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WEATHER REPORT .Fair and s omeufcat warmer tonight. Wednesday cloudy and probably rain in west portion. Gentle northwest winds. AFTERNOON 'DAILY UOMMONWEALTH. VO LPME VI NUMBER 84 GERMAN-AUSTRIA M F3AR IS NOW EXPRESSED THAT BOLSHEVISM HAS TAKEN A STRONG GRIP UPON THE PEOPLE THAT ARE NEAREST TO HUNGARY w ? - . ..r-rr- lwt1T1I MftY MERGE WITH By Associated Press V-jrls, March 23. German Aus-tri.-i, ...n- agent reported, has even f;y,. j the date for some time in 1 from the traiispormation distill? government into l r government which will co re, or merge, with the Hun i Soviet. liris. March 25. Conditions in Hungary seein to have affected i; .'!!! m-Austria as advices to the A:; !'i ;tri Peace Conference dele 'uv from private sources in Vie iit ;i iudjcate the existance of a iL:-c-dtening state of affairs there. LEAGUE-NATIONS COVENANT READY i ar i. March 25, -During a three in.'Ur -m ssion last night the League f Nation Commission considered :,r ;.; nixed ainendjments tu the cove r ;i!i: and disposed tentatively of ili-first sixteen sections, agreeing nvon a number of rhanges in form v l.-h the members; of the commissi- ;ei believe will meet mure than nfty jv-r cent of the objections "f:-M'd by Senator Lodge and o d;rr American senators. Paris. March 25. No action has 'f1 -.u taken by the League of Na 'loi s Commission on the amend ments safeguarding the Monroe Jo '-trine, but the subject will pro bably be considered at the next "luting to be held tomorrow. COSSACKS BEAT LARGE FORCE London. Jlan;h 25. Six Bolshe V!ki lvgimv-nts on the northern I'u front iavt. been driven over the Doneta river by Don eossacks, 11 's stated in an undated dispatch ! '''!!;. Kkateainadar. MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIME! 'ress ) My drill i- .. . , Aiartiai law , ...jihuu uus morning and ' understood the constitutional Jiwpcuueu lor- Witl-, . ... 1 "i -men out .Spam. 1PER0R KARL IN SWITZERLAND ' Maivh -27, V.tr.,. - nice ciiu- ""hs. and familv arrived ' "'"'la n.l t , -la v . will I""'. i.- Ui-:y R, ,! ia FOUR O'CLOCK EDITIOM REVOLUTION i . w; j ... , HUNGARY'S SOVIETS I WALTERS BILL CONTAINS TRICK Albany, March 25. Concealed in the "whereas"1 of the much heralded Walters Bolshevik resolu! tion, Democratic leaders have dis covered as cute a political trick as has been attempted in the Leg islature. It provides : 1. For a Republican commission with an appropriation of $50,000 which shall superesede the Demo cratic Reconstruction Commission created by Governor Smith and left without funds by the Repub licans. 2. Under tha guise of an investi gation of alarmist conditions this Republican Reconstruction Com mission is empowered to make an investigation of the economic re- lotmnci rf noi-? l ,1 1V. XT I York state, and bring in legisla- ' . fo . . , tion directed against organized la bor in concert with the real ob ject of its backers. 3. It Will create a job for the discredited Deputy Attorney-General, Alfred L. Becker, now under charges of pre jury and subordina tion of perjury, and already chos en for special investigator. 4. It can be used by the power ful interests behind to delve into utility finances in the State and to further the fight for higher far es as against public ownership of publieu utilities. 5. General reorganization of la bor laws also will come under the .-eope of the proposed, commission and a raid can be started against protectionary statues safeguard ing State workers. NEW CLUE TO WILKINS MURi Alineola, L. I., March ). A small leather, blood-smeared poek etbook, said bv detectives on th--Wilkins murder case to have be longed to Mrs. Julia, Wilkins, was found in the Wilkin home at Long Beach, and will be sent to Manhat tan for fingerprint analysis. The Nassau County authorities say the pocketbook was always carried by Mrs. Wilkins in her handbag. There was not a cent in it when picked, up by the detectives but theiv were blood marks on t ie i outside and the inside as well. The bag. owned bv Mrs.. Wilkins. was found lying alongside the spot Avhtre she whs killed, and the an-, thorities ary woriiing on theory, that it was probably in tin bag earned by .Mrs. Wilkin and was hurriedly extraeted. emptied and thrown, into the attic r.iom where it was found. COTTON MARKET I Owing to the para-! in New Cit- York of the 27 in diviviof! th ton market was e'os.l toda ER SCOTLAND NECK, N. C jTOESDAMARClF 251919 PREFER PRISON TOHGHTING (By Associated Press) Harbin, March 25. Rather than serve qt the front against the Bolsheviki thirty five hundred Ru manian prisoners of war have been released bv tin all-Rnsshm cmx-- " - " v' eminent at Omsk and have sur- rendered their arms a ad returned to prison, M irkutskdi spatch says The Rumanians also refused to I guard the railroads in Siberia. COL. RHINEHART FALLS FROM AIRPLANE Austin, -Texas, March 25. Colo- nel Claude Rhinehart, command ing officer of Kelly Field, San An tonio, was seriously hurt here". The plane in which he was riding at Pennslyvania field crashed to the ground. It is thought that he will recov er. S BONTELLE'S BODY FOUND nhanr VI net? VI Qiih O-. Thn , i 4- tvt n tt t n body of Mrs. George K. Boutelle, wife; of the president of the Ticon iaJSank;of was. found on the rocks off East Point. She had been missing from a san itarium. VON ECS SA! iU New York, March 25. Heinrich i) Kckhardt, former German minister to Mexico, to" whom was . the famous Zimmermann note in wsdeh Germany proposed an al-liancr- with Mexico and Japan in (;)! th Mii i ted Slates entered the war. arrived here from Mexico City by way of Laredo, Texas, and St. Louis on his way to Ger many. Accompanied by Johnannes Bra now. a former German consul-general in Mexico. Von Pekhardt has assurance from the American and Allied governments'b ' safe con duct. DROPPING I'hotd just released ion balloon wilh an Am MR ' LABOR REPORT IJ Associated Pre Paris, March 25-The terms of the report the' commission on In ternational jLabor LegSlaiion will make to the Peace Conference were decided upon yesterday at : heir last meeting. JUGO-SLAVS WANT PRESTIGE By Associated Press) Paris, March 25. Jugo-Slovene delegates to the Peace Conference j tae a pessimistic view of the situa- ! tiou in their country. Poland and Rumania say that those regions are likely to be af fected ...by. the Bolsheviki revolu tion in Hungary. Delegates derive from the situa tion an argument in favor of rec ognition of the Jugo-Slav nation as a means of strengthening the authority and prestige of that gov eminent. SMALL LOSSES IN CASUALTIES Washington, March 25. Four lists issued today show losses of 232 men of which North Carolina contributed five names, as follows' " SereanT"ac'6b"' vVoddard,"'" of Wilson died of disease. Corporal Jackson Collins, of Salisbury; Privates Burton Lewis of High Point ; Eddie Bullock, of Fair Bluff and Frank Smith, of Rocky Mount were wounded sli ght 1 v. NEARLY READY PRESS CONDEMN ! NAVAL SECRET SECRET MEETINGIOF OCEAN FLIGHT (By Associated Press) Paris, March 25. The decision of the Supreme Council 'of the Peace Conference to allowr nothing to be published regarding its pro ceedings but the official commun- inue has nrrvnspd indiwTintirvn Iv the Paris press j The 1,iethod 18 depended upon Newspapers 'that were in the'0 t0 tW thUS" habit of commenting upon foreign1"11.? m,,e attempt How tho 1'00G pi. . . . imile journey was accomplished is affairs condemn the action m , , . , , 1 , , the secret which has never been THE PILOT ... . , y -. i . i tie.- d ofi;iug of the i!ot of an observa .can r'! in Kuropeau waters. TELEGRAPH SERVICE TTTTTTTTMin A TTTT79n tttttvtttttt n Tfw 1 rr UUNbAKl 5 UJrMMVAL SIRS- OTHER "NATIONS RUSSIAN BOLSHEVISTS VERY AND FEAR IS EVINCED THAT SPREAD TO TH ' v? rxcEAT COUNTRIES PLANS LAID TO CHECK RED INVASION. WILSON VISITS 0 Paris. March 25 President Wil son, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, Miss Ethel Bcnbam, Mrs. Wilson's secietaiy and Admiral Gray Gray son, visited some of the bloodiest battlefields of northern France on Sunday. On his return the Pres ident said: "Tiie day has been vory instruc tive to me. It has been in many ways exceedingly painful, because it was deeply distressing, but it has enabled me to havu a fuller conception than ever of the extra ordinary suffering and hardships of the people of France in the bap tism of cruel "fire through which they have passed." Among the regions inspected by Mr. Wilson and his party were the famous Chemin des Dames (Ladies Road), Scissons,, Coucy-le-Chateau, Chauny, Neyon, Mont lUdie(r - and the neighboring re gions, all places which gave the President a vivid impression of ihe battles fought there and tin. havoc wrought. At a little inn at Soissons only halt repaired from the djamago do no by shells, the party had lun cheon. Washington, March 25. Eight navy officers have the key of the big secret of the proposed sea plane fight across the Atlantic. The secret made possible a 1000 miles sustained flight two months vgo. ! revealed. DEMAND THE SURRENDER OF COMMANDERS Berlin, March 25. Demand that ithe peace treaty contain a clause 'granting amnesty to German sub finable commanders for the out rages they committed in the ruth- i j less submarine warfare, is voiced j by the Allgemeine Zeitung. The 'Berlin newsriHVer videntlv py. pects that the Allies will demand; the surrender of all German sub ' ! maarme commanuers hhi . o sent an argument to shov way! these men should, not be pp.risln d for the crimes they commixed m or under tiie seas The paper aNr gives warning that any attempt to j hold them responsible r the!? j n.iurlers of innocent per.-on might i a n the flame of international ' Vi't BATTLE FIELDS PRICE TWO CENTS ACTIVE IN CENTRAL EUROPE F"' J5:; MAY NOW Iiy- Associated Press - Copenhagen, March 25. The claims of the Hungarian Soviet to supreme power is largely untrue, according to a Vienna dispatch. Panic prevails in Budapith but the country, it is declared, has not yet resolved upon the Soviet Re public. It is reported that a voluntary surrender of arms was made by the French because the men alleg ed the friction with Bolshevism was incessant, the message states. There is a rumor that the En tente Commission at Budapesth U detained by the Hungarians. Correspondents say that the ru mored advance of the Russian re bel troops toward Hungary is un founded. Amsterdam, March 25 The new Hungarian government at its first meeting on Saturday, says a Bud apesth dispatch, decided to abolish all titles of rank; to separate the church and state and to dismiss all commissions of Karolyi's gov ernment, while inviting work men's councils to select directora te of four members ieach to replace them. Berne, Mandi 25. The P.olshe viki army euroute to Hungr ry had reach; -d Brody. according to lat est news received here. Vicuna, March 25. A dispatch to the Nieu Prie press say "the British and French mis.sh.n at Budapesth, consisting of 2 !o men have been disarmed and a wire less has been send to Lenine. the Russian Bolsheviki premier, an nouncing that the entente mis sions had left Budapesth. The dispatch' added "the French troops have been disarmed by u. Muntinies occurred in some of th ; French regiments." Copenhagen, March 24 (wiivbs via London) All Hungary hu turned B-dhevist. A Soviet "v. ernment has taken the palace ;' the Karolyi cabinet. It is headed by Alexander Curboi as premier and Bela Kim as foreign minister. Communist and extreme socialists dominate the neve regime, wlo'ch is out-and-out Bolshevist. A great Russian Bolshe it ar my is r. p(M-te,.l to be mady In: tv.een Pj-ody and Stanislau. Severfd regiments of Czecso-S''? vaks. inspired by Bolshevist pr--i aganda, have mutinied and iron over to the Beds. Tiny ar- n..w in Hungar'. SENATORS FLY OVER CAPITOL Washington. March 25. A titxht .over Washington was made bv Sen ators King, of Utah; Spi !ii'g, of South Dakota, and Fletcho-, of Florida, in a four passenger bomb ing airplane piloted by rap tin: Rov Frtnci..
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