Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 170, 30 April 1919 — Page 1

PAIXABIXTM VOL. XTTV NO 170 Palladium. Est. 1SS1. Consolidated ju. Amv,nu. XtV wUh gun-Telegram 107. RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1919 SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS

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LOAN VICTORY IN WAYNE TO BE ANNOUNCED DURING WEEK Delinquent Townships Prompt Officials to Withhold Statement Until Entire County is Over Top. NATIONAL DRIVE LAGS

Wayne township and the county will finish up their Victory loan campaigns together some time during the week, announced both county and township officials Wednesday. While the city campaign Is progress- . lng satisfactorily, the drive In several townships of the county is not getting along so well, and the officials prefer to make the announcement of the county victory all together, they said. Four Banner Townships. The county total was announced Wednesday as being 91,485,000, of which $945,000 Is to be credited to the township and Richmond, and the remainder, or $540,000, to the outlying townships. Wednesday noon four townships, Clay, with $48,000 of her quota of $45,000; Green, with $60,000 raised against a $55,000 quota; Jefferson, with an even $100,000 subscription against a quota of $93,500, find Perry, with $35,000 raised and a quota of $30,500, were the four banner townships that are already victorious. Center, with $65,000 raised out ot $117,000; Jackson, with $106,000 out of $160,000; New Garden, with $30,500 out of $50,000; Washington, with $40,000 out of $90,500, and Boston, with $42,000 of her quota of $50,000, were reported as making satisfactory progress. Ablngton Far Behind. Dalton, with only $4,100 raised out of $18,000; Ablngton, which has barely made a start with $500 r -ainst a quota of $32,600; Harrison, which has made no report yet, and Webster, with a report of $3,600 out of $25,000, the north half of the township, are lagging. Efforts were being made to push the work in these four townships, which are holding back the whole county campaign from early victory.. The work is going steadily forward throughout the rest of the county. ..; L. L. Daugherty, of Jacksonburg. has accepted the chairmanship of -4 Harrison township and has . pledged V'. his best efforts to put the township over its quota. Women's Chairman Pleased. Mrs. A. W. Roach, the county women's chairman, expressed herself Wednesday as being especially pleased with the efforts of her workers in the outlying townships, saying that perfect teamwork had been obtained between the men and women workers. FOURTH IS SUBSCRIBED. WASHINGTON, April 30. Subscriptions to the Victory loan officially reported to the treasury today passed one billion dollars. Thus with the campaign nearly half ove' less than one lourth of the $4,500,000 total ins been subscribed.

Judge Bond Will Name Two Tax Review Board Members The county board of tax review, which consists of the county treasurer, the county assessor and the auditor, with two other men to be appointed by Circuit Judge William A. Bond, will commence its sittings Immediately after the close of the assessment period, on the first Monday in June. Judge Bond Baid Wednesday morning that he would make no appointments to the board until about the middle of May. The two men to be appointed by him must not be of the same political party, according to the new tax law. The number of persons complaining of the rates of assessment is expected to be much higher than usual, as the assessments have been nearly doubled this year under the new law. All three county afflcials say, however, that they expect to revise assessments up as well as down, as In many cases true market value has not yet been reached, and that persons who think they have been rated too high had better be cautious aDOUt coming before the board. Weather Forecast For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Rain tonight Thursday probably fair". Today's Temperature. ' Noon ". . . . 52 Yesterday. Maximum 56 Minimum 43 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Rain Thursday or Thursday night. General Conditions A storm - of moderate size Is central over Arkansas and caused the rains last night over Indiana and central states. Another storm over the northwest promises to cause continued unsettled weather during the next thirty-six hours or longer, with occasional rains, although It may be fair at times. ; Temperatures continue above normal over the west, but It Is quite cold over Ontario, being near zero. Zero weather continues over the Yukon valley and Central Alaska and is above freezing at some places on the western coast of Alaska, as high as 44 at Juneau and zero at Nome.

Former Army Officers Shine Shoes In Budapest (By Associated Press) BERLIN, April 30. Former army officers are shining shoes in the streets in Budapest and university graduates, lawyers and Judges are doing menial duties in order to earn enough to secure food, according to Judge Soelling of Kiel, who has Just returned from Hungary. Ho says the propaganda of the red army has been a total failure and that the few recruits who are coming In are doing so out of sheer necessity to secure food. According to Judge Soelling, the population is taking the hostilities between the different factions with full apathy and are waiting only for the Rumanians, Czechs and Serbs to rescue them. The government continues to take hostages. Yesterday they locked up a number of former members of parliament, among them the editor of the Pester Lloyd, Josef Vszl. the editor of Pester Hirlap, Legradi, former premier Count Ksterhasy and the poet Franz Herczey.

ORDER IS GIVEN STATE FORCE TO STAYJTUNTON Efforts of County Officials to Have Militia Withdrawn Prove Unsuccessful. (By Associated Press) LINTON, April 30. Efforts were made early today by Major Andrew Miller and Sheriff Wines to have withdrawn the state troops, ordered here yesterday by Governor James P. Goodrich to enforce martial law because of disorders pending a strike of telephone operators but state authorities answered that they must have evidence first of the ability ot the local authorities to maintain law and order. Miners, who started to work this morning, Ief( the mines shortly afterward and began assembling in the town. They were interested in the outcome of the mediation step to be undertaken upon the arrival of the members of the state labor commission. They were demanding that settlement would not be effected which did not provide for recognition of the telephone operator's local. Troops to Remain. Major Miller and Sheriff Wines, In conversation with the governor over the long distance telephone assured him that the situation was so much easier that they were, confident they could act henceforth without aid of the state troops. The governor replied that be would consider calling off the troops if they would certify their abil ity to handle the situation to Harry B. Smith, adjutant. ..general ,oi-. Indiana! who is in command here,' and if he in turn would certify the ability of the local officials to enforce law and order to the governor. "The governor assured the officials, however, that the best evidence of their ability would be to show that the New Home Telephone company is able to resume business and operate Its telephones without being hampered by outside influences. General Smith Informed the officials that he would recommend no action looking toward withdrawal of the militia until the situation was clearer. IEVIDENCE GATHERED AGAINST BREWERS (By. Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 30. Agents of the department of justice have been instructed to obtain evidence showing what brewers continue to manufacture beer after midnight tomorrow when provision of the use of foods In manufacture of beer, wine or other intoxicating liquors becomes effective. This evidence may or may .not be used in prosecution of brewers, depending largely on what the federal court tn New York decides in the beer case now pending there. Whether production of near beer after tomorrow midnight is prohibited the department of Justice ' has not ruled. Manufacturers of wine or beer who continue to operate after May 1, will do so at their own risk, although the department has not indicated any intention of causing immediate arrests. SEVERE EARTHQUAKE REPORTED IN U, S. WASHINGTON. April 30. A very severe -and prolonged earthquake estimated to have centered between 4,000 and 4,100 miles from Washington was recorded early today at the Georgetown university seismological observatory. NEW YORK. April 30. Cables received by 'the South American cable company indicate that the earthquake which occurred in San Salvadore two days ago may prove as disastrous as the great quake of 1917 it was said at the offices of the company today. No details have been received but the company's agents in San Salvadore cabled that the damage was extensive, the disaster apparently rivaling that of 1917. Australia To Deport All Interned Germans MELBOURNE. April 30. The commonwealth of Australia plans to deport interned Germans, beginning late in May, it was announced today. The internees, who are, for the most part Germans previously resident in Australia, the crewB of captured ships and prisoners transferred to the commonwealth from the east,, will have the right of appearing before special magistrates and showing cause why they do not. wish to be returned to Germany. ' , . .-.

ORLANDO IS GIVEN VOTE OF SUPPORT BYJTALIANS Senate Action Follows That of House of Deputies reat Demonstration for Premier Follows Session.

SITUATION VERY GRAVE '.Br Associated Press) ROME, April 30. Premier Orlando's government was given a unanimous vote of confidence in the Italian senate last night, following the vote of confidence given him in the house of deputies. A great demonstration followed the premier's address before the senate. ROME, April 30. Premier Vittoria Orlando'B work at the peace conference in Paris received vindication in the chamber of deputies her? last night when a vote of confidence was given him, 382 to 40. The ballots opposing the resolution were cast by the Intransigeant socialists. The premier laid before parliament the details of these demands for Flume and the Dalmatian coast districts to which Italy has laid claim. He began by saying that the international situation was grave at present, adding it was "very grave" for Italy. He said that it was the duty of Italy to preserve an attitude of "calm and serenity" at the present moment Asks Further Authority. An outline of the exchanges between himself and President Wilson was given by Signor Orlando, who made it clear that the president's action In making public his statement as to Italy's claim to Fiume had made it impossible either to accept or reject any proposals that might be made. He said he believed it his duty to come at once before the parliament to receive authority in carrying forward his work at the conference. Up until April 14 when he received from President Wilson the American viewpoint on Fiume, he said he thought an agreement was probable. In the course of his address, the premier spoke of the attitude taken at Paris by the British and French governments, which he said, had been loyal to promises made in the treaty ot.London which-was framed in 131 He admitted, howeter. that both Great Britain and France do not stand with Italy in her demands for the annexation of Fiume. He added that they might have agreed, in principle to the creation of Fiume as an independent free state. In discussing the American memorandum, which was handed to him April 14 and which was distributed among the members of parliament today by the premier. Signer Orlando said : . "Inasmuch as this memorandum denied -Italy's rights over the Dalmatian Islands, acorded only incomplete liberty to Fiume and even went so far as to break up the unity of Isfria, I told Mr. Wilson it was absolutely impossible for me to agree to peace on the conditions indicated. I added that under such conditions the Italian delegation felt it could not continue to participate in the conference with any benefit for others or dignity for Italy, but said I would communicate with representatives of the allied powers with which Italy was bound by special agreements. Compromise Unsuccessful "President Wilson showed great regret for such a hypothesis, adding he would do everything possible to prevent it. He said he thought it opportune and useful that France and England should undertake to find a means of conciliation while he would have the question re-examined by his experts to see if further concessions could be made to Italian aspirations. "The Italian delegation did not maintain an obstinate attitude, but cooperated during the following days in efforts to find a way to conciliation. It was anxious not to delay peace and to avoid compromising the union of the allied peoples, ven by an appearance of disagreement. It was continuing patiently to seek a means of conciliation and was, discussing the subject with the British premier when the presidential message appeared. "This new fact seemed to the Italian delegation of enormous gravity, as it made public a dissension which until then although deep, was confined inside the conference. Besides making statements addressed to the sentiment and will of peoples in general and therefore to the Italian people, the full authority and therefore the prestige of the Italian delegation was doubted just in the grave and decisive hour when it was most needed." Flume Attitude Advanced Addressing himself to the attitude of Italy at the peace conference and the justice of her demands, the premier continued "Italy did not measure her sacrifices by the letter of her treaty with the allied powers and did not ask for help when she had to withstand the shock of the Austrian army, as : she might have done under the treaty. Therein she only did her duty as the allies have done, but that fact transformed friendship into blood fellowship and it was in that sense that Italy, appealed to the allied peoples and governments " 1 - . . ' ' "The question of Flume was not. first brought forward by Italy but by a thrilling act- of spontaneous will which began with . the declaration of Flume's representative In the , Hungarian parliament and which was subsequently confirmed when Fiume proclaimed herself an Italian town. . "Can our great nation remain inert and unmoved by the vehement and despairing appeal of this people whpse Continued On Page Eleven. -

Anzac Major Who Blew Top From Enemy Hill

Major R. C. Trower Major R. C. Trower. of Sydney, Australia, is the engineer who blew off the top of a hill at Beaumont-Hamel, in July 1916. The deed resulted in the killing of 600 Germans. He has received the British Military Cros3 and other honors and decorations. Numerous Floral Tributes At Funeral Of Mrs. Starr Funeral services for Mrs. Henry Starr were held at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the home of the daughter, Mrs. Gath Freeman, South Twenty-second street. The Rev. Walter J. Cronin. of St. Mary's Catholic church, officiated. Burial was in Earlham cemetery. The pall bearers were Everett Lemon, Joseph Mills. Lewis E. Iliff. Jacob Hanes, Samuel Gaar and Omar Holllngsworth. . Indicative of the high esteem in which Mrs. Starr was held, were the numerous floral offerings. "Banker" Fined In City Court He's Gravel-Banker, Though Patrick Maboney, who gave his occupation to Chief Gormon as "banker," was fined $5 and costs in city court Wednesday morning for vagrancy. He explained later he was a gravel-banker. He has been living in a cellar and begging at Richmond backdoors, the police say. Henry Hunt, 15, of Indianapolis, climbed on what he thought was a cut of cars on a side track on his way to school in Indianapolis and did not discover it was a fast freight until he was out of the city, he told the police who picked him upT Tuesday,. Afterward he;fleclded to stay on the train" until he reached Richmond. He was sent back home Tuesday night. Albert White, wanted in Eaton for the alleged theft of a motorcycle more than a year ago, was arrested by Richmond police and held for Marshal Armstrong of Eaton, who took him back. A Cole Eight touring car stolen at Indianapolis, and a Ford at Muncie were reported to local police Wednesday. The Ford is thought to have been headed toward Richmond. Hound, Shotgun, Provisions, Linus Meredith, All Gone Accompanied by a trained "mushroom" hound, and bearina shotguns and three days' provisions, Linus Meredith, clerk of the circuit court, and John Holaday, court reporter, started Wednesday afternoon on a mushroom bunt. Meredith would not say in what part of the county he expected to find the mushrooms. , , Young Glen Miller Fox Says He's First At Table The kitten foxes, which -as soon as they are old enough are to adorn a cage in the Glen Miller Park zoo, are eating and getting fat, according to park officials. An average of ,one quart of bread and milk a day is consumed by the "furred rascals," and though they are kept down in the basement where it is warm, but dark, they are waking up wonderfully and showing signs of early ferocity. The male fox is especially important and refuses to let the girls eat. while he does. As a result, he has to be moved over into another "coop" for the purpose of repast, which doesn't please him at all. For some reason he likes to kid the girls and make them "scared to death" of him about meal time, and he shows all - the authority and initiative In stepping forward , when visitors a call upon the family.:, ., - The monkeys which Superintendent Hollarn expects to purchase, have not yet docked in New York, but are expected within a few days, he said today. ' ' " - Wow! Cent More For ... ; Even Soft Drinks, Now Oh, boy! Those" 10 percent luxury taxes which go into effect bright and. early tomorrow morning. May 1, are going to make themselves known. One cent isn't much, but summer's coming, and probably your taste for soda fountain luxuries is just as keen as it used to be back in the archaic five cent times. When you used to go in the morning and get a cholocate dope, and then drop in again in the afternoon for a cherry split, and then take your girl in the. evening' for a banana special, you used to congratulate yourself that it hadn't taken so very much of your spare change, but with this movie war tax affair shifted around so it hits you going and coming, . it's going to be mighty hard on the coppers. Somebody suggested today that now was the Ideal time for girls to Initiate the long contemplated custom of paying half the bill. ; , i

BOLSHEVIKI ARMY FACES REVERSES ON WESTJROMT Reds Forced to Abandon Two Positions Gains Made in South Counter-balanced by Western Defeats.

POLISH TROOPS GAIN LONDON, April 30. Bolshevik successes on the southern front have been counterbalanced by reverses on the western front, according to a Russian wireless message reported in the Russian official statement of Sunday. The statement said that on the western front the Bolshevikl had abandoned Sergeievsk and Christopol. On the southern front in the region north of Rostov, the Bolshevik are said to have captured Korsun, crossed the northern Donets and occupied points along the railway running south. American and British troops at Kurgoman, on the right bank of the Dvina, repulsed a strong Bolshevik attack Sunday night, taking thirteen prisoners. HAMBURG STRIKE RENEWED. BERLIN, April 30. A new dispute is threatened in Hamburg. The harbor workers and all the big factories are on strike. Minister of defense Noeke today In the course of an interview referred to the necessity of defending Germany's eastern frontiers. Noeke said the statement of David Lloyd George, the British prime minister, that Germany was hardly in a position to assemble eighty thousand men for the maintenance of order unfortunately was true. . Noeke said he considered the Bolshevik danger to Germany had been militarily overcome. "We have done everything," Noeke concluded, "to maintain order in Germany and construct a law-abiding and ordered- state, thus creating the foundation lor peace, but all our works of cburse would be in vain if an "economic nrisls pr .--interruption of -comuhications brought collapse at the; eleventh, hour or 11 tbe entente by setting up impossible peace conditions, destroyed all our work." POLES MARCH ON MINSK. PARIS, Tuesday, April 29. Polish troops, having driven the Bolshevik! from Vilna are marching on Minsk, according to information given the Temps by M. TasilewskI, formerly Polish foreign minister. In connection with the Polish operations in LIthunla the former minister said that the Polish diet had announced that military activity' in Lithunia is only to protect the inhabitants against Invasion. The liberation of White Russia and Lithunia, M. Wasilewski added, would make an end to Bolshevik plans to invade Poland through those territories. M. Tchitcherin, the Russian Bolshevik foreign minister is unable to communicate with Munich, according to a wireless dispatch from him to Bela Kun, the Bolshevik foreign minister of the Hungarian soviet government, which had been picked up here. Bela Kun is asked to- send a message to Munich, Instructing the soviet leaders there how to organize their government. M. Tchitcherin made the following inquiries of the Hungarian foreign minister: "Have you seized all clothing, supplies, factories, banks, paper stocks and print shops so as to issue newspapers for workmen? Have you established a six hour day, taken the Bourgeoisie as hostages and ( given them less food than is given workmen? Have you forced . the Bourgeoisie to share their homes with workmen and have you doubled or trebled workmen's wages?" 600 ARRESTS MADE BUDAPEST, April 30. Six hundred arrests have been made oy the soviet authorities, virtually every Inancier, publisher, editor, writer, manufacturer and ex-minister of Hungary who could be reached being thrown into prison. More than thirty editors and newspaper owners, as well as a large number, of reporters have been taken into custody it is alleged, because they have' refused to accept bribes to champion, the soviet cause. ' - Count Albert Apponyi, former premier; Count Hadik, former food minister and Baron and Baroness Lewis Hatvanj, Countess Nako,, wife of the former governor of Fiume, the entire membership" of the chamber of commerce and a number of. bankers are among the hostages that are being held. Attorney Steuysel has been executed and ten others have been sentenced to life; improsonment. German Imprisoned For Refusing To Share His Seat With Yank Fighter (By Associated Press) . COBLENZ, Saturday, April 26. Carl Milner, a lawyer, and a former officer, in ' the . German army who claims relationship to Viscount Milner the British secretary for colonies was sentenced to prison today for acting In a discourteous manner toward an American officer: 'The Incident oc curred on a street car between Cobtenz and a suburb the American con tending that Milner refused to share his seat. - Milner was sentenced v to Jail for thirty days. - : ...

"Jitney Buses" Come Under Revenue Tax (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 30 Taxicabs, "jitney buses" and other passenger automobiles, operated for hire are subject to special government taxes under regulations just issued by the international revenue bureau interpreting the previsions of the revenue act. An automobile with a seating capacity of from three to seven is taxed $10 a year, and buses capable of carrying more than seven are taxed 20. Two passenger cars are exempt The regulations provide that "bus lines," automobile stages and "jitneys" operating over regular routes and cars operated by sightseeing companies are liable to the tax. The tax is assessed against the car and not the owner, so that if a man sells a car, he may not transfer the tax to another car. This tax became effective January 1 and is now due. Soda water and ice cream sold at soda fountains, and so-called luxuries, such as expensive articles of clothing or personal equipment becomes taxable tomorrow, May 1.

INDIANA "Y, M." OFFICERS HERE LAST OF WEEK Problems Dealing With Employment for Returned Soldiers Will be Discussed. Nearly thirty Y. M. C. A. secretaries and physical directors from different parts of Indiana will be present at the meeting here Thursday and Friday of employment officers for the purpose of discussing the association's problems to be met in the ensuing year in connection with the large number of returning service men and other problems of like nature. The meeting will open at 1:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon at Reid Memorial church. In connection with the conference, the physical directors will hold a meeting Friday morning at 8 o'clock to form a Physical Directors' Society ot Indiana. The annual meeting of the Indiana j Athletic Federation will be held at the :Y. M. C. A. Friday afternoon at 4:15 I o'clock. Plans will be formulated for ; standard meets and matches throughi out the coming year so that all the as sociations can be prepared to meet the necessary requirements arising. The Program. The program for the Y. M. C. A. employment officers' conference follows: Thursday afternoon at Reid Memorial i church: meeting will be opened by group singing led by J. Lu-Turner. actfag -general: s ecretary -of Greensburg r. ii. u. .Ai H. B. Brown of Evansvilto will be one of the speakers. A member of the Richmond Y. M, C. A. board of directors will welcome the secretaries to Richmond. The Rev. F. A. Dressel of First English Lutheran church will speak on "What the Church Expects of the Y. M. C. A. Employed Officers." E. E. Stacy, state secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of Indianapolis, will address the conference on "What Is Just Ahead Enlarged Program." K. W. Harding, physical director of the local association, will have charge of physical exercises during the meeting. " "What Will An Enlarged Program Mean to the Local Association?" will be the subject H..C. Gran of Terre Haute will discuss. G. P. Stoddard of Crawfordsville will talk, on "The Y. M. C. A. College and Summer School." At 5 o'clock the conference will be closed and the men attending will go to the Y. M. C. A. where they will participate in some form of recreation, including a volley-ball game. A dinner will be served at the Y. M. C. A. At this hour, A A. Goddard, general secretary of the Indianapolis Y. M. C. A., will discuss the subject, "A More Intensive Program of Religious Work." s Orville Brunson, boys' secretary of the Richmond Y. M. C. A.r will speak on "Community-wide Program for Boys' Work." ' Nevius First Speaker Friday morning, at 9:30 o'clock, the j conference will open by singing and C. F. Nevius of Anderson, will address the meeting. His subject will be. "A Searching Heart." .L. A. Schwan," of Fort Wayne,, formerly of Richmond, will speak on the ''Cultural Life of the Employed Officers." "Community-wide Work" will ba the subject on which Max Donelsonof Gary will address the conference.' Following Donelson'a speech, a regular business session will be held."-Discussions of the subjects taken by each .speaker will follow. At the luncheon at 12:15, D. W. Binford of Auburn, Ind., will preside. iEdgar Webb of Indianapolis, state Y. M. C. A. demobilization secretary, will , speak on. the "County Training Conference." Ralph. L. Donnan, state will discuss "Recent Developments in wil Idtscuss "Recent Developments In Railroad, County Work and s Student Work." A. B. Smith, of the Marion association, will speak on the question of membership. i-. ;' . .. . Urge Farmers To Prepare To Store Huge Wheat Cro '. ' ' (Bv Associated Press) , WASHINGTON, 1 Apil 30. Farmers and grain, elevator . companies are urged by the department, of agriculture to make every possible provision for the safe storage and handling of the prospective : huge wheat' crop in order to reduce losses to a minimum. Should next winter prove a severe one it was said a repetition of the congestion that occurred last winter at term-, inal elevators and on railroad in the movement, of wheat, forcing numerous embargoes, V might cause heavy losses if adequate provision is not made for storage. . ' Stacking of wheat immediately after harvest and under proper conditions was. said to a be a better means of preserving it than threshing at once and was urged bb a partial solution of the grain congestion problem which every farmer could apply. .

POWERS REACH SOLUTION FOR JAPO-CHINESE LAND CLAIMS

Possibility of Break Over Kiao Chau is Removed Action on Treaty to Proceed Without Italians. BELGIANS DEMAND AID (By Associated Press PARIS, Apr. 30 A formula for the solution of the problem of Kiao Chau, which it is hoped will remove any possibility of a definite break and prove mutually acceptable to the Chinese and Japanese, has been reached by the powers, it was stated in au thoritative quarters today. The nature of the indicated solution, however, has as yet not been disclosed. Up to mid-afternoon no further announcement regarding the Kiao Chau agreement had been made. It Is understood that the plan contemplates the giving of Kiao Chau to the Japanese in the peace treaty with an arrangement for its return to China under certain conditions within a stipulated time. The first session of the peace congress will be held In the room now used by the supreme war council, and will be devoted to a verification of credentials. The text of the peace treaty will be presented to the Germans at the second session of the dining room of the hotel Trianon. This is a superb apartment 75 feet square and having windows almost entirely around three sides, making it virtually a room Inclosed in glass. The delegates will proceed to the conference chamber through a marble corridor 180 feet long lined with mirrors on one side. To Proceed With Treaty The council of three met today a half hour earlier than usual. While no program was announced it was be lieved tne Italian situation as developed by the parliamentary endorsement of the Italian delegation position was to be considered, and the discussion over Kiao Chau resumed. Neither the Japanese nor the Chinese delegates appeared during the first hour of the session nor was there any appearance on the part of the Belgians, whose financial claims have been under consideration by the council. It was understood this forenoon, however, that the Japanese would be called In during the afternoon for a further consideration of the suggested compromise regarding Kiao Chau. It is planned in Deace conference circles to go ahead with the treaty of peace without regard to any action by Italy, as it Is considered probable the Italian delegation will not return, per. tainly not within the present week. xne delivery or the treaty and the first exchanges with the Germans therefore will occur without the participation of Italy and it is aaM tn American quarters that this procedure win go forward steadily i up Ull the signing of the treaty. TBe first reading with the Germans will urobahlv nc. cur Friday afternoon or Saturday, wnen the pact will be presented. Acceptance in Doubt. . A day or two will be given for questions concerning interpretations-of dlf-. ferent phases of the convention without however, involving a prolonged discussion. The French view is that the Germans mar ask for two wmIt delay to nermit tbem to ratnrn fn weimar with an additional week for discussing points presented after their return from the temnorarv German . capitol. 'This is a matter of conjec ture, nowever, as there Is no precise Information as to Germany's Intentions. . - . , Reports from Berlin marine tfca American delegation are somewhat contradictory concerning Germany's -purposes as some reports Indicate that an early slKnine of the treatv ia nmh. able while others say that it is doubt ful whether the pact will be signed at all. These reports, coming from dlfici cm. BuuiA.es, mmcaie a jaca or concerted attitude as to the treaty and show there is disposition to leave the decision largely with the German plenipotentiaries who "are now at Versailles. - ' .... - . EFFECT PROBLEMATICAL Premier Orlando's government and the Italian delegation at the peaca conference received a vote of confidence from the Italian parliament last night. The vote 'in -the chamber of aeputies . was S82 to 40 and in the senate Jt was' unanimous. ... What effect this, action will have on the council of three of the peace conference is ' problematical. Paris advices carry the view, however, that re j cvum w me iiajjan . aeiegauon is not expected," for. the present t least, and that it is planned to proceed with the process of making peace with. Germany regardless of any action by Italy. ' , Meanwhile,the rival claims of Japan and China, to : the former German fortress of Kiao' Chau are reported to have been reconciled. From a statement made in authoritative-quarters, according to n Paris dispatch, . It appears that a plan has been formulated which it is hoped will prove, acceptable both to -China and Japan. What the nature of the 'proposed-solution

is remains unaisciosea. y i ne question was under, consideration" by the council of three in a long session with th3 Japanese delegates yesterday, v . ; Germans Arrive ' The full German' delegation 'which ' is to receive ' the terms of the allies late ,this week, how is at -Versailles, It is expected that tne initial' meeting will be Tield. Friday but it may be. found impossible to prepare the treaty for presentation before Saturday. WJien the German plenipotentiaries -arrived at Vatf eresson, near VersaRlea, -: Continue J. Go Page Thirteen, . . , . t .-. -

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