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THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1919
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TKOCEsnffitgEE^Zj**^ I ??!?ke fi^r*
Klsewh?r?
Germany Must Pay Till 1951; 5 Biflions In 2 Years;
Kaiser Will Be Tried; Enemy Keeps Saar Valley
B.R.T. Union
Asks Aid of
War Board
Labor Organization Sends
Message Urging That
Government Officials
Trv to Prevent Strike
AmpI*' Notice lo
People Protnised
-Mayor Agrees to Try to
Persuadr Garrison to
Give Workers Audience
Kcports were current in all parts of
Brooklyn iast night that the B. R. T.
men were on strike, or would strike
early this morning. When these re?
ports were called to the attention of
P. J. O'Brien, international president
nf the Amalgamated Association of
Street nnd Electric Raiiway Employes,
in charge of the Brooklyn situation.
be said:
"No strike has been ordered. No
body ia on strike. No strike can be
ordered until after Mayor Hylan has
had a chance to do something. The
H'ar Labor Roard must also have a
chance. Furthermore, the executive
board of the Amalgamated?that is to
say, the national body ?will have to be
consulted before the strike vote is
ordered effective, and there will be no
strike without ample notice to the
people of Brooklyn. That you can de
pend upon."
Mr. O'Brien said the War Board had
been asked to intervene to prevent a
strike.
Mayor Hylan recoived Arnold E.
Miller. William Riley and Aaron Cop
man, a sub-committce of the strike
committee oi" B. R. T. union em?
ployes, nt City Hall yesterday and
listened to their request that he ask
Mr. Garrison to meet with the com?
mittee. The Mayor agreed, after hear?
ing the eommittee's statement of
pievances, and promised to advise the
members later of the result x>f his ef?
forts. Nothing was heard from this
promise last r.ight. It is understood
the Mayor did not succeed in getting
in touch with Lindley M. Garrison, the
K_ R. T. receiver. At the B. R. T.
offices and Mr. Garrison's home it was
stated that he was not in the city, but
might be home to-day.
Mayor To Be Cautious
Mayor Hylan made it clear to the
committee that he did not propose to
lay himself open to any possible con
tempt of court charges in interfering ln
'.he matter.
"1 will ask Mr. Garrison to meet the
committee," said Mr. Hylan after it had
ocen made clear to him that the imme
'hatc object of the visitors was to see
the receiver. "Of course you know he
represents the courts, and I want to do
nothing to interfere with the Federal
Wurts. The p.jaceful way is the best.
? ou must consider everything before!
you take the responsibility of calling a
strike." ,
This the committee prornised to do,
and departed to confer with Mr.
0 Bricn, William Collins, of the Amer?
ican Federation of Labor, and Thomas
Snine, a vice-president of the Amalga?
mated Association of Street and Elec?
tric Kailway Employes assigned to the '<
Brooklyn situation. These were in ;
eonference the greater part of yester- I
day working out the details of a strike ;
P.an and directing the work of organ- !
isera assigned to the task of bringing j
in as many new members as possible." .1
Outwardly there was nothing in '
orook.yn yesterday to indicate that a
urike was irnoending. Cars ran on
tne usual schedules and conductors and
motormen, as well aa s.u'oway guards ;
and ticket ehoppers, were not inclined
W talk strike. As a rule they pro
lested to know "only what we see in
tne papers."
Men Afraid of ".Spottera"
(i ''The fact is," said O'Brien last night !
"?men are afraid to talk. 'Ihey do ;
sot know but what they rnay be talking
W a spotter, and even those who stand
? eady to strike are not courting dis
r-''^sal in advance.",
. No statement wa? issued by op< ral
K ofnciala of thc- company yesterday.
Return Httghes's ivftil
For "Correct Address"
"Washington, I). C" Ih Not
r.noujrh on Envelope to C;iv?>
Pottolfiee a (Aev,
S*w York Trtburt* <
Wanhingtr/n lureau
.WA8HTNGT0N, April 9.?Charles E. [
??*h?? our have been "President for j
BijM" l?sa than three years ago, but j
m name rncans nothing to the Post- |
*?e? Dopartmont.
Ob? of the defer.cex of the present '.
?m*m of DiHiUrjr justice in the army,
ZTi ?!Jt '" eontradiction of the charges ;
U,.l\"v ,'U""'i Ansell, wa* addrOBMd
feJ r,' K Ha?h??, Attorney, Wash- i
Kcton, U. C.? The writing wa. plaln.
lLI?f **"TI\ "ut ur"lf,r * Waf Jnduatrieo j
ifiT/u !iIik- m"Ud "official busrneiis"
Sl CuTA "U'hr]'J r'n"U"i m th? UPP"
"arni hand eorner,
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Artvf
Hylan Denounced as
Firemen's Bill Passes
* Ktafj Corrcnpovilrvcr
ALBANY, April 9, The Assembly
to-day passed thc Blakely
threc-platoon bill for firemen by a
vote of 119 to 13. The bill is expect
ecl to pass the Senate ulao. Gover?
nor Smith has announced he fa
vors it.
Assemblyman Joseph Steinberg,
Republican, of Xew York, called at?
tention to the fact that Mayor Hylan
had failed to keep a preelection
pledge to support the threc-platoon
system.
The bill provides that a threc
platoon system for liremen can be
established in any city in the state
after a vote by the people. The
inicative to secure such a referen
dum must be on a petition contain
ing the signatures of 10 per cent of
the voters. This would mean 100,000
signatures in New York City.
Mrs. O'Grady
Opens ,War on
Immoral Films
Deputy Police Commissioner
Aroused by "Movies"
Shown to Children of the
Poor Throughout City
A police "clean-up" crusade to put a
i stop to the exhibition in this city of
motion pictures said to be immoral and
! suggestive was announced last night
; by Mrs. Ellen A. O'Grady, Deputy Po
: lice Commissioner.
Mrs. O'Grady spent yesterday after
1 noon going from one "movie" show to
another. mostly in the poorer sections
' of the city. After returning to Police
Headquarters she said she would send
j out a corps of women detcctives to such
| places as she had visited, with instruc
i tions to bring the proprietors into
; court.
Mrs. O'Grady said the undesirable
pictures were being shown in large
numbers in all parts of the city, and
j that their influence co.unteracted the
I good work by schools, churches and
I courts.
"The clergy, cducators, judges and
welfare workers#of all kinds might as
! well lock up the churches, shut the
; books. close the courts, if they are
j going to permit the tilthy motion pic?
tures being shown in New York and
! throughout the countrv to continue.
"Poison" Fed to Children
"You who read this artiele just take
i a walk now. Don't wait until they
: change the films. Go to ail parts of tho
: city, especially the poorer section, and
! see the poison that is being fed to our
I children. Read thc flaring announce
; ments that excite the worst passions of
human nature. Talk about American
ization! While Americans have been
asleep the fiends that run these places
have done the damagc. And we are
supposed to have a board of censors,
with headquarters at 70 Fifth Avenue.
Iligh soundinfi, isn't it, as are thc
names of these who constitute thc
board ?
"Juvenile delinquency has increased
in the past eight or nine years, and 1
know it is owing to those pictures. I
am in a po;.ition to know, as I have the
confidence of the young people who
fail into our hands.
Children Influenccd Wrongly
"The following is a conversation
which I had recently with two little
girls of fourteen years, chiidren of for?
eigners, who were brought into my
office.
" 'What is thc matter with you
girls?' I asked. 'What do you intead to
make of yourselves?
"Their answer was, 'We want to be
American girls, like in the moving
pictures, have a good time, automobiles
and nice clothes.'
"Imagine the kind of Americanization
these children have had.
Would Pass Slacor Kill
"The motion picture producers, I
am sure,, ,will say to you, 'How about
your cabarets and dance nails?' I know
some of those are bad and wo are
doing our best to get rid of them.
However, thc children who are my
chicf concern do not go to these
cabar'ets and dance halls, but thev do
go to the movies.
"The license commissioner is kept
busy trying to close those places, but
the licensee rushes to court ancl gets
fu. injunction to rostrain him from
interfering, and by fhe time tho case
I?'? to be heard in court tho undesirable
picture is being shown somewhere
else.
"A bill has been introduced in Al?
bany by AsHcmblyman John W. Slacor,
; of Erie County, seeking to authoriz.e
the State Board of Regents to appoint
, a board of censors i'or motion pictures
and givmg them the power to prohibit
: the exhibition of films found to be
sacrilegious, obscene, indecent or im
mora , or found to debase or corrupt
morals, and I wish that the good peo?
ple mcnt.onod at the beginning of this
fh ' w??woulId Ket *<?K?ther to support
this bill and see that we get our verv
best cituens on the board.'"
Senate Passes Boxing Bill
Vote on Gibbs Measure Is 27 to
18, Wjth No Debate
ALBANY, April !). The Glbba bill.
designed to lagftliza box.ng bouts in the
state was passed without debate in
the Senate to-mght hy H vote of i27 to
ih, with ?ix members not recorded
The bill itltroduead recently by Sen?
ator James J. Walker, of.New York
which aliso is Intanded to re?torc box?
ing to its former.legal status, was re
pertad favorably to-night by the Judi
eUry CowmUtaa. It is understood this
bill also will ba paaaad ln the Senate
?iki tne datarmlnation aa to which if
ither. measure nhall ba onactad will
ba left to the Aasernbly ?r the Gov
Bribe Inquiry
Hearings Will
Begin To-da\
Richard H. Burke, Formei
Inspector of Aqueduet Po?
lice, Found in This City.
Will Be the First Witness
Others Are Sought" Here
Sergeant-at-Arms of Senate
Sent Down From Albany
With Several Subpoenas
Staff Corrrspoiulrnre
ALBANY, April 9.?The Senato Judi
' ciary Committee will hold its lirst pub
( i lic hearing to-morrow in its investiga?
tion of Senator George F. Thompson's
Charge that he was offered "up to
: $500,000" and thc promiso of support
' j by traction magnates should he decide
i to be a candidate for the Republican
nomination for Governor if he worked
I'or the Martin streetcar rate bill.
Jt is understood that thc lirst wit
I ness will be Richard H. Burke, of New
York City, a former inspector of the
; New York City aqu&duct police. Word
j waa received here to-day that Charles
; Hotaling, the SenaU sergeant-at-arms,
i who has subpoenas for several wit
| nesses wanted by the committee, found
! Mr. Burke at his hotel. Mr. Burke
volunteered to be of whatever service
, he could in the investigation.
i Several prominent men will he wit?
nesses before the committee before it
j ends its labors, and it is not unlikely
jthat the testimony of Mr. Burke may
fdetermine whether the Legislature shall
iadjourn on April 19, as scheduled.
i Among those who probably will he
j heard is a one-time Governor of this
! state who, according to Sena'cor Thomp
| son, dangled the Republican nomination
| for Governor before his eyes.
Names Still Guarded
The names of Senator Thompson's al?
leged informants are still being jeal
; ously guarded by Senator Thompson
'? and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Senator Alvah W. Burlingame, chair
i man of the committee, said to-night
'that he probably would have an im?
portant announcement to make to-mor?
row.
The Martin bill, which passed the
{Assembly yesterday, was received in
the Senate. Senator J. Henry Walters
: majority leader of the Senate, asked
. that the bill be advanced to third read?
ing. Senator Thompsop, chairman of
-he Senate Public ServlOe Committee,
Continued on page fire
Wilson's Call for Ship
Delayed in London
1}AR1S, April 9. The cable mes
A sage giving directions for the
stcamship George Washigton to be
sent to France was held up in Lon?
don for two days for "some unac
countable reason." it was announced
111 American quarters here to-day.
inis fact was discovered, it was
s.tated, when the American mission
made an investigation because of the
printing here of Washington dis
Patches declnring thnt the George
Uashington had not been ordered to
1'iance.
A dispatch was received to-day
rom the Navy Department saying
that the steamer would bo able to
sail in forty-eight hours.
jt was later announced that the
delay of the message was due to an
error in the American naval com
municntions offico in London.
Senate Bill Aimed
At Rent Profiteers
Is Hnrried Through
Bronx Legislator" s Measure
Would Permit Inerease
oi Tax Assessmenls to
Absorb All Advanccs
Staff Corri-rtpnnrirnrn
ALBANY, April 9.-Following a con?
ference of Republican lcgislative, lead?
ers to-night, Senator Peter A. Abeles,
Republican, of The Bronx, introduccd a
bill aimed at eurblng rent profiteers
throughout the state. The measure
was immediately advanced to third
reading.
'Ihe bill confers power on all local
authorities to create anti-rent protiteer
ing committees. These committees are
empowered to publish in newspapers
or otherwise the names of rent:
profiteers as a means of curbing them.
If this fails, the committees may direct. j
the local tax assessors to increase the |
assessments of the profiteening land- >
lords so as to absorb all the increases
in rents.
A concurrent resolution to havo a i
committee of the Legislature investi
gate rent profiteers, especially in New !
York City. with a view to reporting
back remedial legis'ations will be re- ?
ported out favorably by the Finance j
Committee ffc-morrow. An appropria
tion of $10,000 is made.
-.???,-,-.
Wilson Goes Outdoors
First Time Since illness
President and Hia Pliysician
Motor About Paris in
a Limousrne
PARIS, April !? (By The Associated !
Press). President Wilson left the j
"White House" after thc meeting of tho :
couneil of four to-day for the first
time since his illness.
With Read Admiral Cary Grayson,
his personal physician, he motored i
about town in a limousine.
Public to Hear
Peace Debate,
Lodge Asserts
Senate Will Consider Paris
Treaty at Open Sessions
and Even the Committee
Will Forego Secrecv
Plan May Not Be Opposed
Disappointment at Failure
of Wilson's Promise Stirs
Leaders in Washington
By Carter Field
New York Tribune
Washington Rureau
WASHINGTON, April 9. -The cove
nanis of peace will be considered for
ratification openly by the Senate, even
I if they were not "openly arrived at" in
Par^s. if Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
! has anything to do with it. The Macsa
I chusetts Senator, who will be both
| chairman of the Foreign Relations
j Committee nnd majority leader in the
I new Senate, declared to-day that he
would propose open sessions for the
consideration of the treaty.
Mr. Lodge went even further than
to declare for open sessions of the Sen?
ate during the consideration of the
peace treaty. He promised that the
public would be kept fully informed as
to the deliberations of the Foreign Re?
lations Committee while the committee
is considering the treaty before making
its report to the Senate.
This is so unhcard of as to be con?
sidered by some Senators as revolu?
tionary, although no voice of opposition
was raised to the plan when Senator
Lodg^'r: idcaa were made known.
Secrecy Always Obscrved
In the past there has seldom been an
occasion when some news about the de
liberations of thc Foreign Relations
Committee did not leak out, but it was
alwayo distinctly a "leak," and on half
a dozen occasions there have been Sen
atorial investigations to learn just
which Senator did the leaking to the
newspaper men.
So tl at to have the next chairman of
the committee promise that statemonts
would be made for the benefit of the
public during the meetings of the com?
mittee was a true sensation.
The Reparation Terms
(By The. Associated Prcsf)
PARlS, April 9.?The reparations clause of the peace
treaty as finally agreed upon by the Couneil of Four
to-day specifies that the enemy countries must admit
responsibility for all loss and damage to allied and asso?
ciated nations and their citizens caused by the unjustifi
able aggression. But in view of the inability of the enemy
countries fully to recompense these losses, the clause
states, an inter-Allied commission will assess the losses
on a just basis for thirty years, beginning May 1, 1921,
with an initial payment of $5,000,000,000.
Germany is to pay the entire cost of the commission
and staff during the thirty years of operations. The first
payment is to be credited against Germany's obligation to
pay for the maintenance of the Allied troops in the occu
?pied regions, and the second priority is for the payment of
food relief furnished to Germany.
Lenine Pledges 150,000
Troops to Aid Hungary
Sends Envoy to Budapest With Prom
ise to Baek New Soviet Rule; Allies May
Be Asked to Police Germany; Reds Said
To Be Pleading Through Americans
PARIS, April 9 (By The Associated
Press).?Nikolai Lenine, the Russian
I Bolshevik Premier, has sent M. Sa
i melli, of the school of. propaganda at
! Moscow, as a delegate to Budapest.
Advices reaching Paris stale that Sa
; melli has advised Bela Kun, the Hun
1 garian Foreign Minister, that the Bol
i sheviki would send an army of 150,000
| to assist the Hungarian Bolsheviki.
Anstriana Join Red Army
LONDON, April 9.?Twelve hundred
j German-Austrian volunteers for the
? Hungarian Communist army have ar
i rived in the Hungarian capital from
| Vienna under command of the Aus
j trian Communist leaders Roth and
j Ziegel. an Exchange Telegraph dis
I patch from Budapest says. More Aus
j trians are expected. General enlist
1 ment for the Hungarian Red army
1 will commence Sunday.
Vienna Appeals
For British Troops
LONDON, April 9. Defending the;
military bill in the House of Lords to
day, Earl Curzon of Kedleston. presi- !
dent of the council and government '
leader in the House of Lords, declared
that Vienna, "being in a serious posi?
tion and apprehensive lest it should
share the fate of Budapest, had turned
to Great Britain and said: 'If you will,
send 10,000 British troops we can guar?
antee the situation.' "
Earl Curzon was not sure that war
conditions would not revive. He said:
"I see clouds on the horizon which
may burst at any moment in a more '
sinister form than anything yet seert.
If the critics of this bill can show the
government how to rule Ireiand without
maintnini.ig 40,000 troops there they
will confer a great favor on the gov
Brnment."
Wilson Assailed
For Reds' Plea
LONDON, Apnl 9. Adjournment of
tho House of Commons was moved to
day to call attention to an alleged of?
fer from Nikola Lenine, through the
Americans, to the peace conference.
Clem Edwards, Coalition Liberal, and
other speakers strongly objected to any
negotintions with the Bolsheviki.
Fears to Embarrass Parley
.lames Henry Thomas, Labor member,
dcprecated the discussion as likely .to
omharrass the Paris ne-arotiations and
said that, whatever else was in doubt,
every one hoped nothing would arise to
weaken Great Britain's friendship for
the United States, because nobody
j could pretend that there was any other
; ally whose* motives were so pure and
clean.
Kdward Shortt, Secretary for Home
; Affairs, replying in behalf of the gov?
ernment, said he was sure there wns
| no desire to avoid discussion with
; Russia, but there was ccrtainly to-day
no government in Russia worthy of tho
name to discuss with.
"When it comes to the more gang of
I bloodthirsty rufticians who are terroriz
ing the population of Russia,' 'he de- j
clared, "we can have no truck with such j
men. We are entitled to tell the Rus- j
j sian people we will havo nothing to do
! with a government which is a danger to
, civilization.
No I'roposals to British
j "There is reason to doubt whether. !
I as alleged, Americans have been to
; Rgssia and have returned, but it is a
! fact that no such proposals have been
j brought before the British delegat03
! in Paris. It is, of course, possible that
these gentlemen may have communi
cated with the delegates of other coun?
tries."
Personally, ho said, he believed tho
j whole story of Lenine being ready to j
negotiate was German-manufactured |
for the nnrno-"e of making nth?-"r conn
tries believe the Bolshevists ivri
really peaceable, civilized persons. Thi
Germans were sprcading Bolshevism
wherever possible as their only hope,
because where it went weakness super
vened.
In conclusion, Mr. Shortt announced
that either Premier Lloyd George 01
Andrew Bonar Law. the government
spokesman in the House of Commons
would be in London next week anc
might be able to give more informa
tion.
A llies May Be Asked
To Police Germany
PARIS. April 9.?At the latest ses
?sion of the German Cabinet Council
the government considered the eventu
?? ality of making an appeal to the Allied
i armies to maintain order in Germany,
| in the interest of the whole of Europe,
the Zurich correspondent of "Le Jour?
nal" reports.
The newspaper "L'Eclair" under
stands that General Humbert, former
commander of the French Third Army,
will be appointed "commander of the
Allied troops in Central Europe."
A general strike has been proclaimed
in Berlin and the suburb of Spauda,
nccording to advices received here.
Herr Noske, the Minister of Defenee, is
reported to have concentrated 30,000
loyal troops at the gates of Berlin for
use in case of trouble.
A Soviet government is under way in
Badcn. according to dispatches received
to-day. The government has taken pre
cautionary measures.
Magdeburg "Reds" Beaten
BERLIX, April 9 (By The Associated
Press i. A dispatch to the "Vossische
Zeitung from Madgeburg, capital of
Prussian Saxony, Bays government
troops have recaptured the citadel and
military headquarters there from the
Spartacides.
Spartacide Plot at Hamburg
COPENHAGEN, April 8. The Spar?
tacide leaders at Hamburg are plotting
to proclaim a soviet republic in that
city, according to the "Zeitung Am
mittag," of Berlin, which calls upon
Gustav Noske. the Minister of Wur,
to send troons there to nrpvont fhia
action.
There was a great demonstration
against the provincial and imperial
authorities at Bremerhaven yesterday,
organized by s the three Socialist
parties. An immense meeting in the
market placo adopted a resolution de
manding that the government take
cnergetic measures to remedy the food
scarcity, and for that purpose to make
an alliance with the Russian Soviet
government. A general strike is
threatened unless the demands are
met by April 13.
A committee wa.* appointed and in
structed to seize all the foodstuffs
in tho lower Weser district.
German government troops are
marching on Essen, where a collision
has occurred between thc strikers and
the ( hnstian Workers' organization,
the members of which desire to con?
tinue at their employment. a Berlin
dispatch announces. The strikers have
oecupied the Krupp munition plant, the
message adds.
Employes of Banks
In Berlin Strike for
An Increase in Pay
BERLIN, April 8.--The cmploves of
the Bank for Trade and Industrv bet?
ter known as the Darmstadter %3ank,
went on strike to-day, and a half dozen
banks, including tho Deutsche. Dres
dener and Diseoto, went to the aid of
the other bank by opening thirty of
their branches to the customcrs of the
Darmstadter Bank until the strike is
over.
Thc employes of the Darmstadter
Bank demanded ar: increase in pay,
which the bank could not see its way
to granting without endangering tbe
safety of tho institution. The em?
ployes handed in an ultimatum that
they would strike on April 8 if the dc
mhinls were not satisfiod. When the
employes struck the other banks of?
fered to do the business of the
Darmstadter Bank for the benefit of
its customers.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE I.KCTMIK, IIotkl i
COMMOPOKB. ** l\ M SATllUlAY IVIiwrr.l ln
11 m.'inbrr uf fh? rio?rtl nf l*viurm!ilp t.f (lin M.ithcr I
c-trn.-l. Rntton \ll wHcomt So?Ih frrr A.l\1
Total Will
Be Written
Into Treaty
? *
Belgium Probably Will
! Be Selected to Brins
Ex - Emperor and Aid*
to Justiee for Crimes
| Tension at Parley
Now Is Lessening
Agreement Is Coincident
With Wilson's Threat
to Quit the Conference
ONE hundred and fifty days
after the signing of thr
\ armistice thc peace conference
? at Paris announced its first
? definite decisions yesterday.
They were:
! 1?To try the Kaiser for start?
ing thc war, proeeedings to
be initiated by one. of the
Allied governntents, prob?
ably Belgium.
[ ~?Eull enemy responsibility
for Allied losses, Germany tn
pay $5,000,000,000 jn thr
next two years, the remainder
t to br determined by an inter
Allied commission and as
sesscd over a period of th irty
years, beginning May 1,1921.
\i3?The Saar Valley {,<? to re
main German territory, bi/t
France is to get coal free of
duty to compensate her for
losses in the Lcnz fields and
supply the Lorraine iron in?
dustry.
PARIS, April 9 (By the Associ?
ated Press).-?The responsibility of
the German Emperor for the war
and the means of bringing him to
trial by one of the Allied govcrn
ments, probably Belgium, bave been
definitely determined upon by tl.e
Council of Four.
There has been a definite decisifn
on the terms of reparation for war
damages. * whereby $5,000,000,000
must be paid within the next two
years, and an inter-Allied commis?
sion assess the remaining damage for
a period of thirty yea?, beginning
May 1, 1921.
The council of four also reached
an agreement this afternoon on thp
Saar Valley. The agreement leave::
sovereignty over the valley un?
changed, but accords to France, free
of duty, sufficient coal for the Lor?
raine iron industry and to replace
the production of the mines de
stroyed in the Lens mining district,
j with the privilege to the Germans of
j restoring the Lens mines and thus
' relieving the Saar Valley of that
, charge.
Thus three of the great obstacles
j which stood in the path of the rapid
1 attainment of peace have been re
j moved within the last twenty-four
hours, and the period of extreme
^ tension over the inaction and the
| failure to secure tangible results is
succeeded by revived confidence over
the great advance made toward a
permanent settlement.
: Agreement Reached as
Wilson Summons Ship
How far these results are due to
the intimations conveyed by the sum
moning to France of the United
States transport George Washington
by President Wilson is only con
jectural. But it is at least a coinci
dence that the main difficulties be?
gan to dissolve from the time that.
his decision became known.
The agreement on responsibility
for the war is understood to have
been a compromise between divided
reports presented by the commission
of which Secretary Lansing is chair?
man. There was a practical agree?
ment on the genera! responsibility
of tho German Emperor for bring?
ing on the war, but division occurred
on whether it was feaslble to brine