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'"K 's ''f ' THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN THE WEATHER: PAIR. CITIZEN WANT ADS BRING RESULTS I VOL. XXXIV, NO. 58. ABBEVILLE, N. C. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1917. PKICE FIVE CENT'S OF PLOT AUG OMTH RICA EWMEMCE TO AME MAIM ST O MORE LUXBURG MESSAGES ARE GIVEN TO PUBLIC BY WE STATE DEPARTMENT In One, Message, Luxburg Reports that He Has Induced the President of Argentine to Enter Into Secret Agreement With Chile and Bolivia for "Protection Versus North America." ARGENTINE MINISTER DENIES STATEMENTS Messages Complete Famous Chain of Ex- posures Started Sometime Ago by Secretary Lansing snd Are of Particular Interest at this Time. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. Through a long series of tdggraWs exchanged between the notorious Count Lux Durg, former German charge in Argentina, and the Berlin foreign office, the state department tonight disclosed fur ther facts about German diplomatic trickery and at the Ofame time shed light upon some hitherto unexplained ac tivities of certain Latin-American statesmen. tV Luiburin one of his messages dated August 1 last Wfc-ported that President Irigoyen, of Argentina at last had f " made up his mind to conclude a secret agreement with Chile and Bolivia for protection against North America THIRTY-EIGHT ARE KILLED IN WRECK ON THE L. AND N. Fast Express Crashes Into Accommodation Train Near Shepherdsville. Santa's Little Joke THIRTY-NINE MORE INJURED IN CRASH No Cause for Wreck is Given Lighter Train is De- SHEPHERDSVILLE. Ky., Dec. 30. Thirty-eight persons were killed and about thirty-nine others iniured "before the conference idea is taken up again.'' The "con-1 tonight when Louisviiie and Nashviiie fcrence idea" is assumed to have been the plan for a Latin- j fr.ST! !Jw)ff,,1,1-t . . if. n x i j.ji. to New Orleans, crashed into the rear American neutrality conference, strongly supported by end of a Bardstown. Louisviiie. and President Carrania of Mexico and much discussed in some sprmgneid accommodation train just south or the station here early to night, according to W. F. Sheridan, superintendent of the Louisville di vision. . .First Report Larger, First reports, apparently authentic, had placed the number of known dead at sixty-seven and the number of in jured at between forty and fifty, but this was reduced when an official check of the figures was made. No cause for the wreck was as signed by Mr. Sheridan, who would no statement, pending an In u - 1 i ' " s 'nr. & cL' SX m PLENTY OF SUGAR F OR COMING YEAR BABST PREDICTS Production in United States, Territories and Cuba Ample, He Says. EXPLAINS REASON FOB THE SHORTAGE LLOYD-GEORGE OUTLINES TERMS UPON WHICH THE ALLIES WILL MAKE PEACE DURING SPEECH IN HOUSE OF COMMONS Complete R$hohlotrLTtrrH9rr Now1tr1htHandrbf the Teutonic Forces, and Compensation fortbe Havoc They Have Wrought Is the Price that Will Be Demanded for the Laying Down of Arms by the Allied Forces. V (Continued on Page Two.) INTO THE LIMELIGHT BY SENHESTIMTION Sensational Disclosures Are Gleaned From Corpora tion Records. of the South American countries. While the proposed secret agreement may explain reports that came from Buenos Aires recently of President Irigoyen 's proposals nor a league of South American nations. Presages War Declaration. In Latin-American diplomatic quarters here it is re garded as certain that the disclosures will result very miicklv in an Argentine declaration of war against Ger many. Congress and a majority of the people favored this . step when the American government made public the ! m'o'ther wtiSf'twu learned "spurlos versenkt" (sink without a trace) messages of that the accommodation had ieftr"he Luxburg, and it is believed that the president's opposition now .will be swept away if it is not withdrawn. The messages today were made public by the state de partment in agreement with the Argentine government, which in an accompanying statement by its foreign minis ter says the "inaccuracies of the German diplomat's re ports are so surnrisinir that no epithet will ht them, lne messages were sent to Argentina soon after the state de partment gave out the first series of intercept 1 't1c grams, but heretofore demands for thqr publication have been in fvain. , - Transmitted by Swede. - The first Luxburg's intercepted telegrams were trans mitted to Berlin, by the Swedish legation, at Buenos Aires in its diplomatic code, and publication of that fact by Sec retary Lansing not only threw Argentina into a turmoil, resulting in the dismissal of the charge, but precipitate! a crisis in Sweden. V '. i . Throughout the messages Luxburg dwells upon his difficulties with the foreign minister and upon his Jnflu-f-nce with the president. Finally he was conducting" ne gotiations directly with the president. ; ; ; V ,;" , In one of the messages of which there are' some forty, Luxburg reports that he induced President Irigoyen, of Argentina, to enter into a secret agreement with Chile and j ; .Bolivia a mutual reapproachment for protection versus North America'' and did his utmost to have Peru included in such an aereement. . Translations of the dispatches were given out by the. .- state department in agreement with the Argentina minis- , ter of, foreign affairs who in an accompanying statement gave denial to Luxburg's account of the negotiations with his gov?rnment. . ( ; .: - ; ;.:V V Complete Story. 1 . .:: Today's disclosures complete the story of Luxburg's intrigues which began when the state department gave out the famous "spurlos versenkt" (sink . without a trace) jnessages. They are of importance chiefly because of their Rearing upon various heretofore unexplained activities in South America and are particularly interesting at this time when Luis Cabrera, envoy of President Carranza of in the midst of the peace pour parlers that are In progress between the representatives of the Teutonic allies and the Bolshevik government In Russia, the war alms of Oreat Britain and doubtless all of her allies have been concretely set forth in the bouse of commons by David-Lloyd George, the British prime minister. The complete restoration of terri tory now in the hands of the enemy and compensation for the havoc they have wrought Is the price that will be demanded for the laying down of arms and the bringing about of peace. No Territorial Aggrandizement. Great Britain did not seek territo- rial aggrandizement for herself or for any or her allies when she entered the war, Mr. Lloyd-George said, but en tered Into the hostilities merely for the sane oi nonor. As to Germany's colonies all of which are now in the hands of the en tente, Mr. Lloyd-George said, their disposition must be determined at the peace congress. Jerusalem, however, the premier declared, would never be, restored to the Turks. The statement of the prime minis ter came almost simultaneously with a report that the Teutonic allies In tended to make peace proposals to the entente and that Russia had been re quested to take similar steps and was endeavoring to sound her former al lies in arms as to their requirements for a cessation pf hostilities. Meantime the civil warfare in Rus sia apparently is increasing In inten sity. Cossacks under General Dutoff are reported to have captured Tcheli blnsk, the Junction point on the Trans-Siberian railway, 125 miles west of the Siberian' frontier, ' through which supplies from the east for Eu ropean Russia must pass, and fighting continues in Odessa, In the Ukraine and Astrakhan, but with the results uncertain owing to conflicting reports. The Bolshevik government Is re ported to have demanded that the chief governing body In the Ukraine make Known Immediately whether tha Ukrainian troops will cease assisting General Kaledlnes' Cossacks and dis arming Bolshevik troops. Will Declare War. If the reply of the Ukrainians is not a favorable one, it Is announced that the Bolshevik Government will declare war on them. An unofficial reDort Is to the effect that Grand Duke Nicholas, the formei Russian general whose masterful re treat from the Carpathians and later successful operations against the Turks in the Caucasus region sta,mpeo him ss one of the great commanden of the war. has formed a great arm of royalists In the Caucasus region. Hard fighting continues between the Italians and the Austro-German between the Brenta and Plave rtverj In northern Italy but apparently the Italians have been holding their own since the enemy's thrust on Tuesday resulted in the capture of positions around Monte Arolone. The Italians, according to the Ber lin official communication, have de livered fierce counter-attacks against the sectors In this region in the hands of the Teutons, -but have been re pulsed, while the Rome war office says that several attempts to cross tha flare river northeast of Venice, were frustrated. Two enemy submarines have been sunk by French torpedo boat destroy ers off the southern coast of Italy. MORE SERIOUS ASPECT. JTALIAN HEADQUARTERS IN NORTHERN ITALY, Wednesday. De cember IB. (By the Associated Press.) The situation in th north ern lighting sons has assumed a more serious aspect with the enemy's oc cupation of Monte Asolone, whence there is a stretch of hills between him and the level plain. Monte Asolone Is the last of the heights in that section with an alti tude of more than 4,000 feet and now teas except during a severe win ler, Hoarding, Canning and Oth. er Causes Forced Short- age of Sweet Stuff. . - WASHINGTON, Dec. JO. A plenf! ful u"0ly of sugar for the American, people during the coming year, was predicted today by Earl D. Babst. president of tfhe American Sugar Re- fining company, testifying before th ' senate investigating committee. H opposed placing Tlmlt on domestic consumption con tend hg that any such , v plan would result In larger surplus than could be shipped abroad. More Than Enough. r ' ' Half of the world's sugar crop out- side of the central powers, Mr. Babst '. said. Is produced m fh United State Its territories and Cuba and it prop erly distributed,, this) production la more than enough to : meet domestla demands and supply- all that can be hipped to the allies. - t Of this year's shortage Iff. Babst said, It toad its Inception in unwar ranted famine stories which resulted f la .boarding, aggravated - ty series of unavoidable condition ever since. Whtm people fcegaa to noard th r ' (Continued on Page Two) FflANCE OFFER SERVICES TO THE UNITED STATES Regardless of Negotiations With Germany; Want '') ' to Fight. ARE SPLENDID MEN. This remaining stretch of h i .' "Vi" 1 "-"'V" . is about snven miiM iii S,'""1'1 J-,,' - ey me asio Baisanb fomuS" arth W'th f TlJL?... which lies on the Venetian plain near United States. ' . the entrance to the Brenta. valley, and . Th ",0?r r "i'ous of con while the city itself has not yet been i-t,nulnth 5aUU 'OTlnt th German shelled, occasional shells have fallen ; notwithstanding ths German pear . In the outskirts and some have passed negotiations and declare they will over the elty to the suburbs beyond welcome an opportunity to fight to th The reports show that the nmv flnlsh In Russia undsr ths Stars and Is employing seventeen divisions in his operations between the Rrenta and Plave rivers. Of these six are certainly and nine probably Ger mans. Soldiers who come in say that the enemy troops declare they will (Continued on Page Two.) T WITNESSES HEARD. iCONTTNUXD ON PAGE TWO.) WASHINGTON, ' Deo. 20. Prom corporation records the federal trade commission today drsw sensational disclosures of high finance, dummv omcers ana snam trustees In It effort to determine the ownershln of the Chicago stock yards and ths terminal railroad facilities at the big packing pianis mere. Th commission Plans to continue Its Investigation into every branch of tne country's meat supply and alleged control by five principal groups of packers. ; The commission's report will, be made the basis for recommendations for additional legislation to remedy the situation if necessary and any evi dence or lawbrealtlng will be turned over to the department of justice. Organisation of the Chicago stock Srds company, - under the laws of alne. alleged to have been for the purpose or providing legal method of payment of millions in "pickings" or rsbates to the packing plant by 'the Chicago Junction railway and Union 8tock Yards company, of Nsw Jereey, occupied Francis J. Heney. special counsel, and th witnesses called today at th first open hearing. . Other wit nesses tomorrow will be asked to tell what they know of J. Ogden Armour and F. H. Prince, jof Boston, obtain ing control of th junction railways company, which was organized by Prlnc and turning it over to th stock yards company. ' v Klcnard Olney an other eitisen or New England appeared In ,. today's testimony as sponsors for ths plan of absorbing ths money-making junction railways by th new corporation. . I Flame of Civil War is Spreading Northward Along Volga. SEN. NEWUNDS CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT WILSON Discusses Commerce Com mission's Rulings on Op eration of Railroads. WASHINGTON, Dec 20. Senator NeWlands, chairman of th senate in terstate comsneire; ' committee, con ferred with President Wilson at tha white house a grain today. He ' said ii. ,iwu .un miu kvili I prehenslv" discussion with th prewi LONDON, Wednesday, Deo. 19. Dispatches from Petrograd Indicate that th struggle between the Cos sacks and the Maximalists In south ern 'Russia, la increasing In severity.! The correspondent at Petrograd of ReuUrs Limited, telegraphing under date of Tuesday, says the flame of! dont, of the Interstate commerce corn- civil war ,!".. spreading northward , mtaston' recommendations governing along th Volga river from Astrakhan I vl ..- I V" to samara. , - I Ajfeed if fha f rualnn would af. The Maximalists hold Astrakhan' feet plans for an investigation of the but th Cossacks were reported Mon- railroads under th Cummins resolu- E SSUEO BY GOV. BICKETT Decides to Deal With Each Case Separately this Year, is Announced. day to be only .wenty versta distant and lighting probably already has now begun. 'v Th Maximalists ar said to have many .machine guns but ar almost without cannon. ,The Cossack, ar reported to be equipped with light field guns. An extraordinary stat or affairs is depleted at Tsarltsyn, in th province of Samara, where neither th Maxi malists nor th Cossack have gainsd the mastery both being beaten by the I WASHINGTON. Dec JO. For. forces of Heliodorua. abbot of TsarlU 'cast for North Carolina; Geseraliy syn and known a "Iliad ore. th mad fair Friday and Saturday, aet much monk." t ; ...- . baas la temDratur ' A' ' .... i - - .'.- tlon, Senator Newlands aaM his com mittee would meet tomorrow to form ulate plans for the inquiry. - The joint congressional committee on transportation today completed the hearing of ipieseutativ of ths stat railroad commissions regarding th general railroad situation in the states aad adjourned until after Chrtstmaa. Then representative of th railroad will appear. THE WEATHER. - " r BALEIOH, Deo. 10. Instead of granting a blanket parole to all honor roil prisoners, as was done last Christ mas, Governor T. W. Bickett h I.. sued Christmas pardons to fourteen prisoners wno were serving sentences In the state's prison aggregating 145 years. The governor is this year handling the Christmas pardons only In indl- viauai cases ana where a parole Duara survey or outer investigation satisfies him that ths pardon is jus tWled. Last Christmas, all honor rail prisoners were permitted to visit their families during the holidays and in no ease am tne prisoners violate the terms of thslr parole. Conditions have arisen that have given Governor Bickett a great deal of concern over the wisdom of repeating the blanket parole and he decided to deal with each case separately. Most- of ths prisoners pardoned so far has been sent- up for manslaugh ter. In one. instance the governor said "there Is no earthly reason for this man to remain in prison" and In another cas ths pardoned man bad written to the chief executive and promised "I will never do wrong again." It is probable that addi tional pardon will be granted beore Christnta day. who made the request that ha and hi subordinates be taken Into th Ameri can aervtce, guaranteed . to vouch for every one accepted. All grades a re Included' In the request from second lieutenant up. ,-, r-, There also have been suggestions . that it might b possible to form for the Russians an organisation similar-;, to the French foreign legion or th LaFayett flying squadron. There I a general feeling that th action of the Russlsn officers will have a moral effect in their country. The correspondent,, who was au thorised to make the announcement.: understands that th matter is under . consideration and- that th offer un doubtedly will be referred to Wash ington. It Is considered not unlikely that many of tha Russ'an soldiers now ' , In France and virtually without a . country may follow the lead of their -officers. The laws of th United States . prohibit ths Incorporation Into th army of any but American citisens. but It I hoped a way may be found by which these men can be of service to the United States and the allies In . general. The officers are some of the best In ths Russian army. There are avia tors among them and many of them,, who nosses. excellent military knowl edge and speak French and English. . might be of assistance in various - waya . TOE ASBEI1LLE CI11ZEN CkculatJoo Yesterday , Gty ... . Suburban .' Country . . 4.378 4.508 1.874 Net paid Service; ' . Unpaid . . . .10.760 195 - 104 Total . ... .11.059
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