Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 153, 10 April 1919 — Page 1

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SIMONDS SAYS PRESIDENT IS DESERTED AT CONFERENCE Lloyd George and Wilson Have Split, Declares Writer British Delegation to Support Claims of France.

CRISIS IS PRECIPITATED By FRANK H. SIMONDS. PARIS, April 9. Official' announcement that President Wilson has sent for the George Washington, coupled with the circumstances in which the announcement was made, serve to add one more to the almost innumerable crises of the peace conference. It was recognized by all hands as either a declaration of the purpose to go home because all hopes of solution had vanished, or a threat to go home unless there was an Immediate change of the face of things. President Wilson is Deserted. When the Btory of the last two weeks comes to be written with full knowledge of detail, It will prove one of the most fascinating political stories of history. Only a few facts are clear, but it is plain that whereas two weeks ago Lloyd George and Mr. Wilson were united in forcing unwelcome terms on the French and in making an easy peace for Germany, Lloyd George has been compelled by pressure exerted In England to change front, has changed front with characteristic speed and cleverness, and Mr. Wilson finds himself now deserted at the peace conference, while Lloyd George is busy giving out interviews that England is standing more closely by France than ever before which may be true and also that there has been political agreement on the terms of peace which is without a Bingle basis In fact Mr. Wilson's decision to send for the George Washington precipitates the final crisis. It finds the French government regretting that the break seems imminent, but calmly resolved to make no more surrender of the essential security of France, financial or military, to Mr. Wilson, and determined, if necessary, to endure the evil consequences of Mr. Wilson's withdrawal rather than yield further. Change of British Policy. j Mr. Wilson's friend, Lloyd George, suddenly , has been assailed at home by a tremendous outburst, in the press and among public men to whom he owes his success and his strength, against his desertion of France and subservience of the British "policy to the American President; and Lloyd George unmistakably is executing one more of those famous shifts familiar In his political history. He has abandoned Mr. Wilson and Mr. Wilson knows it. He has prepared the way to line up with France again, and the French are not unconscious of it. It would be difficult to say on exactly what lines the impending break will come. No question before the peace conference has been definitely settled. A thousand preliminary agreements have been made and rejected but the present situation is Induced not by a difference of principles over specific question, but by the sudden discovery by Mr. Wilson and his associates that the British policy, which aha long been subordinate to pleasing the American purpose, has undergone a revolutionary change and that Mr. Wilson at one time flnds himself weakened with the French and British publics, which hold him responsible for delays in making peace, and with the politicians who perceive that their own countries are unwilling to follow them In further surrender to Mr. Wilson. It remains possible, as I said weeks ago, that a peace may still be patched up, but it is much less likely than it was a week ago. As to the league of nations, it has passed out of the computation of those directing affairs, while hope of a real settlement has vanished. Separate Treaty In Mind. I am told by persons of authority that Mr. Wilson has in his possession a sketch of a separate treaty with Germany, a peace treaty to be made by the United States and Germany only, which in his final threat provid-j ed his leadership does not prevail fur. ther. I am told with equal authority by French observers that Mr. Wilson has completely lost his influence In France because of the universal conviction that underneath the cover of his Utopian projects and without his knowledge, international finance has been engaged in a desperate effort to modify the terms for rehabilitation of German business by American capital. This more than anything else explains the unmlstakeable collapse of the Wilson legend in France. We are, then, within two steps of complete shipwreck of the conference of peace. The understanding between the English and Americans was the foundation of the formulation of the league of nations covenant. President Wilson's idea, translated into a phrase by the British representatives, was a desire for the combination betwen the United States and Great Britain. More and more this policy led Great Britain Into conflct with France, more and more it created the conviction, both in France and England, that the British were deserting their French friends. So strong did this conviction become to England that within ten days there has been a positive revolution in the British press and in British public expression. Before this storm, Mr. Lloyd George has bowed. Ten days ago he was threatening French Journals with the removal of the conference from Paris if they continued their criticism; now he is bav(Continued on Page Nine.)

Pershing's Son Envoy of Youthful America as He Starts for Europe, Accompanied by Body Guard, to Visit His Illustrious Father

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War Secretary Baker Shaking Hands with Warren Pershing, General Pershing's son, on board Leviathan, and Sergeant Andrew Welz, who will act as body guard to Warren.

There probably isn't a boy in the U. S. A. who wouldn't like to be Warren Pershing for a while. Warren is the son of General Pershing. The boy sailed on the giant liner Leviathan a few days ago to join his father in ONLY 125 MEN IN U. S. FORCE WERE BLINDED Less Than 4,000 Amputations Required Declares Statement of War Risk Bureau. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 10. There were but 125 cases of total blindness and less than 4,000 amputations in the American forces engaged in tho war. it is stated today by the bureau of war risk insurance in an announcment concerning the bureau's activity in supplying crippled soldiers and sailors with artificial limbs and In otherwise caring for the wounded and disabled. Not even all of the 125 cases of total blindness cited, it is stated, have yet been declared as permanent by the medical officers in charge. Relative to amputations, denial is made, on the authority of Surgeon General Ireland and Colonel Charles E. Banks, chief medical officer of the war risk insurance, that there were any cases in which men lost both arms and both legs. There have been more than 500 artificial limbs furnished to disabled men to date by the bureau under the provisions of act of congress. Entitled to Benefits. "Upon being discharged from War Department hospitals as unfit for further service all men disabled as a result of injury or disease suffered in line of duty are entitled to the benefits of the war insurance act," the statement says. "If their condition demands further treatment they are entitled to medical attention in one ing established throughout the coun-' try, to be operated by the public health service. If a man is disabled but his condition needs no further medical attention he may secure from the bureau of war risk insurance a monthly compensation. Medical experts of the bureau make examinations of all who apply for compensation and rate their physical condition present and potential and determine j the percentage of handicap which each suffers as a wage earner as a result of his disability. The rating given is carefully considered in fixing the compensation which will be sent monthly to the man and his dependents. CHINESE SEND TROOPS TO UPPER MONGOLIA (By Associated Press) PEKING, Apr. 10 In contravention of the Russo-Chinese treaty which is now regarded as having lapsed, the government has sent five hundred Chinese troops to Urga and a similar number to Kiachta, and it is indicated that aditional men may be sent later. The Russian legation has presented a note to the government protesting against this dispatch of Chinese troops into Outer Mongolia. The government is still apprehensive of Bolshevik incursions agents, of the Russian soviet regime being reported to have established stations in Turkestan. Officials at Shanghai have been ordered to exercise vigilance to prevent the entry of Bolslieviki who are said to be coming into the country through that port. PREPARE FOR LOAN DRIVE CBy Associated Press) BALTIMORE, Md., April 10. County chairmen of the Liberty Joan committees, newspaper editors and bankers from all parts of Maryland assembled In convention here today to organize for the approaching Victory Liberty loan campaign. . .

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France. .The youngster probably will be taken over the battlefields of France, through the army camps and will meet President Wilson and the other great men at the peace conference. And on his trip he will have a war hero to tell him stories of bravery Commands Are Shifted in V. 5. Army of Occupation (By Associated Press) COBLENZ, April 10 The commands of four generals in the American army of occupation have been shifted, according to announcement made today at third army headquarters. Major General William Lessiter, who has commanded the thirtysecond division since it entered Germany, is designated chief artillery officer of the third army. Brigadier general William G. Haan, who commanded the thirty-second division during the war will have command of that division when it leaves the Rhine for home. Since the American army has occupied this Bection of Germany, General Haan has been a corps commander.- Brigadier Generals Adelbert Cronknite and Charles H. Muir, also third army corps commandera, were assigned to their old divisions, the eighteenth and twenty-eighth respectively. GERMAN CIVILIANS BOY ARMY MATERIAL (By Associated Press) COBLENZ, April 10. Millkms of dollars worth of material abandoned by the German army will be sold to civilians in the American-occupied area under United States army regulations, it was announced today, upon receipt of authorization from American general headquarters. No arms or ammunition will be included in the property to be disposed of to Germans nor will any material serviceable to the American army be sold. The material consists of several hundred thousand wooden-soled shoes, with paper uppers, paper harness, cooking utensils! wagons, carts and vast quantities of other articles not an asset in any way to the German military establishment. HUNGARIANS CLASH WITH CZECH FORCE (Bv Associated T'ressl LONDON, April 10. Violent fighting has taken place betwen Hungarians and Czechs at Ungvar, near the Moravian 'Hungarian border, says a Central News dispatch from Amsterdam today. One hundred and fifty Hungarians were killed. The Czechs also had considerable losses. THE WEATHER For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Generally fair in south and rain in north portion tonight; colder. Friday generally fair and colder. Today's Temperature Noon 67 Yesterday. Maximum 80 Minimum 47 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy tonight. Slightly colder tonight and Friday. Rain or snow, followed by fair. Strong shifting winds and westerly squalls. General Conditions The Texas storm covers the entire Mississippi valley and heavy rains are over the central states. Snow is reported in the west, especially in Kansas and I northern Texas. Temperatures are below freezing wast of the Mississippi river from Canada south to Texas. The coldest wave is in Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota. The storm is moving rapidly and will be followed by temperatures in the vicinity of freezing over this section and may go below freezing sometime during the next 36 hours. The cold spell will be brief due to low barometric pressure over British Columbia. Another storm is developing over the southern Rocky mountain plateau.

and daring. The guard or chaperone, is Sergt. Andrew Welz of New York. He wears the croix de guerre, awarded him for conspicuous bravery. Warren will hobnob with War Secretary Baker on the way over, as Baker is bound for Europe on the beat. SPECIAL SESSION OF LEGISLATURE MAY BE CALLED Changes in Road and Tax Laws to Come Before Lawmakers, if Convened. (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS April 10. Plans were being considered here this afternoon for calling a 'special session of the Indiana legislature to convene on Monday, April 21. Business to come before .the session, If called will be changes in the road and tax laws passed at the recent session of the general assembly. The tax law is said to be unsatisfactory because of an opinion of the attorney general recently that the state board of tax commissioners had no control over issues of bonds for special public improvements. So far as the road measure Is concerned it is said that the amendment proposed thereto and passed on the last day of the regular 1919 session of the legislature, was not incorporated in the enrolled act by some mistake. The law as it stands , it Is said, is not what the legislature intended. As it now stands the law takes away from the township trustees all control supervision of roads, but still permits them to draw pay for that duty. A meeting of the state officials and leaders of the house and senate of the legislature is to be held this afternoon at which final decision will be reached. Rumors have been heard for some time around the Wayne county court house that the legislature would be called into special session. According to these reports, received, it is said, by a county official in a telephone message from Indianapolis, the county unit road bill was in such a hopeless tangle, and there were so many variations in its interpretation, that the administration decided the only thing to do was to call a special session. Governor Goodrich, Lieutenant-Governor Bush, Jesse Eschbash, speaker of the house, and Attorney General Ele Stansbury are said to have held a conference on the subject Wednesday evening. An attempt was made to- keep the calling of the session a secret, it was said, because of the fact that many laws besides those mentioned, are held to be in need of repair, and pressure would be brought to bear upon the administration to consider every one of these. A special session can consider only the business given in the notice calling it, and it was hoped that the notice calling the session to consider the county road law and the tax law would be the first news that would leak, out. TWO GERMAN FOKKERS WILL FLY FOR LOAN NEW YORK, April 10. Two German Fokkers, brought down by American aviators in France, were included in the twelve or more airplanes assigned to the air division of the Victory liberty loan advertising demonstration here today. The German planes were brought over from France by Captain "Red" Simonin. With the exception of a few mechanical improvements they are in the same condition as when used by German aviators and can be distinguished easily from the American planes. There was a report' at Camp Mills today that the machines will be sent into New England and to the middle west to speed up the loan.

SOVIET RULE ESTABLISHED BY BOLSHEVIK IN SALZBURG

City of German Austria Reported Controlled by 'Reds Russians and Bavarians Establish Relations. UNREST IN BAVARIA (By Associated Press) LONDON, April 10. The proclama tion of a Soviet government in Salz burg, German Austria, is reported in an Amsterdam dispatch today to the central news. Salzburg is near the Bavarian border. BERLIN, April 10. Diplomatic relations have been established between the Russian and Bavarian soviet governments, according to the Zwolfuhrblatt. As late as April 8, the Russian soviet government had not got into touch with the Bavarian soviet authorities, according to a wireless message of that date from Nikolai Lenine, the Russian Bolshevik premier, who sent the message to Bela Kun, the Hungarian revolutionary leader, asking him to send details of the revolution in Bavaria. "We have only the barest announcement," Lenine's message said. STRIKE AGAINST SOVIET COPENHAGEN, April 10. The dispatches from Kissingen report that the citizens and officials of Wuerzberg, thirty miles to the northwest, have struck against the Bavarian soviet republic and that the town is now in the hands of the government troops. Heavy fighting against Spartacan forces occurred when government troops stormed the royal palace and captured the railway station but the fortress of Marienberg, across the Main river from Muerzburg was handed over without opposition. Most of the Spartacan leaders are reported to have been arrested but railway communication with the city has been interrupted. Troopt Enter Etsen. ' Government troops are reported to have entered Essen and to have oc cupied the Krupp plant, which according to previous reports had been seized by the Essen strikers. The troops posted artillery and machine guns at the entrances to the plant. The result of the Intervention by the government forces, the advices state, was that two-thirds of the workmen resumed their labors. The people of Essen, the messages add, became greatly excited during the operations of the troops, the latter having thrown hand erenades in thn midst of a crowd plundering a baggage van. From Saxony much unrest is reported. The Communists of th Voetland district in southwestern Saxony nave issued a demand that Saxony be made a soviet republic, while the metal workers at Zwickau, southwest of Chemnitz, and a larere rronortion of the Saxon miners have gone on striKe. APPEAL TO FARMERS TO SUPPORT LOAN (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 10. An appeal to farmers to buy Victory Liberty notes and to assist in every way possible in the loan campaign which starts April 21, was issued today by heads of 36 leading agricultural organizations, state and national, through the loan publicity bureau. , "No finer patriotic service was everrendered," said the appeal addressed to the farmers of America, "than when the farmers of America, short of labor, credit and farm supplies, still grew the increased crops without whica we could not have won the war. The more that is known about the war, the more gloriously our farmers' part in it will shine. The Victory Liberty loan drive begins April 21 and continues until May 10. We appeal to you, farmers of America, to finish what you have so well begun. Make this loan as superb a success as the war crops you have raised. See to it. that the farmers lead in putting the Victory loan over the top. "Make your participation in the Victory Liberty loan both in money and in service, the measure of your devotion to the great cause of democracy the democracy for which many of our boys have made the supreme sacrifice. Let your subscription and your effort be both an offering of thanksgiving for the return of peace and the means by which the world may measure the strength of your patriotism and your determination to see to it that the war shall not have been fought in vain." Spain and England to Form Trade Convention 'By Associated Press) MADRID, April 10. Premier Romanones had a conference today with the British ambasador concerning the convention between Great Britain and Spain, which will be signed tomorrow. England by this treaty will permit the importation of Spanish oranges and will ship to Spain 150,000 tons of coal per month. Spain will loan Great Britain 75,000,000 pesatas, the rate of interest being five per cent.

National Efficiency Program To Be Urged By Civil Service League V V (By Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA, April 10. A program of national efficiency as the basis of sound national reconstruction will be offered at the annual meeting of the national civil service reform league, which opens here tonight. Experts In public administration from all parts of the country are on the program for addresses. Richard Henry Dana of Boston, president of the league, in his address will outline the legislative program whereby the league seeks to bar politics from governmental administration and place the "business end of the government on a business basis." Martin A. Morrison, of Indiana, president of the federal civil Rervicfi commis

sion, will speak for the body In the ' same connection. Edward Keating of j Colorado, a member of the oint congressional commission on the reclassification of the civil service, will discuss the "Evils of the spoils system from the point of view of a congressman." Miss Ethel M. Smith of the national women's trade union league, will present the demands of women for equal recognition In the civil service. NATIONS' LEAGUE PLAN IMPERFECT, SAYS W.J. BRYAN However, "Commoner" Says We Must Accept it or Undergo Further Wars. William Jennings Bryan, former secretary of state and three times candidate for president, addressed a crowd estimated at 1,500 at the Coliseum, Thursday afternoon, on "The Work Accomplished and the Task Before Us." Bryan's speech was given as part of his three-weeks' tour of the middlewest under the auspices of the AntiSaloon League, and was a combination of the two topics of prohibition and the league of nations. S. Edgar Nicholson Introduced the speaker at 2:15 o'clock, and he was greeted with much applause. Many women and children were in the audience, in contrast to the audiences which he has many times addressed in Richmond. Had No Regard for Party "The prohibition victory was a victory of the national conscience without regard to party or faction," said Bryan.., He spoke at length on its -nonpartisan and non-sectional character. Referring to the threats of those who started the "No Beer-N'o Work" agitation, Bryan said: "It ought to be remembered that in the fight for prohibition the various unions connected with the liquor traffic, the beer makers, bartenders and bottle blowers, have never been able to secure from the national organization a declaration against prohibition. "A man who, having spent more for beer for himself than he had for bread for his family, puts on a button and goes out and declares he will not work for his own child if he can't get beer, will not have much influence upon public opinion. The protest of that kind of a man is not apt to move the conscience of the nation, and the absurdity of his position is so apparent that it is not likely that there will be any buttons worn by July A Complete Victory He emphasized the completeness of the prohibition victory, and pointed out the necessity for the formation of some organization to stand guard and mobilize the temperance forces in support of the national amendment and state laws. He said the Anti-Saloon League had been the greatest factor iu the national victory, and deserved support in its fight against the saloon in this country and its foreign propaganda. In his talk on the league of nations, which preceded the prohibition speech, Bryan said: "The plan of the league of nations is not perfect, but even in its original form it contains three premises that make war nearly impossible reduction of armaments, investigation of all disputes before war, and abolition of secret treaties. Amendments Help Matters. "Several amendments have been made recently which remove some of the greatest objections. We must choose between the league and the crtainty of recurring wars, and I am sure that a large majority of the senators will vote for its ratification, and that a large majority of the American people will approve thereof. "We must take risks, no patter whether wo accept the league or reject it. The risks that we take In accepting it are less than the risks we take if we reject it and turn back to the old ways of blood and slaughter. God grant that those who are entrusted with the launching of this great work may have the wisdom to so purge it of selfishness and greed, and infuse into it the spirit of the Prince of Peace as to make it the end of war." Mr. Bryan left at 3:50 o'clock for Muncie where he will speak this evening. He stopped at the Arlington hotel while here, spending two hours in his room alone immediately after his arrival here. Take Action to Enforce Sentence Against Debs (By Associated Press WASHINGTON, April 10. Steps toward enforcing the ten years imprisonment term imposed upon Eugene V. Debs, Socialist leader, for vio lating the espionage act, were taken today by the government. Upon the request of Solicitor General King, the supreme court, which on March 10 affirmed Debs' conviction, issued its mandate in the case and It will be sent at once to the federal district attorney for the northern district or Ohio.

ADVANCE MADE BY DELEGATES TOWARD FINAL PEACE TERMS "Wilson Hammering Ahead,' Says Dispatch Indemnity Fixed at $5,000,000,000 and Trial of Kaiser Decided.

WILSON AT SESSIONS (By Associated Press) r WASHINGTON, April 10. PresI dent Wilson is "hammering ahead" and has made "good progress" in hit negotiations in Paris, according to advices received today at the White louse. DECIDE ON REPARATION PARIS, April 10. President Wilson was expected to preside over the league of nations commission when It resumed its session today. The program called for discussion of amendments proposed by the French, American and Japanese delegations. : . The council of . four yesterday decided upon terms of reparation whereby Germany must pay $5,000,000,000 within the next two years and the remaining damage during a period of 80 years beginning May 1, 1921, the amount to be assessed by an interallied commission. Responsibility of the German emperor for the war and the means for bringing him to trial, probably by Belgium, also was determined upon. A third point agreed upon was the disposition of the Sarre Valley. Under this agreement the sovereignty of the valley will not be changed but France will be allowed free of duty sufficient coal for the Lorraine iron industry and to replace the production lost through the destruction of the Lens mines. Andre Tardieu, Viscount Morley and Charles H. Haskins, the special committee on western European boundaries, were called before the council of four today. This gives rise to the belief that Premiers Lloyd George, Clemenceau, Qrlanda and President Wilson were considering the problems of the Rhine valley. APPEAL TO U. Sr TO BE PATIENT - WITH MEXICANS fBy Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 10. An appeal from three until recently exiled Catholic bishops of Mexico to the people of the United States and Mexico, "to be patient and forbearing, the one with the other, lest the amlety which just men desire to preserve" should be disrupted by evil forces, was made public here today by the Mexican embassies. After referring to the world desolation left by the war, and to the appeal of the pontiff for steadfast advocacy of Justice to all people, to point the way to permanent peace and good will, the bishops 6aid: "Even while we in love and In charity labor to fulfill this duty, which Christianity imposes upon us, and which the Holy Father so eloquently requires us to do, there are others to fan old fears and rekindle old hates. A small selfish, but very powerful minority still prevent and obscure the interest of the plain people. The right3 of the weakest continue to be sacrificed to the Interest of the strongest. "In Mexico, anarchy Is abetted by a few aliens: and our people are angered by unwaranted foreign interest in their domestic concerns, and Indignity with a proud and sovereign race can not lightly endure. The purpose of these activities is made plain by a press which is filled with the threat of portents of a new war, the work of a small group of heartless or thoughtless men against our own will, beloved people of Mexico." TRAFFIC TIED UP BY WESTERN STORM (By Associated Press) DENVER, Colo., April 10. Railroad and telegraph companies today were recovering from the effect of the snow and sleet storm which swept the southern Rocky Mountain region on Tuesday and Wednesday. Trains which had been tied up by snow blockades in western Ttxas and New Mexico were reported moving but far behind schedule. Because of demoralized wire conditions, the railroaders were unable to give definite reports on the delays of trains other than that they were from one and a half to ten hours late. . The storm, which extended as far as Mexico, was especially severe In New Mexico. At Roswell, N. M.. serious damage to the peach crop was reported by the weight of snow. The snowfall in New Mexica varied from six to ten Inches. Livestock losses, except in the Kans?8 valley, where sheep raisers were reported to have suffered heavily,, were said to be slight. DR. CAVANAUGH RESIGNS. (By Associated Press) SOUTH BEND, April 10. Resignation, effective in June, of the - Very Rev. Dr. John A. Cavanaugh, C. S. C. president of Notre Dame university, was informally announced last nlht.