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f -t.l 5 WEATHER REPQKT: Loea! Sera and tWeowers probaMy toniglrt aad SaW. Kot s General to moderate south winds. 11 IniE WMMQWWEALT1HI ESTABLISHED SINCE 1882 AFTERNOON DAILY 'ALL THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL." VOLUME Vll NUMBER 87 POUR O'CLOCK EDITION JAPAN TO RESTORE- SHAMING TO CIMA AN UN-NAMED MEMBER OF THE JAPANESE PEACE DELE GATION STATED RETURN OF KIAU CHOW WILL BE MADE IN SIX MONTHS JAPAN IS ANXIOUS TO SETTLE MATTER n KAISER VICTIM OF MELANCHOLY PARIS, July 18. "We are prepared to restore the full ter ritorial right$ over Kiau-Chow to China within six month."' A member of, the Japanese peace delegation made this state ment to-day. For diplomatic reason he requested that his name be withheld from publica tion, but emphasized that his statement means just what it says. He continued: "We are exceedingly anxious to settle the whole question, and BERLIN, July 18 The pan German Dutsche Zeitung, which stands clojse to the former royal circles, takes a serious view of WASHINGTON, July 18. The permanent rank of General in the regular army has been awarded General Pershing and General March, chief of (Staff , and perman ent rank of admiral in the navv for Rear-Admiral Sims and Ad miral Benson, chief of operations. .were asked in congress today by President Wilson. ULTIMATUM ON BUILDERS STRIKE CHICAGO, Ills., July 18. More than 100,000 men employed in Chicago building 'operations will be idle tonisrht unl the former German Emperor, strikers for higher pay, involving calling it deep melancholy It is said that at one time the YVt r m . T- - i "1 . - ii- v was so depressed, tnat iva ak Tintmnrr npfpr than i . . osv txj.cL """" i-nv I I," T - . , . t , , , . , physicians viewed nis condi return of tm tprritnT-T"- ic annnyAi . " VUAAJ- . tion as serious. aiu'e wiui in. ireaiy 01 -L-0. "It is necessary, however, that China enter into negociations with us7 which she has hitherto declined to do." The Japanese delegate flatly denied the assertion of Philippe Millet, prominent writer on inter national affairs, to the effect that Baron Makino, chairman of t. 'Japanese Peace Commission', "han ded the "Big Four" a formal, written secret undertaking to res tore Shantung to China. COUNTER STRIKE AGAINST STRIKES SOLDIERS WANT CIVILIANCLOTHES BOSTON, July 18. Major-Gen eral Edwards, former commander asked the war department that soldiers stationed at coast defen ses be allowed to wear civilian 'clothes while 0n pass or furlough. Isvestigation hap disclosed, he said, that prejudice against army uniforms is apparent. SERBIANS, NAME AMERICA STREET PIROT, Serbia, July 18. One i i " sxreet m rirot has been named, "Aneria street" out of grati tude for the work of the Ameri- today was issued by the Building T fd Constructing Emnlnvp a e- ;J r .mto thl? place for th thousands eighty thousand of their number, are called off. An ultimatum to the striking builders that they return to work SCOTLAHJ? NECK. N. O, fBIDAY, JULY 18, WT RAMOFGENlT FOR PERSHING TELEGRAPH SERVICE PRICE TWO CENTO STREET RAILWAY CRISIS GREAT WASHINGTON, July 18. The Crisis in .the electrical railwav in dustry is capable of having wide spread grid disastrous effect on every business, vice-president Sisson, of the' Guarantee Trust Company, of New York", told the Federal .Electric Railway Com mittee. c: ' i t ., ois&uu!iaiQ tnat the average purchasing price of a dollar had oeen decreased about fifty per cent since lb14, but street rail ways, in most instances, " contin ued operations under the fixed rate of five cents. fiOHAND AGUES' ". TO (GIVE UP KAISER MOUTHPIECE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF IMPERIAL REG IME STATES TH' V DUTCH WILL SURREND- fER EMPEROR Constructing Employers Associa tion. PROTEST AGAINST 24 HOUR STRIKE BERLIN, July 18. The oiti zm counter strike began at Ste V ttm yesterday as a protest aga?n the strike which paralyzed! PARTS. .Tnlv 18Tina - i 7 ---w. xii S -I- JJJf$- transportation facilities there for ' ed demonstrative strike oi twenty 1 last iew days. four hours set for July 20 will AH stores, including food estab be far from general in France, ac Imients, drug- stores & peoples cording to the latest indication of the Chamber of Commerce and several independent labor organi zations pojsted a protest against the project while a serious tpsis- ity have been pumped j tance is being manifested within 000, making the total sales for tne recleration ot JLabor. the brief auction almost a record. Li. LiL&iA Mchins, have been closed. Phy smaiis refused to treat nat X.' 'v. and water plants have been ',lut tlo'i and the wheels thru- Oiu tile PHILA. BANK CLOSES DOORS 'TJSaastgh sheer exhaus ie Bank State Institution cTos-THnn nTfT-trrrrr of Serbians refugees who have re turned here from Bulgaria. Forty thousand, -of the sixty thousand Serbians who were in terned in Bulgaria in the war have passed through here to their former homes. Ten -thousand o thers have settled in or near Pi rot, clojse to the Bulgarian bor- The' Bank State" Instltulion" clos ed itjs doors today. The jstate banking department at Harrisburg said that the clos ing -of the bank was due to over extension of loans. The bank had been in a crippled condition for some time and when demands were made upon it, it was forced to close its doors. tion or from new tharihel? old homes in Central Serbia have been destroyed- One Red Cross major and an A merican army sergeant brought e nough food into a hundred vil lage, of the Pirot district to feed 150,000 people- JEWELS BRING HIGH PRICES CHILDREN ARE VERY WEAK FROM HUNGER PRAGUE, Czecho - Slovakia, July 16. One-third of the school Vv . WILLiSE HANDED OVER ST THE HAGUE -o COMMITTEE CON SIDERS TREATY PARIS, July 18. The commit tee of the Chamber of Deputies,, or William, according to a Ber PARIS, July 18. The Nordeut sche alii Germaine Zeitung, of Berlin, the mouthpiece of the gov eminent of the imperial regime, declares that information to hand pays that Holland -will consent ! to requisiting the former Emper- which is considering the Treaty ilin dispatch to Paris newspaper o .Peace, took up the report on German colonies. The Echo de Paris said that the return of Togoland and Kam erun to France was only to ap pease the prior rightjs of France from a political viewpoint. The paper asked however that the re cent accord between France and Great Britain was to fix the lim itation and rights of each one of those colonies. DRASTIC STEP OF HUN LEADERS 1; mi rm - ine tormal handing over of the former Emperor, it adds, will take place at the Hague- NEW DESEASE AMONG CHILDREN LONDON, July 18 A wireless despatch from Weimar -states that the National Assembly has adopt- j PRAGUE, July 18.-A new hunger disease is reported among the children of some of the re mote districts of Czechoslovakia. It is a form of 'hunger oedema" and appears to be due nrimarilv - A to-.4li.fti presence M M0-. much wa- er m the body, owing to starva tion. Its presence is reported from several districts by the A merican women workers wlm eel a bill placing maternity un cler the care of the state. Th proposal of independents that a mother of an illegitimate child should officially be designa I have gone out t0 organize work tor the American Red Cross. One of these reports received today, says : " Great care must be taken that the food gets to the children ted as Fran was carried also it f T ine CJnWrei a J .themselves and not to their pa the isame education,! nd - an,;i ! " ems aimnlst liev lllc av,u.wl pdine cuuuanonai ana social -nhi0 i, children in Czechoslovakia are 'opportunity be provided by le-is r the farents are absent from school everv dv nn.lation iii;m 1 fluentI accused of being the wor. absent from school every day on account of hunger, according to Red Cross investigators' report. I o -vru" LONDON, July 18. '-Jewels j Many of the children in the dif are commanding particuarly high prices in auctions here. Today a rope of 315 graduated pearls brought $207,500, and three oth er ornaments an additional $200 Yhp n j-cxcih fscnoois were touncl so weak from lack of nourishment that they could not hold their head's erect. Frequently children had to be carried home because they) 3had not the strength to walk. mate children. - : Z ' V c,liuiren I" itjR-ut 10 looci, and in one town we were told there was no JJsipami fhe text of, the secret treaty 7u Germany and Japan is fun bcl0Wf together lli an Explanatory Note. Full formation as to thi treaty was u toP W a resolution recent- reduced by Senator Lodge 4 ireful rP.ad.r, and the o T 6 16 ireat:' foll explanatory note" that cu worth the while that American- It appear9 0l !Ty 7aS nted her Ext daPan, through Oda raord:nary Representative to G-J0' lt 1S said went secretlv any for the purpose short istiee Tl Slgllin of tlie ai tenoe' J 'Q. lacts as to the exis curefl th 18 Seeret Pact were se Officer011 n America Ar- kheviv ' Wllen the aQti- t LZ7 ejected the Bo1- m the town. lment speaks for itself: (By the (Strictly confidential.) ing party, Germany, the enjoy- Paragraph 1 "Both high con-lment of the rights of most favor tractisg parties bind themiselves, ! ed nations given to her by the as soon as the world political! treaties in China and of certain situation permits, to help the j privileges growing out of the third party, Rusfsia, to obtain ( treaty as yet to be defined in a -1 . - . 1 under tneir direction the settle-' Special treaty and in this connee COTTON MARKET Close July 3535 October 35 33 December 35.30 j January 353 j March 35 08 Local Market NOMINAL (IB) H!(li ment of her internal affairs and the position of a world power. Paragraph 2 "One of the high tion both contracting parties bind themselves not to allow the pass ing of further concessions, in re- contracting parties, Japan, binds' gionjs yet to be definitely defin herself to allow the other high ed, into the hands of foreign Pow contracting party, Germany, the'ers America and England. enjoyment of, the prerogatives Paragraph 4 "One of the high growing out of her treaties with 'contracting parties, Japan, binds the third party, Russia, as far as herself indirectly to proteet the they concern central Asia and interests of the other high con- Persia, and assi'st in the conclu- tracting party, Germany, in the sion of a most favored nation' coming Peace Conference in a treaty with mutual (reciprocal) manner agreeable to that party guarantees between the third Pow in order that he might suffer a& er and the two contracting Pow- little as possible from the. oner-ers- jous terms of peace in respect to Paragraph 3 "One of the high territorial and financial losjses. contracting parties, Japan, binds Paragraph 5 "One of the two herself to allow the other contract high contracting parties binds World News) herself, on the basis of a treaty to be concluded with the third power after her restoration, to se cure f!or the other contracting party, Germany, the conclusion of a treaty tnutual (reciprocal) guarantees, military, political & economic, and to lend her servic es to the other party, Germany, in this direction. Paragraph 6 "In return for this the other high contracting party Germany, binds herself to conclude a secret military con vention on land and sea with the aim of an alliance of mutual (re ciprocal) guarantee and mutual protection against the aggressive intentions of America and Eng land, the details to be worked out immediately after the conclu sion of peace by specially empow ered delegates of both high con tracting parties. Paragraph 7 "The secret trea ty resulting nerefrom will define mother-love left. "Most of the children are suf fering from this strange 'Hunger Oedema' and there is also a tre mendous increase in tuberculosis and other diseases which one rec ognizes instantly as due to malnu trition." the baic lines for foreign policy treaty should be ratified as soon of the three high contracting par as possible, and certificates of rat ties and may m its full extent and ifieation should be prepared in m all its individual paragraphs duplicate in French and German be worked out immediately after the German text being the auth the re-establishing of the third entic on, for a - viuuy Uil VI lilO wntiuiug iJLiy, xiuasia. French text for Japan-" Paragraph 8 "The present Explanatory Note treaty is concluded for a period -The final end of such an al of five years, counting from the liance would be the -complete re moment of the restoration of the moval of f a,: u , third party, with the exception isolation of England from Ameri f of paragraph 4, which goes into Ca, through Canada and India," effect immediately upon receipt and the economic expulsion of A of certificates of ratification. In merica from Siberia, and England case none of the high contracting from Russia on the one" hand and parties announces, six months be the exploitation of China Cen fofe the end of the five years pe- tral Asia and Persia on the other nod, the intention of discontinu- the spheres of influence bein- di mg the action of the treaty, it vided according to the following automatically remains in force boundaries Germany receives frr a further five years period, freedom of action in South China until one or another of the con- Peria and Central Asia, while tracting Powerfs signifies its in- Japan can declare her preten tention of discontinuing it- tionsto northern China, Manchur Paragraph 9 t'The present ia, Korea and western Siberia.
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