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gilt! Siii TheWeatheri v. ; ::,-.:-(!.. Partly cloudy Monday ; Tuesday part ly cloudy : in. east, probably rain in .1 vol. CIII-NQ. 98. s ! Q: UDECEMBER 9; 1918 WHOLE ITUMBBR . 39,620 ' ' CONTINUED DOZEN KILLED AS " w FRIDAY RESUIiWEB tous i BY MR; DANIELS rs it ; ' " 1 ill ii . . ii' .. ; i n ii I. I , I i. i ii. I t I 'i ii ' ... i J i i. , . i i i . ) i i i , i t ) i i , n i r J ' 1 1 '" '" - ' " 'i ' i. i - - 1 ' - ;-i' y tj!' ' I- NAM GLEMENCEAD MAY Bmmm Attends EXPANSION URGED Se Kelts W th SOLDIERS FIRE ON 1,1! MANY cmswwi PEA.G DELEGATION Sailo Aboct fd His Ship BERLIN MARCHERS - 1 v.rk.--.-j.ji-f, --i ; : 1 ;.Mi::.. ff:.r.:.. -. ',', I II Radical Socialists Using Ma chine Guns in Suburbs of - ; The City, ;- V : BOLSHEVISM IS RAMPANT Criminals Set Free in Raid On Police Headquarters No-"- vember 21 DESERTERS AT LIBERTY Conduct Meetings and - Demand Special Privileges, Zurich, Dec. 8. The:casualtles in the fighting at Berlin Friday amounted to 180, according to latest Uerlin advices received here Saturday. The Spartacus or radical socialist group arQ reported t0 be defending witlKSniacWne, guns three sections of tlie suburbs of Ber lin, -v " ' THIEVES AND BIBGIARS ABE SET FREE BY THE RADICALS Berlin, Saturday,-Dec. 7 (By the Associated Press). Among forty-nine persons set free by members of the Spartacus group in their; raid on po lice headquarters on November 21 were 3 thieves and burglars and five black mailers and other criminals, according to Vorwaertfi. f , ' The Tageblatt. observes the fact that deserters are now permitted, to-con duct public meetings and demand, spe cial class privileges may be a minor detail but nevertheless " is indicative of the conditions now prevailing in Germany. ' - The suburb of rfeukoelln now ap pears to be in complete control of the wldiers and workmens'. council there. This council ie made up of .7? Spartacus lioUeqrarfe ,wha ntummffr'1 ejected "the majority of -socialists and the members jf the local garrison. The. latter pub lished a protest,, drawing' attention to the fact that the ultraf radicals are now in a position to put - eimonj)ure bolshevism into practice, as tney can loot the town treasury and the." savings banks and confiscate - property gener ally. . ' ;:v: 1: . On receiving this protest, -.Premier Ebert informed the magistrate" of the suburh that the proceedings :-of the Spartacus follqwera were ' illegal. I He promised relief through the interven tion of the department of the interior which, he said, was the only compe tent authority. - - " 1 ' eukoelln is an important indute ial centre with working people -form 's tne bulk of the population. I. S. NAVAL OFFICER ' AND 6 MEN DROWNED Ie Their Lives While Attempting to Retorn to Destroyer Lansdale in a French Port. ( Paris, Dec. 8. One officer and six men of the American destroyer Lans fele were drowned Saturday when at- mptmg to rejoin their ship, accord-, b iu a avas, aispatcn rrom -rangier. They were of a party of thirty of Jcers and men who had spent the af- rnoon in the Moroccan, seaport and ere returning t othe Lansdale when eir boat capsized in a heavy sea. The destroyer Lansdale was launched Quincv. Mass. .Tiilxr 9.9 1n" The lestroyer was named in Tnemnrv'-nf weut. Philip Van Horn Lansdale, U. 1 who was killed while suppressing to insurrection in Samoa in . 1899. pIELASKI TO CONTINUE HIS TESTIMONY BEFORE . SENATORS Washington, Dec. ' 8. A. Bruce Bia ski, chief of the bureauof investiga of the department ofx justice, will cntinue tomorrow before the senate vestigating committee his recital' of e activity of German agents in weading German propaganda in this country. .Mr. Bielaski was oh the stand oughout Friday and yesterday and westing documents showing plans of :f.mer Ambassador Von Bernstorff ,,M0ther Teutonic agents to- influence the w opinion in America regarding, ii ted to continue several , weeks. 0n? witnesses to be heard ', this jek are prominent men whose nalmles fc e cntained in files of the "depart ent of justice as having been' actively I! Jrman before the TTnited States ater sred tho iTrnn mi i tn I'EDEX RECALLS TIIPLOHfATin KtiPRESENTATrVES .TO RUSJJlA &Cholln' r,ec- 8 Sweden has''"'reT r-. r diP1omatic an consular rep- tjon of -.co iu nusBia, twun Tine eieep- the r ornciais at thelegation for re,B?ason that M- Vorovsky, the rep- itti lt was charged, been trahs "ng bolshevik literature; from -Rus-r ;Thft C j- '' '- K bwedlsh government ; informed vorovaky that he would not be ailowei to enjoy the "diplomatic tatM .r,vilese. The. government, aiso taatw other members -of tthe -soviet non wuld leave weaBltl ftas$engerssMail ? ;. . Are Being Carried By ; Airplane ' In Germany XiOndoa, Xe. 8r (Britlsfc Wlre Ies.) -Air. traffic &as begun between Rome of the largest German' toinu, adTisea reaching here report. The airplanes are carrying parcel post matter and passengers. The fare per passenger Is 2,1-2 marks a kilo-; metre,, or about.fonr shillings, a mile. The machines can fly at 'the rate of 80 miles an hour and the journey from Berlin to Munich, for instance,' Can be made in 48 hours. One company is constructing a new large type , of airplane able to carry forty, passengers. history is now in 'thMakingatspa Important International Confer- Taking Place in Bel gian Town. mG CHANGE IN A MONTH Few Weeks Ago Spa Was Occupied by The Germans And It Was There That the. Kaiser Finally De . ' elded to Abdicate. r Spa, Belgium, Tuesday, Dec. 3.- By the Associated- Press). There is . no more; interesting spot along the Ger man border today than this famous town in which '.the international, arm istice commission Is holding confer ences. Hhere in the former seat . of great-- German headquarters, Tepresen- tatives;-of tthe . United States, . ; : Great Britain France." and Italy, are' meeting with the-; utmost- diplomatic formality Tp the conferences the" entente rep resentatives- motor from their tempor ary hpmes, which a month ago were he personal headquarters of -three' of the 'greatest figures' in Germany in re cent history the ' emperor, ; General Lud'endorff and Field Marshal Von Hin- flsnhnrcr. To add a final touch to the piece, -while the main actors hold' the stage, there pass and repass in the streets "remarkable Mnee of supernum erariesv Grave-f aoed officers garbed in field grey stalk about with tragic tread -and salute with military : pre cision-as they meet other grave ofn cers- wearing allied uniforms. The commission began its sittings about three weeks ago-. -About that time the - enemy was rstill occupying. Spa Sincethen long lines of hurrying and disorganized German traffic and troops have sped eastward. There are now t something more than a hundred German officers and men In the . place attached ' to ?, General Von Winterf eldt who 18 representing, the German government.- L: ' The confereieces are being held in the grand saloon- of the Hotel Brit tanique which was part of great head quarters and : in which the .emperor finally resolved to - quit 'Germany. . The sittings begin at 10 o'clock daily. Prior . to thai:1 hour the German ! dele gates. take their. places at a huge table and receive -t-he allied officers standing. The. latter, walk silently to. their chairs where , each delegate bows profoundly to . the man opposite : before sitting down.;., '. .;1 " .4.V.;. ."" There is no word of greeting and no pleasantries exchanged and the busi ness of the day - is conducted through out with the same grim precislon.-Just what - problems are under considera tion, of course, 4s not a matter 'for journalistic discussion. , MASARYK TO PROCEED AT ONCE TO PRAGUE President of . the New Czeca Repnblie Will Convoke JParllament .Upon J3i Arrival. , .Paris, Dec. 8(Havas) Prof. Thom as G.; Masaryk, president of the . Cze-cho-SIovak republic, 'will make only a brief i stay in Paris, having received word by courier . shortly - after; his ar rival here asking;-him to ,'proceed at once to ' Prague. Upon his arrival there, hs ; informed jan .interviewer, he will vconvbke the parliament and will address to v It" a message explaining the political situation :'and setting forth the - grave 'problems confronting the republic; in,; the -.present- circumstances, notably those having to- do with its relations with ' neighboring, states. "ri '"- - President; Masaryk Said-that the re publican form of -government- adopted by-; his countTT seems likely to he the lasting form iand in fact the only one noseibie. He declared ' the best rela- tlpns existed -with' the- Jugo Slavs' and likewise withxhe 'Rumanians i and the Galacian . Poles, the. aspirations of all being, dependent one; upon the other. " NEW SPANISH PREMIER -v ; TO EXPEL GERMAN ENVO Paris. -Dec--t 8. La- 'Libert - tody prints a dispatch from - Madrid : saying. that henew Spanish preinieriCount XbVIIiUUlD, ...I.V..UU , . - man J ambassador, i Prince1 Ratlbor,' and also - several .imembef s ; ofj , ihS ; German1 tembassv who have been notoriously en-j hgagedinspytnga.d;suppb To Meet Peace' Demands For Na- tional And International v Work on the Sea. NAVY IN WAR REVIEWED Report Tells of the Seemingly Impossible Accomplished by ; ! ; - Teamwork. Washington, Dec. 8. With a storyiof brilliant achievements of the Ameri- , , 1 - can navy in the war,J Secretary Daniels couples, in his annual report made public today, an urgent recommenda tion for continued, naval expansion "to meet the demands of peace for national and international work on the sea. v Through nearly all of -144 ' printed pages the secretary. " tells . in brief phrases of the navy's part in the war,' of the doing of the seemingly impos sible through teamworks :"He speaks of the mighty accomplishment of transporting two million men to France, without the loss " of ' an east bound troop ship . through enemy action and r he devotes a graphic chapter to the - marine brigade, which as all the world knows blocked the last . Prus sian advance on Paris, and started the German retreat that vended with . the war. i. . This reference to the future . con cludes the report: ; ; The day is n ot far - distant' -when the world will witnes the end of competitive Jbuilding between nations of mig lity weapons of war. Ih'- the peace treaty there will -undoubtedly be incorporated President Wilson's proposal for a re duction of t arma ment to the -lowest point-' consistent with domestic safety.' - - 'Navies will still be needed as an international police' force to ' compel compliance with the decree of an In-" I temational tribunal v which will -be et up, to decide diirerences between, na tion s. Naval vessels will have large peace . tasks . of sufvey- and: discovery; and j protection - in addition ;rtot. police .duty of an internatiotlar as well s of a natiPBaJctiarasteril v the - richest of-, the 1, great " nations and 1ms suffered- less in war, . than .any of the allied' powers, it wilj devolve -upon this country to, make $. contribution, to' the navy, to preserve "the peace, of the world " commensurate ..'with ' Its wealth, its commerce, its growing, and expanding merchant ..marine, r-and Its leadership In the council Of f res "peo ple.. It is therefore, our duty, now not. Indeed, to enter upon any oev am bitious naval program, i but to go for ward .steadily upon the lines of naval increase -to . which-, the country .com mitted itself by the adoption three years ago of the first far-reaching; history of the Republic. " "I have ;recomended.to this congress the adoption of another "three-year program substantially like the one au thorized In 195. But the .victory of the allies and the United " States should, , and will I sincerely -trust, within a few years' make it no longer, necessary for any nation under the .whip and spur to burden its ' taxpayers to . under take to build, in competitive construc tion, bigger fighting "ships and more than. any other nation can construct." 'Mr. Daniels shows that., the new $600,000,000, three-year building pro gram he has proposed, will- provide 156 additional naval ships, ten of them dreadnaughts- and 'six-- battlecruisers. and the others to be in such distribu tion of -approved types as the depart ment may deem best.,. '. Taking up his story of the navy ana the . war. the secretary . declares, the service was "ready from stem to 'stern" when the United States entered the conflict. From the. day when the first three-year program "was 'adopted in 1916, he adds, -."congress has given everything that could be v desired v to insure the effectiveness of the .naval arm." ' ."' ' ' '. Teamwork had been- the navy's -slogan for five years, and it. continued to be the war motto athb,me and abroad. The str iking success of the., navy -ts ascribed to this fact 'by'Mr. '. Danlelp, who continues: .-if., ? ' "Apparently" there have been times when a secretary of the ;nayy seemed to1 find firictioni,and lack of cooperation among . the officers around .hinv-t " It that spirit ever' existed ih thelllnited States navy, I .can - stated with v confi dence -and pride that there, is nowno vest! ere of it. and, I : firmly believe, from my -experience, ' not' ohrly- during the last year but during the five .years orecediner. it . will never, return;". t . The report shows that Vice - Admiral Sims, ; Wno wa. OU uib waj w :imw!i as head of the American navat- esiao lishment in tl. war, zones eveefors war , was declfc. ,red, -is. soonf to'De1?pamea full adm Iral by the president. In crscog- nltion of his services, tne .nign.t char acter of which the secretary - says it is yet too early to give proper 'place. The sending of 'Admiral Sims --ijrasths 'fiti stepv.in .a program, ui wuwa-. tuo rfttjirv savs: ;' : - :' ' . -iJ "The outstanding accomplishment "df thS navy .abroad in .this .war outside 'ofv riteorous valorous sery ice; in'.Zthe danger zone, " has "been the i character ai:nd. degree of co-operatioir and ,prs,cti-' cal consolidation for ther" time ;? nefng: of our service with those services. witn wii ih v-m ?h ava heen " associated: ' The navy, . beginning .with; the -arrival of the first ship abroaa, nas;scooa onii ior. -unity of commarideven thb.ugh - this in some instances ' involved 'sacrificing temporarily somethlnsir Identity n a -a-n indebendent' service; - ' This,, has not been an easy tasx. r . It ils;beleve'd; of $ accpmplishmeht;bf ;pur7rsRvice.W nir(im-nlish . v&i x- iconunuea i on : rags wo. , r this respect Is ;withqutpreceqent, yrfai-lieM- tathyt 'AM jcbncretevevldence ! of wliatjivaS ed.thftrepfortsrrowrii xn&z Tardieu; : Cahibbn and Marshal Foch May Be : Among The ''' Other Members. , LGE AMERICAN STAFF Delegation From This Country ; To Have Support of Vast Organization. ; ; ,' Paris, Defc 8. Premier Clemenceau may act as president of' the - French delegation to the peace conference It. is reported that the presence of Presi dent Wilspn s ljiead of the American delegati6rt iBHJB ' led to this- decision on the part of Fiench premier. V It is said that he may select as his collaboratdrs Captain- Andre Tardieu, head of tle .general commission ; lor Franco-American1, -war matters, and high commissioner , to. the '' United States; Jules -Cambon, general secrer tary of the; ministry of foreign affairs and f ormerJMnbaBsador to the United States; Marshal Foch and the, French ministers of ; the navy; and . labor, Georges Leygues and M. Colliard, re spectively. ' . -: For , a time the, French newspapers were not permitted to forecast the composition ,of the French delegation, but this restriction seems now to have been withdrawn. Recently the names of former Premiers Leon Bourgeois and Aristide Briand have been mentioned in- connection with the conference and some of Nthe papers .have taken them under consideration as suitable, dele gates. - T ' . v . - VAST ORGANIZATION Wlili ASSIST ,Tf. &. DKIEGATION Paris,- Saturday, ;Dec. 7. The plan of, organisation of 'the United States peace mission which is now 'tentative but. whioh' in its essentials undoubted ly will stand unchanged, -shows the body which jWill look out, for America's interest when' the world's delegates gather at Versailles as complete in ev ery detail, .'. : . . - ." .-: The charjE,; of "the organisation which has tbeen'.'Brenared' here ,.shbw . the mission large": -American organization headeA running from tWs group to; that: of" the first secretary, John C. Grew, to'- the second, or 'liaison and diplomatic In telligence group, and the third, thel group of advisers, principally tecnni ' cal,.. with, large staffs of assistants. Under the;' liaison and diplomatic in telligence group are military and naval officers, including - the commander - of the American expeditionary force s naval; and military attaches' and for eign representatives. Under some of these headsiare officers . dealing with the peace commission,': delegates of organizations, diplomats and- ceremon ial officers, whose; duties will be along such lines as the-, making of formal calls and attending to similar matters. One of the. two assistant .secretaries will have -within his secretarial duties the . printing;; of communications, . the distribution of press information, filing of -reports, -codings matter for trans mission to the signal corps and; wire terminals,- etc. . - "' A ub-branch of the liaison and dip lomatic inteliigence-office . is a bureau in ; which American ' activities will be represented, ; such as those . of Herbert C. Hoover, the food administrator, . the Red Cross, the Y. M.: C A., .the-Knights of Columbus; the Knights of 'Pythias, the Salvation Army and the .war trade board. - '. ' ? . " ' There are ;; vast t . staffs of coding clerks, stenographers, .translators, con fidential 'i 'secretaries, cartographers. jparagrapherSo '.message" transmitters and receivers. Tnere are special, car tographers' for. Western Europe, south east Africa, ; Africa' in general,' Poland ana xurKey, ? wnicn" go xo snow. - ins sedpe t)f American' interest dn ttie;c6'm ing discussons. -, - , ; ' ; ; .y; t BOLSHEY IKI 1 SEE THE v HANDWRITING ON WALL ''' -." ;' - : Ui'-Hi.,.''4; Member of German Mission .Says ' Rus sian Soviet 'Regime 'Knows It' '' -l Jiffust Soon Pall. 1 Amsterdam, Vd.8.--The'; Russian; so viet, governm'eht is t aware that 'it is approaching, the -moment" of . its , over throw, according ) to ? a member, of . a German trade conOTission' 'who , :left Moscow on Nov.i;9. BolshevlV circles at', that time were 'depressed, ; he re-r ports, and : many .members vof the , go;f ernment Jaireaay..na.u . meir p83poria prepared in. the .event they had to .'flee 4- CA1rUMlm v. ' Discontent ;wlthth exJstln.Br 'gpyern- and' the recognition was spreading .sv- eryivhere- that',; the J goyernnientwlwid brought the coun'try to ;the verged of ruin in '.evejfyf espsot.; ;pv - 5' V:yi t SCHWAB BE8ITIEL; DTTTIE WJCT,;BKTHl.Et2:f STEEfj CO. - - "New ;" Yor'i i Pec. ; ! 28,-Charles Schwab, whose - resignation; as 'direcjr general ' of the . Emergency iFleet . Cor poration wa?st accepted. '( "by, .President Wilson yesterday; in; a.ireless m8-? sage will' retjirji immediately; to active parti eipatiojt5' in the " management o f tonight,;3 i ... '.Twof Killed. TjOs ; AngelesiCaLtr Pecv5 v5 ideuii Herbert N.; Chaffee;; of .Pasadena, , Cl., and 'Iientift Charles J DrakSi CfMan-; kato,lXan'.kp&n; strtictors "atiRockwellneld twSri insahitlykilled 'hsteipdaywhen he airplane;; which j; they were.Jrd4 a back "yard in the southern ' residen-u X3yt"hrhibr ssIoj-eif.with On Board the, U. S..' S. George Wash ington, .Dec. S.- (By .Wireless to the Associated Pess). President Wdlson attended religious Services : this morn ing,wlth the, enlisted men of the. Amer ican forces on" board the George Wash ington. . The services were held in the quarters of the men some distance be low, decks! The president joined in the singing and the prayers and in the' re cital of the services. ' . - later the' president took "his usual walk on deck and then rested. He did'not work during the day. ' , The George Washington is running t - i ... POOL WIRE SYSTEMS Makes Recommendations in Let ter to Postmaster-General Burleson. - STRESSES CABLE PLAN x Would Place. Cables Under .Separate Organisation'; From . liandi Wires Rut Rave Single Executive Head Over AIL Washington, Dec. . 8.1-r-Pooling of the telegraph . and telephone facilities of the country on the ohe,hanh and the marine cables on the other, each with a . comprehensive - operating organiza tion under a single executive head, is recommended to Postmaster General Burleson by Theodore N.'- Vail, presi dent, of the American Telegraph and Telephone Co. ' ' . ' ' . '. In his letter, made public today,' Mr. Vail said ,v the pooling arrangement would be .brought, about without dis memberment- of the- properties and in turned back to "private owners at, the expiration ' of the; period of govern ment, control.- 'What should be done, to- create an ideal v. system, I said . Mr. Vail, "cannot be done because of existing, laws, npr ;wottld complete consolidation ; be justi fied since to undo such a consolidated system , into ..its former.; units would ! leao vto unwarranxea ,waste. - v - "There S-re, however, many things which can be . done ' which- would not produce waste and which might, by improvement of service, help , to fur ther educate , the public and?create an actively favorable attitude -towards some co-relation or co-ordination of Operation and service with the control and regulation and restriction, through some combination of governmental au thority and private ownership or oper ation, retaining all advantages and In centives j.of. -both. - - . . ;v Mr. Vail, who is acting as confiden tial adviser to Postmaster General Burleson, , in control of the wire coni hrtnnication -.systems taking over by the government, discussed the land and marine - wire' organizations separately. If the. United States, he said, is to be come a "commercial and . industrial .world .center, .' an American cable sys tem with i "the obligations and oppor tunities Involved must be provided. There must be. a.Uhited. States sys ifi'rn! which . wil place this county di rectly in' communication with every country with - which ;we have or hope to have important commercial rela tions.' declared- Mr.. Vail. "As it is now we. are on one side of the world system. VST must bes made one of the centers of the world system If we expect to compete. on' even terms with the world J or -be properly consiae rea Dy tne coun tries, we wish to reach. ' '; VThe , immediate and pressing neces sity is for the East' Coast South Amer ican cable to give, this' country, and the TtWAr Tiattet countries , direct cable communication. There is one -thing that calls for immediate action.. The . cable situation in UriA has been srrave. Congestion is Lnow the rule and accumulation of busi- neSS'lB at times serious ana wncu mo activities, of the' peace conference are reallyX commenced in Europe, it will be .greatly increased. . rR. nns traffic head; controling, cable toperatibn. and a few-slight changes in vne pvDiuju. iVF.1 ""v,iv" . trayze the' cable .terminals, as it were, the efficiency can be somewhat Increas- ea.. .... .. i . '. . -i - v - . , , ; -For-the unification of the land wires,. Mrr Vail i suggested creation of tree TAi-tiTi- divisions, each embracing rKi''-B.n 'teleeranh service, the maintenance and . manipulation of wores - of systems" as. distinct from traffio' operations: -Below those divi sions the organization could be ampli fied and J arranged to meet the neces sities, he . said. ;f and . the v hole should, operate Under one executive; head. :;: '."'"". ' - f "' '" i ' ' ' ' ;. i'-;;fSFeitafrNw; Marshal. ' 'V. '.. i Vmiu?$c-' ;S7(Havas.)-Presldent Polncare today In .the presence of a large crowd on the parade ground .here Presented Genlf Jlenri Philippe Petain with the baton of a Marshal of France, thus carrying out formally the eleva tion of- Gen. Petain, tho announcement of which was made; lastmonth when he ,.s.i,. V., ' ;?Anoaer:riaeUefr Ny? York?Dec Sr Thel v$30,0,e0l war. relief derive, of ; the ;American. ..com mittee orjreUeiyiht the, hearr east which will.b'o conducted during, the week of Jah;;fl2 will directed; by Alexander J.'- HemDhill. chairman of. the board5 of directors jpfthejGuaranity, Trust Co lt was announced tonight, v v .' VAIL TELLS HOW TO through (Smoother seas- and encounter ing 'warmer weather. .'.President Wilson had a conference today with Secretary of State Lan sing, antf- Henry White, the flrst con ference that has been held during the trip. It ds understood they, discussed the procedure regarding the formation of a "league of nations: The platform of. the British prime minister, David Lloyd-George, was also considered. The president today sent: a wireless message of greeting to Norwegian edi tors visiting the United States and also to the soldier. To the, latter he said the following: ; "Cordial greetings to the boys who have come "back and who have borne the sacrifices so nobly." KING PRAYS FOR CONTINUED UNITY Message From the British Ruler Is Read at New York Celebration. ALSO ONE FROM PREMIER King Hopes the -Same Friendly Ties That Bound America and Britain 1 In War WJlj Bind Them To gether in Peace. New York, Dec. 8. A message from King George expressing the hope that Britons and Americans may be as united in : peace as they were in war was read today at a meeting in the Hippodrome arranged .as the climax of New York's ceelbratlon of Britain -day. The king's message, read by Alton B. Parker who presided, stated that "the people of the British empire Join with me in thanking you and those associat ed with you for . your t efforts in .pro moting this celebration v which will be welcomed 5 as a " proof . o f the true and lasting friendship .io.'t'h'eitedStatsa, .hav . wort th'(tfttfrt f . the nation which has sent scCmany gaiiant mei to suffer with them .the .trials pf this great' war - and "t6 hare. in the glories of final . Vlctqry,'.. fcontinued the mes sage; . V ..; ' ;-' -' s - ' "In . the. name" of the British empire, I thank' the people of the United States of America and I .pray 'that the com ing are of. peace may find our two nations always united as they are "to day." ; . . .;. A message from Premier . Lloyd George read: ; "I am always - delighted with any work which helps, to make our two nations to understand one another bet ter. We shall never forget the prompt and decisive - response of the Ameri can president and people to the allied call- this, spring, . and the invaluable part played by the American-navy in helping to free the sea from 'the Ger man pests." Messages from Foreign Minister Bal four,,, Field ' Marshal Haig, Admirals Beatty and Jellicoe, Premier Clemen ceau of France and Ambassador Jus- serand'were also read to the audience, which included army, and navy officers of high rank., ., - . Besides addresses by Sir Henry Bab Ington, Smith, acting British high com missioner; -Mr. Parker, Charles E Hughes, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Dr. George E; Vincent, ; head of the Rockefeller. Foundation, the program included a tableau portraying the sink ing of the British warship Vindictive in the harbor at ' Zeeburgge DUTCH PAPER HOLDS WILLIAM RESPONSIBLE Would Dispose of Ei-Kaler and Avoid Holland's Being Involved In Wrangle With Allies.' London, Dec. 8. (British Wireless) The Nieuws.Van den Dag of Amster dam, a copy of which, has "been receiv ed here, says'it holds the Opinion that the former 'German emperor is xe "sponsible 1 for the acts of his troops in Belgium and France, for the ruthless submarine war and the aerial bom bardments of - open towns and that, consequently, :; no . Dutch government with common sense would allow Hol land to be involved In a war or have her food endangered by reason of acts of friendliness to ward -the former mon arch. - v. C. - ' Another reaso the newspaper says, why Holland, should be relieved of William Hohenjsollern's presence, as soon as possible- is , that many persons in Germany ; have, not yet abandoned the . hope of '.restoririg the imperial power. '- ', "It, would net be surprising if these perfpie entertain .relations with Ger mans in Holland," ' the " article con eludes "Consequentiyi as long as the kaiser is in -.Holland the- germs of a political plot are? existent-u . ? FRENCH PRISONEIIS SHOT . " WITHOUT JUSTIFIABLE CAUSE A f Paris,;; Dc- 8 ;Ni ne French prison ers were - shot Joy the Germans -'and fifteen other .. prisoners, i seriously wounded ' at the prison camp' in Lang ensalza; Prussian Saxony, the Spanish ambassador at Berlin reports.; The be havipr, off the" prisoners' did not in the least justify: the severity of this; act of epression.v'-lti'waAyieelared.': j The 'Frenchgoverhment it is .indi-cated.-is resolvecf to demand reparation for 'this act of the Germans- which will be added to the already long: list; of rences of this aVd similar: nature. eurrences Government Troops Clash With Insurgents Who Attempt Demonstration. AROUND FIFTY WOUNDED Afi.fvmnf. Ta Mad Ta Tiaaivnv' The Plant of Liebknecht ifel SiS Newspaper. Berlin, Saturday, Dec. 7.- (By government . troops and . followers ' of U -1 J , the Spartacus, or radical, --.group- - re -'feV suited in from 12 to 16 persons being;; killed, accordir r to various reports.' f-,. The numlber of oundAi1 1b nnt -rrAAf-'-.-' ea to exceea i ay. Several girls who . i . were nuimiinirii n a efrcct ip ivam -,t-S'. -V' ' ti 'T.! '."l among those killed. .It appears 'that the audience from one of the three 'meetings of deserters '?H,t40-! from' the .army was marching . northV iih ward in Chaussee strasse to Join the audience from a meetine held 1n a hall further nrtrth. Th tnalllan cnnvAa I y :vr, ; ' 1 t were orawn up c xne intersection -or -av Invaliden BtraBSA. unil thn -nmmotii1 warned the .people to. disperse. .:,Th marchers were crying: Forward I.) i:ne soldiers .won't ; shot their ? com- fyv-O-.'J. q rades!" The marchers tried to! pierce ft '1 the line, whereupon j the order to firs : . ; was given. Besides the wounded. sev- '.:-.:,.--; . ; eral were badly hurt rushing through V ' SU DroKen snow windows seeking cover. .'-..i-J-t-v -j s A group of soldiers stormed the edi- -: r i torial rooms .f Karl LiebHhecht't , f j newsDaner arid lattertrnted to '. . destrriTf ; - i'1 . r.n 1 the plant. .Frustrated in their Tai-d on' A ? " ' ; iii the newspaper office by v government '&i:kV' 1'VI arrest ths members of the executive committee of 'the soldiers and. work- ' men's . council, the soldiers apparently df laoonng unaer , ine misapprenension ' ! that their offlce-r had been ordered by the e-overnment to make the arrest, i it iThis occurred at. the same- hour as - A 'A the clash ' between : tbev; government , l ' j troops ana cpartacus j. insurgents. - i The 'executive. committee " was i'holding,,w. - a meeting in 'the . former,. Prussian f hoarser of - dep!Ues-. - i-TThehaitiber?whV .. invaded by, the- atmed ; forces ; and - , 1 council of twenty-eight in the, name , 1 ' H of the Ebert-Haase government. Peo- ' v ,A -.i pie's Commissioner ,Barth, who also is . 1 j i a member of the commission, faced the ' ' ' 1 : ' invaders with a. challenge for their ' . ii1 1 authority. . '' ::- :---. ' - c: ..-'S-hI l' y j Meanwhile inquiry was made at gov-' 11 i ' eminent neaaquarters ana resuitea in .1 . . '. . .. . . .''.....,,1 j ' -. ii. .l : ' . 1? the detention of the Insurgent forces who were , armed with hand weapons , and flame-throwers, for the purpose of ' ' establishing; responsibility for the at- t " tempt revolution. -It aeveloped thal. the men had-beert Invited by unattach-'tC; ed officers to meet at a' given hour, at" ' the Brandenburg gate for' the purpose t i of raiding and. overthrowing the. sol- 4 ,. ' diers and workmen's cpmmitteev as such actipn; they were told, was de manded in the Interest of the Ebert-' Haase government ' and furthermore -that it was certain to meet with pub. lie approval. . v . ;- The raid proved a complete, fiasco ar. did also a similar attempt an hour 1st er whlchcfcpparently was planned by ' Dr. Llebknecht's followers as it was announced at their. meetings. . ' ' Yesterday venipg, Berlin footguardi and sailors miarched; to the - former 4 chancellor's house and called out Pre- ' mier Ebert, who made a speech, urg ing the men to keep their military units intact . for the purpose ' of TSt sponding to hurry calls. Premier- Ebert was cheered . as the coming h , president of the German repubJici 'He 'f , modestly declined to seriously consider the pr position, urging that the(cabl ,i net for the present was concerned -Itt - problems of immediate urgency, suoh as the food situation ana aemODiiiaa ' f tion. The streets tonight are deserted, the s university IS . closed, as v its buildings f on the Unter den Linden have been re- -,!', quisltioned for the .purpAse of quarts1 ' s 'ing troops there.- t , ,. ; .-" - ' 1 f 1 BAVARIAN MINISTER RESIGNS i f I 1 AT THE POINT OF REVOLVER tl Munich. Sautrday:. Dec. 8. A crowd ' i of armed soldiers last night went to ( . the residence 1 of the minister of ths - , interior and after forcing an entrance 1 ,' demanded the minister's 'resignation " . ' which he conceded. - . ' ! ' J, ' ' Revolutionists - also stormed the , - , newspaper offices except one. ' They v withdrew several hours later at; 'the -" earnest request of : the Bavarian p1; re-; mier, ;Kurt ' Eisner, who hurried ' to , ,(. the scene, '- . " - - '.' ' n ; 1 Herr Auer.i the minister whose fesi-, j gnatiOn was .demanded,. was given two ' J minutes'' to fdecldS k at the- point .of revolver. He ,was then forced, to put ' - 1 his reslgnation.Unto writing. At' first "5 he wrote :' 1 .' .;. .- -, ;,'.-' ' -.-' - -. -;v '-"' V ' ,"I have been svercoms by aboutS00 1 vr armed .mfen in. my dwelling and forced to resign1 the. Cffice , of 'minister Jof the t intertsA-i.'eclars.bsrefth-urthat, ,( surrenderfng to. force, I lay down ths f office- of minister of the interier. 'if, j'., This ; did hot satisfy .the revolution Ists,; who demanded a statement that the resignation was i voluntary. Th f ' crowd : was , led ;by Vthe, fornier editor, " ,r Erich ' Muehsen. - They proceeded from a communist meeting to the office of ; ; the Bavarian ' Courier ' and 0pp0inted j , , av woman as .editor; of that newspaper.' 'y They remained in "the; Couriers officer " ' until Premier Eisner went .there, w ith . ayguard, .-Vav--. v '.:', .-: .' I-"-.'''- -j' " '- Th -N-ountA Nachrichaten f was r tns ' only Munich paper able to appear? hl IUI uiii-B..." . . i -, - lis. : nRRACH IN SOCIALi ST - - w RANKS IS MADE WIDER v h -Rrl in y? Saturday. Dec:?: 7.--By th AsoclatediPress.)Therrioting Of Fti - (day. in 'Berlins the . mysterious : raid on I y &?t(ContInusi; on; Page ;Two.? ' -fc'JiC. 1 : It M'V.rJip'll: li., . ,f. K . 1 I ill I It .f ' - --4, . .-- -.: ulV V m 1 1 n 1 m. mi: i r, ';-f ; Pi;? M .Ml! 1? "i'i! t 1 1 Hi ! It .11 r 1 H ' '"it r 1' 1 1 i ft 1 1 'A I 1 1 V 1 1 i, r.: I i 1 ' i I n ! V" 'I
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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Dec. 9, 1918, edition 1
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