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-Tee News Observer - . - - i WEATHER Rala Sunday; Monday fair, with Moderate' temperttsrtj freak east winds. Best Advertising" Medium in "Worth Carolina VOL OX. NO. 26. RALEIGH, N. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26, 1919. PRICE: FIVE CENTS WILSON TELLS HIS PEACE CONFEREES AT PARIS AMERICA IS REPRESENTED AT THE TRIBUNAL CONFERENCE IS UNAHMOtM FOR THE LEAGUE OF WILSON AND HOUSE SECOND MEETING OF PEACE CONFERENCE Featured By Speeches ByVil son, George and Others On League of Nations PARAMOUNT SUBJECT IS TAKEN UP AND ACTER ON British Premier Heartily Ap proves Position. Taken By President; Other Features (By th ociated Press.) , Paris, Jan. 3. The session of the Peace Conference opened at three o'clock this Afternoon In the Salle do La l'nix of the Foreign Office, with the Mine imposing Retting as the first ses sion, but with little ceremony and the manifest jmrpose of business. M. CIcmcncoau was again in the chair, with President Wilson and tho full American delegation at his right, and Premier Lloyd George and the British delegation at his left. ... The conference unanimously adopted the Lengue of Nntinnt project, Pres ident Wilson and Col. House are the American member of the Commission thereon. List of Members, ' The delegates of the great powers on the league of nations, it was learned tonight, .will bo: for tho United States, President Wilson and Col. E. Si. House; for Great Britain, Lorn Kobert Cecil nnd General Jan Christian Smuts; for Prance, Leon Bourgeois tad Ferdinand Larntudo, dean of the faculty of the law of the University of Paris; for Jtaly, Premier Orlando and Vitcria Sri lia ; for Japan, Viscount t'hinda and K. (K'hiui. . The delegates of the small na tions will be announced later. President Wilson Speaks. (Hr the Associated Press.) Paris, Jan. 25. When the second ses sion of the full peace conference met this afternoon, it was addressed by President Wilson on the subject, nt a league of nations. The President de clared tho conference had solemn obli gations to make a permanent settle ment. ' The present conference, the Presi dent added, could not complete-its work until in mo further machinery of settlement should be set up.. The President spoke earnestly. 'We are not here alone," he said, "as representatives of governments, but as representatives of peoples,- and in the sottlemeiits we make we need to satis fy, not the opinions, of governments, but the opinion of mankind." Must Re a Vital Thing. '"" President Wilson contended that a league of nations must be a vital thing and not casual or occasional. It must have continuity. ' "It should bo the eye of nations, an eye which never slumbers," he declar ed. On his travels, the President said, people everywhere had greeted the league as tho first thing in thgir inter est. "Select classes of men no longer di rect the affairs of thj world," said the President, "but the fortunes of the world are now in the hinds of. the plain people." Mankind1 X Longer Pswns. The wish of the people therefore must 'be heard. The war had swept away these old foundations by which ssmalt coteries had "used mankind at pawns in a game." Nothing but eman cipation from the old systcta, he con tended, would accomplish real peace. Crasadera la Great Cum. ' The President saw American soldiers In the street soldjerr who had eome, not aione for war, but as "crusaders in great cause," he added, "and I, like them, must be crusader, whatever it tost to accomplish that end." , After declaring that the- conference was for the purpose of a settlement arising out of the war and to make peace for the world, President Wilson said: "A league f nations seem.a'jieccssary for. both purposes. There -are many questions which we feel eannot Olti mately be worked, out here, that may require subsequent consideration, sub sequent alterations even to some de free." He described how the war burden was borne by thepeople as well as by Luc Riiuica. null bhiii. f "We are bidden by these sufferers to ' make peace soenre for them and see to it that the st.-ain need nea-er be borne . again. . . LLOYD GEORGE FERVENTLY SUPPORTS LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Faris, Jan. 25. At the conclusion of the reading of-' translation of Presi dent wilsorva ipeech, Premier Lloyd Oeorge said: - "I should not ha,ve intervened t nil, ; but it was necessary for me, to state how emphatically the "people of the British Empire are behind this proposal, . and if the leaders of the British Empire "ContinueaTon TsgtTnoT Draft for Creation of League of Nations at the Peace Conference (Bjr the Associated Press.) The preliminary draft for Uw emtio of a league was given, out officially as follows: Tho conference, having considered the proposals for tho creation of leacu nations, resolved tha "It Is essential to the maintenance of Uw world MtllenMDt which th associate! nations art now net to establish that a leasue of nations bo aarrieo to promot International obligations ard ta provide aafnruarda gainst war. This iregue should b created as aa integral part of tha gncrsi treaty, of peace and should bs ovn to every eivilised nation which can bs relied on to promot Ha objects. Meet Periodically. "The members of the league should periodically meet in international con ference and should have a permanent organisation and secretaries to carry oa the business of tha league la the inter val) between the conferences. "The conference therefore appoints a committee representative ef the casoclated governments ta work out the details of tha constitution and Uw functions of the International Legislation On Industrial and Labor Questions Tsria, Jan. 25. Tho. following draft of a resolution in regard to International legislation on industrial aad labor ques tions for presentation ta Uw peace) confer, ence wss made public todays "That commission composed of twa representatives apiece from the Ave great powers and . five representatives to be elected by Uw other powera represented at tha peace conference be appointed ta enquire into the conditions ot employment from the international aspect and to eon aider Uw international means necessary ta eerar ismmna actios on gutters affecting TEXT OF THE SPEECH AT. THE CONFERENCE " Paris, January 25i Following ia President Wilson's address before tha peace conference today: "Mr. Chairman: I consider it s distinguished privilege U be per mitted to open 'the discussion in this confidence on the league of nations.. We have assembled for two purposes to make the present . settlements whLh have been ren dered necessary by this war, and also to socura tha peace of the world, not only- by the present set tlements, but the arrangements we ' shall -make at this eonfvTenee for -its maintenance. Wny Neeessary. : "The league of nations seems to me to be nccessnry for both of these purposes. There are many complicated, questiona - connected with the present settlements, which perhaps can not be successfully worked out to an ultimate issue by the decisions v e shall arrive at 1 ere. ' I ran easily conceive that many of these settlements will need subse quent consideration; that many of the decisions we make shall need subsequent alteration in some de gree, for if I may judiro by my own study of some of these questiona they are not susceptible for confi dent judgments at present. Set Vp Machinery. "If fs, therefore, necessary that we1 should set tip some machinery by which the work of. this conference .should 4)0 rerMered complete. . "We have assembled here for the 'purpose of doing very much more than making the present settle ments that are necessary. We are assembled under very peculiar eon editions of world opinion. I. may' " say, without straining the point, " that we are not the' representative! of governments, but representatives of peoples. , " - - .Opinion of Mankind. ''It will not suffice to satisfy gov ernment circles anywhere. - It is necessary that we should satisfy . the opinion of mankind. "The burdens of this war 'have fallen in a unusual degree upon the whole population of the countries ' involved. I do not need to draw . for you the picture of how the bur den has been thrown back from the front upon the older men, upon the women, upon thu children, upon the ""phonies of the eivilitvd .wo.ld, and -how tjlie real strain of the war has eome where ifie eye of the goverh- ' nicnt could ne t reach, but where tile heart of humanity beats . -"We are, KiCden by these people to make peace which will make them, secure. - ' Sseh a Strain Came N Mare, "We are bidden by these people to see to it that this strain does not . eome upon them Rgain. And I ven ture to toy that it has been possU ' bis for them to bear this (train because they hoped that those who represented them could get together after this war and make such, an- ' other sacrifice, unnecessary 'It is solemn oliliirstion' en our 5r7f?reforr; wmk jCTtnaniit ' TflONS; MEMBERS league. The draft of resolutions la regard to breaches of the laws of war for presentation., ta tha peace conference reads: Warn Set far Ceasmleatsa. That a coramieskHt composed, of two representatives apiece from tha flea, great powers and flea representatives to be ejected by the ataer powera be appointed to inquire and report, upon the fallow bur: -FIRST Tha responsibility "at the authors ef the war. SECOND The facta as to breorbes of Uw laws and customs of war eoenmitted by the forcea of tha German Empire and their a) I tee oa. land, oa sea and ia the air during the preeewt war. THIRD The acare of responsibility for these offenses attaching; ta particular nvess. bar J of - the enemy's forces, Including members of tha general staffs and ether Individuate, however hirhly placed. FOURTH Tha eonstttutiea aad pro cedure of a tribunal appropriate to the trie of these offense. - FIFTH Aay other asartera cognate or ancillary ta tha above) which , may arise in the course of tha Inquiry -Had which the commies ioa flnds H useful and iwvclent la take tnta eoasMierattcn.'' i . .. conditions and employment and to recom mend Uw form of a permanent agency to continue such inquiry and consideration, in as iicratioa with and under tha urecllon of tha league at nations." The draft at another resolution to go brforu tha conference regarding' inter national control of forts, waterways and railway reads I "That a commission composed of two representatives apiece from the -Ave great powera and Ave representatives to he - pointed ta inquire and report upon the International control ef porta, waterways and railway." PRESIDENT'S arrangements that justice shall be rendered and peace maintained. Mast Bei Permanent.- '"" "This is the central object of our meeting, Settlements may be tern porary, but the action of the nations in 'he interest of peace and justice must be permanent. W can set np permanent processes. We may not be able to set up permanent decision. 1 "Therefore, it aeenie to me that . we must. take as far aa we can a picture of the world into our minds. Is it not a startling circumstance, tor one thing, that the great dis- eoveriea of science, that' the quiet . studies of men in laboratories, that tha thoughtful developments which , have taken place" in qu'.et lecture rooms have now been turned to the destruction of civil gationt The powera of destruction have not so much multiplied, as they have gained facilities. - Keea rkrieac Within Boaada. "The enemy, who we have just overcome, had at his. "eats of learn ing some of the principal centers . of scientific study aad discovery, and he used them in order to miio l destruction sudden and complete. And only the watchful nnI con tinuous co-operation of men can see to it that science, as well as . armed men, is kept within the.' har ness of civilization. ''In a sense, the United States is less interested tif this subject than the other nations here assembled. With her' great, territory and , her estensive avs borders, - it is less . likely that tho United States should suffer from the attack of enemies than that other nations should suffer. And ths ardor of . the " United States for it is t rcry deep and genuine ardor for the ts ciety of nations is not anrtftdor . springing out of fear or appre hension, but aa ardor springing out of the ideah which have come- in the consciousness of this war. ; Why Uncle 8am Strppec in.- "In timing into thin war the -United fftatea never for. a moment thought thatfe ahe was intvening in the polities of Europe or the poli- . tics of Asia; or the politics of any .port of the world. Her thought v as that all the world had n.uw become conscious that there was a single eause of justice and of liberty for ; mea of every kind and place. "Therefore, the. t'nited states ' should feel that its part, in this war should bo played in '.. vain "if .there ensued' upon it abortive European settlements; .It would feel that it could not take part in guaranteeing those European set tlements unless that guarantee in volved the , contlnuoui. superin- ' tendenee of the peace of the world ' by the associated nations of the world. " ' ' ' Mast Be a Vital Thing. "Therefore, it seems to me that '' we must concern our best' judg ment in order to make this league- of nations a vital thiug' thing 1 1 (Cantlnsje. freta rf 0w - FRENCH PEACE DELEGATES ...n r T , . r-oTtf 3 Clemenreau heads the list. With him-as they appear under the face of t leniences u jef; t right, are Ptephen Pichnn, Andre Tardieu, who ia French commissioner of American affuirs, Jules Cnmhon, minister foreign affaira. daf Louis Blot, mijater of fiaaac), -eesseassISs-ejese--Ssai sejeawaraiae--eeeua MERCHANT MARINE Shipping Board Takes Up Mat ter of Increased Use of Oil at Conferences Washington, Jan. 23. Plans looking to vast I j increased use of oil. fuel by American merchant vessels have been developed at conferences UctBTcn heads of the large oil producing interests, ship oqners and -eprescutatives of the shipping board. John H. Bosscter, director of operations for the board, said today that details of the proposals tentatively accepted were being worked out preliminary to action toward the establishment of additional oil bunker ing facilities at various ports, and co operation w'th tho oil producers to as sure a steady supply of fuel. Oil fuel is the real solution of the American merchant marine problem," Mr. Rosseter said, in outlining the policy under development, "Wat is chiefly necessary, is complete eo-opera-tion of the various enterprises and .in terests concerned, and during, the last few days wo have succeeded in reaching an understanding, I believe, with the oil producers, preliminary to proceed ing further. It would be manifestly uneconomic to establish new bunker ing facilities in ports where they are now available, and yet it will be neces sary to widen the facilities for oil sup ply to vessels. We hare consequently secured assurances that the existing plants will te operating in conjunction with the system the board is contem plating establishing. -' ' ' dent . "Next, the question of price, and the supply to bunkers has lxn gouo over, with Tesults approaching satisfaction. The data is to necessary new construc tion and costs is being gathered pre paratory to reporting to the board. . "The importance of oil fuel to the future of tlie American merchant ma rine, I believe, cannot be over-rated. The increased steaming radius given to vessels operating with oil as against those operating with coal, the reduction in sire of crews, and the elimination of delays and leading costs are some of the considerations. ''Fuel oil supply ran be assured Tin der the present conditions for a loug distance in the future, thotfgh this is one of the. points on which we are s semWing data. Eventually we may hope probably, for some ee-ojcratldn on land, "whkh would forbid ilhe use of oil in' power plants where hydro electric power is available. . Naturally, some of the conditions of thefliroulem have not yet been established, but -'personally I am most hopeful of a suc cessful policy being established in the near future." Fighting In Berlin. London, Jan. ii.. There were numer ous casulaties' in heavy fighting between 8partacans and government forcea la Berlin Thursday night, says an Amster dam dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company, The Sighting. was montlf in the ee v I. Oil FUEL FOR U. S. 1 SWEAR WISEMAN KILLED HENNESSEE Two State Witnesses Positive As To Identity of Glen Alpine Murderer SAW HIM SHOOTING WITH GUN IN EACH HAND Bock Hill Witness, T. W. Amos, Em Loaf Known Wiseman and Positive About Killing (Special ta The News and Observer.) Marganton, Jan. 23. Two stato wit nesses at the preliminary hearing held here this afternoon positively, identi fied Aaron Wiseman as the man they saw kill Dr. r;. a. Hennessee at Ulen Alpine on January 31. 1918. v The unexpected and sensatioaal fea ture of the hearing was: the introduc tion as the star witness for the state of Tred W. Amos of Rock Hill, B. C, whose evidence the solicitor threw as a veritable bomb into the ease. The fact that he would be introduced was. known only to the prosecution aad the wit ness. Positive Amos could not be shaken in his testimony, the ' cross-examination seeming only to make him more positive in his statements that he knew tho man who hai killed Dr. Honnessee to be no other than Aaron Wiseman whom be had known for pinny years and whom he could identify positively as the man he had teen from the train window or. the night of the killing shooting with two pistols. e He described his dress aud goncral appearance and stated a number of times that there was no' question in his mind as to th identity of. Wiseman. Un cross-exanunatiou the defense acked why he had not let this fact be known at the former trial when the Pitta boys were tried for the murder. His ex planation was that he had teen from the train that there were other people on -the scene and thitt he thought they had teen as much as he had could testify soma and that tine he waa prep ring fa -V The) itai t svee.pl work and had. not been summoned as a witness he did not feel it hit duty to tender services at witness,' Ramsey Corroborates Amos. Substantiating the jtory of Amos wat the evidence given., by J. AL. Ramsey, a passenger on tht same train, whose testimony at the time of tha other' trial was without doubt one of the prin cipsl factors entering into the acquittal of the Pittsea. Ramsey also identified Wiseman as to height, weight and movements as .the tame lie had seen shooting on the night of the Ulen Alpine tragedy and whom- he to dramatically described where Aaron and Oiiriu'M Pitts were tried last March. He told how he was dressed and that he shot with two pistols, one a bjue steel the other nickel-plated. . With only theso two witnesses it Is most probable the state could have had Wiseman committed to jail with out bond aa was done, but further evi dence was introduced. and tho general opinion seems to be that the case against Wiseman is an exceptionally strong one. Amos and Ramsey made as grod witnesses as ever appeared on the stand in Burke county courthouse. The kwyers for "the defense were uniihlo to shake them from their original stories. Their answers were clearly and unhesi tatingly given. " Preliminary Hearing. Ths hearing lodny of Aaron Wiseman, who has been in jail since Thursday of last week on a bench warrant chnrging hi in 'with the murder of Dr. Hennessee, writes another chapter of the new famous story of the -Pitts-Hcnnessce tragedies at Qlen Alpine. It was begun promptly at 1 o'clock, Judge B. P. Lang, of Statesvillo, presiding the warrant of last week having hern made return able before him. (Solicitor R. L. Huff man, who has been working on the ease persistently since the Pitts boys were cleared last spring in an effort to spot the murderer called his witnesses and announced his readiness to proceed. J he solicitor was assisted in the prosecu tion by W. A. Helf. of Hickory: J. W. Plcss of the Marion bar and H. J. Ervin of Morgsnton, appeared for the. de fendant, Wiseman. After calling three witnesses they announced their reudi ness to proceed. V , "' : ' ' Star Witacaa 'Appears. It was st this point that tho star wit ness, Fred W. Amos waa introduced. Amos was for two or three years editor of the Bkkersville paper; was at one time'reportcr-on the News and Obser ver.' He is now of the Herald force, Rock Hil!,.S. C. He has recently been in the service, holding the rank of Lieutenant and was discharged only a few weeks ago. ' He is a man of intelligence, told his story in a straightforward manner and made an impression on the few persons who were privileged to attend the meet ing, the judge dismissing the crowd who went to the hearing on account of the intliienr.a situation, judging it to be in advisable because of posiible contagion for a, erowd to congregate. "1 8w the Shooting Plainly. Am6s stated that he was on train No. 21 on the evening of the killing st Cli n Alpine en route from his former home IA Newton to CanionTT,He said he saw the shooting plainly and then proceeded In his testimony to identify Wiseman, positively, as- the man he saw. His evidence carried weight from the fact that previous to that time he had known the prisoner intimately. The train light was shining on the man who was using two pistols. He had on a long tan coat, Amos .stated, and a light hat. " It is understood from the solicitor that he . Contiaai.avlrg .Two.) . SHALL GERMANY MAKE WAR AGAIN? Frank Simons Cables Ahout Plan To Make France De pendent On Foe DEMANDS THAT PLAN SHALL BE FOILED We Cannot Ignore The Graves and Waste drields of For lorn France By FRANK H. 8IM0XD.V iSpecial Cable Dispatch from Paris.) (Copyright, 1919, by the MoClure Newt paper fyndicate.l Paris, Jan. 23. Through the courtesy o. the llntisli government 1 have come to tin) Peace Conference bv way of the war xone. To travgi directly from America, always at peace, to Paris, now resuming much of her anto-war activity and become again a real capi tal, is to forget almost entirely the four years and a half of agony that separ- uiu turupo mi. i ine rest of the world from July, 1914, "and thus to el niinate many of the vital questions remaining iu no semen, it is otherwmo if one journeys by 1'pres, by Vimy Kidge, by the Momnie battlefields, by the regions where five years ag hundreds of thou sands of people lived nnd labored amidst smiling fields and in pleasant towns, regions ia which two million dead now sleep and sleep in the midst of a desolation lieyong human words to describe. I have seen Iwttleflelds iu the hour of conflict,' but In that time amidst the desolation and destruction there was still a sense of human energy which had almost bceoino superhuman In its fury. The forcea of destruction were themselves vital amidst all the waste which they Lad created, but far more terrifying and terrible ia tho bat tlefield when the living- are gone, when upon hundreds and thousands of square miles of territory there restt tht blight of war. It it in the dead eitiet and even more ia the dead village) ef North ern Franca that one must seek evi dchee ef what this German thing has meant, must seek some estimate of that vast account wiich remains to be set tled. The German has cone. He has vanishes out of the trenches, out of the ruint or the regiou lie was wasted. His conquerors have gone after him, but the real inhabitants have not yet begun lo return. .As a consequence, from Ypres to the Border ef tho pise above Noyon, more than a hundred raihej in longitude, and from a dozen, to fifty miles in latitude, there exists the most appalling desert of which the min i ran conceive. A few (Jrrmiin prisoners cleaning debris f-om the more import ant highways, a w British soldiers standing gunrd over material, and for the rest jn a land where three millions of French and Belgian, lived five years ago, just nothing. ... . How to I'ndo the Damcirr? ' How, then, arJt tho peace makers at Taris'to set in motion the machinery, Itself all to be made, wuiiu will bung the old inhnbitnnts back to the (lerman desert which, like the Great American Desert of the last century, separates two sn iling regions! How are the millions of little pfpole with their flocks and their farm implements to be., returned f How are the Germans, who did this Ihing, to undo it! In Paris one talks of the Jeague of, nations and the right ot self determination but on the Hin drnburg line one thinks of something more specific, more tangible. On the Hindenburg line I found a French wo man who had come to look for the first, time at what had been her home the village in which she had been born, and her people time out of mind; I foltnd her exhausted 1eide the. road, after the thirty-mile walk, her face again turned towards her place of exile, And this is what for her, for her chil dren, her friends end neighbors the Hindenburg lino was. My readers will recall how often I have written of this great system of defence, stretching from the Hcarpe to the Bom me ; they will have visualised it as a fortification, as a sys tem of intricate field works, with forts, In a certain sense thi-' was..vuet- in another it was totally false. Here is what this Frrnch woman found in the very heart of the Hindenburg linn fac ing Queant. Where the famous switch line began, facing Bullcconrt, where once the Australians were slaughtered, surrounded on all sides by places whose names were in all the war news, a few months ago, immediately before her was her own village; Of it there remained a few masses of riven masonry, endless heaps of brick and dust, formless masses of ruins,' themselves half buried in ashes; Where the village church had stood a squat German dugout arose In stark ugliness, the single existing struc ture that had' form. Looking nrth cast, south or -west from the gentle eminence on which the village stood, she looked out upon a land lorn by shell fire until it resembled a skeleton rather than the flesh. Along every swell in the slopes actually behind it, crumb ling dugouts, ugly holes in the ground slowly sinking undes the action of the rains, separated from each other by endless rows of barbed wire, town everywhere with little crosses, them selves half fallen, where.dend men were buried at hazard. This was her own country. And beyond the nenrer View, curve on curve, 'the .land swelled nwny in all directions, a monotonous waste Without a tree, without a single tur viving habitation, without any obstacle in interrnpt the vision not a desert with clean sand but a waste in which everyrmng spoke ot decay following death, ior nearly twenty miles in A . . (ContinBtd, oa. JUgf Sine.) ASKS RICHMONDERS TO ENLIST AGAIIISI Billy Sunday Shows That All A rain, Shame and Degrada tion Is Outcome of Sin BIGGEST ENEMY TO HUMAN RACE I Can Spell All The Misery, All The Heartaches, All ; The Worry, All. The Murder, AH The Theft. All The Adultery, All The Curses That Mar By That One Word Sin, Says Evangelist (Special lo The News and Observer.) Richmond, Va., Jan. 23. "I am ask ing you, my friends, to enlist against the biggest enemy of tht human race sin and the devil your enemy and mine," said Biljy Sunday ia his great sermon at the auditorium here thit tre- ning. This world is blighted; thit world" it stained; this world is cursed, damned, ruined by sin! rlin ia the eause of paint friin is the cause of shame, deg radation knd sorrow.. With that on word MX I ran spell all the misery,' all the heartaches all the worry, all the) murder, all the theft, all lh adulterr. all the pandering, all the lust, all that curses and mart and blights thit obi world. WN that's the cause of it till Irfr. 8gndsy't Sermon. The following it Mr. Sunday's sere mon: Somebody 1ia..jaid that tht Bible it such a complete system that if this nation were governed by . aa ether set of laws than those) found within Its pages, it would enough. It contains everything that's needful for ft man or woman to know or to do. It affords a copy for a President or a King, by which to live. It furnishet rules for a subject, and counsel for a senator, or for a governor or for a mayor, and it cautions the witnesses and it requires impartial verdicla from juries. It ' telle children to honor (heir parents, and it tells the parents to provoke not their children to wrath. It gives a directory for weddings and for funerals. It teaches a man to1 set hit house : in order; it tells him to make his will. I appoints n dowry for the widow. It defends the rights of air and' it re veals vengeance to the demafer. It U the first book in all the world. It lthe best book in-,lie world, and it ii the oldest bonk in the world. To . (Continued oa Page Fifteen.) STRENGTH OF GERMAN ARMY AT PRESENT TIME Committee of Supreme Coojn cil Will Investigate Suhject ( and MakeReport Taris, Jan. 23. An effort to ascer tain the strength and resources of the German army will be the first problem considered by the military committee appointed Thursday - by Jthe aupremu war council to report on the strength of the allied and associated forces to be retained on the western front during the period of the armistice. It was assumed that the Germans now have about COO.OW men.' under arms, hut it is necessary to confifirm these figures and also to determine to what extent the manufacture of arms, muni tions and other military supplies it going on. . HASTENING PREPARATION OF ALLIED PEACE TERMS - London, Jan. 2.r. The British and American delegations in Paris a"e work- , ing to hasten the proceedings of the 1 peece conference and to secure early decisions which would enable the peace terms to "be prcenfed to Germany a. cording lo the Paria correspondent of -the Daily Mail. To Remote for Confidence. Ptris, Jan. 23. (llnvasl. M. Tchit eherin, the Bolshevik Foreign Minister, has sent a, wireless message to the sov iet representative in Sweden asking Confirmation ofthe decision ofjlhe su preme council of the peace conference to send a mission to' confer with rep- -resentatvjes .of the different factions in Russia on' Princes' Islands, if. Tfhitrherin's message declares that Princes' Islands are too remote for such a meeting. ' Paris 8trik Ends. Paris, Jan. 23. The strike on the i transportation lines of Paris came to an end today when the employes of the various companies, after the govern ment had announced it would "requisi tion transport facilities, decided to go hack to Work. Storm Warnings. ' ' Washington, Jan. 23. A . fctormv Is central over the Northeast portion of fhe Mexican' Gulf, moving northeast, the Weather reported tonight, , Storm warnings are displayed on the roast at and south of Cape HaUeras nnd ea the ast Mexican gulf. Five furlong, 6 furlong, 1 1-8 milt running races and steeple chase, fist hurst Wednesday. (Adv.). SIN AND THE DEVIL
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