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GERMANY TO LOSE A FIFTH OF LAND BY PEACE TERMS

Creation of Rhenish Republic Will Meet Peril of Strong Germany Lack of Policy Menaced Allies. BALTIC HOLD WEAKENED By FRANK H. SIMONDS. (Copyright. 1919, by ha McClure Newspaper Syndicate) . PARIS, March 29. In the third month of the Paris Conference the general lines of the Peace of Versailles are at last becoming clear. Certainly before the first of April the decision of the victors as to Germany will have been taken and the world will know substantially what are to be the frontiers of the German people for the future, what In territory and population are to be subtracted from what was the Hohenzollern Empire and what if any gain there Is to be as a result of the prospective annexation of Austrian Germany. Similarly we shall know to what extent the civilized world is going to demand that the German tribes shall disarm and approximately what is to be the payment by Germany to the nations she has devastated and plunged into a eea of debt. Perhaps the most striking thing of all In the Paris Conference has been the absence of any settled policy as to Germany. Precisely as Germany surprised the Allies in March of last year in her Somme offensive she surprised them in November by her precipitate surrender. In March she exposed them as lacking unity of command, in November she revealed them ns without a clearly reasoned policy for the exploitation of that vicinity which was Just becoming unmistakeable. Policies Conflicted. We have had therefore over the last three months two conceptions curiously conflicting each in turn influencing the minds and shaping the policies of those whose power It was to Impose peaca upon Germany and whose necestity It was to, fix terms which should guarantee for the - future . protection against German attack and reparation for the German destruction of the war. At the moment when the Allies presented to Germany the terms of the first armistice neither Foch nor any of his military or political associates believed the actual extent of the victory. Foch like the rest expected Germany to reject the terms which we offered and so great was the defire "01 peace among the masses of the people in the Allied countries that the original peace terms fell fai short of what was necessary and of what Germany, actually helpless, would have expected. In November Germany had to accept whatever was offered and knew it. Unhappily the Allies were not equally informed on the German situation. In the flrst phase following the German surrender victorious Europe, temporarily escaping from the fear which militaristic Germany had inspired during four and a half years of war, gave itself up to the equa'lv paralyzing nightmare of German Bolshevism. It neglected to take .- -v n against a militaristic Germany in the future because it was afraid of contributing to producing a Bolshevist Germany In the present. German Spirit Revived. The result of these hesitations was a temporary revival of the old German apiiit probably far more apparent thsn real. Despite their domestic cnaos and their ever mounting Internal disorders the Germans temporarily talked in the tone and in the language which for more than four and a half years had alarmed a Europe which had then perceived these words to bo backed up by all the enormous forces of the armies of Hindenburg and Ludendorff . Apprehension of Bolshevism in Germany disappeared. Fear of Bismarckian Germany returned tenfold and at this tage the Entento hesitated to take step3 ca'culated to check Bolshevism such as feeding the Germans, lest they should in fact save militarism. We have como now to the third phase. Today it is becoming clearer and clearer that the old Germany is doomed, that tho disintegration marches day by day, that something aproxirrwUng Russian chaos, however temporary, is now wellnigh inevitable. Unlike Russia, Germany is not yet breaking up into separate states. There is no evidence available that there 's any probability of a break between the North and South, between Protestant and Catholic Germany, between Prussia on the one hand md Bavaria, Baden and Wurtenburg on the other, such as was widely expected at an earlier period. What Is apparent Is that the' economic and social d'sintegration of the whole German Empire is becoming more and more complete. In this situation tho Allies have at last undertaken to do a little of what they should have done in totality three months age. They now purpose to serve upon Germany preliminary terms of peace which shall be in fact . In all but name the definitive terms. They have practically decided the frontiers of the new Germany, they are approaching an agreement upon the sum which Germany must pay and the mrnner in which it must be paid. They are practically finished with fixing the regulation to cover German disarmament now and future military impotence. Yet It is plain now In Paris how great was the blunder in November and, in all the subsequent weeks Continue! On Page Thirteen.

Daughter of Mexican Ambassador to Washington Bride of Lieutenant in Royal Italian Army

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Madame Guiseppe Coppola. One of the most brilliant affairs of the Washington social season was the recent marriage of Senorita Marie Amelia Bonillas to Lieut. Guiseppe Coppola of the royal Italian army. Madame Coppola is the daughter of Senor Bonillas, the Mexican ambassador to the United States, and Senora Ygnacio Bonillas. The ceremony was performed at the Mexican embassy and was largely attended. The bridal bouquet was roses anr orchids.

Home Fleet and Seven Foreign Squadrons Are Plan of British Navy (By Associated Press) rimni ufaivTi 90 T?pnters la . ' MS V . , fct.uu Informed that the post-war distribu tion of the British navy will te a nome fleet and seven foreign squadrons stationed in the Atlantic, East Atlantic, Guina, South Africa, South America, West Indies and the Mediterranean. WATSON MEETING HERE BECOMING STATE AFFAIR Republicans From Over Indiana Will Attend District Conference Wednesday. Watson day, April 2, on which date Senator James E. Watson is to be Richmond's guest, has assumed the importance of an Indiana state affair. For people from all over the state, Republicans and others, are coming to hear and see Watson at the two meetings, one in the afternoon, of the Sixth district Republicans, and the mass meeting in the evening at 'which he will discuss the League of Nations. Congressman Richard N. Elliott, of Rushville, L. S. Bowman, assistant state auditor and Wayne county chairman, E. M. Wasmuth, chairman of the state Republican committee, L. W. Henley, secretary, and Pat Lynch of Newcastle, clerk of the state supreme court, will give short talks at the afternoon meeting. Senator Watson will be the chief speaker. Watson will arrive In Richmond at 10:10 Wednesday morning and will have headquarters at the Westcott. He will lunch with Rudolph G. Leed3. To Organize District. The purpose of the meeting will be to organize the Sixth district for the coming presidential election, and a committee will be appointed Wednesday to lay plans for another meeting, probably an outdoor affair, this summer. Word was received Saturday that a special Interurban car, chartered by L. S. Bowman, assistant auditor of state and former Wayne county auditor, will bring Indianapolis Republicans to attend the two meetings. Large parties from Newcastle, Connersville. Rushville, Liberty, Cambridge City and other Sixth district points will be here, according to word received by E. M. Campfield, and the Newcastle delegation may bring with them the famous Maxwell-Briscoe band of that city. Copies of Covenant Available. Two thousand copies of the covenant of the league of nations as presented to the senate by President Wilson will be printed for distribution among the crowd In the Coliseum, and Senator Watson will speak from a copy of the covenant, so that he may be followed point by point. The program for the League of Nations meeting follows: Concert by high school orchestra, R. C. Sloane, director, 7:30 to 8:00. Prayer, by Rev. J. S. Hill, pastor of Reid Memorial church. Chairman of meeting, E. D. Paul, Cambridge City. Speech, "League of Nations" National and International Questions," Senator James E. Watson. Committee In charge: E. M. Campfield, Karl K. Meyers. W. W. Reller, Linus Meredith, Ray K. Shlveley.

ALLIES CREATE DEFENSE Z01 Iff SOUTHEAST Action Taken to Stop Spread of Bolshevism Strike Broken in Austria. BULLETIN (By Associated Press) COPENHAGEN, March 2f. The railway strike in German Austria has been settled, a report from Vienna says. PARIS, March 29. General Iliescu, former chief of the Roumanian general staff, is quoted in the Petit Parisien, this morning as declaring that the appointment of General Mangin to the command of the allied forces in southeastern Europe confirms a plan which he submitted to the French general headquarters some time ago. This plan, the general stated, was the creation of zones of defense, with the aid of Poland, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Jugo-Slavia, against the spread of Bolshevism. ARTILLERY ACTIVE. AHCHANGEL, March 29 Allied artillery was active Friday In the vicinity of the village of Bolshoia Ozera, but the cloudy weather hindered the work of the aviators who were observing the effects of the cannonade. In the meantime, the allied forces holding the road on both sides of the town were engaged in strengthening their positions. A small infantry attack was made on the allied positions on the Vaga front on Wednesday. In spite of a bombardment which preceded the attack, the Bolshevik! were repulsed and lost heavily. The allies suffered only two casualties. Conditions elsewhere along the front are unchanged, according to headquarters reports. 168TH ENGINEERS ON ARCHANGEL FRONT (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 29 Arrival of the lCSth engineering company at Murmansk, Archangel front, on March 25 was announced today by the war department. It consists of 15 officers and 133 men. The 167th engineering company, also ordered to that sector is enroute. Active Repression to be Used Against Egypt (By Associated Press) CAIRO, Egypt, March 29. General E. H. Allenby, the new commander-in-chief in Egypt told a gathering of Egyptian notables today that he would be forced to employ active repression to restore order in Egypt. He said that It had been found impossible to restore order by defensive measures. The policy of repression, the general admitted, would bring great suffering to the people and he asked the Egyptians to devise measures to achieve the desired result with'a minimum of suffering. He concluded with this emphatic warning: T intend to do nty duty. It is for you to do yours."

"Clock Time" Will Go Into Effect Again Tomorrow (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 29. Daylight-saving time is at hand again. The nations clocks will be advanced one hour at two o'clock tomorrow morning and from then until October 26, "clock time," instead of actual time, will prevail. On the last Sunday of October the lost hour will be restored when all the clocks will be turned back sixty minutes. The time changes are authorized under the daylight savings law passed by congress last year as a conservation measure. Farmers' representatives, dissatisfied after one season's trial, sought to have the act repealed, but the agricultural appropriation bill, with a repealing rider, failed with other measures killed by the senate filibuster.

TURN UP YOUR CLOCKS ON RETIRING TONIGHT The daylight saving law becomes effective at 2 o'clock tomorrow morning. If by that time you have not set your clock one hour forward you are just an hour behind time. The change is legal, congress providing that we shall technically have more daylight beginning tomorrow. The government suggests a very simple plan for effecting the change. For instance, when you retire tonight set all clocks in your home up one hour. When you rise in the morning, you will have the correct time. The decree by congress does not specify at what hour your clocks shall be turned up, but does provide that it shall be done at or before 2 o'clock tomorrow morning. The government suggests that business houses turn up their clocks at the close of business this evening so that they will be correct at the beginning of business Monday morning. Church services will be held at the usual hour, as they too, will turn up their clocks. Ten o'clock last Sunday morning will be 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, as far as the clock and the hour of the services are concerned. Those who report at their places of business at 8 a. m., the old time, on week days, should be on hand at 8 a. m. Monday as well. The only confusing element in the change is the fact that trains will run an hour late after 2 o'clock Sunday morning. But remember that hour late does not start until 2 o'clock! Opposition to Time Change tin i r art iff IS usseaiicss ui nanus Why do the farmers oppose the daylight saving plan which will go into effect all over the United States Sunday morning at 2 o'clock? The chief reason, says county agent Kline, is the "cussedness" of farm hands. Hands and farmers alike, get up just as early as they can, and the real time of rising and going to work will not be affected by the new time. But the farmhand is accustomed to quit at five o'clock, and will keep on doing so, and as five o'clock will be four o'clock, in reality, the farmer sees an hour of productive work wasted each day. And the two hours, from four to six are really the best hours of the day for the farmer, Kline says. There is no other reason for opposition, as in any other way the new time affect3 him very little. NO GREAT CHANGES IN LEAGUE DRAFT, SAYS HITCHCOCK (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 29. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, former Democratic chairman of the senate foreign relations committee in a statement today declared hi3 belief that no important changes had been made in the covenant of the League of Nations by the committee having it in charge at Paris and that the senate would ratify the treaty even though it contained no provision specifically exempting the Monroe doctrine. The statement was made upon the senator's return from a speaking trip to the middle west, where he said indications pointed to increasing sentiment favorable to the league. Heavy Wind and Icy Streets Turn New York Topsy-Turvy (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, March 28. New York experienced a somewhat topsy-turvy early morning today due to a high wind, blinding snow and icy sidewalks and streets. Surface cars collided, signs and fences were blown down and trees uprooted, pedestrians were knocked over by street cars, automobiles or mail trucks, a woman was blown into the East river but was rescued ; an ice covered all caused a short circuit to set fire to an elevated train and the morning rush hour traffic was generally hampered. A dozen persons were injured, several being removed to hospitals. THE WEATHER For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Somewhat warmer tonight, Today's Temperature. Noon SO Yesterday. Maximum 43 Minimum 22

HUNS PROTEST PROPOSAL TO LAND POLES AT DANZIG German Reply to Allies States Request Violates Armistice

Terms Other Baltic Ports Are Suggested. STRIKE IN RUHR REGION (By Associated Press COPENHAGEN, March 29. The full text of the German reply to the allies concerning the landing of Polish troops at Danzig shows that Germany made a point that it did not undertake to give free access to the Polish army to West Prussia in the armistice agreement with the entente powers. The reply says: "Since the conclusion of the armistice, the entire situation in Posen, West Prussia and Danzig has entirely changed." Offering the ports of Stettin, Konnisburg, Memel or Libau, the German government says that "all possible facilities for the speediest landing and transit of General Haller's army to Poland will be provided." Approves German Reply. "From the standpoint of railroad facilities," the reply adds, "the route from these cities leads more speedily to the goal, without interruption of the importation of foodstuffs to Poland." According to the Berlin Tageblatt, all parties to the Weimar national assembly, including the independent Socialists, approved of the government's reply to the entente note. The German newspapers generally support the govenrment's position. The Socialist Vorwaerts, for instance, says that Hungary's reception of the note recently sent her by the entente should have taught the entente powers that it is "not only inhuman, but foolish to treat defeated opponents a8 slaves upon whom any humiliation can be Imposed." The Berlin Tages Zeitung says that the spirit of the note "shows the desire of the entente absolutely to crush Germany, while the Tageblatt likens the demand to "the methods with which every arrogant mailed fist policy inaugurates the realization of its predatory plans. WAS NOT ULTIMATUM PARIS, March 29. The recent note sent by the allies to the German aimlstlce commission at Spa regarding tho landing of General Haller's Polish forces at Danzig did not take the form of an ultimatum, as stated by the Berlin newspapers, according to Marcel Hustin in the Echo de Paris. The strikes in the Ruhr industrial regions are extending, according to dispatches from Posen today. Thirty thousand men are reported out. At a meeting of the strikers at Langendreer, near Dortmund, on Thursday, demands were formulated including the formation of a revolutionary workmen's guard, the establishment of political and economic relations with the Russian soviet government and the disarmament of the police throughout Germany. The support of the unemployed is costing the municipality of Greater Berlin one mfiiion marks a day. A clerical force of 2,300 with a weekly pay roll of 100,000 marks, is required to keep track of the army of workless people. The city council has voted an appropriation of 160,000,000 marks for public improvements for the purpose of ameliorating the condition of the unemployed, which is rapidly becoming an economic and social menace. FIELD ARTILLERYMEN LAND IN NEW YORK (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, March y Gunners of the 72nd coast artillery regiment and the fifth artillery corps returned from France today on the steamship Santa Ana, comprising, with 40 casual officers and 7 convalescents, a passenger list of 1,446. Returning units of the 72nd, aggregating 37 officers and 1,163 men, were the headquarters and staff, headquarters and supply companies, ordnance and medical detachments and batteries A to F, all assigned to Camp Grant. Fifth artillery corps units, ordered to Camps Grant, Jackson and Devens, numbered 6 officers and 191 men. POLISH TROOPS TO GROSS GERMANY (By Associated Press) COPENHAGEN. March 29. The German government at Weimar has re ceived from the allied hibh command a demand for permission for Polish troops to land at Danzig tnd to march through Germany territory to Poland, according to a dispatch received here from Weimar. Shipping Board Steamer In Danger of Foundering LONDON, March 29 The American steamer Sapinero, was towed into Plymouth on Friday evening- after having been disabled at sea in a hurricane. A part of her cargo was Jettisoned to save her from foundering. The Saperino is a United States shipping board steamer completed at Hog Island this year. She is a vessel of 6,669 tons gross. She sailed from Philadelphia, March 14for Falmouth. ' '

Man Who Commanded Thirty-Seventh Back

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Maj. Gen. F. E. Farnsworth. Major General Farnsworth, who was drafted from the regular army to lead the Thirty-seventh division, which arrived recently in New York after ten months overseas, tells vivid stories of the division's hard fighting. The division Is composed in the main of former Ohio national guardsmen and a large party of Ohioans greeted the general and his men upon their return. EVENTS ABROAD NOT TO AFFECT ARMY'S RETURN Troops Coming Faster Than Schedule Famous Division Names to be Retained. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 29 Recent events in Hungary, General March announced have resulted in no change in the military policy of the United States so far as the war department has been advised. Return of troops from France is proceeding even faster than scheduled originally, he said, and nothing had occurred to interfere with this movement. Troop movements homeward during the month of March, General March said, aggregated 244,186, against an estimate previously made for the month of 200,000. Retention of the names of fourteen national guard and national army divisions with brilliant war records in the permanent military establishments in order to preserve their traditions was announced today by General March. For this purpose in the twenty-one divisions proposed to be organized In the new army, fourteen will receive the following designations: Twenty-sixth to be stationed at Camp Devens; 27th, Camp Upton, N. Y.; 28th, Camp Dix, N. J.; 29th, Camp Meade, Md.; 30th, Camp Jackson, S. C; 32d, Camp Custer, Mich.; 33rd, Camp Grant, 111.; 36th, Camp Travis, Tex.; 37th Camp Sherman, O.; 81st, Camp Taylor, Ky.; 82d, Camp Gordon, Ga.; 89th, Camp Funston, Kans.; 91st Camp Lewis, Wash. First division, Camp Pike, Ark.; 2nd, Camp Dodge, la.; 3rd, Camp Lee, Va.; 4th, Camp Kearney, Cal.; 5th, Panama canal zone; 6th, Honululu; 7th divided between Philippines, Alaska and Mexican border. Form Peace-time Army. The 42d (Rainbow) division win be the cavalry division in the new organization. It will be organized in the southern department and its men will be drawn from all the states, maintaining in this respect the all-Ameri-can character which was obtained in the original organization. The first to the seventh division will retain the designation of the 7 regular divisions now in France, comprising the first and second army corps. In each case where a division has been given the designation of a national guard and national army division it will be recruited from the districts surrounding the camps named as its base and from which the original division of that designation was drawn. In making this announcement. General March said that the war department was proceeding with the organization of the army on the basis of a peace strength of 609,000 men. The practical organization will comprise 5 army corps of 20 infantry divisions and one cavalry division. Whether this organization will become permanent depends entirely upon future legislation. VILLIAN TRIAL NEAR END. PARIS. March 29. All the witnesses have been heard and the speeches of counsel have begun in the trial of Raoul Villian for the assassination of Jean Jaures, the French Socialist leader, on July 31, 1914, and it is expected that a verdict will be rendered Saturday night.

FRANCE ASKS BOUNDARY AS FIXED UNDER 1814 TREATY

Wants Provinces WeSt of Rhine and 5aare River to . be Natural Frontier in Alsace-Lorraine. CZECHS GET SEA ODTLET (By Associated Press) PARIS, March 29. In laying her claims before the council of four today, France asked, first of all, that her boundaries, as fixed by the treaty of Paris, May 30, 1814, be restored to her together with the Saar Basin. In the Rhine province on the left bank of the Rhine, it was stipulated, Germans should not be permitted to establish fortifications, occupy the territory with armed forces nor control the railways. On the Alsace- Lorraine line, it was demanded that the Rhine should be the natural 'frontier of France. The treaty of Paris in 1814 provided that France renounce her claims on Belgium and the left bank of the Rhine and return to the boundaries as they existed in 1792, before the revolution. This compelled France to confine herself to the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, west of the Rhine, those territories having been under French control since 1689. It wa erroneously reported from Paris last night that France had demanded her 1914 frontiers, which would have excluded Alsace and Lorraine from her claims before the peace conference. Outlet for Commerce. Hamburg and Stattin are considered the natural commercial outlets to the sea for Czecho-Slovakia, according to a decision reached today by the commission on the internal regime of wa terways, parts and railways. This mo tion, which grants the demai.ds of the Czecho-Slovaks delegates to the peace conference, would provide, If finally approved, that the new republic enjoy every privilege as to foreign commerce at the two ports as if they actually belonged to it. - Czecho-Slovak trade would reach Hamburg and Stettin through the Elbe and Oder rivers on boats flying the Szecho-Slovak colors. In addition to these craft, the republic would be allowed to possess a merchant sea fleet. The same privilege would be extended to Switzerland regarding navigation of the Rhine and the operation of merchant vessels. . PROMISES JUST TREATY LONDON, Mar. 29 The efforts which the British delegates at the peace conference are making to procure for the world the cleanest possible peace will bear fruit in tho peace treaty shortly to be made public, the Paris corespondent of the Westminster Gazette declares. He states on the authority of "a highly placed personage" that the conference does not mean to violate territorial rights, and that the fears on this point felt by interested peoples in Europe are quite unfounded. The correspondent says that points of the treaty drawn up by Premier Lloyd George and which will serve as the basis for discussion have been deliberately framed in a spirit of great moderation because it is felt that the treaty must be something acceptable and desirable. "Certainly the peace will be a 6tern one for Germany," the correspondent continues, "but the greatest care is I ueiug laien inai it snail De just to ' the eyes of moderate and well inform ed Germans. The principle of self determination will be rigorously kept in mind with regard to the allocation of territories." The correspondent quotes his informant as remarking: "There must be no casus belli left to Germany, otherwise you will have blocks of people clamorhig for an alliance with the fatherland." The correspondent points out however that Germany had deliberately created a German-populated wedge in essentially Polish territory and that Germany will have only herself to ; blame if she finds her nationals under Polish administration. British in fluence, the correspondent asserts, is nevertheless definitely arrayed "against inflated pretensions." Old German Cannon Used In War of 1870 Will Be Made Into Farm Tools (By Associated Press) COBLENZ, March 29 Eighty big calibre German guns refused by the United States receiving commission because they did not meet certain modern standards, have been sold to a Coblenz foundry and are soon to be made into farm implements and other peace-time machinery. While some of these cannon were cast as long ago as 1870, all had been used at some time or another in the recent war. several of them having jnone duty against the Americans In j the Argonne drive in November. Aft er the guns naa Deen reiusea Dy tne American members of the German delivering commission requested that they be permitted to dispose of the war material to a foundry. The request was granted with the understanding that the cannon would quickly be welted into pig iron and that none of this in any way would be used for the manufacture of any kind of fire arms. . Virtually all the material which the Germans were to turn over to the Americans, according to the terms of the armistice, has been delivered. I