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IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN -t. .-' ' THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH . j t ? What It Taking Place In The South . .. land . Will , Be Found In , Brief . Paragraphs European .Germany has been told in a treat- ty.-SQme eighhty thousand words in length, the terms upon which the al lied and assocaited powers will make peace with her. This notablo docu ment on which the leading statesmen of the various nations, together with a swarm of experts from the princi pal countries involved, have been working since the convening of the peace conference on January 18, is introduced by an extensive preamble, embodying the assertion of authority upon which the treaty is based. The document, long as it is, is shorter than was indicated by some of the forecasts which had estimated its length nt one hundred thousand words. The treaty is not printed m German. The text is in French and English on opposite pages. : The terms of the treaty spell The end of Germany as a military power, Shu is deprived of virtually all her fleet, her army is cut down to nomi nal dimensions and she 's sharply re stricted along lines through wnich she might seek to work militarily to rehabilitate herself. ' Economically, aTso the future course of Germany is helped about with stipula tioas in tended to insure her ability to pay the indemnity demanded by the al lies, but to prevent her from vxplo'.t ing her old-time resources as a stran gling competitor of the nations about her which she overran md devastated during the war. The ceremonial of handing the trea ty to the Germans took place in the hall of the Trianon Palace hotel, a spacious well-lighted chamber with ta bles for the delegates arranged near ly in the form of a square. It was presided over by Georges Clemenceau, the French premier, who sat at the corner of the head "table, with Presi dent Wilson and the other American representatives on his right, and Da vid Lloyd-George, the British premier, and his colleagues on the left. Mrs Wilson was an interested spectator of the function The youth 'who was arrested out side the house of Premier Clemen ceau has admitted to the police that he intended to attack M. Clemenceau with a knife which he carried. A black flag with an anarchistic inscrip tion and- anarchistic literature were found in his possession. Washington a uiBjjaicu irum rans says mat m n ? . . . Senator. Humbert, who ' has been on of having had dealings with the en emy was acquitted there. The German delegation to the peace congress declares that it will sign the peace treaty, but that Germany will not pay an indemnity. Congressman Drane recently took np with the government authorities the matter of securing a more inten sive patrol of the Florida coast by tee coast guard for the prevention of smuggling operations, and requested that steps be taken at once to this end. As President Wilson will not be present at the opening of the special session of congress on May 19, he will cable his message from Paris, and it will be read immediately after con gress convenes. This has been an nounced from the white house. Secretary Baker announces that by August the last man of the American expeditionary forces will have been withdrawn from France. He s'ts this estimate is based on the movement of three hundred thousand men a month to the United States. Not within the memory of the old est attache at the white house has a congress met with the president ab sent from Washington, and it is said that this is the first time that the ex ecutive of the American nation ever had sent his message by wire. Director General Hines anounces that the railroad administration will return to the old system of comepti l tu J: , j . ure uiuumg m placing us orders. Director General Hines says the government's deficit in operating the railroads for the first three months this year, or the difference between net earnings and one-fourth of the guaranteed annual compensation, will be $192,000,000 for all roads un- r ernment's loss for 1918 was $226,000,- UUU. i The clause regarding responsibill ' ties which was not acted on at the previous session of the plenary con vnsA If ia linHarotnrul hoa Kai corporjated in the final draft of the treaty. This provides for the tria of the former German emperor. . The peace treaty, formulated by the Allied iand associated powers has been handed to the German delegates at ' Versailles- Definite announcement of 1 the time .when, the Germans are to be '-' ' ' f M iL f - Am M. imperialistic" Germany ; must pay for laving instigated the worit war at last 1 has been made. Cable advices received at the white house indicate that President Wilson will " not hasten his return to Wish- inerton because of the extra session 'of .congress. There is now no intimation as to when he is expected to return, but the general belief is that it will not be before : June 1 .t . : Onvprnmental efforts to hasten ;fche return -of -industry to normal' peace time-activity - by . stabilizing prices through the industrial .board of the department . of commerce ..came , to an end May 9 following a final unsuc cessful effort to bring -the railroad ad ministration and V steel producers to an agreement on prices. . . A conspiracy to induce British sail ors to " demobilize themselves by marching out of their; barracks has been discovered. The object of the plot is stated to be to compel the gov ernment to use force if the projected disorders should occur, the organiz ers believing that this would precipi tate anarchy. Gen. Sir A. A." A. Barrett, in com mand of northern India, has begun op erations againsk the Afghan .tribesmen who crossed the Afghan border and oc cupied positions on the Indian side. Authoritative statements of opinion by moat of senators, on the treaty by Versailles probably will not be forth coming until after congress has met in extra session. Both the council of four and the council of foreign ministers resumefd their sessions May 9. The former is giving special attention to the impend ing negotiations between the allies and Austria, and the -latter, is discuss ing reports on the boundaries of for mer Austro-Hungarian territories. A dispatch from Naco, Ariz., says it is reported that Mayor Rocha of Cananea was kidnaped by bandits and that he had been, carried away to be hd for ransom. Two of the American navy seaplanes the NC-1 and the NC-3 arrived at Halifax, N. S., thus finishing usccess- fully the first leg of their trans-Atlan tic flight. Within the next few days it is an nounced, Argentina will expel three hundred anarchistic agitators, most of them Russians and Italians, among them seventeen women. The captain of a German submarine arrived in London recently and was put in jail. He is stated to have been the commander of a boat which sank several hospital ships. Domestic Of thirty-six states which report labor shortages to the federal employ ment service, twenty, all in, the north, showed a surplus of labor; six, in the South, showed a shortage, while ten report an equality. . Determined efforts b7 the delegates to the National Caucus of the Amer ican Legion, which opened at St. Lou ie, mo., to iorce tne cnairmansmp or the organization on Lieut. Theodore Roosevelt, failed, and Col. Henry D. Lindsley of Dallas, Texas, was elected chairman. Fifteen persons were killed when one of the worst tornadoes ever expe rienced in southwest Tex&s, swept the lower Rio Grande valley, demol ishing farm houses and doing great damage to growing crops. The storm which swept Texas took its heaviest toll of life at Mission, where a shed in which Mr. Vick, his wife.' and four children and a. number of Mexicans had taken refuge from the hurricane, collapsed, Mr. Vick And two of his children were instantly killed. Julius Barnes, United States wheat director, announces on his return to New York from Chicago, that he has completed negotiations to bring four million bushels of Canadian wheat in to the United States for distribution to the mills. Incoming transports poured into New York approximately three thou sand members of the Eighty-second di vision, and the entire organization, with the exception of those units in definitely held in France, is expect ed to land within the next week. Of the units thus far returning from over seas duty fully 80 per cent of the enlisted men are from the north and central west, the personnel from the entire south not being more than 20 per cent and from the whole or ganization was comprised. Approval of the sale of twelve army pamps eight National Guard - sites and four small miscellaneous camps for a total of more than five hun dred . and forty-nine million dollars is announced by the acting secretary of war. The state department has given out the information that three thou sand employese of an American min ing company at Santa Eulalia, Mex ico, have been removed to Chihuahua City because of threats of Villa. The lower house of the Florida leg islature passed a memorial which will be submitted to congress calling upon that body to pass an act requiring de portation of ' all foreign-born persons who claimed exemption and were ex empted from military service in the recent war against German autocracy on the ground that they were subjects of and gave allegiance to a foreign country. Fire in a downtown business and apartment building at midnight May 5 trapped many persons, the Colum bus, Ohio, police say. Men, women and children ? jumped . from upper floors into life nets. . One baby was thrown from - the third floor and was caught in the arms of a youth aiding the firemen. -Scores of women jumped from , the., upper apartments or tne seven-story-quilring. were In jured and rushed to, the hospital. Only one is known, to be dead, . but it is estimated- that- those .trapped may run up to 20 or 30. . i mm i 1 i i n i i i i ii i ' in 1 l-Naval seaplane F-5, In which tour navy aviators recently made a nonstop flight of 20 hours and 10 minutes. 2-New photograph of Fiume, which probably will go to Italy after 1923. 3-Olyntho de Magalhaes. minister from Brazil to France and one of the Brazilian delegates to the peace conference. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Germany Considering the Treaty Which Strips Her of Much Land and AH Power. FRANCE WILL BE PROTECTED Von Brockdorff-Rantzaii and Associ ates Are Expected to Make Coun ter Proposals Allied Council Working on Terms for . Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. The time has come when we must settle our account," said Clemenceau, and thereupon he handed to the repre sentatives of Germany what he aptly called a "book" some 80,000 words of peace terms to which Germany is re quired to give adherence. When this is done Indeed, whether or not It Is done Germany stands shorn of vir tually all of her military and naval power and of more than a million square miles of territory, and economi cally and financially bound until she has paid for the tremendous damage she wrought In the war. Whether by Intention or by accident, the day was well chosen for the deliv ery! to the Germans of the document so fateful to them and their country. It was May 7, the fourth anniversary of One of their most shocking crimes, the sinking of the Lusltania. The re ception of the delegates from Berlin was deliberately cool and the proceed ings in the Versailles palace were marked by a stern formality. There was no smallest pretense of cordiality on the part of the representatives of th allied and associated powers, for they felt none. "You have asked for peace. We are rerdy to give you peace" were Clemenceau's words, but the peace offered will be as gall and wormwood In the mouths of the Ger mans. Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, re plying for the enemy delegation, ad mitted the utter defeat of Germany, but denied her sole culpability for the war. He intimated plainly that Ger many would put in a counter claim for damages because qt the loss of. life due to the 'blockade,' and that In gen eral she would take her stand on Pres ident Wilson's fourteen points In op posing what she might consider oppres sive In the treaty. Indeed, it is clear that the Germans intend to pay much more attention to those points than do the allies. What this will avail them Is not difficult to forecast. Before get ting the treaty they said unofficially that they would sign it, but that Ger many never would pay an indemnity, b which they presumably meant penal damages such as Bismarck exacted from France In 1871. The treaty does not call for the payment of an in demnity, as such, but the Germans may so consider some of the items of repa ration. In any event, their refusal to sign, or their failure to carry out the terms of the pact, has been or will be provided for in the plans of the eco nomic commission of the allies. Pos sibly the military will have something to say and do, also. M. Clemenceau Informed the Ger mans that they would be allowed fif teen days In which to make Inquiries or "observations," In writing, to which the. allied council will make reply, af ter which the council will determine the time within Which the Germans must give a final answer. As' soon as the cefemony in the Versailles palace was over Count von Brockdorff-Rant-rau dispatched a copy of the treaty by aerial courier to Berlin, for the consid eration of the German cabinet and as sembly. : - The 'Germans maintained an "ar rogant air during the proceedings Wednesday, arid it; was noted that though M. CTemenceau stood while ad dressing them,1 Von Brock jjorff-Rantzati remained seated when he Teplled. This, and the tone of some of his utterapces made. the allitKl representatives, rather indignant. The correspondent of a Berlin pa per predicted that the German dele gates in each case where it .was con sidered necessary would present a carefully formulated counterproposi tion, stating the maximum they were willing to concede. Many of these, he said, were already drawn up, and the Germans would "show the utmost con sideration for the enemy's standpoint." He asserted it would be particularly difficult for Germany to yield to the demand for the delivering up of the Germans held guilty of being the in stigators of the war. This clause which calls for the trial of the former kaiser, was incorporated In the treaty at the last moment. Oth er matters which were put in last week Included the disposition of the Ger man colonies, as follows: Togoland and Kamerun France and Great Britain shall make a joint recom mendation to the league of nations as to their future. German East Africa The mandate shall be held by Great Britain. German, Southwest Africa The man date shall 'be held by the Union of South Africa. ' The German Samoan islands The mandate shall be held by New Zealand. The other German Pacific posses sions south of the equator, excluding the German Samoan islands and Nauru The mandate shall be held by Aus tralia. Nauru (Pleasant island) The man- date shall be given to the British em pire. The German Pacific islands north of the equator The mandate shall be held by Japan. Marshal Foch persisted to the last in his demand that France should be guaranteed In some way against future armed attack by Germany. It was re ported that President Wilson and Pre mier Lloyd George gave him measur able satisfaction by promising to ask congress and parliament respectively, to authorize an open agreement that the United States and Great Britain would go instantly to the aid of France If she were attacked. However, if the terms of the treaty as written are car ried out, Germany will have very little left with which to carry on military enterprises. She couldn't get far with an array of 100,000 men, a puny navy, no "submarines and no armed planes, and with the fortifications of Helgo land and the Rhine valley demolished. Belgium having been given satisfac tion as to the parts of the treaty which didn't suit her at first, the only one of the allied and associated nations that still held out against the pact was China. The cabinet at Peking, it was said, had Instructed the Chinese "dele gates not to sign any.treaty that trans ferred to Japan the former German rights In Shantung. . Japan's victory in the allied council has greatly stirred China and there Is danger of anti-foreign outbreaks there. Press comment on the treaty, which indicates or forms public opinion, is varied. The German papers, of course, denounce many of the terms as brutal and impossible of acceptance. Those of France praise the pact rather faint ly. In England some journals commend the treaty highly and others condemn It. The American press generally looks on the peace terms as satisfactory. No sooner had the German treaty been handed to the Hun delegates than the cpuncil of four began consideration of the program for the presentation of peace terms to the representatives of Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria. These treaties, which already were partly drawn up, more immediately concern Italy, and the return of the Italian del egates, who were in time for the cere mony on Wednesday, made it possible to go ahead speedily. Premier Orlan do and his associates went back to Paris at the request of the other mem bers of the conference and after a plan was formulated for-the disposition of Flume. It was proposed that the city should be under international control until 1923 and should then" be given to Italy. In the meantime Jugo-Slavia shall construct for itself a port a little to the south of Fiume, with railroad counectton with Agram ;vA other cities. It was understood that Italy was prepared to sacrifice some of - her claims on the Dalmatian coast. It was beUeved in Paris that President Wilson wouVl consent to some such compro mise, fo the strength of the Jugo slavs' contention lay in their need of a port on the Adriatic. Latest reports of the operations of the bolshevik! were that they were be ginning nn attack in great strength against Vilna, capital of Lithuania, which had been captured by the Poles. The city was undeiheavy artillery fire. The allies in northern Russia had sev eral successes against the reds and 'believed the crisis along the uvma river had passed. The American rail way detachment recently sent there had its first engagement with the bol shevik! and helped in the capture; of a town, losing one officer. Dispatches concerning Hungary have been conflicting. From Vienna came the word that the communist govern ment of Beta Kun had surrendered un conditionally, but this was not wholly confirmed. Anyhow, the communists were being hard pressed by .the Ceech, Roumanian and Serbian troops, which were surrounding Budapest. Copen hagen advices were that they had re fused armistice terms offered by the Roumanians and decided to fight to a finish. The collapse of the soviet govern ment of Bavaria apparently was com plete, and was followed' by the whole sale slaughter of Sparta cans and sus pects, the excesses of the victors in Munich being about as bad as had been those of the reds while they were In control. The German government troops were aided by some 8,000 Aus trians In regaining the city. President Wilson last week issued his call for an extra session of 'con gress, summoning the law-makers to meet on May 19 an earlier date than had been expected. He cannot be in Washington for the opening of the ses sion, owing to the work still to be done in Paris. The Republicans, who will control both houses, are busy prepar ing their program. The house must hurry through a lot of appropriation bills and in the senate, will be staged the great debate over the peace treaty, and especially the covenant of the league of nations. It is predicted that the senate will give the entire treaty its approval, though many of the mem bers will argue long and earnestly against the leagues covenant as It stands. The supporters of the league undoubtedly will have the Immense as sistance of addresses by the president, who will return in time to take the field In championship of the great in ternational union with whose forma tion, he has had so much to do. Secretary Baker says the millionth American soldier leaves France for home this week, and it is certain that all of them will be returned before long, barring unforeseen complications.' However, it is apparent that we will continue to be represented ia the al lied expedition In Siberia, for the war department Is recruiting 8,000 volun teers for that service to relieve those now there, and the first 1,000 already have started. r. The American Legion, In process of organization by veterans of the great war, opened a caucus in St. Louis with a thousand delegates present and Lieut. Col. Theodore Roosevelt In the chair. The first sessions developed a decided dissension between the National Guard and the regular army. The feelings of the former were voiced by. Col. Bennet Clark, son of Champ CJark, in the Na tional Guard convention, when he de clared that the regular army "must be smashed." However, he Is fighting against the effort to have regular army men excluded from the Legion, Some of the Southern delegates were work ing hard against the admission of negroes to membership. Messrs. Walsh, Dunne and Ryan, whom the Americans of Irish blood sent across to work for a f ree Ire land," hove succeeded In arousing the hot resentment of the British against what many of them say is the unwar ranted Interference of the United States 'In a matter that does not con cern It The delegation, vMting n Ire land,. wa, feted and escorted by Sinn Fein leaders-' and at the same time, ac cording to hostile journals. w openly boasting that it has received strong en couragement from President Wilson and that LlOyd 'George would receir i n It return to Pari. I5g01 PE OFFICIAL TOTAL OF PURCHASED WILL NOT KNOWN BEFORE MAY BE 23. HEAVY OVER Complete Returns of Rau, . I Wili Be Made to the Tr.J Department bv May 24. Washington. Fift icans bought Victory Liberty I ' the campaign accoidiiie tli received by the trea "'una,- SUI7 from ft reserve banks This vomnS "ti about 21,000,000 purchasers Z Fourth loan 17nnnru,A . . Ciil -".vvv.uuy m thp ii' 9.400,000 in the second and Ijt in tne nrsi. ,,-v A few additional reports of J scriptions came in but nc attemnt?! made to tabulate them and the t- I urv announced that ti -. . , , uuiuai tot! probably .would not be known hrf May 26. The total as compile stood at $3,894,000,000, but late ouiiriiooiicu me earner mm. wvuo mat luau naa been heav over-subscribed. s .4 ill i . iaiuta wiy nave untl May 20 to' port their subscriptions to federal. serve oanKS, ana tne federal resen. Dans win report to the treasury May 24. "Reports from all districts infa 11 L i. 11 ii , . ' uuv yi-a.uwua.iiy me entire quota t taken , without material assists from the banks," said a treasury at nouncement. PERHAPS LAST VISIT PAID OCCUPIED AREA BY PERSHING vuulou. ucuwoi rersning, cojl mander in chief of the American a peaiuonary iorces, arrived in Crtl lenz for what may be his last off visit to the American occupation aral During hs visit he will arrange wi Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett kj the complete final -withdrawal of M American forces as decided upon soil three weeks ago at general headquai ters. General Perslhing confirmed the 1 Washington announcement that all, i ,at least nearly all, of the Americas! would be out of France and Germain by September 1. PEACE CONDITIONS ARE NOT HARDER THAN EXPECTED Berlin. Maximilian Hardin, editor j of the Berlin Die Zukonft, writing on j the peace treaty, says : "The peace conditions are not hari er than I expected. They were m pleasant to the greater part of the people. But could one have readfy expected them otherwise? "The allies have been threatened ttxat Germany would join the bolshe viki. But that would be suicidal. The only -way to rescue the country i by openness and honesty. The rero lution has- been a great disappopint- menL' THE TWO GREAT POLITICAL PARTIES HAVE EVEN BREAK Charlotte, N. C. Thomas R. M shall, vice president of the United States, who srent the night at u Rolvvn tonal eaiA ttiprp is no dt that the Germans will sign the peac treaty and the United tSates si will ratifv it .wtith the league of na tions agreement included. He also d clared the democratic party has "even break" with the republican par ty for a vctory in 1920. He expressed himself f the opinion that the imfflj irration laws of this country show and must 'be "revamped" and renjj tierht "tnr a erfat manv years. o r - - - fflgj ripr t.h ' nrosATif la ws t.00 many kva Ihoan aA-n and haVC allegiance to the United States have -been German secret service m he said, and who, in all probabilty still in, the pay of German reacno ari3 who are seeking to create trou among certain elements ot our P lation." t dfPLY . . . w - -rue GERMAN5 trill P6 Paris. President Wilson rh answer as m. . . , . . . r.prman 11 aeoiaea upon concerning, - nnirifis in thft neace treaty din v ii 'lints. JT, . . ji tn high Qu itms wus annouuecu . gut ters in connection with the i tions which Chancellor hiedeten has gven the German plemP5 ariea at Versailles t9 address a rf to the allies comparing tne the treatry with the 14 pom i - ... a i p c HAD CONTROL OF HIS vu & - r r- HIS '" BUT NO l uf ' ' Oaflt' ; ParlsOount von Brockdom Z8SEL t's win '.was strong enou v alble him to deliver nis t p half of Germany to the v 11. a Versailles nMLre congr"- - r ruir ' J feared Thia area couapw n "c f his Thla is on the authority oi n is v m. ctnnu. .j. retary .who has oeen gcr translating oomments from - jj, ilsh papers sharply reproac- "ount for remaining paklnc. SUBSGR
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