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In Greater New York
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Ithln 208 Wiln
TOVK CE>'Ti
Elsewhere
Dry Leader
Asks Policy
Of Harding
J. Frank Hanly Fpife to
Get Republican Nomi?
nee to Amplify Stand
on the Liquor Question
Program Completed
For Notification
Senator Lodge Will Make
Principal Address and
W. H. Hays Will Preside
From a Staff Correspondent
MARION, Ohio, July 9.?Senator
Harding refused to-day to commit him?
self, further than he has done pre?
viously, when J. Frank Hanly,' formerly
Republican Governor of Indiana and
in 1916 Prohibition party nominee for
President, urged him to take a firm
stand in support of national pro?
hibition.
After leaving the nominee, Mr. Hanly
said he hoped to be able to support
the Harding ticket, but he added: "To
be frank with you, I am waiting to see
what the Senator says when he ac?
cepts the nomination."
Major General Leonard Wood wired
Harding to-day that he would come
here from Chicago to'-morrow. It will
be their first meeting since the con?
vention. The General comes at the
v Senator's invitation and will have din?
ner in the Harding home after a dis?
cussion of the issues in the nominee's
headquarters. He will return to Chi?
cago to-morrow night. Senator Albert
B. Cummins," of Iowa, is expected to
arrive on the same train with Wood
and also be at the dinner.
Hanly's Statement
Mr. Hanly, in his interview with
newspaper men, expressed the opinion
that the Prohibition party ought not
to nominate a candidate this year. He
referred to Governor Cox as the can?
didate of Tammany Hall. Mr. Hanly
said:
"I came at an invitation of Sena?
tor Harding, extended in response to
a request of my own. I have talked
over the political situation in Indiana
and have given my views on the po?
litical situation throughout the coun?
try and with respect to the silence of
the Democratic convention and the
silence of the Republican platform on
the prohibition Question. Also with
regard to the Eighteenth Amendment
and the Volstead act for its enforce?
ment.
"I simply presented my views on
those matters to the Senator. We re?
newed our old acquaintance and had
a pleasant half hour. I did not ask
him to commit himself on these ques?
tions. He made no commitment, but
listened with kindly consideration."
"I don't think the Prohibition Party
should irominate a candidate this time.
Their convention is to be held in Lin?
coln, Neb., July 21. I shall not attend.
The matter resolves itself into the
necessity for the election of a Con?
gress favorable to the marnienance of |
the present law and must largely be
fought out in the Congressional dis?
tricts. That is my personal attitude."
Mr. Hanly was asked about the nomi?
nation of Governor Cox and replied:
"As a Prohibitionist, I'd find it diffi?
cult to support Mr. Cox, the candidate
of Tammany Hall and the New Jersey
Tammany. I think Mr. Cox's nomina?
tion was made by them and decided
upon at French Lick, ten days before
the convention. As far as Mr. Cox
is concerned I merely want to say that
it is difficult for any man holding pub?
lic office to escape the influence of
those who put him there."
Senator a Good Listener
in the 1916 campaign Mr. Hanly re?
ceived between 400,000 and 500,000
votes, as head of the Prohibition ticket.
He said to-day that his vote would
have been much larger but for the fact
that many pacifists among the Pro?
hibitionists voted for Wilson in re?
sponse to the slogan, "He Kept Us Out
of the War."
Senator Harding was asked later
2m the visit of Mr- Hanly and ?aid:
Mr. Hanly presented his views as
many others have done. This is get
tinJF, to D0.a ereat listening post."
The nominee was asked to-day about
a statement made at San Francisco bv
Mrs. Daniel J. Mahoney, the daughter
?t Governor Cox, that Senator Harding
was a relative of her mother, the Dem?
ocratic nominee's first wife, who was
?Miss Mayme Harding. Mrs. Mahoney was
quoted as saying that she had always
thought of Senator Harding as an uncle.
?Senator Harding's only reply was
that he had not seen any newspapers
for several days.
The program of the notification cere?
mony was agreed upon to-day at a
conference participated in by Senator
Harding, General T. Coleman du Pont,
who is chairman of the committee on
arrangements for the notification, and
Harry M. Daugherty, member of the
Republican National Executive Com?
mittee.
The ceremony, to be held at Garfleld
Park, a municipal gathering place
about three miles from the nominee's
home, will start at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon of July 22. Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, who is
chairman of the notification commit?
tee, will deliver the speech notifying
Senator Harding that he has been
selected as the Republican party's nom?
inee. Senator Harding's speech of ac
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And Drink Sacred Wine
The Rev. Frederic Wammer
seys, rector of St. Paul's Episco?
pal Church, on Mayflower Ave
nut, New Rochelle, N. Y., discov?
ered yesterday that burglars had
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Declares U. S.
Paid Palmer's
Campaign Aids
Woman Tells Senate Fund
Inquiry That Persons Em
ployed ta Fight Living
Cost Worked for Votes
Democratic Money Plenty
Missourians Got Checks
to Boost for Attorney
General and Gov. Cox
ST. LOUIS, July 9.?Questioning of
a dozen witnesses by the Senate com?
mittee investigating campaign expen?
ditures to-day resulted in charges that
high cost of living bureaus established
by the Department of Justice were
"political enterprises," used primarily
to "bring about the nomination of At?
torney General A. Mitchell Palmer for
President by the Democratic National
Convention."
$150 Checks Distributed
Witnesses also declared that Edward
F. Goltra, Democratic National Com
mitteeman from Missouri, distributed
$150 checks to St. Louis delegates to
the state convention, which was instru?
mental in the ousting of Senator James
R^ed, of Missouri, from his national
convention seat. Goltra was declared
by witnesses to be a supporter of
Palmer, but a few also admitted re?
ceiving expense money from A. C.
Stuevers, a local capitalist, said to
have been a supporter of Governor
Cox.
The charges against the Attorney
General and the Department of Jus?
tice were made by Miss Olivia
Brueggeman, former executive secre?
tary of the Missouri Women's High
Cost of Living Bureau, who declared
she "was dismissed because I was a
Republican."
Talked Politics With Women
Mrs. John R. Leighty, chairman of
the bureau, and Miss Mary Scott, its
publicity director, partly contradicted
Miss Brueggeman's testimony, declar?
ing that, while its representatives had
attended state Democratic and Repub?
lican conventions partly at government
expense, they did so to organize coun?
ties in the anti-high-cost-of-living
campaign.
Questioned by Senator Kenyon, they
admitted that "no counties were or?
ganized at these conventions," and that
they also talked politics with the wom?
en there. -^
Miss Brueggeman, answering ques?
tions without hesitation, told the com?
mittee that workers employed by the
Department of Justice to educate the
people in lowering living costs con?
fined their speeches to boosting Palmer,
and generally the only time living costs
were mentioned was when the speak?
ers would explain that "election of
Palmer to the Presidency would mean
lower prices."
Publicity Boosted Palmer
"We were asked to include Palmer
? publicity matter in our high cost of
living publicity and to use it in such a
way that it would not be quickly de?
tected as a boost for him for President.
This was done. Such publicity was
frequently mailed to 219 Missouri
papers.
"It was used by only a few, how?
ever, and this caused an investigation
by Howard Figg, an Assistant Attorney
General. It then came out that 1 was
a Republican and I was dismissed. Mrs.
Frank Hayes, former chairman of the
bureau, also was dismissed because she
was a Republican.
"When our representatives attended
the state conventions the government
paid their railroad fare and allowed $4
a day extra. They went apparently to
organize counties, but in reality, to
boost Palmer for President."
Bureaus Cost $100,000 a Year
Miss Brueggeman said there were
eighteen high cost of living bureaus
in the country, "run at a cost of at
least $100,000 a year," and that she un?
derstood they also were used to advo?
cate Palmer's candidacy.
Miss Scott denied that any publicity
matter in support of the Attorney Gen?
eral's candidacy had been sent out from
the bureau. Senator Kenyon asked her
questions so fast that at times she '
seemed on the verge of breaking down.
"Before God, Senator, we were justi?
fied in using government money to at
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Youths Become Bandits
To Give Girls Auto Ride
-
Hold Up Motorist, Force Him
to Alight, Then Race
Away in Car
Two young men who apparently were
determined to let nothing stand in the
way of gallantry stopped Theodore
Bliedt, of Weehawken, as he was driv?
ing alone through North Bergen last
night, pointed revolvers at hin head,
and from behind heavy black masks
ordered him to get out of his car.
"Never mind what we want it for,"
one of them threatened when their vic?
tim started to protest. "Get out!"
Bliedt did. As the robbers started
to drive away one of them called back:
"We're just going to take some girls
riding. When we're through with your
I machine we'll leave it at Bergenline
Avenue and Fourth Street."
Up to a late hour the patient police?
men waiting in ambush at that spot
had seen nothing of ^?he highwaymen.
Cox to Open
Campaign in
California
Will Begin Swing-Around
Grcle, Starting in the
West Latter Part of
August, He Announces*
Committee to Meet
In Dayton July 20
Candidate Informed He
Must State His Views on
Liquor and the League
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
DAYTON, Ohio, July 9.?The first
"swing-around-the-circuit" to be made
by Governor James M. Cox, Democratic
candidate for President, probably will
begin somewhere in the West and the
time probably will be late in August.
This was indicated by Governor Cox
to-day, although he did not care to say
definitely until his conference with
members of the party's National Com?
mittee.
The Governor's decision to open his
campaign in the West followed a long
telephone conversation with Charles
Morris, his private secretary, who was
his personal representative at San
Francisco. Morris told Governor Cox
t;hat if he would fire the opening gun
of his campaign in California, the
California Democrats would guarantee
to swing the state for him. Final
plans for the Cox campaign will not
be made, however, until the arrival
here July 20 of members of the Demo?
cratic National Committee. Chairman
Homer Cummings to-day telegraphed
the Governor that he had changed a
former tentative plan to have tho
National Committee meet with Gov?
ernor Cox in Columbus.
To See RooBevelt
Governor Cox plans to go to Coium
bus Monday to remain there several
days. While in Columbus he Will con?
fer with Franklin D. Roosevelt, his
running mate, who is expected to
reach the Ohio capital Tuesday. Cox
also will confer with such of the Ohio
Democratic leaders as return from San
Francisco in time, but there is nothing
definite thus far on the schedule.
Those close to the Governor say he
has abandoned all hopes of conducting
a campaign along the lines contem?
plated by Senator Warren G. Harding,
Republican candidate for President.
Governor Cox, it is known, personally
would have preferred not to have made
a "swing-around-the-circuit" and has
been clinging to hopes that the swing
could be avoided.
He is now convinced that one and
perhaps more swings will 'be needed,
if he is to make a showing in Novem?
ber. By letters and telegrams leaders
of the Democratic party have pointed
out to him that he is comparatively
unknown throughout the greater part
of the United States. Party leaders
have heard of him and a great many
know him, it has been emphasized, but
the man in the street, from whom Cox
must win support, hardly knows the
name, much less the man.
Where Does He Stand?
Particularly it is recited that no
one knows just where Cox stands on
national issues. The fact that he
served three terms as Governor has
no bearing on issues of national poli?
tics, it is pointed out, and the man
in the street must be made to under?
stand just howNCox looks at the Vol?
stead act and the entire liquor ques?
tion, the League of Nations and other
matters. In the Governor's newspaper,
the editorial policy has been for the
Versailles treaty without the dotting
of an "i" or the crossing of a "t", and
he has denounced reservations and
caricatured the men proposing them.
But Cox himself has been silent. So
party leaders from all sections of
the country have been urging that he
step out on the platform and let the
people see where he stands. One of
these questions is annoying him not
a little at the present time, due to the
telegram received from Richmond P.
Hobson, the hero of the Merrimac and
Anti-Saloon League leader of Alabama.
Cox to-day again refused to com?
ment on Hobson's demand that he come
out flatly against any attempt to in?
crease the alcoholic content of liquors.
When he was asked if he would reply
to the Hobson telegram and if so
when, he confined himself to the re?
mark that he had nothing to say. He
also refused to make any comment on
the fact that Louisiana had rejected
ratification of woman suffrage, despite !
his personal plea that the state "owed
it as a duty to the Democratic Party" '
to ratify.
Farmer Dissatisfied
Cox spent a comparatively quiefc day
to-day going through his mail and
reading congratulatory telegrams. He
has not had a chance to reply to many
of these. The only visitors of any im- ?
portance who cal'ed were John A. Mc- !
Sparran, of Furniss, Pa., master of I
the Pennsylvania Grange, and W. W. I
Blain, of Mitchell, South Dakota.
McSparran, a Democrat, was the first i
San Francisco conventioneer to greet !
the Governor and stopped off to offer !
congratulations. Blain headed a dele?
gation asking Cox to speak at the corn
festival held in South Dakota Septem?
ber 27-October 8. McSparran, although
a Democrat* did not mince words with
Cox in telling him that the Democratic
platform was not satisfactory to the
farmer..
"The farmer wants more than a mere
recital of accomplishments of the past,"
he said, "I am disappointed that the
convention could do no more than boast
about what it had done, and does not
say anything about what it is going
to do."
McSparran, who presented the far?
mers' planks to both the Republican
and t)emocratic conventions, said he
hoped the day was not far distant when
farmers would have real representation
'in Washington and a Secretary of
Agriculture who was a farmer. Day?
ton's Chamber of Commerce reception
for Cox has been postponed to July 30.
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Will Fund for Cup
A Joke, Lipton Says
LONDON, July 9.?Lord Dew
ar, when leaving for the Amer?
ica's Cup races, made the inter?
esting revelation that Sir Thom?
as Lipton has made provision in
his wjjl for the struggle'for the
cup to be continued if he does
not succeed in restoring the tro?
phy to England.
Sir Thomas Lipton, when in?
formed aboard his steam yacht
Victoria yesterday that Lord
Dewar had announced in London
the Irish baronet's will provided
an endowment fund for future
British contenders for the Amer?
ica's Cup, declared "the will
story is one of Dewar's jokes."
Lieut. Wanderer
Said to Admit
He Killed Wife
Shot Her Because He Want?
ed to Get Possession of
Money; Asserts He Did
Not Know Accomplice
Robbery a "Frame-Up"
Tired of Married Life,Longed
to Return to the "Free
Life" of Army, He Said
CHICAGO, July 9.?Lieutenant Carl
Wanderer in a new confession which
the state's attorney gave out to-night,
admitted he shot and killed his wife
to get rid of her and get possession
of her money. He admitted, officers
said, that he planned a "framed up"
robbery with the man he killed on
the same occasion in the doorway of
their home.
He was also quoted as saying that
he had "tired of married life and de?
cided to return to the free life of the
army."
Wanderer denied, the state's attor?
ney said, that he knew the accom?
plice whom he shot to death. The
tragedy occurred on the night of June
21.
Is Second Alleged Confession
This was the second alleged confes?
sion by the former army lieutenant
announced to-day. In the first he was
said to have confessed that he fired
the shots which killed his wife and the
stranger.
Wanderer declared in his first con?
fession that the shooting of his wife
was accidental, and maintained that
the stranger whom he killed had at?
tempted to rob them.
He explained the withdrawal of
$1,500 by his wife from a bank by
saying that they wished to have it in
an institution nearer home. He said
she drew it out of the bank on Sat?
urday too late to consummate the
transfer and placed it 'in a bureau
drawer. That evening they went to a
picture show and on the way home, ac?
cording to that confession, a man came
out of an alley and followed them up?
stairs, saying: "Fork over the money."
"I grabbed both guns out of my
pocket and started shooting," Wan?
derer was quoted by the officials as
saying. "The second shot I believe
hit my wife. I fired ten shots and
when both guns were empty put them
beside the man. Later I took one gun
away and left the other there."
i Clever Work by Detectives
Wanderer's admission that he killed
the woman is said to have been
brought about by a clever piece of de?
tective work. Detective Sergeant John
Loftus ordered the affair be thoroughly
investigated. He said he did not see
how two men could exchange ten shots
in a darkened vestibule and one of
them come out unscathed. He later
arrested Wanderer after the pistol
found lying beside the "ragged stran?
ger" was discovered to belong to him.
To-day before a small crowd in the
State's Attorney's office he is said to
have re?nacted his latest version of
the way the shooting occurred. It was
his seventeenth story of the affair.
The man slain by Lieutenant Wan?
derer was tentatively identified to-night
as William North, who in 1911 or 1912
was employed by the Gentry Brothers
circus while at South Bend, Ind. The
partiai identification was made by a
former circus employee.
New Revolt
Is Launched
In Mexico
Former Gonzales Aids
Held in Plot Against
Huerta Government; 5
Generals Are in Arms
Chiapas Center of
Latest Rebellion
Seek to Free Berlanga;
President Says Rebels
Have Only 500 Troops
WASHINGTON, July 9?Advices to
the State Department to-day from the
American Embassy in Mexico City
said a number of officers formerly on
the staff of General Pablo Gonzales
were in prison on the charge of plot?
ting against the government. The re?
port said that the State of Chiapas
was in open rebellion and that Gen?
eral Francisco J. Murguia, who was de?
feated for Governor in the State of
Michoacan, had raised the flag of re?
bellion.
The Mexican Embassy has received
official advices which it made public
to-day, stating that Generals Juan
Barragan, Afredo Ricault and Lucio
Blanco and Colonel Paulino Fontes
had returned to Mexico from the
United States, where they fled after
the killing of Carranza. The embassy
statement said the authorities in ac?
cordance with an order issued by the
War Department have not prevented
their entry in order to pursue them in
due time so as to cut their possible re?
treat.
Mexico City newspapers received
here to-day give prominence to reports i
that two of these generals, Blanco an\d
Ricault, with Ignacio Bonillas, former?
ly Ambassador to the United States,
attended a junta held recently at San
Antonio, Tex., for the purpose of pro?
moting a new revolution looking to
the restoration of the Carranza gov?
ernment.
Sought Berlanga's Release
These accounts said it was decided
first to obtain the release of Manuel
Aguirre Berlanga, Minister of the In?
terior and head of the Carranza Cab?
inet, who, those attending the junta
claimed, was the legitimate successor
to Carranza by virtue of being the
highest executive officer of the gov?
ernment after Carranza was killed.
According to the newspaper r?ports,
Bonillas was to come to Washington to
ask the American authorities to recog?
nize Berlanga, in order to insure the
constitutional succession of authority
in Mexico, while Lucio Blanco was to
go to the State of Nuevo Leon to head
the revolutionary movement there.
These newspapers also stated that the
American government had been advised
of the movement through the present
r?gime in Mexico City and had ex?
pressed a willingness to increase its
vigilance on the border to prevent any
large number of emigrees from return?
ing to Mexico.
Mean time the De la Huerta govern?
ment is reported to have filed new
charges against Berlanga, alleging that
he had stolon ten rolls of paper be?
cause he received them after the plan
of Agua Prieta had been promulgated.
It is said to,be the government's claim
that the promulgation of this plan de?
prived Berlanga of his office and that
he received the paper" as a civilian.
Five Generals in Revolt
MEXICO CITY, July 9.?Five gen-,
erais have taken up arms against the
new Mexican government, Provisional
President de la Huerta told foreign
correspondents last night. But, he de?
clared, they do not constitute a mili?
tary menace, since they had but very
few followers. He estimated that not
more than 500 men had been involved
in recent outbreaks.
Admission was made by the Pro?
visional President that the new gov?
ernment, had faced a rather serious sit?
uation upon taking over the govern?
ment a couple of months ago. He said
the army had been reorganized, that
unstable elements had been eliminated
and that discontented forces could not
shake the administration. Huerta
said the government had no knowledge
of the reported attempt of Luis Ca?
brera and General Juan Barragan to
organize a revolution in Northern
Mexico.
"The Carranza government," ?aid the
Provisioi-al President, laughing, "stood
for more than four years against over
25,00'J rebels, and there i-, no reason
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Imported Police and Martial
Law in Ireland Are Forecast
*??*?*?
DUBLIN, July 9.?In the Sinn F?in
publication "The Irish Bulletin," is?
sued to-night, is a story of alleged
insubordination among the Irish con?
stabulary and the reported impending
importation of English police, whose
advent is to be accompanied by martial
law and other extreme measures.
\ According to the statements, confir
; mation of which cannot be obtained,
| the Royal Irish Constabulary at Lis
i towel, County Kerry, were ordered on
! Juno 17 to hand over their barracks to
the soldiers. The constabulary refused
! and fourteen members resigned, but the
! resignations were not accepted.
| Mr. Smith, division commissioner for
j Munster, arrived the next day and ad?
dressed the men, telling them, among
other things, that martial law in the
whole of Ireland was to be established
immediately; that as many troops as
were required would come, besides the
7,000 English police. These were to
be given the power to shoot freely all
suspected persons and would not be
punished, and hunger strikers, the
statement says he auded, would be al?
lowed to die in jail.
Guns and troops are going north
from Dublin to-night.
Evidence is piling up here to indi?
cate that the newly organized Sinn
F?in courts rapidly are superseding in
power the crown tribunals. A great
number of eases on appeal ere being
withdrawn from the crown Supreme
Court because it is stated that the
litigants have little confidence in the
power of the court.
For the same reason it is alleged
that Unionists are appealing to the
Sinn F?in lower courts. One Union?
ist attorney is credited with saying
that it was useless to take a case be?
fore the crown court, and that as his
client desired quick action he took the
case to a Sinn F?in-tribunal.
In many parts of. the provinces Sinn
F?iners have taken over control of
liquor selling and have issued orders
to saloons regarding the hours of clos?
ing. Sinn F?in pickets have been ef?
fective in stopping Sunday drinking by
checking up bona fide travelers who
are entitled under the law to drink.
The policy of serving drinks on Sun?
day hitherto has been spasmodic. Now
it has been made regular by a code
issued to license holders by which they
may be open only from 8 o'clock in the
morning until 9 at night, and which
prohibits the selling of liquors on Sun?
day or church holidays.
Among the recent activities of the
Sinn F?iners has, been the attendante
of volunteers to keep order at the rac?
ing meetings. Here they have coerced
the disorderly element and captured
persons who refused to pay bets. The
volunteers turned up to perform these
offices at Bellewstown, but the: mili?
tary appeared there to check them.
The military officers commanded the
volunteers to disperse and surrender
their armlets, on which were inscribed
"Irish Republican Army." About forty
of the armlets were surrendered, to?
gether with thirty caps of the volun?
teers. The military also took away a
number of documents.
Germans Sign Protocol
For Early Disarmament;
To Meet Allied Demands
Reds Smash
Poles; Aim to
Join Prussia
Break Through Northern I
Front With Intention!
to Overrun Lithuania;!
Lemberg Fall Impends!
WARSAW, July 9 (By The Associ?
ated Press).?Russian Bolshevik forces
have broken through the Polish lines
south of the Dvina River in a drive \
designed to overrun Lithuania and
form a contact with East Prussia, ac?
cording to an official statement issued
here Thursday night.
The Soviet army is using infantry,
cavalry, artillery, airplanes and tanks
and the Poles are fighting desperately
to check the advance along tbe north?
ern front, against which the enemy is
throwing crack divisions.
On the southern front General Bu
denny is advancing on Lemberg, which
is but 180 miles from Warsaw.
Poland Addresses Allies
The Foreign Office announced that
the government had forwarded a note
to the conference in Spa declaring
that Poland is now, just as before and
always, ready and willing to make a
peace based upon the principle of self,
determination of nations.
LONDON, July 9.?It is the inten?
tion of Poland to move her seat of
government from -Warsaw, according to
statements printed by theN German
press quoted in "a wireless message
from Berlin to-day.
The Letts have gone to the assist?
ance of the Poles around Dvinsk, ac?
cording to the Kovno correspondent
of the Copenhagen "Berlinske Ti
dende." The Poles requested the Letts
to take war material which the Poles
were unable to move in their retreat.
The Letts are reported to be cross?
ing the Dvina and operating in the di?
rection -of Skudzelyns. The Poles also
have asked Lithuania for assistance,
the correspondent says.
BERL?N, J?tfiS a?sp?teh to the
"Vossische Zeitung" from Tilsit says
that after severe fighting the Bolshe
viki have broken through the Polish
northern front and crossed the Bere
sina River at three points.
The dispatch adds that panic has
broken out in Vilna, from which the
Polish occupation ?authorities have
fled.
Denies Poles Wage
War for Conquest
Envoy to I/. S. Says His\
Country Is Protecting
Europe From Anarchy
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, July 9.?Poland is
protecting Europe from the anarchy of
the East, Prinee Casimir Lubomirski,
Polish Minister, declared to-day. He
expressed hope that the Poles might
find in America the aid denied "by
those who would barter Poland's liberty
to please merchants hungry for foreign
trade." The interview follows Marshal
Foch's recent statement in an inter?
view with The Tribune's representative
at Spa that the Polish campaign started
out to be an "expedition of conquest."
The minister declared Poland is not
fighting a war of conquest, and ex?
pressed the belief that recent suc?
cesses of the Bolsheviki have produced
a situation which Is serious, but not
critical.
"I deem it my duty at this time to
clarify the war aims and hopes of
Poland, which in America have been
enshrouded by a haze of German-Bol?
shevik- anti-Polish propaganda directed
at our $50,000,000 loan, which has just
been floated here," he said.
"The war which Poland is carrying
on is r.ot one of conquest, but ex?
clusively one of defense. The Bol?
sheviki invaded Poland at the moment
of its liberation, and we were forced
to take up arms in our defense. We
have no intention of going to Moscow,
nor interfering in Russian affairs. We
have not even passed the frontiers of
Poland of 1772. We have not even
asked for the territory which belonged
to us before 1772. We have only
wanted to protect those regions peo?
pled by Polish subjects, to liberate
them from the oppression of Bolshev?
ism, and to create around us friendly
nations who will stand with us against
the barbarism of the East.
"In this war Poland considers that
she is fulfilling her historic destiny of
protecting Europe from the anarchy of
the East, as she has done in past cen?
turies, and in this struggle she not only
hoped but Rad the right to believe that
she would receive the indispensable
support of the Allied powers.
"The propositions of peace of Soviet
Russia were not sincere. We knew i
they* were preparing a great attack,
and we wanted to averjt it by a drive
on their points of concentration, but
the young Ukrainian Republic was not 1
able to organize in such a short time'!
an army sufficiently large to withstand
the avalanche of Bolshevism.
"If Poland must fight on alone, we
Poles still are thankful that we may
hop? to find in America the under?
standing and the material aid denied
us in our hour of trial by those who
would barter Poland's liberty to please
merchant? hungry for foreign trade."
"Very serious but not critical," is the
opinion given out in the best informed
American militay circles here to/day re?
garding the situation of Poland.
The general offensive begun by the
Bolsheviki along the 720-mile front
will tax all the resources of Poland. It
is believed in governmental circles that
this is the last supreme effort of the
soviet government. The State Depart?
ment has been expecting for more than
a month that Red r?gime would eol
laage at almost any time.
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Leading Fiumians
Repudiate d'Annunzio
FIUME, July 9 (By The As?
sociated Press).?Repudiation of
d'Annunzio's authority as com?
mander in Fiume was voiced by
100 influential Fiumians in pro?
test to-day to the National Coun?
cil against the leaders - of the
autonomist party. Dr. Grossich, j
president of the council, prom- !
ised to take up the matter with
the poet, to which the protestants
objected, declaring:
"So far as we are concerned,
you are our government. We do
not recognize the poet's com- ?
mand."
_,_I
American Wool?
Mills Closed;
40,000 Idle
All but Three Factories of
the Company's Big Chain
Through New England
and New York Affected
Workers Quit Lawrence
W. M. Wood, President of
Firm, Blames Railroad
Tie-Up and Prosecutions
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
BOSTON, July 9.?Many mills of the
American Woolen Company throughout
New England and in New York State
suspended activities indefinitely to-day
in the first great reaction from the
war-time rush which has fallen upon
American industry.
More than 40,000 workers are thrown
into idleness and th? exodus of mill
operatives from the textile centers has
already begun in a great tide. Hun?
dreds of employees of mills in Law?
rence, including whole families, have
left the city during the last few weeks
as work slackened. The closing of the
mills was a signal for thousands more
to leave.
Only three of the American Woolen
Company's mills escape the general
shutdownV These will close early in
August, William M. Wood, president
of the company, believes. They are
the Puritan Millsy at Plymouth; the
Beoli Mill, at Fitchburg, and the Globe
Mill, at Utica, N. Y.
Only office forces and operatives
needed for cleaning up reported this
morning in the other mills. These few
operatives, after handling the clath
which was off the looms yesterday,
also will be laid off. The office help
will remain.'?
American Woolen Company mills
only are involved thus far. Other
mills at Lawrence have been working
to full capacity, or nearly so.
One result of the widespread "vaca?
tion" was a rush of skilled and un?
skilled workers to Boston and other
cities. The condition in the wool
trade is believed to be partly responsi?
ble for the fact that since the first of
this year 4,341 New Englanders have
obtained passports, as compared with
1,715 in the corresponding period last
year.
Many of the older workers, far from
feeling the pinch of necessity, now
that their wages have been cut off, are
taking their families to the beaches
and summer resorts, paying their ex?
penses on money saved from their high
wages of the last few years.
:As a result of the layoff the rent
situation in the textile centers has
been greatly relieved. The real estate
market, which has ben booming, has
slumped.
Mr. Wood attributed the forced shut?
down of his mills to freight congestion
and the action of the Department of
Justice in bringing charges of profiteer?
ing against the company. These in?
dictments, he asserted, were unjust,
but caused many cancellations of
orders.
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Lady Astor Denies Story
Of Collusion in Divorce
Recounts Marital Dissolution in
1903 in Answer to Attacks
by Newspapers
PLYMOUTH, England, July 9.?Ladj
Astor, M. P., took occasion to-day tc
recount all the circumstances of hei
divorce in 1903, with a view, as she ex
pressed it, to rebutting charges printec
in a London newspaper last May. Sh<
was addressing her constituents at th<
annual meeting of the Unionist Asso
ciation. She denied emphatically tha
there was any collusion in the case.
Lady Astor declared she had con
fidence that the electors had truste<
her, but said it was due them to knov
all the facts so they could judg
whether she still deserved their con
fidence.
"It is a painful duty to revive thes
old troubles and sorrows," said Lad
Astor, "but there art indications tha
certain influences which often lead t
corruption in politics are trying t
undermine my position. It will be fo
you to decide whether you will allo>
this campaign to succeed."
A resolution was adopted unani
mously expressing condemnation of th
newspaper attack and assuring Lad
Astor of the electors' "unbounded es
teem and confidence." *
. ????' ' <k
Poland Recognizes Lithuania
WASHINGTON, July 9.?Recogn
tion of Lithuania as a de facto ind<
pendent state was accorded by Polan
on July 6, according to a csblegrai
from Kovno ta/day.
Question of Occupation
To Be Determined by
Entente, in Event Berlin
Fails to Fulfill Pact
Concessions Given,
Says Lloyd George
Promise Made That Pros?
ecution of War Crim?
inals Will Be Rushed
By Ralph Courtney
Special Cable to The Tribune
Copyright, 1920, New Tork Tribune Inc.
SPA, Belgium, July 9.?The Ger?
man representatives Tn conference
. here with the Allies yielded to-day
to Lloyd George's ultimatum pre?
sented yesterday, demanding accept?
ance by noon of an immediate dis?
armament plan on penalty of a new
invasion of Germany by Allied
troops. Under the plan accepted
the German army will be reduced to
150,000 men by October 1 and to
100,000, the maximum permanent
force permitted by the Treaty of
Versailles, by January 1, 1921.
Dr. Simons, German Foreign Min?
ister, who acted as spokesman for
the German delegates, announced the
decision of his government to sign.
In a statement replying to Chairman
: Delacroix's inquiry as to the Ger?
man stand, Dr. Simons protested
against the Allied threat to occupy
the Ruhr Valley or other German
territory in case the Germans failed
to live up to the agreement.
Simons declared that under the Ger?
man constitution he and his colleagues
have no power to alter or agree to any
alteration of the treaty. The Germans,
he said, recognized that the protocol
had been drawn up for the purpose of
executing, not of altering, the treaty,
and that in a measure it improved the
situation by granting delays, for which
Germany was grateful.
Severity of Terms Relaxed
On the other hand, he said, the Allied
threat to occupy the Ruhr Valley or
other parts of Germany really meant
an alteration of the treaty in favor of
the Allies. The German delegates could
find no clause of the treaty requiring
that Germany consent to further occu?
pation of her territory in any event,
except the failure to perform the repa?
ration clauses.
At this point the proceedings ad?
journed to allow the Allies to consult
as to their attitude toward the German
delegates on reservations.
On the resumption of the proceed?
ings, Lloyd George, as spokesman for
the Allies, said he was .?glad the Ger?
mans had decided to sign, for it would
be disastrous to every one if the con?
ference should be, broken off. It was
true the protocol relaxed the severity
of the terms of the treaty in the in?
stances mentioned. The Germans
would now have two months in which
to disarm, and during that time would
have adequate forces at their disposal
to enforce the delivery of arms. These
were real concessions, he insisted.
Allies to Decide Penalties
As to Dr. Simons's objections, Lloyd
George pointed but, the protocol of
January 10 said that in the event the
Germans did not fulfill all obligations
within the stated times the Allies re?
served the right to take all steps, in?
cluding military, to enforce the treaty.
The statement in the present protocol
of the Allied intention to occupy the
Ruhr Valley was merely informative
to the Germans of the steps which
would be taken if the disarmament de?
mands were not met on time. It re?
lated not to steps to be taken by the
Germans, but by the Allies if the Ger?
mans did not carry out their part of
the agreement, he explained, and there?
fore it was not incompatible with the
Germans' power to sign!
The signing then took place in a .
small room adjoining the conference
chamber. Chancellor >ehrenbach signed
first, then Simons, followed by Dela?
croix, Lloyd George, Millerand and the
Italian and Japanese representatives
and Earl Curzon.
After signing, Lloyd George was for
an instant tace to face with Fehrcn
bach. The German made a precise, stiff
bow, which Lloyd George acknowledged
by inclining his head without a smile.
All present felt the solemnity of the
meeting. *
Herr Gessler, German Minister of
Defense, absented himself from the
| meeting and, it is understood, that he
intends to place his resignation in the
hands ?f President Ebert as a protest
I against the Allied insistence upon the
imposition of disarmament on Ger
! many.
Outcome Pleases Germans
The Germans won a point in Lloyd
George's acknowledgment of their
powerlessness to agree to the threat?
ened invasion and his virtual accept?
ance of their verbal reservations on
this point. The Germans were pleased
with th^ outcome of the conference, as
they say the concessions allowing
them to keep troops in the Rhine neu?
tral zone after July 10 are consider?
able and that the delay accorded them
in disbanding troops is most welcome.
The fact they wer? not forced to as?
sent entirely to the proposal to occupy
the Ruhr Valley and the condition
allowing them until September 1 be?
fore the repori..that they are keeping
the disarmament -agreements must be
rendered sent them away from the con?
ference feeling decidedly more cheer?
ful.
France must now be satisfied with %
mere declaration of the Allies of their
intention to occupy German territory
in case nonfulfillment is proved after
that date. The Germans sijned the