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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN
AN INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL
TWENTY-KKsTII YEAR
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X') rx. rr "oxa.moxday morning, march 3, 1919 .
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VOL. XXIX., NO. 284
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IMPORTANT BILLS
ILL FAIL IE!
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Big Appropriations Cannot
Be Squeezed Through
Victory Loan Succeeds At,
7 o'Clock Sunday Horn
ingSherman Says Na
tion Headless With Presi
dent Abroad.
WASHINGTON, Mmi.Ii The six-it-.
rut h rnmrrsj enters tomorrow OH
lis last full working 'lay. t.icinK an un
precedented muss 'of legislation, but
with the ront-sto-l ""!i tory loan" hi'l
cut of the :iv. I'.ot'i scn.i'.e Mini housi
iiltcr convening in t hr- morning are ex
pected to work steadily mil il sine die
adjournment t ii""n Tuesday. The
senate . remained in union nil las'
night to ia!-! tiw I'll!, ;idjoiirnin
north b.f 7 ok I hi morning.
Mule the h"ii-f lod.iv lil a business
srssion, ilifimsitis of lh onl'erenre
icport on th" hospital bill.
Passage of the loan I, ill without o
iccord vole 11 ml In tin- identical form
in winch it c.mie from the house, def
initely mark., I tin- course of future
oiiislation atul tine iissiintni'' that
I'i sulmt Wilson would not fin, I "It
1 ,','(. -a ry to oh.ir-." his plan of call
:i the new congress until after his
turn from Frame, probably in Juno.
M"t republicans favored an early
, xtta session, hot aflcr republican sen
ators failo, to roach any decision a to
1 lie advlsalnlily of obstructing the loan
lull, no fllitnistor was undertaken.
Many Bills Doomed
Although many important lulls, in
eliding ST.i'U'tMi.iM'to navy apnropria
tion measure and th" $1.21.Y('"iu."0fl
vmy l,ill. apparently are doomed, ad
ministration loader;! believe that nope
is of miffli ient Importance to require
tin enrlicT call of congress.
Final notion t,y tfie house on tl
f l.noo.OOO.VQD whe.it price guarantee
hill is expected tomorrow, with the
o-natiiro nother Important bill now1
regarded ns c ertain of enactment Is ;
th? general deficiency measure carry- j
ins IT.'.o.OiMi.ft'Mi additional for the rail-;
mad n,iminitraMon.
f other Important bills reniaininc
leaders toniirlit planned to pass the
diplomatic hospital construction and
military academy appropriation m'a
ure and that repealing the war tax
on ternl-luxuries.
Important Ones Fail
Hesides the army and navy bills,
letrislation which seemed certain tn
fail included the J.",iummi,(K) sundry
civil bill, which ioniums $iaji.0iMi.U'tl
for the shipping hocrd ami ihe oil nml
rfiinera! land leasing and water powei
developments measure. Disposition ot
ilie agricultural appropriation bill, con
taiDinif the senate committee rider pro
mising repeal of the daylight law still
whs regarded in doubt.
Suffrage leairs admitted today that
there was no possibility of congrts
acting upon the compromise eqnal
franchise constitutional amendment
resolution. I
Passage this morning by the senate'
of the Victory loan bill, authc-lzing I
.n!e by the treasury of $ i.iMio.Oon.OOfl !
of new short term notes and 11,000.- i
"O0.000 for advances by the war fi
nance corporation in extending Ameri
can foreign commerce, came after a
bitter controversy. Senator Ii Fol
lolte of Wisconsin, republican, made
the. principal speech on the bill, hold
ing the senate floor from one o'clock
this morning until after 4 o'clock. He
expected to speak only Hn hour and
disclaimed intending obstruction.
Pass Loan 4t 7 A. M.
When the, 'Wisconsin senator con
cluded. Senator Penrose. Penns) Irmm,
republican, sought to force an udlom.ii
n i.t without action on the bill. A
uorum was lacking, hiv the adminis
tration leaders had th soruemr-at.
-ms round up absentee.!, and after a
ui'omm was secured ut C o'clock, the
dil was promptly put thm.ic.-n.-
Severn! senators were l.ruu-.,'nt from
if.eir homes nf 4:30 o'clocl:.
While Senator I. l'oi(te was
speaking. Senator Sherman of Illinois,
republican, who was among l!ie mcst
i' live of the republicans urging a flli
l.ustcr. canvassed the situation. He
;iid he found only four mher renuldi
ian.i willing to co-operate in n fili
buster, so the attempt was abandoned.
Early Session Necessary
f-irly this morning Senator Sherman
Continued on Page Two)
NEWS EPITOME
FOREIGN
"Your advice not t shoot is good for
dying man," say Paderewski.
R ' -7 " I
ussians ar anxious to reunite their ,
nation and ioin the allies
Hun army is pronounced useless by
an American expert.
Bolsheviki would sign with allies
merely to gam advantage.
League of nation constitution sure
to b adjusted to meet United
States demands.
Fall of Germany is momentarily ex
pected result of emnious-news.
pnHTTCrp-rp
ioiiuuiiu
Asmy ehaplin admits that 1,000
Americans wer buried without
coffins at Brest.
Mexican outrages have been com.
piled by the department of state.
Many important bills will faill to
pass congress; Victory Loan wins
out.
Attorney General Gregory will go to
France w th President Wilson.
Hwvir is appointed to deal out
$100,000,000 famine fund.
LOCAL
State engineer reports to governor
soldiers cannot be employed on
state road wcrk on account of lack
ef funds.
G. C. Greenway wins San Marcos cup
golf tournament.
Three big musical events are soon
to come to PWoenix.r
CAN YOU OPPOSE BOLSHEVISM WITH
THE BIBLE? PADEREWSKI INQUIRES
,
IGNACE JAN PADEREWSKI
Premier and Foreign Ministed of Poland
" Your Advice Not To Fight Is
Good Advice For a Dying Man"
WARSAW, Saturday, March 1. (By Th Associated Press) "Can you
oppose bolshevism with th Bible? This is a question which the world is facing
today?"
Ignace Jan Paderewski, the premier
American opposition to the big Polish
Pce conference is sitting, asked this
today. r
"I am feeling better now," he said,
ginning to see daylight. We have lots
: allies, some of our bright future is behind us. Poland has to fight for this
bright future and we shall fight. If we perish, you will perish too.
'It is not an individual peril, but a peril for civilization; for the aim of th
' entire Christian civilization peace and work will not kill bolshevism, as far
as we are concerned, because you cannot have peac and organize prosperity
i with your next door neighbor advising your workmen not to work and paying
agents to destroy your factories, as quickly as you can build them. Most
people like to get money without working and that is what 'bolshevik Russia
offers."
I CITES U. S. ON MEXICAN BORDER .
When asked if h was able to reconcile the Polish army of 350.000 with the
league of nations plan, Mr. Paderewski replied: '
! "Yes, certainly, and I am quite in sympathy with that plan. - Poland's'
army is to be recruited for such time as is necessary to restore order on our
I frontiers. It will be an army of peace and order, or policemen, if you will, the j
same as the United States called up to protect its borders along Mexico from
outrage.
I "If humanity be organized according to President Wilson's principles, an i
I international army will be a corrollary,
views, we surely will accept its judgment. We trust the peace conference; we!
are firmly convinced that its final verdict will be that of perfect equity.
FORCED TO DEFEND RIGHTS
''At the same time, we are living human beings and it is unthinkable that
we maintain th attitude of motionless objects while being attacked. We were
attacked at Lemberg, which has been Polish for a thousand years. It is now
populated by Poles and th nation and government have been forced to defend
their sacred rights.
"You Americans, now that the war is over, conclude that the Germans are
repenting; that they are exactly the same kind of people as yourselves. It is
a very disastrous error for us at present.
"It is evident, that the Germans consider themselves victors on th eastern
front and are planning the economic domination of Russia by selling arms to
the bolshevik, which epidemic will cease when it runs its course. The probable
end of Russia will be a dictatorship, with som other Trotzky, Lenine or
Hohenzollem type. Your advice to us not to fight is good advice for a dying
man, but not for a man who wishes to live and enjoy liberty. We have to protect
certain institutions.
"On the whole I am optimistic about Poland's future."
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PAR S JOURNEY MEET . S. VIEWS
WASHINGTON". March 2. Thomas
W. Gregory, retiring attorney general
of the. United States, will accompany
President Wilson to Paris aa general
advisor and assistant at the peace con
ference. Mr. Gregory's resignation as a mem
Ml. ' T I ft 'J 1 J o II -' Hi. . . ... . . .... .
ber of the president's cabinet becomes
effecive Tuesday, when he will be
succeeded by. A. Mitchell Palmer, and
the retiring attorney-general will as
sume immediately his new position of
iinoflieial councillor to the president
during his second visit to Europe. .
Mr. Gregory's functions have not
been clearl defined, but he is ex
pected to advise the president and the
American peace commissioners on con
stitutionaJ questions relating; to the
league of nations, and on many mat-
1 tera of law and general policy. There
was no intimation here that he would
' mrfMii aflv of thA American com.
mifsloners now in France.
Mr. Gregory resigned from the cab
inet two months ago with the inten
tion of practising law, explaining that
the salary of his position was not ade
quate to meet his personal needs. It
is said he still expects to return to law
practice when his duties In Europe are
completed.
The nomination of Mr.' Palmer as
the new attorney general was called
up In the senate at an executive ses
sion early this morning, following an
all night session on the Victory-Liberty
loan bill, hut action was post
poned because of the absence of many
senators. The nomination will be taken
up again before adjournment and con
firmation then is generally predicted.
of Poland, somewhat nettled at the:
army which is being formed, while the '
of th Associated Press correspondent
in his familiar style. "Poland is be
of trouble ahead, but thanks to the
and if the peace congress adops these'
LEAGUE SURE TO
BE ADJUSTED TO
PARIS, March 2 (Associated Press)
The eighth week of the peace con
ference opens with Increased effort,
by the working commissions to get
their projects ready for consideration
when President Wilson. Premier Lloyd
George and Premier Orlando return to
Paris.
No one Is more anxious for prompt
action than the French commissioners
who want to hasten not only the com
pletion of the peace treaty, but' the
adoption-of the league ot nations plan,
as an integral part of it An opening
for a. revision of the plan that will not
threaten the integrity of the league
appears to be broadening. JI. Pichon,
French foreign minister, has indicated
that he will offer amendments relat
ing to an international force.
It is thought that the conference
may consider other amendments, such
as may- be regarded in America as
necessary to remove the ambiguity of
clauses that might affect the Monroe
doctrine, the right of secession from
the league and the methods of using
force against recalcitrant nations.
French apprehension Is growing over
thedanger of anarchy in Germany. The
French delegates therefore desire to
haste nthe conclusion, of the peace
treaty and Incorporate in it measures
for the protection which they have ex
pected from the league of nations.
. M.-Pic hon "reflecting this view, said
flint everyone wants a responsible
government established in Germany,
with which peace can be concluded.
(Continued on Ptige Two)
Father of Van
I Loan Dies As
Charley Passes
PHILADELPHIA. March 2.
Charles E. Van Loan, humorist and
famous as a writer of stories on
sporting topics, died today of
chronic nephritis at a hospital at
Abbington, Penn., near here.
Mr. Van Loan cam to Philadel
phia from his home in Los Angeles
on business and soon after his ar
rival became ill. He was 43 years
.old. -
FATHER FOLLOWS QUICKLY
LOS ANGELES. CaU March 2.
Overcome by the news of the
death of his son, Charles E. Van
Loan, Richard Van Loan, died at
his home here today. Mr. Van "
Loan was summoned from a re
ligious service by another son and
apprised of the news. He evidenced
great mental distress and died
within a few minutes at the family
home.
Mr. Van Loan, who" was 71 years
old, apparently was stricken with
an afflict ion of the heart. His son,
Charles E. Van Loan, was born in
San Jose, Calif., June 29. 1876. He
entered the newspaper profession
in this city and later was employed
on newspapers in New York and
Chicago.
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LWORKIS SOLUTION
TO STARVATION IN
(Jrrman Assembly Listens
To Straight Talk From
Peasant Food Onlr To
. , t i it c '
( OIIIC r rom Labor He oaVS j
I
WKIMAR. Saturday, March 1. (By i
the Associated
Press). Members of
the German National assembly
rushed
through several bills at this morn
ing's session in an effort to get back to
nnd finish the discussion of the na
tional constitution, but the deputies
cgain 'Vtl afoiU o" the. transition - !a.w
bill on w hich discussions were deferred
yesterday.
The house quickly passed a bill to
shorten the length of olection investi
gations, which heretofore had been ao
choked with red tape, the former
reichstag having adjourned before an
investigation was concluded.
A measure concerning the future of
the German colonies was sponsored by
the colonial minister, w ho declared tliiit
President Wilson in his fourteen points
tine, piivoc ally had sHken for Justice.
The minister said that Germany was
willing to submit the colonial question
to any impartial and non-partisan
commission on the basis of President
Wilson's fourteen points. The speaker
protested against the alleged unjusti
fied charges of German mistreatment
of natives in the German colonies. He
said the accusations either were based
on mistake or made with malice. He
then proceeded to laud President
Vilson.
Reimburse Enemy Armies
The assembly rapidly passed bills
providing safeguards against money
going abroad and revising the 1917 law
dealing with foreign securities. The
assembly also adopted a bill to reim
burse the enemy armies In the occu
pied district of Germany.
The features of the afternoon session
of the assembly were a speech by Dr.
Heim, leader of the F,avarian peasant
party, in which he protested against
the continual appeals for the raising
of the British blockade and urged Ger
many a do what ijas possible to feed
itself by a little real work.
Dr. Heim startled the house by re
ferring to sabotage as being more per
tinent than was the blockade. He
asked:
Work is Solution
"Do yon know how much grain has j
:
gone to waste on account or striKesT i
ti the meantime we are standing on
he verge of a precipice. Death by
starvation is facing us.
"Undoubtedly the spartacides will
live the longer, but all could live if
they worked. If something comes
from abroad, well and good, but let us
do someUiing ourselves."
Minister Bauer announced that a
brief would foe presented at an early
date, transferrin! the coal syndicate
to the government as the first meas
ure of the socialization of industries
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SAILOR ADMITS HIS
GUILT AND SUICIDES
Republican A. P. Leased Wire
CHICAGO, March 2. Six sailors of
the Great Lakes training station are in
custody and -the body of another a
suicide, is in a morgue, as a result of
alleged grafting in connection w ith the
discharge of men from the station, it
was learned tonight. Lieutenant Com
mander S. C. Roberts, executive officer
at the station, said no evidence had
been found, to support a charge that
discharges actually bad been sold, but
that a number of enlisted men and a
few petty officers apparently had prac
ticed a fraud on some of their mates by
professing to have influence in obtain
ing releases.
The existence ot the investigation be
gan known today, following the suicide
yesterday of Samuel Moscowitz. a sec
ond class seamen, who plunged from an
eight story window of the local naval
intelligence office, after making a con
fession, according to Lieutenant Edwin
Reed, chief of the office.
Moscowitz first was put under sur
veillance when It was discovered that
several men -had been forging furlough
fare certificates, according to Lieuten
ant Reed. The lieutenant refused to
deny or affirm that he had learned of
attempts to "sell discharges or of brib
ery in return for assurances that the
"payer" would not be sent to sea."
.Lieutenant Commander Roberts said
that until Moscowitz' arrest, the only
phase of grafting to have aroused in
quiry at the station was that delating
to the "discharge brokers."..
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Chaplain Admits Frightful Necessity of i L
Interring Dead Lack of Casket Ma- '
terial Given as Reason All Honors
Paid Religious Rites Observed
Over 1000 Letters Written to Kin,
Stating Facts Justification Claimed.
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PARIS. March 2. (Associated Tress)
"Forty million Russians in organized
governments are now co-operating in
a movement lor a reunited Russia.
These Russians are working and fight
ing, dying by hundreds, and even . by
thousands daily, in an effort to save
Russia from complete destruction -,i and
all this is being done without a thought
ot political ambition," said Sergius
Sazonoff, minister of foreign affairs
in the Denikine government, who also
is the representative in Paris for the
Omsk government, in an interview to
day. Continuing, he said:
"In addition to the Russians fight
ing bolshevism through and outside the
governments, there are also hundreds
of thousands of Russians within the
bolsheviki battling daily against the
efforts to defeat a reunited Russia.
"In the many months I was in Yeka
terinodar (capital of the province of
Kuban), socialistic and other liberal
elements were taking a very promin
ent part in the movement for a reun
ited Russia, especially in the south.
In the Crimea and in the Don and Ku
ban governments, the progressive men
of all parties have joined hands. There
is not the slightest chance that autoc
racy will ever return in Russia.
Leaders are Honest
"Friends of a reunited Russia much
regret the effort made by certain pro-
pagandists to create the impression
that the southern government, the
Omsk government and the Archangle
governments are leu oy men wno would
favor a return to
the old order of
things. I am sure men like General
Denikine and Admiral Kolchak have
no desire to turn back the wheels of
progress in Russia, and I do not be
lieve they seek personal aggrandize
ment. , .
"The effort to split Russia into
many independent governments also is
a misguided movement. Kfforts of
small governments cannot live inde
pendently. The larger governments
bowl them over by their sheer weight.
"Russia has such undeveloped ' and
unlimited resources that she -is able to
pay her way and the entente will be
amply rewarded for any help that may j
extend to patriotic Russians in their
efforts to overthrow anarchy and re- j
;"" i'""' J" a country inai nas Deen
j disrupted by bolshevism."
! O
h0 Per Cent Of
Oil Supply In
U.S. Exhausted
WASHINGTON, March 2. Forty
per cent of the total known oil sup
ply in the United States, exclusive
of oil shale deposits in ' three
states, has been exhausted, accord
ing to estimates transmitted by
Secretary Lane to the senate com
merce commission and made public
tiday by the senate commission.
Up to last January 1, Mr. Lane
said, a total of 4,598.000,000 barrels
had been produced, while . the.
known available oil resources, not
counting the shale deposits in the
ground, and in field storage, were
estimated at 6,740,000,000 barrels.
Distillation of shale deposits in
Colortado, Utah and Wyoming,
however, would produce 50.000.003
barrels of oil, the secretary said.
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10 DEAL IIK
Republican A. P. Leased Wire
WASHINGTON, March 2. Herbert
Hoover has been appointed by Presi
dent Wilson as director general of the
American relief administration, cre
ated under the new $100,000,000 Euro
pean famine relief bill, with full au
thority to direct the furnishing of food
stuffs and . other urgent supplies
purchased out ot relief funds, and
to arrange for their transportation and
distribution and administration.
Mr. Hooves also was given full power
by the president to determine to which-
of the populations named in-the relief :
bill the supplies shall be furnished, and
in what quantities. He also is to ar
range for reimbursement so far as pos
sible as provided in the relief act. In
making public the president's executive
order tonight, the food administration
announced that Edgar Richard and
Theodore F. Whitemarsh, who have
been directing the affairs of the food
administration during Mr. Hover's ab
sence in Europe, had been appointed by
him joint directors in the United States
of the newly created relief adminis
tration. HUN EXCESSES CURBED
COBLENZ, March 2. (Associated
Press) Carnival festivities among civ
UianB have been prohibited by the Cob
lenz municipal government for the re
mainder of the year. Tn . thanking
the Coblenz police department for hav
ing prohibited festivities in Coblenz.
the Volks Zeitung says:
"We also thank the American mili
tary authorities, which clearly are de
termined i to ; suppress excesses by
those who are only, interested in amus
ing themselves."
QUS
TO REUNITE 111
UT1
APPOINTED
niji
of many. reports of bad conditions
army debarkation camps at Brest,;
France, coupled with a graphic con- j
dition of the terrible days there when, i
! despite the ravages ot the influenza I
epidemic, Amreican troops were be-1
ing rushed to Fiance to help hurl back
the German army, is contained in a
letter from Chaplain W. B. Ayers, of
the navy, who served eight months at
Brest. '
Chaplain Ayers, who ha just re
turned from France says Brest has
proven a healthful camp in spite of
the mud and almost continuous rains,
and that there has been no initial
epidemic there.
Approximately 2.000 soldiers died
there from influenza, but the chaplain
says that "In practically all these cases
these men were brought ashore with
the disease from transports."
Tents Saved Many Lives
"Some folks seem to think it is ter
rible because our boys are living in
tents on the hills around Pontenazen, '
the' chaplain's letter said, "yet those
of us who have had their w ell-being
in mind have thanked- God that the
boys had the tents instead of wooden
barracks. Influenza is a crowd dis
ease. We saved the lives of thousands
of boys by getting them into the tents."
"In-one of our American newspapers
recently, I saw a bitter attack on Ker
baun .hospital, .in an alleged interview
by a Red Cross worker. Many of her
statements were utterly inaccurate.
"After accusing the surgeons of neg
lect, heartlessness and indifference,
this Red Cross worker, who is not a
nurse, - asserts that our dead were
loaded onto trucks, carried out into
the country and buried without cere
mony, - without religious ceremony of
any kind, were dumped into the ground
and their coffins taken back to the
hospital to he used again.
Chaplain Offers Help
"This is. one thing I happened to
know something about.- At the first,
there was no chaplain at Kerbaun.
Naturally I offered to help.
"It is true that bodies were placed
on trucks, the only available means of
transportation, and at this time when
the influenza raged most terribly,
there was not a coffin to be had in that
whole district, nor the lumber to build
them of.
' "It became finally necessary for the
army to face the prospect of burials
without caskets. The army had pur
chased a field outside of Brest at
Lombezelec, where perhaps a thousand
of : our boys lie. Two hundred and
fifty negroes were detailed to dig
graves. The army chaplain was him
self, sick.. I took his place and was in
the cemetery all day, all night and all
the next day.
"When the graves were dug the
iiagroes lifted the caskets to their
shoulders and marched, to the indi
vidual graves. Then with hats off.
beside -each grave, two negroes stood
at attention, while friends and fellow
officers stood near and the funeral
services were conducted. When night
came the caakets were exhausted, and
by the light of a torch I stood at their
graves as. I looked down at their
shrouded figures and asked God's
blessing upon their souls. Before the
day came. I had said prayers over ap
proximately three hundred thus, and I
can vouch that every man had what
blessing and faith can bestow.
"I have written a thousand letters
to parents or wives wh6se boys died
under these conditions, and I do not
like to see war critics whose mission
and value I have not been quite able
to determine, destroying what meagre
comfort our honest and sincere as
surances can bring."
HOLBROOK EDITOR DEAD
HOLBROOK, Ariz., March 2 George
M. Braxton, editor and publisher of the
Holbrook News, died early this morn
ing at his home here, following a brief
Illness of pneumonia. The remains will
be sent to Los Angeles for burial.
WASHINGTON, March 2. Dt
Today Is the Day!
' Today is the day that twenty returned soldiers start
an industrial survey of this city and community.
' Of such importance is this to the community, to the
business men and to returning service men, that it is
confidently believed that every employer will take a lit
tle time and help the boys ascertain the facts about em
ployment. ' '
Better still, nave the questionnaire filled out and
ready when they call.
Only a few'hundred less than a fifth of the men
have returned. .
Those few, with an unselfishness equaled, are pav
ing the way for the return of the others and their ab
sorption into' industry, by compiling these facts and
frgures.
Help them out. . .
. The movement is backed by the Great War Veterans
association, (Soldiers and Sailors Club), the citizens
committee, the Council of Defense, Federal Employment
Bureau, "Governor Campbell, and numerous others.
"I believe 'the industrial survey, to begin today, is
a very proper move" said Governor Thomas E. Camp
bell,' " and I sincerely believe that employers will give
the boys every aid and assistance in compiling these ini
portant statistics. There is no doubt in my mind of the
benefits to be derived by the community from this sur
vey, and I hope and believe that both the Great War
Veterans association and the- industrial survey will
spread throughout the state mid do an immense amount
of
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ALL Of GERMANY
IIS .INDICATED BI
OlOUSJEPORT
Assembly Members Consult
With worKmen Mani
festo Calls On Labor To
Cease Strikes Declares
Faith In Democracy
People Lose Confidence
Republican AP. Leased Wire
UlXDHX, March 2. (Associated
Press) The possible fall ot the Get
man government is reported in numer
ous special dispatches received today
from Berlin. The members of the gov
ernment have arrived at Berlin to con
sult with the workmen's council, and a
manifesto has been issued. All the cor
respondents report the situation as
grave.
v Troops Enter Halle
COPENHAGEN, March 2. Govern
ment "troops have entered Halle. Prus
sian Saxony, which now is quiet, ac
cording to a report from Berlin. Ser
ious food disturbances are reported
from Thorn, West Prussia. Soldiers in
tervened and a mob tried to storm the
military jail. A number of persons were
wounded before the troops restored
order.
Reports from Munich say the soviet
congress there has chosen a ministry
headed by Herr Segitz, who also will b?
minister of foreign affairs and minis
ter of the interior.
Manifesto Is Issued
BERLIN, (v'i Copenhagen. Satur
day, March 1.) (Associated Press)
The government has issued a loin
manifesto from Weimar, denouncing
the terrorist attempts -to get rid of the
national assembly. It proclaims faith
fulness to the 'inciples of democracv;
"Greater than the political danger is
the economic distress," says the man
ifesto. "We cannot feed ourselves from our
own supplies until the next harvest
The blockade is eating away the vital
of our people. Thousands perish dailv
from ill-nourishment."
The manifesto denounces strikes.
j saying:
Every strike brirnrs tis a step nearer
to the abyss. Only work can save us.'
The manifesto promises the social
ization of sditable industries and estab
lishment of commissions representative
of all the workers and freely elected. It
closes with a strong note asserting the
determination of the government to
wage relentle-s war against terrorism,
concluding: "Whoever assails the life
of the nation is our Pnemv."
Stop Newspapers
BERLIN. Saturday, March 1 (Asso
ciated Press) Berlin newspapers,
with the exception of the socialist or
gans, were prevented from appearini;
today, as a result of the sudden strike
proclaimed. It is uncertain whether
this strike is a prelude to a general po
litical strike, for which a large part of
Berlin labor is agitating, or whether it
is due to trade demands.
The municir council of greate:
Berlin today published an appeal to the
non-socialist population of the capital
urging a general counter strike in case
the independent socialists carried out
their threat to call a general strike.
The council asks the people to combat
force with force. The prestige pf this
organization however is not hieh.
Spread Propaganda
BERLIN", Friday, Feb. 28. (Associ
ated Press) Spartaean leaders in the
strike district of central Germany are
sending out propaganda by trains and
automobiles into districts not as yet af
fected by the strike. An unscheduled
train of which the spartacans had ob
tained control attempted to pass the
station at Kotzen. but wa-s stopped by
station guards who opened fire with
rifles and machine guns. One woman
was killed and eight civilian passengers
were severely injured. The spartacans
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