Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 115, 27 March 1919 — Page 1

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RUSS DRIVE ON POLAND IS PLANNED THIS SPRING Great Military Campaign to be Launched in Spring, Says Jof fe Mangin to be Sent to Hungary. GALICIA IS IN REVOLT (By Associated Press) ARIS, Wednesday. Mar. 26.- A great military campaign against Po land la to be opened by the Russian soviet government this spring, It was V declared by M. Joffe, the former Bol- , shevik ambassador at Berlin, at a recent meeting in Vllna, according to word received by the Polish national committee in Paris. The central executive committee of soviet government, the Polish commit tee also has been Informed, has voted unanimously an appropriation of 27, 000,000 rubles monthly for Bolshevik

propaganda In Poland. POLAND UNPREPARED. WARSAW, March 26. "We have men and officers, but no uniforms, rifles, munitions or - artillery," said General Pilsudskl. provisional head of the Polish state, in an Interview here today when asked of the military needs of Poland. w "Poland," continued the general, "Is attacked on three sides and cannot protect herself without technical war material which she Is not equipped for manufacturing." General Pilsudskl said he was grateful to the allies, especially America, from whom Poland had received something definite food. Asked how many men he would need to equip, the general answered: "That Is difficult to say. Our nation In some sections having not participated directly as a combatant in the war, we have many young men who were not drafted In the German, Austrian or Russian armies and therefore have not yet fought. MANGIN TO HEAD MISSION PARIS, March 27. General Mangin, one of the leading officers of tho Franch army, will be recalled from bis f command at Mayenoe, the newspapers i J announce, to undertake a, mission, jthe character and scope of which "Is indicated plainly by the events In Hungary." TROOPS JOIN REVOLT VIENNA, March 26. A wireless dispatch received from the soviet government at Moscow, declares that all of Galicia Is in a state of revolution. The movement Is described as having been begun in the oil districts near Drabhobyoz, whe"-4he workers established a soviet t rnment and have spread to the surrounding districts. Troops dispatched by the Polish government, the message asserts, Joined the movement The Lemberg soviet, it is added, has declared a general strike. Italian troops have occupied the town of Pressburg, 35 miles southeast of Vienna on the Hungarian side of the border, according to a dispatch from Budapest.

V1LHELM PLANS ANOTHER MOVE

(By Aascctated Press! GENEVA, Switzerland, March 26. Former Emperor Wlllam of Germany, alarmed by the receipt of threatening letters, intends to leave Holland and seek refuge in Switzerland, according to the newspaper La Swlsse. Swiss newspapers are printing many advertisements inserted by members of the , German and Austrian nobility who '"are seeking houses in this country v at moderate prices.

SEVENTY CHILDREN KILLED (By Assoctatnd Press) BERLIN, March 27. Seventy children are dead and 20 injured seriously as th result of a stampede during a juvenile entertainment at Glelwitz. Silesia, today. The children rushed toward the exits when some one raised the cry of "Fire!" Mose of the casualties occurred In the rush down the 6talrways. THE WEATHER For Indiana by the United 8tats Weather Bureau Fair, continued cold tonight. Friday fair with rising temperature. Today's Temperature Noon 37 Yesterday Maximum 59 Minimum 42 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Fair and continued cold tonight, several degrees below freezing. Friday, fair with rising temperature, strong north winds, diminishing by night. General Conditions The storm diameter is now 2,000 miles and has moved east to the Atlantic seaboard. A cold wave covers Mississippi valley extending from Canada to Gulf of Mexico. Zero weather is reported over Minnesota and North Dakota, Cold wave will pass southward after tonight ,'nd temperatures will rise somewhat Friday and still more Saturday, preceded by a hard freeze tonight. A fctorm developing over the Rocky mountains will probably move eastward, reaching here in a few days.

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The Bolsheviki now rule In Hun gary. The people who only recently welcomed Count Karoyll as head of the newly formed republic, have revolted, joined the Bolsheviki forces and set up a soviet government at Budapest. According to recent reports the Bolsheviki will establish a soviet government In Austria early in April. The spread of Bolshevism in the former dual monarchy makes It the center of world interest The red leaders are - working in conjunction with -the Lenlne forces In Russia and are gaining strength rapidly. Hungarian revolutionistsin their proclamation state that the division of the dual monarchy by the peace conference la one of the causes of their action. The map 8 hows how the former empire Is now split up. (1) All that remains of Austria, where reds' next coup is expect

TWENTY-EIGHT MILES OF CONCRETE ROADS IN COUNTY SOUGHT IN PETITIONS FILED

Four petitions asking for concrete soads to be built under the county unit bill have been received in the office of the county auditor, and several more are expected before the end of the week. Two petitions have been filed ; for the Jefferson township and Clay township section of the eighteen-mile road from the northwest county line, through Hagerston and Greensfork to Richmond. The rest of the township petitions are expected before Saturday. Improvement of six miles of the Boston pike, from Richmond to the Union county line, is asked for by Jesse Druley, Harry W. Gilbert, and 103 ohters. Another petition asks for the improvement of the Commons Road, from West Fifth street to the Easthaven Avenue, and along Easthave Avenue to the Asylum. Charles W. Sells, Joseph Hill, Dr. S. E. Smith, and 83 others ask for this improvement. Three miles of the New Paris pike. THIRTY-EIGHT GERMAN SHIPS LEAVE PORTS (By Associated Press) PARIS, Wednesday, March 26. -The supreme economic council reports that the 38 German ships that have left German ports to be turned over to the allied and associated powers are generally in a seaworthy condition. The vessels to be under British control are on their way to Liverpool, while those apportioned to the United States are sailing for Brest and Cherbourg. None of the ships is of less than 2,500 tons capacity. The larger ships will be used to repatriate American and Austalian troops. The conditions of the arrangement having been complied with, instructions have been Issued to release foodstuffs for Germany, which have been held up at Rotterdam. It is not expected the German vessels will land food in Germany before late In May on their return trip from America. HADLEY TO SPEAK ON "MEXICO" Peas A. Hadley of the Friends' Foreign Mission board went to Plainfield to speak on "Mexico" at a meeting there tonight. He will go from Plainfield to Bloomingdale, Ind., where he will meet in conference with several Friends of that town.

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ed. (2) Hungary. (3) Italian Ireedenta which will go to Italy under the peace terms. (4) Jugo-Slavakla, which will be given its independence. (5) Czecho-SIovakia, to be created as an Independent state. (6) AustrianPoland, which will become a freed state. (7) Transylvania has been given to Roumania. Other high spots in the situation are shown on the map. Arrow near (6) Indicates where ' red army of 70,000 former prisoners of war in- Russia nave crossed Dniester river on way into Hungary. Arj ow near (5) indicates where Czecho-Slo-vak army is preparing to march into Hungary. Serbian forces are prepared to resist Bolsheviki forces on Serbian border (arrow at (2) above). Inter-allied troops have been landed at Spalato on the Dalmation coast to preserve order there. from Gaar Road to the state line, would be paved under a petition to be presented late this week. All the petitions ask for an eighteen-foot concrete roadway, with six feet of gravel on each side, except for short stretch along Easthaven Avenue, which would have twelve feet of concrete paving on each side of the carllne. Total mileage affected is 28 Vi miles, and the proposed roads would give Richmond a concrete outlet to the county line practically in every direction. The cost would be somewhere near $900,000, it is estimated. Robbina, Reller and Robbins are attorneys for all the petitioners. ARMENIANS HILLED BY MOSLEM TROOPS (By Associated Press) ATHENS, Tuesday, March '25. Advices from reliable sources at Constantinople state that a massacre of Armenians by Moslem gendarmes occurred recently at Aleppo. It is reported that 48 Armenians were killed, 111 seriously wounded and 150 slightly injured. It Is alleged that the gendarmes burst into the Armenian market and attacked the people assembled there and that the troops in the baracks at Aleppo did not arrive on the scene until two hours after the massacre. The authorities have arrested two hundred persons and will try them before a court martial composed of two British, one French, . two Armenian and two Arabian representatives. President Wilson Sends Message of Greeting to National Suffrage Body (By Associated Press) ST. LOUIS, March 27. The following message from President Wilson at Paris was read at the session of the National American Woman's Suffrage association convention today: "Best wishes for convention. . I earnestly hope suffrage amendments will soon be adopted. (Signed) "Woodrow Wilson. NEW HUN ARMY FAILS (By Associated Press) COBLENZ. March 27. The new German army of Reichwehr is proving to be more a creature of haphazard growth than of regular organization, in the opinion of Americans specializing on the study of the readjustment of the enemy forces. :

The crowd shown above was cheering the election of Count Karoyll as first president of the Hungarian republic when the photo was taken. It is these same people who now have Joined the Bolsheviki forces and set up a soviet government. Division of Austria-Hungary la the cause. The map shows how the dual monarchy has been divided and the main points of action in the crisis.

CRISIS IS MET IN GERMANY BY U.S. TOOD SHIP Serious Shortage of Food Supplies Faces People Stock Nears Exhaustion. , (By Associated Press) BERLIN, March 27. The arrival at German ports of the flrst 'American food ship was Just in the nick of time to meet the crisis in the food situation. The potato ration in greater Berlin was reduced this week to three pounds and no fresh meat is available for issue to residents of cities. These residents are receiving canned meats from the remnants of the army's stores. The Berlin vegetable market which the correspondent visited yesterday was a sorry eight There was little for sale with the exception of turnips, a few onions, and other minor vegetables. Conditions in the Illegitimate food trade offer one of the best indications of the approaching exhaustion of food stock. A month ago the average restaurants could set before customers whom he could trust to protect him and who had plenty of money, a meal of the most satisfactory sor., consisting of meat, eggs, butter, etc.. without use of a food card, and all obtained illegitimately. Supply Exhausted. Now some of the restaurant proprietors are scouring the country daily, sending emissaries in all directions, but their earlier sources of supply are almost exhausted. They are able to get little food at any price simply because the supply no longer exists. In addition, private persons with ample Income now report, the same trouble In obtaining food from long cultivated surreptitious sources. The first feeling of the average German when he learned of the arrival of the food ships, as the correspondent found through conversation with a large number of workmen and members of the middle class, was one almost of astonishment at the appearmce of the ship in so few days after the 6ignature of the provisioning agreement. Forty-six of Medical Corps Died in Action (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 27. Casual ties among American medical officers in France from the time of the arrival ; of th.3 first unit to March 13, num-1 bered 442. A war department statement shows 46 killed in action, 22 died of wounds, 12 died, of accident and other causes, 101 died of disease, 1 lost at sea, 7 missing in action, 38 taken prisoner, and 212 wounded in action. City's Big Warehouse Moved Across River The city's big warehouse which used to stand south of the west end of the Main street bridge, Is now ready for use as a shelter for the street cleaning department. It now stands on the grounds of the city light plant. The building was of no use to the city in its former location, so the engineer has had it cut into sections, moved across the river, and set up again where it would be of some use. WAR MOTHERS CHANGE NAME (By Associated " Press TOLEDO, March 27. Members of executive committee of War Mothers of America, of which Indiana has 27 chapters, yesterday decided to change name of organization that greater unity may be preserved and that other associations of women relatives of soldiers of the world war may affiliate.

OHIO FIGHTERS IN CONTINGENT LANDING TODAY

Heroes of Scheldt Arrive on Cruiser Pueblo Ambulance Men Return. NEW YORK." March 27. Fifty-nine troops, Including 24 officers of base hospital No. 27 of western Pennsylvania, arrived here today on the steamship Tivives, from St. Nazalre. Other units were a detachment of base hospital No. 7 and a casual detachment of New York men. The steamship Westboro, from Bordeaux, brought 22 casuals, including one officer and ten men comprising a Massachusetts casual company. Twenty-eight officers and 810 men of the 37th division (former national guard of Ohio and West Virginia) arrived from Brest on the cruiser Pueblo, which brought altogether 1,791 troops. The 37th division contingents were thkd battalion headquarters and companies I, K, L, and M, 13 officers and 365 men of the 147th Infantry, for Camp Sherman; and the 112th supply train complete, 15 officers and 445 men for Camps Sherman and Taylor. Ten sections of the army ambulance service returned on the Pueblo, assigned to Camps Upton, Dix, Devens, Grant, Sherman, Kearney and Funston. Also companies of causals from Ohio, Georgia, Montana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts. Casual Detachment Arrives The steamship Deep Water arrived from St. Nazaire with a casual detachment of two officers and 19 men for Camp Upton. " The 147th which returned In command of Major M. H. Pugh. Toledo, O., was in action constantly from August 1 until the armistice was signed, taking six objectives near the river Scheldt a few hours before firing ceased. Its casualties were 20 per cent. Major Pugh's father-in-law, the Rev. Dr. Harry F. Maclane of Toledo, was the regiment's chaplain. Sixty-three years old last Sunday he is said to be the oldest volunteer In the American forces. He was twice wounded and once gassed while aiding the wounded. While he was kneeling over a fallen soldier in the Argonne a German aviator twice fired at him, one bullet which he retains as a souvenir, striking him in the ankle. The Ohio men on the Pueblo gave Chaplain MacLane a birthday dinner on the voyage. Cut Off By Barrage Whfle battalion Adjutant Lieutenant Kenneth French of Cleveland, commanding Company M, was . with 115 men at Cierges on September 29, his troops were cut off by barrage, killing 25 men and wounding Lieut French In the leg. When he tried to rejoin the main body of the company, an exploding shell killed two of his companions and wounded him in the back. He was one of the few men of this contingent able to rejoin the regiment The ambulance men who returned were mostly university and college students who entered foreign service before America went Into the war. Ten per cent of those arriving today have been decorated or cited. Lieut. Basil Neftel of Larchmont, N. Y., won the Croix de Guerre, four citations and has been proposed for the Legion of Honor for service with the French since 1916. Corporal Wayne Fulton, Woodbury, N. J., was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Croix de Guerre for bringing In the wounded and taking the place of a stretcher bearer killed in afH-vt. P.. Calvo, Dayton, O., also won the Croix de Guerre. Other arrivals were nvate Walter Garett, former Harvard baseball pitcher who was in ambulance service, and Sergeant Harry W. Ryer, Hawthorne, N. Y., of the 165th infantry, who was gassed in the Lorraine. Columbia Replaces Germania In Downing Street Statue LONDON, March 27. The allegorical figure of Columbia representing America is to supplant that of Germania and clasp the hand of Britan nia in the decorations of the British foreign office in Downing street i Before the war an English painter i had been engaged to decorate the I cheerless corridors of the foreign of-j fice with frescoes of Britain's glories i in war and peace. He had arranged I to paint a figure of Germania clasping the hand of Britannia as part of the decorations but events since then have changed his plans. Columbia, it la announced, will hold the coveted position, while the goddess of Germany will be shown as "fallen and disgraced" as the artist says she now is. The first of a series of five paintings already have been placed in position and it is planned to hasten the work of decoration. Sinn Feiners Abandon Welcome for DeValera DUBLIN, March 26. The executive committee of the Sinn Fein party issued an official statement late last night announcing that the public reception planned for Professor Edward De Valera, who escaped from an English prison on February 4, has been abandoned. The statement explained that Professor De Valera had sent word to the committee thnt he did not believe a reception for him would justify risking the lives' of citizens of Dublin. It was announced on March 22 that the Sinn Fein party of Ireland would offer Professor De Valera a national welcome on Wednesday evening, March 26, when he is expected to arrive in Dublin. On Monday of this week, a proclamation was Issued at Dublin by the government of Great Britain forbidding meetings and processions. A Dublin dispatch received on Tuesday stated that there was some military activity in the city and that armored cars have been landed from British steamers.

Bolsheviki Behind New Bessarabia Republic (By Associated Press) LONDON, Mar. 27. A republic haa been proclaimed in Bessarabia and its directorate haa ordered military operations against the Rumanian army, a part of which has been forced to fall back, according to a Warsaw dispatch to the Telegraph. It Is stated that the movement la evidently engineered by Bolsheviki, supported by Ukrainians, who seek to break through Rumania to establish contact between Moscow and Budapest Bessarabia was, under the old regime, in Russia, a province lying along the northeastern frontier of Rumania. It is bounded on the west by the Pruth river and on the east and north by the Dneister. In the southeast it is washed by the Black Sea. It has an area of 17.614 square miles and had a population in 1906 of 2.262,400. Rumania laid claim to Bessarabia after the collapse of the imperial regime in Russia and Rumanian troops have been occupying parts of the country.

BANK RESOURCES SHOW INCREASE IN PROSPERITY Wayne County Figures Near Fourteen Million - Loan Should be Over-subscribed Wayne county's banking resources are given as $13,946,266 in figures compiled from the Seventh Federal Reserve bank in Chicago. The entire banking resource for the 68 central and northern Indiana counties in the reserve district now totals $634,943, 361, which is several percent over the figures for the previous loan drive. Increased prosperity in the state is noted in the figures, which are compiled for use by loan officials in the district as a basis for apportioning the county quotas when the announcement is received of the state allotment in the victory campaign. Marion county leads in banking resources with $137,224,523. Allen county is second with resources of $39,530,110 while Lake county has $39,499,017. Brown and Ohio counties are the only two in the sixty-eight counties which have banking resources less than $1,000,000. Brown county has $196,028, while Ohio has $983,585. Tanks to Tour States. Three tanks are to be used to stimulate the sale of bonds in the state. One tank will start at South Bend and visit all the northern . Indiana counties under its own motive power; a second will 'start at Lafayette, and a third at Newport, in Vermillion county, all leaving their stations on April 1. The tank starting at Lafayette will be in Richmond April 16, and in Winchester April 17. The tank starting at Newport will be in Liberty on April 16. "Y" WORKERS APPEAL FOR DONATIONS FOR LAST DAY OF DRIVE "Help complete the Y. M. C. A. Budget Fund, of which there is yet $1,635.75 unsubscribed, by leaving your subscription at the Y. M. C. A. or any of the banks today or tomorrow," is the message sent out by the campaign workers after their luncheon at the Y. M. C. A. Thursday noon. The total raised on Thursday was $1,931.50. This added to $4,918.50, the total of the preceding two days makes a grand total of $6,864.25 for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. A general fund of $875 was also reported. John H. Johnson, who presided, said that $200 reported in the general fund was conditional, $100 being promised if the entire quota is not received and the entire $200 of the quota is secured. Business Manager E. M. Haas was unable to be present at the meeting this noon, but left word for volunteers to meet him at the Y. M. C. A. at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning to finish up the work. A number of men volunteered their services for this final campaign. Solicitation cards are to be redistributed tomorrow, and it is hoped that every one whose name the committee has will be seen by tomorrow noon. Lester Carlander presided at the chart slate this noon in the absence of Mr. Haas. Included in the report of Division Number 4 today was $11 dollars raised by fifteen girl employes of the five and ten cent store. These girls sold a quantity of baked food yesterday they had prepared themselves. FARMERS TO HEAR REPORT OF SESSION Theodore Davis, of Greensfork, who attended the organization of the state Federation of Farmers' associations, at Indianapolis, Tuesday, will give a report of the Indianapolis meeting to the Wayne County Farming association Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, in the county agent's rooms at the court house. The county organization will coneider affiliation with the state federation after Davis' report is heard. County Agent J. C. Kline, who" will leave April 1, will make a farewell talk. Reports of the membership drive which has been in progress for the last two weeks will be heard, and it is hoped that a membership of several hundred will be shown

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OF COVENANT IS COMPLETED BY DELEGATES Amendments Proposed by Taft Considered by Commission Freedom to be Required of Nations. , 7. PREMIERS IN SESSION (By Associated Press! PARIS, March 27. President Wilson's study was again the center of intense interest today as he with the premiers of Great Britain, France and Italy resumed the effort to settle the questions standing in the way of peace. - ! No event of the peace conference has excited such interest and discussion as this action of the president and the premiers in taking affairs into their own hands, and while criticism and sarcasm are yet in evidence In some quarters, including the French chamber of deputies, still the prevailing view in conference circles is that the time had arrived for tho adoption of a strong policy assuring early ana definite results. , A proposal which seeks to settle the conditions required for admission to the league of nations has been presented to the peace conference. It says that countries which wish to become members of the league must prove that they "ensure to all citizens, as well as all foreigners In their territory, full religious freedom, protection to person and property, liberty of the press and free exercise of such rights of suffrage as may be guaranteed by their constitutions, customs or legislative enactments." Consideration Completed. The proposal would apply not only to enemy countries but to nations like Russia, Mexico and Costa Rica, the last two of which were not invited to participate in the meeting ot neutrals with belligerent nations to discuss the league of nations. The league of nations commission of the peace conference with President Wilson in the chair, met for three hours last night and completed Its consideration of the covenant of the league. The covenant was referred to a drafting committee consisting of Colonel E. M. House, representing the United States; Lord Robert Cecil for Great Britain; Premier Venizelos of Greece, and Ferdinand Larnaude, dean of the Paris law faculty. This committee will gc through the document, correct its wording where necessary and refer it back to the commission as soon as possible, probably within two days for final consideration by the commission before it is reported to the executive committee of the peace conference. The covenant still contains twentysix articles. No amendment has been incorporated which specifically meets the desires tf Japan for recognition of national equality. TAFT'S PLAN CONSIDERED WASHINGTON. March 27. The text of the supposed league of nations covenant suggested by former President Taft, which was considered by President Wilson and the allied premiers in Paris yesterday, was Bent from the White House less than a week ago, after Mr. Taft had been assured by Secretary Tumluty that any suggestion from him would be welcomed by the president. This became known at the white house. today. When President Wilson received the message making known that Mr. Taft desired to submit amendments, it was learned today ; the president cabled the white house urging that they be sent as soon as possible, and expressing appreciation that the former president had concluded to make the suggestions. White house officials had a message today from Rear Admiral Grayson stating that the president was working practically night and day, but that his health was withstanding the strain admirably. MUST BE IN TREATY LONDON, March 27. Any doubt that the covenant of the league of nations will be mentioned in the peace treaty was removed by an authoritative statement from a responsible British source today. It was said that some reference to the league mut ho contained in the treaty, if only be cause tne treaty wm require the Germans to cede their colonies to the league's mandatories, says a Reuters dispatch from Paris. Independence Is Asked For Country of Georgia (By Associated Press) . PARIS, March 27. M. Tseretelli, who was president of the first soviet system in Russia before the Bolshevik revolution there, has presented to the peace conference a request, on behalf of Georgia, that recognition be ! given that country, which he reprej cents as an independent republic and a "Duiwartt against Bolshevism." M. . Tseretelli asks for the strengthening of the Georgian republic, which, he asserts, is "Inspired by the principles of the most advanced democracy," as a means of saving the peoples of the Caucasus region from anarchy. MEMBERS OF MISSION SEIZED (By Associated XTessl -COPENHAGEN, March 27. A dispatch from Pressburg, Hungary, announces the arrival there of a Czechoslovak mission from Budapest. Ail the members of the mission were arrested on March 21, and all their documents and money were seized.