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THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS': OF THE SOUTH
What It Taking Place In The South j
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European
The chief cause of anxiety in con-
by the allies and its occupation by the
Anarchists lies in the fact that the
most fertile regions" in southern Rus
sia have fallen into the hands of the
Anarchist forces, giving them ; im
mense resources of grain, coal and
minerals. :
The first, transports bearing the Brit
ish relief force for the Archangel
front has sailed. The members of the
contingent embarked at Tilbury.
Violent fighting has taken place be-
iween. .Hungarians ana Azecns ai ung,
A -r-r . A . I
var, near the Moravian-Hungarian bor-
der, says a Central News dispatch
from Amsterdam. One hundred and
fifty Hungarians were killed. Vhe
zecns aiso naa consiaeraDie losses, i
Defending the military bill, in the
nouse oi lords, Earl Curzon, of Kedle-
ston, president of the council and
government leader in the British house
or loras, declared that - Vienna being
in a serious position and apprehen
sive lest it should share the fate of
Budapest had turned to Great Britain.
v In a new Spartacan outbreak at
Dusseldorf twenty-five persons were
killed and twenty-five wounded when
government troops used machine guns
on Spartacan demonstrators, is the re
port sent, out from Berlin.
Berlin newspapers .report that the
strike in Brunswick is general and the
railway station there is closed. The
leaders of the Brunswick strike have
6ent an ultimatum to the diet demand
ing that all powers be handed over to
the, workers council.
workmen in thirty-eight German
cities are on strike in favor of intro
ducing the soviet system.
An Archangel dispatch says the
American cruisers, Galveston and
Chester, carrying . American 1 engineer
troops and Brig. Gen. W. P. Richard
son,-the new commander of the Amer
ican forces in north Russia, are ex
pected to arrive very soon.
President. Poicare of France .has
commuted to ten years' imprisonment
me aeain sentence imposed upon
Emile Cottin, who, in an attempt to
assassinate Premier Clemenceau on
February 19, shot and severely wound
ed him.
Plundering and shooting, attendant
upon the general strike proclaimed by
the independent and majority Social-
ists among at the workmen at Madge-
bure. capital of Prussian Saxony, are
reported in dispatches from that city,
The warehouses confronting the food
reserves forv the coming week were
stormed and partly destroyed . and the 1
reserves looted, the damage exceeding I
four hundrd thousand marks.
The police station also was stormed
with the intention of releasing the
prisoners in it, but the rioters were I
repulsed after the building had been
considerably damagedr at Madgeburg,
' Saxony. Grenades and rifles were
employed in the attack. .
Domestic
v The committee appointed at a con
ferenee or producers, i actors ano
bankers to take up plans for organiza-
1 I
tion of a cotton export corporation
decided on a capitalization or one
hundred million' dollars instead bl
fifty million as originally suggested by
W. P. G. Harding, governor of the
federal reserve board, and selected a
sub-committee to develop the idea in
detail.
Edward E. Morgan, an American
citizen, was murdered at Chivela, 47
miles from Salina Cruz, Mexico, on
the night of April 8, according to ad-
-vices to the state department. Mor
gan, the dispatch received by the state
department stated, , was accompanied
by Manuel Rui, a Spaniard, who was
also murdered. The two men were
sam uy m mspaicn 10 nave ueen cap-
tured, searched and robbed before be-
ing shot to death. Both bodies were
said to have shown marks of other
ViTul. '
In a lengthy telegram to M. W. Mix,
president of the American Mill Sup-
ply and Machinery Manufacturers' As- Btate of " Virignia in enforcing the pre
Bociation, read at a joint session of hibition has been referred by Attor
the' machinery manufacturers and ney General Palmer to Assistant At-
tnree ptner organizations or hardware
' and machinery men at ' New Orleans,
Secretary Redfield of th edepartmejit
or commerce urged tnat an pull to
gether to hasten the restoration of
normal - healthy business conditions.
-. That Europe 4acks money and credit
with which to buy cotton and that if
'the South plants a full cotton crop and
' makes, a normal crop, conditions - in
this section will be wo.se than at the
s beginning of the world war in 1914, is
1s the opinion of former Goyernor Man-
ning or bouth ; Carolina, now in Eu-
rope. u't ;.:c:-; ;
Conferring on themselves the 'free-
do mof the city," an unknown number
of yeggmen: spent::the : week-end. in
New York City, cracking seven safes,
obtaining nearly fifteen t thousand 4qJ-
lars in lot and getting away with all
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Introduction of anti-Japanese legis
lation in the California c legislature
would be "extremely unfortunate at
this time," says Robert Lansing, secre-'
tary of state. '
Eighty-two lives was the toll of the
storm which swept north Texas,
sotuhern ' Oklahoma - and a section of
Arkansas. Many points 'are isolated
and ! the number of fatalities ' may be
increased when full details are availa
ble as the tornado swept T through
thickly settled farmine communities.
!?'J!:iei!hj7iwrerJead r:
storm came up from the Rio Grande
valley with a high wind and -heavy I-
rainrain, gaining force until it tore
through the northern tier of the Texas
countie swith the destructiveness of a
tornado.
The Baden bank, of St. Louis, Mo.,
was held up by eight bandits and loot-
eJ 9 an amount estimated at one hun-
dred thousand dollars. Two hundred
policemen armed with riot guns pur-
sued the bandits in thirty police auto-
moones.
Frank W. 'Woolworth, who started
five and ten cent store at TJtica, N. Y.,
j forty years ago on a capital of $50 and
eventually became the millionaire pro
prietor of a great chain of these stores
in the United. States, Canada (and
England, died suddenly at his home at
olftm T n? Isiand.
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The MichIean voters defeated a con-
stitutional amendment modifying the
gtate prohibition laws in the election
bv a considerably larger majority than
when they voted the state dry in 1916.
Th kp thhu sand internal revenue
aeents working in specially arranged
z0nes throughout the v United States
wm enforce prohibition after July 1.
xearlv 800 insDectors will be trained
or the work, to be added to the force
of 2,203 revenue agents already avail
able for police regulations.
Washington
The arrival of the American cruisers
Galveston and Chester at Murmansk,
Russia, is expected to relieve the sit
uation among American troops in the
Archangel region, a company of which
ten days, ago refused to go to the
front until arguments were presented
by their officers. ,
No further information as to the mu
tiny in Archangel has . been, received
by the war department. It requires
some days for cable to reach Archan
gel and so . far as has been learned
the department has no additional ad
vices. . ' -
General Zapata, the rebel leader in
southern Mexico, has been killed by
eovernm eat troops. A Dart of the
fifth Mexican regiment serving under
General Gonzales ; of the Carranza
army returned to Cuautla with the re
mains of the dead rebel chief. - ,
Four hundred thousand railroad en
gineers, firemen, trainmen and con
ductors in both passenger and freight
service have been advanced in wage
aggregating$6B,000,000.
Recommendation of executive clem-
ency for fifty-two persons under ' th
espionage act have been sent to Pres
ident Wilson by Attorney General Pal-
mer, out the names and commutation
in each case will not he announced
until the president has acted.
The report of the committee on Un
ternationa labor legislation . in Paris
wmch dratted a program to govern in-
ternational regulation of employment
condition, has been adopted.' but just
what it is has not been made public
Advices to tne state department
from Tampico, Mexico, said a passen-
ger train was derailed by bandits 140
kilometers from Tampico, and that
among the passengers injured 'J wai
one American, J. P. Mennet. The de
partment wired Tampico for further
particulars. '
Returns In the referendum tatken
In , the province of Quebec, Canada,
x a
lo aeiermme wnexner wine ano Deer
"censes shall he issued or the pror-
ince go dry, indicated a victory for the
wet" forces " by a great majority.
The .war department has issued an
official statement congrming advices
from . Archangel, , A Russia, that what
amounted to a mutiny occurred among
the American troops there on. the 3d
of March.
Reports that the Blanquet-Fellx Diaz
revolution in Mexico was substantial
ly 'financed were terminated as doubt
ful by ; the state department officials
I in replying to direct questions regard
ing the situation and reports.
In answer to the suggestion that
American oil interests were behind the
ne revolution in , Mexico a high of fi-
cial of the state department declared
this to be untrue and - expressed the
opinion that the revolution would be
Complaint by the railroad adminis.
tration to the department of Justice
against the alleged improper methods
employed by federal officers in the
torney General Frierson for investiga-
! tion. It is alleged that the officers
violated a coffin containing a dead
body in their search v for contraband
shipments of liquor across the state
line. ;,". y: ' ' -V
Forecast by the department of agri
culture that the nation's winter wheat
crop, would total eight hundred and
thirty-seven million bushels, the Jarg-
jest crop ever grown, aroused, imme-
j diate speculation as to the cost to
j the government of such an enormous
yield. Under the bill passed by con-
gress in the closing jdays,pt the last
session rthe ovirriment is obligated
to pay the difference between the price
guaranteed, $2.20 a .bushel,, and the
world market price . for every , biishel
not only on winter, but of sprin wlat
produced. ...
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1 Carter Glass, secretary of the treasury (left), and Frank R. Wilson,, publicity man for the loan, unfurl-,
lng for the Victory loan campaign the historic flag which flew over the dome Qf,.the capitol when President
Wilson was inaugurated, when war .was declared and when the armistice was signed. .2 The advance guard of
the American troops arriving at Molsberg the farthest poinr Into Germany reached by the Americans. 3 Gen.
Joseph Hall er, commander, of the Polish divisions In France, which are being sent to Poland, standing with his
staff in front of the Cathedral of Louvaln. ' " - " ;
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVERTS
Council of Four in Paris Has
Agreed on Most of the
Peace Problems. H
TREATY MAY BE READY SOON
Hint That President Wilson Would
Withdraw Has EffectSoviet Gov
ernment Set Up in Bavaria Op
posed by Peasants Allies
Forced -to Evacuate .
Odessa.
By EDWARD' W. ; PICKARD.
Most of the great problems confront
ing .the-peace, conference were settled
last week by the "Big Four" perhaps.
That is to say, at the close of the week
they were settled, but before this
reaches the reader they may be all ,n
settled again. Such has been the way
of the peacemakers in the past. How
ever, if there is not agreement on the
vital questions mighty soon, there is
some reason to believe President Wil
son will withdraw from the delibera
tions and come home. t He startled the
conference and the world by ordering
his transport, the George Washington,
made ready for another trip to Europe,
and asking when It might be expected
there. Some of the Paris papers de
clared Mr. Wilson was thus trying to
force the French delegates to mitigate
their- demands ; pessimists saw-In the
action the probability of hopeless dis
agreement; optimists said It meant the
treaty was nearly ready for submission
to the Germans.
The theory of the optimists was
borne put by dispatches late in the
week stating that the Big. Four had
agreed : ' That William Hohenzollern
and others responsible for breach of
treaty and of rules of war must stand
trial, probably before a Belgian court,
but that the death penalty should, not
be imposed on the former kaiser ; that
France shall be given control of the
mines of the Saar valley, but shall not
be permitted to annex any of that ter
ritory and that a commission shall reg
ulate strikes' by miners' 'there ;'" that
Germany must make an initial pay
ment of $5,000,000,000 reparation An
1921, after which a commission shall
assess a yearly indemnity.
The Rhine frontier, the ultimate dis
position of Danzig, the Italian claims
to Flume and the Dalmatian coast and
some lesser matters remained to be
settled at the time these dispatches
were sent. That agreement on these'
questions was believed to be Imminent
was indicated by the fact that the com
mission to prepare for the signing of
the peace treaty at Versailles was busy
making the necessary arrangements
for that momentous occasion. f Premier
Paderewskl urged before the council
of four that Poland should be given
Danzig and the coal fields of Teschen,
Silesia, but the belief was that this
matter, as well as that of the Rhine
land, would be settled in conformity
with MrWllson's 14 points, his abso
lute adherence to which he again de
clared ; that, of course, would preclude
the annexation of enemy territory.
How the Italian claims would be set
tled there was no intimation. ,
According to .reports, , Mr. ' Lansing's
opposition to the. British and French
desire that the former kaiser should
be i tried . by an International tribunal
resulted In the compromise plan stated
above. Tlie Americans,-It .was said,
were In favor only of, a moral, indict
ment without recourse to prosecution.
owing to the lack jof ; an international
law covering the case. The Japanese
'representative supported this vlew.v; f
xne repara uons ciause spcjiies tpat
xthe enemy comtries must admit their
responsibility for. all losses and dam
age to allied . and . asspdated nations
and their citizens due to unjustifiable
aggression ; also that Germany - is to
pay the expenses -of the commission
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during the period probably thirty
years in which damages are to be col-
ected. The Americans would have
referred that the treaty should name
the Uxed amount of Indemnity to be
collected, but did. not insist on this, in
order to hasten agreement. The five
billion first payment is to be made by
Germany, In cash or securities, before
May 1, 1921. If Is supposed the total
to be demanded will be about $45,000,-
000.000.
Owing to the Illness of President
Wilson during. the early part of the
week, the" commission on the league of
nations did not meet until Thursday
evening. At that time the completed
draft of the covenant, comprising '27
articles, was submitted. There Is no
longer any doubt In Paris that the
league covenant will be a part of
the peace treaty, and In this country
the opposition seems to be losing some
of Its vehemence. .
-It was announced that the, commis
sion had adopted a section specifically
safeguarding the Monroe doctrine, and
that Geneva Switzerland, had been se
lected as the seat of the league of na
tions.
An important and Interesting part
of the treaty, which has been formu
lated, deals with water and rail com
munications In enemy states. Freedom
of transportation through Germany and
Austria and equality of treatment in
ports and harbors are provided. The
regulation of transportation over the
Rhine and Danube provides for the
entrance of France, Switzerland and
some nonpartisan states to the present
Mannheim convention between Ger
many, and Holland covering the navi
gation of the Rhine.
The- European commission"' control
ling the mouths of the Danube will be
continued, representatives of present
enemy states being excluded from It,
and a similar international commission
will be established provisionally for
the upper Danube. This will last until
a new general Danube convention Is
established.
A new International convention cov
ering the navigation of the Elbe; and
Oder rivers ts recommended to protect
the Interests of Poland and Czecho
slovakia and give them freedom of
navigation without discriminating du
ties, down : through German territory
to the North and Baltic seas. These
states would be further given free port
privileges at certain north German- bar.
bors In order that they may be enabled
to develop their export and Import
commerce. ;
Bolshevism made another big play
last week when a soviet government
of Bavaria was set up in Munich by
the revolutionary central council. .The
landtag was dissolved and people's
commissions appointed. This action
was supported In WTurzhurg and Ratis
bon, but throughout Bavaria generally
it was violently opposed not only by
the bourgeoisie -but, also by the peas
ants. The latter hold control of the
food supply and declared they ; would
refuse to deliver food while the soviet
government remained In power. The
bolshevlsts prepared measures for the
communlzation of property i and the
formation of a Red army, while the
government they sought to replace, re
fusing to retire, set' Itself up In Bam
berg. Later In the week the citizens
and officials of Wurzburg ; struck
against the ; soviet government and
ousted Its agents after severe fighting.
The diet met In Bamburg and the min
isters said they regarded the situation
with confidence and that outside help
to . suppress the bolshevlsts 'J. was not
needed. ---V-V, r):X;i'::r::K'7r :.
The communist government of Hun
gary rejected the propositions made by
General Smuts for the allies, concern
ing, the neutral zone and other matters,
and , made ; counter-proposals, . with
which Smuts returned to Paris. Mean
while the Hungarian bolshevists were
cheered by the news that Lenlne was
sending them 150,000 men. -In an intef
cjepted vwreleip
In, Ilussian foreign minister, Bela Kun,
said : vWe da uot want-ta use. the dis.
tatorshlp of the Hungarian proletariat
to take bourgeois chestnuts out of the
fire for the bourgeoisie. ' When the
German proletariat shall have ' power
, if
they will use It for the benefit of, Ger
man Imperialism, and will throw out
Scheidemarin.' Enert, NoskerDavid and
their press valets." " '
Persistent efforts to induce German
Austria to go bolshevik were hampered
by the dependence of the Austrlans on
the allies for food, but Amsterdam dis
patches said a soviet republic was pro
claimed In Salzburg, which Is, near the.
Bavarian border, in Vienna conditions.
became steadily worse and acts of vio
lence increased. A meeting of the sol
diers and workmen's council of Vienna
was called for April 14 for the purpose
of discussing a soviet form of govern
ment. "
In Germany there were continual
outbreaks against the Ebert govern
ment, the greatest demonstrations be
ing in Essen, Magdeburg and in the
former duchy of Brunswick. The , Es
sen radicals brought about a strike of
the Krupp workers and' seized the
plant, but were ousted by government
troops, after which two-thirds of the
men went back to , work. The insur
gents of Magdeburg also were routed
hy soldiers sent by Minister of Military
Affairs Noske. . From Brunswick came
reports of a strong movement In fa
vor of a soviet government, and com
munists of Saxony , made a like de
mand. '
As had. been anticipated, the allies
were forced to evacuate Odessa, being
attacked by an overwhelming number
of Ukrainian bolshevlki. This was re
ally a considerable triumph for Lenlne
and Trotzky, for they gained control
of the most fertile .regions of southern
Russia besides capturing large supplies
of: cash. The allied commander with
drew his troops, numbering about 60,
000, to Constantinople and Roumania.
In North Russia the soviet troops ap
peared to be preparing for a renewal
of their offensive, ' despite their recent
vain and costly attempts against the
allied forces. British re-enforcements
and American engineers sailed from
England for Archangel.
Decidedly unpleasant was the admis
sion by the war department that open
mutiny was threatened recently by the
American troops in North Russia un
less Washington speedily announced
Its policy as to early withdrawal of
the armed forces In that region. Some
of the men flatly refused to go to front
line positions. The American soldiers
cannot understand why they are -called
on to m ake war against Russians
when war has not been-declared, and it
Is declared this feeling is shared by
the troops of other nationalities. Rep
resentatives of the anti-bolshevik Rus
sians have repeatedly, said in this coun
try that they ask only munitions and
moral support from the allies, and
have urged that all the armed forces
of the latter re withdrawn from .Russia
as speedily as possible. y
The Esthonians reported continued
successes against the bolshevlki. In
cluding J, the capture of seven villages
and many prisoners. . . . '
- Conditions In Roumania and Poland
are causing the -allies : considera
ble worry, for there is - danger,
some feel, of a great bolshevlst
combination of Russians, Hungari
ans and Germans that .would crush
those two countries. ' The allied troops
that ; went from Odessa to Roumania
will help some, but it was felt that no
tlme'should be lost In getting General
Hallers Polish divisions to- Poland.
Marsnal Foch arranged with the Ger
mans that those divisions might be
transported by train across Germany,
and If necessary "might" be landed In
Danzig. In this compromise of the dis
pute with the Huns over the East Prus
sian port,- it is felt by many .that the
allies yielded tco easily to Germany
arid did not jglye due , support to. the
claims of Poland, i In England Premier
Lloyd George was bitterly assailed for
his Danzig. policy.. ,
Freakish weather worked havoc jn
the Southwest and West last week. In
north Texas southern vOklahoma and
Arkansas there .wasta terrific tornado
that kledsabou Jpri hwiared persons,
Injured . pany , : more and destroyed
property worth mliiloris bf . dollars.
Heavy snow; In ; the Rocky mountain
states tied np the railroads and decor
allzed wire commcnicatlcn. : .
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TAX EXEMPTIONS A
Rates of Interest Van, a..,. .
" ay Purchasers-
Bonds Mature In Four Years.
- Washineton Tprmo u.
Liberty loan were announced bv 2?
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"The Victory Liberty lo
will be offered for oonniar 0'u. c
tion on'ADril 21; will tato np-
i MK nt ' or
' w - - - vini, liih nun.
-74, , wiuur-year, convert
u.0 6um uuies ui ioe united States
exempt from State and local tava 1'
cept estate and inheritance taxes
uuimai icucrdl laCOlTlP fo..
The .notea will' he convertible, at the
option of the holder, throughon t t-..
Ufa" Infr na nnn l
rJK vcui t-uree-iour-year
conyeruoie goia notes of the United
States, exempt from all federal, State
and lrwral ta
--vLt cijiaie ann in
heritance taxes. - In like mann
6 per cent notes will be convertible
.. . . . - . uie
mio 4 per cent notes.
"The amount of the issue will be
$4,500,000,000, which with the do.
f erred installments of income
profits taxes payable, in respect to last
year s income ana profits, during the
period covered by, the maturity datM
of .treasury certificates of indebtPd.
ness now; outstanding, will fully pro-
vide for the retirement of such cer
tificates. The issue will be limited to
$4,500,000,000 except as it may be nec
essary to increase or decrease the
amount to facilitate allotment. Over
subscriptions will; be rejected and al
lotments made on ' a! graduated scale
similar in . its general plan to that
adopted in! connection with the first
Liberty loan. Allotment will be made
in full on subscriptions up to and in
cluding $10,000.
"The notes of both series will be
dated and bear interest from May 20,
1913, and will mature on May 20, 1923.
Interest will be payable on December
15,1919, and thereafter semi-annually
on June 15 arid December 15, and at
maturity. Al or, any of fthe notes
may be redeemed before maturity.
WAR MINISTER OF SAXONY IS
KILLED BY MOB OF SOLDIERS
' Copenhagen. Herr Neuring. war
minister In the government of Saxony,
was killed at Dresden by disgruntled
soldiers to whom the minister had re
fused a hearing. The war ministry
was stormed by demonstrators who
dragged out Herr Neuring and threw
him into the Elbe, where he was shot
and killed as he tried to swim to the
bank. , . ;
Wounded, patients 7 in the Dresden
hospitals, says the Dresden dispatch
detailing' the occurrence, collected in
the morning in the theater square to
protest against an order issued by
Herr Neuring' to the effect that the
wounded in future should receive only
peace-time pay.' Five or six hundred
men formed a procession to the war
ministry and sent a deputation to see
the minister, who refused, however,
to receive them. '
ONLY THREE OUT OF WILSON'S
14 POINTS ARE NOT INDORSED
Paris. If one would gain a real ap
preciation of what has been accom
plished, it is necessary merely to ken
foremost hrmirid the basis upon which
the peace conference was called into
being, President Wilson's 14 points.
How far 'has the conference pro
gressed toward their realization? To
this extent, that wHh the exception
of three questions Russia, the Ser
bian outlet to the sea and Italy's fron
tiers nd these latter are independ
entthe American peace delegation
has succeeded in forcing throueh the
acceptance of the entire Tjrosram.
;it is understood that tbe question
of Russia was debated at a recent
session, but probablv the ultima? in
cision will be to leave it for the
league of nations.
VESSELS OF. SEVERAL TYPES
RECENTLY ADDED TO FLEET
- Washington. America's battle fleet
was augmented last month by 10 de
stroyers and one submarine, besides
the superdreadnaught Idaho, which
will Join Admiral Mayo's forces upon
their return from Guantanamo bay.
Cuba, within a few days. Five auxil
iary ships also were completed in
March and present exTectations are
that more than 150 additional shins
will be delivered before the end of the
year..., . '
EUQEN E DEBS IS ON WAY
TO THE FEDERAL PRISON
J Cleveland Ohld--Eugene V. Debs,
many ; times candidate for President
on the socialist ticket, gave himself
the federal authorities here and
started for the federal pHw.
-MoundsVille, Va., lri charge of United
States arsir Charles W. LaPP t0
;beginserTinrivhisilQ-year sentence for
violatfori 6t th" espionage' e
oartyTwill reach Mound sville lte
t the . necessary transportation
c sctl ens can. be made. : .. ' -
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