"Jt IMBAY CITIZMN i THE WEATHER; North Carolina, fair Bandar, colder near the coast; Monday, fair. VOL. XXXVI, NO. 82. ASHEVILLE, N. 0. SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1920. PRICE FIVE CENTS THE A f i SEN. FALL DENIES IS INTERESTS IN MEXICO HUE HEAVY Declares His Holdings There Are $75i000 of Mining Stock. MEXICO OBJECTS TO PLAN OF COMMITTEE Opposed to Mexicans Testi fying In the Senate Hearings. SAM AXTOXIO. Tex., Jan. 17. Mexico's objection to Mexicans testi fying beforo the senate sub-commit-teo Investigating Mexican affairs and a denial by Senator Fall on the stand that ho had heavy interests in Mexico were developments today ' in connec tion with the Fall committee hear ings hero-. . Replying to charges by a Texas newspaper that he had interests In Mexico that prevent him from being a. disinterested Investigator, Senator Fall went on the witness stand and stated his holdings there are $75,000 of mining stock acquired years ago. Mexico's objection will result, it is said, in an Increased number of exe cutivo sessions. The improbability that any effort will be made to com pel any Mexican to testify was made clear by the committee today, but Mexicans will bo asked to testify and in cases where the witnesses fear the results, such protection as a secret hearing can afford will be offered. Most of today's testimony was taken In executive sessions and at least one witness was a Mexican. Mexican secret service' agents have appeared here in greater numbers since the hearlngsjuegan and fie (ses sion has been held at which the Mexi can government was unrepresented. although the representative was un announced and was present merely ns a spectator. It Is known "that the ; Mexican consul has counseled his na tionals not to appear before the com mittee. Dccribo Outrages. Much of the testimony at the closed session related to robberies, outrages and oppressions inflicted upon Amer icans In Mexico. especially In the southern part. Those testifying asked a secret hearing so that they might ' return to their, holdings in Mexico.' In the open hearings - additional !"wstlmonjrwar'"'glven regarding the ha rah--treatment, often reprisals, ac corded Americans and C. It. Gard ener, of Hot Springs. Ark., gave de tail of the working of the "Gran Liga," a radical railway labor or ganization organized during the lat ter part of Diaz's rule which attain ed greater strength under Carranza. It was largely to influence of .that organization that he ascribed the sub stitution of Mexican railroad men for Americans. j Gardener was one of the few Amer- i leans who continued to work on the Mexican lines. He told the commit tee of instances of mounted Zapatistas overtaking young women, throwing them upon their horses and riding Into the hills with them. He also told of the popularity of Jack Johnson, ex-heavyweight cham pion of the United States in Mexico. Part of the committee's time was taken In examining witnesses as to the source of an International News Service article that originated here Tout was killed" before publication. The writer cited uuiuermo Hall as the one responsible for the state ments made. Hall is director of the Mexican trade bureau of the local chamber of commerce. Record of Fall. The articlo questioned said secret service agents of Mexico were invest! gating the record of Senator Pall with the object of ascertaining what bust ness Interests he has. In Mexico and the statement that he was said to be interested In the affairs of the Ter razas family. I fall denied response bility for the statements, although t woman appeared as a witness aaying lie had so informed her. The incident of tho recent receipt by Mexico of arms and ammunition also was given some attention by the committee. There was placed before it contained in a Mexican newspaper of January 13, that 18 carloads of arms and ' ammunition had reached Mexico from Pacific ports where it was disembarked. ' ' The shipment came from Japan, the paper added another that had been contracted for by Candldo Agullar. was coming. from Spain. The make-up of the shipment was given as 800 machine guns, B, 000 mauser rifles and a million car tridges. The newspaper quoted anonymous ly a cabinet member as saying: "Now, indeed, I believe serious complications between our country and the United States are coming, riot so much because of the Jenkins case and -the closing of the oil wells, but because there now are on the way two ships loaded with cartridges, one from Japan and thp other from Spain." Fall's Denial. The credited statement waa made, the paper said, prior to arrival of the Japanese warship and a munitions loaded merchant ship at Manzanlllo tm December 24. When Senator Fall took the witness stand he denied, he had ever been the attorney for Luis Terrazaa or any member of his fam ily except on one occasion as a friend ly act he had assisted In securing the relcaso from Jail of General Ter- DEPORTED ALIENS START INLAND FOR 'RED' RUSSIA HANGO. Finland. Jan. 17 The 249 undesirable alliens deported from the United States and brought here yesterday by the United States army transport Buford for trans-shipment to Russia were taken off the transport this afternoon and march ed to the special train which will carry them to the Russian fron tier. The radicals were kept between decks from the time the Buford docked until they left the vessel. American marines and Finnish guards were drawn up as the radicals proceeded from the ship to their train. The party will be kept completely isolated until thfc frontier is reached, which probably will be late tomorrow. DEMOCRATS WILL All T SEEKSUPPOR T L DESCHEL ELECTED DEAD OF BOOSTS HOOVER. OP GROUP ELEMENT FRENCH Cummings Discusses Plans j Receives 734 Votes of the! j for Conducting Presiden- tia Campaign. 9 RACIAL OBJECTIONS l MAKING MOST NOISE 889 Cast In Presidential Election. NEAR BEER IS DOOMED IN NEW YORK; U.S. OFFICERS ACTIVE THROUGHOUT LAND !"We Will Consider Treaty i As Americans" Demo- i cratic Chairman Says. HEIR TO FORTUNE. i : 1 Gotham to Be "Dry" as the Sahara, Supervision Porter Says. WHISKEY "MISSING" EXPORT IS SEIZED CONSIDERED GOOD MAN FOR POSITION President-Elect Acclaimed j In Parliament When the j i Vote Is Announced. ! . if l I. ? .ri ; 1 j LETTER SIMS SENT DANIELS S PLACED ! BEFORE SENATORS i . ! Arraigns Many Aspects of the Navy Department's Conduct of War. NEW TOHK. Jan. 17. Tho demo cratic party will conduct ila presi dential campaign without regard to group interests. Homer s. Cummings chairman of the democratic nation al committee, declared today. Mr Cummings, who was here to attend a meeting of the committee on ar rangements for tho Kan Francisco convention, made this statement when asked whether tho party In tended to undertake any propaganda to overcome the reported defection ' VERSAILLES, Jan. 17. (Hy tho Associated Press) Paul Deschanel was elected president of tho French republic today by 734 votes of tho 889 members of the national assembly voting. Ilia majority was tho largest since tho election of Louis Adolphe Thiers, tho firwt president after tho fall df tho empire, who waa chosen unanimously. The result was certain since the tJuuus H. Barnes , HAU CWlNO Tho suggestion of Jiilln II. names, United Htutes wheat di rector, that Herbert Hoover is a progressive republican, is being received with great Interest lu political circles as Indicating that Mr. Hoovcr'B friends, of whom Mn Karnes Is one, are preparing to put him forward as a candidate, fur tho republican nomination for President. CRITICISES LACK OF FULL CO-OPERATION" Statement Made By "A High Official" la Re i peated In Hearing. MAN AL ENS WILL peace Government's Machinery to Enforce the "Dry" Law Is Completed. Miss Helen Frlck, daughter of the late steelmaster, receives ap proximately $20,000,000 under her father's will, making her one of the wealthiest bachelor girls In the world. DECIDE ON POLICY FOR CONFERENCE! Live Discussion to Charac- terize Sessions.; Continued on Pas Two COMIC SECTION IS DATED UP TODAY Owing to a mix-up in mailing out the comic sections of The Citizen, the sections carried thla morning are dated Jan. 35, instead of Jan. IS. This will causa the comic section for next Sunday to be dated Jan. 18. This accident waa unavoidable and The Citizen Is sorry the mix up occurred. Of Second Pan-American Financial Conference at the Capital. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. Live dis cussion among delegates rather than ponderous addresses will characterize the second Pan-American financial conference. ' This decision was made ac an organization meeting held today and was regarded by the high officials of the Pan-American governments present as a big step toward putting elnarer into the deliberations. The ob ject to be sought, it was said, was the clash of ideas which leads to solution of problems, instead of Rurely aca demic presentation of views by designated speakers. The meeting ,neia at tne -ciose .or a luncheon tenaerea tne , guests in the Pan-American-Union building af ter they had been presented to Sec retary Lansing, was Itself more like a gathering of corporation directors than a formal diplomatic affair. The ministers of finance and other om- ciala delegates from the twenty-one roDublics of the new world sat in formally around the big table in the Columbus room, smoking, jesting, re newing old friendships, while they laid the foundation for the sessions next week will hasten Important bear. ing on world policy. A spirit of per sonal good fellowship and Interna tional co-operation was evident, of which notice waa taken by Secretary Glass, the luncheon host. ' 1 am sure," sne earn, -welcoming the' visitors, that your delegation will not only, strengthen tho ties of senti ment, : but the bonds or material in terest between the. republics." After Mr. Glass was called away bv official business. Dr. Luis Toledo Herrarte, . minister of foreign affairs of Guatemala, presided. The ministers of finance were eleo ted honorary presidents of the con ference and the chairmen of the var lous delegations were chosen vice- president. uiass rresiacnt. Secretary Glass was elected unani mously president of the conference and the following were chosen to pre side over the general sessions: Dr. Carlos Manuel Cespedes, mln ister from Cuba, William G, McAdoo, former seorelan of the treasury. Dr. Rlchardo Veclno, minister of finance. Uruguay,, Dr. Rafael H. Elizalde, min ister from Ecuador, and General Juan E. Pared es, chairman of the llondu ran delegation. Dr. Fernando Fuchs, minister of finance, Peru, issued a statement to night expressing the opinion that the question of transportation was the most Important problem before the conference. This applied, he said, to internal railway development as well as the establishment of regular and adequate steamship lines,- because ships now are sometimes kept waiting at ports for weeks to receive cargoes. Citing what bis country was doing to develop transportation, Dr. Fuchs said Peru had set aside tho tax, on tobacco, ar - government monopoly amounting to 4,000,000 solas annually, as security for a loan with which it lis proposed to build 1. 000 kilometres of railroad which will complete the i Peruvian section of the Pan-Am erl- ican railway syataaa. I , Tho delegates will visit Mount Ver non tomorrow. ... ,,. . . NEW YORK, Jan? 17. Demon rum died hard in New York today, but he died, and even his distant relative, near beer, will be no more In this state after January 81, according to an announcement today by Deputy Excise Commissioner D. Harril Ral ston. Mr. Ralston asserted that no pro vision had been made for licensing alcoholic drinks of any kind after this month, and that unless the legislature rushes through a new measure, sa'oonkeepers who hope to sell near beer and light wines will have to shut upi shop. "The last legislature," said Mr. Ral ston, passed a measure providing a liquor license for four months,' in stead of a year.-which ends on Janu ary 81. When that ceases there is no way of licensing the sale of liquor in the state. "The state law defines liquor as in cluding all distilled and rectified spirits., fermented wine' and malt deceptions. Without a license there can be no sales of near beer or any thing else- which carries the slightest percentage of alcohol, and tho only remedy will be for the legislature to pass a new law embracing the licensing of these drinks." "Dry" As Sahara. Colonel Daniel L. Porter, supervisor of Internal revenue agents for the New York district, made It Plain to day that New York was to be as Vdry" as the Sahara. He emphasized this point by "lining up 150 applicants for appointment as federal agents to run down liquor. Having done this, he has 600 cases of whiskey, which "Just missed" ex port seized and piled in front of the custom house. He had 12 warrants issued in connection with the seizure, hinting that he thought the' liquor never intended for a long voyage overseas and that It was taken from the bonded warehouses for sale right nere in the v. H.' A. But $2,000,000 worth of liquor did leave this port today. It left on the freighter Yarmouth for Havana and the cases were loaded so hastl'y that the craft put to sea listing to star board. One tragedy marked the exist of de mon rum. Despondent because' he had been deprived of his liquor. Fritz Kloster committed suicide by inhaling gas. of certain Irish and other elements ; caucus yesterday at which M. Des- cnane) was chosen the candidate of the senate and chamber of deputies, comprising all tho various parties. Tho election took on, besides a holi day character, tho atmosphere of a patriotic manifestation. The feeling among the senators and deputies was that after tho retire ment of Premier Clemenceau from tho contest, to whom the parliament was disposed to give evidence of the nation's, gratitude, it was lining that the new president should come Into power with a vote that would give him tho, necessary authority to speak 'mpresulvoly for Franco. The general sentiment la that while M. Deschanol has not won tho presidency lv such outstanding services as those rendorcd by Premier Clemenceau, ho Is a man admirably adapted for the position which requires careful tact, and Is, above all, a safe man. The proceedings were formal, giving little occasion for enthusiasm, when the vote was announced, however, the members of parliament on the floor and tho visitors in the gallery Joined In a great outburst of acclamation while former Premier Brian, who is generally credited with a largd share in the election of M. Deschanel, de clared to a group of friends, "Franoo and the republic continue." "( :-; Hetnrn to Parte. Madam o Deschanel and ner ' chll dron KSessed the demonstration from the gallery and returned to Paris with the president-elect la A motor car. On the return M. Deschanel was followed by a long cortege of parlla mentarians. Tne procession was watched by thousands along the route through the park of St. Cloud and the Bols de Boulogne, who cheered each car, crying: "Long live Deschanel!" and 'long live the republic!" After balloting Leon Bourgeois, president of tho national assembly. announced only the vote for M. Des chanel, complying with the request of the others who received votes not to include them in the minutes. M. Bourgeois made an address of con gratulation to tho president-elect, pledging him the support of France. He mentioned M. Deschanol's publio services, particularly during tho war, and "during at life of admirable up rightness consecrated, like your fathers, to the cult of liberty." In his reply M. Deschanel thanked tho national assembly for the honor conferred upon him and promised all his "devotion and heart" to the per formance of his duties. opposed to ratification of the treaty in its present form "We are going to consider the treaty and other Issues as Ameri cans," asserted Mr. Cummings. "I am unalterably opposed to consid ering this question in any other way. Personalty, I believe; the racial ob Jectlons"to the jjeace" treaty are more noise than anyulng else. Those who are .shouting the loudest haven't been strong for us anyway." Mr. Cummings called attention to the fact that the national commit tee had endorsed the peace treaty as submitted by the President and was standing pat on that issuo. Those, who believe that tho treaty was In imical to ' the political aspirations of the Irish people were in tho wrong, he said. The treaty and the league of nations, he declared, would he a real benefit to all tho small nations of the world. Chairman Cummings announced that so many misstatements had been made concerning the democratic cam paign for funds that be would issue a formal statement within a few day; replying to them. Criticlwm libelous. "I feel that the chairmen of the respective committees should not en ter Into a personal controversy," he said, "hut the .criticism against u; has . ttecqffie 'almcwt , Hbelou - and f reel 'com pelted-1 la&Vtf a formal ply and make t our j HOsltloni clear The only . business transacted by the committee on arrangements was the appointment of six-subcommit tees to handla various phases of the convention plans. No other meeting of the full committee is expected until about June 1, when both tho national committee and the arrange ments committee will assemble in San Francisco to make the final con vention plans. The temporary chair man probably will be named at that time. Women were represented . on the committee of arrangements today for the first time In the party's history, according to party leaders. In the per sons or Mrs. ueorge Bass, or , Chi cago, chairman of the women's bu reau of the national committee, and Miss Mary E. Foy, of Los Angeles. The committee agreed to provide hotel rooms free of charge to mem bers of the national committee and associate members while at the con vention but they will be required to pay ror their meals ana railroad transportation as in the past It Is expected that round trip excursion rates to the convention from New York and Washington will be about 1135, Including Pullman fares. fflRNJOTPE Interpret Raids as Cam paign of Repression. WASHINGTON, Jan. !. Invest! gntion by a senate sub-committee of awards of naval decorations took a ! new angle today when Rear Admiral ; William S. Sims, the only witness I heard so far, laid before the commit ! tee a long letter entitled "certain Huvul losBons of the great war," wrlt- ten to him by Secretary Daniels, ar ! i-algning many aspects of tho navy ! department's conduct of the war. I Lack of full co-operation with the commander of tho American naval forces overseas, the post filled by. Admiral Sims throughout the war, was the general criticism made In tho I letter. It contained also a statement I that Just before he left for London, I Admiral Sims was told "not to let the British pull the wool over your eyes," and that the United States "would as According to Interracial on fight the British as the or- Council Plan Educa tional Program. III? COMPLETE MACHINERY. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. With tho appointment today of . the ten departs ment commissioners for urohlbition enforcement, the government's ma chinery to be created under the eighteenth amendment to the consti tution was" practically completed. A few state directors have hot been named, but their duties are being per formed by Internal revenue officers. Prohibition Commissioner Kramer's office had an Inkling in its first day of operation or tne multiplicity of prob lems that It will face until the publio gets acquainted with tha law. Tele gram and telephone calls poured into tne-various member of tho enforce ment staff, and there were almost as many different subjects to be dls cussed as there were messages. Officials believed when Secretary Glass approved the final draft of the enforcement regulations that they could meet any controversy with a dennlte answer through those rulinas. But It waa admitted freely that the first day of prohibition under the na tion's basic laws had proved there still wore technicalities to ba Inter preted. FIRST ARREST MADE. CHICAGO. Jan. 17. First arrests in Chicago since constitutional oro- hlbition went Into effect were made today when deputies under tha direc tion of Major A. V. Dalryraple, bead of the central west prohibition forces, raided a saloon. One hundred gal lons of whiskey and brandy were con fiscated and the proprietor and a bar tender held. . BAJf RETAIL TRADE. CHICAGO, Jan, 17. Manufacturers of wood alcohol agreed not to supply the product to the retail trade In the future, R J. Pfeffer, western manager of the United States Industrial Alco hol company, told the city council commutes av health today. He ap peared Derore tne eotamit' in con nection with a proposed ordinance t: license and regulate sale of wood and denatured alcohoL Only wholesalers and manufacturers who use wood alcohol In their busi nesses would be supplied. Mr.. Pfeffer amid. Denatured alcohol will be nut IS CHARGED WITH MURDER OF WIFE URGES RETENTION OF ANTI-STRIKE CLAUSE WASHINGTON, Jan. IT Retention of anti-strike provisions In the rail road bill, now in conference, .was urged In the house today by Repre senatlve McArthur, republican, Ore gon, who declared there had never been a strike " that could not have been settled hy men reasoning to gether." 5'We are face to face with the rtithless demands of organized labor ! ally by her husband. The latter whose lobbyist and .henchmen swarm the capltot in their efforts to secure special privileges and special immuni ties," he declared. "They are not only opposing tho measure now in conference but they are clamoring for two more years of government opera tion of the railroads at the expense of the traveling public, tha shippers and the country generally,' and for the special benefit of tho railroad employes." NEW YORK, Jan. 17. Raids and deportations have so unsettled the foreign-born population that hun dreds employed In the basic Industries are preparing to leave the United States, according to inter-racial coun cil, which tonight announced launch ing of a campaign to make aliens bet' ter understood and to Ufa them from tho status of mere cogs In a machine to tho status of human beings." Tho council of which Coleman du Pont Is chairman and which Includes In Its ranks " more than 400 leading 4 financial and Industrial organisation representatives of nearly all tho races In America purposes in its campaign, according to Its statement, to accom- Dlish the following objects: To offset bolshevlst. . propaganda among tha roreign-born , through nation-wide educational activities, To promote better relations among the races in America by presenting the side of the foreign-born and "translating America to them In terms which they will unaerstana." To end unrest among the foreign born In Industry. The recent raids and the aepor- tatlo nof aliens who have urged the destruction of government by force are being interpreted by many of the foreign-born as a campaign of re pression against the foreign-born In general," said a statement Issued by the council. Hundreds of these forolgn-born employed in basic industries, are throwing down their tools preparatory to leaving this country. This condi tion not only Is increasing the rest Icssness of foreign-born In practically ail the factories, plants and mines, but It Is tending further -to decrease the prediction which already has dwindled as an aftermath of the war. 'Tho averago annual emigration for the four years before the war was 594,800. According-to United States immigration authorities 1,176,000 forolgn-born will leavo America." ACTION TO TEST "DRY" LAW. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17. Action to , test tho national constitutional prohibition amendment was started today with the pre-arranged arrest of J. J. Dillon by deputies of Frank M. Sllva. director of prohibition enforce ment In California, DUNN, N. C. Jan. 17 Nash Bryant, prominent farmer of Barnett county, was jailed today on a warrent charg ing him with the killing of his wife 'ast Monday night. The body of Mrs. Bryant will bo exhumed Monday for examination. Mrs. Byrant was killed by a pistol shot, which the coroner's Jury said after the shooting, was fired accldent- rlulmed he asked his wife for his pis tol and that as ho grasped It from her hand, tho barrel toward her. tho gun was discharged. Members of Mrs. Bryant's family, dissatisfied with the result of the cor oner's Jury, undertook an independent investigation and the result of Bryant's arrest today followed. gTT.T.F.n IN ACCIDENT. HOGANSVILLE, Oa., Jan 17. An automobile that stalled on a railroad track near here today was struck by a fast Atlanta-New Orleans train on tho Atlanta and West Point railroad. John Blankenshlp received injuries from which he died in an hour. Marvin Craven and Grady Abel were hurled from the car but escaped serious In- Jury. DEBATE IN nOUSE. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. Despite the fact that anti-sedition legislation is held up in the house rules commit tee, the subject came up on the floor today when Representative. Huddles ton, democrat, Alabama, charged that agitation for such legislation had 'originated with big financial Inter ests centering- in New York city" and Insisted that present laws wcro ade quate. Representative Blanton, democrat, Texas, in answer, asserted that oppo sition of organised labor had blocked tho road of anti-sedition measures In the committee, adding that recently "suggestions of revolution" had been " vo 'I, unl" ,ab,' meetlr,?8'.I The letter charged that not only un- "It is time for all this revolutionary Lj, July 19Ur aId he navy department to top, he said. outline a policy naval co-operation. ,with the allies. 7 - DISORDERS IN LISBON. f -As usual In such cases," ontln- uea, tne puuey wh Hiuijiuiiij BADAJOSB, Spain, Frjday, Jan. 16. Serious disturbances occurred at Lisbon during last night as a result of the resignation of the cabinet, ac cording to stories reaching here. Re publican guards patrolled tha streets and machine guns were used to scat ter the crowds, which at times be came threatening. - mans. Who Issued these Instructions ws not brought out during tho hearing, but Admiral ,81ms said afterward tho statement had been mado to him., by "a high official." Introduction of the letter prompted Chairman Hale, republican, Maine, to announce that he would ask tho full naval committee Monday to authorize his Sub-committee to Invlstlgato .; tho conduct of tho war by tho navy do-, partment. . t ' Referred to Board. , ' , ' In a statement relative to Admiral Sims' letter, Secretary Daniels said ho had referred it to the general board "with directions to give consideration, . to it and to all other communications directed to the department concerning . the lessons of tho war." . t The letter declare It Important as a guide In future wars that lust es timate be made ot the errors of poUny tactics, strategy ajtd,,,admlnt8traUon tha were committed by our navy" and adds that it la for that purpose that . "the most serious of these occurancet" cital of . the pmoer'o assignment to ' notice" lata In March, 117, and this . statement regarding his Instructions: Brief orders were delivered to me , verbally in Washington. No formal Instructions or statement of tho navy department's plans or policy were re ceived at that time, though I received the explicit admonition: 'Don't let the British pull tho wool over your eyes. It Is none of our business pulling their chestnuts out of the fire. We would as soon fight the British as the. Ger mans.' " ' . As soon as he arrived In London, Admiral Sims said, he realised that the navy department did not compre hend the seriousness of tho submarine menace, due to the Insufficient scope of the. American - Intelligence service. 7 Serious Situation ;, A review of the cables sent to the navy department in April, 11T," the letter said, "shows that the situatlou was very serious and that the enemy was rapidly winning the war by the destruction of merchant shipping. Throughout the following year numer ous cables and letters of the most ur- rent Doaalble character were eent with. the object of Impressing on the depart ment the vital necessity or our max imum effort being exerted. In Euro Dean waters with the least possible delay, but without producing the de sired result" AMU I m V r ueuariuniu dw edly told, the letter said, that it won a matter of simple arithmetical cal-, culatlon to determine tho allies must ose the war if tho rate of snip losa continued. For some. reason, which haa never . been exDlanied." Admiral 81ms said. the navy department, during at lease the first six months of tho war, failed to put into actual practice a whole hearted policy of co-operation with, the allies a policy required for win ning tho war with the least possible RED FORGES CONTROL IRKUTSK; RETIRE ON LITHUANIAN FRONT Continues1 ea Two PEKING, Thursday, Jan. IS. (By the . Associated Press.) An undated dispatch from Verkhnie-Udinsk, across Lake Baikal from Irkutsk, says the the social revolutionaries are com pletely in control of Irkutsk and the fighting haa stopped. The armored trains of General Semeneff have re tired to Lake Baikal. Ernest L. Har ris, the American, consul general at the Meat of the alt-Russian govern ment Is on the way to Chita.' four hundred miles east ot Irkutsk, with his staff. . i . - FIGHTING PROCEEDING. lX)NDON, Jan. 17. Fighting is pro ceeding in the streets of Irkutsk, says a (Moscow wireless report; received REDS DEMORALIZED. WARSAW. Jan. 17. Bolshevik forces on the Lithuanian and Ruthen lan front have been beaten and de moralized and are retreatlrg east of Dvlnsk. according to an official state ment lued at general staff headquar ters." The reds are reported to be dmitroviiiff railroad stations and bridges to prevent pursuit by Lettish and Polish units. Tho Lettish and Polish front now runs along tho shore of Prell Lake and thence to Csereg, the report says. Strong attacks by the bolshevikl east of Lepel have been repulsed with heavy losses, and prisoners have been tukon by the Polish. 'RKMOVAIt of blockade. WASHINGTON, Jan. lit Removal of the slocked & soviet Russia, has knocked, one of their "greatest props" from under the bolshevik, Herbert Hoover said In a statement here to night. Speaking from his knowledge of world conditions, the former di rector of European relief, said the soviet had laid every failure of social- sound, but it was not carried out or waa not understood by the department is shown by the fact that for ten months after its receipt I was urgent ly recommending an increase of forces still trying to convince tho depart ment that the war was in the eastern Atlantic, that the United States naval fronf was off tho European ooast and not off the United States coast." "Common Temptation" Recapitulating his. criticisms, Ad miral 81ms In his letter said "Admlr- al Mahan had described interference with tho commander in the nolo or afloat as 'one of the most common temptations to the government" "The1 navy department," he added,, "did not resist this temptation and its . frequent violation of this principle waa " the most dangerous error committed during the war." Secretary Daniels made publio today without comment, a general order Is sued December 29, last, calling upon all persons in the naval service to submit "suggestions nd recommenda tions tor Improving tho methods used by the navy in the prosecution- of turn on IhA h'oekAd land iimI If an m stimulus for raising ajmles. on the i operations and in tho supply of men ground that the Russians were fight- and material." ing t o save themselves from starva- There are 89 - specific points on tlon. which recommendations were asked. With the blockade removed In , to be submitted to tne secretaryy De- fore April 1 of this year, ana iNo. is large part. Mr. Hoover said tha "bol shevik tyranny" will face collapse whan it falls to relieve suffering. Mr. Hoover thought Russia bad no commodities, wheat, flax or cotton, for xprt, ainrft starvation i acute in U larger cities, . and the people almost in rags. The peasants were said to bare sufficient foo follows: "Co-operation of the navy depart ment with the allies,-in connection both with the operation ot the naval forc-s and with material matters." Admiral Sims letter was dated January- 7, after the issuance ot Hue tetter. . ' I ...

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