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Ebert May Fall
And Suceessor
Sign Treaty
Paris Expects Present Re
gime to Resume Power
After Paet Is Accepted by
Teniporary Government
Date Still Problematical
fiegotiations May Last to
October, Some Declare;
Oemenceau Is Criticised
J New Yorb Tribune
Special Cable Scri-icc
(Cowrftht, 1919. New \..-'? TriUme Inc)
PARIS, June 11.?It :s impossible for
the German treaty to be ready for sig
sature before the enti of June. This
ls the average opinion of the peace
conference, as obtained by inquiries by
The Tribune correspondent. Estimates
vary as to the time, some optimistic
Americans even predicting the middle
of June, while a high British official
declared he would not be surprised if
October came before tho Germans
signed. In regard to Germany's prob?
able action conference leader3 are cer?
tain that the present Berlin govern
jnent will not sign, even with the con?
cessions the Entente is ready to make.
The Entente belief is that a new
German government will be quickly
appointed, which will sign, after which,
H a result of the signature, it will
Eomptly fall and make way for the re
statement of the present leaders.
Clemenceau Again Target
The delay in the Austrian treaty, to?
gether with the simultaneous renewal
of disagreements in the Council of
three over the reply to the German
Counter proposals, has created anew
serious criticism among the delegates
themselves, as well as in the French
press, of the shortcomings of the Big
Three?Clemenceau, Wilson and Lloyd
George.
The newspaper hostility to Clemen?
ceau for failing to obtain adequate
reparation from the Germans, leaving
France facing terrible financial diffi
eulties, is believed to be the reason
that M. Clemenceau at the last minute
ls standing out against the American
snd British desire for concessions to
the Germans, thus delaying the conclu
lion of the reply which the Americans
hoped would receive the sanction of the
Big Three to-day.
Might Cancel Debt
A new phase in the concessions prob?
lem has arisen with a proposition to
let a value on the German colonies,
which shall be subtracted from the
lhare of the indemnity received by the
respective mandatory powers. The dif-.
ftculty in f.xing a value already is ap
parent, and a story ia current in Brit?
ish ar.d French circles that the total
value of the colonies lost by Germany
curiously equals the sum the German
delegation has avowed a willingness to
pay, namely, $25,000,000,000.
A further difficulty arises in the case
of two British dominions who doubt
the value of the colonies assigned to
them. Samoa, which goes to Xew
Zealand, wa3 recently visited by a dis
astrous epidemic, after which the
ranks of labor were terribly depleted
and workmen demanded an enormous
advance in wages. The New Zealand
ers assert that under such conditions ;
Samoa would be certain to prove a
heavy loss.
Lack of Labor Handicaps
A similar attitude is taken by the
South African Union in regard to Ger?
man Southwest Africa, where labor |
?nd other conditions are such that the
union authorities believe that they are
taking over merely the assumption of
a heavy burden.
ln both cases the crux of the problem
ls the scarcity of labor, and the sug?
gestion that a remedy could be found
by the importation of Chinese coolies
ia now welcomed for politieal reasons.
Finaily, if the principle of money value
were appiied to the German colonies,
H would also affect the territory for
Oierly administered by other enemy
Powers, though this complication has
Bot yet been envisaged.
Bolsheviki Retake
City Captured by
Kolchak's Troops
LONDON, June 11. ? Bolshevik
forces on Monday captured Ufa, one of
the cities recently taken by the troops
of Admiral Kolchak, after three days
of sanguinary fighting, according to a
Rusaien wireless dispatch received
here to-day.
The message adds that Bolshevik air
plar.es participated in the fightnig
?ga;nst the Siberians for the first time.
I Ufa ig in the province of Orenburg
?nd about 176 miles east of Samara.
It iron the trans-Siberian Railway, and
tn thc rear of the line to which the
Kolchak force? recently advanced.
T.M Admiralty announced to-day that
? British submarine operating in the
Bstfic Sea haa beer. missing since June
* aid is presumed to have been lost
*'th all hands.
An official statement from the Rus
?i?n Sovi*t government received in
London on June 7 included this sen
ttnee:
"The submarine which attacked our
dettroyers in the Gulf of Koporia (an
?nn of the Gulf of Finland, eouthwest
? Petrograd) was sunk by artillery
nre."
v?Sa Troops From Russia
Reach Camp in Brest
339th Infantry Re?tingy Pre>
paratory lo Embarking for
America Later ln the Week
BM8T, Jone U^~Tbe flrst eon
1*2J?* ?* Amerlean soldiers being
gi*?*** *?*? Arehangel, Nertb
***** aortrad Wre tate afteraoos oa
Fire Destroys Sultan's
Constantinople Palace
/CONSTANTINOPLE, June O.?The
palace of the Yildiz Kiosk, in
habited by the Sultan, was destroyed
by fire to-day.
The Yildiz Kiosk has been the of?
ficial home of the Sultan of Tur
key for several years. In the pal?
ace the Sultan received his ministers
and foreign diplomats. The Kiosk,
which includes other buildings, is
removed from the r.oise and bustie
of the city. lt was at one time the
home of Sultan Abdul Kamid II.
the steamer Czar. The detachment
comprised the 339th Infantry.
The infantrymen disembarked from
the steamer for a few days' rest at
Camp Pontanezan. They will proceed
for the United States next Saturday
or Sunday.
Esthonians Ask Foch
To Hold Back Germans
PARIS. June 11.?Marshal Foch has
been appealed to by Foreign Minister
Poska of Esthonia, who is now in
Paris, to compel the Germans to cease
hostilities against the Esthonians in
the region of Riga. The Esthonians,
M. Poska, says. were attacked when
they went to the assistance, at the
r.que.i of the Lettish government, of
the Lettish troops lighting the Bol
sheviki.
The Esthonian delegution has sent
a eopy of the appeal to each of the
Allied and Associated Powers.
Wilson to Aid
Ireland, Acting
Unof f icially
Tell 8 American Delegates He
Will Seek to Bring the
Question Before Other
Peace Commissioners
PARIS, June 11 1 By The Associated
Press).?President Wilson to-day told
representatives of lrish societies ir,
America that he would do what he
could unofficially to bring the Insh
question to the attention oi' tha other
peace commissioners. Anno.; ice ment
to this effect was made by Frank P.
Walsh and Edward F. Dunne, the rep?
resentatives of the Irish-Ameriean.?,
after they had held a thirty-minute
conference with the President.
The promise made by the President
was in reply to a question from Messrs.
Walsh and Dunne as to what the Presi?
dent intended doing in view of the res?
olution adopted by the Senate urging
that the American delegation take steps
to have representatives of Ireland
heard by the peace conference.
Delegates Make Statement
The following statement was given ?
out after the conference:
'"We had a conference with the
President to-day, \r\ which he stated I
that the American comnissioners !
could not take un the case of Ireland I
officially with the peace conference,
-but that he himself and others had
^done, and would continue to do, un- '
officially, what they could in the in?
terest of Ireland; that the American
commission had not yet taken up the
Senate resolution requesting it to
use its efforts to secure a hearing for
De Valera, Griffith and Plunkett.
"Of course, we will take no fur?
ther step3 until the American com?
mission passes on the Senate resolu?
tion. If a hearing is granted De
Valera and his associates, and inter?
national recognition is secured for
the lrish republiC then our work is
at an end. lf the request of the
Senate is denied, we will prcceed
with our efforts to present the case
of Ireiand to the whole peace con?
ference."
DUBLIN, June 11.?A Paris dispatch
to "The Freemans Journal' claims au?
thority for the statement that the lrish
question probably will be raised in the
peace conference.
Colonel E. M. House, one of the
American delegates to the peace con?
ference, will, it is stated, visit Eng?
land during the next fortnight, and
then, it is declared, urge upon the
British government the necessity of
settling the lrish question. It is said
that he also intends to visit Ireland to
investigate conditions and ascertain
the sentiment of the peopie here.
? ? ?
Lovelorn Rumanian
Prince Shoots Himself
PARIS, June 11.?Crown Prince
Charles of Rumania is suffering from a
bulet wound in the leg, self-inflicted,
aceording to news reachinjr Paris. The
wound is not regarded as serious.
The Crown Prince's act, which has
caused a sensation in Bucharest, is said
to have been prompted by the King's
insistence that the prince make a six
months' trip to Japan to forget the
girl from whom he was foreed by his
royal parents to obtain a divorce be?
eause she was neither titled nor
wealthy.
The Queen has done her utmost to
divert Prince Charles's mind from
Cecilie by trying to interest him ac
tively in her cha.ritable work, but
Charles is still deeply attached to his
former wife and has freqently been
seen in her company. She lives in
Bucharest and recently gave birth to a
child, which started gossip about the
auccession to the throne.
The Crown Prince created consterna
tion in Rumanian royal circles laat
year by marrying at Odessa Mlle.
Cecilie (Zlzi) Lambrino, the daughter
of a retired major in the Rumanian
army.
Republic Planned in
Schleswig-Holstein
I^OPE.NHAGE.V, June 11.?A move
"* ment haa atarted in Schleawig
Holatein in aiming at the creation of
an independent republic, Berlin ncwa
papers say.
The republic would be aeparata
from Prusaia and would cede no ter?
ritory to Denmark.
Walsh Def ends
League; Attacks
Lodge and Knox
Montana Senator Says They
Are Assailing Covenant
on Theories That Long
Have Been Cast Aside
Cites Roosevelt Speech
Pact Binds Nation to Make
War No More Than Mon?
roe Doctrine, He Avers
WASHINGTON, June 11.?Asserting
that opponents of the ieague of na?
tions have t.-umped up many unsup
portable objections to play upon pop?
ular ser.sitiveness. Senator Walsh,
Democrat, of Mcnluna, defended the
league covenant in the Senate to-day
against charges that it subverts the
American Constitution.
Answering Senators Lodge of Mas?
sachusetts, Kno:; of Pennsylvania and
others who have urged constitutional
objections, the Mor.tana Ser-.ator de?
clared their argum^nts founded on
theories lor.g since disproved. He
quoted many precedents to support his
position that the covenant neither sets
aside any constitutional prerogative
nor assumes any new power in treaty
making.
Charges that the league would be a
"super-state" he declared to be a "mere
declamation," since the organism in
most of the provisions complained of
could only "advise" or "recommend."
The celebrated Article 10, he continued,
certainly would bind the United State3
to make war in certain instances, but
added that the same obligation had
been assumed by various treaties made
by this government in the past.
"Objection Always Raised"
"The people," said Mr. Walsh, "have
an intense pride in and a just reverence
for their national constitution. If a well
founded apprehension that any policy
runs counter to the commands of the
organic law can be excited, it serves
often as well ar a complete demonstra?
tion to accornplish its rejection. It re?
sults that scarcely a measure of great
national importance comes before
eithor branch of Congress that is not
assailed as being unconstitutional.
"ln an address delivered in the Sen?
ate on December 18 last by the junior
Senator from Pennsylvania (Senator
Knox) a o.uestion was raised by the
following inquiry and comment:
'? 'How could the President, by nego
tiating a treaty, and the Senate by con
senting to its ratiflcation, bind this
country to declare war? A declaration
is, under the Constitution, a preroga?
tive of the Congress.'
"The covenant does undoubtedly,
should the treaty be signed, obllgate
this country to make war. But we
have not hesitated heretofore to as?
sume a like obligation. We entered
into a treaty with the Republic of
Panama, the first article of which is
as follows:
?? 'Articlel?The United States guar
antees and will maintain the independ?
ence of the Reoublic of Panama.'
Must Fight for Panama
"Xo one can doubt the significance
of that undertaking. We go to war
with any country that attempts to re
duce the republic. through whose con
cession we built the Panama Canal.
That treaty was entered into in the
year UiM, the late Theoroder Roose?
velt being President of "the United
States and Philander C. Knox. now a
Senator from the state of Pennsylvania,
his Attorney General and official legal
adviser.
"Among those voting to ratify it
were the following, still members of
the Senate: Senators Lodge, McCum?
ber, Nelson, Penrose, Simmons, Smoot
and Warren.
"What is the Monroe Doctrine but a
voluntary obligation assumed by the
United States to 'respect and preserve
as against external aggression' (exter
nal in this case signifying trans
oceanic) the republics of South and
Central America?"
Senator Waish quoted a speech by
Theodore Roosevelt accepting the Nobel
prizo at Christiania. in 1910, as follows:
"It would be a master stroke if those
great powers honestly bent on peace
would form a league of peace, not only
to keep peace among themselves, but
to prevent, by force if necessary, its
being broken by otherss. The supreme
difficulty in connection with developing
the peace work of The Hague arises
from the lack of any executive power,
of any police power, to enforce the de
crees of the courts."
"The theory that the treaty-making
po.wer does not extend to any subject
This being the month of
new alliances, we just
naturally ring in a line on
our clothes for bridegroom,
best man and ushers.
Cutaways, evening suits,
silk hats, dress shirts, dress
ties, gloves, canes?every
essential elegance.
Rogers Peet Company
Broadway
at 13th St
Broadway
at Warren
"Four
Convenient
Cornera"
Broadway
at 34th St
Fifth Ave.
at 41st St
with reference to which power is
vested in Congress," continued the
Senator, "if it ever was seriously
maintained, was long ago exploded.
Replies to Lodge
"'By Article 1 of the treaty with Cu?
ba, proclaimed December 1", 1903, it
is provided that all products of that
country then admitted to the United
State3 free of duty, should thereafter
be ao admitted without a payment of
duty. Among those voting to ratify
that treaty was the Senator from Mas?
sachusetts, who in the debate with
President Lowell, told his auditors
that the treaty embracing the league
covenant, beeause it allows other na?
tion to 'meddle with our tariff,' *runs
up against a provision of the constitu?
tion.'
"The constitution invests Congress
with the power to 'raise and support
armies' and to 'provide and maintain
a navy,' but we have entered into a
treaty with Great Britain, scrupulously
observed for over a century, not to
keep on the Great Lakes more than a
limited number of armed vessels.
"Congress is empowe.'ed to make
laws in relation to the naturalization
of aliens, but in perhaps every treaty
through which any addition was made
to our territory stipulations are found
through which the subjects or citizens
of the state making the cession, re
s.ding in the newly acquired territory.
were admitted to citizenship."
Referring to assertions that the
league would be a "super-government"
the Senator quoted from the covenant
at length and continued:
"It is idle to assert that an organ?
ization thus equipped is a government
at all. It has no army and no treas
I ury, and no means of securing either.
Though it may render decisions, it
cannot make laws, neither can it levy
taxes."
Senator Walsh said r.o one contended
the league covenant was perfect. But
it was a "mere subterfuge," he de?
clared, to talk of amending it. "What
; the Senate may do," he continued, "is
! to propose amendments, which in sub
! stance is a rejection of the treaty
j with a condition. Tbe whole subject
I is thus opened up' and negotiation
must be resumed. Doubtless other na?
tions will propose amendments. The
stupendous labors of the last six
months are all undone and peace is as
far away as it was last Decembsr."
Plan Navy Graft Round-Up
Officials to Make Arrests on
Beck's Disclosures
As a result of disclosures made by
Ensign Paul Beck, who confessed to
PEARLS jg?Ejy"?
PRECIOUS'STONES 'f? ?*S5
JEWELRY *nmum'
:S:Barton
824.
B.JStARK.Inc.
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JlE^NnELERirAND SILVERSMITHS
Ejfth Avenue at 47 $ Street
4.MAIDEN LANE
accepting money to put enlisted men
of the navy in bomb proof jobs, officers
of the Intelligence Bureau of tha navy
soon will begin the task of rounding
up the men named by the officer ir
his transactions. The complete state?
ment of Ensign Beck is to be sent to
Washington by Judge Advocate John
G. Muir, whe represented the navy
at the trial of the accused officer be?
fore a court martial at the Navy Yard.
The nature of Beck's disclosures is
i Ming kept a secret by the court mar
j tial, of which Commodore W. S. Wood
is the president
Germans Preparing
For Allied Invasidn
w
Shipping of Money From Terri
tory Near Occupied Are*
Points to Treaty Rejection,.
Neie York Tribama)
Speeiol Cable Strvie*
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COBLENZ, June 11.?While Paris
reports indicate that the treaty will
soon be signed, rumors filterlng^Jn
from nnoccupied Germany point otftjir
wise. .
Wealthy Germans ln cities and towns
within a radius of fifty miles from the
bridgeheads occupied by the Allied
armies are reported to be withdrawing
funds from banks and sending them
to Berlin and other safer places. Young
men of military age, one report says,
are also leaving the territories likely
to be occupied by the Allied forces.
Meanwhile German shops in the areas
nearest the occupied districts are still
stocking up with souvenirs which they
confidently believe they will have an
opportunity to sell to American sol
i diers.
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n
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