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mOM THE HERALD TO THE SERVICE. MBM ESTABLISHED 1876. BELGIUM AWAITS LIBERTY MILITARY GOVERNOR QUITS , General Von Falkenhausen Urges His Soldiers to Respect Life ' and Property as They Leave Country Him Officers Voluntarily Strip Insig- i ' uia From Their Uniforms, Though Somo Do So With Bad Grace Rod Flag Cheered and Paraders Join in Singing the Marseillaise. Ghent. Wednesday, Nov. 13 (By the Associated Press). There is no or ganized authority yet in Brussels, but, with comparative calm and dignity, the 'Belgian capital awaits the coming of the armies of liberation. On Sunday three delegates from the "republic of . Hamburg" arrived at Brussels. Standing on a balcony, the military commander of the city ad dressed a crowd of 3,000 soldiers and civilians. "Three million Germans have been killed during the war," lie said. "That is sufficient. Let us have peace." General Von Falkenhausen the German governor-general of Belgium, received the delegates and in the meantime French and Belgian social ists addressed the crowd. Then a sailor nimbly climbed up to the bal cony and nailed a red tablecloth to the railing amid cheers. Military Governor Resigns. "After an interview of an hour with j the delegates, General Von Falken- j hausen reappeared and announced that he had resigned and had accepted ! the delegates terms. These were: j First, immediate peace; second, that telegrams be sent to the front in structing the soldiers to return to Ger many; third, that no orders be given without the assent of the soldiers' committee; fourth, that all units, from division to comipany, shall elect repre sentatives to the soldiers' committee., The governor general asked that the Germans depart peaceably and re spect life and property. German of ficers then of their own volition began to strip the insignia from their uni forms. Some "of them, however, were sullen and depressed. Von. Ilindeiiburg Wants Peace. A letter has been received from Field Marshal Von Hindenburg, who was at Bingen-on-the-Rhine. It was lead to the crowd. It said: "I am heartily in sympathy with the regenerative movement. Soldiers must obey the orders of the supreme sol diers' committee. Let us have peace." Some soldiers then entered the park which has been closed to the public for four years. They smashed the marble slabs surrounding the beauti ful ponds, broke their guns and threw ( the gun barrels in the water. They then formed a procession and, sing ing the Marseillaise, paraded through the city behind the Red Flag. The only bloodshed in Brussels oc curred on Monday when a patrol de tailed by the soldiers' committee to ' keep order, fired upon a disorderly crowd, killing twelve civilians and wounding about thirty. , The crowd had disregarded the firing of a blank volley by the soldiers. NEWSPAPER PLANT WRECKED Youiiftstow n Telegram, Pro. Ally and Advocate of Prohibition, Visited by Hoinbers During Night. Youngsstown, O. Nov. 15. Bombers attempted to wreck the offices of the Youngstown Telegram, shortly before midnight last night. A bomb planted Just outside the press room let go, breaking widows and crushing doors and otherwise damaging the building. Other buildings within radius of a block were damaged. The Telegram has been strongly pro-Ally and is one of Ohio's fore most dry advocates. ARMY DESERTER SENTENCED. Private From North Adams Must Serve Ten Years in Federal Prison. Ayer, Mass., Nov. 15. 'Emery G. Carn of North Adams, a private in the 212th field .signal battalion, at Camp Devens, was sentenced today to ;ten years imprisonment at Fort Jay, N. Y., having been found guilty of desertion and of escaping from an officer who was bringing him back to camp after his arrest in Springfield. The finding of the court martial recommended 25 years imprisonment, but reviewing of ficers reduced the sentence to ten j-ears. vv NEW GE IERS ORDERED TO RE AGUE OF NATION ANTHRACITE COAD JUMPS .$1 PER TON, FUEL ROSS STATES. "Owing to the increase of $1.05 per gross ton in the cost of coal at the mines, effective November 1st, it has been necessary to advance the price to the consumer $1.00 per net ton, on all coal shipped from the mines since November 1st," James S. North, chairman of the New Britain Fuel Commit tee stated today. SOCIALIST OUTBREAK IN AUSTRIAN CAPITAL Shots Fired When Crowd Attempts to Storm Par liament Building. Paris, Thursday, Nov, 1.4. Social ists stormed the Austrian parliament, building in Vienna Wednesday and there attempted to enter while the new state council was in session. Shots were fired before order could be restored and twenty persons in the crowd outside the bifilding were in jured, according to despatches reach ing here. President Dinghofer denied that the firing began from the parlia ment building. The new national flag of three hands, red white and red, was hoisted over the building, but soorl afterward some one removed the white band and the crowd cheered the red flag. A party of socialists occupied the offices of the Neue Freie Presse and brought out special editions advocat ing the establishment of a socialist republic as in Germany. London, Thursday, Nov. 14. Vien na newspapeis announce that the German-Austrian republic will be proclaimed tomorrow and that for mer Emperor Charles' request to be permitted to reside in Vienna as a private citizen has been refused, according- to an Amsterdam despatch to the Exchange Telegraph company. MM PEACE NEWS BREAKS AMERICAN; MORALE Men In Cantonments in Tliis Country Lose All Interest In Military Life. Washington, Nov. 15.- Cessation of hostilities in Europe and dissappear ance of the prospect of meeting the enemy on the battlefield has brought an immediate loss of morale among American troops at home that is re garded at the war department as somewhat alarming. It is understood that steps to deal writh the situation .already are being prepared. Upon news that 'the armistice has been signed, the . mental attitude of the individual soldier is said to have undergone a marked change. Instead of bombarding his immediate supe riors wih queries as to the probable date of entraining for the seaboard, he became anxious as to the date of his release from service. More serious are reports 'by some commanding officers that their men are exhibiting a tendency to view themselves as already released from the strict routine of the camps. It is understood relatives of soldiers who have absented themselves will be asked to assist the authorities in hav ing them returned promptly to spare the families the disgrace of having an armed guard sent, and with a view to mitigating the punishment of the offenders. GIVES PENSION FUND $100. Thos. F. Garvin Announces Gift to Fire and Police Departments. Thomas F. Garvin, proprietor of the Thomas F. Garvan & Co., paper mill in Newington which was de stroyed by fire to the. amount of $125,000, yesterday, called at the po lice and fire department headquar ters this morning and announced his intention of presenting both depart ments with checks of $100 each in recognition of their work at the Are. The money is to be put to the pen sion funds of the two departments. The local departments and the Hartford departments responded to a call from Newington when it was seen that the fire had got beyond control of the town fire apparatus. BKI BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER MANS KILLED DURING PEACE ENVOYS TO RESIDE IN PARIS Treaty Will Probably Be Signed at Historic Versailles GERMANY ORGANIZED THERE Peace Treaty Between United States and Great' Britain Also Signed in This Famous Old French 1 Town. Paris, Nov. 15. (By the Associated Press). Versailles, although not formally chosen as the meeting place for the peace negotiators, is regarded as almost certain to be the place se lected for the peace conference when the inter-allied council reassembles today. The real work of the negotia tions will be carried oh in Paris, where it is probable that deliberators from all the countries will reside temporari ly, the members going out to Ver-i sailles now and then for plenary ses sions of the conference. The supreme act of signing the peace agreement probably will take place at Versailles in the same his toric hall where the German empire was proclaimed in 1871. The palace at Versailles has played an important paft in the histories of France, Germany, Great -Britain and the United States. In 1783 the Armi stice preliminary to treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United States was signed at Versailles. Six years Jater the palace was the scene of important events .in the French rev olution. The German army besieging Paris had its headquarters in the town (1870-71) and there the negotiations between France and Germany were ' discussed. After the peace Versailles was the seat of the French national assembly, and for a few years there after was the official capital of France. Wilson May Attend. 'Washington, Nov. 15. American delegates to the great peace confer ence are understood to have been se lected by President Wilson. Discussion in well-informed quar ters today of the probable personnel of the delegation centered upon four men. They are. Robert Lansing, sec-retai-y of state, to head the mission; Colonel E. M. House, now in France attending the inter-allied council as the personal representative of the president; Elihu R3ot, Louis D. Bran deis, associate justice of the supreme court. The belief is growing here that President Wilson himself will attend the opening session of the conference, though not to sit as a delegate around the peace table. MAGNELL RESIGNS FROM FIRE BOARD Chairman Decides to Retire After Many Years' Connection With ITotective Commissions. Chairman Alfred E. Magnell today tendered his resignation as a mem ber of the fire commission to Mayor Quigley, and it was accepted with re gret. Mr. Magnell has been connect ed with the old board of public safe ty and the present lire commission for a number of years, as clerk and member, and has rendered valuable service to both commissions. His letter of resignation follows: "November 14, 1918. "Hon. George A.. Quigley, Mayor, "City. "Dear Sir: I respectfully beg leave to present herewith my resigna tion as a member of the Board of Fire Commissioners. "I thank you, the members of the Common Council and Board of Fi nance and Taxation, and particularly my associates on the Commission and members of tho Fire Department, for the encouragement and assistance in the aims to have the finest of fire de partments. "ltespectf ull ysu bmitted, "A. E. MAGNELL." FIRST TO BE DEMOBILIZED. Washington, Nov. 15. Men of the development battalions will be the first units of the army demobilized, 'Secretary Baker announced today. There are 50,000 men now in these battalions and they will be mustered out. as soon as they can be given the necessary physical examinations. 4 IM TURN NEW 111(1 h! UP TO IT Total Contributions Amount to Only $179,326 One Day More CLERGYMAN MAKES APPEAL Robert Butler of Hartford Exorts People of City to Help Provide Rec reation For Heroes of the War Luncheon At Elks' Club. Rev. Samuel Sutcliffe was the first speaker at the meeting of the War Work campaigners this noon at the Elks' club where reports showed $17 9,32 6 already donated. He praised the war work in France and said: "The boys were sent to France to kill Germans, and they have done the job well. When we heard the news of their victory we blew whistles, rung bells, and celebrated the victory. Now we have a chance to show our appre ciation and gratitude in a practical manner. If a man is not giving whole-heartedly, if he is lukewarm in the expression of his gratitude and appreciation, expose him to all his associates, convict hini." Mr. Sut cliffe insisted that convict was the right word to use, because it is a crime to refuse to support the sol diers to the limit of one's ability. "The boys went out to do their duty, and it has been well done. ' Now that the fighting is over idleness and lonesomeness are their worst ene mies, and everyone knows the. temp tations that assail men who are idle in an army- camp," Mr. Sutcliffe con tinued. "We should ind must protect the men from these two enemies, idleness and loncsomeness, by sur rounding them with the good influ ences provided by the societies that are-taking part in this great war work campaign. The only way in which wo can do this is by giving,, and giving to the limit of our ability," he said. ( Mr. Sutcliffe appealed to the so licitors not to stop at a day's pay. Get every cent it is possible to get in this city. "Put pep and zeal into the work and you cannot fail," he told them. $179,326 Is Total Now. The following reports Were made at the meeting. P. &. F. Corbin (100 per cent,) $85; Russell & Erwin, $700; Corbin Screw, $1,9 32; Corbin Cabinet Lock, $476: Landers, Frary & Clark, $6,270; Stanley Wrorks, $3,109; Union Mfg. Co. (100 per cent.) $46; Skinner Chuck, $178; New Britain Machine, $2,828; North & Judd, $2 53; Traut & Hine, $894; Fafnir Bearing, $373; Hart & Cooley (100 per cent.) $46; Hart & Hutchinson, $34; American Hosiery. $156; Parker Shirt (100 per cent.) $404; Minor & Corbin (lOOper cent.); B. & K. Mfg. Co. (100 per cent, and $100 additional); Feck & Young (100 per cent.) $196; small factories (100 per cent.) $8 80; city officials, $275; building trade, $250; clothing etc., $460; furniture, autos, etc., $288; pro fessional men, $1,407; grocers and butchers, $645; schools and churches, $214; Victory boys and girls, $1,181; public utilities. $379; Plainville, $360; Newington, $93; Berlin, East Berlin and Kensington, $693; Berlin Con st rution, $382; American Paper Goods, $247; corporations, $13,543. Give Whole Day's Pay. At the Russell & Erwin plant, the employes received their regular pay for the day and a half they were out of work on account of the celebration. They unanimously agreed to turn over this sum to the War Work fund. Hart & Cooley have made their 100 per cent and for the next two days will attempt to double as many subscrip tions as possible. Plainville and Berlin, which come in the New Britain district, have both exceeded their quotas. The total sum collected by the teams and reported today is $27,647. The corporations gave $13,543, making today's total $41,190. The grand total for New Britain is now $179,326. R .1. Butler Speaks. Robert P. Butler of Hartford was the principal speaker at the luncheon. He opened his address by saying: "The war is over, but the victory is far from won, 'because of the mali- (Continued on Fifteenth Page) WEATHER. nartford. Conn, Nov. 15. For New Britain and Aieinity: Fair tonight, Saturday cloudy, warmer. NIT S QUOTA TIFI Hj I LP A TT II f HERALD "ADS" MEAN I .JililMjJLdiJj? 1 BETTER BUSINESS 15, 1918. SIXTEEN PAGES. TRON ST SEATS OF IP. SENATORS Attempt Being Made to Oust Newberry and Moses. DEMOCRATS SPEND $665,000 Predictions Are That Elections Cost Republicans Over $800,000 In- dependents Question Election of New York Democrat. AVashington, Nov. 15. Contests of the election of two republican sena tors, Truman H. Newberry of Mich igan, and George H. Moses of New Hampshire were forecast in pro ceedings today before the senate priv ileges and elections committee. Pro tests against seating of both, elect ed on the face of the returns, were received by the committee, which de ferred action: On the face of returns, Newberry was elected over Henry Ford, the democratic candidate, and Moses over John B. Jameson, democrat, for the unexpired term of the late Senator Gallinger. The protest against Moses was made in a telegram by Alexander Murchie, chairman of the New Hampshire democratic state commit tee, who informed Chairman Pomer ene that charges of election bribery had been made and that a recount had been ordered for December 9. Questions Campaign Expenses. The committee had planned to take up today consideration of the resolu tion authorizing an investigation into the primary campaign expenditures of Senator-elect Newberry, but action was temporarily postponed upon the receipt of a telegram from Elbert H. Fowler, secretary of the non-partisan Ford-for-senate club, advising the committee that he was transmitting information concerning Newberry's alleged personal activities in the cam paign. The committee decided to await the arrival of this information. Contest Democrats Election. Peter F. Tague, of Boston, inde pendent candidate for election as representative from the Tenth Mas sachusetts district, today asked the clerk of the house for instructions as to filing a contest. John F. Fitz-i gerald, democrat was elected on the face of returns. The democratic national committee filed with the house today a report showing additional expenditures of $205,132 bringing their total ex penses to slightly jmore than .v . " None of the republican committees has filed post-election statements, but pre-election statements showed ex penses of $868,000. Additional contributions of $162, 403, making a total of $660,822 were reported by the democratic national committee. Among the contributors were John D. Ryan and James C. Bradj, both of New York with $10, OOOeach. GEN. RHODES HEADS AMERICAN MISSION United States Envoys Request Per mission to Visit German Headquar ters in Interest of Peace. London, Nov. 15. An American mission commanded by Major General Rhodes will leave on Saturday for Spa, German headquarters, Marshal Foch announces in a wireless message to the German high command. The mission will consist of six offi cers and nineteen soldiers. The Ger man is asked to give instructions to allow the mission to pass. The wireless message reads: "From the Allied high command to the German Ifigh command at Spa American mission, consisting of six officers and nineteen soldiers in nine motor cars, with General Rhodes as chief of the mission, will leave for Spa on the morning of the 16th by the way of La Chapelle, Beaumonte, Philippeville Leige and Spa. Please give instructions to allow the mission to pass." 11 UN'S LEAVING POLAND. London, Nov. 15. The German army has begun a general 'evacuation of Poland, according to an Exchange Telegraph despatch from Copenhagen quoting reports from Berlin. Ger man troops in Warsaw have been disarmed, and arrested as have all German civilians in the Polish capital. CONTE I',1, llli GREAT WAR; TO FATHERLAND; MORE THAN HUNDRED KILLED IN RIOTING BY GERMAN SOLDIERS London, Thursday, Nov. 14. -i-Morc than one hundred men, mostly German officers, have been killed in disorders in Brussels, and soldiers' coun cils, have been formed in that city and at Antwerp, accord ing to an Amsterdam despatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company, quoting the Tele graaf. GOMPERS INTRODUCES LABOR IDEAS ON PEACE League of Free Nations and Liberty of All Working men Proposed. Laredo, Texas, Nov. 15. Discussion of peace occupied much of the time of the pan-American labor conference her etoday. A resolution embodying the peace plans of organized labor in America was introduced by Samuel Gompers late yesterday. The resolution in brief proposes a league of free nations, elimination of political or economic restrictions to benefit some nations and embarrass others, recognition of the rights of small nations and no reprisals or ter ritorial changes except in furtherance of the welfare of the peoples affected. Secondary principles of the resolu tion, affecting chiefly the wage work ers, declare human labor shall not be held as an article of cpjnmerce ; that there shall never be industrial servi tude except as a punishment for crime that free speech and free as semblage shall not be abridged; that seamen of the merchant marine shall have the right to leave their vessels when safe in harbors, and that the eight hour work day and child labor law shall be maintained. Delegates planned to adopt this resolution, today and complete all other business, including the formu lating of a plan for unionizing Mexi can workmen in the United States. President Gompers expressed grati tude over what already has been ac complished by the conference toward establishing a firm foundation of con fidence and regard between the work ers of all the nations of the Americas. DRAFT DODGER FINED. His Lawyer Who Tried to Bribe Ex emption Board Sent to Jail. Boston, Nov. 15. Moses Entin, of Fall River, an attorney pleaded guilty in federal court today to a charge of attempting to bribe an ex emption board physician and was sentenced to one year and 30 days imprisonment. Samuel Bloomberg of Fall River in whose behalf Entin acted, pleaded guilty to violation of the selective service act and was fined $2 00. En tin in a statement in court, admitted that he offered the physician $125 to declare Bloomberg physically unfit for army service. 0. S. DESTROYER SUNK U. S. S. Sliaw Cut in Two in Collision With British Liner 13 Sailors Lose Lives. New York, Nov. 15. In the colli sion between the United States de stroy Shaw and the British liner Aquitaina in European waters on Oc tober 9, as announced by the navy de partment two days later, the naval vessel wa3 cut squarely in two thirty live feet aft of the bow and the for ward section sank immediately, the other section catching fire, it was learned here today with the arrival of the Pacific Lino steamship Melita, carrying twenty-five survivors of the Shaw. Other destroyers steamed to the scene and when they took the burn ing section in tow the inrush of wa ter quenched the flames. The navy department's announce ment said fifteen lives were lost. PRICE THREE CENTS. ENEMY COUNTRIES NEED ' ALLIES' HELPING HAND Lieutenant General Smuts Tells American Guests He Expects World Reconciliation to Follow War i Unless Extreme Care Is Taken Dor- ins Reconstruction Period, Europe, Menaced By Hunger, May Be Set- Back So That It Will Require Gen orations to Recover United States Must Do Part. London, Thursday, Nov. 14. Lieutenant General Jan Christian Smuts entertained a party of Ameri-j can editors on behalf of the govern ment tonight. Addressing the guestt-t he said the greatest and most fruit-t ful fact of the great war had been!" tne coming tog-etner or Europe an America. "Old Europe is dead and a ,ne world is slowly emerging," he said "In the upbuilding of this new worl the co-operation of America is essen tial. It is for the good of bot America and Europe that the forme henceforth take an active share in' the councils of the old world and take up her burden in world politics. America has become jointly responsi-t ble with Europe for the new orderf which will arise from the ruins off the war. America and Great Britain! are bound by the same great prinei-t pies and ideals. Their close co-op4 eration henceforth will form the bestt guarantee for the future peaceful de-f velopment of civilization. Organize Against Hunger. "When the great American repub lic joined us in the struggle, it was not only with material weapons, but with all that moral reinforcement. which can come from the splendid vision and moral enthusiasm of Pres ident Wilson, speaking on behalf of the people of the United States. His was the great vision of a League of Nations, and our main concern nowl must be the saving of Europe for the future of the world. As we organized! the world for victory, let us now or ganize the world against' hunger. That will be tho best preparation for the new order of international good feel ing and co-operation. "The position is tragic in the ex treme. A whole world order is pass-f ing away. There is danger of things going too far and giving Europe a setback from which she will not re cover for generations. The evils bred by hunger threaten not merely the old institutions, but civilization. We saved the soul of civilization ; now let us care for its sick body. Enemy Needs Helping Hand. "Not only the liberated territories of our allies, not only our small neu tral neighbors, but the enemy coun tries themselves require our helping liand. Let us extend it in ail gener osity and magnanimity. The idea of organizing food supplies for those lands will help to purify an atmos phere cursed with war, hate and un truth. It would all have necn so much easier if Germany had fought a clean fight and not stained her hands with such crimes, but even so we must be influenced by the larger considerations. "We must feel that in the call tc common humanity there are other purposes besides the prevention of war, for which a league of nations W a sheer, practical' necessity. One of tho first, steps must be to create an organization against hunger and ra tion all the countries where disaster threatens. Predicts League of Nations, "The existing inter-allied machinery which is the nucleus of a league of nations, probably will undertake thi task. In the period of reconstructior after the war, all countries, allied neutral and enemy, will have to b" rationed for certain raw materials. Here again international machinery b necessary. We thus are making straight for a league of nations charged with the performance ol these international functions. 'Then, as regards the primary ob ject of the league, from Finland tc! Constantinople the map will be cov-f ered with small nations divided by profound antipathies and most of them with minorities conducive to in ternal weakness. We may, therefore, expect more dangers of wars in En- rope than in the past. Therefore, it is imperative that we create an inter national organization to keep peace. "The league also would be xiseful in solving other problems. America Could Give Help. For instance, when the league is established, America might be asked to aict in some trouble in Turkey or (Continued on Fifteenth Page)