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I OGDEN CITY, UTAH SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26 192(l
UNREST IN INDIA T 1EATENS TO BRING REVOLT I
I AMERICA LOSES
I BIG RACE FOR
I GERMAN TRADE
British and French Profit
While U. S. Remains Of
ficially at War
BERLIN, Dec. 25. American busi
n?HS scouts who have been scouring
Germany in the last few months, in
search of contracts have virtually
fl abandoned the field to the British and
French and gone home, according to
information reaching the American
Association of Commerce and Trade
herp. While exports and imports be
tween the United states and Germany
continue gradually to increase, the
Americans say, 'he majority of the big
manufacturing and buying firms of
(lermany already have signed long
time contracts with the British and
French, who sent armies of represen
tativfs Into the country as soon as
i hp armistice was signed.
TIRED OF WAITING.
The Germans who have not contract
ed with the British and French, but
have held back in belief it would be
kH in their advantage lo tie up with the
I Americans, are becoming disconragi d
and American business men here s.iv
unless there is eoon n n umption ol
official relations between the twe
countries, and probably a stabilization
of exchange, it must be many months
niter a treaty is signed before ihc
Americans will again have their pro
portional pre-war share of German
trade.
The German governmenl is keen?
alive to the situation and even has
laken a hand, unofficially, in recent
transactions by which ii was believed
pood business relatione between the
two countries would be fostered When
the National Cash Register company
recently sought permission of the po
litical economic sub committee of the
iraprrial economic council to import
tools and patterns Tor a factory in
Gerinauy, the German foreign office
100k an active interest and it is said
even directed Ihc committee to make
a favorable report, although some oi
Germany's mo.s: powerful financial in
fluences were objecting
FAVOR HOME INDUSTRY,
other Ami rican concerns have ap
plied for permission to Import machin
ery and manufactured articles but the
economic council has thus tar with
held the permission on the ground the
articles could be produr.nl in Germany
The German government's principal
objection to importations at this time
is based upon the low e--;aiiL-e value
af the mark. .Until the mark Is stabi
lized, the Germans believe trade
should be permitted as will encourage
German production and form a market
for German laboi
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PEASANTS CAN'T REALIZE
GOOD FORTUNE IN LANDS
LIBAU, Dec. 25. Peasants an
t. '.ci.,,1 in- the t.-itvian cov
IiUUMI IUrwinr v.- - ,
ernin nl's l.'let pollc !! unwill
ing to believe they can acquire land
which formerly belonged i Baltic bar-1
v.-.i ho ng -i Llth from the i
ttlfl owners,
Where owners of land. w he tin I they
' were big eftate holders, or had only'
small acreage, participated in any of
the various movements designed toi
thwart the present government, tne
government has confiscated the estals
and promises to divide them eventual
ly among the landless peasants.
But the poor peasants have had
IS much trouble In cultivating land al-
i lotted to them because of th- lack of
I animals, machinery and seed, and thc-
l government has been unable to give
them material help.
Where the peasants have been suc
cessful an .1 have in quired money, they
I frequently approach the former own
ers of the land avd want to arrange
a cash payment on the land to Insure
that the old owners will not event -I
ually tako It nvvav from them. The
statement of old owners that they can
not sell lbs land has no effect on the
peasants, who refuse 'o believe ttvy
can ever acquire title without pay
ing the old landlords and getting a blue
I paper, or deed.
U Many of the Latvian estates were so
B large and were cultivated tn such a
I way that small holders have great
I difficulty In cultivating the portion
I assigned to them This is especially
I true of estates where there were
I large drainage plants. and where
I irminnrlnlinn wai nfforileil liv smnlt
II railways' so arranged as to serve the es-j
J tate as a whole. Such estates provided i
1 their own fuel from wood-lots on the
I premises and had exec ptlonally well-
J arranged facilities for getting products
1 to distant markets. In many cases.
J the peasants have asked the old own-
1 ors to rettirn as managers In the hope
1 of restoring the old organization.
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1 FIUME TOTALLY DARK AS
f COAL-SAVING MEASURE
t lUMIS, Dee Plume has been
compelled to dispense with virtually
fl 1 !1 lights except those of candl -. be-
cause the Italian blockade has stopped
the Importation of coal- When'the Af
sqeiatod Press correspondent arrived
I here her found the city tn absolute
$ darkness! , Railway employes bearing
f, w lighted candles met the travel-
Blj e as they alighted from the train
K fioni Trieste and escorted them to a
HL ymall room whore the officer, also by,
the light of a candle, examined their
- passports.
outside the railway station there
j were neither porters nor ctbs nor was
If ., light to be seen in the ctreeis any-
1 where. "Weighed down with their bag-
1 gage, the travelers grouped their wa
1 tii the hotel only to find that also in
m darkness.
HEfyDERSON HAS
OWN PUN FOR
iSH PUCE
British Labor Chief Says
Britain Cannot Resist
Moral Demand
m MILTON BROXXER
LONDON; Dec. 25. immediate ces
sation of hostilities In Ireland with a
view lo bringing about a permanent
settlement of the Dish question on al
'Just basis was advocated today by Ar-I
thar Henderson.
Henderson is chairman of the Hrit-,
ish lvibor Party commission to Inves
tigate or.. In Ions In Ireland and seek
la way for peace He is a former cab
inet member, present member of Par
liament and secretary of the British1
' Labor Tarty. ,
The commission baa just returned
'from a personal Investigation In fre
lland. I sidle the declaration o"!
I martial law in southern Ireland and,
jtln '"o.lc t'lre. Henderson is optimistic
peace ctn be had. He has had several
meetings with Premier LlOyd Georgre
lon the subject.
"Most people In Ireland are In fear;
and dread of ruthless warfare which
so often has chosen its victims at ran
dom," said Henderson.
The "po st Ion of Irish government I
iseoms to have been removed from the,
I ! tribunal of reason to one of force So
long as force Is relied upon b either
iie the Muestion can't in ddtermined
( in strict accordance with democratic
prVndtplea of justice.
KKMT.T fU' FORI E-
"if force is to be the determining
faotor the result might .-.isily be pre
. lifted, for the Britisn government can
resist any challenge of force made by
'the Sinn rem army.i
"The real character of tl.c Irish de
mand is moral. When dace, I on this
higher plane It attracts to Us HUPport
the sympathv, respect and powerful
advocacy of millions of people hex ond
the shores of Ireland
"Its moral appeal is so formidable
that lio British government true to
the principles of democracy could re
j fuse to i s pond to it
I "But In the present reign of violence
. a justice of the Irish demand is lost
sight of
I S OF BR1 I M.I I Y
"The policy Of tin- British govern-
ment is to clean up the Republican
Army or -gunfnon' as they are de
scribed hy tl.i i nu t secretary for Ire
land, tn then ef torts to achieve this
result the crown forces have commit
ted many acta of sheer brutality and
(wanton destruction of property.
"Indiscipline of ? certain section of
Ithc crou n forces has found expression
in appalling acti of violence and crim
inal acts of pro cation which In man
i lali n 'mi innocent men, wo
men and children,
' The ( xperlence of oui commission
Id Ireland strengthens us in our con
viction thai the inosl urgent need i.
complete i lation of all acts of lo-
illence and provocation,
j "If this could be brought about 1
(believe it would be possible for a ic-g-utai
armistice to be arranged between
jthe British government and elected
i representative of the Irish people.
sTI l INDI8PEN6AB1 l .
, This step l consider an indlspensu-
ble preliminary to any official peace
negotiations.
I "No greater service could be ren-
dcred to the cause of Irish freedom by
'its frirnds and .supporters in whatever
country they may be, than by striving
to bring about termination of the pres.
ent guerrila war. In order that a DOW
opportunity muy be provided fox re
sponsible people to negotiate political
settlement not in relation to the mili
tary situation," but In harmony with
the accepted principle of right of small
nations to full and unfettered self
determination of their own affairs "
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AMERICAN PIPE WILL
CARRY OIL FOR PARIS
I
HAVRE, France, Dec 26. Con
struction of the 126-mile pipe line
from Havre to Paris to bring petroleum
din ' I from the Normandy seaport to
ths capita Is to begin this month.
The contractors hope to have finished
the prlcipal part of the work within
six months, but It will not be possible
to operate it before a year.
The Hno is to bo laid along the high
road from Havre to Pnri- three feet
below tho urlace At Havre and
Paris there will he ten tanks of a ca
'paclty of 35,000 barrels each, and six
I tanks of a similar capacity will be
I stationed along the route. at the
,pumplng stations which will also be
six In number.
Trench digging machines sent to
France bv the American army will be
used In laving the pipes which with
th tanks and pumps are being sent
from America
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PORTUGUESE COLONISTS
ACCUSED OF SLAVERY
LONDON, Dec. 25. Charges that
there has been a recrudescence of
slave trading practices over wide
areas In Angola, a Portuguese posses
sion in West Africa, had been pre
sented to the assembly ofthe league
of nations, by the Anti-Slavery aud
Aborigines Protection society. These
Charges sre contained In the copy of
a memorial previously sent to the
British government including evidence
fioni Portuguese and other sources
concerning alleged slave trading.
The society appealed to the league
of nations to take cognizance of thes
charges and If possible, secure an ex
haustive Inquiry Into the whole sys
tem of Portuguese labor In west Af
i i" i.
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PLAJI wori i flight.
PARIS. Lec. 25 The Aviation Com
mission of the French Aero club has
appointed a sub-commission for the
! purpose of studying the urrangemcniM
j for an aerial derby around th world.
I in agreement with the rcprentattv c
j m Parle of the American promoters or
that project.
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Famine Threatens to. Wipe Out North China
f i n. :
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Stifrving ;ml freezing, this family of Chinese is trying i leftep alive by ;ii inr roots, grass rind
caves There are millions more like tnem,
iRETURHED RULER
HELD PRO-ALLY
Briton Asserts Constantino of
Greece Oflored to Fight
Teutons
Bj WILiLlAM 1 M l I l . K.
I nternational News Service Corre
spondent. LiONDON, I ec. 25. That KiiiR Con
I Btahtine of Greece never took part in
any pro-German intrigues; that he
I never at any time plotted trea herj
against the allies and that he had no
agreement with the kaiser, v.lurh
bound him and his country to Ger
many are some of the 'aims made bj
George p. Abbott, of London.
Abbott lived for many years in
j Greece during the king's regime and
was a persona Vrlend of the former
. monan h Hia vrife, -Mrs. Klizabeth Ab-
botl Is ti v. f-ll-kaown figure 1 the
feminist inouivu ni :i slu- is sceretary
! of the International Woman Suffrage
alliance, of which Mis. Carrie Chup
' man Catt Is president.
1 "in .spite ot" repeated and definite
threats on the part of Germany, Kinvc
I Constantino absolutelj refused to move
i from his attitude of neutrality during
the war." declared Abbott "He even
' went so far as lo slate thai he would
! attack lb kaiser s Balkan allies
j should they threaten the Interests of
Greece
' Ills attitude was plainly shown by
.i communication he Bent to the kais
er on Augusts?. ISH.' in answer to a
threai whuh had been made to the (-f-fe.
t thut If he did not side with Gor
many all relations between the uvo
jeountries woui.i cease He answered
.Aicer senous reiuetion i an not
see how I could help you even ff I
I mobilized my auny ;it once. The Med
iterranean is at hf morey of the An
I glo-French flSCVi which would di -I
stroy our royal and me rchant marine.
They would take our Islands and w ould
I prevent the concentration of my army,
I which can only be carried by ea Thus
without being able to be useful to you
I in anything we should be wiped off
the map. We must maintain an abSO-
lute neutrality I can only refrain
from attacking your friends, Bulgar
ia and Turkey, so long as they do not
touch our Iniere.-is."
'"This has been distorted by some of
the press Into a pledge favorable to
I Germany.
Further proof of what I claim can
I be found, strange to say, in a Vene
i seMst White LJook, printed in Athens
in 1917. and reprinted In an Bugllsh
translation in .New York in 1919 un-
derthe title of Publication No. t. The
Greek White Book Supplementary
Diplomatic Documents, 1913 to 1917.'
"Sd far 1 have only shown that
King Constantino was not willing to
Join with Germany against the allies
On the other hand I have proufs that
he was willing and ready to ally him
self with the Hrltlsh and Frchi
against their eommon ant m
"On August 19, 19U, ,n." kilil, r.N-.
pressed hlmseMf wfllipg to enter the
war on the side of the allies. Ho of
fered for this purpose the whole of hit
I army and Ids only stipulation was thu
the Greekjforees should not be no. . f
u... vidir wnere tney could not if
ne?.t ar?'?e operate against Bulgaria
fo this offer the :iu,f.s replied bv
asking Greece to keep unlet lest Tur
key should he alarmed and join the
wJa. power,4- M must be remem
oered that as late n October 12 1014
, the allies apparently knew nothliiK
I meat!" (J,,rman"J1'urk'Mr' agreed
Constantlne made five other offers
M,-JtlKKU:r a,,k" aK;lin!,, thentente;
Iffr. Abbot ascor,,, bw the off
not accepted.
SHOE PRICES TUMBLE
IN SPANISH MARKETS
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BILBAO, Spain. Dec. 23 The more
,announcement by a shoe dealer here
that ho had iiLc.de a contract with an
American firm to send 3.',, 000 pairs of
shoes to Bilbao on trial with a vfvw
to further orders produced a pun,
among the storekeepers uf this 1
jTho announcement stated the Arueri
jean shoes would be sold at half the,
prevailing price of the home-made ar-1
tides. Immediately afterward prices'
came down with a ion.
(The local nevvspupei s advise other)
localities to follow the lead of the
northern city mid thus put a stop to'
J profiteering.
Starving People Eat Weeds
and Treo Leaves in Their
Extremity
' PEKING. Dec. 25. The area and ex
tent of the famine situation in China
, has recently been brought out in .1
number of reports reaching here. The
tag ion chiefly affected extends cart
. and w est frori 1 ho Gulf or Chlhll to
IHan-chihga In Shensl and north and
south from Mongolia to Shang-chlng
j it: Honan
Porty-iwo years ago QhJha wa
bjw pi by a memorable famine in
I vrhich millions of persons perished
I from cold and hanger In 1878, how
ever, conditions were 1"sk serious than
at present for at that time a wheal
, crop preceded the drouth, whereas to
day, due to two years' lack of rainfall,
only limited areas haye produced even
'the scantiest yields. The repoits have
told how the trees of entire districts
have- been stripped of their leaves for
juse as food. The starving people mix
them with millet chaff, clover or
weeds, with a minimum of grain and
bake them into cakes which resemble
clay. Thousands of refugees who are
endeavoring to migrate afoot irom the
famine areas are said to be living cn
UCh "food" hoping to reach ihe more
fbrtUnate cities and towns where they
may possibly purchase necessaries of
life.
BABIES THROWN IN RIVER.
Extraordinary means to obtain mon
ey for food are reported from all sec-
tions of the five provinces. Little chil
dren are found deserted in the streets
and main have been rescued from the
rivers into which they have been cast
'by their impoverished parents. The
sale of children, is often reported,
much despised girl babies being of- i
fcrcd for sums as low as a dollar A
j boy pf 5 years, whose mother had
died and whose father was ill. was res
cued from the father who declared
hthat If no one would feed him he In
I tended to "throw him into the river
There have been suicides of entire
families
Reports from numerous points in
the famine an a which, it is estimated.
Will require 9200,000,000 worth of the
plainest food to avert ike groan ,1 lass
of life, have been received as follows
One thousand deaths from Starvation
are occurring dally tn the Peking dis
trict: farm and draff animals in
Tehchow and Siaochang. fn shantung,
have been sold by their owners for a
song because ' of lack of fodder to
; keep them and fuel to cook them if
slaughtered; every road northward
from Changteho. in Honan, swarms
with hunger-pinched humanity, many
of whom fall exhausted out of Ihe
weary procession to die by the road
side; the district southwest of Paoting
ful. denuded Of vegetation, looks as
though it had been swept by a plague
of locusis; at a village near u
Ce'eng, an old man with a basket on
his arm containing about BlX pounds
of red millet, explained that re had
traded two overcoaLs and a pair of
boots for the millet v. hi h he was tak
inc to his' Witt and iheir seven chl-
dren.
FORCES OF RELIEF.
Efforts that so far have been made
lo relieve the famine situation include
the following: The t'hinose ministries
of Jlnance, agriculture and the inter
ior. have appointed a commission to
dispense a ? l.utm.onO fund to be raised
by a short term loan; Shanghai re
ports that another lund of $1,000,000
is being raised b seven provinces at
the request of Tang Shao-yl. the chief
southern peace delegate, the Japanese
government has supplied 500.000 bush
els of rice. In addition, representa
rii s of American and British commer
cial Interests in Shanghai raised $5.
000,000 for the Chinese relief associa
tion.
The Peking-Hankow railway is al
lowing refugees to travel free on
trains bound for South Honan and
Hunefa and these have been crowded
with little children or old persons un
able to trek over the mountain roads,
to points where food is obtainable.
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BROOfcl will! EUBCTRIO UGHT
An Inventor in Maryland has perfect
ed ,1 Mmall d-ctrle light to be attached!
to a ti"om to UrM up dark eorncrs
when his wife sweeps the floors.
CHINA DISLIKES
SflIT OOCISil.
Millions ot Small Landowners
Well Satisfied With Present
System
PEKING, Dec. 25. - Neither Bolsho-I
' vism nor monarchlsm has u chance In,
'China today, In the opinion of Dr.
Phillip Tyau, assistant Under-Secretary
in the foreign office, unofficially e.-1
pressed to the Associated i ress, Lr .
Tyau, who is a student ui international!
law, refutes "erroneous reports and
Inspired statements 01 a damaging na
jture which have been circulated re-,
dently both in China anil abroad and
Which not only mislead public opinion!
but have a serious repercussion on I
trade' Hie wflies as follows:
"The reports which are most per
sistent are precisely those w hich are J
most Ill-founded. Une Is that a mon
archical restoration has ac-tually oc
currfed or is Imminent; another that
the Country not only offers an attrac
tive field f"r Bolshevism but that an.
insidious and far-reaching campaign!
of propaganda is actually raging j
which may engulf the nation.
"Both reports disclose singular Iff-'
norance f existing conditions and of
the whole trend of Chinese thought.!
The factors which led to the abdica
tion of the Manchu dynasty nearly a!
decade ago are not only operative to-1
day, but have been, made a hundred-'
fold more power u by natural devel-'
opment and by the march of events
throughout the world, it msy be said?
generally thatt the 1 ide at large are
SO complilelv .1eetl.sloI.1e1I to the ro-
publican Idea that the conception of
a hereditary ruler seems to belong to
La remote past.
"As for Bolshevist doctrines, ''hina
Is probably tiie last country In the
World that need fear what is" Ihe
nightmare of other nations. Not onlj
is the land all divide,) and tightly held
in small parcels by title deed among
tens of millions of cultivators, who
comprise seven-tenths of the popula
tion, but capltallsl in tin- European
sense la virtually Absent. Chinese
society, with its ancient collecttvlst
st rin t ure, 'indeed offe rs suc h a serious
Challenge tb Marxian communism that
the practice of the latter seems both
retrograde and elementary. Contact
with Bolshevist elements along an
open land frontier thousands of miles
in length, and the COhtlAued presence
of large Chinese communities in i:us
ian towns when all other foreigners
hare disappeared tend to prove that
the Chinese are immune and alone of
all nations can hold their own in
competition with sovjjetism
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REDS DECLRAE IAPAN
HAS CONQUEST PLANS
I.oNDu.V. Dec. -a An official
Bolshevik wireless message received I
from Moscow ipiotes the izyejtia a-s is
Sertlng that "it is evident that Ja-j
I,,,, 1, , ,,l,,ole,l n o,,!l, i.l v,-(rin( i I,.
j shores of the Pacific." It adds.
"Th- Japanese general staff has
marked out a fortified line In the
shore zone from BhanghsJ thiougli
Kvvangtung peninsula and the Russian
COStal region and the KaniMchitka
peninsula. (A line through Kwang
lung from Shanghai, would cover the
southern half of the Chinese coast for
about Too miles. Including HoncKioic.
i "The Japan ' - arc i onductlng a (l f
InlteJy imperialistic policy with r-
gard to Far ESastern Kusla. By con
ecaling their plans, thev hoped the al
lies would bleHS their Siberian poltcj
A'. hen America, however. rled out
against them, Japan hesitated and then
declared she feared an attack from
Bolshevik! and that an agffresskve pol
icy In Siberia was necessary-
"She, therefore, disarmed the Rus
sian troops In the maritime provlncr
and Is attempting to liquidate th for
tifications of Vladivostok and .Nlko
ls i vsk.
' .Such are the intentions of the Jap
anese imperialists. Japan may be ex
pected to tenaciously preserve In ef-,
fectlng her plans, and therefore, the..
Far liastern republic with its head
quarters at Verkhne-l'dlnsk, is fared
with th problem of definitely restat
ing rhe aggression of the Japanese In
Siberia. As this in like measun ef
fects Chine's interests, thev must unltn
for Joint resistance to Japanese sspi-j
rations on the Asiatic mainland."
RUSS REFUGEES j
CROWD CORNERS
I OF DEATH SHIP
I
Families of wrangel's Men
Throw Diamonds to
- Traders of Feod
N KW YORK. Dec. 25.- Two hundred
children or the officers of General
Wrangel's staff, sons and daughters of
'generals, colonels and captain:, were
among the 100,000 Russian refugee ,
1 brought to fl'onslaniinople harbor by
ships of the allied nations when the
bolsheviki broke down Wnuigel's (lo
I fenoe and overran the Crimea.
I Man-. i ihi m were orphan: . their
falhets having p risln d while fighting
ihe boIshevikL One was ihe daughter I
,' ot the minister of finance of the Wran- J
1 ; "I regime. All were nearly famished.
When the vessels on w hich they had
taken refuge arrived here, for Ihc!
ships' larders had been exhausted.
So hard pressed were all the rcfu-'
gees to obtain food that tiny threw
diamonds and weapons or any other j
valuables into the boats of traders
Tom Constantinople n payment for'
; anything eatable
GRAPHIC BTQRV TOLD.
A graphic story of their arrival at
Constantinople and how an American
destroyer took the 200 children of
Wrangel's officers nf 1 ho refugee y
selfl and landed them at the trachoma
orphanage maintained by the Near
East Relief is told in reports received
by that organization in this city It
reads in part :
The harbor hi a wonderful and sad
sight Une hundred thousand Russian )
are on ship there, some of them dv
in The best of the old Russian fam
ilies arc among these refugees, the
men who fought for Wrangel. crowded
and sick and without fond except v bat
the relief people can get to Ihcm and
the bread and water given to them bv
the French.
DIAMONDS FOR FOOD.
'Ot course, natives rre profiteering
and little boats go to the ships and
fhe RttS8tans drop diamonds, firearms
and other valuables to these traders
in exchange for food. The people on
these vessels represent the remains of
an old aristocracy with no country to
lake them though the French expect
to send many to Morocco.
"The children were packed wllh
grown children like sardines on the
In? ships coming from Crimea and
most ol tliM.i were sick from fatijrue. 1
lack of nourishment and lack of sleep
.Miss Cumber and M;ss Hastings, re- J
lief workers, wtnt to the ships on ;
board a I'nlted State:, destroyer and
200 children were t. . .ed with the;
names of their father- and mothers
and the father's occupation. Many
said 'Father died in Wrangel's army
fighting for Russia.' The destroyer',
brought the children to the landing of'
the trachoma orphanage whuh U lo
cated right on the BoBphorus. Ten
mothers were taken w ith iheir very j
j mint; children and babies and the oth-
er children ranged from o to 13 years :
RSSCMBLE YANKEE BABES.
"MoJt of them looked exactly like
well-bred American children. Some
1 arried their dolls lightly In their arms
land one little- boy hugged a teddy
bear. A boy or 12 carried a sick lit
tle boy of s years because he came
from his town in Russia. He would
not e;,t until the pmaller boy had re
ceived soup. Most of the children
could speak French.
I "First the mothers With little babies
1 were fed and then the children, Mrs'
'the girls and then the boys One boy
ate slv bowls of soup and all the chil
dren ate as if they were starved
There was no noise, no crying, no dls-
order They were like little soldiers.
I All the boys removed their hats upon!
entering r lo orphanage. The moth
ers and babies were first ien a bath
land then the boys and girls."
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MENSHEVISTS BELIEVE
RED REGIME IS DOOMED
I'.KKLIN. lee. 2. 1-. M.utoff and
li. Abramowltselt. leaders In the itus-,
siaii Menshevlkl party opposed to
Bolshevism who are sojourning in Ber
lin. Jiavo Issued an appeal here In the)
nam of their partv. ejlUnK on fhe
odaMstla purtiea and trade unionu of 1
.it t . .v,,L. .. lltiutr, rxf. !
an iiie iiaiiuu.-i iv ..r.- m
fort lo secure the recognition of soviet
Russia, to have the Idoekade raised
1 trade relations with the outside
' world resumed.
The appeal statcH tiiat the defeat of
.General Wrargel I i"-' the victory of
Uolshevitsm. but the victory of the
HUSBjan resolution and th whole
Kuaslan (tropic.
Th Menshevlkl manifesto de lure;
1 that the Russian pcarant who la flght
I tng communism hfM own bamlej
nevertheless furnished the gnvern
Iment with troops to repulse w rangel
as did also the Kussiun Social Demo
'cratic proletariat both of whom are
(determined to have "UusAian soil
,' cleared of International and, Russian
reactionaries. "
j The manifesto then goes on to say:
I "The time has now arrived when the
I question of putting an 'nd to further1
I Intervention in Russia is a matter of'
honor with the nations of Kuropv
I well us the t'nlted States."
The call aseerts lhal the quickest
av 10 accomplish the downfall of tl If
present soviet regime 1? to permit it to!
have uninterrupted wa. as it will I
then collapse from within ae a result I
of Its anti-socialistic and t'lopianl
policies and that the redemption of
Itussia Is only possible after the
inevitable and automatic sell -rl t, .t
of th- Lenlua and Troizky govern
ment. 0
STRIKERS KK II
mm office, I
LflOLSHOPS I
Boycott Movement Against
British Rule Speaks With
Many Arrests
BOMBAJi Dee. India Iufor-
1 . , U) Threi thousand
strikers .;t one mill In the vicinity of
Bombay, wrecked the office of the
factory, a few days ago and stoned a
caf containing police, seyerely
In luring one inspector and two sol- BBsa
diera Before the police succeeded In
dlspersliix the strikers, they took
looting shops. number of arrests ssssa
n p, made and th mill district Is be- C'tj
lug picketed.
vi r disorders took place else- M
where in the city, some stoning ol
slret I can being Indulged in at various
The situation became serious fBBBm
enough for the commissioner "of poiie al
to call the mounted police, who charg
ed tie crowd In seml-cltcular fashion
1 1 havi not been reported,
init the crowd broke up and fled - I
Wholesale .irre.-ts were soon after
made, 60 uu-n being taken In custodv.
I I st (;kis SERIOUS
For more than two months now the
eitv uf l!otnb.iv has hern Witney: ing
, , 1 strikes in 1 1" miu Indus- f
-. rei 1 -i ra I n gs 1 works
land the postal service. The tension
has grown every day more serious
especially on account of government
I refusal to arbitrate the various dis
putes. n all India Trade Unron con
' pn s recently held In the foremost
industrial city has given further im- gfl
petus to the laboring ranks Hfl
The Bombay strikers have sent a
cable London asking for financial
pport from the British labor move
ment for their cause.
in 1 m pur now
DELHI, Dec (India Informa- KM
tion Bureau) Active steps are being
taken b3 the liritlsh government In
northern India to arrest the leader HH
of tlo non-cooperation movement, of HJ
which Gandhi, is the , hief proponent.
There have been eight cases of pro -I
edition on charges of sedition or at
tempting to seduce troops. Five of the
ed 1 11 on Icted and three I
111 pen I 1 Almost all of thei
an litors, publicists and education- Mm
been busy Influencing H
the people to boycott government In
stitutlons and British goods and to re
fuse 1 enlist In the army to be sent
abroad for service
Kl 1 DI N I s REBELLION'S
! The scditous meetings act has been
put Into force in the city of Delhi and
'four districts of the Punjab where
l s . .1 r the shooting of 3.000 Hindus
took place) to restrain political acti
k'itlea in these areas.
At a meeting or students ami faculty
of the Benares Hindu unlversil 1
r. tolutlon was adopted a pprov Ing t he .
poll, v of non-cooperation and de
nianding thai the trus'ees of the insti
tufjor, ,n connection with Him PH
slud rita m
themselves to stand with the national
Institutions in favor of non-coopera-tion
movement and sent fraternal
greetings to" all school and eollegi a
which are being sUrted all over the
The Benares Hindu university Is the
largest national Institution in India
subject i" supervislonal control of the
government at the present time
RAVAGED INDUSTRIES OF
FRANCE START0PERATI0N
PARIS. Dec turlns; in ifl
dustries are rapidly resuming operav
1 Hons n the devastated district. Thil
lis shown b a report of the offie.. of
industrial reconstruction, which ht kH
been Investigating the restoration of
and workshops, which, be- mW
lhe War, employed more than 20
workmen.
1 -f no 4.321 establishments ii 1 whl .-h
in. mines have been mad. j 3r n.'
n nimed work In whole or in part' 1
I 1 a fi';ation of the various trades
z";Tr.,Tr::;,:
i.;,-; k' "ivru.T; w,
rhe relatively slow rate of proK.
res. of the textile factories is wJli bi H
ths bureau to be due .., ths fact thai H
the looms 1 were deliberatel- deaUoied Esil
' ; - s taking some time to , H
the delicate maehlnerj p c
These a a,, . ,lt b. I ; hme,, I o,plov-
nrhiic the rectories have for . sH
uriokJa:
Thus the proportion of rc.,o, . Bsi
kdoj- MJ'aajr
GUARDING EXILED RULER
IS HELD JHANK LESS JOB
DQORNT, Holland, Dec 9- m
correspo.oient. the other dsv Tn"i sH
In a eonfldenttal mood ,0un'1
af police WW UsL f0r ,hf ,he H
PntpfSrViSai?- tw MSJ I
BuVa.1,0 gS-Ii m
my superiors if " a . ''h from K
question of a surhtsrer eureo.M Kfl
I rom the slghtoeerlf I don"'?"'1 ,ook 11 HU
00 m
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l-ouwmeester. 1 Veel 1, Louis jjl
-
land. The honor wis of HI-
celebration of, rhe h Bt H
n actor. " nnl v.rr-ry a-
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