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NORWICH,
VOL LXIII NO. 308
POPULATION 29,685
CONN., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1921
12 PAGES 84 COLUMNS
PRICE TWO CENTS
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RATIFICATION OF
IRISH TREATY PRED1GTEI
Debate Probably Will Close at End of Today's Session
De Valera Suggests an Evening Session if Necessary "to
Finish It" Character of Applause and Remarks . of
Speakers at Session Yesterday Indicated Feeling Favor
' able to Ratification Miss MacSwiney Was Vitriolic in
Opposition and Intimated Rebellion Against the Free
State. '
Dublin, Dec. 21. (By the A. P.) The
possibility of concluding the debate on
Th? Irish treaty and reaching a decision
by tomorrow night was indicated by Ea
monn De Valera at the close of today's
t ssions when he . suggested that, if the
r sup:ons were nor. concluded tomorrow
af'ernoon. an evening session should be
ril'i -to finish it."
nhur tlrittiih. criticising Mary Mac
Swiney. for speaking so long (her ad
orers orenpifd two hours and forty min
ufs). ir-oueht that fifteen minutes would
, su'IV-ent for anrh of the remaining
;ikers to express his views. One dep-
He declared the pact represented the
fruits of the sacrifices of all who had
died for Ireland. "Every man and wo
man here, h-3 said, "is entitled to go
out and die for Ireland. But none ia en
titled to send the Irish people to death."
David Kent of East Cork, one ' of
whose brothers was executed in 1916,
and another sentenced to penal servi
tude, opposed the treaty. Bs said that
urvler Mr. Valera, iwho had bee!n
duly elected president of the republic
would have to make way for gome Eng.
lish lord as governor general. They
could have no idea what Irish taxation
ll'V
expressed the opinion -that no more would be, he added, because they did
r. wrc required, and in this he
appeared to voice .the Impatience of
many members to vote without further
iV-:ay.
ApplnniMt Indicates Acceptance.
Fr the first time there was a dls-
P";tin tonight on the part of certain
T'mbTS of the Dail Eireann supporting
tr.-aty tr predict definitely that it
t" "II be ratified. The character of the ap
p'nnse today and the incidental remarks
r th. Sneakers tended to support this
prediction.
Xi ar tile close of her long speech.
M ss MarSwiney not only said that she
rti ci:t nevpr have another opportunity
n n-Mross that assembly, unless Ireland
b-oam' a republic, but marked out her
t ttiiT" policy and that of .the republican
I'.ifv "f rebellion against the free state,
hc lias bad opportunities of ascertniu
:tv. iii.. views of the members of the Dall
K r..arn. ami thse refen-nces were taken
: s iiiititing to her considered opinion as
' the nrohahle result in the Sinn Fe'n
r-arl;amf nt.
'!(' Oavan DtifTy and other
sr.. alvri s for ratification seemed to ta'r.e
it f'-r granted tba tthe Dail Eireann
WMild anrove the treayt, but, despite
Th.-. indications, a large element of the
J":l)hn population continued apprehen
sive tonight regarding the outcome.
There were several references today,
as yesterday, to a plebiscite, whatever
the Dail decis'on may he, In order to ob
tain a free expression from the electorate
"n tho issue, and thus "clear the air."
Friction Between Opposing Sides.
Mich friction between the opposing
vr was in evidence. Interchanges in
V- m'.rnine session between Mr. He Va
lera and Mr. Griffith were marked by
H'.ri.iM. ereating a tense almusphje-e.
T!'- ste-ecli of William Cosgrave in the
i';t-rnoi.n. however. wnt far towards
rs-- ring mutual friendliness.
iVsrrave. one of the most active and
"-i-ular members of the Pail Eireann.
ho is in close touch with municipal and
urty organizations thrfiughout Ireland
3nd is r'trarded as knowing well the
rnd nf i ublic sentiment, strongly ad-i-ocated
ratification of the treaty; he
tia'lf it plain that a great majority of
!h lrih people favored acceptance. His
;"-erb was all the more effective for be
r.L' joeuiar. and his sharpest thrusts
w . re no resenleu ever, by the men at
-vhr.m t'i"y were directed. Charles Bur
:ess. lTiinisier of dc-f.-rse. for example.
e"mhed heartily at ""rave's descrlp
",ri or b'm "sooij ai war. lint not good
for anythng else." He followed the
.in.- 'oiopted by Michael Collins and wel
0:1 the treaty chiefly for its i ?
iiateiy heipftii effects on Irish social ami
'..nomir conditions.
( DHgrtif Suggests Plebiscite.
Mr. Coscrave.. w-'no is really the prin-
adm nis'rator of Dublin City,
s e.ke with much pathos of the misery
of 2". 000 Dublin families, each of whom
li ed ip. i ne room, and suggested the de-
s:-ab:lit of having the decision to the
Irish pvopb-, who had the best right to
dt-rni:ne their own future.
The meeting today was notable for
sp' ches by Gavan Duffy and Eamonn F.
D-:pgan, two of the delegates who signed
it, treaty. Though they spoke from
different angles. Mr. Duffy regretting the
treaty, and Mr. Duggan praising its pos
fobiiitif s. they agreed In strongly recom
m -tidies tl,e Dall Eireann to ratify it.
Tl.. y differed materially on the question
uf the aliened duress applied to obtain
'--:r signatures, Duffy corroborating
J.oiiert ' . Itarton. who made the charge
in his speech Monday that signature was
tom.i.-Ped by a threat of immediate war,
and Dustran denying coercion.
Mlns MarSwiney Ytetrlolie.
.Mary MacSwiney spoke passionately
Tor a republic, denying repeatedly that
Lhi id'a of a republic was dead
"If the president and a united cabinet
stoo.i for the treaty," she declared, "we
would stili stand for a republic"
Sim asked for a plebiscite of the wo
men on toe question of a republic, siv-
t'uit th.. women and children of Ire
land w .:.,,,! continue to stand for it, even
1: 1 ne men turned their hacks on it.
Ir-ltird should choose extermination
L. lor,, oisbonor, she exclaimed.
.M:ss .'laesw.ricy attacked Premier
1.1'jyd George, the treaty iind the press,
;n-!udins the American nresn, which she
rtid win unfair to the republican cause.
She bitterty reented the sctlor. of .1
number of the supporters of the treaty,
who f.led cut of the room when she be
gan to speak.
France is to Present
Naval Plans To
BRIEF TELEGRAMS
Boston & Maine railroad posted an
nouncement that wages In all depart
"nenta would be cut.
rROCF.EDINGS AT MEETING
OF I.IL F.IREANN YESTERDAY
Dub'.in, Dec 21. (By The A. P.)
Opposition to referring the Anglo-Irish
trr-wy " 'he Irish electorate was voic
1 d by fieorge 'lavan Duffy, one of tYv
regr.tiators. in hi argument fur ratifi
ation of the pact delivered in this
niorniag's session of the Dail Eireann.
Me declared he opposed this couirse
because of the high feeling a plebiscite
campaign would create. Such a cam
paign, he asserted, would rend th coun
try from one end to the other. He said
be no alternative to the treaty and
Fpoke as if he were confidently expecting
its ratification by the Dail.
The members of the Dail listened with
int'nse interest while he and Eamonn
J. Dugan, also a memb:r of the. Lon
don delegation, ardently recommended
ratification of the treaty.
Mr. Duffy declared he recommended
ratification reluda-ntly. becac..,1 be arg
nwd that the lgna.tures of the Irish del--sates
had been force,! unuej duress.
IMr. Dugan, on the other hand, warmly
denWd that fce had keen coerced.
not know what part of. the debt they
might be compelled to pay.
Cosgrave Supports Treaty.
At the afternoon session, William Cos-
grave, minister of local government, who
was in the fighting of Easter week and
who has been ipeatedly imprisoned
supported the treaty.- He argued that
one could be faithful to an equal and
his interpretaiWn of the oath was that
all rnembers of the commonwealth were
equal.
He contrasted the Canadian legal stat
us iwith its 'real status and showed that
Whfle Great Britain could nominally
overrida Canadian legislation, . Canada
was, In fact, supreme within its own
borders. Ireland was getting what Can
ada had. In law the crown had supreme
authority In Canada; in fact the crown
had no power whatever.
Mr. Cosgira.ve- was loudly applauded,
but was interruped by Erskln-e Childers,
vfh-o asserted tha,t Irelanrl r.)u!d (not
get the Canadian powers. Mr. Cosgrave
proceeded to dissect Mr. Childeir's speech
and his interpretation of the treaty, es
pecially as regarded British . control of
Irish ports. The treaty had accomplish
ed moire than the Irish readers had hop
ed for, from Emmet to Parnell and Hed-
mchd, wiUi a united country behind
them.
The original basis of the Sinn Fein
movement, he said, was the restoration
of Grattan's constitution of kings, lords
and commons of Ireland ; therefore the
deputies then in the movement and now
opposing the treaty must -have been
royal republicans. (Laughter.) He ask
ed did rtie members admit that the coun
try had the right to decide. -
There were loud cries of "Yes."
"Well, if we have got t'at far we
may still find a common g. ound. If
the people speak, we should let them
have their way."
People talked of 750 years of war,
but he remembered the last forty years,
and thern was war for only five of those
years. The economic situation m Ire
land did not justify taking the risks of
war.
Mary MacSwiney In Opposition.
Mary MacSwiney, sister of the late
Terence MacSwiney, lord mayor of Cork,
followed. She quoted Winston Spencer
Churchill as evidence of British control
of Ireland tinder the treaty. She de
scribed Premier Lloyd Geccrfre as an un
scrupulous scoundrel," whose word no
European minister would accepu ; yet
Ireland was asked to accept it.
This treaty,, she declared, represented
Griffith, who had never believed in a
republic. She has told the ministers
supporting the treaty that ifa free state
were established she would teach that
the treaty was an act of treachery Eng
land would not continue the Irish agita
tion against that nation In every coun
try of the world, by this instrument, and
Irish enemies would still unflermme Eng
land's attempt at friendship with
America.
Miss Ma.cSwiney declared the worst
thing that could happen in Ireland was
a split, and a split w-as inevitable, since
they could not abandon a principle. Fep-
ple had accepted this treafty bocnuise
they said what was good enoun for
Mick Collins was good enough for them.
(Loud applause.)
"If Mick Collins -went to hell In the
morning, would you fo'ow him?"
Ixiud cries of "Yes." (Laughter.)
Misg MacSwiney went on to say that
of a royal residence were set up In
Ireland and there were royal visits" her
party could keep up the policy of black
flags and boycott, a.nd it would be Mi
chael Collins" duty, on the complaint of
the governor general, to oorrest them.
After speaking for more than an
hour, she complained that members were
looking at their watches, but she point
ed out that this might be thelast occa
sionshe could speak until the the re
public was established. England couM
not win this battle, and she was will
ing to leave the issue of this treaty or
war to the women's vote.
Eamonn De Valera and his colleagues
loudly applaudedthis statement.
She denied that the alternative was
war.
Even of Mr. Griffith g-ot a majority
in the country for thetresjty, she predict
ed thEt nearly half the population would
be. rebels to his government, and she
aAle;, '"Thi Irish anray Is still re
publitiii' at heart."
Mtts: JlacSwiney spoke for two hours
and forty minutes and adjournment fol
lowed about 7 o'clock.
Another member who opposed the
treaty waa Peter .1. E.uttledge, of Mayo.
It was. he said, like the Act of Union.
obtained by force. He arsued that . the
oth of the Irish Free State must under
the treaty be an oath to the British. The
ministers of the Irish Free State would
ae His Majesty's ministers : their au
thority would come from King George,
instead of? as in a sovereign state, go
ing from the people up. He had heen
elected as a. republican, and his con
science would not permit him, to devi
ate from the straight path.
Ten., per cent, bonns will be said
American employes of the Baltic-Amer
ican Lines, In New York.
Great Britain May Present
Plea For Total Abolition
of Submarine.
Washington, Dec. 21 (By the A. P.).
The formal negotiations of the arms con
ference were at a standstill today, but
groups of delegates continued personal
consultations which appeared to
strengthen the general confidence of. an
early solution of atl thf ip&nts remaining
at issue. -v
France is to nresentTier estimates lor
auxiliary vessls at tomorrow's meeting
of the naval committee and although she
is expected to ask for a submarine and
cruiser strength out of proportion to the
capital ship ratio fixed for her. no one
appears to regard the prospect ot aa
iustintrTier claims as a difficult one. It
is not understood to be regarded as es
sential by conference leaders that the
capital ship ratios be applied rigidly
down the line through the various
classes of smaller vessels.'
. The Japanese, who are awaiting for
further instructions from Tokio regarding
the terms of withdrawal from the Tsing-
tao-Tsinanfu railroad, expressed the opm
Ion that the temporary' halt in formal
exchanges wit hthe Chinese did not con
stitute a serious deaMock. The Chinese
seemed inclined to tear that the Shantung
discussions had encountered a serious
obstacle.
The difference in view revealed yester
day between President HaTding and mem
bers of the American delegation relating
to the application of the four-power
Pacific treaty to the principal islands .of
the Japanese empire, furnished the chief
topic of personal conversation among
many of the foreign plenipoetntiaries
who privately expressed themselves as
unable to understand how such a situa
tion had developed.
No further explanation was forthcom
ing from the White House or from mem
bers of the American group in the con
ference, but it was declared in state de
partment circles that there existed no
question of the attitude of the American
government. The interpretation of the
American delegation, it was said, holding
that the treaty does apply to the major
Japanese islands, stood as the official
American view. The treaty's opponents
in the senat etook advantage of the lull
in conference developments to launch
another attack which centered about yes
terday's White House statement. "Senator
Reed, democrat, Missouri, declared in a
senate speech that the difference of view
between the president and the American
plenipotentiaries was new proof that the
treaty had been drafted "so as to de
ceive." The whole incident, he asserted,
betrayed a policy of "twisting and turn
ing" cloaked behind a curtain of secret
diplomacy.
At tomorrow's meeting of the full naval
committee there may also be a presenta
tion of Great Britain's plea for total abo
lition of the submarine.
The delegates of Great Britain, al
though apparently not intending to press
therr request to the point of greatly pro
longing the conference, have prepared to
make a stubborn fight at least for a great
reduction in the submarine strength now
under consideration and have cancelled
their plans for leaving the UnitedStates
on Dec. 31. They now expect to depart
about the middle of January.
The French have not revealed wfcat
submarine tonnage they will request, but
it is known that figures running as high
as 90.000 tons have been under considera
tion by members of the delegation. That
would be more than double the present
strength of the French submarine fleet,
and so higti that there seems little doubt
it would meet with determined opposi
tion. It has been hinted that in any final
settlement of the auxiliary question a
large submarine tonnage for France
might be balanced off by a large cruiser
and destroyer, tonnage for Great Britain,
because she is the nation who admittedly
has most to fear from any use of sub
marines as offensive weapons.
Although not holding membership on
the naval committee, the delegation of
The Netherlands have communicated its
views on the submarine question to con
ference officials and they have been in
formally under consideration. It it
pointed out that before the-final decision i
is ratified the representatives of the
smaler powerse all will have an oppor
tunity to express their views in plenary
session.
In discussions of the four-power treaty
the American delegates are said to take
the view that the language of the pact so
clearly includes the major Japanese isl
ands that no reservations on the subject
will be necessary whe nthe question of
ratification is formally under considera
tion by the senate. Inclusion of these
islands contrary to the interpretation? of
President Harding ia declared by the
delegates to be embraced beyond dispute
by the words "insular dominions."
When the treaty comes before the
senate Senttors Lodg-e and Underwood
as members of the delegation are plan
ning to explain the circumstances under
which the term "insular dominions" was
selected and the understanding reached
by all the plenipotentiaries as to its
meaning. It is said they aTe prepared to
tell in detail of the part of the American
delegation in urging that the word "do
minions" be included, so that the treaty
would apply definitely not only to Hawaii,
Australa and New Zealand but to the
Japanese "homeland" as well.
In the original draft of the treaty ap-
An outbreak In Belfast was ended bv
troops who arrested thirty persons and
seized huge uantities of ammunition .
JT. C. Ropp was appointed, assistant
commissioner of the national budget toy
O'narles G. Dawes.
Thomas FLndley, president of the
Massey Harris Co.,, of Toronto, died at
his home In Toronto.
Fifth Bvenne, New "York, Is tn the
midst of the greatest Christmas shopping
carnival it has ever known.
The death of Cardinal Francis Mary
Roverie De Cabrleres. bishop of Mont-
pelier, France, was announced.
American Malt & Grain Co. lluidatlng
trustees, sold the Buffalo plant for
$500,000 to. a Minneapolis milling concern.
Three Women Killed
, By Gas Explosion
Which Wrecked a Women's
Furnishings Store in Colum
bus Forty Injured.
Ctiur.nbus, Ohio, Dec 21. Twelve
persons are known to be dead and an un
known number injured as the result of a
gas explosion which wrecked a woman's
furnishings store in the downtown dis
trict here late today. Forty Injured
have been taken to hospitals and rescuers
declared there were a number more in the
wreckage.
The store was crowded with holiday
shoppers at the time of the eplosion,
which wrecked the building and tore up
a portion of the adjacent street. Ga3
escaping from mains In the street tock
fire and hindered rescue work. The cause
of the explosion was not .known.
ECONOMIC PROBLEMS FOR
ALLIED SUPREME COUNCIL
A Meeting Has Been Called For the Second Week in January
at Cannes, Southern France It is Understood That Ger
man Reparations Will Be Discussed Premiers Briand
and Lloyd George Disagree in Opinions on Germany's
Ability to Make Payments The Premiers Have Pledged
Secrecy Concerning Their London Conversations.
CHECK OF HOSPITALS
SHOW ONLY THREE DEAD
Idle freight cars on Dec. 8 totaled
$528, 158, compared with 455,376 on Ddb.
1, an increase of 72.782 cars, accord
ing to the American Railway association.
A messenger of the Chotean Trust Co.,
of St. Louis was held up by three -bandits,
who escaped with a satchel containing
$8,180.
George Rogers, . an escaped convict is
being held toy the'-.Oliicago police In con
nection "with the million dollar mail
roUbery in Toledo.
- Under a ruling by the Interstate Com
merce Commission many big rail men
must give up their directorships on com
peting roads.
It was announced at the White House
that President Harding will make pub
lic next Friday a list of Christmas pardons.
Columbus. O., Dec 21. 'While tlve police
reported twelve dead and forty injured,
check of hospitals showed only three
dead, all unidentified, women, as a result
of a basement gas explosion late this af
ternoon that partially wrecked Wright's
women s furnishings store in Main street,
neaT Third, t
Thirty-four injured are being cared for
at four local hospitals.
A police sergeant who directed the
work of removing the dead and injured
reported that twelve persons were known
to be dead.
Every available ambulance in the ofty
was kept busy for some time hauling the
njurea to four nearby hospitals. These
hospitals reported tonight that several of
tne injured may die.
The explosion occurred shortly after 5
o'clock while the store was filled with
shoppers and while the streets were
crowded. The front of the three-story
building was demolished and the side
walk in front destroyed.
Sir James McKechnie, of Vickers, Ltd.,
of Barrow, England, arrived on the Cun-
ard liner Scythia to study shipbuilding
conditions in the United States.
Custom officers Heized the tramp ship
Javary, which arrived at New York from
Baltimore. It is alleged she had a-ooard
25Gi drums of alcohol.
Representative Yelk of New York, in
troduced a bill in the house to provide a
soldiers' bonus, funds to be obt-uincd by
a sales tax. .
Xotlces were posted by Philadelphia ft
Readisg Rail-way Co. .announcing wage
cuts of maintenp-pce of "way employes
ranging from 5 to 15 cents an hour.
An official order to -clone the Sedalla
shops of the Missouri Pacific railroad
as recei'ved from St. Douis. Approxi
mately 1,400 men are affected.
Closing of Bmall railroad stations for
purposes of economy will be opposed by
the Massachusetts state department of
public utilities.
The expected ' arrival of big ship
ments of Christmas trees from Maine
promise to assure a plentiful supply of
holiday greens for greater Boston.
Rev. Dr. James Ballantyne. formerly
moderator of the Canadian Presbyterian
general assembly, died suddenly at his
home in Toronto. He was 64 years old.
An express train from Pnris collided
last night with the Trieste-Rome express
on the bridsre crossing the Piave at San
Dona. Relief trains have been sent to
the wreck, but details are lacking.
A woman, 50 years of are. who had
just made a trip by water and rail from
Boston to Jacksonville, Florida, and
back, has been found to be suffering
from typhus.
Excrement prevailed at the corner
of Chauncey and Essex streets, Boston
when a chare-e of dynamite, used to
blast away pieces of concrete in build
ing operations, went the wrong way and
threw rocks and stones 'n all directions.
Dr. Walter Simons, the former foreign
inster, in an open lette to on Hind-
e.nlburg. accuses the Held marshal of do
ing limn a bitter Injustice in asserlin
that Simons had renewed in ondon hi
Versailles admission of Germany's war
gulllt.
. London, Dec 21. (By The A. P.)
Decision was reached today to call a
meeting of the allied supreme council .t
OVuies. Southern Franoe, during the
second -week of January. It is under
stood that. German reparations and oth
er European economic problems will be
discussed.
BRITISH AXD FRENCH AT
ODDS OX REPARATIONS
AMERICAN WELCOME I5J
PARIS FOR MARSHAL FOCH
Paris, Dec. 21. (By the A. P.! Mar
shal Foch received a typical American
welcome when he stepped onto the plat
form of the St. Lazare railroad station
at 1 o'clock today, returning from the
United States. With him was former
Premier Viviani.
For a few minutes after his arrival
Marshal Foch said he thought he was
making a five minutes' stop in the course
of his American tour. Almost the entire
membership ofthe Paris' post of the
American Legion had assembled to wel
come the allied generalissimo. As he
ajignted from the train brine-inir him
from Havre, there were thunderous
cheers of the American variety.
-Marshal Foch stopped suddenly, smiled
broadly, and turning to members of his
party he said:
"Paris! Paris! This surelv cannot bo
Paris. It must be an American city i
am arriving at."
Marshal Foch thanked th legionaries.
saying that since visiting the United
States he had come to like the American
brand of welcome. Many persons in the
crowd of 5,000 enthusiasts did not rec
ognize the French hero. Instead of
marshal s uniform, he wore a business
suit and a derby hat. His friends who
met him remarked how well he looked
and said his trip apparently had done
mm much good. They observed that
his fear that American cooking mTght
prove t6 be his Waterloo had been un
merited. .
A large group of French military lead
ers, as well as a personal renresentattvo
pf President Millerand and other gov
ernmental leaders were at the station.
Myron T. Herrick. the American am
bassador, and his emba SSV Staff Wopa
present.
As he was leaving the station. Marshal
Foch said his trip to America had been
one of the most wonderful events of his
life.
London, Dec 21. Conversations be
tween Premiers Briand and Lloyd
G?orge in Downing street were resum
ed today with regard to Germany's an
nounced inability to par the next rep
arations installments, the manner In
which payment may be botained from
her and the question of apportionment
and property among the allies in con
nection with such payments.
In diplomatic circles It is stated that
the French view on the beginning of the
conversations was that Germany's dec
laration of inability to pay the. January
and February installment was a delih.
erate attempt to evade the allied claims.
The British are said to have represented
that Germany wou'-i certainly be hard
pressed to raise the necessary money.
Accordingly the 'experts were asked to
find a basis which might form a com
mon ground between the two vlws.
This task has proved mode difficult
than wag expected, and it is stated that
there is as yet a lack of unanimity on
the subject.
The meeting will be held the first
week in January. It will be prrceded by
a meeting of the council of ambassadors
within a 'few days at Paris for arrang
ing the details of the Cannes mnMinir.
which Is scheduled for early In January.
A pledge to secrecy was entered into
between the two premiers regarding
their London corversations. but the su
preme council evidently has been called
either to revise the reparations provi
sions of the treaty of Versailles or to
deliberate on the advisability of railing
a still darker international conference
with a view to dealing with the whole
question of international finance a-rd
exchange, which U linked up with the
qu. stion of reparations.
M. Briand said that th present oon
versatior.. between Mr. Lloyd Gorfe
and himsc'f real progress had been
ma,.e f.crai points had been smooth
ed out with coir.pV.c cordiality and -he
was very much satisfied."
George Harve;.. American ,mbs-
fel ?hi WV r!lrr at M" band's ho
tel thm afiernoon. . rema.ned for ha if
an hour wiih the Trend, pr-ml t. Mr.
Harvey declined to answer inquiries re
garding the object of hi. ri.iT h. M
W i f"'' U the Amer-,
fT a.mb"sa'i'r hi" Pd him s nureh
formal call t0 thank him in behalf of
feecr-tarv .Jch for
ing capital ships.
M. I-.riand declined to be drawn U-o
a discussion of the subject of sondarr
natal vessels. He dismissed s-jch !n-
w'L J T'ins ,hat ,he lnion tni
was under discussion. anO added, "this
is not the Washington conference -M.
Briand remirwle.1 th.
T'H ihat "0,hinK definitely be set
tied by the nre..-ni ,., .
being purely between the Prith and
French premiers, could ln no wise he
uinoing upon the mb-r
ed in the question namely ivirfum
nal. He ad-led that a conference ol
the ambassadors of the countries con.
corned woT,;d meet within a few day, in
t,aj"v"n !,rr!u1e''''".s for the meeting
had been coixixjded today with Lord
Curzon. the British foreign seoretarr
M. Briand definl'ely announced that
he wculd depart for Taris at one o'eWk
tomorrow afternoon. He had another
talk with Mr. Lloyd George tonljrht aJid
will hold his final conversations with the
British premier ln the forenoon of to
morrow. Rogardlng the conversations htween
Louis p. Louchour. the French mln inter
of liberated regions, and Pr. Waited
Rathcnau. the German financial erp-ert.
:t is stated these did not go lvond th
merest formalitites in the hot-J corri.
oor. The Grman delegates here refuM
ah information on the eubject.
THIRTEEN" PERSONS IXJCRED
IX RAILROAD SMASH AT COLUMBIA
American exporter were told to "hold
solid gTound" by Dr. Julius Klein, di
rector of the bureau of forehrn and do
mestic commerce, of the commerce de
partment in an address before the Phil
adelphia Export club.
which brought about the change the
Americans and 'British are understood to
have stood together in insisting that the
broader scope be given the new asrree-ment.
TO FIGHT THE BUILDING
TRADES EMPLOYERS ASS'N
(Special to The Bulletin
Willimantic. Pc. 21. T irteen per
sons were slightly injured this afternoon
when passenger train Xo. 1033 on the
Air Line Division of the Xew York. N'ew
Haven & Hartford Railroad and a
freight engine of Train Xo. 103 collided
west of the T track at the Columbia
junction, not far from this citv.
A switcher from the Willimantic
yards was sent to the scene of the
wreck and hauled the coaifhs back to
this e.Itv where T)r ATinhaal T,-.1 j
their heads up" as their feet were "on I Fred Smith treated the injured nassenir
orvl i A ornnn t " Vn- "Plr- Till in o XT' lain At- I m 1 t . 1
- ior injuries. .vost of the injuries
sufTered were of minor nature, such as
broken teeth and sliglit lacerations and
one woman passenger suffered a broken
aw.
Both engines returned to the engine
house for-repairs and another entrine
took the coaches and made the run to
N'ew Haven.
The accident took place at 3.55 o'clock
when the freight engine of Train 103
that had completed a run to this cltr
entered the T track at Columbia and hart
completed the turn and proceeded onto
tne main line In the time of 1033. En
giner Larrabee of 103 saw the passeng
er train approaching on the single track
and increased the speed of his engine
lessening to a great extent the. force of
the blow. The engine of the 1033 was
the most damaged of the .two, but the
impact was not forceful enough to derail
any of the coaches. Train No. 1033 was
In charge of Engineer Parker and Con
ductor Porter. The collision took placs
near the bridge over the .Willimantic
river, a curve in the road cuttine off
the view of both engineers until the
trains were within a comparatively short
distance of each other.
Major General Clarence R. Edwards,
commanding the First Army Corps area,
will act' as a post -Christmas Santa
Claus on December 27 when he will con
fer decorations awarded by this and oth
er governments on 13 persons from va
rious parts of New England.
Peoples Bank and Realty Sovings ft
Trust Co.., of Savannah, CV,. -were
placed in the haids of the State Bank Ex
aminer, due to heart-y wltthdraiwals of de
posits. During the la-st few months five
plication is said to have been limited to'baT1'ks suspended in Savannah.
insular possessions." In the discussion
OBJECTED TO BEING
CALLED A BOOKLEGGER
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 21. J. N. Webb,
of Eastpoint, a suberb, wnt into supe
rior court -here yesterday and obtained
n injunction temporarily restra,Vng
R. W. Godfrey,' a fellow townsman, from
calling h!m a "bootlegger."
. Five times,. Webbs' petition declared,
Godfrey had told Eastpoint police he
was a bootlegger and five times tthe po
lice had searcb-ed bis presses. Judge
John T. Pendleton set a hearing . for
January 14 to determine whether to
make the Injunction permanent.
New York, Dec. 21. Samuel Unter
rnyer, chief counsel for the Lockwood
legislative committee, made public to
night a letter to Christian G. Norman,
chairman of the board of governors of
the Building Trades Employers Associa
tion, accusing the association of contin
uing to be a breeding nest for unlawful
combinations. He declared he would en
deavor to "rid the imulic of the crimi
nal combinations that are now existing
under the protection of your associa
tion." With the letter to Mr. Norman, the
committee counsel enclosed a copy of
his demands for reforms in labor unions
given out yesterday and invited his com
ment on them.
BRITISH DELEGATION' HAS
CANCELLED RESERVATIONS
Washington, Dec 21. (By The A. P.)
The British delegation today cancelled
reservations it had made on a steamer
sailing from, -Nev, York . on . December
31.. it was stated members of the dele
gates think there '.is littfci- (iaknce of
their being able to leave befire the mid
dle of January.' t .
Giuseppe Parisi. arrested in Spring
field soon after Carlo Sin-iscaleht, local
Italian teacher had been shot in his au
tomobile, was arraigned in district court
on a charge of murder and was held
without hail for preliminary hearing De
cember 27.
Eire damage that may exceed $30,.
000 was don-e to a store in a Main street
business block ln Springfield and seri
ously threatened the Hotel Hawkins, oc
cupying the" same building, whose 75
guests made their escape with little dif
ficulty.
WELL DRESSED AXD POLITE
BANDIT OPERATIXG IX CHICAGO
Chicago. Dee. 21. Police today investi
gated a report that a w;eM dressed han
f:t with fine manners who held vp i.b
senvatlnn car passeijters on the ltalilm r
and Ohio night flyer for Washingti.n in
the heart of Chicago's south side lasi
night had escaped in an automobile driv
en by a woman companion. Children
skating on a pond at Sixty-seventh
street say the robber made his petaway
in a car wbich had been parked beneath
the railroad viaduct.
The banditi boarded the obsrvatior.
car at the Sixty-third street Btatnn and
forced the posengers to stand in lina M.
D. Taylor, a raltimore and Ohio pas
senger asent. was first in l!n and pave
up his pocket book. Thre other mer.
contributed, then the robber nachii Mr.
and Mrs.. Robert L. StanS'iury. of Teeum
carl. Xow Mexico, and their tbree small
children.
"Madam." he said. "Will you please
take the children to the othr end of the
car. I am not Interested in any valu
ables a woman may have, arid I do not
want to frighten children. If you please.
As Mrs. Stansbury and the children
obeyed his request he relieved Mr.
Stanfiliury of his pocket book.
"Not much, hut you look as if you
could well afford to lose It. else I would
n't take it," the robber told F. W. Wil
liamson, another Baltimore and Ohio
ticket agents.
As he continued down fh? line of ras
ser.'gers the conductor a-?pearcd at the
front end of the car rondy to collect
tickets. The bandit regarded him c?o!ly.
"It's quite possble." he told his vic
tims, "that the conductor is armed. !f he
Isn't he can call men who are. That
would mean shooting, and some of you
might get hurt. I don't want that to
happen, so I -will leave you."
Ceb-eHng the passengers with his gun.
he jerked the emergency bell rope, back
ed throusTi the observation platform door
and as the train slowed down leaped
over the rail and disappeared down th
embankment.
I IAXG SHIH-TI PREMIER
OF ClUXiihE CAOIXE1
Pekinjr. Dec 270.. By the A. P.)
Liang fchih-Yl has lieen named premier
"f the Chi.usc caJ.inet to ;o,-.i-u Chin
iun-1'eiig. who with ail his mMil-n
r.s.-ned on Sunday. The fail of tii-varf.im-t
foiiowed the arrival here cl
..-ncraI Cbanct.-aowa!in. srovrnjr.r of
SiancnurLu who is now emraKei , form
ing a coalition pmernmeni in which all
the rcaclonary parties are .amci-.auii
It is charged that Chin Yung-lVns wai
fonlty of p-cu;atio:is and tne sale ol
offices.
The new premier is credited srtili
havlns inspired the attempt by Yuanshi
Kai to creaie Hmsoflf tmp-ror ln 1913.
and under his auspices many of ?he ti'
ficials of the government ' overhro-'n
last summer are now parti.-ipat ng In tl-e
councils of Mate. Amon Those In in
.Vn.-r.il Changs following, is Char!
Chin-Yao, former governor of Hunan
pro-iince. which pom he held at j;-.,. utri4
of the murder of Rev. W. w. Reimer',
an American missionary. In June. lSJo)
and following which the American !ec1
tion demanded that he be ;,eld responaibie
for the crime. The lecatlor. Is said n
be .-reparin? a protest against hi Ir
enes In Pekln? at the prsnt time, "
Anoner or the men akimr mrt In ibe
movement is General Chent: Hurur.. wh 1
neauea tnP unsuccessful Marchu restora
tion in 1917.
HARD FLIGHT FOR THE
BIG -ARMY AIRSHIP ROMA
CRIMINAL ANARCHY
INDICTMENTS DISMISSED
A scheme to defrand In stoclc and
bond transactions bv misuse of the Unit
ed States malls said to involve millions i s?ssion 'May
of dollars Is alleged in indictments made
in the federal court against Hollister,
White & Company, Inc., investment un
derwriters, of Boston.
A aln of 57 'ballots by John R. Mur
phy in the counting of the ballots cast in
the Boston municipal election last week
announced at the cloe of Tuesday's
count, slumped t6 36 late Wednesday.
About three fourhs of the recount has
been complete!.
A large sign reading "Federal Agents
Stop," and further down the- road a
pavement of heavy plants, studded with
spikes, ,1s a device which Herbert H.
Hovey, chief field demjty of Maine's pro
hibition enforcement agents, has pro
posed for catching bootleggers runntng
rum by motor. .
New York. Dec. 21. Criminal anar
chy indictments against John E. Seibert,
Abraham Jakira and Isreael Amter. ar
rested last April for having in their pos-
Day circulars ureinor
overthrow of the government, were dis
missed today by Judge Talley in general
sessions.
He held there was no evidence to show
the trio "prepared, composed, printed,
circulated or distributed" the circulars,
as the Indictment charged.
"Mere possession of such literature Is
rot a violation of the law," he said.
CONSECRATED AUXILIARY
BISHOP OF CHICAGO
Chicago, Dec 21, Tlbe Right Rev.
Mgr. E. F. Hohan was consecrated aux
iliary bishop of Chicago with impressive
ceremonies tjils morning at the Cathedral
of the Holy Name. Archbishop Cl. W.
Mundelein was the consecrator., Thrr-"
visiting archbishops, twnty biaJiops and
Hundreds of the clersy were ore sent.
Washington. Dec. 21. The 400-foo'
army airship Roma fousht her way for j
five hours and a half aeainst a head
wind from Langley Field, Va., to Wash
ington, today, to be christened and put In
commission officially by Miss For.rose
Walnwrlght. daughter of the assistant
secretary of war, who broke a bottle or
liquid air on the great semi-rigid air
ship's prow. The wind was rising stead
ily with gale proportions threatening.
and Major General Patrick, chief of the
army air service, ordered the Roma back
to her hangar at Langley Field when the
ceremonies were ended.
Speaking for Italy, where the ship was
designed and built. Ambassador Rice!
expressed his pleasure that America
should have bought the great semi-rigid
ship, and Secretary Weeks, In accepting
it officially for the war department, said
the pleasure and opportunity were rather
his, that the army should be so fortu
nate in securing a ship developed by the
skill of Italian craftsmen.
After the christening the color pres
entation took place. Assistant Secretary
Wainwright replying to Lieutenant Gen
eral Guiseppe Vacarri. who spoke feel
ingly about the cordial relations between
Italy and America as he presented the
United States ensign for the Roma.
CONFLICTING VIEWS OX
RAILROAD EMPLOYES' WAGES
New Haven, Dec. 21. Confllrtlr.s
views as to what wages should be paid to
mechanical department employes of the
New York. Now ILuven and Hartf"rt
railroad were in evidence today when
representatives of various unions conn-red
with C. L. Bardo. general manager
of the New Haven road. Union spokes
men announced that they were asklni;
for wage increases of 13 cent a an hour.
Mr. Bardo set forth the ;roposal of the
New Haven road, which calls for reduc
tions In wages of from soven to IS cents
an hour.
Union leaders questioned Mr. Fsrdo
concerning the road's p'an to c'oe down
its repair sliops In Massachusetts and
Connecticut next Saturday. Mr. Bardo 1
understood to hare said that no dato for
a re-opening of the shops had heen s-t.
The union representatives believe thst
the shut down of the shops will aff-t
5.010 men. instead of J,500 as had 1 en
reported.
Following the conference. It was Vail
that no agreement on tbrt wage question
was In si-zht. but th.it it would h ,l
cussed furtber in about two weeks.
CHIEF PROHIBITION' AOEXT
IXDICTED FOR ATTEMTT TO KILL
OBITUARY.
Bishop Henry Clay Merrlson.
Leeshurg. Fla., Dec 21. Bishop Henry
Clay Morrison of the Methodist Episco
pal Church, South, died today at the
home here of bis son. He was 77 years
of age and was made bishop in 1898.
Prof. Joseph E. Goodrich
Windsor, Conn.. Dec. tl. Professor Jo
seph Ev Goodrich, head of the agricultural
department at Ixomls Institute, died at
his homo here tonight of pneumonii. He
was 40 years old and a graduate of NV
Hampshire State college. He Waves ills
wife and thre children,
in Brunswick, Maine.
Newark. N. J, Dec IX. Green Mil
ler, chief prohibition agent of New Jer
sey, was "indictee" late today by the Es
sex county grand jury on charges of as
sault and battery and Intent to kill.
The indictment was found on com
plaint of Chief of Police McDonough of
West Orange, growing out of the shoot
ing Friday night of William Stanton of
West Orange and James McFarland of
East Orange during a raid by prohibi
tion agents on a West Orange grocery-store.
According to the story told to the po
lice at the time. Milkr and his col
leagues had seized a case of gin end
were leaving the r ocery store when t a
men attacked Miller. One was said to
have drawn a pistol, upon which Miller
o-iened fire and wounded Stanton and
McFarland. Neither was said to be In
a serious condition.
Miller's arraignment on the Indictment
was set for a week from tomorrow.
ONE LEADER OF MOPLAH
REBELLION ARRESTED
Calicut. India. Dec II. Chambrasacri
Thangal. one of the two principal lead
ers In the Moplah rebellion, has be, n
arrested near Mannarghat. It Is be-
Burlal will be Ueved his arrest will break the backbone
of the rebellion.