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IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER i, . .:" - -4 , IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THI8 1 AND OTHER NATIONS FOR " SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE HEWS 0F THE SOUTH What It Taking Place In Th South land Will Be Found In ' Brief Parag raphe Domestic The main offices of the American Railway Express at Norfolk, Va., were destroyed by fire. Several explosions occurred. ! That he had traded wires with an other man and had given a half pint of whisky and 25 cents to boot was .j admitted on the witness stand in the court at Smithf ield, N. C; by Iredell Wheeler a white man, testifying in a case in which four other white men are charged with conspiracy to kill. Kelso Hailey, former prominent so ciety and clubman of Chattanooga, Tenn., wo pleaded guilty to operating a distillery in the basement of a fash ionable apartment house, was found guilty and sentenced o a year and a day in prison at Atlanta. With a bullet wound near the heart, John -Henry-Green, an aged truck far mer, is dying, his wife is suffering from a bulet wound in the right hand, and Luther Wiliams, a bailiff in Cook's district of Fulton county, Geor gia, who is charged with the shoot ing, and who was slightly wounded by the farmer is being sought by the county police. -Williams went to tha home of Green to execute an attach ment for several pieces of furniture which ; Green had bought in Atlanta, and the difficulty ensued which re sulted in the shooting. The second stage of the Commer cial Telegraphers' strike was reached on June 15th when, railroad operators ; at 23,000 points in America were order ed to discontinue handling commercial messages. Launching a movement for the erection at Hampton Roads a sister monument to the Statue of Liberty, the ordering pf a cablegram to Pres ident Wilson to express their confi dence in him at the peace conference and the adoption of' resolutions con demning' Bolshevism and - favoring that Count ron Bernst6rff be brought to the .United? States for trial were the' -outstanding features .of the Trav elers' protective Association on Amer ica, in -eessioi; in New Orleans.. - Toy Gon, former director of air ser vice and Chinese member of a special commission appointed by the govern ment, has purchasea a number of Haviland' airplanes equipped with lib erty motors at Dayton, Ohio. V : Representatives of the Joint legisla tive committee appointed to investi gate the activities of radicals in the state of New York, guarded by sev eral " members of the state constabu lary, raided the" offices of the Rus sian , soviet government - in New York City and took . possession of books and papers found there. Both sides concerned in the country wide strike of members of the Com mercial Telegraphers Union of Amer ica, expressed satisfaction over the results. Officials of the Western Un ion and Postal Telegraph companies said the strike was practically at an end, while President S. J. Konenkamp, International president of the Com mercial Telegraphers Union, declared that between eighteen thousand and twenty thousand operates throughout the country had already quit work and that more would follow. me two-masted schooner Oyster Plant, with 186 cases of whisky esti mated to be worth $22,000 on board, iwas seized early at Herron Bay, 27 miles south of Mobile Ala. Attorney t General Palmer has asked congress for a' special half million dol lar appropriation to carry on a hunt for ' anarchists, bomb , throwers and enemies of : law rand orQer j j . : Information is being given out at the war department to those inquir ing as to passports for relatives of of ficers overseas that no wives or other members of families of I officers i now being detailed for service abroad will accompany them. The naval appropriation bill, carry, ing $598,66868 for he nex fiscal year, has been reported to the house by the naval commisttee. This is a reduc tion of $377,234,856.40 from the origi nal estimates submitted by Secretary Daniels and $122,024 395.45 less than tfce bill-1 reported to, the last session of congress. . . The senate foreign relations com mittee by vote of eight to eleven or dered a favorable report on the Knox resolution to separate ' the , league of nations covenant from the treaty proper. 1 The resolution if passed by the senate would notify the world that the United States reserves the right to delay its decision of member ship in the league of nations untf. the senate and the people have fully de determined whether they wish such membership or riot. , Holland has , notified the peace con ference that the governmenT"will not participate in a blockade -against Ger many in the event of the refusal of Germany to sign the -peace treaty. According to all indications the re ply to the German proposals will con tain the following main points: First, the allies will refuse to fix the amount of the indemnity, but the reparations commission . will do bo within a few months; second, the . question of up per Silesia to be resolved by, a plebis cite; third, Germany will be admitted to the league of nations after the pay determination of the total indebted ment of her first installment and the ness; fourth, the period of allied oc cupation of the Rhine territory de pends upon the fulfillment of the pre ceding conditions ; fifth, Germany must signify her intention to sign or refuse to sign within five daysT During the absence of the president from the country for a period exceed ing 24 hours, the duties o the office would be performed by the vice pres ident under provision of a joint reso- ution introduced by Representative Walsh of Massachusetts. . i Washington An account of the mutiny of sea men of the French Black sea fleet at Odessa in April was told in the cham ;ber of deputies by - Deputy Emile Goude, a Socialist. During the trou ble a red flag had been run up on the battleship France. On April 20 a zeal ous young oincer ordered a machine gun fired against French soldiers and Bailors fraternizing with the Russians and several - persons were killed and wounded. After negotiations the de mands of the sailors were met " and It was agreed that they should not be punished. . - : Out of a whirlwind of developments the senate got a copy of the peace treaty and, after a 3ve aour fight, or dered It printed In the public record )y a vote of 47 to 24. At the same time it got under way the investiga tion of how copies have reached pri vate hands in New York. Gen. Candido Aguilar, who Is now In Washington, came to the United States tp enlist the aid of the Amer ican government in obtaining admis sion for Mexico to the league of na tions. ..... . , . In the naval appropriation bill just submitted, in accordance with the wishes of Secretary Daniels the big navy plan was entirely eliminated. By a vote of 30a to 4 the house passed the bill authorizing an appropri ation of $750,000,000 for the railroad administration's revolving fund. Dem ocratic members urged a larger amount, out did not press any amend ment for an increase, while Republi cans declared the fund would be snt ficient later in the year when future neeas would be known. The meas mo no gone to the senate, where . eariy action is planned. -. . j if -u. 3 V It ---J f 1 -. .... - V.-Jk " - - tOi -r - I. . ... . . - .. Tf,.-. 11 . t. .t.ii ciorin on f arknnrntofl from the Italian Dart Of the 1 view or susaK, a section or nume umiu '"' -- - - . city by a canal. 2-Company of German frontier troops in action near Riga. S Senator P. C. Knox, who pre sented T in the senate resolution designed to force the separation of the league of nations covenant and the peace treaty. -'VV .' ' " NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Senate Has a Joyous Week With . Peace Treaty, Getting Best of Mr. . Wilson. OBTAINS COPY OF THE PACT European President Wilson told representa tives of Irish societies in America he would do what he could unofficially to bring the Irish question to the at tention of the other peace commis sioners. ! Movement of war material by the! Germans from territory beyond the oc cupied areas continued, according to German newspapers. The beginning of this wthdrawal was made several weeks ago. ' The British admiralty announces that a British submarine operating In the Baltic sea has been missing since June 4 and is presumed to have been ost with all hands. German army and police authorities in the unoccupied territory opposite the Coblenz bridgehead have been re quested by American intelligence offi cers to keep a lookout for an Ameri can disbursing officer who has disap peared with 485,000 marks. Intel- igence officers have reported - to the third army headquarters that this missing officer was suspected of en tertaining German sympathies and be lieve he went in the direction of Ber lin. There are reports from Coblenz that German civilians are insolent to sol diers of the United States army and that they seize opportunities, to way lay soldiers. There have been a few cases where a handful of Americans left as a rear guard in a village af tei the division departed for home have been maltreated by Germans who out numbered them: Hostility between the -American soldiers and the German civilians in the occupied region, which has been increasing recently, has resulted in additional clashes during the last few days. In one instance an American was killed and in other encounters In various parts of . the occupied zone several Americans . were wounded. At third army headquarters It is said that at least six Americans had been killed by civilians since the American army reached the Rhine. German officials say that so far as .their records go, the number of Germans killed by Ameri cans in fights during the six months of occupation are five.' The frequency of encounters be tween United States soldiers and Ger man civilians at Coblenz has caused General Liggett, the third , army com mander, to order the military police to take measures for preventing sol diers from attacking Germans. Spe cial measures -also have been ordered for dealing with soldiers caught mal treating ci rfliahs... , -y. v " ; ; The United States .1)atUeshIp''A'Ai' kansas sailed from France for ' New York wUw Admiral " Sh Benson, chief of. operations of the United States navy, on hoard. Several French ships escorted . the Arkansas out , to sea. : v:: : ' 0 ' ' ; - '' : Admiral Canto Castro, president of the Republic of Portugal, will remain in power "as a result of the recent legislative elections ir which the Democrats were victorious. - Three thousand peasants, including women and cl ildren, have Deen shot or hanged by ., the red army as a con sequence 01 revolts in western Hun gary around Oedenburg. according to news sent : out from Vienna. The en tire village o. Kclhof was burned. The massacre took place after 32 villages surrounding Oedenburg had re fused ti go over to Bolsnevism. Thty desirsd to join Austria. 4 Knox Starts Fight to Divorce It From League of Nations Covenant Huns Given Five Days to Sign Austria Going Bolshevik. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. The United States senate had a gala week. It "put one over" on President "Wilson by obtaining a copy of the peace treaty for which It had vainly asked the chief executive; it invests gated a so-called leak of the treaty, to the avowed satisfaction of the dif ferent factions ; and it started "pro ceedings designed to force the separa tion of the league of nations covenant from the peace pact. So a lovely time was had by all. ' " " ' "When1 a correspondent of a Chicago paper handed his copy of the treaty, which he had just brought from Eu rope, to the foreign relations commit tee. Senator Borah promptly present ed it to the senate with the statement that copies were in general circula tion in European countries and the request , that It be printed In the Con gressional Record as a senate docu ment. Unanimous consent being re fused, the printing was ordered by a vote of 47 to 24. 'There ensued a live ly debate In which Senator Hitchcock, minority leader, accused the majority of playing Germany's game by making the treaty public, since up to then the German government was the only one that had taken such action and that It did It for the purpose of get ting - better terras. Karris, Smith Brandegee, Ashurst, Polndexter and others made Indignant rejoinder. It was a pretty scrap while it lasted, but the administration supporters were beaten to a standstill and the government printers were put to work on the job. By the next morning every congressman was in possession of a copy of the treaty as it stood when It was handed to the Germans. The - satisfaction of the majority may have been lessened by the ad mitted fact that they learned little from the full copy which the official summary had not already told them. In view of this, and of the undented fact that copies of the treaty have been plentiful in Europe, for some weeks, It Is, hard to see In what way the possession of the document by congress will hamper the work of the peace conference or why President Wilson was so insistent on keeping it from America. .The London press. commenting on . the affair, lamented that parliament also had not insisted on having the. full text of the treaty, The foreign relations committee's Investigation of the alleged "leak" of the treaty text Into the hands of finan ciers of New York: was Interesting but brief. Klihu Root appeared vol untarily and said he showed to Sena tor Lodge the copy the latter had ex amined. It was given him by Henry P. Davison of Morgan & Co. Mr. Davison testified that it was given to him by Thomas W. Lamont, also a Morgan partner now representing the treasury . In Paris, and that he ob tained it because he, as chairman of the International; Red Cross league, was especially interested in the finan cial terms, and also because, as an international banker, he was deeply concerned in probable plans to mobil ize the financial and industrial inter ests of this country to put Europe on its feet again. J. P. Morgan and Frank Yanderlip said they never had seen. copies of the document. Mr. Root was questioned at length concerning the ethics of the -affair from-his point of view. ; He resented the Idea that he was In possession of "stolen property" . and said he thought Mr. Davison was entitled td have the treaty and was actuated by no ul terior motives. He asserted that the American people were entitled to what the German people and certain Individuals in New York had already obtained, and he mildly criticized the president's "lack of tact and manage ment" in keeping the treaty from the senate. There did not seem to be much more that the committee could learn. 1 Sen ator Borah said the Inquiry had vin dicated his charge that Wall street had the treaty and had shown that Wall street is interested in the league of nations because it is to be "chiefly a great international and financial com bine. Senator Hitchcock claimed to be equally satisfied because, he said. it, had been demonstrated that there was no basis for the insinuation of impropriety on the part of the pres ident and the American peace delegation. Into the midst of all this ruction Senator Knox projected his plan, to compel the separation of the league of nations covenant and the peace treaty and thus to permit their sep arate consideration by the senate. His resolution, as reported to the senate by the foreign relations committee, would virtually serve notice oh the peace conference that unless It , di vorces the two documents the senate will do It. 'The plan of the opposition leaders is to ratify the terms of peace with Germany without delay 'and to subject the league covenant to extend ed deliberation" and possibly to a na tional referendum. This, of course, opens up the real fight on the league of nations and a stormy and long de bate is expected. Senators who had not intended to speak on the, league until, the pact was formally presented for ratification are now hastily pre paring their addresses. The support ers of the league, said they would make a hard fight to prevent a vote on the Knox resolution until after the peace treaty has been signed by the Germans. . The signing of the treaty, or the re fusal to sign it, will not be long de layed now. The reply of the allies to the German counter-proposals was handed to the Huh delegates and they were told their final decision must be made, within five days, or by June 19. Several relatively small concessions were made by the council of four. It agreed to a. plebiscite in Upper Silesia, subject to certain clearly defined con ditions. While refusing to fix the def inite sum Germany must pay, it re quires the reparations commission to do this within four months of the sign ing of the treaty. In-most other re spects the pact was left unchanged, but explanations were added to meet the objection that the financial com mission was vexatious, Inquisitorial and infringed Germany's rights to con duct her own financial affairs. Ger many's request for a mandate for her former colonies was refused, and it was understood that her demand for immediate admission to the league of nations met a like fate, owing' mainly to the strenuous objection of Clemen-ceau. Turkey's peace delegation arrived In Paris and, without being officially received, was' sent to Yaucresson, In the suburbs. Its status Is rather misty, for no one seemed to know whether or not the entente allies would, consider It necessary to make a formal peace with , the disrupted Turkish empire. The" Turks went to Paris on their own suggestion, and at least it was understood that they were not plenipotentiaries but consultants. It is felt In Paris that the partition of Turkey is an accomplished fact, since Constantinople is controlled by Great Britain and France, while Asiatic Turkey is completely in the hands of the Italians, Greeks and British. The Austro-Hungarian situation took on added complications last week.- Government circles in London received the information that a - com munist republic was to be proclaimed In Austria nt once, with good prospects of being successful, since, according to the well Informed, the Austrian army Is fully 40 per cent bolshevik. . It was predicted the Austrian communists would quickly align themselves with those of Hungary, and this was the more serious because the lstter have been scoring notable victories over the Czechs and Roumanians. The peace conferees in Paris were. forced to take especial notice of this condition and the council of four decided that the boundaries between Hungary and Roumania and Czecho-Slovakia must be fixed speedily and Bela Kun told to what lines he must wlihdraw his forces unless he. wished the great powers to interfere with an army. Bolshevik successes In other regions caused uneasiness In conference cir cles. Admiral Kolchak suffered several rather severe reverses at the hands of the soviet troops of Russia and the in terruption of the Esthonian advance on Petrograd strengthened the bol shevik hold on Moscow. In the for mer western provinces of Russia the Germans were accused of hampering the operations of the opponents of bol shevlsm. Questioned by the allies, they replied they were merely carrying out the orders of the armistice com mission to withdraw their forces from Lithuania and Letvia north of a cer tain line. The jgsthonlans, however, Insist that theiermans are fighting them In the regien of Riga and that when they went to the assistance of the Letts the Huns attacked them. In northern Russia the campaign of the allies directed at Petrograd made progress, much aid being rendered by American launches on Lake Onega. American troops guarding the railway In the vicinity of Vladivostok have come into conflict several times with bolshevik forces that tried to tear up the tracks and burn bridges. V On Thursday the council of four, now become a council of five by the addition of Baron Makino of Japan, sent to Ad miral Kolchak assurances that the al lies would furnish the Omsk govern ment with munitions and supplies. To return to Germany : The leaders of affairs there still insisted last week that the peace treaty, could not and must not be signed. There appears to be a marked revival of sentiment in favor of the former kaiser, and It Is even reported that an organization is being formed for the purpose of bring ing him back and restoring him to power. Gustav Stresemann, leader of the national liberal party, has warned the allies that they must not demand the surrender of Wllhelm and says his Indictment will mean f the overthrow of the republic All of which probably is more interesting than important. But there are many evidences that the Germans are preparing for eventu alities In case they do not sign the treaty. - Most recent of these is the information that they are systemati cally and rapidly withdrawing all ma terial from the regions Immediately, to the east of the zones of occupation and from the probable pathways the allies would follow If further advance Into Germany were ordered. The In solence of the Huns, In the occupied territory and elsewhere. Is Increasing and results In frequent clashes with the allied soldiers, some of which have been attended with fatalities. , Messrs. Dunne and. Walsh, emis saries of the Irish-American societies, finally succeeded In obtaining a brief interview with President Wilson In Paris and laid before him the claims of the represetnatlves of "free. Ire land" to be heard by the peace con ference. They asked Mr. Wilson what he was going to do in view of the pro Irish resolution adopted by the senate, and according to the statement of the emissaries he replied that "the Ameri can commissioners could not take up the case of Ireland officially with the peace conference, but that he himself and others had done, and would con tinue to do, unofficially what they could do In the interest of Ireland; that the American commission had not yet taken up the senate resolution re questing them to use their efforts to secure a hearing for De Yalera, Grif fith and Plunkett." The general strike of the Commer cial Telegraphers' union In the'United States at first looked like a fizzle, but took on a more serious aspect when the railway operators' organization or dered its members to accept no com mercial messages for s the Western Union or Postal Telegraph companies. Konenkamp, head of the Commercial operators, said their fight was direct ed mainly against Postmaster General Burleson. Tinn p HRS PISS FOR ft!!! EXTENSION OF TWO GIVEN GERMANY REVISED PEACE TRe' BUT FEW CHANGES Coving Not. by Cl,me ly Castioat5 r. " -MMdns for g less Protests Against Tre Versailles. The rniv . and associated ov, ' all:.. I - -ouv-miL-u government, 1 many's counter proposals J L 4 t.rvtv and a trety and a revised trpntv aro in v. ui , j 1Ai lug xianas of rm, Brockdorff-Rantzau, ho is to Weimar, there to present to I ! man national assembly th J?6 of the victors in the war M' 'Pew changes have been mad., revised treaty. The oriema,? tions of the allied and assort $5 Ana hava wirnii u Dot. ' Mllua" "t-'en maintain tact. Five davs . - LU allotted originally fixed for the n Lillians tn swer yes or no to the demands Jl allies. But two days additional been granted because of the inSi of the German delegation that JJ ton oeen allows 1 mvmoi rwn e i n f ," . .. U r- vvua.uciauuil OI tfle terms. This will extend the TOifi rvr 4-rx H(aw Jn.. t vuvu. iTiuuud. june zs, if (v Vfln K i. . - j iue treaty tJij. cimes . in arrpne tn ih a , kV, luc ucmanas h armisLira win no ontn.i:..i, un-iutin;ai v t. tti ini inn r i t n 1 1 : A j xuuxatu ouu .ujk cLineu armed iorcjj Wl I I TO IT A WhntAtrnH .. 4 " "iiaicYci hieps tney dee requisite uo tne occasion. 'V ... lc,l8CU weaiy, contato "itci iiucaiivuo iu i eu mK, warn changes had been made in it, vas AAVAinrr MAtn n.H: 1 A 1 t T. T 3 V .. . icicm;;. it uau ueeu impossiDle to ft yiuik ticaijr iu nuie ior us presa tation. Kales ucruiiuiv lur uroiesunz awiw - a n"i rn sm ttaq ttt- nn t n n (y.mmi il.i it bUV UCCkbT JUL LI1H.L III treaty connicts witn tne terms of tli armistice. M. Clemenceau savs m many ians to understand tne positia ene occupies today in tne estimate of the world for being responsible ' t ii . - i a war wnicn was me greatest cna against humanity and the freedom the people that any nation, calling self civilized-has ever committed -Without ostentation Paul Dutasi ence, placed the revised draft of treatv and the note in the hands German Legation Secretary Simon Huron on Toersnpr. with whom Thitasfca hld a conversation lastoj tar RATral minutes, emlainine the vrfpa fT m n a iti mr t-ii m - ti i i icutw of time allotted for the Germans rlv . Wrr Simon Drotested agams the short time given Germany to i known her intentions. Allien a Diiics Ail READY TO AnVANCF THROUGH GERMANY Paris. -The announcement UDl 1,14 CL b UUO oupiviliv " " ell "met for final consideration measures that might be rendered aocanr Ktr W-niri vntlialitieS," W J J m, wm-u v a train iti tTio fm-efrnnt the dlSCUSS WQIMU AAA lUV UV of what is likelv to happen in in? to accej! For if anvM LUC UUC last TT Wl u. 1 3 -7 inrtOl'n in tilf ue regarueu no "' final if9Ti of thft -rtflace conference bates, it is that the reply to the A. lr- rrilt hP IB natnr of an ultimatum obliging miinT o lav vd nr no in a periw seven days. t a to begin bombardment of enemy ports, and American tnt.. TraTOTV.intr in reading mmvm mm maw v v w w v j start through the fatherland. aar-niaki vnnnDC INVADING Amcmoni i nvvrv - - - .fi rn.m-. nrDOCC THE BO TTTi t rr .jmon'can troops AI rOSU i""' iCU tllllJcLLU. il UIO ji" g against the Villa rebels m Tn wm kfiiptpd in barracss mm mma tt a w gkftm . . i .ide after camps on tne Amenuu hours of campaigning. m m m. a mm. m. m. m mm. mm. ft mm A I A C TM E BELGIANS tu v.-- . fro London. Information reie -Brussels is to the effect that n . . . th KIM cardinal Mercier, oui r" .it ifljtf queen of the Belgians wm lea this fall. President and Mrs. Rear Admiral Grayson Brussels Wednesday will also visit the Louvain and Malines. they will be the guests Mercier. TIT 1 I Hdlli ..A will rnorni11 .ftlpO m. T -I- . . . -. -. eulPS .on SOLD BY SMirr. ?el Washington. Nineteen s- m ships aggregating 128 4.- kaati cold at pric vv ujua u&wc ucqu . w i i - n -c- from S210 to 5Z2o a w , . mi ortors bv the saipp-;. characte. in the history of the shiPPj ' The- total considerauuu - ;27,821,120. ,, were Names of the purcu--madt public. 'X.