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7ashington
Three major generals of the regular
'my, Leonard Wood, Hugh L. Scott
Retired), former chiefs of the general
aff , and each of whom trained and
mmanded divisions during the war.
Id John J. Chamberlain, inspector
fneral, opposed before the American
ir association committee inquiring
W the subject of military justice,
y plan of taking from the president
dthe commanding generals the con-pi-
they now .. exercise jover courts
irtiaL During March $15,946,000 was loan-
-to farmers by the federal - land
!nks on long jtime first mortgages,
'cording to-the monthly statement
the farm loan board. The federal
ad bank of Omaha leads in amount
I loans closed $4,565,000.
(Acting Secretary of State Polk
'thorized the statement that no seri
es questions were pending between
e United States and Japan, and that
e indications were that minor issues
ising; from the situation in Siberia
d the recent trouble at Tientsin, asr
all . as . peace conference problems,
puld soon be amicably settled with-
t in any way straining the relations
tween the two countries.
Rear Admiral Knapp has reported
the navy department from London
a ttwo enlisted men had been kill-
by a boiler explosion on the U. S.
Beukelsdjik.
President Wilson has directed the
diistrial board of the department of
mmerce and the railroad administra-
bn to reopen discussion of price sta-
lization and endeavor to find a com
on ground on whic hthey ca nagree.
lairman Peek" announces that the
Sard will take up the question with
e railroad administration immedi
elyV .American troops to the number of
5,000 are returning to the United
:ates from Europe during the pres
et month, Secretary of War Baker
ld the newspaper men in Paris, he
-ving arrived there from Brest.
In May the number of men return
Z from Europe will fall to 250,000,
s'cause of lack of transports, but in
;ne4the number will rise to 300,000.
Brig. ; Gen. W. P. Richardson, new
xnmander of the American forces in
rth Russia, reports the military sit
tion satisfactory in his first official
spatch since landing at Murmansk.
Now that the Germans have been
lied to Versailles on April 25, the
dications are that the proceedings
ay move with such dispatch that
resident Wilson can remain for the.
jningof the treaty, and thus be able
take back - the completed docu-
Airplanes were used in coping with
e -disorders that have broken out
the Punjaub. A mob attacked a
issenger train in this district and
recked the railway station at Gujran
ala, Airplanes were sent from La
jre.and the mob was bombed and
;bjeetd to machine gunfire from the
tZ: Considerable unrest still exists
Delhi and Lahore.
It ; is:-learned ; in London that the
tuation in Turkey is causing grave
lxiety. ; Internal disorder is rife, ac
rding to reports from Rear Admiral
rcl)tr. R. N.. at Constantinople. It is
ared there will shortly be outbreaks
id massacres of the Armenian popu
tion on i. large scale.
The- situation at Smyrna, where the
Larks and Greeks are ready to spring
each' others' throats, is typical of
le ' situation throughout Turkey,
inds of brigands are dpminating the
mntry,: even within a few miles of
Constantinople, and committing atro
ous murders.
The' committee of. union and prog
ss, the young Turk organization,,
hicn wasdriven from power in Con
antinople as a result of the alied vie
ry. is reported to be secretly con
lcting an; energetic reorganization
ovement , 1 , ,
Further disorders are feared in
irypL ' A' division of British troops is
i the. way from the Dobrudja to re
force the troops "of. Major General
llenby, the, special high commis
cner to Egypt, and to relieve a large
tnber of Australian' and New Zeal
; 1 soldiers who will return home. -President
indications are 'that the
: ace treaty will be signed before the
caident's departure from aris for
:ne.;. V " V . ' ' ,"j -. "
Brig! Gen. Wilds P. Richardson, U.
. A.,, having arrived at Archangel,
ussia,' with his staff on board the
zt big ice breaker which has made
; way " into - the regular 'Archangel
:I:s; since the beginning of- winter,
j of his first acts was to make pub
to the-American troops a telegram
.1 General Pershing calling upon
s.i 'to maintain their jmorale. r
: is stated In well informed quar
: th at1 the situation- of the peace
o tiations was such.- that President
on would probably be ; able to
; homeward May , 20, and possibly
ttla earlier by Mayj ML . - :
There will be anther -woi Id war be
ginning in June, 1926, according to a
writer in the British Journal of As
trology; I This prophet, signs himself
as "Sepharial," and asks for a s "rious
hearing, inasmuch as he claims to
have published a year in advance, in'
each case the exact date of the war
of 1914, and' of the cessation of hos
tilities. ' -
The decision of the United States
government to ' appoint " Hugh S. Gib
son, secreta.r of the American em,
bassy in Paris, ns the first minister to
Poland, was announced "by Premier
Paderewpki of Poland. .
An - agreement was reached by-rthe
associated" powers to send food to
Russia under neutral control, but the
French representatives made several
reservations which will be considered
soon. ' . " " ' " . . " " ".' '''
The American embassy in Paris de
nies reports, that important ? railway
concessions in Russia have been ,ob'
tained by Americans. -
Fourteen American and six French
soldiers were killed when an express
train carrying American troops crash
ed into a" stationary train with French
soldiers on furlough near LeMans.
Twenty-five Americans and . twenty
two Frerichmen were injured. LeMans
is in the department of the Barthe,
west of Paris.
The plan of the council of four
to have Belgium prosecute the for
mer German emperor on. the charge
of responsibility for the .war js meet
ing with objections, which are agaiif
bringing up the whole subject f or ' re
vision. Those who have, the matter in hand
divide the question of war responsi
bilities into two distinct classes. The
first includes military and naval of
fenders and those accused of various
excesses against the usual rules of
warfare. The second , class includes
fornier Emperor William, ex-Chancellor
von Bethmann-Hollweg and others
whose offense is chiefly of a political
nature.
A petition asking for the punish
ment of the Germans responsible for
the deportation of women from Lille,
Roubaix and Tourcoing in the spring
of 1916, will soon be handed to the.
peace . conference. It , is signed by fif
teen thousand women.
From a parapet of the Fortress Eh
renbreitstein, more than four hundred
feet above the junction of the Moselle
and Rhine, Secretary Daniels had hia
first glimpse of the American marines
on duty.
German and Baltic-German troops"
have feorcibly seized Libau and over
thrown the Lettish government .
Seven German submarines on the
way to Cherbourg, France, from Eng
land in tow have been lost in a storm.
Eight of the undersea boats were
bound to Cherbourg, but only one ar
rived in safety.
Domestic
Advantages of improved highways
and their economical benefits were
discussed at the sessions of the United-States
Good Roads Asociation, in
annual convention at Mineral Wells,
Texas, the speakers including United
States Senator Morris Sheppard of
Texas, Gov. R. G. Pleasant of Louisi
ana, and former Gov. George W Don
aghey bf " Arkansas.
Immediately federal and state leg
islation centering chiefly in public
ownership of the nation's timber lands
was advocated by speakers at the
opening session of the American Lum
ber Congress in Chicago, as the most
efficient means of stabilizing the lum
ber industry and preventing a short
age in natural lumber resources
which was characterized as "rapidly
becoming international" in its serious-.
ness."
Removal bf government restrictions
on the marketing of the cotton crop
and reduction .in acreage planted to
cotton were urged at the meeting of
the Farmers' Educational' and Co-operative
Union of - America in conven
tion in Denver. Speakers pointed. out
that a more diversified farming plan
would aid in the development of the
South, which had been handicapped
by confining farming operations to cot
ton. '
Brewers of the New York district
have taken action intended to speed
court determination of their claim
that, beer of 2 34 alcoholic content
may be produced without violating the
food conservation regulations . when
two , of their vnumber began - distribu
tion of a brew of the strength speci
fled in barrels bearing labels describ
ing it as a non-intoxicating' beverage.'
A telegram from San Francisco says
that the Chinese World, a Chinese pa
per published . there, has received in
formation from its ; Shanghai - corre
spondent that the "Japanese govern
ment has settled with the -United
States for the killing , of two . Ameri
can soldiers by Japanese soldiers in
the recent disturbances in the French
concession at Tien Tsin. 1
Wage increases averaging about $15
a month for approximately 69,000 em
ployees of the American Railway Ex
press company, have been announced
by Director., .General ;.Hines. a ;
Julius H. Barnes, president of "the
Federal Grain Corporation, has been
appointed wheat director of the Unit
ed States by Pre-ident Wilson, it is
announced, at the; of floe of; the food
administration in New York. .
l rpnsportation of Intoxicating li
quors : for. beverage "purposes : through
a - dry - state is not prohibited under
the Reed prohibition amendment,, the
Supreme - court; holds In an ; opinion
was rendered in proceedings result
ing.from the arrest of HomerQndger
at Lynchburg, Va., under the law while
en. route on a passenger: train from
Baltimore- Md. t AsheTllleVN C;.
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1 View of the harbor of Sebastopol, which city may' be evacuated soon by the allies. 2 Harbor, of Geneva,
Switzerland.-the city chosen as the seat of the league of nations. 3 Secretary v Glass and aids showing the indus
triaj h6nor. flag designed for the Victory loan campaign. ;- . - ;
fiEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVEHTS
Germans Are Summoned to Ver
sailles to Receive Peace
Treaty on April 25.
rERMS HOT TOLD TO PUBLIC
Lloyd George's Spirited Defense of
Hla Pol.cy No Military Interven
tion in Russia, but Food If Bolahe
viki Cease Hortilltiea Com
munist Government of Bava
ria Fighting Hard.
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By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
The peace treaty with Germany Is
completed and the German delegates
have been summoned - to Versailles to
receive It on April 25.
The associated powers have agreed
that there shall be no military inter
vention in Russia, but that" they will
send food to that country, under neu
tral control, if the bolshevik! will stop
hostilities.
Those were the outstanding features
of the news of Inst week, and they bore
out the optimistic assertions that all
was progressing well In the great task
of settling the. affairs of the world.
The delegation of Germans named
to go to Versailles includes the most
prominent of the German statesmen
now active in the government, except
Count von Bernstorff, and though they
will be given time to submit the treaty
to the national assembly at Weimar, it
is hoped they will have the authority
and the disposition to accept it with
out that formality thus obviating de-.
lay. It was asserted in Paris that the
allied governments would not wait be
yond May 15 for a definite answer as
to whether or not Germany would sigh
the pact. ; Of course - the press and
public of Germany are wailing with re
newed agony as it is made more evi
dent that the Huns will be required to
pay to the uttermost limit of thelr re
sources, and repeatedly the assertion
is made that Germany will not submit
to the terms . laid down in what Is
called there a "treaty " of violence."
Even Prince Lichnowsky Joined the
chorus of protests, saying an un justly
extorted peace can. only bring forth
fresh armaments, and Implying that as
a last resort Germany will "go bolshe
vik."." ;;----Jv:-.:--:.v
All discussion of the treaty, outside
the peace, congress, is based on unoffi
cial reports, for the allied delegates
decided that it would be foolish, if not
dangerous, to reveal the terms of the
treaty before it was submitted to the
Germans. The public; orconsiderable
parts of It, in, England, .France and,
to a less extent,. America, objected
strenuously to this policy by which
the German national assembly would
get the treaty before the rest of the
world ; but . it was sustained by the
French chamber of -deputies by a vote
of 334 to 166, and It was vigorously de
fended by Premier Lloyd George In
his-speech in the -house of commons.
The' British leader argued that if the
terms were "jmade -. public now there
would of necessity be much spoken
and written criticism , of them, since
it was hopeless to satisfy everyone,
and that those criticisms,, reprinted in
Germany, would give the enemy the
false Idea" that the terms were object
ed : to by the British public as too
harsh, whfrch would encourage the
Germans' to refuse to sign the treaty.
Lloyd George's speech was declared
to be one of the most eloquent and
sensational ever heard in the house of 1
commons. Primarily, he arose to de
fend himself against the attacks of his
critics, and he not only, did that,' but
Tmrled ; defiance at "those criticsTe
declared - that his pre-election-pledges
of exacting full payment from " Ger
many and punishing the former kaiser
and other . guilty Huns were to be
kept r that the , peace ; commissioners
wanted aj peace . that - was just and
sternly severe but not rindieti ve ; that
military intervention in Russia would
be a great blunder, but that the asso
:lated nations, wouldi eady ; to stop
any attempt of the bolshevikl to over
run Europe by force. The premier as
serted that there is complete accord
among the allied commissioners and
then hie launched into a bitter attack
of Lord Northcllffe, whose hewspapers,
he said, had been striving to sow dis
cord among the allies, to make France
distrust Britain and hate America, and
America dislike France, and Italy
quarrel with everybody. He called at
tention to the fact that the Northcllffe
papers,, which formerly ardently sup-
ported President Wilson, are now
terically -attacking all his great ideals,
and alluded to the "diseased vanity"
of their proprietor and his disappoint
ment because he had not been called
on to save the world. With the ex
ception, of course, of the Northcllffe
papers, the London press gave consid
erable praise to the premier's speech,
and his rejection" of any idea of mili
tary action in Russia was especially
well received. -
lf Lloyd George's assertion of full
agreement among the allied powers is
incorrect in any particular, the dis
crepancy involves Italy, At the close
of the week the problem of Fiume had
not been solved and the Italians had
repeated-their informal'threats to re
fuse to sign the treaty with Germany
unless that city were-glven to them In
stead of to the Jugo-Slavs, as Presi
dent Wilson wishes The threats were
not taken seriously, however and it
was believed that after the British pre
mier returned to Paris that difficulty
would be adjusted. The treaties with
Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Bulga
ria may not be ready for several
weeks after thut with Germany is
signed.
An interesting report, printed in the
Frankfort Gazette says the German
peace delegates are prepared to ask
from the allies payment for. damages
sustained from aerial -attacks, from
the occupation of German territory by
allied troops and for the delay in con
cluding peace, which caused a prolong
ation of the bolshevik and Spartacan
troubles. It is easy to guess how far
they will get With such a demand.
The peace commissioners, or at least
the correspondents In Paris, were
somewhat worried by the' setting up
of the communist government in Mu
nich, fearing lest this might make nec
essary a separate treaty with Bavaria,
the second state in the German confed
eration. But it may be that before the
treaty Is presented the regime of the
communists will have come to an end.
They have been having a very stormy
time so farand the troops of the so
cialist government have been pressing
them hard, though some of the soldiers
have joined the: communists. That
the ! food boycott of the peasants
against Munich Js effective is shown
by the fact that the communist gov
ernment has asked for a loan of a mil
lion marks from Italy for the purpose
of buying food. It is said that chaos
rules In Munich all work has ceased,
no trains are "running and the banks,'
shops and . houses are being looted.
The decrees issued by the communists
are many and radical, one ordering
the communization ofall women,' in
cluding wives. - '
In other parts, of Germany there
was continuous ; disorder, and strikes"
were started-in many, places. After
further severe fighting- In Magdeburg
the Ebert troops gained entire posses
sion of the city. In Berlin the em:
ployees in various industries struck be
cause they were not given a voice in
the management, and the soldiers and
noncommissioned officers of ihe army
there' also declared they would strike
If the order reducing; their; pay to
a peace-time basis was not rescinded.
Troubles with the workmen In Bremen
stopped the unloading of American
food ships there; In the Cologne dis
trict, occupied by the British, General
Plumer ordered the strikers to: return
to work at once and. threatened the se
vere punishment of all: persons fo
menting or countenancing strikes ;In
the zone of British occupation.
Apparently t the;: state ' of affairs in
Russia-Just : now may be summarized
In the statement that bolshevlsra Is in
creasingl In force but losing 'prestige.
.The director of the Moscow Red Cross
arrived in Copenhagen- with : conflrma
tion of the predictions that Lenlne and
Trotzky i would & soon Cseek ah , under
standing with the moderate elements
: He said ;bolshevism-w,aa"'givin5 way-to
a "new .bourgeoisie" and added that
the situation in Petrograd s growing
worse and that there hav been nu
rierous' anti-bolshevik outbreaks.
However, the Russians claimed Thurs
day that the soviet forces ere. gain
ing continued successes ;Iong the
whole front from the Baljc to the
Black sea, and in southern Russia the
situation was "Such that the allied
troops were constrained in abandon
more" positions, following' the evacua
tion of ' Odessa, and it x as predicted
hys-Lthat they would soon et out of Se
bastopol. -
. Reports from Libsi said the bolshe
vikl were systematically and swiftly
annihilating the bourgeoisie of Riga,
having shipped 70,000 of them to the
Island of Haens In the Dvina river and
forbidden the taking of food to them.
That, it may be recalled, was the
method adopted by Constantinople to
get rid o its horde of pariah dogs.
On Wednesday strong German forces
surprised and overpowered the Lettish
troops in Libau, overthrew the Lettish
provisional government and arrested
several officials. Premier Ul I man took
"refuge with the; British mission there
and Insisted that his government would
roslst the German demands.
In both Japan and the United States
a considerable-number of newspapers
are busy trying to stir up trouble be
tween the two countries, or professing
to find signs of discord In "current
events. The latest matter to arouse
them is the return of Ambassador Ishii,
though this "raay7BeJfaIrly attributed to
the fact that "the administration that
sent him to 'Washington has gone out
of power. "Another possible reason is
that Japan's appointment of Baron
Yoshiro Sakatanl as financial adviser
to China was not approved by the
United States. A, few days ago the
story was published that the American
troops In "Siberia refused to help a
Japanese contingent at Habarovsk be-.
cause the latter had- shot down Rus
sian women and children ; the Japan
ese detachment was practically anni
hilated. , Now It appears the murders
were committed by Cossacks and that
the Jafifrmese suffered while trying to
defend them from another faction of
Russians. General Graves would not
Interfere because .American operations
therj . are 'limited to the protection"" of
property and of the railroad.
The anti-American campaign In" the
Japanese press Is especially lively, and
Uncle Sam is accused of being aggres
sive, hypocritical and selfish, presum
ably because the Monroe doctrine
. clause was Included in the league of
nations convention arid the equality of
nationals left out Japan Is not cutting'
quite such an Important "figure In the
Paris negotiations as she had expected
to, and the people are rather sore as
a result. But there is no fear In offi
cial circles that friendly relations will
be rupturecL; - ; . ' -
Affairs . are not going smoothly. In
Poland, 'and for this some blame may
be attached to the policy of the, peace
delegates In yielding to Germany in
the matter of Danzig. . Though Gen
eral Halter's divisions already have
begun their movement through; Ger
many to Poland, the Paderewski gov
ernment has lost prestige, for the peo
ple fear that the Seaport they so much?
desire will riot be awarded them by
the treaty, and even may riot be Inter
natIonallzed. There Is almost continu
ous fighting on the :. borders; of the
Posemdlstrict arid it lias spread to the
East Prussian frontier. Haller's troops
are; passing through Germany at the
rate of three trainlbads a day, and
each train is ; accompanied ; by allied
officers and guards." The utmost pre
cautions are taken to prevent conflicts
with the German populace. Z-
After having r successfully 3 subdued
the uprisings In Egypt, Great Britain
now is confronted with a yet more
serious revolt In the Punjaub, India.
Martial law was declared in some dis
tricts where the governor general said
open' rebellion exists,; and mobs In one
dry were bombed and subjected to
machine gun fire from airplanes. .;
J;Dow?-iii Mexico a Wr revolt
.against the government was nipped la
the bud when Carranza troops defeat
ed a: body, of rebels near Chavaxtla.
Gen Aureliano Blanquet, who. with
az? beaded the movement, waa
MORE TROUBLE !!!
PEACE CONFERENCE
ASPIRATIONS OF ITALY SEEM
SURMOUNTABLE : OBSTACLE
6 .FURTHER PROGRESS.
OFLAY MAY BE OF BENEFIT
Marshall Foch . Reports That German
is to send to Versailles Six Fully
Accredited Representatives.
Paris. The . aspirations of Italy ai
regards the Adriatic sea coast stil;
appear to be the insurmountable ques
tion before the council of four ai th
Paris peace conference.
Discussion of the Italian claims wnt
followed by two additional confer
ences, but as yet there apparently ha
been no breach in the deadlock ov r
the demands which .the Kalians eon
sider irreducible and the compromise
offer of the other participants m the
negotiations Premier Clemency u
David Lloyd George and President
Wilson;
A delay of three days is in prospect
for the 'meeting at Versailles between
the representativee of the allied and
associated powers and the German
delegates for the delivery to the Ger
mans' of the allied peace terms. The
German delegation. Marshal Foch has
been inf ormed cannot reach Versailles
until - April 28. . Originally they were
invited to be there April 25.
The three days' delay possibly mwv
be of benefit to the allies in com
pleting the draft of the lengthy docu
ment, whtich is said to approximate
100,000 words. Some doubt has been
expressed that the allies would be
able to give the Germans more than a
summary of their peace conditions at
the first meeting at Versailles owing
to the length of the document.
Talk of Che German government
sending merely "messengers" to Ver
sialles to receive the peace treaty is
discounted by official information re
ceived by Marshal Foch that the Ger
man delegation will consist of six high
personages, headed by Count von
Brockdorff-Rajitzau, the .foreign min
ister. FOCH READY TO ACT IF HUNS
REFUSE TO SIGN THE TREATY
- Paris. The fact "that Marshal Foch
and, the allied commanders have
agreed upon the military and naval
sjteps which will be taken in the event
the Germans refuse to sign the treaty
has made a good impression upon the
country and the tendencies which ar
becoming daily manifest in favor of
firm alliance, at -any rate, until the
peace terms have been , executed, are
greeted witbugreati satisfaction.
The position of America in a mat
ter of this sort is specially delicate,
but there seeme to be some ground for
thinking President Wilson will not be
unfavorable to some form of alliance
until the league of nations is got in
working order. Rightly or wrongly,
the impression has been encour,f'
that only the financial clauses of the
peace treaty are open to discussion by
the Germans and that this discussion
would be limited. The Germans, it
was believed, would be heard as to
the best means of enabling them to
carrY : out the - financial obligations
placed upon them by the treaty. It is
clear from the-German attitude that
the enemy counts still upon inter-allied
"dissension. .
MORE THAN TWO MILLION ARE
? WORKING IN VICTORY DRIVE.
.Washington. Uncounted millions
of subscriptions to Victory Liberty
notes poured into banks and soliciting
committees throughout the United
States, but no official- reports had
reached'nalional headquarters here to
give any comprehensive Idea of the
harvest on the opening day of the
three weeks -campaign. Subscrip
tions probably will not, be shown fully
in reports to" the treasury until late in
the week. ' ; y,: "" -..' Z .
. ' More than 2.000.000 volunteers were
at work In the big cortcerted move
ment to "finish the job".
SOVI ET -TROOPS HAVENT
. OCCUPIED SEBASTOL
Paris. The- naval portf Sebasto
pol, in the Chimea, has not been occu
pied by Russian sovet : troops, accord
ing to a dispatch to The "Journal Desr
Debats dated Sunday at Salonik.
i The dispatch', says that fighting ap
peals to have stopped for the time
being in the southern Crimea, The
bolshevik!' are said to be slackening
their advance" in the face of allied
artillery fire. ;. -
DETROIT. FIRST LARGE CITY
- TO OVERSUBSCRIBE QUOTA
Detroit, MichADetrolt raised her
Victory- banner over'. the city hall,
claimiag the honor ot being the first
large' city In the country to over-sub
scribe its quota, la the Victory Liberty
loanJThe citynaa not; finished the
job -yet, for "the drive continues and
loan workers predicr the total sub
scription .will near the $100,000,00
mark. . Today's subscriptions exceed-
,ed S0,0OO.C0O.S Th cltyr juU was