HEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
' AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
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Domestic
Additional returns from the election
la Texas increased the majority
against the woman suffrage consti
tutional amendment.
Prohibition seems to have carried
In Texas, though the" tote ia close, and
mar yet shift either way.
The suffragettes in Texas are f ig
tiring on contesting the election . in
Which it appears woman suffrage fail
ed to pass.
Col fcebert Bacon, former ambassa
dor to Prance, died at the Eye and
Ear hospital, in New York, where he
bad undergone an operation.
Members of the Democratic nation
ftl pommlttee closed a two-day session
in Chicago 'by adopting a declaration
Offered by P. H. Qulnn, national com
mitteeman from Rhode Island, review
ing the1 achievements of President
Wilson and the Democratic congress,
and urging the support of all independ
ent and progressive" voters In the 1920
campaign to perpetuate those poll-
cie. L" ' "
Villa forces have proclaimed Gen
eral ' Felipe Angeles provisional pres
ident of Mexico himself and Villa him
self secretary of war. It is report
ed that the Carranza government will
ask the United States for permission
to ' transport troops through Texas,
New Mexico and Arizona, in order to
put down the rebels in northern Mex
ico. This is regarded as reflecting
a aituatlon more serious In Mexico
than any since the triumph of the Car
ranza forces over Villa three years
ago.
Sergeant Alvln C. York, pronounced
by General Pershing as the greatest
hero of the world war, has arrived at
his home in Pall Mall, Tenn., and real
ized what he has declared since he
returned from France was the great
est desire of his heart, the desire of
again eeeing his aged mother.
As a fitting celebration of Memorial
Day, Hog Island at Philadelphia, es
tablished -a world's record for ship
launchings at one yard by sending
overboard five 7,800-ton cargo carriers
In eighty minutes?, . .
i The members of the national execu
tive committee of the Socialist party
are in session in Chicago, and it is an
nounced that 25,000 of the "extremist
wing" of the party have been expelled
by vote of the committee.
Speaking in support of the league
of nations and discussing party issues
before a publfc meeting in St. Louis
attended by Democratic leaders of
Missouri, Homer S.Cummings, chair
man of the Democratic national com
mittee, arraigned Republican leaders
for attempting to make the ratifica
tion of the league a partisan ques
tion, v
Washington ' 4
American army authorities are keep
ing opeq the question of permanent
interment of bodies of American sol
diers who fell fighting in France.
A noticeable upward trend in busi
ness during May, especially in those
lines related to the leading retail
trades which have felt the release of
buying power held back by the war,
Is reported by the federal reserve
board.
The federal reserve board has is
sued a warning against accepting the
present prosperous 4 wave at its full
face value until conditions become
more clarified.
England's bill for transporting a
million American soldiers across the
Atlontfo In "Rritish shins is annrnxi-
j-1 l p -' t"- ----- m m
mately $82,000,000.
Revolutionary outbreaks bulk very
lares in advices received from Mexico
City. Gen. Ernesto Damy, a major,
lour other officers and forty men com
posing a train guard of the Isthmus of
Tehuantepec railroad, were killed re
cently in an attack by rebels under
Felix Diaz' command. General Dam
u.m Krulv xrtLti taken to Mexico flitv
fcjL a " : W
for a public funeral and is report
1 ed to ' have been attended by thou-
sands. . , ; ' ' .
"Although, the navy "department has
placed itseif on record as being op
posed to launching new building pro
gram which would give the United
States a navy "second to none in the
world," it is in favor of rushing to
completion all capital ships already
authorized, and of maintaining tem
porarily at least a force of men capa
ble of handling "any emergency that
iight arise."
The Spring Outfit
' The average Woman will find her
' self fairly well outfitted for spring by
, .purchasing a smart tailored suit and
supplying it with a number of distinc
tive vests ; a light-colored serge or
wool Jersey frock' for street wear, and
. an afternoon dress of figured silk voile
or beaded georgette. Blouse and ac
cessories and the evening dress prob-
iem an easily be adjusted 'once the
foundation of the. wardrobe is well
placed, and the three first named gar
ments really constitute that
IMPORTANT
Wfth depened ., sotem-awy the first
Memorial day after the close' of the
great world conflit was observed in
the national capital, the nation's he-'
roes of earlier wars sharing its trib
ute with those who fellln the strug
gle to maintain the liberties and ideals
for which their forefather fought.
Motor trouble which caused the
NC-4 to be regarded ' as the. name
duck" "of the American trans-Atlantic
flight squadron until sh left Trepas
eey bay, Newfoundland, prevented the
completion of her voyage from Lisbon
to Plymouth. After covering 100 miles
of the last leg of the history making
flight, the big seaplane was forced to
descend at the Mondego river. .
President Wilson has informed of
ficial . Washington that the council of
four at Paris has reached a full, under
standing by which the United States
win retain the 700,000 tons of German
shipping seized in American ports
when this country entered the war.
The continued unsettled state of In
ternational affairs has led the war de
partment to decide definitely to re
submit the army bill which failed to
pass in the last congress. This meas
ure provides for a temporary force
of about five hundred and thirty thou
sands officers and men.
Total subscriptions to the fifth Vic
tory loan have been announced by the
treasury department as $5,249,908,300.
an oversubscription of nearly seven
hundred and fifty millions, It ia es
timated officially that there were in.
the neighborhood of twelve million
subscribers to the loan.
. Withdrawal of the American forces
from Archangel is actually under way,
according to cable advices to the war
department, which stated that all the
members of the 339th Infantry were
awaiting evacuation.
The volcano Kalut (Keloet) is one
of the fourteen active volcanoes on
the island of Java. Kalut is. in east
ern Java south of Surabaya. For
its size Java has more volcanoes nan
any other country in the world.
Kalut's last eruption was on the
23d of May, 190.1, when one hundred
and eighty-one persons were killed. v
Much of the island of Java was laid
waste in August, 1883, when the loss
of life was estimated at thirty-five
The policy of the navy department
for a fleet "second to none in the
world," has been temporarily "abau
doned. Secretary Daniels believes in
showing confidence in the proposed
league of nations.
By unanimous vote the house ways
and means committee has ordered a
favorable report,, on a resolution re
pealing the so-called semi-luxury tax
in the war revenue bill.
European
A sensation has been caused by a
statement published by the Berlin in
dependent newspaper !Freiheit that
Lieutenant Vogel, who was convicted
of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg, the
radical Socialist leader, and who re
cently mysteriously escaped from pris
on, had been released under a , false
order.
. A summary of the skeleton of the
Austrian treaty submitted to the
smaller nations for examination is re
markable chiefly for its omissions and
reservations. Subject heading after
subject heading is followed either by a
non-committal display of blank paper,
resembling a censored French news
paper "discussion" of the controversial
part of the day's diplomatic develop
ments, or by the statement: "This
clause reserved."
"The Americans misunderstood my
point I was not criticising their at
tempt. It is impossible to compare
the two flights. We did not wish
to have battleships supplied by the
government along the route. My re
marks were Intended for those who
were criticising the government for
not supplying them." This is the
substance of what Harry F. Hawker
told the London Evening Globe, re
garding American press comment on
the speech he made at a luncheon, in
London to newspaper men.
The crew of the American seaplane
NC-4 which made the first trans-Atlantic
aerial passage and landed at
Lisbon from the Azores, has been dec
orated with the grand cross of the
Order of the Tower and Sword. The
decoration was presented by the Por
tuguese foreign minister.
The efforts of ex-Oovernor Dunne of
Illinois, Frank P. Walsh and Michael
Ryan, representing various Irish so
cieties in the United States to secure
safe conducts for Edward De Valera,
Arthur Griffith and Count Plunketf to
go. to the peace conference to pre
sent the Irish case ended with a
written communication from United
States Secretary of State Lansing to
Mr. Walsh.
Thousands of discharged British
soldiers and sailors out of employ
ment armed with stones and other
missiles, marched toward the house
of commons. The demonstration fol
lowed a big meeting held during the
afternoon in Hyde park, where .the
discharged soldiers and sailors de
manded work and a minimum wage
scale. Similar demonstrations were
held throughout England during the
28th of May.
' Light Brown, Modish' Color.
All the light brown tones nro in
general use, and beige, biscuit.; putty.
etc., are no longer a mode but an ob
session. One sees good-looking one
piece frocks of ; serge, gabardine, hop
sacking, etc., by the hundreds,, and
two out of every three suits seeta, to
be in these same .colorings. Green Is
also very ., much, .worn and n is (fre
quently Introduced to , giver a re
lieving note in touches of embroidery
pr in trimming arrangements of frocks
or bats.
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1 View of . Ponta Delgada, Azores, whence the American navy plane NO-4 started on the last leg of its
transatlantic" flight from Newfoundland to Lisbon. 2 A few of the hundreds of New York school children who
held a demonstration against the" war tax on soda water and ice cream. 3. The Poilas, second largest concrete
ship in the world Just before it was launched at Long Island City..
HEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVEfJTS
Germans Hand in Their Counter
Proposals for Peace to
Council of Four.
WANT TO RETAIN COLONIES
Make Many Other Demands to Which
Allies Will Not Yield Adriatic Ques
tion Settled, Flume Becoming In
dependent City Western Can
ada Strike Spreads.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
The Germans have handed in their
counter-proposals 108 printed pages
of them with the evident and pre
sumably Justified feeling that they
won't do Germany any particular good.
If the replies of the allies to Brock-dorff-Rantzau's
preliminary notes fur
nish any basis for prediction, It is safe
to say that this bunch of counter-proposals
will in the main be turned down
flat by the council of four.
As was easily foreseen, the Germans
predicate their propositions largely on
the fourteen points and on various
Idealistic utterances of President Wil
son and others, and quotations from
these are used liberally. The Ideas
of territorial self-determination mnd
opportunities for economic develop
ment are played upon strongly, and
the pace terms prepared by the al
lies are declared to be in contradiction
to a Just peace and dominated by the
"might greater than right" principle.
Germany refuses absolutely to cede
Upper Silesia, and declines to give up
the Saar basin, Posen and other terri
tory unless a plebiscite is held. Dan
zig, she says, must be a free port and
must not be In any way controlled by
the Poles, but it Is agreed that the
Vistula river maji be neutralized' as
far as the Polish border. She agrees
to surrender her warships and to dls-.
solve the rest of her navy, but de
mands merchant shipping In exchange,
saying this is necessary to her com
mercial life. She accepts the limita
tion of the army to 100,000 men, but
wants more than that for the present
to maintain order. She oVers to pay
an indemnity of $5,000,000,000 In gold
by 1926 and to make annual payments
thereafter up to a total of $25,000,000,
000, ' but puts In a counter-claim of
about $3,300,000,000 for damages from
the allied blockfltfe.
The Germans refuse to admit that
Germariy is alone to blame for the war
and its damage, and take a slap at
Italy and Roumania, which, they as
sert, entered the conflict for territo
rial conquest. " As for personal respon
sibility, they declare they will not sur
render the former kaiser and others
for trial by the allies, asserting they
can be tried only by Germans or neu
trals. s
Return of Germany's colonies is de
manded, though it is agreed that Ger
many might be willlngg to act as man
datory for them under the league ot
nations, and the right of Germany , to
enter the league at once on an equal
ity with other nations is asserted. All
occupied territories, say the counter
proposals, must be evacuated within
six months. In claiming the return of
the colonies the Germans call atten
tion to the fact that an Impartial set
tlement of all colonial claims ; was
promised in number five of the four
teen points. This reads:
"Free, open-minded, and absolutely
impartial adjustment of all colonial
claims, based upon a strict observance
of the principle that Jn determining all
such questions of sovereignty the in
terests of the population concerned
must have equal weight with the equi
table claims of the government whose
title is to be determined." .,
Since Germany's administration of
her p colonial ' possessions especially
those In Africa; was notoriously op
pressive to the natives. It is ' hard
to see how she. can gain much, by an
appeal to an agreement that the Inter
ests of the people concerned shall be
given full wnt.
Germany! claim for damages due to
th: blockade la based on the alleged
loss of thousands of lives from, hun
ger and malnutrition. But the allied
council is ready for them on this point
with statistics that prove the Infant
mortality In German cities would have
been kept at near normal if the dis
tribution of the country's milk supply
had been efficient, since the milk pro
duction never was below 45 per cent
of the pre-war figures. Mortality in
hospitals, due to lack of, rubber and
cotton, also was cited by the Germans.
To this the allies reply that the im
ports of rubber and cotton were much
In excess of hospital requirements, but
the authorities chose to devote these
supplies to military purposes, and for
this choice the allies cannot be held re
sponsible. These are the outstanding points in
the counter-proposals made by the
Huns. They object, of course, to In
nummerable other clauses In the
treaty, especially the econ'omlc provi
sions, t and offer many substitutions
and modifications. It is not likely that
the council of four will require many
days to digest the document and re
ply to it. Then the Germans will be
required to sign the treaty within a
given time, presumably before June
15. If. unexpectedly, they refuse to
sign, they will be given 72 hours' no
tice of the termination of the arnilstice
and then the blockade will be restored
with all Its former rigidity and the
allied armies of occupation wilK ad-,
vahce farther .Into German territory.
No 'one pretends that the Germans
could offer serious armed resistance to
such a movement. An Indication of
the unyielding spirit of the allies was
given last week when American and
British troops were landed at Danzig
and their warships began to gather
there.
At' home in Germany the counter
proposals seemed to please no one.
The conservative papers denounced
them as too yielding and the radical
press said they did not yield enough.
None had much hope of their suc
cess. .
According to correspondents In Ger
many, the Germans Intend to sign the
treaty, but also intend to evade its
terms in every way possible. This
would mean that the allies would be
compelled to keep under arms a large
force of "collectors." The German
people, as a whole, say these corre
spondents, have adopted the position
that they will pay for the war onlyt
what is forced out of them. They are
more united in spirit than at any time
before for several years, and cannot
be brought to see that they are a de
feated, not a conquering people. In
other words; say these observers. Ger
many has not had enough whipping.
The terms of peace with Austria,
though not wholly completed, were
handed to the Austrian delegates. All
the territorial questlons were Included,
but certain economic ' arrangements
and the matter of reparation were left
for further consideration. It was
known, however, that Austria would
be required to pay about 2,500,000,000
kroner indemnity, and that the pay
ment of a like sum would be apportion-,
ed among Hungary. Czecho-Slavakia,
.Tugo-Slavla, Roumania, Poland and
Italy. The cbuntries that formerly
formed parts of the Austro-Hunga-rian
empire have agreed to share in
the payment of Indemnity, not as en
emies of the allies, but In recognition
of their liberation. They also will re
deem proportionately their share of
the Austrian paper currency in circu
lation within their boundaries. Itily
Is' Included because of her acquisition
of the Trentlno, Trieste and other ter
ritory that was Austrian.' -
It was announced in Parts that the
Adriatic muddle had been cleared up
at last., Flume is to be an independ
ent city and Italy Is to get Sebenico
and Zara, together with soverignty
over certain strategic Islands.
News from TtussW Is frequently dV
layed ;and often ' confusing, but the
latest advfees from that wretched
country show that Admiral Kolchak
Is unremittingly driving the bolshevik
forces Inward. Some days to he Was
attacking renbu?g.a
way Junction and a bolshevik strong
hold In southeastern Russia, bls
patches from Omsk told of a revolt
against the ovlet rule In the Ukraine.
Trotsky's forces thus being attacked
f roa the rear. The Esthonlans con
NWHIMUitMMUmaulMUi
tinued their advance on Petrograd
while declaring they meant to occupj
that city only to relieve its suffering
inhabitants, and If recent reports from
there are reliable the relief Is sadly
needed, for the people are said to be
starving to death by the thousands.
New units of the British volunteer
army arrived at Archangel and the
transports that took them were ex
pected to, bring away the American
troops that have been serving there
and whose' return has been so loudlj
demanded. According to Maxim Gorky
who was Interviewed by Frazier Hunt,
the outside world cannot aid Russia;
bolshevism must run Its course, bring
lug gradual starvation and paralysis oj
Industries; a great revolt will follow,
with a reign of terror, and then there
will be a constituent assembly in which
the peasants will assert their power
and form a democracy.
The Budapest communists claimed
to have defeated the forcer, of - the
"enemy" that were advancing on the
city, and assert that one Roumanian
regiment was almost wiped out. Bela
Kun, however, Is not satisfying Lenine,
who announces that Moscow, not
Budapest, is the revolutionary center
of the world and Its orders must be
obeyed, and that the Hungarian revo
lution is not proceeding well.
In the United States senate the bat
tle over the league of nations is pro
ceeding merrily, and on Wednesday
the Democratic national committee
took a hand. It unanimously adopt
ed resolutions demanding that the
league covenant be ratified by the sen
ate, which Is controlled by the Repub
licans, and then its members indicated
that the rejection of the covenant
would not be unwelcome to them, be
cause It would force the political is
sue.
Reed of Missouri delivered In the
seriate a fierce denunciation of the
league. In the course of which he said
the covenant meant the domination of
the white races by the black, yellow
and brown races, his appeal being
chiefly to the southern and far west
ern senators. Senator Robinson of Ar
kansas, also a Democrat, replied to
Reed and challenged him to Jnln him
In resigning and seeking re-election
as a test of the sentiment of theii
states on the league question.
Secretary Daniels, appearing be
fore the house committee on naval-affairs,
formally withdrew his recom
mendation for a second three-year
program of .battleship building which,
as he formerly said, was designed to
make the American navy the biggest In
the world. Last winter he told the con
gressmen that even with a league of
nations the United States should have
a navy as' largo as Great Britain's.
Now he says we must show our confi
dence in the efficacy of the league by
at least postponing any plans for such
a naval increase. r
The great general strikei which has
tied up and almost Isolated Winnipeg
has not yet been . brought to an end,
and, despite the efforts of the govern
ment representatives. Is spreading to
other cities of western Canada. The
authorities declare the agitators are
trying to overthrow the dominion and
provincial governments and to estab
lish bolshevism. This the strike lead
ers deny, but their course lends credi
bility to the accusation. Ostensibly
the strike Is to enforce the workers
demand for the right of collective bar
gaining, but the plan to form the -one
big union." fostered by the I. W. W
is apparently at the bottom of the trou
ble. : '',.-
Lieutenant Commander Read and
his crew of the American navy plane
NC-4 completed ; their great achieve
ment of crossing the Atlantic by 'air
plane by flying from the Azores to Lis
bon, Portugal. The last leg of the epoch-making
flight was without special
Incident. The bold aviators were re
ceived In Lisbon with plaudits and giv
en decomtIoiiti.C; V-viy - '
Hawker andv Grieve, gven " up for
dead,; were picked up In mid-Atlantic
by , a smnll. steamer whlcjti took them
to Great 'Britain. There Jtheytwere
welcomed, as the heroes they undoubt
edly are. though their attempt failed.
irgrcuuuie max uawker should
snow mmseir to be a poor sport
belittling and sneering at the feat
the Americana, -
by
of
flSe
ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT MUR.pi
AT WHOLESALE ,s mad,
A NUMBER OF CITIES,
INSTIGATORS CHIEF
Death Toll of Two or Three AD
; to Have Been Confined to Rank
of Bomb-Planters Themselves '
Washington. Another
attempt
reign of terror, directed chiefly
nublie nfftafola
? against
. ttuu nave Deen
active
r , ab launched bv
American radicals shortly before J
night.
A bomb explosion which damage
the residence of Attorney General A
Mitchell Palmer in the fashionable
northwest section of Washington, but
which apparently resulted only in th
death of the bomb planter ,was follow
ed at Intervals by similar explosions
in seven other cities in a belt extend
ing from Cleveland to Boston.
Besides Washington, Cleveland ani
Boston, cities in which bomb outrages
occurred, were Pittsburgh, Paterson
N. J., West Philadelphia, New York
and Newtonville, Mass. West Phila
delphia and Pittsburgh were subjected
to two sparate explosions.
Bombs intended by anarchists for
men who had directed the force of
law against them, pronounced sen
tence against radicals or introduced
legislation intended to check their
machinations, failed in every case to
claim their victims. In several cases,
however, families of public officials
and the, public officials themselves ex
perienced narrow escapes. The death
toll of two taken in the Washington
and the New York explosions recoiled
upon instigators of the reign of terror
ism, according to first conclusions
reached by the police. In some in
stances innocent pedestrians were
injured more or less seriously.
NO ARROGANCE IS SHOWN
BY AUSTRIAN DELEGATION
St. Germain. The representatives
of the vanquished Austrian nation met
the victors at today's ceremony to
the fifteenth century castle of St.
Germain to appeal for grace and just
and kindly treatment. No trace of
the arrogant spirit with which Count
von Brockdorff-Rantzau, head of the
German peace delegation, attempted
at ersailles to arraign the allied pow
ers as jointly responsible for the war
and demanded participation in the
negotiations on equal terms, marked
the speech of Dr. Karl Renner, the
Austrian chancellor, who replied to
Georges Clemenceau, the president of
the conference.
Th Austrian plenipotentiary did, not
seek to extenuate the guilt of the
former Austro-Hungarian government
for "the horrible crime of 1914."
He asked only that the full weight
of the punishment should not fall
solely on the little mountain republic
which was all that was left, of the
once mighty Austria, but that it be
regarded as only one of eight new re
publics into which the old monarch?
has been divided and that it be ap
nortloned - no more of the penalty
than it could bear.
SEAPLANE NC-4 WILL NOT
ATTEMPT A RETURN FLIGHT
Washington. The American naval
seaplane NKM-which arrived at Ply
mouth, England, thereby complete?
the first trans-Atlantic flight, will not
ftttfttrmt. a Tmn-fitnn or anv other kind
of a flight back to the United States,
will he dissembled and shipped to this
country.
The secretary said the navy con
tMmrt&ted no . attemnt at a non-stop
trans-ocean flight in the near future,
as the navy did not desire to raw -spectacular
showing, was not in an-
honors and did not favor "atom
flying.
WILSON IS APPEALED TO BY
IRISH-AMERICAN DELEGATE
Paris.In view of the failure of
efforts to have the Sinn Fein delega .
appear oefore the peace conferen
Walsh, Ryan and Dunn have aao
PrMH(nt Wilson DeR
finff permission for themselves to P
sent the.-resolutions adopted oy
Philadelphia convention. It is a
gone conclusion that after a
change of letters with Wilson tnai
Brtiish American delegation's iai
. X A
request -will meet the same
RATE INCREASES ARE UPHELT
Washington.- Increased .ra,1f0
telephone and telegraph rates ora
by the railroad administration an
theYiotmaster general, respeci
were;autalned ly : the supreme
which hel4 that the war
power
. ' ua nre
ide
rerred by congresa upon r- 9
racludod weeping control jr
railroad -and wire systems JJ1'" p
preae and conclusive" authority
tetrsstaU rated.