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WEATHER.
Fair, continued cold .tonight and to
morrow; light variable winds. Tem
perature for the past twenty-four
hours: Highest, 4S. at 10 p.m. yester
day; lowest, 30, at ?> a.m. today.
Full report on page 9.
CLOSING NEW YORK STOCKS PAGE 10.
"From Press to Home
Within the Hour"
I.aat Week'a Sworn Net Circulation?
Dally Average* 72,239; Sunday, r?,VWf?.
Xo. 20.152.
GOVERNMENT PLAN
OF CAPITAL BEST
Commissioner Newman Looks
in Vain for Better Man
aged City.
RETURNS FROM LONG TOUR
IN QUEST OF NEW IDEAS
Tmpressed by Sentiment in Country
in Support of President
Wilson.
Enthusiastic over the showing of Wash- J
% Ington in comparison with other cities I
that have adopted the commission form
of government, and impressed by the prac
tically unanimous sentiment he found in
the south and middle west for i'resident
Wilson and his policies. District Commis
sioner Oliver T\ Newman returned today
from a three-week trip that took him to
Atlanta. Mobile. New Orleans. Houston.
Oklahoma City. Des Moines, Dayton and
New York city.
"The support the President has in
the two Carolinas. Georgia. Alabama,
Mississippi. Texas. Oklahoma. Missouri,
Iowa. Illinois. Michigan. Ohio, Indiana.
"* Pennsylvania and other states through
which I passed was the thing that im
pressed me most." said the Commis
sioner. "With but one or two excep
tions. every person to whom I talked,
on trains, in hotels and ?.iher places
where one makes acquaintances on a
trip of this kind, was a stanch Wilson
supporter. The confidence the countrv
has in the President makes it incon
ceivable how he can be oefeated for
re-election."
To Study City Governments.
Mfr. Newman's trip was to enable him
to find out what progress other cities
that have adopted the commission form
of government are making, and, as a
?tarter, he visited Atlanta, where the
o'd mayor and city council plan is still
it; operation. After comparing the gov
ernment of this municipality with the
administrative systems of the cities he
visited later Mr. Newman was con
vinced that Atlanta is standing in its
own light by failing to get on the com
mission band wagon.
The commission plan is working out
satisfactorily in all the cities where it is
In opera"on. and municipal development
along all lines has been greater than
under their former governmental regimes,
he stated. The modern system has not
increased taxes, but there is a disposition
I on the part of the governed to be more
liberal in authorizing expenditures for im
provements. as they feel that there is less
opportunity for fraudulent or wasteful
expenditure of funds by a commission,!
the Commissioner said.
The city manager plan, which is being J
tried out at Dayton. Ohio. Mr. Newman
found particularly interesting, although i
he says this method lias not passed the
experimental stage, and he would not
recommend it for Washington until there
1^ greater opportunity to judge of its
practicability.
One Weakness of Plan.
The one outstanding weakness of this
plan, he points out. is that so much
power is centraiized in a single in
dividual that it would be possible for
Immense abuses to be practiced, though,
on the other hand, this same centraliza
tion gives the public a greater oppor- '
t inity to keep tab on how its affairs '
are being managed.
"Eventually, any graft that might be j
n: .? diced under this plan w ould be de
tected." said the Commissioner, "but it
Is ;n\ opinion that a city manager, if
he we e so disposed, could steal enor
mous sums of money before being
caught."
Under this plan there is a commis
sion of five members, elected by the
people, which determines all questions
of policy, while the administrative
work is left entirely In the hands of
the city manager.
?"o:npared. department for depart
rrent. Washington, according to i'om
missloner Newman, has the most effi
cient government of any city lie visit
ed. He did not find any important rnu
n,al reforms being tried out else
v erf- that he will recommend for In
corporation :n the municipal adminis
trat:vi- mn?-hiner\ ?!' the National
i-*1
THREE WITNESSES HEARD
AT TRIAL OF MISS GLYNN
Lsbo: Leader Charged With Inciting
Riot Among Mill Workers at
Paterson. N. J.
I'ATEKSON, N. J . November 20.?
Three state w itnesses testified today at
the second trial of Elizabeth <iurlev
O!' a la! or leader. ? barged with in
citi- x silk mill strikers to riot, that
slthough they saw between SSI and 40<?
?t-il.t outside of the Miesch mill on
the ni^ht of February 25. 1912. there
w:? - ?* i iotiiiK. nor did the strikers
>tt* rs.pt to enter tl.i- mill. The prose
cution <? ? tends that after several
? - had lis
ten <lcd to a speech by Miss Flynn the
str.kers went to the mill in an at
tempt to force operatives at work there
t?> strike
The first witt.-ess today was William
l.aufer. a foreman of the Miesch mill
M'? testified to liaving seen the crowd
< kM the null, but said there w;is iit
ii?- ? ? ;< "d no hostile demonstration
Muico .l:-hn. another foreman, ami H
F>t*p: t ro ' an employe. Kn\#> similar
trm . j on>.
RADIUM SANATORIUM READY.
New York Dispensary for Cancer
Treatment Opens Tomorrow.
N K \V YORK, November 30 -Tli*
fi-st radium dispensary in this city will
be installed tomorrow, when the New York
radium sanatorium opens for the treat
ment of ennew and other diseases. The
Institution is backed by local phil
anthropist.-. Its object is not only to
fl?11 mrdi^nant diseases, but to carry
on i>si-:ircli work with the X-ray and
tnsupgerj .1- well as in the use of
radium.
Till sanatorium will b?- conducted
cloiu tin- lines of th?- radium institutc
k of London Three hundred milligrams
f radium in twenty-three applicators,
valued at $.'?$.000. have been obtained,
*ri?l contracts have been signed for
JloO.OOU worth of radium in addition.
The medical departrneni v. ill be similar
to that instituted in Paris, Ucrlin and
>Vlenna.
j Democrats Delighted: G. 0. P.
Leaders Decline to Be
Panicky.
STRONG DOUBT IS FELT
IF ROOSEVELT WILL RUN
Republicans Expect Convention to
Take Ground From Under
Progressives.
I Democratic and republican politicians
>n Washington were highly interested
'a.\ in the action of the progressive
national executive committee at its
meeting held in New York city yester
*a\. The executive committee prac
tically launched a third party for the
presidential campaign of 1916.
The committee resolved to put a
I straight "bull moose" presidential tick
et in the field: to ask Col. Roosevelt to
ad the ticket, and to call a meeting:
or the national committee January 11
next in Chicago to provide for a na
tion;. 1 convention- to be held after the
conventions of the two old parties.
According to the reports of vester
day's meeting, it was the belief of some
of the executive committeemen that
Col. Roosevelt will respond to the de
mand for his candidacy for the presi
dency.
Perkins Reviews Situation.
George W". Perkins was quoted after
the meeting as saying.
"The progressives, of course, will
nominate a straight ticket. We have
a wealth of material from which to
choose a ticket, while the republicans
have a dearth. We have Roosevelt of
New -iork, Johnson of California. Bev
eridge of Indiana and Bird of Massa
chusetts. Match any one of them if
you can.
"The republicans have Weeks of Mas
\>wUVoh' Uf HOOt "f
' ew lork and I'enrose of I'ennsvl
vania. And let me tell you that they
Penrose.'" 1 ,alklng of nominating
But suppose the national convention
should 'leadlock anri Hughes come out
or it. Would it be possible for the
progress'ves to indorse himV he was
tt, 'n. ^rst Place I do not look for
Hughes nomination. He has vairl hp
would not run under an? "cum
stances. Again, progressives through
out the country, and I have traveled it
extensively, insist upon a ticket of
A,ui il certainly looks as
though tuey would have it. 1 told von
months ago I look for four presidential
tickets next year. The progressives
are disposed to go right alidad and
sen tmVnt Th".! "a3 the unanimous
sentiment of the national executive
committee at today s meeting."
Democrats Are Delighted.
The comment today of politicians in
Washington upon this affair varied.
Democrats, of course, were delighted
at the news, and wished more power
to the elbow of the bull moosers work
ing to reinsert this wedge Into the re
publican party.
Republicans were not disposed to be
panic-stricken, however, at first blush
over the proposed revivification of the
bull moose party. They cited the prac
tical evidence of the return of the
former bull moosers to the old partv
furnished in the election returns of
-d of this month.
I1; fur'h<f. each man speak
ing for his own state and district that
'lai1 personal knowledge of the
attitude of influential progressives in
their "W n political radius and know
the disinclination of these voters to
repeat the action of 1912. For one
he'the ? rWaS claimed, there will not
be the same incentive to create a third
party in 1916 that there was t? bolt
the old party In 1912. Many progres
sives left the republicans In that vear
because they honestly believed Roose
velt had been deprived of a nomina
tion belonging to him.
That score has been evened, it was
said, and the progressives who left in
1918 are now confronted with the sim
ple proposition of continuing the demo
crats in power or returning the repub
trf'l"8* themselves, to con
Look for a Reunion.
It was further said by republicans
that there is ?ow everv reasonable In
dication that the regular republican na
tional convention will witness reun!6n
of the two wings of the party and
agreement upon a candidate who can be
supported b> progressives and repub^
ltcairs In su.-h event, it was said the
bull moosers' convention, to be held
I r"t,UMK;:in convention, would
I No weil informed republican in Wash
! ">Kton believes that Col. Roosevelt will
, countenance, not to say head a rew. !
| If the republican national convention
agrees upon a candidate acceptable to
the progressive sentiment. tt i? well
known to even the rank and flic of the
-ly taboo
work onrsmTreport!
Members of Joint Committee Ex
change Views Preparatory to Pre
senting General Findings.
Ibt joint select committee of Con
Kre? investigating ihc flsci relations
bet we. n the I'M ted Slates and ,)is.
trict of Columbia toda> g?, ,low ? ,
work on its report, which it must sub
mit to Congress by January I Au or
tlv members of the committee were
present with the exception of Repre
sentative Kalney, who was at work
with the House ways and means com
rnittee.
There whn a general ex-hang* 0f
\iew 8 by the members of the commit
tee. When the meetinR adjourned it
was with the underntandini; that the
lommitue will be called together aicaln
next week by .Senator ChiltonA the
chairman. ^
In th?- meantime it i? expected thai
sin* individual members will perfect
their view> upon the matters at issue
so that they will be in readiness to go
ahead with the framing of the report
as .|UickIy as possible.
A strict injunction o( secrecy has
been placed ovei the proceedings of
the committee. It was learned, how
ever, that members of the committee
believe that they will be able to set
together on the main Issues Involved.
STEPS TO RELIEVE
! FREIGHT BLOCKADE
Being Taken Today at Rail
road Conference in
New York.
CARRIERS PUT EMBARGO
ON THE ATLANTIC YARDS
I
Between 40.000 and 50,000 Cars are
at Seacoast Yards Waiting
to be Unloaded.
NKW YORK. November 30.?-The
presidents, or their representatives, of
all the trunk line railroads running
into New York city met today at the
Pennsylvania terminal, Jersey City, to
consider ways and means for reliev
ing the freight congestion which has
become anite during the past few
weeks. The meeting follows the ac
tion of i he Pennsylvania ar.d Balti
more and Ohio yesterday in declaring
embargoes on export steel from New
York, and the conference lent strength
to the report that the railroads will
co-operate on uniform embargo rules.
The steel embargo applies solely to
this port.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad
placed an embargo on iron and steel
articles for export through New York.
Embargo on Grain.
The Pennsylvania railroad placed em
bargoes on export tlour and lumber at
New York and on all export grain at
Philadelphia and Baltimore.
The Lackawanna began an embargo
yesterday on various forms of freight
coming into New Jersey terminals.
This affects the shipment of grain from
Buffalo and other lake points, as the
Lackawanna regulates the grain move
ment by restraining the number of
cars at Buffalo.
Although in many cases railroad men
have been loath lo discuss present <
freight conditions, it is known that be- ?
tween 40,000 and 50,000 freight cars are |
now at or near New York terminals
waiting to be unloaded. Kvery freight !
terminal in this district has been run
ning under top speed for several weeks. |
But the number of loaded freight cars
in yards has increased so rapidly that
three of the trunk line roads were
forced to declare embargoes, and all of
the other lines have found it necessary
to take determined action at once.
Want to Extend Demurrage.
C. C. McCain, chairman of the Trunk
Line Association, is now in Washington
conferring with the Interstate com
merce commission in an effort to ob
tain permission, it was stated, for the
member railroads to extend the privi
lege of charging demurrage upon grain
while it is left in cars, under certain
conditions, as well as after it has been
placed in elevators.
The present congestion, which is said
to be the worst in years. haB been
largely caused, railroad men claim, bv
the effort on the part of grain men
along the great lakes to empty their
elevators as quickly as possible to re
ceive additional grain before the great
lakes shipping season officially closes
December 12.
Guarding Loaded Cars.
The heavy movement of grain coming
at a time when great quantities of
goods and manufactured products were
being rushed toward New York for
export, railroad men added, made an !
unprecedented demand for freighfl cars ,
as well as upon the facilities oi the
r a ilroads.
Every precaution is being taken to
prevent added congestion at Atlantic
terminals. Three thousand cars loaded
with export steel were said to be in
the yards at Hollidaysburg, Pa., closely
guarded by railroad policemen until
they can be sent on their way. This
material, valued at approximately $10,
000,000, consists largely of steel car
parts, wheels, etc., for Russia, which
will be routed through the Panama
canal. There is also a considerable
tonnage of bridge steel.
Announcement was made todav that
Ave large steamers flying the Ameri
can flag ziave been transferred from
the Pacific coast business, and will I
shortly enter the New York-London j
trade to assist in relieving the export
freight congestion at this port.
, The steamers Include three of those)
recently purchased b\ the Atlantic
transport line, a subsidiary of the In
ternational Mercantile Marine Com- !
pany.
They are the Siberia and Manchuria,
both en route now from the Pacific: and
due here about December 14, and the
Mongolia expected about December 27.
These vessels were bought from the
Pacific .Mall Steamship Company.
The two other steamers that will
take their place in the regular Lon
don-New York service are the Korea
and the Krooriland. The last-named
steamer has been in the New York-San
Francisco tourist-carrying trade, but
j its activity in this respect was inter
I rupted by the slides which closed navi
gation through t lie Panama canal.
SUSPEND STOCK OPERATIONS.
Trustees of Stock Exchange in Tokio
Take Unprecedented Action.
TOKIO, November 30. 2:lii p.m.?
Trustees of the stock exchange took
unprecendented action today when they
suspended operations and canceled
transactions, owing to an exceedingly
strong but fictitious upward movement
on wide fluctuations. Tempestuous
scenes greeted announcement of the
trustees' decision.
War purchases by the allies have
caused a wave of prosperity all over
the country, which have been reflected
in the market and "Standard stocks
have leaped upward. At today's open
iiiK there was ;i hysterical advance
? over yesterday's dose.
; STOPS WIDOWS' TAG DAY.
Chicago City Council Revokes Per
mit to Collect.
CHICAGO. November 20.?A permit
for a w idows' tag day was revoked by
the city counctll last night.
Alderman Nance, in supporting the
revocation, declared that since the orig
inal taK day came as a novelty a few
\cars a^o the practice hn.s grown so
that the (lays are few when men
comiriK down town to work are not re
quested to buy tags for some charity.
"It has become a nuisance, and is par
ticularly undesirable In the present in
stance," said Mr. Nance.
An order directing Mayor Thompson
and the judiciary committee of the city
council to define a policy for future
lag days wa# adopted.
HE PLANS TO PUSH !
FALLS POWER BILL;
Senator Norris to Urge Action
at Coming Session of
Congress. i
Senator Norris of Nebraska intends
to reintroduce his bill providing for
the construction of the proposed Great
Falls power plant and water supply
system when Congress meets, he said
today. His bill, which is based upon
a report made during the Sixty-second
Congress by Col. W. C. Langfltt, United
States Kngineer Corps, calls for an
ultimate expenditure of about $15,000,
000.
While the project primarily is to fur
nish the government with light and
power in the District of Columbia and
to increase the water supply, it is gen
erally understood that the whole popu
lation of the District would benefit
later through cheaper light and elec
tric power.
Favored for the Future.
Secretary Garrison of the War De
partment has written to Senator Nor- ;
ris, saving that while he approves of
the power plant proposition for the
futre, under existing crcumstances he
does not feel warranted in including
in his estimates for the corning year
any appropriation for the plant.
Notwithstanding the attitude of the
administration regarding the building
of the pwer plant at this time. Senator
Norris intends to do all he can to ?et
favorable action on the proposition by
Congress. He said today there had '
been a thorough investigation made by j
Col. Langfitt, which had cost the gov- -
eminent $20,000, and that he believed i
the findings in this investigation
should be used to the advantage both ;
of the government And the people of
the District. J
In his letter to Senator Norris, in i
which he reiterates the stand taken by
him some time ago in regard to the pro- j
posed power plaiYt at Great Falls, Sec-!
j retary Garrison says: I
Secretary Garrison's Letter.
! "This project proposes the' eombina- j
tion of a power development and an]
I increase of the water supply of the city ?
of Washington at an estimated cost of j
I $13,021,000.
"It was the view at the time and un
til recently that work for increasing
the water supply should be commenced
in the near future. However, in his an
nual report this year the then District
Kngineer Commissioner reported that
on account of the installation of me
ters and other measures taken to re
duce the ootisumption per capita, it I
would appear that the work, so far as
the increase of the water supply was I
concerned, need not commence before |
1920. and that experience may then i
i show it safe to postpone commence
i ment for several years more. The ad-i
j visability of undertaking the o'oject in j
I the near future must therefore depend j
j upon the advantages expected from the;
power development.
"The economics of the development :
have been questioned in some quar
ter*. The estimate cited abov.? con- ]
templated tiie generation of only power
sufficient to meet the needs of the fed
eral and District governments.
Against Partial Development.
"A later study made in the District I
office indicates tliat# this partial devel- 1
opment of power will not be econom
ical and that if work is undertaken, it
tdiould be on the basis of developing
the full power. The cost of such de
velopment is placed at $12,799,000 inde
pendent of any features for increasing
the water supply, estimated to tost $4,
472.600 additional, making the total
cost of the power plant and the in
crease of the water supply $17,271,600.
In addition a steam reserve must be
maintained as the flow of the river is
occasionally insufficient to generate the
average load which the plant should
carry." >
CITIZENS TO LEARN RIFLE
SHOOTING IN U. S. BUILDING
Mr. McAdoo Permits Use of Space
for Practice Fostered by itfa
tional Association.
j Secretary McAdoo has given the use
of the basement of the government
building at the northeast corner of 15th
and E streets northwest for rifle prac
tice among civilian clubs of the Dis
trict, it is announced by the National
[ Rifle Association of America, the ex
ecutive committee of which held a
meeting last night. The association
made an appropriation to put the range
in working order, so that proper in
door training may be afforded citizens
of Washington who are organized in
rifle clubs in the Interior Department,
I navy yard and in other walks of life.
I Col. William Libbey of New Jersey,
[president of th#? association, said the
| Secretary of War is to ask <'ongress
j for an appropriation of $50,000 for the
I national board for the promotion of
| rifle practice, for general use in pro
| moting rifle training among civilians.
Tli#* association voted to petition Con
I gress for a national charter and an an
| nual appropriation of $25,000.*
COMMAS
IN CONSPIRACY CASE
Hamburg-American Line Officials
Lose Every Point in Their
Contention.
NEW YORK, November -Counsel j
for the four Hamburg-American line
officials on trial for conspiring to de
I ceive and defraud the I'nited States
| assailed bv legal argument today the
I case which the government has pre
sented by witnesses against them, aftdi
I lost every point of their contention.
I Federal Judge Howe, presiding at the
; trial, heard the argument, in the ab
j sence of the jury. Judge Howe denied)
i the defendants' motion to strike from
! the record all testimony concerning
the chartering and movements of the ?
steamer Marina Quesada and. an hour I
later, overruled a motion to dismiss all j
indictments;
Arguments Elaborated.
Ear from being the usual perfunctory
motion which is sandwiched into nearly
every trial between testimony for the
prosecution and the defense, argument
on today's motions was protracted, in
cluded a brief review of virtually all
1 the testimony, and was buttressed by
citations from many legal authorities,
i In the vigorous assault against the
(government's case the defense occupied
l the floor more than four-fifths of the
jtiiiie, the government contenting itself
with a brief sketch of the testimony,
I as the. district attorney and his staff
jreviewed it.
| The motion to dismiss denied, the de
I fense opened its case at the beginning
j of the afternoon session.
*
PLOT TO BLOW UP ITALY'S
MUNITIONS PLANTS SEEN
PARTS, November 30.?An attempt on
the part of Germans to destroy muni
tions plants in Italy is said by the
Journal, in a dispatch from San Retno,
j Italy, to have been discovered by the
| Turin police. It was learned that the
plan apparently was being directed
from Lugano, Switzerland, and the
i case was referred to the Swiss police,
I who arrested a boatman. In his pos
session were found two boxes, la
; beled chocolate, which he was about
to ship to Turin. The boxes were filled
with dynamite.
The Journal's dispatch adds that the
arrest of a nuipber of other persons,
Home of them connet?.ed with tQ6 Ger
man consulate, is irofninent.
WOULD END WAR
WITH ITALY, CLAIM
.
Austrian Attempts Reported
From Rome?Significance
Seen in Kaiser's Visit.
LONDON. November 30.?The Pall
Mall Gazette, associating Emperor Wil
liam's visit to Vienna with reports that
Germany is willing to enter upon peace
negotiations, ventures the opinion
that, as already suggested, (he emper
or's trip to the Austrian capital may
represent a fresh attempt to bring
about conclusion of a separate peace
between Austria and Italy. It says:
"Some features of Italy's attitude
may lend encouragement 10 such an
enterprise. The government at Home,
for reasons never disclosed, has re
frained from declaring war on Ger
many, and has shown no particular
eagerness to co-operate with the allies
in restoring the situation in the Bal
kans. t
"If it is believed in Berlin that Italy can
definitely be squared by a liberal sur
render of territory wherein she claims a
national interest, great pressure may be
employed at Vienna to bring about such
a sacrifice and thus liberate Austrian
troops for other regions."
The Tribuna asserts that Austria is at
tempting to com lude a separate peace, ac
cording to a dispatch from Home to the
Exchange Telegraph Company.
STEAMSHIP DOTTEREL
BRITISH CRAFT, IS SUNK
LONDON. November HO.?The British
steamship Dotterel has been sunk, pre
sumably by a submarine.
The Dotterel, l,o9t> tons gross and 270
feet long, was built in 1904 at New
castle, and was owned in Cork.
ENVOYS ON THEIR WAY.
Woman Suffragists. Eearing Petition
to Washington. Leave New York.
NEW YORK, November 30.?Miss
Frances Jolliffe and Mrs. Sara Bard
Field, the California envoys, who c ross
ed 'he continent bearing a woman suf
fragette petition to President Wilson,
today resumed their trip. Accompanied
by several New York suffragists, they
first proceeded to Newark.
They will be entertained in Newark
tonight and tomorrow will attend a
state conference of the Congressional
Union for Woman Suffrage there. To
morrow they will be received by Gov.
Fielder, whose signature to their peti
tion will be solicited. They will then
proceed to Philadelphia. All but two
of the governors of the seventeen
states through they have passed have
signed the petition.
Pact Termed "Monstrous."
LONDON, November 30.?The Morning
Post protests strongly against the
treaty of commerce which has been
negotiated between Great Britain and
Denmark permitting commodities to be
re-exported from Denmark to neutral
or belligerent countries if shipments to
belligerents are not contraband.
"In other words," says the Post, "the
foreign office has created an agency
whereby this country may tratle with
the enemy. This seems to us mon
strous."
2.000.000 to Be Photographed.
BERLIN, November 30 (by wireless
to Sayville).?Two million persons have
been ordered by 1 lie German governor
general of Poland to have photographs
taken, in order that passports may be
issued to all over fifteen years of age,
according to the Overseas News Agency.
GREECE EXPECTED
TO MEETDEMAHDS
Messages to Legation in Lon
don Indicate Satisfactory
Solution of Issues.
ATHENS OPPOSED TO
INFRINGEMENT ON RIGHTS
Negotiations for Treaty Between
King Constantine's Government
and Turkey Said to Be On.
I.OXDOX. November 30.?The tenor
of official messages to the Greek lega
tion hero corresponds with newspaper
dispatches as to the satisfactory na
ture of the Greek government's reply
to the entente ministers.
"The basis of Greece's reply is a
neutrality which will continue benevo
lent to the entente as long as the sov
ereign rights of Greece are not in
fringed and no restrictions of a mili
tary character are imposed," telegraphs
the Athens correspondent of Reuter's
Telegram Company.
"Greece argues that with Saloniki
and its railway communications in the
hands of the allies. Greek forces will
be deprived of their only adequate pro
visioning base. There is no indication
that the entente will modify its orig
inal demands, but both the government
and diplomats are hopeful of a satis
factory result."
Turko-Grecian Pact Sought.
A telegram received from Bucharest
asserts that negotiations are pending
between Turkey and Greece for the
formation of a union similar to that
between Greece and Rumania. The
pro-German element in Greece is said
to hope the negotiations will prove
the basis for a new Balkan alliance,
with Greece, Bulgaria aim Turkey as
the initial members.
Allies Not Violating
Greek Soil, Says Paris:
Berlin Answers Claim
PARIS, November 30.?The entente
allies in disembarking troops at Saloniki
are not violating Greek territory, nor can
their action in Greece be compared to
the German occupation of Belgium. This
is the semi-official reply to tiie German
statement recently made in which the
Saloniki expedition was criticised as a
violation of foreign territory.
The presence of the allies at Saloniki
does not need any justification, according
to the diplomatic view made known in
1 Paris. The French and British arc not
tolerated guests, but are there as a mat
ter of duty and established right, it is
pointed out.
Can Act Elsewhere.
Their action at Saloniki, it is further
said, could be repeated at any other point
in Greece, arid with perfect legality. The
| landing of allied troops at Saloniki is
; based on the London treaty of July 13.
j 1S63. the signatories of which are Greece,
| France, Great Britain and Russia, guar
anteeing the independence ami constitu
tional institutions of Greece.
I This convention was preceded by
! various other agreements entered into
! as far back as 182-.
In the belief that Greece is menaced
! from within and without, the allies, it
j is held, have full liberty of action un
der the terms of the treaty and will
? continue the work begun, certain of
J the international legality of their
I action.
Allies' Statement Denied.
j B1*RL1X. November 30. by wireless
J to Sayvilie, X. Y.?The position taken
1 by the entente allies as reflected in
the semi-official statement issued in
Paris to the effect that the landing
of troops at Saloniki was not a viola
tion of Greek territory, is contradicted
by the Overseas Xews Agency.
"Reports from ^various sources con
j cerning French and British threats
| against Greece fail to clear up the
j situation." the agency says. "How
| ever, the general tone of the news from
, French and British sources indicates
! dearly that Greece has been asked to re
nounce her sovereignty.
"Attempts to justify this course are
all in vain. M. Venizelos, the former
premier, had not the right under the
constitution to sanction the landing of
troops at Saloniki. The Greek con
stitution states, in clause !?!?, that the
parliament is the only body which pos
sesses the right to decide such ques
tions. Therefore King Constantine is
merely defending the integrity of the
constitution against conspiracy, which
shows that reproaches directed against
him have no just basis.
: "The French and British attempts to
! compel a small neutral nation to con
sent to the measures taken proves that
| the entente thinks might is l ight."
SPANISH KING KEPT BUSY
AIDING WAR PRISONERS
PARIS. November 30.?A dispatch to
the Temps from Madrid says:
"King Alfonso has received 100,000
letters, begging for his intervention in
favor of civilians or soldiers made pris
oner or condemned by courts martial in
Germany and Austria. "King Alfonso
attends to this correspondence person
ally and the steps deemed necessary are
ordered taken by him immediately. The
Iking often stays up far into the night
j awaiting telegraphic replies to his ap
peals, so that he can forward their con
tents at once to waiting relatives."
ADDRESS GOES TO PRINTER.
President Finishes Document After
Working All Day.
President Wilson's address to Con
gress went to the public printer today.
The President put in the whole of yes
terday at work on the document, finally
completing it last night.
The message, which is comparatively
brief, will be read by the President at
a joint session of the two houses of
Congress a week from today. It deals
primarily with national preparedness,
other questions on which the President
hopes to see legislation being left for
treatment in other addresses to be read
to Congress after the Christmas holi
days.
The address was read to the Cabinet be
fore it was sent to the printer. Cabinet
members were enthusiastic over it, par
ticularly the portion which deals with
the appeal for united action for mt>onal
defense. m
SERBS EVACUATE
MOD AS FOE
PRESSES, ON CITY
Berlin Announces Capture of
Prisrend, Near the Al
banian Border.
AUSTRIANS ADVANCE
UPON MONTENEGRINS
Whole Force Thrown at Enemy
Following Close of Serbian
Operations.
. GERMANS ARE RETARDED
; Enterprise Against Franco-British
Armies Possibly Delayed Ow
ing to Weather or Rus
sian Menace.
I-OX IJOX. Xoventber ,?o.?
j Miinastir. in southwestern Serbia.
; has been evacuated. Serbian
! troops, having accomplished their
; purpose of delaying their eneniv's
advance until the civil population
of the town had time to escape,
have now left the city. and. ae
cording to reports, are retiring in
good order. Unitarian occupa
tion of the town is apparentlv a
matter of only a few hours.
1 he capture of Prisrend. in
western Serbia near the Albanian
border, was announced today by
the Berlin war office.
Either bitter winter weather
j has retarded the central powers
! in their proposed new enterprise
! against the Franco-British troops
' near Strumitsa or the rapidly
| developing Russian menace from
| the direction- of Rumania has
j caused them to abandon it. Ir.
i any event, their campaign seems
j to have recently come to a stand
still at this point.
Austrians Move on Montenegro.
The oversea? News Agency of Berlin
j has just given out the following con
jcerning the Montenegrin campaign:
"After the termination of the oper
ations against the Serbian main army
the Austro-Hungarian offensive against
Montenegro started with the whole of
the Austro-liungarian fort e. The flr?t
offensive, begun some time ago. was
only intended to impede the Montene
grins from participating in the oper
ations in the Sanjak. After having ob
tained this result the general offensive
against Montenegro has now begun.
"As the northwest frontier is h nat
ural fortress, the attack will be directed
from the Sanjak. The Austro-Uun
garians already have passed the l.im
river."
Bulgars Cross Cerna.
A dispatch to the Times from Fiorina.
Greece, dated Saturday, says:
"The Bulgarians yesterday crossed
the River Cerna. Monastir has been
evacuated. The Serbian army is re
tiring in good order. '
Though the Austro-*Jerman and Bi^
gnrian c:\mpaign against Serbia is de
scribed bv the central powers as fin
ished. and though practically the whol?
of Serbia is in their possession, t He;,
have not accomplished." according t"
j the general belief here, the more im
portant aim of entirely crushing
j Serbian army. Though defeated a no
I' worn out in the conflict against oxer
whelming otitis, the Serbian forces are
said to be still unbroken and unde
. moralized, am' are reported 10 l?e re
organizing their shattered units on the
I Albanian and Montenegrin frontiers
jpreparatory to fresh action.
BARRED FROM BELGIUM.
Germans Take Action Against Maj,
Wincheil of Salvation Army.
?IKKSKV CITY. X. J., November 30.?
Maj. Wallace Wincheil of this city, who
was selected by Gen. Bramwell Booth
; as head <>f the Salvation Army reliet
' work in Belgium, has been denied per
j mission by the German government to
' enter that country, according to infor
? mation received here b\ his wife. Maj.
| Wincheil cabled to her that a passport
has been refused him, and that he may
return. Besides his American passport,
Maj. Wincheil carried personal letters
from President Wilson and the Secre
tary of State. Mr. l^arising.
Maj. Wincheil is an American, but
went to Belgium on orders from the
international headquarters of the Sal
vation Army in London, ilis friends
here believe that this accounts for the
German refusal t?? admit him.
1 GERMANY BUYS COPPER.
Orders $4O.0C0.0G0 Worth to Be
Stored During War.
NEW YORK, November So.?Orders
for copper aggregating about L'oO.OOo,
000 pounds, nearly one-fifth the annual
production in the United States, have
been placed by German representatives
with copper concerns in this country, it
J was reported today. As copper is guot
) ed at 'JO cents a pound the cost of the
I German purchases amounts to $40,000,
000. In instances where the contracts
have been filled the inetal lias been
placed in storage under an agreement
to ship it to Germany immediately
after the war. The order placed in
America amounts to nearly four times
the annual production of coppcr in
Germany. America produced 1,1 10.06J.
000 pounds of copper in IS 14.
Within a few months the German
government has been commandeering
j copper wherever it could be found in
[the German empire.