Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 52, 10 January 1919 — Page 1

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LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS TO PAY TRIBUTE TO ROOSEVELT Committee Assignments to be Announced Monday Proposed Amendments to Constitution to be Offered.

REVIEW STATE TROOPS (By Associated Tress) INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 10 House and senate marked time today so far as legislation was concerned. In tribute to the late Theodore Roosevelt. The senate met at 10 o'clock and adjourned shortly after receiving the report of the committee on employment. The house adjourned yesterday afternoon to meet again at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon, when Speaker Jesse Eschbach will announce his committee assignments. Lieutenant Governor Edgar D. Bush will also announce senate committee assignments when the senate goes into sslon Monday. This afternoon the entire legislature, with Governor Goodrich, will review the troops of the 137th and 139th Field Artillery regiments, who have been overseas and are here now awaiting discharge. The reviewing stand has a capacity for three hundred persons and legislators said today that it will be full. Continue Organization. Organization of both houses on administration legislation will be continued tomorrow. Republican members said today there will be some opposition within their own party to the governor's proposed revision of the tax laws, especially that provision wiping out all past records of tax dodging. It was also said that the governor's request for power to appoint certain commissions which he asks the legislature to create will cause some slight dissention within the republican ranks. Many senators and representatives will leave the city after the parade to send the week-end with their families. : Proposed amendments to the state constitution, providing for classification of property for the purpose of taxation, suffrage for women,: classifi

cation of courftres for registration of voters-and adoption of the executive budget system are the outstanding in interest of seven, which it Is said, will be offered at this session of the Indiana general assembly. Amendments for the appointing of the clerk of the supreme court, defining the veto power of the governor and appointing of the state superintendent of public instruction are provided for in three joint resolutions which will be offered. Suffrage Up First. Defore any of these proposed amendments can be considered by the legislature, two pending proposed amendments woman suffrage and extension of term of office or increase of (alary of public officers during their incumbaney must be disposed of. The present constitution prevents con. sideration of an amendment, while one or more amendments are pending before the legislature or Hecrorate. The opinion Is expressed by party leaders that both of the pending amendments will be withdrawn or otherwise disposed of to make room for consideration of the seven to be introduce! t this session. The proposed amendments, except woman suffrage, have heen prepared by a legislative committee. Inasmuch as they are designed to keep promise made by the RepubliCHn party in the last campaign, adoption Is anticipated by leaders. In such event, they will be considered again by the next session of the legislature, and if adopted, they will then be voted on by the Indiana electorate. A "The general assembly shall pro vide by law,'' reads one of the proposed Joint resolutions, "for the assessment of property for taxation and the raising of revenue thereby and t-hall preset ibe such regulations as shall secure a Just valuation of taxation of all property, both real and personal." It also provides that the general assembly "shall have power to classify the several klnd3 of property subject to tax&tion and to levy a tax on each clatis of property v such a rate as It may deem wfre and equitable without regard to tile rate applied to other classes of property, but all 'axes shall be uniform upon the same cias of subjects within the territorial limits of the authority levying the lax." Registration Question. In providing for registration of persons entitled to vote, it is provided in another that the legislature "shall have power to divide the counties of the ftate into classes, and to pass laws prescribing a uniform method of registration in each class, or to cxunpt any such prescribed class of co.inties from the operation cf any registration law, and In any county or counties so exempted a registration shall not be required tis a qualification for voting." . The thirty-first section would fce added to article lour of the constitution by the proposed amendment providing for every appropriation bill being either a budget bill or a supplemen

tary appropriation bill. It would require the governor to submit early at inch session of the legislature two budgets, one for each of the ensuing yfars, each containing a complete plan Jr proposed expenditure and estiuiati4 revenue, as well as showing the estimated Mirplus or deficit for the year to which it pertains. In addition tho governor's budget will be required to give in detail the expendi(Continued on Page Two)

Health Conditions Show Improvement in (. S. Camps (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. Health conditions in the army at home showed continued improvement during the week ending January 3, with influenza and pneumonia still on the decline. Only two camps. Camp Travis and the port of embarkation, Jloboken, reported more than 100 new cases of influenza for the week. A war department summary today showed 339 new cases of pneumonia among approximately 600,000 troops. Hospital admission and non-effective rates generally were lower than in the preceding week, with 197 deaths from all causes.

BILL PROVIDES FOR EXTENSION OF U.S. TRADE ApP ropriation Double That of Last Year Asked for For eign Trade Expansion. (By Associated Press! WASHINGTON. Jan. 10. Aid in the extension of American foreign trade Is provided in the annual legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill for 1910 reported today to the house. The measure carries appropriations totalling $96,318,000, approximately 57,000.000 more than the 1919 bill, aDd provides for 19.433 salaries, a decrease of 178. For the expansion of America's foreign trade an appropriation of $905, 500 would be given the bureau of for eign and domestic, commerce of the department cf commerce. The appropriation, which is double that made in 1916. contemplates, according to testimony given at hearings on the bill, the sending of agents of the bureau throughout the world to investigate opportunities for American business. The home personnel of the bureau also Is increased under the bill so that information as to world markets may be readily available to American business men. Assistance also would be given American firms engaging in foreign trade through the state department, additions being provided for the department's staff of trade advisers and legal experts. Representatives of the state department at hearings on the bill urged that measures be taken to insure that American business men are treated fairly bforcigo, governments In the competition for after-the-war trade. . - - Eliminates Positions. In providing lor state department, needs, the bill abolishes the title of r-nnneellm- nf 1h dprnrtmpnl nnrt snh. stitutes the title under secretary of state. The increase in appropriations carried by the bill is due largely to provisions for the 1920 census, the amount proposed for that purpose betng $13,650,700 The other principal increase is an addition of $2,238,000 ovor the 1919 appropriation for the internal revenue bureau. Reductions from the 1919 bill consist mainly in elimination of many positions created during the war, more than six millions of dollars being cut from the war. navy and state department's pay .rolls. Contingent expense funds of various departments were cut several hundred thousand dollars,, wniie iiiiiuar rrun.u ui uy uie bureau of standards is eliminated at m saving of $460,000. Discontinuance of tho sub-treasu-lies at Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati. New Orleans. New York, Philadelphia. St Iouis and San Francisco, also reduced the appropriations by $463,000 Development of the federal reserve system In the opinion of the house appropriation sub-commit-teH ban eliminated the necessity of I maintaining the sub treasuries. U, S. BUREAU ASKS PLANS OF SOLDIERS The United States Employment Service office mailed out Friday a list of questions to soldiers who have been mustered out of the service, asking them about their future plans for employment. The office desires to know Just how many are going to take former positions and how many have none ai all The office wishes to have co-operation on this matter It is important that all the men returning from cantonments have employment. The names are sent to the office from the cantonments when the man is mustered out. These lists are being mailed to men outside of Richmond Those living here have been instructed to call at the office upon their arrival home German Ambassador to Spain Returns IRv AsooptatPil Prss MADRID. Jan. 10. Prince Max Von Ratibcr and Corvey. German ambassa-! dor to Spain durig the war. has left j Madrid with his family. He is returning to Germany. THE WEATHER ' For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Saturday. Warmer in east and central portions tonight. Colder in north portion Saturday. Today's Temperature. Noon 22 Yesterday. Maximum 27 m i-(-".,,v, 12

PRELIMINARIES OF CONFERENCE START AFTER LONGJELAY Delay in Arrival of Allied Representatives Holds Up Preliminary Conversations of Peace Meeting.

EXPECT 80 DELEGATES (By Associated Press) PARIS. Jan. 10. After nearly a month of waiting and preparation conversations which will lay the foundation of the actual peace congress are about to start. American delegates feel that a great deal of progress might have been made before now if a full representation of the nations allied against Germany had arrived promptly. Suggestions have been made that the French and American delegates go ahead while awaiting the arrival of the British plenipotentiaries, who are now expected on Saturday. President Wilson, however, vetoed that plan, holding that inasmuch as there has already been so long a delay It. would be best o wait a little longer to secure the participation of the British Expect Fair Headway. As many of the principal questions to be threshed out in preliminary conferences concern most Intimately the United States. Great Britain and France, there Is some hope of fair headway being made while awaiting the official announcement of the full Italian delegation and the arrival of the Japanese representatives. The Belgians will arrive next week hut of course they are in the status of minor belligerents. They have taken over one or the largest hotels In Paris. The first, few conferences bet -ween the Americans. French and British probably will develop just how much progress may be expected before President Wilson goes home next month. It Is settled that when he reaches America, one of his first acts will be to address congress and give a report on what has been accomplished. Some trained diplomats among tho Americans here are agreed that the most Mr. Wilson can hope to report, will probably be a general undertaking of the widest sort upon a set of principles which must be left to be applied by the peace con- - gress. - Mr. Wilson hopes to ue aDre to do more but unless something un expected happens, it seems probable .that physical conditions alone will pre- . . i l i - . .i . . . vent, ine u.:i:ompiiBUiuiii . mum uuiine the remaining six weeks of his stay. Each of the bodies of peace commissioners will necessarily go through an organization process. This work has taken the Americans a month and even now they are only partially ready The French, of course have their organization on the spot. The British have brought over from England a highly developed machine which is virtually ready to function. Even the elevator conductors and porters are men who have been tested out in the service of the British government and whose dependence has been established. The Japanese will have to organize after reaching here, w, tne nelglans anrl other minor ki!llri,nl Group Plan Meetings. These very essential preliminaries will not necessarily delay the informal conversations but they will, in a measure, delay the working of "group plan" conferences by which the principal belligerents expect to thresh out points with interested neutrals, nonbelligerents or minor nations engaged In the war and reduce their results to I memoranda which are to go to the peace congress for inclusion In the final settlement. President Wilson's feeling, on coming to Europe as early as he did, was that all the entente governments had made their preparations to get down to talking peace. It Is not an overstatement of the case to say that Mr. Wilson and the American commissioners have been disappointed in meeting with delays Various elements are recognized by diplomats here as reasons for deferring the state toward peace but It seems plain that the influence of the United States is about to be exerted for steps, which without further delay, will permit a start on the business of returning the world to a peace basis. The American delegates are understood to feci very stronglv that unless plans are made to permit the activities of peace to be resumed tn warring countries, the demobilization of their armies may bring unwelcome problems. The return of Mr. Wilson to the United States will reduce the American delegation to four, but it was explained today that delegations will vote as units and that the President) never had intended to sit continuously at the peace table. Approach Eroad Questions. Up to the present all the rims-res? that has been made has been in Preslden Wilson's conferences with French, Pritish and Italian statesmen. The ' detailed conclusions reached at these conferences are probably known only to the; participants. The President, I for his part, is said to have felt that jit was not prudent to disclose eni tirely what went on, p-ithough he Ini tends that the proceeding s shall go on in the way of open diplomacy when he feels it is fafe to lift the curtain and let the world look at the performance. The most that can be said of the conferences so far held by Mr. Wilson is that they have approached only bread principles. The conversations about to begin will probably take on the nature of a round table at which the progress that has been made with individual countries will be brought (Continued on P--je Twelve)

HELP LEAD SOCIALISTS IN GERMANY

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Famous German Socialists, Swedekum. Scheldcmann and Molkenbuler, leaving parliament building In Berlin. Three of tho Socialist leaders who are helping to guide the party In the revolution period In Germany are Swedekum, Scheidemann and Molkenbuler. Swedekum, while not mentioned conspicuously in the news, is one of the oldest and greatest Socialists in Germany. Scheidemann was named cabinet officer In the Kbert government. Recent reports stated he had heen ousted.

LONDON COMMITTEE URGES PROCEEDINGS AGAINST EX-KAISER fT.y Associated Press) LONDON". Thursday, Jan. 9 Proceedings against tho former German emperor are advised in a special report by a subcommlttco of the com mission charged with Inquiring inloi violation of tho laws of war appointed two months ago. . The parent body has done a great deal of work through its subcommittees, each of which are assigned some particular phases of violations changed against enemy countries. Plans for a tribunal which will try cases in which violations of the laws of war are alleged have already been submitted. One of the most difficult phases of the work has been the inquiry into illtreatment of prisoners, their employment behind the firing lines illegal methods of warfare, misuse of the Red Cross flag, bombardments of hos pitals and the executions of Miss Edith Cavell and Captain Fryatt. The subcommittee having this work in charge has already examined about 100,000 cases of ill treatmentment of prisoners and has about 150.000 more to Investigate. The subcommittee has t , ' i'. ..-.. I '. already su on tlie emu ovrnent or nnsoners oehind the firing lines md iii German mines and (juarries. Offenses at .s. a are being dealt with I

by a third commute Hr Investigation,, officers and 266 men of the twelfth including the destruction of merchant-1 anti.alrcraft 8ectl0n; 2 Officers and 49

men. the firing on crews after destniction of their vessels, tho sinking of hospital ships, and other alleged violations. This . committee has already submitted a report on illegal submarine warfare. A fourth committee has been dealing with offenses trom the air-sucn as trie Indiscriminate bombardment of towns and the wilful or reckless bombing of hospitals. Bourgeoise Candidates Win Majority of Votes in Election at Baien 'By Aiociate Prss) COPENHAGEN. Thursday. Jan. Results of the elections to the national assembly in Baden have been dis; nointing. according to an admission made by the Freiheit of Ber'in. Out of a total of nearly one million ! votes, the independent socialists pol - led less than fifteen thousand and failJ, i . , . iv,i ,..f,,),.eVh Rn r . r ? ps Elected - The Bourgeoise parties elected ' - representatives against 39 for the ma - jority socialists, who polled less than one third of the popular vote. British Delegates to Peace Conference Named by Cabinet (By Associated Pre"?) LONDON. Jan. 10. Premier Lloyd George. Andrew Bonar Law, Chaaceilrt rt ma " Av(!.o('iifl?' i ' T T'-j'fni!-secretary ct coo frsr rnrplTI Sffa'rS and George Nlcoll Barnes, privy coun- i cillor, have been appointed plempotan tiaries to the peace congress by the British cabinet, according to the Ex-1 press and the Mail. nrpmipr of Austrania; Sir Robert I. Borden, prei iq m iArr c nnn5 nrpni pr n i r- i mier of Canada and General Lewis !

noma, premier oi me umuu ui ouucu j ---- - ---- - Africa, will be colonial representatives . fire from flue spark, loss $2; 100 North who will have seats when the con- i Seventh street, flue fire, no damage; gress takes up business of Interest to ( Northwest Second, flue fire, no damthe dominions they represent. It is S?; Reid Hospital, smoke stack, no said. According to the Express an im-! damage; 61a South Eighth street, paportant decision was reached by the i Ppr around the flue burned, no loss; cabinet in providing that the domin- j Thirteent hand Main strets, H. ? M. ions will appear . at the peace con- Bowen, furnace fire, $150 loss; 624 gress as small nations. South Sixth street, , flue. .fire,, no damThe delegates will go to Paris on age; Starr Piano Company, dust colSaturday for the purpose of attending lectorse, no loss; 336 South Tenth sittings of the inter-aPied rv ' street, flue .fire, no damage.

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German Charges British Have Started Propaganda Against League of Nations fj?y Associated Press) .WASHINGTON,' Jan. 10. Edmund von Mach, former Harvard instructor, testifying today before the senate committee investigating German propaganda to deny pro-German activities, asserted that the British government had started a propoganda against President Wilson's advocacy of a league of nations.

"A definite campaign is on foot to I keep the, president from keeping the words he has -spread that war must be impossible and trhat nations' Must be Just," be said. "It is not the English people, but the English government that is behind the movement." Von Mach declared also, that the British . secret service agents were ready to strangle him, "for his attitude against British propaganda." BRITISH TRANSPORT BRINGS YANKS HOME fBy Associated Presa) NEW YORK, Jan. 10. The British transport Ulua, a Cunard line steam"j - 1,003 American troops. The units in board consisted of 15 officers and 421 i man nf thd fit-rth nntl-ntrrTJift KPfHnn , five offlcers and nS lne of the 109th trench mortar battery and nine casual officers and 9 civilians from the Y. M. C. A. and K. of C. field forces. The 109th trench mortar battery is from tne middle west. BRITISH STEAMER IS SUNK BY MINE (By Associate Pros) t LONTADX, Jan. 10. The Erltish ' i i steamer Norhumbria struck a mine : ; off Miilesborough Thursday and it is ! believed that most of the crew was ! ! lost. A beat with two survivors and j 1 eight dead has been washed ashore ! : at Newton Abbot Four boats which left the ship with survivors are miss I j J i a. j v. . 1 iU . t . - tMi uieu i ut? uuais !we' IU","B lu i majl.e aore. .... , . i he steamship Northumbna wa3 a ' 4.252-ton and was owned in Glasgow iev, .,. ,, . ,, 'fhas 350 ionS and wa3 ! in LJ . i Fire Company Makes Twenty-Nine Calls Since January 1 r - fire department has made 29 1 The i cans since the hrst or Januarv, according to Chief Ed Miller Friday morning the companies went to the home of Ed Paust. 325 North Eighcru.ll CLurct, a ruttm iuui uit: caused by a spark from the flue re sulted in about $10 damage. c -There was also a small flue .Are on South i Fifth street. No loss was sus- ! tained. Other - calls made recently were Southwest First street, Cartwright borne, roof fire, damage $2; 124 South j i-. pvpmn street, i nanps i avior. mm

Deny New Government

Formed by Liebknecht (By As-ociated Press AMSTERDAM, Thursday. Jan. 9. Reports that Dr. Karl Liebknecht has proclaimed a new government in Germany are contradicted by the Frankfort Gazette, which declares that tho naval division has broken off all relations with Dr. Liebknecht and the Independent socialists. The Germania of Berlin says that it has learned that one thousand Russian Bolshevists, disguised as German soldiers, have arrived in Berlin. MARINE STRIKERS VOTE TO REJECT ARMISTICE PLAN Uniform Police Ferry Workers to Shipbuilding Yards New York Faces Food Famine. (By Aso';tatei Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 10. The strike committee of the marine workers' affiliation unanimously voted to reject the proposal of A. H. Smith, eastern regional director of railroads, for a 48 hour resumption of harbor activities, pending conferences between government boat, owners and boatsmen representatives, with the object of attempting a settlement of the harbor srike. , Uniformed policemen turned deck hands at dawn and enabjpd Staten Island shipbuilding to progress uninterruptedly by getting the workers to the yards on time. . The policemen operated one municipal ferry boat between Manhattan and Staten Island and in the early hours this. was the only craft to ply this route at a time when ordinarily thousands of commuters are crossing the harbor. Railroad officials today were devoting their erforts to re-routing food for the city from points in New Jersey to points in New York state from where it can be brought here by train. The food situation was described as "more critical than even the most pessimistic can realize," in a statement issued late last night from the office of Mr. Smith. It declared that the lives of thousands of persons in the greater city depended upon the success of the efforts to re-route food so urgently needed. No Coal Famine. Though New York did not receive Any coal yesterday and the thermometer was dropping toward the aero point today, officials of large coal firms exprpssed the opinion that there was no immediate danger of a coal famine. They estimated that there was at least two weeks' supply of fuel stored in the city's bins. The Hudson tubes again were used by thousands of persons from New Jersey as the only means of reaching their work here but from Staten Island the city officials expected to operate at least one of its large ferry boats. A few trips were made last night when crews from the marine department of the police force manned a boat. The service to Staten Island today was to be devoted to furnishing the residents there with milk and food and was expected to provide means of transporting forty thousand persons to their work here. DECIDE ON NAVAL FORCE OF 225,000 fBy Associated Pres WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. A temporary naval force of 225,000 enlisted men for the year beginning next July, was decided on today by the house naval sub committee, in beginning the work of framing the naval appropriation bill. This force is 25.000 less than was recommended by Secretary Daniels. VOTE ON CHURCH FEDERATION TONIGHT Additional church representatives to the church federation meeting tonight follow: Third Methodist Rev. L. P. Pfeiffer, Andrew Holsinger. Second Prr- hyterian Rev. E. E. Davis, Darrll Thomas and A. A. Mumbower. St. Paul's Lutheran Rev, F. W. Rohlfing, Thomas Allen and George Brown. East Main Street Friends Rev. J. R. Webb, Arthur Charles and Folger P. Wilson. West Richmond Friends Rev. C. M. Woodman, Amasa Jenkins and Norval Heironimus. The official delegates have been appointed to represent these Richmond churches at -the inter-church federation conference to be held at Grace Methodist church this evening. It is expected that other Richmond church organizations will be represented at this meeting. The closing service of the week of prayer is to be held thi3 evening at 7:30 o'clock at the Grace Methodist i church and rddressed by the Rev. L. E. Murray on the subject of church federation. The official meeting is to be held at the close of the general service and all church representatives rtA nmcrcnf are urged to be present If a local federation is approved at tonight's meeting, a temporary chairman and secretary are to be named and a general constitution adopted. Committees on nomination of permanent officers, formulating of by-laws and program of co-operative work also probably will be named at tonight's meeting if a federation is organized. The Rev. J. S. Hill, president of the Richmond Ministerial Association, Is to nroHp sit th rooHpsr.

EBERT FORCES GAINING IN BERLIN; HOLD INNER CITY Government Troops Capture Police Headquarters Spartacans Fail to Summon Mass Meeting. NEWSPAPERS SEIZED

fBy Associated Press) BERLIN. Jan. 10. The government forces are in complete control of that section of the inner city between the Brandenburg gate and Frledrichstrasse. It has issued an order prohibiting all processions. The government has scored a decided victory in the capture of police headquarters, which has been one of the Spartacan strongholds. The building was taken by the fusilier guards after a short fi&ht. The government forces took the building with few casualties. Eichhorn, the Spartacan polifce chief, escaped, but many of his supporters were made prisoners. Shoot to Kill. In issuing its orders against processions the government gave warning that its troops have orders to fire without waiting for the Spartacans to begin and to shoot to kill. The Spartacans apparently are losing hope. They failed to summon a mass meeting of their supporters t day and the streets are alsomst deserted. Details of the achievement of government troops last night in which Dr. Liebknecht's newspaper organ, the Red Flag, was suppressed, showing that the invasion of the newspaper premises came as a surprise to the squad of Spartacans and troops of the Red Guard which were scattered over the premises. The defenders hastily barricaded themselves behind rolls of print paper but were overcome after a brief resistance. Munitions in Plant. The government now is occupying the plant, in which numerous machine guns and rifles were found concealed. A score of the Spartacan guards entered the editorial rooms of tne Thelisphe Rundschau Tuesday nigbt and threatened to stop the publication of that journal.- The invaders were later driven off, by.jgovernment troops and the paper appeared today. Reports from outside showed that the Rhenische WeBtfaelische Zeitung of Essen, the Dortmund Nachrichten, the Dusseldorf Nachrichten and the Zwickau Volksblatt have been forcibly seized by the Spartacans. In addition tcthe Brunswick Nachrichten the Spartacans have taken possession of the Landes Zeitung and the General Anzeiger, these three being the only bourgeoise papers in the city. The Ebert government fully realizes that the test of strength in which it is now engaged is a decisive one, it is asserted in competent quarters. It proposes, therefore, to assert its authority to the limit. The cabinet is a unit in the conviction that any compromise with or concession to the Liebknecht forces would be bound to prove costly and it is fighting in the defense of the national assembly. The government's conviction of the necessity for a fcrm stand in these circumstances ha3 reconciled it to the task laid out for it. That the government has picked up sufficient courage to meet the situation is held to be unmistakably due to the backing of the bourgeois ' elements which has developed. Many Killed in Clashes. The Socialist newspaper Vorwaerte, whose plaut is in the hands of the Spartacans issued an emergency edition today. The edition was secretly printed. It 13 impossible to state the number cf killed and wounded in Thursday's clashes, but the casualties will reach great numbers. All the unions have decided to continue the strike indefinitely as a protest against Thursday's events. The government has disembarked marines and sailors because it has "no faith In the army." With the definite breaking ofT of negotiations between the government on the one side and the Independent Socialists and the Spartacans on the other, the renewal of the sanguinary conflict for control of the situation seem unavoidable. When Gustav Noske, in charge of the government s measures of defense, proclaimed martial law there was a break in the negotiations betwen the two parties and the government is reported to have declared there was no chance whatever of effecting a compromise. Notwithstanding this, Hugo Haase and Herr Breitscheid decided to make another attempt at a settlement. A nominal truce existed between the government and the independent Socialists during the negotiation although the Spartacans would not agree to observe one. Now the latest attempt to affect a compromise rjec-ms definitely to have ended in failure. - ' Spartacans Beaten Off. Unter Den Linden, Wilhelmstrasse and the section around the Reichstag building have been scenes of . especially fbarp contest". Outwardly the picture is much similar to that of yesterday, but the situation appears to be improved somewhat. Government troops have recaptured the Brandenburg gate and the Silessian railway, the General railway and suburban , stations, , which have been in the hands of the Spartacans. Spartacan forces attempted at one o'clock to : retake the Brandenburg gate, but were beaten off by rifle and machine gun fire and shells from ar-