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i m WOULD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THI9
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
. SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
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What It Taking Place In The Soutiv
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A Paris dispatch says that pensions
fn riUnhleri soldiers and for W1QOWS
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and orphans will be included in the
bill to Germany for reparation. The
peace conrerence leaners nave ueciaeu
that such relief to individuals for loss-
es and suiftjlngs during the war will
ue h pruyci tiiiSBuUulc..u,
provisions.
Belgium case has been laid before
the; peace conference by King Albert
He told the council that the time of
promises has already passed and that
if Belgium is to live the conference
must act now. s ' v
It is understood1 that the United
States will not lodge any claim under
the head of "reparation of losses to the
civilian population," all Americans be
ing covered by the American soldiers
insurance system.
The Italian transport Umbria, with
two thousand officers and soldiers on
board bound from Venice to Tripoli,
struck a mine and sank. Several on
board were killed and over a hundred
injured.
The newspaper Vetcherni IJsty, of
Agram, 'Jugo-Slavia, announces that
thed ynasty of Karageorgevitch has
been deposed and a republic proclaim-
ed in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia
a,nd Jugo-Slavia.
. Although it is stated that a republic
has been proclaimed in Serbia, there
have been no recent reports of dis
turbances.
An investigation into the case of
Capt Charles Fryatt, who was execut-
ed by the Germans in 1916 after his
conviction by a German courtmartial
of having attempted to ram. the Ger
man submarine U-33 with his vessel,
has been begun by a national German
courtmartial.
TH fnrra of law 'and order ar the
complete master of the situation at
Frankfort-on-the-Main, and the labor
organizations are reported to have
thrown themselves on the side of law
and order against all Anarchistic agi-
tataon or movement. -
; Reports; shows that strikes at Es-
sen and Bochum Germany have only
slightly extended.
' Three hundred persons accused of therefore of the world by her adher
plundering shops in Frankfort, Germa- ence to paganism and imperialism and
ny, have been arrested. ner ambition to rule certain peoples.
" Demonstrators searching the chief 1
burgomaster's house at Frankfort, Ger-
many, found large stores of meats,
eggs and flour, and it is stated that
this intensified the situation.
Domestic
. Lieut. Col. J. Leslie Kincaid, former
judge advocate of the 27th division, the time has come to grant the com
in a statement Issued in New York plete independence, desired by the Flli-
City, says that he considers some of
the evils of the present, militatry sys- American people loved liberty too dear
tern are far-reaching, and recites the ly to deny it to other folkjs.
condiUon of the French prison farms,
charging them with brutal treatment
of American soldiers held there for
minor offences. .
-. The price of corn is going up, the
bearing traders seeming to having
overreached themselves. The compe
tition of Argentina corn, with Ameri
can corn has had no depressing ef
feet on the American product.
-.Messages, received at Shelbyville,
Ky., from the Presbyterian board of
foreign missions-state that Mrs. 'Mar
garet Bull Bell, wife of Rev. Eugene
Bell, a Presbyterian missionary from
Shelby county, Kentucky, and Rev.
Paul Crane, a brother missionary, were
ki lied' March 25 near Seoul, Korea,
v Potatoes, cabbage and sweet pota
toes are advancing in price- Apples,
oranges and onions are bringing good
prices, ? and there is a good demand.
Most leading lines of Southern truck
tend slightly to moderately upward
prices.
- Two . white men' in broad daylight
entered the Bastrop State Bank of
Balstrop, La., and while the employees
in the. institution, located at" Monroe,
La.; were covered with revolvers, made
a careful search of the bank, and left
with ten thousand dollars in cash. The
robbers got away.
. - ArlnrrHnTt rf nlflna tn emmtltB ViltrVi.
.way cousirucuuu unuer uie enlarged
program was recently authorized by
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more, miles of road bebig constructed
this -year, than in any previous year in
' the nation's history.
Robbers dynamited the safe of An
sted; W. Va- and got away with fifty
thousand dollars.
The cotton market for the week end-
ing April 4 was decidedly firmer. There
has been a feeling that it will be dif
ficut to take tenderable grades from
the South to the Eastern manufacto
ries for delivery on the new style coa
tracts.
t A Marfa, Texas, dispatch states that
fallowing a raid across the Rio Grande
river in a Dimaing- naiistorm after
Mexican--bandits at night, troop K,
Ctn cavairy, in commana or captain
fc-sdits,' recovered -the .horses and cat.
tla stolen andturned to Amrt-
caa . .v -- 'vai oiflciais.; - -
Plans for dwelling prepared -by the
United" States housing jfeqrpWatioi for
11 ll i ' 1 l,..14.
I centers -during the-war are "to bemade
! available for general, publid use. The
department f Jabor announces that
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types of homes' will be given to own
your own home committees, promoting
building, activities in forty cities.
Improvement ; in general c business
conditions,- and the continuance' ? of 'an
i undertone of confidence in the essen-1
tial strength" and soundness -: of the
country's economic position is report-
i ed in the federal reserve f board's re
view of the business situation toward
the end of March. .
A San Francisco dispatch says a
I copy of the Korean proclamation of
independence brought Jo 'America b
V. S. McClatchy, editor or the Sacra
mento Bee, showed that it was signed
by thirty-three men, all of whom were
i A -I
laier arresteu.
Washington
nomnlalnt hv the railroad adminis-
tration to tne department of justice
agalnst the ; alleged .improper methods
employed by federal officers in the
i state of Virignia in; enforcing the pro-
I hibition has been referred ' by Attoiv.
ney General Palmer to Assistant At
torney General Frlerson for investiga
tion. It is alleged that the officers
violated a coffin containing a dead
body in their search f or , contraband
shipments of liquor, across the state
.line. .. ... ' '' - ',"
The story of how. President Wilson
broke diplomatic precedent on October
1 20, 1918, by direct parley with the Ger
mans was told in New York by C. M.
a wireless specialist of the
General Electric company. The presi
dent by this method told the German
people in terse, plain, English that no
peace could be expected - until Wil
liam Hohenzollern stepped down-and
out ,
There is no cause for alarm over
President Wilson's condition, who is
ill in Paris. His appetite is good, and
he is doing welt Except on qiies-
tions of greatest importance no one is
permitted to enter the president's
room.
Leading ethical, philosophical and
religious societies of Germany have ad
dressed an appeal to President Wilson,
giving warning against a disregard of
principles by , which Mr. Wilson has
pledged nimself which they claim in
duced Germany to lay down her arms.
The appeal, in substances, 'is simple,
and goes direct to the point, and re
cites that the German people had rath
er be "Bolshevists; than slaves." It
is maintained that the allies are re
sponsible for the- Anarchistic princi-
jpies fast spreading over Europe by re-
(fusing to withdraw the b loc&ade.
; Bishop., -William.. T. ..McMurray, ;..
bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
church, says that Japan is tending to
loverthrow the peace of Europe and
Bishop McMurray has just returned
from the Orient.
Members of "the special mission of
the Philippine legislature in Washing
ton seeking independence for the Phil-
inniriA" inlands -u?re told hv Serretarr
PdbDi tVo t ho onnVo TrcKisnt Wil-
son's mind when he said he beliered
pino people. He told them that the
Th -United'. states eovernment has
withdrawn its proposals : to purchase
the British-owned tonnage of the inter
national mercantile marine.
Informally advising General Per
shing that fifty thousand volunteers
are being enlisted to replace an equal
number of men in his army who want
to come home, the war department has
directed the commander-in-chief to re
turn promptly for discharge selected
meritorius cases as he receives these
volunteers. - " ..
Circular 77 to General Pershing pro
vides for the discharge of a man upon
his application where- there . is sick
ness or other distress in the soldier's
family or where he is urgently needed
in the occupation from which he went
in civil life into the army. .
The 50,000 volunteers called for by
the war department are to be assem
bled in provisional companies at
Camp Meade, Ind., in preparation for
going overseas.
Credits of eighty-five ' million to
France and twenty-five million to Italy
are announced by the treasury.
The national Olympic committee In
session in Rome, Italy, decided to ac
cept the offer of the city of Antwerp,
Belgium and hold the Olympic games
there In 1920.
The world is fast becoming repub
lican. Before the war monarchies and
republics were about equally balanced.
Now there are 29 republics as against
21 monarchies.
The largest republic in the world is
China with four hundred million in
habitants; the smallest San' Marino,
with only one thousand citizens.
A list of officers- who have been
awarded the diifingulshed service
medal for exceptionally meritorius ser
vice during the v war includes the
names of Majon Gens. Leonard Wood,
Hugh B. Scott and John F. Morrison.
t A dispatch from Paris says that Fe
lix Marcel was sentenced to two years
imprisonment for stealing the automo-
bile of Brig. Gen. W. W; Hart, a United
J states officer connected with the peace
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1 Headquarters of General 'Dlckman, commanding the American army ; of occupation in Coblenz. 2--Ger-man
troops who served in East Africa received as heroes on their return to Berlin. 3 Cottin, who tried to as
sassinate. Premier Clemenceau, receiving the sentence of death. ' " i ;
HEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Effects of German Protests and
Threats Seen in Doings of
the Treaty Makers.
WILSON URGING MORE SPEED
Advisability of Coming to Terms With
. Hungary and Russia Seriously Con
sidered - Counter-Revotution
Against Bolshevism Bloody
Strike Riots in Ger
man Cities.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
Prodded by the public opinion of
most of the world, and particularly by
the insistence of President Wilson,
the peace delegates in Paris speeded
up their work last week and really ac
complished something., Mr. Wilson, It
was reliably "reported, told them that
if results were not forthcoming soon
he might reveal to the public the real
causes of the delay, and Just before
that he Issued ' a statement denying'
that the discussions over the league
of nations were to blame In that re
spect. No one nation, said Mr. Wil
son, was solely to be blamed for hold
ing up the peace treaty, but dispatches
from Paris make it fairly clear that
many of the hitches bave been due to
the disparity between what the French
demand and what - the Americans,
sometimes backed by the British, are
willing to impose : on the . conquered
Germans. f v
-If present Indications go for any
thing, V those, same beaten Huns - are
going to come out of the peace con
ference in fairly good shape. The 'Big
Four" last week concerned themselves
mainly with the major questions of
reparation, the west bank of the
Rhine. Danzig and the Italian frontier.
Unofficially, Germany has been taking
part in the conference, and Its argu
ments, presented by public officials,
the national assembly and the press,
seem to be having decided effect.
Though France still asserts that the
Huns should be required to pay the
last penny that can be got out of
them, and in this are supported by the
public opinion of most of the civilized
world, the peace delegates, influenced
apparently-by the American represen
tatives, have been scaling down the
amount of Indemnity more and' more
until the prediction now is that It will
be less than $20,000,000,000 How?
Germany shall pay and how long a
time shall be given her proves so com
plicated a 'question that it was consid
ered probable last week that all that
will be left for decision by a commis
sion after peace has been declared.
Germany has a gold reserve of more
than $500,000,000, and likely a part of
this will be demanded as a cash pay
ment to be disbursed in the devastated,
regions of Belgium and France; ' ,
.; When the matter of the Rhineland
was taken up the effect of the German
protests again was evident. It was
virtually decided that there shall be
no buffer republic on the left bank of
the Rhine, but that that region shall
be neutralized and policed by allied
troops until the indemnities are paid ;
that the Saar coal basin shall not be
allotted to France, but shall remain
under German sovereignty, though Its"
products shall go to the French for a
certain' period of years. It is presumed
that French and Belgian troops would
hold the left bank of the Rhine, since
the British have insufficient forces for
the purpose and 'America does ; not
wishr to leave any soldiers In Europe
after the treaty" Is signed. King Al
bert of Belgium went to' Paris last
week, probably to discuss his coun
try's share tn this occupation - He
called on Colonel House and President
Wilson..' ' ' -" ?
Marsha.1 Foch was sent toSpa Wed
nesday with full instructions :'t tor end
ing, the dispute concerning Danzig!
The alUes wisljed to hn ve General Hal
ler, and Jhia. Polish di vlsionSr landed at
tha t port, ani the Germans ' declared
they could not permit it;and tfceT ulti
mate fate of Danzig was involved in
the matter. Before Foch had begun
his negotiations a correspondent .In
Paris cabled that the "Big Four" had
decided that Danzig should be made
a free port, and added that It was re
ported the disposition of the Vistula
valley would be left to a plebiscite. '
A Rome paper asserted that the
Italian frontier question had been set
tled favorably to Italy by the peace
delegates.
The Infrequent communiques of the.
peace conference are about as Inter
esting as excerpts from an almanac,
and less Informative. One bit of news
was given out the fact that General
Smuts had been dispatched to Hun
gary" to study , the situation there. This
did not. please the Paris press, which
saw In it only another delay. It had
been hoped that General Mangin
would be sent east to deal with the
Hungarians. Official advices from
Budapest were to the effect that the
new soviet government was establish
ing Itself and maintaining order, and
that It was disposed to make large
concessions to the allies In return for
food and fuel. It was supposed
Smuts would open negotiations for
an amicable agreement Bela Kun and
his associates insist their government
is communistic rather than bolshevis
tic. The fact remains that Kun is in
constant communication with Lenine,
whose secretary he .formerly.-was, .
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The allied delegates also were said
to be considering the advisability of
coming to an understanding with the
Russian soviet government and per
mitting It to get food and materials.
This, Lenine says,-is all he wants; if
it is granted his government can make
good, and then the allies can recognize
It If they wish to,- He declares he is
willing to make peace without includ
ing Hungary in the pact and will then,
cease fighting and stop propaganda
work-in other countries. - All this, it
was reported, sounded good . to the
peace-makers in view of the threats of
Germany to form an alliance with Rus
sia or to allow itself to go bolshevik"
If the terras of the treaty should not
be to their liking. Meanwhile the
soviet troops of Russia were very busy
carrying out their threat. to start ma
jor operations on all fronts as soon as
the weather permitted. They began a
rather formidable invasion of East
Prussia and were met there by a Ger
man army which has been organized
by Vpn Hindenburg. They continued
their operations in the south and made
repeated and heavy attacks on the
allied forces. In the Archangel region.
There, however, Ahey had little suc
cess. But that the northern Russian
situation is considered serious by the
allies is evidenced byihe fact that the
British government announced that re
enforcements, would Immediately fol
low the American troops then on the
way to North Russia.
Official Russian wireless messages
that came from Petrograd Thursday
may change the Russian situation ma
terially. , .They told of an antl-bolshe-vist
strike of the railway and trans
port men which had stopped communi
cations and prevented the ty from
getting any bread. , Other dispatches
said the menshevikl and social revolu
tionaries had actually started a revolt
against the bolshevik regime and that
Lenine .and Trotzky 'hadVeome to a
definite break over the former's insist
ence on some sort of -a treaty with
England, France " and the ;V United
States. Trotzky, of course, holds' the
military control, and he is regarded as
In a stronger position than Lenine, es
pecially so long as he can provide his
troops with sufficient food. "
Interesting if not Important Wt the
Intercepted wireless message from
Tchitcherin, Russian' foreign m Inister,
to Bela Kun of Hungary saying :
, "The revolutionary movement cer
tainly Is gaining in America.. Ameri
can newspapers .say the states of New
York; Pennsylvania, - Indiana, Rlinols
and Michigan are especially Jmpreg-;
nated by bolsheylsm. A riot has taken
place In Philadelphia." which certainly
must be attributed to bolshevist influ-
ence." . . .
i r Poland is Jsendlngdlstress ' calls be
cause of .the' actlpns 'r Vph Hlnden
burg's .army Mn . eastern "Germany."
These;v troops besides combating ' the
: A r.jr" i: tjr "i
JangV,gpperSesIC destroying lts
industries systematically aniT faking
away everything from the factories.
Evidently the Huns do not Intend the
Poles shall find anything of value left
In this territory If they are awarded
It by the peace conference. It is a
case of Belgium and northern France
over again. -
Again setting but-to overthrow the
Ebert government,' the. Spa rtn cans and
minority socialists of Germany have
started general strikes ' in Berlin,
Frankfort, Stuttgart and other cities.
Bloody riots ensued in some places,
notably Frankfort, where several hun
dred persons were reported to. have
been killed. Ten thousand workmen
there paraded the streets and looted
a great warehouse that was full of
foodstuffs and then battled with the
government forces sent against them.
The German troops opposite the Cob
lenz bridgehead occupied by the Amer
icans were moved toward Frankfort,
after permission was obtained from
the French military authorities In the
Mayence bridgehead zone -to enter the
disturbed city. The streets of Stutt
gart were filled with great crowds and
with troops and there was much
shooting; the government, at last ac
counts, was master of - the situation
there. Martial law was proclaimed
throughout the entire Rhineland. The
strikers demanded that Germany re
sume, diplomatic relations with Rus
sia at once. In : Berlin, though the
leaders of organized labdr were sup-
porting the ; government, more than
150.000 workers were out- by Thurs
day night and more .struck later. Ren
ter's correspondent in Berlin says
sympathy with Spartacism is spread
ing among the better classes, includ
ing officials, teachers, clerks and peo
ple in similar walks of life. They
are all thoroughly discontented and
argue that things , cannot well - be
worse than they are, while bolshevism
at least opens prospects of better
things some day for their children in
the way of food. The ; people assert
that the only way'the poor can be per
suaded of the fallacy of bolshevism is
by giving them liberal food rations,
especially meat, bread and fats. The
correspondent quoted said there was
much talk of the imminence of a new
coup. ; ..j'
The evident aim of the Spartacans
was to upset or greatly, disturb the
government before the meeting of. the
soviet congress, called for this week.
This assembly Is fraught with peril
for Ebert and his associates, for the
delegates may not take at Its face
value Scheidemann's promise that, the.
soviet principle shall be "anchored
firmly" in the constitution.
The covenant .of the league" of na
tions was completed last week and
submitted by the drafting committee
to the commission. What was done
with the various amendments suggest
ed was not announced.. Organized la
bor In Great Britain . at Its national
conference adopted resolutions de
manding s thatu the league plan be In
corporated .In the peace treaty and
proposing certain changes in the cove
nant. It asked that the principle of
self-determination be extended to , all
colonies and dependencies, which, of
course, would Include India, Egypt
and presumably Ireland ; It aiso asked
that conscription be definitely prohib
ited and that the principle of univer
sal military training and service be
adopted in Its stead. This will be of
interest to union labor of the United
States, which always has fiercely, op
posed anything like universal military
training.
. From far-off Abyssinia comes news
of two revolts against the government,
one headed by a grandson of King Jo
hannes H, who died In 1889, and the
other by the governor of Dediazmaich,
wherever that may be. It Is said the
Abyssinian-government wilt send a
delegation to Paris to ask for- the ad
mission of the country . to the league
of nations! Spain also has announced
Its adherence to the league when it is
constituted.
Political Interest ' In the United
States last week centered In Chicago,
where William "Hale Thompson was
re-elected mayorV despite his wretched,
war record.; His victory givesfhis fac
tion a. conimanding position in'the Re
publican fiffalrs of Illinois; ' according
:to ItT claims; and there' Is talk 'again
iof trying to obtain for hini the noml
Bfttlbn forv the presidency. Probably
vno'xbther isplrafit for tnar honor" U
worried by this. ;
BY EASTER Sl
DELAY" NOT SO W0PRYNg a
THE SECRECY SUF.Rqu
THE DELIBERATIONS:
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NEGOTIATORS FULLY AGREn
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BUI of Costs' Present. ..
- Be Carefullv rnn.u.. .
One That Must Be Paid
Paris. The
wijr win oe reaay by Easter and
uc AR.ea to come
Ifn lr Of fha anJ . ..
- " tuu April or tfc i
""""( - ia.jrf rremier Lloyd p,
of Great Britain declared in ,
View with Ot-, r - -
.: "puiuiB Suzanne
of The Mating ' edn
In answer to a remark by m t
zanne that what troubled -pubic oi
ion was not so, much the delay as tk
secrecr 'in which the peace "negoS
, . ...ccu uiU me rear that
there was some divergence of 0X
ion, the British premier said:
t"l affirm absolutely that there is ,,
divergence among the negotiator
They are often confronted with teA
hical difficulties which can only be
settled after close study. Take the
questions of reparation. In substanc!
riiiiiM w m iv rM nnci n w l &
me -uies nare one common principle,
which I once set forth thus :
many must pay up to the last farthing
uLucr power. ,
But is it sufficient to draw Bp 4
bill and hand it to the enemy? Most
we not require guarantees and mast
we not study the erms, methods ani
forms of delayed payments? Mast we
not be able to say to our ad?ersarr
when he pleads inadequacy of re
sources: 'Yes, you can go as far as
that and you must do it and you must
do that' In a word, shall we simply
present a bill or collect the money, all
the money possible? Well, Wis is
where the work comes in."
The confident statement of Premier
Lloyd George that the peace treat?
will be concluded by Easter is snp
ported by predictions repeatedly made
by less prominent members of the
peace! conference and dispelled ranch
of the hopelessness and imcortamty
in which many, important problems oi
the conference seemed to hare beep
enshrouded " "
WOULD JOIN IN REQUEST TO
FIX THE PRICE OF COTTON
Topeka, Kan. Governor Allen, of
Kansas declared he was ready to join
in an appeal to the federal govern
ment to fix a guaranteed price for
cotton, except that which was in th
hands of speculators, in a telegram
sent to W. B. Cooper, at Wilmington,
. Governor ; Allen's : telegram vas
sent In reply - to onie from Mr. Coop
er, who asked him if he "would join
Southern cotton people in asking the
federal government to guarantee 35
cents a pound for middling cotton
up to June, 1920, or so long as th
present wheat prices are guaranteed."
In reply. Governor Allen wired:
"I will be glad to join Southern
cotton , people in ' asking the federal
government for a guaranteed cotton
price for all cotton that has not been
held for speculative prices durinsr tb
war. This guarantee, of course,
.would apply to the new crop."
COMPARATIVE STRENGTH OF
ARMIES ON NOVEMBER 1ST
Washington.- The' central pow?r
faced odda of greater than two to on
in mobilised troops when German?
gave up the fight last November. The
estimated aggregatev strength of the
enemv powers at that time, acmrc'r'ng
to official estimates made nuWic h
General March, chief of staff, wis 7
530.000. The indicated aggreeate al
lied strength on the date was more
than 16,700.000.
This situation is disclosed in the
figures received" by the war rVpa't
ment from" France giving the nr vt
status of the belligerent armi:. The
show thft ' central tvwr- on Mar I
ad nder arms 1.125000 rn r)il
e allied I forces aggregated 13 3Cfi -
DISABLED SOLDIERS WILL
BE WELL TAKEN CARE OF
Washington An extensive program
of caring for ; disabled soldiers after
their discharge from military servfc
was wanoonced by the war risk insnr
ahce bureau, which is charged by con
gress . with this work. Twertr-on
hospitals with a capacity of L500 bed?
already are In nse and the war department-has
turned over to the treasury
seven camp hospitals for care of dr
ability casee. These are to be en
larged and improved.
AMERICAN DYE CONSUMERS
VERSUS GERMAN, DYE TRUST
New York.: Plans for; the organize
tton ot dye oonsnmers in , the Unite
t-to'pibt'ABericaa textil
inllhi fiti "the onscnpulous method f
'of the Gerjaai .dye-rtnist." was :
nooxiced , herei oy , Joseph HL'; Choata,
which already morel than , 150 ' firin
have indicated 'VkiAt 'purpose to 'Johv
f xsovr in nrocess ct formation.