Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 47, 4 January 1919 — Page 1

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FORMATION OF REPUBLIC OF POLAND ONE OF PROBLEMS

Question of Aid to be Rendered Poles at Peace Confer

ence Presents Difficulties to

Allies. 1 .

SEA OUTLET IMPORTANT

By FRANK H. SIMONDS. (Cop; right. 1919. by The McClure , Newspaper Syndicate.)

. Two weeks ago in my article I dis-

cusned the transformation of southeastern Europo and the rise of" three states, Roumania, Jugo-Slavia and Czecbo-Slovskia, with the corresponding construction of Hungary to the territories which are actually inhabited by Magyars. .In the present I shall try to review the Polish question as it must come before the Versailles Conference where is must prove ono of the most intricate and important that will have to be settled. At the very outset it is well to recoenlze the international importance of a Polish state. We have seen the International importance of a Polish ptate. We have seen that the erection of strong Latin and Slav states in southeastern Europe promises a substantial and enduring barrier against a now German effort to restore the Mittleeuropa of other days and crossing the straits to lay bands, first upon Asia Minor. Syria and Mesopotamia, and later upon Egypt and India. Two Slav states with LaMn Rumania, each of th three nearly as large in area as Italy, and in the main homogeneous together with a friendly and enlarged Greece on either sido of the Aegean would constitute a bulwark capable of holding up the German

flood. Moreover bound to the western powers by sympathy, thsir numbers, would make a new alliance against Germany which would prove irresistible. nut there were two German perils, dimly perceived at first, but ultimately fully grasped, the peril inherent in the German design to reach the Golden Horn and the Persian Gulf, and the German menace expressed In the treaty of Brest Utovsk, which reduced Russia to anarchy, tore from the r. . 1 1 - .1

oiav rare an me uuruer rvuvrs iuui,. ttte, ,

strove to erect each of these border I

Allied Commission Finds 170 Submarines Under Construction in Germany (By Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 4. One hundred and seventy submarines, all under construction, were found when the InterAllied naval commission visited Germany to make arrangements for the carrying out of the terms of the armistice, according to newspapers here. These U-boats, it is said, will be turned over to the allies.

DESIGNATE THREE COMBAT DIVISIONS FOR EARLY RETURN 30th, 37th and 9 1 st Are Coming Home, General March Announces.

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Jan. 4. Three combat divisions, the 30th, 37th and 91st, have been designated by General Pershing for early return home from France, General March announced today. The 30th , includes national guard troops from Tennessee. North Carolina, and South Carolina; the 37th

Ohio and West Virginia guardsmen

and the 91st Washington, Oregon, and

California, Idaho, Nevada, Montana

Wyoming, Utah and Alaska troops.

These three entire divisions andtht. second corps headquarters which op

erated with the British army in Flan

ders under Major-General George W.

Reed, have been added to the priority

list and will be returned home as ship

ping becomes available. The three

divisions and the headquarters com

prise about 83 men.

292,000 to Return. Units abroad assigned to early con

voy In addition to those already em

barked now total 292,000. Troops in

the United States and abroad designat

ed for demobilization, General March

said, total 1,379.

Demobilization of the army at home

has now reached the last class, the combat divisions. Orders for the

breaking up of these units already

have been sent out and the task will

proceed- gradually, under week to

week designations of the number to

be let out.

The progress of demobilization Is

being maintained, official reports

snow an incomplete total giving 630.

369 men and 40.491 officers discharged

up to January 3

.The army reorganization bill to be presented to congress early next week

will contain provision giving authority

MEN ON WHOM UNITED STATES DEPENDS IN SESSION IN PARIS

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Left to right: Col. E. M. House, Secretary of State Robert Lansing, President Wilson, Henry White and Gen. Tasker H. Bliss. America's delegation to the peace conference Js in daily session In Paris a rranging definite policies regarding every problem which may come before the confrence when it convenes later In the month. When President Wilson is u nable to attend the sessions because of his absence from the city the other members meet and dispose of a multitude of minor deatails. This photo is a fl ashlight one taken in the Hotel Crillon In Paris, where the U S delegates with the exception of Wilson, are staying. me u. s. aeiegates

peoples into a stAte, presumptively

independent, but actually dependent

porary officers who'uiade good In the

var, General March said. There are

upon Germany alike for political and nn lai,an,aa . tia ,:

7 lu V M' "'u". regular army, it was said, every com and. the Lkrsine, these were the three marul grade beln fled Htates which were to be as subserv- n.ia u.,uu i

lent to Germany as the old Confederation of the Rhine was to Napoleon, and through them Germany wa3 to be enabled to enter Russio when she chose. Barrier for Russia. It is therefore essential to erect between fallen and anarchistic Russia and Germany a barrier behind which Russia can regain her healt hwlthout German molestation. If the millions

Officers who have indicated their desire to maintain their connection with the permanent forces are being

neia m camps and not discharged as their turn is reached. General Pershing has been instructed to use in the army of occupation officers in similar status abroad. In reply to an Inquiry regarding persistent reports that batteries B and

D. 150th field artillery, 42nd divis

of Russians ever come under complete j ions, had been practically wiped out German control a new outbreak of jin action. General March said, Major German world ambition will infallibly j General Charles T. Menoher, former

bring on another struggle and with

Rusian millions. Germany will make

commander of the 42nd, who is now in

Washington, had stated specifically

a new Did for world power like that; that such reports were unfounded.

inn recent years, wnen sne nad at her command the millions of Slavs

and Latins, as well as the Germans of the Hapsburg dominions.. A permanent peaceful organization of Eu

rope demands a barrier alone tv

These units, he said, have not suf

fered any unusually heavy losses. General March requested that attention be called to the fact that the war risk insurance bureau is an ad

junct of the treasury department and

Vistula as well as on the Danube andiaoes not come under the war depart-

in the Transylvania highlands. i ment. lie said his personal mail was For such a barrier the solid block I flooded with inquiry regarding insurof Polish people inhabiting the Vistula ance-

vaiiey. supplies the racial and the his

torical material There was a Polish !

nation for centuries, it was only abolished in the latter half of the eigh

teenth century and it survived in the shape of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw until the Congress of Vienna.. Today there are at least 20.000,000 Poles in regions once a portion of a Polish VinvAm nnl , 1 n l i

aim i urpn- ifupur nave pre

served a vivid memory of their old glory and possess a keen and compelling desire to become ritizens of a new Poland. Concessions Made. At the outset of the present -war both the Central Powers and Russia recognized the necessity of making temporary concessions to the Poles, but both made them with no honest Intent to fulfill them After Russians defeat Germany did organize a Polish state out of the Russian districts belonging to the old kingdom of Poland, but she never for a moment considered ceding to this state her own Polish districts. Instead, she looked forward lo a future acquisition of more Polish territory at the expense of the Poland

Fhe had permitted a provisional independence. Nor did Austria consent to surrender her Poles, but urged the alternative proposition that Russian Poland be Joined, to Austrian Galicia to make a Polish state which should be sn Integral portion of the Ilapsburg monarchy, with, something like the Mtea of Hungary. With the collapse of Russia and the defeat of the Central Powers the Polihh problem passed to the western rations for settlement. It is now for the Versailles Conference to draw the

iruMurrs or me new nation, since Germany and Russia cannot longer resist the cession to the new state of their own Polish repions, while Aus-j-i.-i has censed to exist. RecognJz"Ins: that it Is essential for the future safety of Kurope that there should be a strong Poland, we can now consider the elements In the problem. Tbore are many Polands. and the Urat aton miiat ha tn evamln tham t

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tfV light of present conditions. The irfeatest of Ml Polands is the state which extended from the Dwlna to the Oder and from the Baltic to the (Continued on Page Twelve.)

AMERICAN FLEET TO LEAVE NEW YORK

By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 4 The great American armada which has been anchored in the Hudson here since the arrival of the overseas fleet on December 26, will be entirely dispersed within a few days, naval officials announced today. The dreadnaughts

Florida, Wyoming and New York left J

tneir Dertns yesterday ana proceeded to the New York navy yard for repairs. All of the other seventeen battleships

are under orders to proceed to their!

home yards for repairs, it is said.

Sixty More German Planes Accepted by Americans (By Associated Press) COBLENZ, Jan. 4. Sixty more German airplanes were accepted today by the Americans. One hundred more, which will be turned over to the Americans, have arrived here and are being given trial flights by German aviators preparatory to their acceptance. So far all the machines offered have been accepted. All were brand new.

REDUCTION OF LIGHT RATES SHOULD BE POSSIBLE HERE

Lighting rates in Richmond should be reduced instead of raised and - a general readjustment made in all rates. The Municipal Light Plant is worth nearer $1,000,000 than the present

book value of $600,000. The plant will earn $80,000 in 191 after all expenses are paid. That the plant must be rehabilitated at once or the city will find itself without light and power. These are conclusions arrived at last night at a joint session of the city council, members of the Board of

the Commercial Club committee together with Harry Boggs, chief accountant, of the Indiana Public Service Commission. '

uuuee ana -me accounting.-, engineers of the commission have been wrestling with the problems which are confronting the Municipal Light Plant. The Municipal Light Plant is making money but it must be re-equipped at once or the city will fmd itself without power and light. At the present time the city has but one generating machine of sufficient size to take care of the demand for light and power and should anything happen to this machine the plant would have to

be shut down. At the conclusion of the meeting

last night. Mayor Zimmerman stated

that the city would immediately appropriate the necessary funds to rebuildthe plant and put it in first class condition, he said that the plant was

EIGHT BELOW IN CHICAGO

CHICAGO, Jan 4. The thermometer registered 8 degrees below zero at 7 o'clock this morning, but the weather forecast for tonight is "much warmer."

The Weather

t-or Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Overcast weather. Probably light local snows tonight and Sunday. Not so cold tonight.

Noon

Maximum

Today's Temperature

Yesterday

Minimum 2

JAP FORCE TO BE WITHDRAWN FROMJIBERIA 24,000 Troops to be Sent Home Public Opinion Against Intervention. (By Associated Press) ' LONDON, Jan; -'4 Announcement

that 24000- Japanese-troops - will - be withdrawn from Siberia ia reported by a Tokio dispatch to the Express, quoting an official statement issued by the Japanese war office on December 27. The statement, according to the dispatch, says that Japan intends to

maintain henceforth only the smallest possible forces in Siberia.

Public opinion here," says the dis

patch, deplores the withdrawal. Al

lied observers, American, as well as British, speak bitterly of intervention

as being relatively a failure, owing to disunity among the allies and their

mutual jealousies."

Bolshevist forces are reported in the outskirts of Vilna and towns on the railway between Minsk and BrestLitovsk are said to have been occupied by them. The Bolshevists are re

ported to be burning buildings and robbing and murdering peasants as thev

advance. Throngs of refugees are ar

riving here by railway, carts and on foot. The baggage belonging to them has, in many cases, been stolen en route.

Locomotives and cars are beine

brought westward from the path of the Bolshevist forces by the retiring

Germans.

SAYS AMERICANS WELCOME. CHITA, Trans Baikalia. Jan. 4. De

fying the orders of his physicians. Gen

eral Semenoff, who was quite seriously wounded by fragments of a bomb tLrown in a crowded theater here recently, received the Associated Press

correspondent today. With him he discussed briefly the crisis in Russia, declaring that America is admired by

can troops in the battle against Bol-i A An e.ye witnesf, 'T9 haVilS S6en hvim Armenians cruelly beaten and says

Referring to America Gen. Semenoff was insistent in his declaration that American troops would be welcomed by Russians. "The landing of foreign troops on Russian soil is naturally distasteful," he said, "but it is necessary now to overthrow the Bolshevists." Asked if his differences with Admiral Kolchak had been adjusted, he replied in the negative. "Admiral Kolchak sent trops to Irkutsk," he said, "so I cannot say we are friends, but my Gossacfcs will always work for the best interests of Russia." He concluded his talk with a' request that his greetings and an expression of his aduiiration and respect for the American people be sent to them. He especially spoke of his gratitude for the unselfish Interest In Russia's welfare which has ben 6hown by America.

left in very bad condition by the last administration and that the present officials had done all they could to operate the plant efficiently. The mayor said, "The plant has'been ter

ribly abused and we intend to put it on its feet again and then see to it that it is kept. in good condition. I built the plant and I intend to see that it is a success and that the citizens of Richmond have a plant that is a credit to the city." The members of the Board of Works and council agreed with the mayor that the plant should be re-equipped

Ukrainian Troops Are

Bombarding Lemberg (By Associated Press) COPENHAGEN, Jan. 4. Fresh fighting has occurred durine the last

few days around Lemberg, where the Ukrainian troops are making progress and are bombarding the city, according to Vienna advices to the Politiken. The electrical works at Lemberg have been destroyed anc considerable other damage has been done.

Works, other representatives of the I immediately and that as soon as this city administration and members of 1 construction work was ordered, the

city would ask the public service commission to make a complete readjustment of the rates. ' One of the irregularities in the rates pHe-nor ; btfg1mtry' "'the Liberty Light and Power company which (Continued on Page Two)

NEW PHONE RATES EFFECTIVE JAN. 21

TURKS CONTINUE ARMENIAN OUTRAGES

(Br Associated Press) 'LONDON. Jan. 4 It is authoritatively announced that evidence has been received that the Turkish army,

t in withdrawiner from invaded terri

tories in the Caucasus region, has continued to commit outrages on the Ar-

Will telephone rates actually be raised or lowered after January 21,

the date the government rates go into effect, is the question which is being asked by everyone who has seen the new schedule. Under this new schedule the .telephone calls of less than 30 miles show a small decrease while the calls for distances in excess of 30 miles show an increase. In addition to thi3 the

, government has placed two service j charges, one for calling some particu

lar person in an office and another for failure to secure your party within one hour. The only two reductions out of Richmond are for Chester and Webster, which will be reduced from 10 cents to 5 cents. Charges to Dayton will remain the same and Indianapolis will be increased about 10 per cent in

addition to the service charges. All calls within the 40 mile radius .will be

GERMAN SHIPS TO

BE USED TO TAKE F00DT0EUR0PE Food Worth $1,500,000,000 Must be Sent Before July, Says Hoover. (By Associated Press) . - PAPJS,. .f rtday,, Jan - 3. Herbertrc. Hoover, who has been appointed director of allied food relief in newly liberated, neutral and enemy territories in Europe, talked about the work before him to the Associated Press today. He said that German ships totalling nearly three million tons will

oe usea to carry food to Europe and that German passenger boats. will be

utilized to send American soldiers home.

'Food worth $1,500,000,000 must be imported into Europe to provide against actual needs between now and July 1. and the financing of the pro-

is a. siupenaous tasK, said Mr Hoover. "Liberated territories will be fed first, but much of this territory has no other government than that of scattered municipalities, it has no credit and is unable to pay for food. Poland. Armenia, Czecho-Slovikia and theJugo-Slav republic are in this condition, as well as many other suffering section. Most of the necessary fond must come from the United States and representatives of that government are conferring with those of the allied powers as to means for paying for this food."

ITALIANS IN U.S. PRAISED IN ADDRESS DY WILSON America Proud of Number of Italian-Born Serving in U. S. Forces, President Tells King. 1 IS RECEIVED BY POPE

(By Associated Press) :.' ROME, Jan. 4. President Wilson today was received at the Vatican by Pope Benedict.

The president's ' arrival was announced by the master of the chamber to the pope who awaited the president in the throne room where two gilded arm chairs had been placed. The president was admitted immediately to the presence of the pope who was gowned In white. On his way to the throne room, the president was accompanied by a procession of Vatican servants. The procession made its way through balls filled with antique pictures and precious tapestries. As the president entered the ante chamber to the Papel apartments he was preceded by the pontifical chamberlain. Gendarmes in immense busbys and the palatines guard and the noble guards in their red tunics were drawn up to greet him.

menians, in spite of the terms of the

armistice. It is reported that individ- for 5 minutes instead of 3 minutes, all ual Turks have acknowledged it to be, other calls are on the basis of 3

their intention to deal a final blow at the Armenians and to consummate the Turkish policy of exterminating that unfortunate race. .

that at one place he found the bodies of more than sixty women and children. Tortures were inflicted upon the living, he says, and the Turks have endeavored to carry away all available food, clothing and household goods, so that the fate of those who will escape immediate death appears to be certain. Homes are reported to have been destroyed and inhabitants of many districts have been driven away by the thousands. Grain taken by the Turks was allowed -to

rot in the rain and starving Armenians j

minutes

The basis of the new rates is as follows: 1 cent a mile for all calls within a radius of 40 miles of the station at which the call is made and 5 cents for each 8 miles or fraction. The mileage is figured on an air-line basis.

CONGRESS IS ASKED TO AID STARVING

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 Congress was asked by President Wilson today in a message transmitted to the state department to appropriate 100 million

were prevented from even touching it j dollars for, relief of famine sufferers under penalty of death, it is said. i'n Europe. It is understood that the

money is wantea cnieny to send food

into sections of western Russia, Pol-

LAST MEN REMOVED FROM U.S. TRANSPORT

V. S. Steamship Beached on Fire Off Havana HAVANA, Jan. 4. The steamship Temple E. Dorr is reported to have beached on fire, at Cojimar, a suburb of this city, about four miles east of

: the harbor opening. Four men from

the ship have arrived here asking for help. . . The Temple E Dorr left New- Orleanson Dec. 30 for San Francisco. She was a steamship of 453 tons.

For Wayne county by W. E. Moore

Increasing cloudiness tonight. Sun-'

day unsettles, followed by snow w ith ' dier passenger list aboard the stj.and-

FIRE ISLAND. N. Y., Jan. 4 Removal of 200 wounded, the last of the

army transport Northern Pacific's sol-

rising temperature

General Conditions A very cold wave Js slowly moving eastward. Freezing temperature on the Gulf of Mexico and 12 below zero over the north. Temperatures rising over Montana where temperature is now at freezing point. A break in the cold wave at Richmond will begin Sunday, temperatures rising to freezing point within next 48 hours. Relief from cold wave is caused by the area of low barometric pressure over Alberta.

ed liner, was begun early today under

clearing skies and in an even sea. Submarine chasers and naval launches

carrying the men to the hospital ship

and and Austria Hungary.

French Troops Enter Capital of Montenegro (By Associated Press) -PARIS, Jan. 4. French-troops entered Cettlnje, the capital of Monte

negro, on Dec. 22, it is announced

First Skating of Year Enjoyed at Morton Lake Y-hco, Sklnnay, get your skates, Morton lake is frozen over! The first ice skating of the year wa3 enjoyed today at Morton lake where a number of "boys took part In the rare sport. The ice is quite thick, according to persons" who have been there.' If. weather conditions are favorable, a number of skating parties will probably be formed Sunday.

Solace, were expected to complete tho j They were greeted enthusiastically by

operation before noon

CZECH DELEGATION LEAVES

PARIS, Jan. 4. The Czecho-Slovak delegation to the peace conference will leave Prague for Paris on Jan. 6, according to a Basle dispatch today.

the people and found that good order

prevailed in the country- Five members of the national assembly have been charged with the management of the country's affairs until the nnlon of Montenegro and Serbia under the Kara-Georgevitch dynasty has been completed. .... 1 i ; .

Want Postal Track Route From City to Hollansburg Plans are being started by the postmaster at Hollansburg. to have a postal truck mail route between Richmond and Hollansburg, Ohio. -' Before an application can be put in with the government an estimate of how much mail can be hauled on these trucks and it is expected that by next summer the mail route will be under way.

HUN SOLDIERS SELL ARMS TO RUSSIANS

(By Associated Press) WARSAW, Thursday, Jan. 2. The retiring German soldiers are selling their arms through soldier's council to the peasants and the Bolsheviki, according to Count Wankovicz, a land owner in the government of Minsk, who has arrived here with his family. The. German officers, he reported are helping themselves to the armored automobiles, horses, wagons and other materials. In one instance 30 automobiles were sold for 60,000 rubles. Countess O'Brien De Lacev. who has

arrived in Warsaw from Baranov' i, declares that existance in that re a is impossible for those of the well-to-do classes. Private DroDertv no lnrnr.

er exists. The countess told of the murder of

a family with which she was acquainted. The only one of 10 persons who escaped alive was the wife. The rope with which she was hung, broke and she dropped to the floor where while

feigning death, she, saw her husband and eight children butchered by the peasants. According ,to all reports

reacning here, conditions In Russia are growing worse.

AMERICAN DEAD IN RUSSIA TOTAL 86

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. An official report from the American military attache with Ambassador Francis in Russia, announced today, by General March shows total deaths from all causes in the American forces in the Archangel region up to November 25 to be 86, Of these nine were killed in action," seven died of wounds, and three were drowned, and two died as a result of accident, and 65 from disease.'. ' , .. Later official reports General March said showed that the military situation at Archangel is entirely in hand, and that the troops are adequately fed ajd clothed for winter campaigning in that section.

ROME, Jan. 4. President Wilson was the guest of honor at an official dinner given at the Quirlnal last night. There were only two addresses, by King Victor Emmanuel, and by Mr. Wilson. The king said: "You, yourself, Mr. President, are become our welcome and pleasing guest only today, but in the conscience of our people your personality already for a long time, has inscribed itself in an ineffacable way. It is that which In itself gathers all the powers which go to stimulate a will bent on liberty and justice and gives inspiration toward the highest conception of the destinies of humanity. "The enthusiastic salutations which have accompanied your passage through the streets of Rome are attestations of the sentiments of admiration, and recognition that your own name and labor and the name and labor of. the United States stir Jn the ItaJ lain people. The principles In which you in magnificent synthesis have summed up the Ideal reasons of the war for liberty find resonance ln Italian hearts. Best Italian Traditions. "The best traditions of Italian culture, the liveliest currents of our na-

tional thoughts, have constantly aimed at the same ideal goal, toward the establishment of the international peace for which you have with tenacious faith stood. Already before the vicissitudes of war and the fraternity of armies had established today's admirable communion of intentions and purposes between our two countries, legions of our workers had emigrated to your great republic. They had knitted America and Italy together with strong cords of relationship and these became reinforced by the spiritual affinity between both peoples who had a common faith in the virtue of free political government. "When Italy entered into the war, a breath, a precursor of the American soul, penetrated into the rank and file of our army through the means of our workers who returned to the fatherland from America and brought Into Italy an echo of their second patria. So, correspondingly, the Italian soul vibrated in the hearts of our em migrants enrolled under your banners

when the American nation under your guidance threw itself Into the fight against the common enemy. "It was natural that your vlslt.

awaited with a most earnest desire, should now given form and expression almost tangible to this fervid agreement of spirits, to this happy communion of intentions and of ideals, forming themselves between the two

peoples, and which are employed ia a union always more intimate and a cooperation always more cordial in the face of the grave duties imposed by the common victory. Italy, having now gathered to her own bosom those brothers so long sorrowing under foreign oppression, and having reconconquered the confines which alone can give her security and true independence, is preparing herself to cooperate with you in the most cordial manner to reach the most practical means for drawing into a single circle the civilized nations, for the purpose of creating in the supreme form of a league of nations the conditions most fitted to safeguard and protect each one's rights. Maned by Same Motives. "Italy and America entered together into the war through a rare act of

will; they were moved by the purpose of re-affirm In the scale of human values the principles of liberty and Justice. They entered into war to conquer the powers of war. Their accomplishment is still unfinished and the common work must still be developed with firm faith and with tenacious constancy for the purpose of effecting the security of peace. " lift up my glass. Mr. President. In your honor and in the honor of Mrs. Wilson, whose gentle presence adds charm to your visit; I drink to the prosperity and to the continued and increasing prestige of the great American nation." - In reply. President Wilson spoke as follows: "Your.'MaJesty: I have been very much touched by the generous terms of the address you have Just read. I feel it would be difficult for me to make a worthy reply and yet If J could speak simply the things that are in my heart I am sure they could (Continued on Page Two)