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IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
'AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
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European
It is officially reported in London
that the courtmartial which has been
trying Capt. Edmond' G. Chamberlain
of San Antonio, Texas, the aviator
who claimed to have performed many
thrilling exploits over the German
lines, has acquitted him. .
Germanyjs economic status under
the terms of the peace treaty, is the
result of her behavior, the allied and
associated council informed the Ger
man peace delegation.
Ex-Emperor. Charles and ex-Empress
Zita, accompanied by several
Austrian archdukes have arrived at
Chateau Pranzins, near Geneva, their
future homer
Great Britain wants Constantinople
for the Turkish sultan,, at the behest,
it is stated, of the Indian delegation
to the "peace council. The United
States is being urged to accept man
datory for Constantinople.
A period of seven days of grace has
been extended to Germany by the rep
resentatives of the allied and associat
ed . government, in which the German
, peace plenipotentiaries may conclude
their, stuffy, of .the peace treaty and
formulate such replies to the various
clauses as they desire.
, A number of prominent business
men in Tokio, Japan, have decided
jto form a Japan-American submarine
icable , company to lay another cable
across the Pacific.
President Ebert, in addressing a
(demonstration in Berlin, said that Ger
many would , "never sign the peace
terms. ..The demonstration was held
in the Lustgarten and was attended
by a great crowd. The president de
scribed the peace terms as "the prod
uct of the enemy's revengeful hys
teria. Foreign countries will not per
mit the proscription of Germany. They
will raise their voices with us that
this peace of enslavement which we
will never sign shall not come to
tass.,r
; Describing recent demonstrations
before the Adlon hotel in Berlin, a
dispatch to the Paris Temps says that
the crowd shouted "Down with France,
England, America, Clemenceau, Foch
snd Wilson."
Count von Brockdorff:Rantzau, head
if the German peace commission, who
left' for . Spa, returned to Versailles.
He was accompanied by Herr Lands
berg and Herr Giesherts, two other
members of the delegation, who had
been to Berlin.
'A Constantinople dispatch says that
Jn the fighting which took place af
ter the landing of Greek troops at
jSmyrna, 300 Turks and 109 Greeks
jwere killed. The fighting took place
for the most part in the Turkish quar
ter of the town where the Greeks were
met by lively rifle fire.
; The Paris Journal says a political
,crisishas arisen in Constantinople
eince the debarkation of Greek and
allied forces at Smyrna. It is stated
.that the grand vizier, or prime minis
ter, has resigned.
Washington
Passage by the house of a deficien
cy bill providing urgent appropria
tions of $45,044,500 for war risk allow
ances to soldiers' and sailors' fami
lies and Civil war pensioners, made
another speed record for the new
house, which the day y before had
adopted the woman suffrage resolu
tion. The Ukrainian offensive against the
Poles has been completely broken, a
- dispatch from Warsaw says.
These are the mai nprovisions of
President Wilson's message cabled
from Paris: Repeal o famendment of
the war time prohibition act; crea
tion of a federal agency of advice and
information as a' clearing house for
suggested improvement in industrial
conditions; maintenance of the United
States employment service; adoption
of the land-for-soldiers bill; legisla
tion to facilitate American enterprise
In foreign trade; repeal of the so-call-edluxury
tax; reconsideration of the
federal taxes to relieve the burden,
particularly on productive resources,
making incomes, excess profits and
estates the mainstay, of steady taxa
tion; against general revision of im
port duties, but for protection iof the
American dye industry: adoDtion nt
the .suffrage amendment; return of
the telegraph and telephone lins tn
their owners under more co-ordinated
system; return of the railroads un
der a more uniform system. '
The navy department has reached
no conclusion as to types of capital
ships to be recommended to congress,
service opinion being, still widely di
vided on the question . of compostie
ships, which came up during the last
session of congress.
The proposed salts to a British syn
dicate of the British owned ships and
assets of the International . Mercantile
Marine 'company a transaction in
volving five British companies and
750,000 tons of shipping, valued at
approximately. $135,000,000 has been
hv .tli a board of directors and
gtyjyAWVw
finance committee of the company.
Hope for the safety of Karry O.
Hawker and Commander Mackenzie
Grieve, missing since they set out
eastward through the air in the Sop
with biplane for Ireland, has been vir
tually abandoned. - - " '
National suffrage for women has
been endorsedfor the second time.
The house adopted the Susan B. An
thony amendment resolution by a vote
304 to 89. . ' ;
An attempt was made to demolish
the American legation at San Jose,
Costa Rica, by a bomb, according to
advices received at the state depart
ment' A band of twenty Yaqui Indians at
tacked a train from the La Colorado
mine, en route to Hermosillo, Sono
ra, Mexico, from San Xavier, with ore,
killing H. S. White, an American, and
several Mexicans, according to word
received, in Nogales, says a dispatch
from Douglas, Ariz.
Construction of a fleet of dirigible
or lighter than air type as an
adjunct to the American naval
forces is expected by well-informed
naval officers to be recommended by
the general board of the navy in its
report to be submitted within a few
days to Secretary Daniels.
Official advices from various parts
of Mexico which have been received
in Washington daily, for the past two
weeks, indicate that the situation In
the northern- part of that country due
to the operations of Francisco Villa;
is more serious than hitherto report
ed. It is "learned from an authorita
tive source that Vila and his organiz
ed force of rebels" is now threaten
ing parts of Durango, as well as Chi
huahua to the north.
A new time record for airplane
flight was announced by the war de
partment upon receipt of an official
report that Maj. Adlan Gilkeson 'Af
the army air service had flown from
New York City to Portland. Maine, a
distance of 500 miles, in 250 minutes.
The allied troops on the north Rus
sian front have carried out a success
ful turning movement against the
main Bolshevik faction, forcing ' the
enemy, to retreat southward. Several
towns were captured and many pris
oners taken.
Lieut. Gen. Hunter Liggett, com
mander of the army of occupation, and
Major General Hines commander of
the third corps, who -were on their
way to London, were sent back to Co-
blenz by orders from American gen
eral headquarters. Nine hundred mo
tor trucks began to move at midnight
from west of the Rhine to the bridge
head area. The trucks are being dis
tributed to various points of advan
tage among , the troops holding the
zone east of the Rhine should the
occasion arise for the Americans to
start an advance.
At the present rate with which the
navy is bringing the army home, all
of the expeditionary forces will be
back in the United States by the 'first
of July, says Secretary Daniels.
, When the name of Victor Bereer
of Wisconsin was called in the house
as new. members were sworn in. Rep
resentative Dallinger of Masachusetts,
Republican, chairman of the elections
committee, according to pre-arranred
plan formally challenged his richt to
be seated.
Domestic
A score of persons were killed and
hundreds injured in an explosion at
the Douglas Starch Works at Cedar
Kapids, Mich. .
Property damage of $750,000, de
struction of nine and a half citv
blocks of stores and residences and
rendering of approximately fifteen
hundred people homeless, is the re
sult of a disastrous fire that swept
the old residential section Df Mobile,
Ala. .
For the first time in the history of
flying in America, a vehicle rf tha
air was brought to a convenient stop
in the.heart of Cleveland, Ohio, when
a dirigible balloon landed on the top
or a prominent hotel to nermit two
of Its five passengers to alight.
One of the three American sea
planes that sped away from Newfound
land in the attempt to fly across the
Atlantic, rested safely in the harbor of
Horta, Island of Fayal, ready to com
plete the flight to the European con
tinent. Attention of America and the world
is turned upon the new Congress, the
Sixty-sixth, in America, which con
vened in extraordinary session called
by President Wilson from Paris. The
opening, as usual, was taken up with
routine, business, including organiza
tion of senate and house by the Re
publicans, who supplant the Demo
crats in control for the first time in
eight years.
A dispatch from St. Johns, N. F.,
says Harry G. , Hawker, Australian
aviator, and Commander Mackenzie
Grieve, his navigator, started on their,
way across the Atlantic on the most
perilous airplane flight .in history,
May 18, at 5:55 p. m.f Greenwich
time, and expect to reach the Irish
coast in 24 hours, unless some acci
dent forces' them to plunge into the
sea. ' ' . r '.
Julius, H. Barnes, federal Wheat di
rector, has formally notified L P.
Gates, president of the Chicago 1 board
of trade, that the exchange should re
instate the rule limiting the amount
of open trades in corn for any one in
terest or individual to two hundred
thousand bushels.
Rev. A. M. Frazer, D. D., of Staun
ton, Va., was elected moderator at the
session here of the fifty-ninth 'general
assembly of 'the Presbyterian assem
bly of the Presbyterian xhurch in the
United States, assembled in New Or.
leans, known as the Southeastern
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tional committee to the 'starving Poles and Jews. 3 Arrival of the transport Mount Vernon carrying the One
Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry, formerly the Second regiment I. N. G. of Chicago.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Germans Given Another Week to
Complete Their Protests
; - Against the Treaty. 4
ALLIES CONCEDING NOTHING
. -
Ironic Replies to Brockdorff-Rantxau'e
Notes Displeased American Ex
perts Resign Wilson's Stand
on Wartime Prohibition
Arouses Storm Suf
frage Winning in
- Congress.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
Stalling- and playing for time , by
handing in many voluminous protests
and promising to produce many more,
the German delegates to the peace con
ference succeeded last week in gaining
an extension of time to May 29 for
making their full reply to the treaty
terms. To expedite the work Brock
dorff-Rantzau asked leave for a spe
cial train to take printing presses and
printers to Versailles.
Among the notes, he said, that are
to be presented to the allies were
those dealing with Alsace-Lorraine,
with the occupied territorieswith the
extent and discharge of the repara
tions obligation undertaken by Ger
many, with labor laws, with German
private property in enemy countries,
and with territorial questions in the
east.
The answers of the allies to the
notes already submitted by the Ger
mans could not have given the latter
much encouragement as to results.
When they complained of the taking of
mines and nitrate beds they were told
the treaty did not prevent their buying
minerals and nitrates from other na
tions; when they objected to. the loss
of their mercantile shipping and the
consequent loss of employment for
their sailors, they were reminded that
the allies were not thus nearly com
pensated for their losses due to sub
marine ravages; artd when they said
Germany would be unable to feed her
population if deprived of agricultural
lands, they were told the reduction of
population through the loss of territory
left her fewer mouths to feed, and the
Germans could easily obtain agricul
tural products from other countries.
The attitude of the allied delegates
Is that their countries have suffered
far too much already, and It Is the
turn of Germany, and they assert the
German people cannot shirk the re
sponsibility for the war because of a
partial and perhaps nominal change In
their form of government and In Its
personalities. Such, indeed, was the
substance of the reply of the council
of four to the German note regarding
reparatlons,, In which the Hun dele
gates declared, Germany would not ad
mit responsibility. They were told It
was too late to take such a position
and that it was impossible to disasso
cfate responsibility from reparation.
Having asserted the "German people
would not have undertaken a war of
aggression, they are reminded that
they approved of Secretary Lansing's
note of November 5, 1918, in which it
was stated that the obligation to
make reparation "arises out of Ger
many's aggression' by land, sen and
alr.?' The German? asked that the re
port of the commission on responsibil
ity be communicated to them; this was
peremptorily refused.
Of course It is apparent that In try
ing to disclaim the . responsibility of
the German people for the war of ag
gression the Berlin delegate's are rely
ing on President Wilson's early conten
tion that' America was making war not
on the German people but j on the
military autocracy that was oppressing
them. After a ; while he admitted he
was disillusioned by realization that
the German people heartily supported
their government as long as they were
winning battles ,and tfcenhe. directed
the exertion of 'force without etint or
limit" However, the Germans choose
to remember rather his former stand,
and on that and the Fourteen Points,
they base most of their objections to
the treaty terms. Those points are
especially emphasized in the statement
issued last week by the Scheidemann
cabinet which says Germany cannot
possibly accept the treaty as formu
lated. '..,.'
What the Germans really will do
about the treaty is still the subject of
much speculation. Opinion In Paris
that they ultimately will sign is un
changed, and is supported by advices
from, Berlin to -the. effect that a power
ful party is growing there in favor of
submitting to the allies and gaining
peace that will permit the resumption
of business. In this the Independent
Socialists are joined by bankers, mer
chants and many others, who say that
anything would be preferable to bol
shevism. In Washington it Is believed
that the Ebert government may retire
temporarily in order to let a dummy
government approve the treaty. The
dummies thereupon would be ousted by
public opinion and the Ebert crowd
could return, but the treaty would have
been signed.
It mtfy be that final ratification of
the treaty will be delayed by the ac
tion of the United States senate, which
has begun debate on the league of
nations , covenant. Some Republican
leaders wish to notify the peace con
ference , formally that the covenant
must be' amended and should be sepa
rated from the peace treaty of which
It is now an integral part. It is certain,,
too, that the peace terms will be scru
tinized at length by the senate. Sen
ator Hitchcock and other supporters
of the government are convinced that
both the treaty and the league cove
nant will be ratified by the senate.
An interesting fact concerning the
peace negotiations has just developed.
A number of the experts attached to
the American delegation have resigned,
declaring the treaty is unacceptable to
them in many respects. They were
taken over to gather historical, racial
and other data, and they assert that
the mass of information they, handed
In has not been used or even read by
the delegates. They more than Inti
mate that the framing of the peace
treaty degenerated quickly Into a proc
ess of bargaining and that Mr. Wilson
was compelled to surrender his ideals,
one after another, in order to put
across his main Idea of a league of
nations. According to these malcon
tents, the settlement of the Saar basin,
Danzig.' Shantung and other problems
ws aH wrong, and, they evidently have
no confidence that the Italian muddle
will be cleared up properly and justly.
What shall be done with Turkey?
was a question that occupied the atten
tion of the council of four last week,
President Wilson acting rather in an
advisory capacity since Amerlcnwas
not at war with the Porte. Some of the
delegates wish the sultan to be re
moved to a small territory in Asia
Minor and Constantinople turned, over
to the United States-under mandate.
Tlie Indian delegates, however, fear
that to force the sultan to quit Constantinople-would
cause great trouble
in the Mohammedan world, and there
fore the British prefer that he be left
there but with "only spiritual powers.
Though It seems to be accepted that
America shall be. the mandatory for
Armenia. It Is not at all certain that
the American people would be willing
to take charge of the Turkish capital.
Continued fighting between the Poles
and the Ukrainians gave the delegates
added trouble, for the Ukrainians, who
were losing ground in Gnlicia, com
plained bitterly, blaming the "Insane
policy of the" allies In supporting the
Poles." PaderewskJ apparently cannot
compel nls countrymen to cease hos
tilities, and the council of four took
under consideration the wisdom of
giving further support to tiny people
who refuse to obey orders from the
conference. Jews throughout the world
also have been aroused against the
Poles by reports of bloody pogroms In
which thousands of their race have
been slain, and mass-meetings of pro
test were held last week In the larger
American cities. The leaders of the
Poles deny the accuracy of the stories
and point to the fact that their relief
organization is supplying food and
clothing to Jew. and gentile alike.
Recent news from the near East says
Lenine and Trotzky have established
airplane communication with the Hun
garian communists and are urging Bela
Kun to hold out at all costs, promising
aid as soon as they get possession of
Roumanla. The Red army, it is assert
ed, has orders to burn Budapest and
scatter If too hard pressed. Meanwhile
an anti-communist government has
been st up at Arad, Hungary, and the
belief that lt has the backing of the
allies is confirmed by the arrival there
of Gen. Francet d'Esperey for the
purpose of directing a new movement
against Budapest. Lenine is quoted as
declaring he will make class warfare
until capitalism is destroyed and the
whole world Is one In brotherhood.
Admiral Kolchak has been notified
that the allies will recognize the gov
ernment at Omsk as soon as it is firm
ly established and a constituent- as
sembly is formed, and he has replied
that he is striving hopefully toward
that end. It Is said only 50,000 of the
Czecho-Slovak troops who went to
Russia are left, and these are making
their way to their homes in Bohemia.
The international woman's congress
at Zurich, after registering Its oppo
sitibn to .the peace treaty, has adopt
ed a resolution declaring that the
women of the world will go on strike
the moment another war starts, wheth
er or not it is ordered by the league of
nations.
President Wilson's message cabled
from Paris and read to congress as
sembled in extraordinary, session,
made various recommendations for do
mestic legislation, most of which had
been anticipated by the caucus pro
gram of the Republicans, who control
both houses. These include the ques
tion of labor, the revision of taxes, the
stimulating of foreign trade, the return
of telegraph and telephone lines to
their' owners, the settlement of the
railroad question and the adoption of
woman suffrage. Mr. Wilson added
the advice that the war-time prohibi
tion law, which goes Into effect July
1, be amended or l epealed In so far
as it applies to been and wines. For a
day or so the "wets' were jubilant over
this part of the mess ge, but the "drys"
promptly declared their intention to
prevent any such aucion as the presi
dent recommended, end took steps to
put into effect th measure as it
stands. Temperance and church bod
ies all over the com try joined In de
nunciation of Mr. Wilson for what
they termed surrender to the enemy.
Sheppard of Texas, introducing in the
senate a bill providing means for en
forcement of the law, said he knew
of no senator brave enough to Intro
duce a bill repealing the measure, and
in any event such' an attempt would
be certainly defeated. He attributed
the president's attitude to representa
tions made to him of widespread un
rest among labor as to enforcement of
the law. ''
S The suffragists are about to reap
the reward of their years of strenuous
effort. The house last week passed
a resolution for a suffrage amendment
to the. Constitution and there seems
to be no doubt that the senate will
take similar action, for enough votes
are pledged. The vote in the house
was 304 to. 88, most of the oppositfem
coming from the Southern Democrats.
Spectacular success and tragic fail
ure marked the week doings in aerial
navigation. Three American navy sea
planes, after making the flight to New
foundland, sailed away for the Azores
along a course dotted with navy ves
sels. One reached Its destination safe
ly, one . was lost near the Islands,
though the crew was rescued, and the
third, after landing on the water, "tax
led" 205 miles to its port a wonder
ful achievement. The successful
plane was prepared for further flight
to Portugal and thence to England.
Pilot Hawker and Navigator Grieve,
in their Sopwlth plane, undertook their
long-planned flight direct from i New
foundland to Ireland, and met the fate
of so many pioneers. They never
reached land, and just what befell
them probably vAW be forever a my
ten.
DEMOCRAT,, . ' h
"HI
REPEATED OBJECT;
Senator "Knox Naively s
Btfr
re D
scuss
Washington.
lina it
was debated ln the J
vigorous terms rhathea!?!
fu sections om
mg it and (leveW rtf.
Lcolored by dramatical
neatea retorts. The ViI
declared the leagu J
destinies of the whit"? H
hands of ignorant and slb
nations of black and ve T
tion, and charged tW X
crats were supporting n
In frequent interruptions of
soun senator's sno, ...
cock, of Nebraska, rankin, S
or the foreign relations cl
sisted that the premi
charges were false and that
ences drawn were unfair and fc
ous. He drew in turn a
Senator Knox, Republican,
ers of the league covenant 3
read it before they discussed it
The measure which
.1
league issue before the senate i.
resolution of Senator Johnson, u
liPflTI rvf Palifrn-nio T
me oiaie .uepartment the full
the peace treaty. There was
iciui u icitu a. vine on mew. v
tion, and the measure went wet .S
as unfinished business to cost
when the senate reconvenes i
Without speaking directly a j
Johnson resolution, Senator- 't
made a treneral attack nnrm tfctT
cj f
covenant itself as a proposal to;
over control of the white
nations where a majority always
be brought together on anynt
tion in opposition to white suprfil
He declared support of the k
plan never could be explained ail
by senators from the south, til
negro problem, or from the west
it Chinese and Japanese profci
COTTON IS PRACTICALLY
RELIEVED FROM EMBK
Washington. Recent increas
cotton prices were attributed tcj
raising of restrictions upon coto
ports to German-Austria and .
Slavia by Senator Smith, of JV
in a statement. c
"While cotton is still on the lC
bargo list," Senator Smith said, ' ,
war trade board trader powers
in It by the President, has practv
relieved cotton from being oaj
embargo list. The principal 4
mills of Austria were in GermatJ-,
trie, and Jugo-Slavia and all o!:
territory is now open to cott0I1T
ments without restrictions. The
titv restrictions of shipments to
zerland, Holland, Denmark, m
and Sweden have also been run
RICAN
FORCES FROM ARCHAN4
Washington. Withdrawal of 4
ican forces from Archangel is
under way, according to cable i aflj
to the war department whict ij
-n ,v,k0t nf the 33S
mat ait iucuiu -
try were awaiting evacuation.
rm.- smiIj 1 in line
1 HH WUJlUIAWiU iU7 1 " M
policy of the American go" 1
onnnnrooH Tvtr JjaTetarV D351 ...
the- house military affairs conn-
last February. At that
wn decifl"
oaicer nam ii nan
tuA-nr n Ampriran troop"
the Archangel district as eany
spring as climatic couui--permit.
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AUSTRIAN PEACt ,co":i0cf.
to W
clos
Paris. The peace terms
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lines of the German iw-
knotty problems as the &w t
aen is to De uumc .
states still is undecided. .
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