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British Viceroy
In India Found
Unfit to Rule
Commission Demands Re?
call of Baron Chelms
ford; Martial Law Edict
Is Declared Unwarranted
Rebel Plot Not Proved
?Unritsar Slaughter Is De
! scribed as a "Calculat?
ed Piece of Inhumanity"
DELHI, India, March 23.?The sp??
cial commission appointed by the Na
?ion?! Congress to inquire into the
-ecent disturbances in the Punjab in
its report ju.it published finds Baron
?hetmford, Viceroy and Governor
Gtner?! of India, incapable of holding
Ms b-?h office and demands his recall.
"fli* report declares that\no con
jp'racy designed to overthrow the
British government has been proved.
It finds that other incidents, named
in the report as the Satygraha and
Kowlatt incidents, were not anti
British, and that the facts did not
?ustify the proclamation of martial law
in connection with them.
The Amritsar affair, in which - a
slaughter occurred when a crowd of
salives was fired upon last April, is
described in the report as "a calcu?
lated piece of inhumanity unparalleled
in ferocity."
Seven Other Removals Asked
The report demands that Sir Michael
O'Dwyer, British Lieutenant Governor
of the "Punjab; General Dyer, com?
mander of the British troops in India;
?wo colonels, Deputy Commissioner
Smith and two Indians shall be re?
lieved of their offices. The repeal of
what are known as the Rowlatt acts
arid the punishment of certain minor
indian officials also are demanded.
Baron Chelmsford, formerly Gov?
ernor of Queensland and New South
Wales, was appointed Viceroy and Gov?
ernor General of India on January 14,
1916, in succession to Baron Hardinge.
His career in British politics has been
called successful, if not brilliant. A
erandson of the first Baron Chelmsford,
who was Lord High Chancellor in
]85S-'59, he always has been a Unionist.
He was co-author with Edwin Samuel
Montagu, then Secretary for India, of
.he report granting a large measure
of home rule to the peoples of the
Indian Empire. This measunaf was
announced by the British government
en July 5. 1918. It had the concurrence
of the Indian government and council
?nd the members of the mission which
accompanied Mr. Montagu on a six
months' tour of India.
Provinces Given a Voice
The law gave considerable measure
of responsibility, to provincial legisla?
tures, which are composed of directly
??'ected representatives, and created a
vice-regal legislature, made up of two
chambers. An Indian privy council and
a council of princes also were set up.
In submitting the report Baron
? helmsford wrote as follows:
"Our conception of the eventual fu?
ture of India is a sisterhood of states.
seli-governing in all matters of purely
'.ocal and provincial interest, in some
....s?... corresponding to existing prov
.f*ces, in others perhaps modified in
area, according to the character and
economic interests of their people.
Over this coterie of states would pre?
side a central government, increasing?
ly representative of and responsible? to
'?he people of all of them, and repre?
senting the interests of all India on
equal terms with the self -govern ing
unities of the British Empire."
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Court .4sked to Enjoin Texas?
Front Granting Titles
WASHINGTON, March 29.?The gov?
ernment, in motions filed to-day, asked
permission to intervene in the con?
troversy between Oklahoma and Texas
over the ownership of oil lands in the
P.ed River district and that Texas be
enjoined from granting titles or per?
mits to land located north of the rivev's
south bank.
The motions also ask^d that the
court enjoin Oklahoma and Texas from
permitting any of their representatives
from trespassing upon the contested
lands or sinking any additional oil or
'?'as wells, and that a receiver be ap?
pointed to take charge of all of the
'and?, together with the oil machinery:
and operate wells already sunk.
Solicitor General King told the court
that Oklahoma had approved the gov?
ernment's step, but that Texas authori?
ties had agreed only in part.
Chief Justice White announced that
'lie court would give its opinion to?
morrow.
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Home Rule Bill
Denounced as
Ruin to Irish
Continued from first pas?
cation for his disapproval of the meas- ?
ure, and he disagreed with Clynes on \
but two points; he insisted that Ul- j
ster's wishes must be considered and !
that law and order must be restored j
before any government was set up.
The question of opinion in the ;
United States on the Irish problem
came up several times in the course of
the debate. Regarding: this, Lord Rob- i
ert Cecil said: "You cannot conciliate!
American opinion in this matter with- i
out carrying some considerable portion ;
of Irish opinion along with you. But
we are not sure that our policy on do?
mestic subjects should be governed by ;
what may be thought of them on the
ether side of the Atlantic."
Secession Not Tolerated
Mr. Macpherson, in explaining the
bill, insisted that the government had
acted "magnanimously" toward Ireland
in other years. Secession, he declared,
could not be tolerated, and separation
he called suicidal.
Former Premier Asquith .will speak
to-morrow against the bill, and he.will
be answered by Premier Lloyd George.
Asquith's motion for the rejection of
the measure has been given precedence
by the Speaker over a similar motion
prepared by the Labor party.
Despite the intense public interest
in the debate and the fate of the bill
there was no disorder around the Par?
liament Buildings to-day. Apparently
fearing trouble from Sinn F?iners, the
government had stationed a special
guard at Westminster, but they had
nothing to do.
Change in Policy Forecast
LONDON, March 30.?The appoint?
ment of Sir Neville Macready, chief of
the Metropolitan Police of London, as
military commander in Ireland, fore?
shadows a change in the Irish policy
of the British government, according
to "The Daily Mail."
The go%*ernment intends to abolish
some of the vexatious restrictions, the
nawspaper says, and in that respect the
new r?gime will be more important.
At the same time, the new administra?
tion will be empowered to obtain
greater efficiency for the police service
in Ireland.
Ebert Troops
Invade Ruhr
Coal District
Continued from flnt p-b
government, which brightened last j
night when signs of discord in the
workmen's army and between the mili?
tary and civil leaders were apparent,
were dissipated when the secret con?
ference voted down a proposal to send
delegates to Munster to negotiato with
the Berlin envoys.
At a conference last night between
representatives of the Berlin trades
unions and the Communist authorities
efforts were made to bring ahout im?
mediate peace.
All the parties of the Left sent their
leaders to the conference from Berlin,
and these united in urging peace and
the cessation of warfare. The strongest
advocate of the Communists was Dr.
?Paul Levy, president of the Communist
party of Germany, who recently was
released from prison, where he was
serving a term for a political offense.
Dr. Levy denounced the commander in
chief of the workmen's forces, Herr
Leitner, and the army itself in oppos-.
inri an armistice, as an attempt at mil?
itary dictatorship.
The conference decided to demand
control of all arms and ammunition,
wiih seizure of the munitions plants,
particularly the Krupp and Thyssen
works. To forestall the possibility of
the government's rejection of the con?
ference's proposals, the threat of a gen?
eral strike, which previously had been
made to support its demands, was in?
corporated in a resolution by which
the conference representing the execu?
tive committees of fifty-nine cities and
districts agreed, if necessary, to use
all possible means to effect a most com?
plete general strike.
Three of the Berlin representatives
were Herr Krasman, vice-chairman of
the Trades Union Federation, and
Deputies Brasse and Osteroide, Social
Democrats. They said they came not as
government agents, but to seek to'me?
diate and adjust the differences exist?
ing.
Dr. Lev;* said he hoped for peace by
Tuesday at the latest. He agreed that
he represented the extremist elements,
but said he deemed it impolitic and
impractical to try for German Soviets
now with the Ruhr district standing
alone. He said that unless the Reichs?
wehr were disarmed the country would
be in exactly the same position as be?
fore the Kapp revolution, and one
might expect a similar attempt at any
time.
Levy said his party could not win
its fight under the present conditions.
"We wa"t to bre??k off this fight as
soon as i.e can," were Herr Levy's
words. "We cannot fight single-handed
against the rest of Germany."
The spokesman for the Communists
declared what his faction objected to
was militarism. "Our kind of people
are sick of it.' 'he said.
Herr Levy insisted that the outcome
of the movement in the industrial
field might ha\ i been different if the
men had not spent their enthusiasm in
the general strike.
"At present, however," he continued,
"we must await some other occasion.
We must not attempt the impossible."
People Declared Supreme
Then, addressing Commander in Chief
Leitner, of the workmen's forces, who,
it has been alleged, was seeking to
bring about a military dictatorship,
Herr*Levy said:
"You must submit to our decisions.
So long as we are the chosen repre?
sentatives of the people you, as well as
every other military man, must submit
to us."
BERLIN, March 29.?The news from
the Ruhr industrial district, the Rhine
land in general and from Westphalia
permits the conclusion that order
gradually will be restored in those
regions, where rebellious forces of
workmen have been operating, It was
declared here to-day.
The government has entered into ne?
gotiations with the Independent Social?
ist leader Cohn with a view to modify?
ing the ultimatum to the Ruhr workers'
army, as it was pointed out that if the
workers were driven to desperation
they might flood the mineB and destroy
the blast furnaces.
The Independent Socialists held
thirty meetings Sunday. The speeches
delivered indicated that the Indepen?
dents desire a purely Socialist Cabi-<
net under independent leadership.
They demanded immediate withdrawal
of tho troops from the Ruhr region,
saying that otherwise the rebels
continue fighting, and, if defeated,
that they would devastate the mines.
Herr Kunert, Socialist member of
th,e Assembly from the Halle-Saal
krcls district, threatens to call a gen?
eral strike in Berlin.
Rumors were current Sunday night
that the Raditals in Berlin under i
Ernest Daumig, with the assistance of ?
the Cimmunists, would attempt to force j
another general strike in an effort to 1
extort still further concessions from j
the government. Responsible labor |
leaders declare the proposed move- ?
ment would be doomed to failure as I
the moderate elements among the In- j
dependents would refuse to support it, j
while the general Federation of Trades
At a meeting Sunday at Ilagen, West?
phalia, the three Socialist parties de?
cided to withdraw from the Muelheim
headquarters, the scat of the rebel
control, and if necessary to fight under
Republican leadership against the
Muelheim faction, dispatches from
Ungen announced. The behavior of
this faction, which was characterized
as "anarchistic," was declared to be
held in these Socialist quarters as con?
stituting a danger to the industrial re?
gion.
Similar decisions, it is stated, are j
expected from Dortmund, Elberfeld I
and Bremen, which would mean the
isolation of the Muelheim faction.
The attitude of the Muelheim in?
surgents is not easily understood here
in view of the fact that the rebels
have suffered a sharp setback before
the fortress of Wesel, which they have
been besieging. The Friedrichsfelde
camp has been cleared of rebels, who
suffered heavy losses, so the bombard?
ment of Wesel is no longer feared, the
rebels' heavy howitzers and other ar- j
tillery there having''been captured.
Allies Told Wilson's View
On German Ruhr Policy '
PARIS, March 29.?Hugh C. Wal
lace, American Ambassador to France, ]
at to-day's session of the conference j
of ambassadors confirmed the state- >
ment made in Washington that
President Wilson was not opposed, to
the entry of more troops of the Ger- !
man regular army into the Ruhr val- !
ley if the German government desired |
to send them there.
President Wilson's note on the |
subject, which Mr. Wallace handed to
Premier Millerand, sees no objection
tc the occupation of the zone by Ger- '
man troops, but on the contrary it find.-' !
that Allied occupation would prove a
serious disadvantage.
Mexican Depulies Arrested
WASHINGTON, March 29.?Five
members of the Mexican Chamber of
Deputies, two generals and other army'
officers and mure than fifty civilians
were arrested in Mexico City because
of a demonstration in favor of General
Obregon during the recent reception to
Ambassador Bonilla, according to ad?
vices received here to-day through of?
ficial channels.
The five Deputies were released only
after great excitement in the Chamber
and alter the adoption of a resolution
of protest. The police were said to ?
have contended that the Deputies were
not protected by the constitutional
privileges.
The War Department announced that
the army officers arrested would be
tried for violation of military regula?
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Mueller to Use
"An Iron Broom"
Premier Tells Assembly
No Quarter Will Be
Shown to Rebel Leaders
BERLIN, March 29 (By* The Associ?
ated Press).?Chancellor Mueller, In a
speech outlining his program, told the
National Assembly when it convened
to-day that "the reactionary elements
in the army will be swept away with
an iron broom." Tho new Chancellor
devoted half of his speech to consid?
eration of the recent revolution.
No quarter will be shown to the mil?
itary leaders who violated their oath,
said the Chancellor. The terms of the
peace treaty were responsible for the
reactionary sentiment still prevailing
in many quarters in Germany, he add?
ed. The Chancellor asserted the gov?
ernment would oppose the French de?
mand for Allied occupation of Prank
fort, Darmstadt and other cities, in
return for the privilege of sending
German troops into the neutral zone.
The government, he continued, "does
not propose to subject these peaceful
communities to the terrors of occupa?
tion."
The new government was fully rep- \
resented at to-day's session ol> the As- j
scmbly. Gustav Noske, the former I
Minister of Defence, and Dr. Schiffer, j
former Minister of Justice, occupied i
seats with their party factions. The |
Assembly recessed for two hours to
permit the parties to prepare their re?
sponses to Dr. Mueller's speech.
After introducing the new members
of the government Dr. Mueller said a
coalition of the parties was the only
solid foundation upon which German
policy could be based.
The Public Prosecutor, in a letter
read to the Assembly, requested the
sanction of that body to prosecute one
of its members, Deputy Traub, who was
a participant in the usurping Kapp
government. The Assembly did not act
on this request.
Tho newly organized ministry for
Prussia, it was announced, is com?
posed as follows:
Premier und Minister of Agriculture.
Herr Braun
Mingle:* of the Interior.Herr Severing
Minister of Education.Hen- Haenisch
.Minister of Finance .Herr Ludeman
Minister of Public Works.Herr Oeser i
Minister of Trade.Herr Fischbeclt !
Minister of People's Welfare...
Hen* Steefferwald j
Minister of Justice.Herr Zehnhoff ;
Four of the ministers are Social j
Democrats, two are Democrats and two
are members of the Center party. Pre- |
mier Braun was Minister of Agriculture 1
in the late Cabinet, and Herr Haenisch, |
Herr Oeser, Herr Fischbeck, Herr !
Steegerwald and Herr Zehnhoff also |
were members of that ministry.
Nitti Says Italy Regards
Jugo-Slavs as Friends j
ROME, March 28.?Speaking to-day I
in the Chamber of Deputies, Premier}
Nitti declared he had never regarded j
tho Jugo-Slavs as enemies, but had, on |
the contrary, regarded them as friends, i
He expressed the hope they would soon !
partake of Italian economic and cultural
advantages.
"While anxious . to bring about a \
friendly understanding with the Jugo
Slavs," he declared, "there is another
solution?to demand the enforcement of
the Pact of London. France and Great
Britain have stated that if Italy desired
the application of the pact they would
not refuse. If Italy is compelled to de- ;
mand the carrying out of the conven?
tion it will be necessary to ask its com?
plete enforcement without including
Fiume." ?
Signor Nitti condemned that section j
of the press demanding the pact and
also Fiume, and said he had told the
Supreme Council in London that if Italy
requested the enforcement of the treaty
she would concede autonomy to Dal- j
matia.
"If no other agreement can be
reached," he continued, "a third solution
of the Adriatic question may be to ac
cept proposals formulated by Great j
Britain and France."
II. S. Is Urged to Intercede;
For Plebiscite in Hungary
WASHINGTON, March 29.?Enforce?
ment of the principle of self-determina?
tion in the territories which it is
sought to separate from Hungary is
urged in a p?tition presented to Presi?
dent Wilson to-day by a committee of
the convention of Americans of Hun?
garian extraction in session here.
More, than 1,500 delegates from all
parts of the country are here to urge
friendly intervention by the United
States for an unhampered plebiscite.
Committees r.lso called at the State
Department and on Chairman Porter, o?
the House Foreign Affairs Committee;
Speaker Gillett and Senator Brandegee.
Impossible ?o Try Irish
Lloyd George Says Terrorism
Blocks Gathering of Evidence
LONDON, March "29.?The reason
persons deported from Ireland are not
brought to trial is because it is "im?
possible to get the necessary evi?
dence," as the result of terrorism and
intimidation in Ireland, Premier Lloyd
George declared in the House of Com?
mons to-day in answer to a question.
The Premier said the government
would not promise to cease deporta?
tion from Ireland during the discus?
sions of the Irish Home Rule bill.
Strike of 900 Promises to
Make 50,000 Workers Idle
CHICAGO, Maren 29.?Nearly 50,00
employees of packing companies here
will be thrown out of work if 90C
workers of the Union Stock Yards and
Transit Company who went on strike
Saturday at midnight remain out, pack?
ing officials said to-day.
"We have enough live stock on hand
for to-day," said an official of Armour
& Co. "After that we must gradually
close down if the strike continues, and
a week will see all departments of the
plant closed."
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