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J- - North and South r-,ro'ina: Ta.r, con: t'nued cold tonight?: W' e cf -n es d a y ' fair. v.- .er. Jm XXIII, NO. 364. MtiS' fa'uii 1 lerica and 1 ?q r- to M ill fe P p lj RFlMTEtY. OUTLINED alemeM.-oi FOURTEEN .ELEIPTS I ' resident Wilson Elaborates Peace Con ditions Heretofore Set Forth by Him self and Premier Lloyd-George . Suc: a iirii, the P residit Declared, RemovMvPjypc- tions For All Wars Washington, Jam. 8.: President Wilson today addressing Congress delivered a restatement of war aims in agreement with the recent declaration by the Britissh premier, David Lloyd-George. The President presented definite program for world peace containing fourteen specific considerations. The President presented the ments of world peace: 1 Open covenants of peace vyi thou t private interna tional understandings 2 Absolute freedom of as they may be closed by international action. 3 Removal of all economic equality of trade conditions, sace and associating themselves 4 Guarantees for the reduction of national armaments '" the lowest point consistent with domestic safety. 5 Impartal adjustment of; ae principle that the peoples with the interest of the government. 6 -Evacuaion of all Russian territory and opportunity for Russia's political development. 7 Evacuaton of Belgium her sovereignty. 8 All French territory to aration for the taking of Alsace-Lorraine. 9 Re-adjustment of Italy's frontiers and on clearly rec ognizable lines of nationality. 10 Freest opportunity for the peoples of Austro-Hungary. U Evacuation of Roumania, Serbia and Montenegra, with access to the sea for Serbia and international guarntees of economic and political iridependance and territory integrity cf the Balkan states. . ".. . : ' 2. Secure sovereignty for Turkey's portion of the Ot toman empire but with other nationalities under Turkish rule assured security of life and opportunity for autonomous de velopment, with the Dardanelles permanently opened jto all nations. j - . . . 13 Establishment of an independent Polish state, in eluding territories inhabited indisputably by Polish popula tions with free access to the sea independence and . territorial integrity guaranteed by interna ional covenant. ': - " ' " ' 'y. '--v v ' 1 4 General association of nations under specific cove nants fcr mutual guarantees of political independence and tef rtorial integrity to large and small states alike. , , r : "For such arrangements and covenants," said the Presi Q?nt in conclusion, "we '-are willing to fight and continue to '" t until they are achieved ; but only because we wish the 'c prevail and desire a iust and stable peace." "ach a program, he said, removed chief provocations for War. "he moral climax of this, (Continued on 1 , .... " - -. - ... in tit ica ci?r wrap cT?tnrv - "r '.-:-::.-".;- ; ..- -"o:- - : - ears a Her Allies following as neccessary ele the seas in peace or war except barriers and establishment of among nations consenting to for its mantenance. all colonial claims based upon concerned have equal weight without any attempt to limit be freed and restored and rep autonomous development of and political and economic the culminating and filial war Demands of Page Seven,):. Wilmington; north . carouna, : Tuesday-: afternoon. CONGESTED FREIGHT Scene of congestion in the freight yards . about New York City. Hun-dreds of cars are stalled, sidetriicke a.nd many of them have perish-ables stored "Izfethem. ' - ; -1. Big Railway heads with Director eGneral "McAdoo when he takes control of great systems. Left to right: Julius Kruttschnitt, President, of the Southern Pacific Railroad; Howard Elliott, President of the New York, New Haven andHartford Railroad; ..William G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury and Director General of the Kattroads ; John Barton ; Payne, General Coun-sel of the Emergency Fleet Corpora tion, Samuel Rae. President of the Pennsylvania ' Railroad ; and1 Hale Holden, President of th.e Chicago, Bur lington and Quincy Railroaa. ! ; i ' i 1 i LAWIK'OF SGU1 General Assembly Opens What Promises to Be An Important Session Columbia, S. C, Jan. 8. The South Carolina General Assembly be gan today'Svfeat was expected to be one of thei.moft important, sessions in its history To help win the war la declared by members to be the special object of the Assembly and! It is expected - uamerous measures bearing on ferula Carolina's parti- oipation wiH be considered eariy in the session 1 Efforts will be made" during the session to pass a "bone dry" law as a substitute for the present law which permits an individual to. re .ceiVe not more than one quart of liquor . a month, it Is 3aid, and It also iB expected that ratification of the Federal prohibition amendment will be considered. One of the first steps toward "war" legislation, will be . consider ed of a bill provided by, the State Council of Defense, ' incorporating the council,, providing for investiga tions in emergencies and , appropriat ing $50,000 i to . meet expenses. Other matters inalude erual suffrage, re visidn -of the .election laws, conser yatiQj). legislation, appropriations widialaries of State officers. iiv'nile Governor Manning and members of both Houses of the Assembly have urged a short ses sion because of the fuel shortage, it is believed the entire .40 days al lowed by lawwill be required to car ry out the full program. NEW YORK MAY STOP ALL NON-ESSENTIALS New York, Jan.. 8. Fuel -Administra tors' todays gave their ;erfps'.;eohsiif- steady increase" in' they'city'ipply:' coal. J:-- -- . The menace of floating jice in the harbor continues to imped delivery. During . the last four days. 24 oarge? laden .with coal have been sunk 'by ice. " .. . .t SPANISH PARLIAMENT , TO BE HELD LONGER Z Madrid, Monday, Jan. 7 Marquis Alhucemas, the Spanish Premier, Ce clared today that tho government haa decided to conaider the decree fiissoxv ing the ' Cortes. : as not having. Deen signed. The ministry, he said, pro poseo to submit a new decree to the KJn, thu3 giving Mm opportunity vi studying tlip situation urresh broro sijniinff. ; ' ' v - King Alfonso 'signed a decree dls scivlng Parliament Thursday and it was announced elections '-would te held on February 17. Dissolution oi Parliament was decided upon by the cabinet early in December. J' : eration to the . possibility - dr . shutting J down all .non-esSehtlill .fngri63'; ifll ? : FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE .GARS AN3 THE MEN VKO - WMOVE THEM' I CHAMBEU IS -4 J ury Finds the Aged Defend ant Guilty, of Killing His Brother Coochland, VaM Jan. 8. Dr. Asa W. Chamberlain, " an aged physician, charged with the . murder of his brother, Albert P. Chamberlain, a former lawyer of Des Moines, Iowa was "found guilty at 10:15 o'clock this morning and given a life sen tence. Counsel for the defendant asked that ,the verdict be set aside cn the ground of being contrary to law and evidence and misdirection "of the court. The jury was out 48 min utes this morning. The case went to the jury late last night KENTUCKY HAS HOT PROHIBITION FIGHT Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 8. Faced with necessity of making a decision which probably will decide for many years i the State's future course toward pro hibition, the Kentucky General Assem-j bly convened in. biennial session here today. All the members of the House and one half the membership of the Sen ate were elected upon a pledge to su mit to the State a prohibition amend ment to the State constitution. Until the passage by - Congress o" the prohibition amendment resolution, the "course . the General Assembly would take . was considered a fore gone . conclusion. With the.. passage of that resolution, however, It seema probable a fight on the prohibition u sue may come. One element in the Assembly would submit a Statewide amendment to the voters, postponing action on the -Federal .amendment; whi another eiv - ment will attempt to secure a decision . potn - questions, me opinion s lield. that the first course will .NGXt .,to .. prohibition probably the mbst;? iniportant question , expected to come' before the .general assembly . is a proposal for the adoption of a budget system in dealing with the State's ai fairs. ' LUDWIG DOESN'T LIKE LLOYDTGEORGE'S TERMS Amsterdam," Jan, - 8. King: Ludwjg of Bavaria, is quoted In a -Munich. Gis patch as having said yesterday at a reception on hi3 .birthday that the terms ofxermany's enemies were 03: brbitant' 4 "Not an. inch of German: territory will be given up," he declared. "We must try to safeguard our frontiers," Asserting that the Bavarians, ICre tho other v Qennans, -were - victorious everywhere, ;the king addea: , , '"May-w succeed also in de.featinsr our latest enemies, tho 'Americans. 1 ' -t -, - - January s. i 919" f RUM'S ATTITUDE IS WffiWt No Report oF Reception of Lloyd-George s War Aims "Speech London, Jan.. 8. rThere is no indica tion thus far of the manner m whlcn Premier Lloyd-George's definition of war aims has been received in Rus sia, or evea whether his speech ha been published there. The Bolshevikl press of PetrOgrad continues to attack Great Britain and her allies. Pravda and the Izvestia published on Sunday, an article based upon some -words xof Lloyd-George apparently one of his speeches in the House of Commons, ac cusing him of desiring to have tae Russians make peace with the Cen tral Powers so as to give the AlUbfte a free hand to negotiate to their own advantage. Other Allied leaders havw expressed themfeelves similarly, vtne article says. It continues r "The Allies are preparing their puo lics for peace and think that if Russia were forced to come to terms with the onemy, she, and not the Allies, would bear the cost of peace. The greater sacrifices Russia intakes the less the Allies will have to pay. They eouru reach the- same result by Joining .in the peace negdtiations but in that case it would be apparent that they had be trayed Poland, Lithuiana, Courland ana Rumania, using Russia as ' small change to pay these debts. Forcing .Russia, to make peace and allowmg Germany to subjugate the Poles; etc.,; they can blame Russia and clear tnem selves in the eyes of their peoples. The plan of the allied impe rialists to prepare peace with the Ger man imperialisms at the expense 01 Poland, etc., can be thwartea only ny the peoples in a struggle with men; own governments." ' T M. Farbrnan, former London corres pondent of the Petrograd Brouse Gaz ette, writes for the London Press, that the Premier's statement of war arms has widened and; deepened - the gun between the West and revolutionary Russia, instead of bridging It. Th3 Prmeier's reference to Russia, says on. Farbrnan, will be interpreted there as giving Germany a free hand to deai with Russia as she desires. The wrrc- er accuses the Premier of throwms over Russia In childish petulance ana vindictivenoss because the Bolshevik! have been guilty of a breach of diplo matic decorum.. . - DORTCH AND WEBB FAVORABLY REPORTED Washington, D. &.. Janv 7. The Senate Judiciary committee, of which Senator Overman is chairman, reported favorably.; to , the Senate late yesterday afternoon the nominations of Charles A. Webb, of .-saeville, to be United States Marshal f. for;; the Western district for, another, four years,-'and of? William TV Dortch.of Raleigh, to be. .Marshal Jn the East ern district for another four years.' Senator Overman said the nomina tions wiU be v cpnflrmed . at . the next executive session of the Senate. . t V' :(?. '.-' T. - ' ' ' - km GERM A MOST SERIOUS NATIONAL GRISI An Almost Unbrdgable Ghasm Between Militarists I and Non-Mflitarists AWAIT REPLY FROM . OSNTRAL POWERS i is ' Generally Believed that . - - , - - . "Lloyd-Georges Speech" Will ' Bring an'AnSwer in Some Form London, Jan. 8. A reply from the Central Powers to the statement of British war-aims made by Premier Lloyd-George Saturday -1 is awaited herd with : the greatest interests .It is believed they cannot decline -to re ply; in 'some form and to make the reply more straight forward and def inite than any previous statement of their aims. ' ' .. '., But if "the , German papers correct' ly mirror the situation; there the test which' the Bolsheviki have made of Germany's; attitude ' toward. . the principle of no annexations has thrown , Germany into political" tur moil. Advices from the capitals , of neutral countries, bordering , on Ger many ehowf that" the opinion pre'-. vaillngj. thee Js. that :one of, the moat severe or iierrnsniis aejelonEgr.asv are- sult of .-the .difference in views be tween ; the militarist and. the; militarist' leaders' regarding the gqv ernment's attitude toward Russia, tt' is reported generally that Gen eral r von Ludenorff, as leader ofVthei former . .group,, actually .has gonel so, far as to threaten the reglsnation of himself and Field. Marshal von Hindenburg if further countenance is. given even to such views as those Advanced by men of the type of Dr. Kuehlnmnn and Count Czernin, the German and Austrian foreign minis ters." At the same time the view of von Kuehlmann and Czernin fail to sat isfy the German Socialists who re gard their middle of thp road policy ae trickery and who also are determ ined that the spirit o the Reich stag resolution must le followed sin cerely and without qualification or resesve. Neutral observers declare that the gap between the German parties sud denly has become .that there i& little Jng it, and that the development of an internal crisis of serious propor tions seems inevitable On the Qther nana, it is pointed out that the various parties , in En tente countyies. never appeared so completely united as in their support of the war aims formulated by Pre mier Lloyd-George. GREAT SNOW BANKS ON CHICAGO STREETS Chicago, Jan. 8. Snow banks that a man can't see over lay on the down town streets today S6. hours after the record-breaking blizzard . which swept the Middle West last Sunday had ceas ed. The task of removing the big snow drifts, is so great that 2,500 men .nd nearly 1,000 teams have made little progress, although the work, was con tinued through , the night. . Many trains arrived beliind time today but railroad officials said conditions were improved and that practically normal schedules both in passenger and freight service would be resumed to mcrrow unless a further heavy snow fall Interferes. ' ,.' The Weather Bureau, however, fore casts ' for - snow tonight or tomorro w for Illinois, Michigan and parts of Wis consin and Iowa the territory most seriously affected by the storm. H" SENT TO WHOLE WORUD. . ,- .y . New York, Jan, ' 8. Distribu- tion to- all parts of tho world of President Wilson's address . to Congress today by. cable and wire-4 .less has , been arranged lor . by -. the Committee on . Public Intor- 6 mation'. The sendnig was to be- gin at the press censor's office A Vo-ro a a ermn oa TtrnrA man toa4v- fc Mm. 'nr. A i.V . '9. ' v ea uruiu wa.aum51.uu ;, i,usn : uic,v President had begun to- speak. V May the; New ;tiYear, Brins-i V"-; Us'Victbry, PRICE FIVE CENTS CI 4. .11 n u ui SUMlR mm Expected German Offensive Will Possibly Be Their I ; M 0111 rnlnu BIER Greatest Assaiiltl :''.;;iv BELIEVES THE ALLIED FORCES Will-HOLD The Secretary Says' the Period Of. Adjustment Has Passed Jr and Allies Will Mastefi the Situation . Jt , Washington, Jan. 8. The I ed German offensive in the expect $ it eat) ) secretary miter s weefciy -war re- -'.1 . thftir irr&iLtG&t Assault. Hnt , "tlii British and French armies .caif; be . relied upon to withstand the shock. 1 Summarizing the situation on, the j " eve of a possible great offensive, Seer ! -retary Baker confidently points.:, out i, that through 16 fierce battles of ). great magnitude, , the British i f aadl French steadily have pushed ahead ' with methodical : and : cumulative' : gains. : The expected, offensiveihe-;'! points , out, probably is bcingdelay-; edX for massing great- supplies of l mution, guns and. troops and the 'y Germans may be expeftedVto BtriLla- every ; fibre of their , remaining:';,: - tn, the-Italiajr front jlhe-Secret t,3 points ; out, -Ffeheh ' successes -L-hatt 2 turned theicale against the Austro ; t German invaders and the west "barxfe pered by heavy snow falls in the Alns he siavs tho Invadnr nnxir 4a " confronted with a tremendous handi- 'I cap of maintaining his transport !s which neutralizes the ' advantage of r folding higher ground. -- -CU Tne period o: adjustment;! Secre-' i tji- Ra-4f.4 '1;' may now be expected, tjhat vthe i side by side, will be ablej to masteS ' the situation." " . .-' ' ;i The review makes no menUori cfi American troops. ,: - S 1 U tWV-UUKAUE. :':UaWl OFmWFISHFOOCJf Washington, Jan. 8.rAn : appropitr,' , tion of $80,000 has been . turfted ovc j to the Bureau of Fisheries by P3nKTJ a chasm so widejident Wilson from his eraerseneyv j e hope of bridg-1 fense fund for promoting: the 'Us ' ; new fish fcs. Thei apropriatiea was recommended by Secretary ',.Be, field and Food Administrator HooTEr. Secretary : Redfleld said v today .tht approximately z&.ooo tons 01 :n&r fish foods already had been sold 1 3 a result of propaganda by the . Co- ; partment of commerce, costing ieisas : than $15,000. - ' -"j . y;:' .-; FAILED TO SPEED UP SHIP CONSTRJLKONi Washington, Jan. 8.Altaougli itha-j purpose' of the government in com-; mandeering ship construction was tO expedite the work it actually nas' fail i ed to speed it up at: all,:; Homer; I.; Ferguson, "" president ; of the . Newport j News Shipbuilding Company - test- j fled , today at the;; SenateCominerct f ; x. v;: f l Z.. RUSSIAN DELEGATES IS? : AT BREST-LTrOVSni London, Jan: 8;-The 'Russian peace t delegation, including Foreign- Minister-: Trotzky, reached BresMJtovsk , . oa , Monday for the re-opening cdf negotla-" tions that ' afternoon, : according to a Berlin: dispatch received In Copenhag en and forwarded by the Exchange Telegraph Company; , -' ! " - S i; ' - Amsterdam, Jan t Sr-CountAdarti Tarnowsky von Tarnowi ; according tb ' a dispatch to The Berjin Tagoblatt, has been appointed an Austrian dele gate to tho peace coafertnee at Brest Litbvsk. The Count -was named an bassador to the - XTnlted ' tSates " iastj spring; but' was never officially receir-, ed by the American government: 4 '' Mns,. John, A-Logan, the-80-year-old widow ef the CivirWar. General, Is de voting all her .time to war relief work. v The . Ernnress of Japan Is an actir e leader In ' all - movements " undertaken hf the women of Japan for the. relic! of war sufferers. 1 l. 1 i t t