court dlnand has been wounded slightly in of .criminal appeals and constitutional attempting to flee from Bucharest with by. the court of civil appeals, two high the royal family Workjng men block Texas courts of equal jurisdiction. ed the roadway from the royal palace J. S. Swartz,-cashier of the,. Park wen the royal family attempted to bank, Pittsburg, Pa., is being closely flee to Jassy and the king and his f am guarded A in a hospital. Whenhe re- iiy were forced to return, "1 v covers .sufficiently, he will be taken Italian troops and bankers have be before . an alderman to.. face charges gun removing from a bank in Vienna preferred by the bank officials of per- nd and securities, valued at one.bil Juir. fraudulent entry, and embezzle- lion five nundred million kronen, which ment or bv.vuu. , : Final legislative acuon on ;ne war i revenue bill at Washington levying - .1 w kltllnna 4ovao thlD rQO V anil frtll T I - T'- 7r billions yearly thereafter until revised I l v-.vUk- c0n,tD witKot has been taken by the senate without a record vote. After the bill Is signed by the, president of the senate, and tbe.i speaker of the house it will be - sent to . the, white house , for the ap- ' 1 1 A At a meeting of the South Carolina farmers at Columbia, the capital,- ev ery farm organization in the state was represented, and , the South Carolina Cotton Association was formed. A res olution modeled after the liberty Loan drives ,to: secure the reduction of 33 per cent in cotton acreage was passed The governor of South Carolina has been, asked to designate Washington's birthday, February 22, as "reduction in cotton pledge day. t - Major . General Eiioch Crowder has been appointed and confirmed to suc ceed himself as judge,, advocate gen- eral'of the army for ; another tarm or four years, r v - feiMy 111 at esse. 5eorge and Deca- tut Crawley and Blaine Stewart, the three remaining members of the Un- ion county cane chanced with the mur- der of United States Deptuy Marshal Great Britain, France, Italy and Ja Ben F. Dixon, near . Blairsville, Ga., pan, together with representatives of arrived-in Atlanta, Ga., recently. four other states. The council shall Secretary of the Treasury Glass has I asked congress to increase the amount I of Liberty Bonds authorized but unis-1 sued to approximately ten -billion dol-1 ih the sphere of action of the league lars and to give him broad powers toior affecting the peace of the world determine the interest rate and other r terms of the Victory Liberty Loan, to be- floated late in April. He also asks permission not more than ten billion dollars 'of treasury notes, -maturing within five years, and asks that the war finance corporation be authorized for one year after the declaration of secretary general shall act in that ca peace to make commercial loans on padty at all meetings. It is announced that the Susan B. Anthony 1 constitutional amendment "w TV . , 7 ' It congress, and it is freely predicted that . It will nasR aa ?onthprn anntnrs will not then hold tw,iflT,o.. f t,w . " " European Tlioters in the streets of Bucharest, Roumania, are openly demanding the overthrow of the dynasty, crying iwwu wiui me puppets: Long uve the republic !' ??ICS .uuui a, ine ?fiatle.b!S!ad0r X Grf Brit T T mg.f coun" try at the neace confernrP HaIoHtio - the. reports to be untrue on China-to - ' ""O restrain the action of the Chinese del : egates'to the conference. . - President Wilson is to sail -fmm Brest for New York, February 16 ac- mrdin? to lnfnrmt)nn riv k .the London papers. Evidence of Pres- , ident Wilson's intention not to aban- don'the peace conference upon the rat - lfication of the society of nations plan ,was round in the disclosure that he phins to return from Washington to Paris by March 15. - The German nationar assembly has elected Tiedrich Bbert president of the German state by a vote of 277 out ; of 379 votes. He accepted the Job. Count von Posadowsky-Wehner receiv- The total cost of the war to all bel ed 49 , votes. The annual salary of I ligerents, including the central powers, the president of the German state will lis placed at one hundred and ninety be limited to one million marks. The 1 three billion dollars by Secretary-Ba- president will reside in Berlin. The food and economic situation in -Roumania' is rapidly growing worse, and the, country's finances are com pletely demoralized. V " . King George opened parliament In ceml-state. , Much of the usual cere- monial was disDensftd ith w.n..".,. - f; rx ynn , tvT "T -court is In mournine for Prin Toh . . , - . , r- --7 , i ne mag, m nis address, insisted on u Ppms out oi au aDuses. He "-"-"."wwwawj .wwn .amea victpry and that the people demanded a ucvi euciaiwaer; ine stamping out Z?: lmpr0TC- Baron, Nobuaki ; Makino', bead' bf :the Japanese delegation at the peace con ference, S has 5 been, instructed to dis close ali the unpublishedtfeatiea be tween : CMna and "Japan. 4c : The Chinese delegation to th peace conference has been advised that there havebeenmanv interpellations in the Chinese parliament from members rep- resenting both the northern and south era provinces, demanding fuller infor mation concerning Japanese and Chi nese relations, as laid before the con ference, 1 w The Chinese delegates say 1 they arife ready to submit all secret agreements with japan to the council of the five great, -powers. . . The agreement by the commission on international, labor legislation of the peace conference to accept Arti cle IV of the British draft of the measures to settle the future status tives of the government, the employ ers and working people shall be enti tled to speak and vote independently. A general insurrection is in prog ress throughout Roumania, according to a dispatch from Vienna. King Fer- had originally belonged to the city of Trieste Some of the accepted stories of the r happenlngB of the momentous days . . . , , st prior to the war. t is understood, are shattered in a book based on of ficial documents and personal notes of diplomats and officials. The Potsdam conference of July " 5, 1914, according to the book, was not what has been generally accepted. The meeting took place. Emperor William and the Ger man imperial staff were present, and Germany then definitely decided for war. , - . The British import restriction con trol board has modified the proposed embargo on American products, which win reimposed on the first of March to allow the importation of American boots and shoes to the extent of 25 per cent of the number imported In 1913. Washington A Paris dispatch says: The execn tive council of the proposed league ol nations, as outlined in -the covenant reaa by president Wilson, will consist of representatives of the United States, meet as often as is necessary, but at least once a year at whatever place may De designated. Any matter with- I w111 be dealt ; wlth The president of I tne United States -shall summon the flret meeting of the body of the dele- gates and the executive council. The league will have a secretary; under the direction of a secretary general, who shall appoint the other members. The resignation of William Graves Sharpe as ambassador to France to take .ef- feet as soon as his successor quali fles ' w ue voie, vice rresment Mar- I 1 1.1 1L ."il. . . duo.1i vi timing , ue ue, tne senate ae feated a motion by Senator Johnson (Rep.) of California, to proceed with I his resolution proposing an expression by the senate for the withdraw of J the American troops from Russia. rh ,mvommat D i as $202,135,602 as a result of the first of federal operation of the rail- roads. The operating expenses were ery much heavier, but the service and rolling stock greatly improved I - f I 1V. 1 A of the American expeditionary forces in France gave the total' casualties in American forces in Siberia up to Feb- ruary 9 as ten officers and 314 men UUed;.. died of wounds and disease, rrounded and missing in action. The entire crew of the transport Mt, 1 Vernon , has been commended . by Seic- retay Daniels for gallantry displayed wnen tne snip was torpeaoea Dy an en- emv submarine September 5 last Anthony Caminetti, commissioner of immigration, says that reports of pros- pective wholesale deportation of aliens are "unjustified.' Only about six thou- sand will be deported. ker. ; Secretary Baker says that had the war! gone into' the fifth year, the cost would have been twice as much as the total cost of the four years, due to new I inventions both by the allies and by me enemv- - : ; A temporary milittary establish- j ment of 28.579 officer and 509.909 en li.. . . r..vu: i usveu men is proviaea ior m tne an- nual army appropriation bill reported to the house by the military commit 1 tee. . : The measure oarris tntni Ul117.289.400. The committee said an army of the size recommended "would Period of : 1 President .Wilson's guard of honor in Paris,"' composed of 250. picked men commanded by Capt. Burton F, Hood. 2-Austrian battleship Badetsky, turned overf to the. United States naval forces at Spalato; Dalmatla, by the Jugo-Slavs. 3 S. Nourteva, a close friend of -Trotsky, who is in charge of . the anarchist propaganda head quarters in.-New York,' : -'V. " HEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS President Wilson Bringing Back Completed Draft of League of Nations Plan. SEVERER ARMISTICE TERMS Arrogant Huna to Be Made to Realize They Were Whipped Ebert Elected President of -, the i German Re public Revolt Against the King of Roumania. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. ' President Wilson Is bringing home with him the virtually complete draft of the constitution of the League of Nations that is to allay If not to end most of the worlds ills. , Despite marked opposition In some, quarters, Mr. Wilson and Mr. Lloyd George. earnestly supported by the smaller na-i tions, were able to have presented a document that met with the approval of the commission of the league,' and this was then presented to the plenary session of the peace conference, with every prospect that It would be adopt ed. . ' - i As it stands, the plan provides for a small body of representatives of all the nations concerned, which shall meet every few months in a place to be Internationalized. Every-difference between nations is to be submitted to this governing body and to be decided within three months, '-during which time the contending parties must re frain from acts of hostility. If the decision is not accepted, the case will be submitted to arbitrators, and If the country they place in the wrong does not accept the ruling and has recourse to arms, all other nations In a posi tion to do so will take up arms against it. No country is obliged to go to war with the offending nation," but all must join in an economic boycott of the lat ter. -i- ; - France, which, since the outbreak of the great war, .justly considers herself an outpost nation guarding a frontier of civilization, strongly urged the crea tion of "an Immediate international army and navy to enforce the rulings of the society of nations. Leon Bour geois argued earnestly for- the con stitution of such a force and for the placing of it in France until all danger of an attack by Germany was at. an end. This was opposed, especially by American and British representatives, who showed that it was contrary to the constitutions' of their countries. The long discussion ended in an agreement that if a country should be attacked. In violation of the rules of the league, the attacked country would employ her military forces as "covering troops" and await aid from those oth er nations that could most easily give it.- ' : It is scarcely conceivable that this solution of the,question can be satis factory to France. The great war demonstrated that in a sudden shock attack 'a nation can suffer immense damage before her allies can mobilize their forces and transport them to the s!ene of conflict. This is just what ranee fears will happen again with Germany again as the aggressor, and her alarm, though, it may be as fool ish as some correspondents think It will not be allayed until or unless the allies render the Huns militarily in polent. before the treaty -of peace is signed. There is a growing feeling in Paris that the American and British delegates are disposed to be too leni ent with Germany and too prone to adopt the Insidious claim of-the Ger mans themselves that their former rul ers and not the people were responsi- me ior. the war and its horrors. The French reassert the well-known fact that the German, peopla as a whole ar- dently supported, their government In the conduct ; of the war , and gave ap proval ,to th outrages .committed ; by oujeerstana soiq4er alike. lJ7 ; if f ; yrrr 'i'v.V f-f 'J- Having adopted a- constitution, and elected Friedrich Ebert as president of tae ueraan republic, the Germans la '.?, "' their national assembly at Weimar be-, came more iirrpgant than ever. . Their, attitude was accurately reflected' by Ebert who. In bis speech accepting the office, said ; ( "We shall combat domf ination by force to the utmost, from whatever direction it may come. We wish to found our state only on the, basis of right and on our freedom to shape our r destinies at. home and abroad. t Matthias I IsJrzberger, before meeting the ententei chiefs to negotiate an ex tension of ,he armistice, conferred, with officials jn Berlin, and it was said they determined that he should de-' mand that, the allies recognize the new German government. " - V All this, atd the fact that the enemy countries were preserving enough war material toff permit them to equip quickly , an army of 3,000,000 men, had full effect ort the supreme war coun cil when it decided on Conditions of renewal of Jthe armistice. The mili tary members and the newly added economic members agreed . on the terms, which- are designed to place Germany in such a situation that she cannot renew military operations. The German authorities were called on to furnish full j Information of the war material of j all kinds In their posses sion. The council also decided, -according to one; correspondent "to make Germany realize that we are the con querors and I that It is not a whlte peace that we , are "seeking to lmp6 on her.' According .to reliable Information, the armistices is renewed for a very brief time, the allies reserving the right to suspend it if Germany fails to carry out the new clauses, which in clude the cessation of hostilities against the Poles. Meanwhile a spe cial commission Is to draw up armis tice terras, joj last until the peace treaty is signed. , These terras will provide for Jhe demobilization of the German army and the disarmament of the" nation under the supervfslon of the allies. The j German government. It was . said, was given to understand plainly that if It was recalcitrant the resumption of ' the war, by the allies was by no means out of the question. ' The firm attitude of the supreme war council possibly was due In some measure to lan Impressive speech by Premier Clemenceau, In which he showed the Council the necessity Of taking all precautions against- the treacherous Huns. In this he. was sup ported , by President Wilson. ; , ; If Germany -submits and acts in ap parent good faith, it is likely some economic measures .will be adopted that would facilitate, the resumption; of her peace activities to a consider able extent ' But If this goes too far France will have another cause of complaint, for? both she and Belgium argue, with seeming justice, that their Industries, . destroyed by the Huns, should be restored before the Germans are permitted to resume commercial re lations and capture the markets.' f Among the interesting developments of the week was the dispute between Chtoa and Jajian, relating to the dis position of shAntung province . and Tslngtao and in general the conces sions which Cfjina had been forced to grant to. Germany. These, it appears. Japan is trying, to obtain for: herself. and China regies onthe peace confer ence for protection. The council of the five great powers asked that all secret agreements made by Japan and China with each" ofher and other nations since the beginnihg'of the. war be sub mitted to it. This was in accord with the desires of. the Chinese, and the Japanese government complied with the demand; If - . , The Japanese threw another small monkey wreheb. 5 into the machinery: by the flat statement that they Intended to hang onto the Caroline and Mar shall Islands; Rvhich they took from Germany, notwithstanding the . ex pressed will of the peace conf ererjee that all the captured colonies should bet governed by mandatories f of the League, of Nations. The outcome of this 1 Tipcertain. v '. ; The- prospects of the proposed meet ing" of Russian; factions and advisers from the ' allied nations " af Prmkipo are growing better. Seven of the gov- ernmenis -m nijssia.1 including the- iss Ihonians, Letts, and , Lithuanians, are willing to participate, though the flrst- 1 named maintain that they have now . set up independent republics and are no longer parts of Russia. The admis sion of representatives of the soviet government is conditional on its cessa tion of hostilities. Up to the time oi writing the anarchists had continued their operations in many regions, with varying success. In the Archangel sec tor they" were forced to retreat by' the" advance of the, Americans, and it was reported they had been entirely driven out "of Bsthonia. Against the Poles they scored some victories. According to reports from Omsk, the government there has accepted an of fer from Japan of men. arms and money to combat the soviet forces, giving in return" iron and coal con cessions In the Priamur district. Ah attempt to put the skids under another king, which may be: success ful, was started last week in -Rou mania. Inspired by anarchist propa ganda, a general Insurrection broke out, with demands for a republic." King Ferdinand, while fleeing from the palace with his family, was shot at and slightly wounded. The anarchists also became very active In Vienna, planning a revolt against the present government unless all power is trans ferred to the communist leaders. In the United States the anarchists. whose machinations were largely re- sponsibte for the strikes onthe Pa cinccoast arid ,1ft Montana" a nd' Ari zona, sustained a hard blow from the government. It developed that the agents of the bureau of immigration had ' been gathering up a lot of the most undesirable'.alIeDS and was pre pared to deport' them, awaiting only the necessary shipping. A : big bunch of. these scamps were taken, ' under guard, to New York, where lawyers In sympathy with their doctrines under took; to obtain their release under writs of habeas corpus. -The anarch ists make war on organized labor as much as on capitalism, and the par liamentary committee of the7 British trades - union congress has declared that the unauthorized strikes which they cause cannot be tolerated. Down on the Argentine-Chile border .the dis turbers have caused so much trouble that those two countries are preparing to.take joint action against them. They are fast becoming the Ishmaelv of the entire world, but they seem t6 glory in having the hands of all decent folk against them. : The administration's big navy bill, bolstered by a serai-secret cablegram from President Wilson, to the honse naval committee, had. a stormy time in the house 'last week. The minority de nounced it as a bluff measure de- 1 signed to enable Mr. Wilson to force Fon the peace congress certain of his ideas for the league of nations, Tand for a day It was blocked Ly the point of order that it authorized the'presi. dent to , construct the navy without making any appropriation. The Re publicans laughed' with scorn at . an amendment proposed by Chairman' Padgett appropriating $2,000,000 with which to build battleships costing $210,000,000, and the Democrats hast ily adjourned. Next day. however, the administration " leaders had their way and the bill for the three-year build ing program, carrying $721,000,000 for the naval establishment 'during the next fiscal year, was adopted by the house. -.; v ;:;'.:. ";' . ;" - Secretary Baker and Chairman Dent have drawn up an army bill,, now be fore the house, providing for a tempo rary army of something over half a million, to be raised by voluntary en listments and designed only to carry the country over the period of occupa tion and reorganization. After thai the nation is to' be left virtually with out an army, as it was before the great war. Th e bill takes the war depart ment organization away from the, gen" eral staff and returns It" to the bure.au chiefs. These features of the measure have subjected it to bUter attacks by the. advocates of preparedness. ; i,, pqce more the suffragists put theii cause to the test in -the senate, and once more they went down to defeat this time by a margin of oniy one. vote. Democrats to the number of 18, inost; ly - Southerners, ' and 11' BeDObUcana voted agaliist 1: the amendment,' while' 4 democrats and 81 Republicans vot ed for It . . CIT1I TRUST IN GERM'S MO I NTERNATIONAL ' ARMY SOUGHT, ' not FORURPOSES of war BUT TO PRESERVE PEACE. TAKES WORD FGR NOTHING' Lust, for Power; and Dominion Wilj : Return to Huns as Soon as Strength Has Been Recovered. Paris. "There has never been any disagreement on the fundamental prin ciples of a league of nations between the French delegates or other "pow ers," sadi Professor Ferdinand Lar nadue, dean of the Paris law faculty and one of the French delegates on the' league of nations commsision. "We do hot ; seek an international Jirmy for1 the purpose of making war, I but for the. purpose of preventing it. Further - disturbances i f the world's peace -will come from Ger mafiy alone. ; German's unsatisfied greedy appetite, her lust for power and domination, will return as soon as she feels strong enough to renew her aggressions. Inasmuch as Ger many ome day - will be admitted to the league of nations, what Mr Bourgeois and myself objected to was the necessity of being placed in the position of taking Germanys' word for anything. The German people have not progressed along the lines of sincerity." . .. INTER-ALLIED FINANCIAL ALLIANCE IS ADVOCATED "Paris.- An inter-allied financial al liance is strongly advocated by Ed Mund" Therry, the French economist, in The Figaro. It should take the form of a special -organization, he says, to receive for joint account all sums - paid by Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and - Turkey, which it would 'transform into liquidation bonds "to be distributed among the allies.' . ;v Mr. Therry points out that after the signing of peace the richest enter te nations will seek to .improve their monetary ; situation and consolidate iheir financial situation as rapidly as possible on a gold basis. Such con solidation would "augment the diffi culties of ' the less favored allies in .converting, to. xoldslejcJiixah. dollars or francs, the claims they recover from the enemy, on which they count to pay the debts' they have contracted either with the wealthier allies or with neutrals. MANY MORE TROOPS RETURN, GENERAL DAVIS COMMANDING - New York. . The - United States cruiser Huntington and - the trans ports Matsonia and r Louisville : havfr docked-here , debarking 7,101 officers and enlisted men of the American ex peditonary force. The steamer3 Dan te Alighieri with 1,88 officers and men abcard and the Sixaola with 47, reported off the coast by wireless. WAR-TIME REGULAITONS OF COAL WILL CEASE MARCH T Washington. The last of the war time coal regulations of the fuel ad ministration still in, force will be sus pended March l; if the present com paratively mild weather continues, said an announcement by Fuel Ad ministrator Garfield. These" prohibit the shipment of coal for reconsign ment and require all shippers of coat Tnnvtmor , n. tlitanafa XT Philadelphia, Baltimore and Hampton Roads to consign such shipments tc the Tidewater coal exchange. FEDERAL AJD FOR ROADS IN NORTH CAROLINA, $374,000 Washington. Under the federal aid act, .32 good road projects have been approved by - the Washington govern ment for North Carolina, The total mileage is 437.66 and the estimated cost $1.112.580.S5. The federal aid is to be $374,000. One of these projects has been -' completed. The mileage completed amdunts to but 8.01: FOUNDATION OF LEAGUE PLEASES ITALIAN PRESS Rome. The vrhole ' Italian press greets with joy; and satisfaction the announcement of the foundation of the league of nations, and . praises Presdent Wilson for the evidence he has shown in settling a concrete basisr for the league before leaving America. All declare that thfe war has not been in vain if there arises" from it a so ciety which will forever prevent a re currence of such a conflict HUGH C. WALLACE NAMED AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE ; - On Board the U. S. S. George Wash ington. Presdient Wilson' has nomi nated J-Hugh C Wallace, of Tacoma, ambassador to France to 'fill the l va cancy -caused by heresgnation of William Graves Sharp; -I 'This was the. first oCIcial act of the President; on his homeward 'journey. The ' President1 also despatched tel grams arranging for-hrief ceremonies in connection with the speech which: he. expects to make at Boston Feb. 21-