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Tin? VONTTT PTj A TTR REArT-WRETCLY TRTRUNE. DUTCH REFUSE TO GIVE UP KAISER Netherlands Government Sends Official Reply to Allies' Demand. HONOR FORBIDS SURRENDER Says Tradition Centuries Old Makes Holland Refuge for Vanquished In International Military Conflicts Cannot Betray Faith Now. Tho Hague. Jan. CO. The ofllclnl note of the Netherlands government In reply to the ilemund of the allies for the surrender of the ex-kalser for trial Is dated January 21 and reads: "By a note verhal dated January 15, 1020, and handed to her majesty's en voy In Paris, tho powers, referring to urtlcle 227 of the Versailles treaty, re quest the Netherlands government to' ilellver Into their hands William of Hohcnzollern, emperor of Germany, In trrier that he may be put on trial. "In support of this request they ob serve that If the emperor had remained In Germany the German government would have been obliged, according to article 228 of the peace treaty, to hand him over. "The powers, quoting as premeditat ed the violations of International treaties and the systematic Ignoring of the most sacred rules of the law of na tions In numerous acts committed dur ing the war by the German authori ties, trace the responsibility, or at least the moral responsibility for these acts back to the former emperor. "They express the opinion that Hol land would not fulfill her Internntionnl duties If she refused to associate with them to the best of her ability In pur suing, or at least not impeding, the punishment of the crimes which have been committed. "They draw attention to the special character of their request as having In view not n Juridical accusation, but nn act of high International politics, and they appeal to Holland's respect for right and her love of Justice not to cover by her moral authority the vio lation committed by Germany of the essential principles of the solidarity of nations. "Her1 majesty's government has the honor to observe forthwith that the obligations which might Jm'e resulted treaty of pence cannot prevail In or for Germany under article 228 of the ,der to define tho duties of Holland, which Is not a party to this treaty, demand loans into one long-term obll- "Her majesty's government, actuat ed on its side by Imprescriptible rea sons, nmnot view the questions ru'sel by the request of tho powers otherwise than from the point of view of its own duties. It has been abso lutely foreign to the origiu of tho wnr and has maintained, not without rillli culty, lis neutrality to the end. "It finds' Itself therefore confronted with the facts of the war In a differ ent position from thnt of the powers. It refuses energetically all suspicion of wishing to cover by Its sovereign right and Its moral authority viola tions of tho essential principles of tho solidarity of nations. But It cannot recognize nn Internntionnl duty asso ciating nations (some words missing here) itself to tho powers' act of high International politics. "If In the future an Internntionnl Jurisdiction were created by Una 'League of Nations competent to Judge In a case of conflict on facts qualified .as crimes punishable by statute pre ceding these facts, It rests with Hol land to associate herself with this new system. "Her mnjesty's government cannot in the present instance acknowledge any other duty than thnt Imposed by the lnws of the state and national tradition, the constitutional laws of the state based on universally recog nized principles of lnw, and on honor able tradition centuries old, which has made of thin country at all times a refuge for tho vanquished In Interna tional conflicts. "The Netherlands people, actuated by sentiments to which the world's history ls done justice, cannot be tray tho faith of those who have jcon- llded themselves to the nation's free institutions. "ner majesty's government would fain believe that the powers will rec ognize the soundness of these consid erations which are above any per sonal appreciation and which more over nppears so peremptory that they cannot reasonably give rise to erron eous Impressions as to Holland's atti tude. (Signed) "VAN KARNKBF.CK." Detroit Philanthropist pies. San Francisco, Col., Jan. 20. Dr. B. F. Brodle, physiclnn and philanthrop ist of Detroit, Mich., died here. Germans at Lille Go Home. Lille. France, Jan. 21. Repatriation of Germnn prisoners from the Lille region has begun. Three thousand of these prisoners started for Germany. They took with them largo quantities of eatables. Recover $100,000--Stolen Goods. New York, Jan. 24. Property val ued by tho police at $100,000, that had been stolen from tho homes of many wealthy New York families, wns re covered after the capture of Charles Forst. STILL WAITING tW YOK WORlO. SOCIALIST TRIAL ON New York Assembly Body Probes Tenets of Socialism. Hlllquit Counsel for Defense Instructs Witnesses Not to Deliver Docu ments into Hands of Prosecutor. Albany, N. Y., Jan. 23, The first witnesses testified In tho Investigation by the assembly judlclnry committee of the loyalty of tho five suspended socialist members of tho lower house. Committee counsel begnn presenta tion of evidence after Chalrmnn Louis M. Martin had denied an application by Morris Hlllquit chief counsel for the defense, to Introduce certain "ad missions of fact" which he said would serve to clear tho issues and save calling df a large array of wit nesses. Objection was taken by John B. Stnnchfleld, committee counsel, on the ground that his sldo considered itself able to select what evidence it thought necessary to establish tho do sired facts. As soon as former Secretary Gorber had been sworn, Mr. Stanchlleld ob tained from him a copy of the consti tutional platform of the socialist party in 1917, which was Introduced In evidence without objection by the defense, Mr. Stanchfleld also introduced In evidence the state constitution of tho socialist party, from which he read excerpts, Including one providing that candidates for public ofllco should, on receiving nomination, leave their res ignations with the party to Insure their fulfilling party demands. Then tho by-laws of tho New Yorl' county socialist organization were In troduced. Hlllquit Instructed socialist wit nesseswho had been summoned by the state, not to deliver documents Into the hands of the attorneys for the state. Chairman Martin ruled thnt the at torneys for the state had the right to demnnd that witnesses surrender all documents desired by the committee and bo given an opportunity to look them over before presenting them as evidence. REFUSES TO CENSURE SIMS United States Senate Votes 30 to 33 Against Resolution to Punish Admiral for Revelations. Washington, Jan. 23. The senate by a vote of 30 to 33 refused to cen sure Admiral Sims for his revelations before the senate medal awards In vestigating committee. A resolution Introduced by Senntor Walsh, Demo crat, of Montana, scoring Admiral Sims for his charges on the ground that they revealed confidential orders of the navy department, was defeated. The vote wns strictly nlong party lines, tho Democrats supporting and tho Republicans opposing tho resolu tion. The vote wns taken without de bate. ALBANIA QUAKE KILLS SCORE Victims Are Burled in the Ruins of Their Homes In the Region of Janina. Vienna, Jan. 24. News has been re ceived hero that 20 persons were killed by an earthquake In southern Albania. The victims wero burled In the ruins of their homes In a village which was partly destroyed In the region of Janina. Ten Million for Navy Men. Washington, Jan. 20. The house pnssed a bill granting pny Increases of from 30 to 50 per cent to petty ofllcera and enlisted men of tho navy. The bill will add about $10,000,000 to the navy pay roll. Jugo-Slavla Women Vote. Belgrade, Jan. 20. Women adminis tering property in their own right will bo permitted to vote at the first nation al election in Jugo-Slnvia next month, according to an announcement made by the cabinet. FOR 1HE DOVE "FLU" IS SPREADING Two Thousand More Cases in Chicago in One Day. Plague Reported From All Sections of Illinois Death Rate Is Extreme ly Low This Year. Chicago, Jan. 23. War to tho limit on landlords and agents who fall to provide their tenants with sufficient bent wns forecast by Health Commis sioner Robertson In his campaign against tho Influenzn, which continues to spread throughout the city. For the thirty-two hours ending at 5 p. m. Wednesday 2.00S new cases of Influenzn and 281 now cases of pneu monln wero reported, with sixty-one Influenzn deaths and twenty-one from pncumonln. Tho epidemic In Illinois, which so fnr hns been confined to tho northern counties, threatens to spread through out the state. Dr. C. St. Clnlr Drake, director of tho department of public henlth nt Snringfleld, urged health au thorities to prepare to combat the dis ease. Reports received by state health au thorities showed the disease making Its nppearance In several communities which heretofore hnd not been af fected. Thirty-two cases wore report ed from Fast St. Louis, together with seven cases of pneumonia and one death. Other reports from downstnto Included Cha'nrilervlllo, Cass county, seven cases; Sidney, Champaign coun ty, four; Odell, Livingston county, twelve; Franklin. Morgan county, Ave ; Chenon. McLean county, three; Glen vlew, St. Clair county, nine, and Pekin, three. In Madison county twenty-four cases were reported. "Indications are that the disease Is spreading from northern Illinois cen ters, St. Louis and other points." said Dr. Drake. "It is probable that the disease will be general throughout the state. However, the spread is not so rapid as a year ago." CHECK REDS IN CAUCASUS Heavy Losses Inflicted by General Den Ikine's Forces Bolshevikl Advance Farther In Crimea. London, Jan. 23. The war ofllco an nounces that on the center and left fronts of General Dcnlklne's Caucasus army the bolshevikl have been forced back from the line of the Sal river astrido the Tsarltsyn-Ekaterlnodar -all-road. Further west tho bolshevikl have made repeated attempts to ;ross tho Don east of Rostov and hnve succeeded In establishing small bridgeheads on tho left bank at two places. To the west of Rostov their attempts to cross hnvo been repulsed with heavy losses. 'The red cavalry here lost 12 guns. 100 machine kiiiis and many prlhoners. On the Crimea front the bolshevikl nre approaching Ksthumsos. Chnngnr and Perekop. EIGHT U. S. TARS DIE AT SEA Small Boat From Northern Pacific Overturned In Aiding Passengers on the Powhatan. Halifax, N. S., Jan. 23. Right lives wero lost when a boat from the Uni ted States transport Northern Pn cillc overturned In nn nttcmpt to trnnsrer passengors from the dis abled United States transport Pow hatan, according to officers of the steamship Bardic, which arrived here. Bill to Curb Strikes. Topckn, Jan., Jan. 20. Both houses of the legislature imssed the lndustrini court bill ns reported by tho confer ence committee. Tho Industrial court Is given power to protect the public against strikes In essential Industries. Murderers Win Strike. Osslnlng, N. Y.. Jan. 20. Tho 29 murderers In the death house here have struck for bettor food, It was learned from MnJ. Lewis Lnwes, war den of Sing Sing prison, and the dally menu Is to be Improved. YANKS BATTLE IBERIAN RUSS American Troops Engage Skirmishes Along Suchan Mine Railway. in DEFEAT SEMENOFF'S MEN Two Yanks and Five Russians Killed Americans Capture Slav Gen eral, Six Other Officers a.nd 40 Men Attack Unprovoked. Washington, .Inn. 21. A3 a result of a clash between a deinchmcnt of American soldiers and Semenoff forces on January 10 near Posolsnkya, one general, six olllcers and -IS men of the Russian forces were captured and still are held, the war department was ad vised by Major General Graves, com mander of the Siberian expedition. General Graves described tho attack ns entirely unprovoked. The American casualties wero one man killed, one mnn dead of wounds and one severely wounded, while live Russians were killed and one severe ly wounded. The opposing forces were mn'nnlng nrmored trains. General Graves said tho Russians attacked 38 Americans, who fought off the Russians and then in turn attacked. The Russian car and Its crew were captured. General Graves expressed the opin ion that the matter could be "adjusted peacefully with SemenolT, who could not have been responsible." Vladivostok, Jan. 21. Factional lighting has broken out throughout Siberia. American forces arc withdrawing from along the Suchnn mine railway and are reported to have been on gaged In skirmishes with Siberian partisans. A detachment of Colonel Morrow's regiment, which wns preparing to movo out from tho Baikal district, was forced to Intervcno In factional dis turbances, according to a report from the Czecho staff. Tho only Americans now remnlnlng In the dnnger zone, where disorders are prevalent, nre those belonging to Colonel Morrow's regiment. London, Jan. 21. Admiral Kolchalc Is believed to be under arrest at Verknle-Udinsk. a small town 210 miles west of Irkutsk. Cossack chiefs and garrison com. launders under the direct supervision 6f General Horvath In eastern Siberia, hnve been notified by General Semen, off of the new regime the latter has set up. RUSS WELCOME U. S. REDS I Exiles Are Fed and Civen Homes on Arrival In Soviet Russia Will Be Put to Work. Terljokl, Finland, .Inn. 22. Rus sians who were deported from tho United States were given whnt might be termed at. official reception Jti:rt outside this village Monday. in the crowd that greeted Alexr.ntlcr Bcrkiunn, Knnnn Goldman and their "comrades" was M. Zorlon, member of the nll-sovlets executive committee, who. after a brief conference vltb Bcrkuiau, agreed to permit the Whole party to enter bolshevik Russia. "There Is no question but that lliey will he welcomed In Russia," said 'M. Zorlon. "We will give them wori: ac cording to their profession!! and trades, hut first we must provide them with comfortable homes and feed them well." MARTIAL LAW IN ITALY Troops Patrol Cities as Hjilroad Workers Go on General Stride Machine Guns In Station.- Rome, Jan. 2.'J. -Military fr-rcos, ns a result or the general railway strike, occupied the central railway station In this city at midnight by order of the minister of transportation. In spite of the strike most of the regular trains left here, only express being can'M'li'il. All railroad lines in Italy are being guarded by troops, who are under In struct Ions to lire upon any one sus Kcted of attempting to Interfere with trallic. Improvement was reported In some of tin- iiffeeiod sections of the country. Bible Conference Postponed, Chicago. Jan. 23. Tho mld-wlnter Bible conference and the conference! of representatives of Bible schools and colleges of the United Slates nnd Can ada, announced by the Moody Bible In stitute of Chicago, to bo held Febru ary 2 to 0, Inclusive, have been Indefl nltely postponed on account of the In fluenza epidemic. Attack Italians In Egypt, Cairo, Fgypt. Jan. 20. Renewed dis orders occurred at Tanta, 55 miles from Cairo. Rioters attacked an Italian patrol company with revolvers and bricks, killing a corporal and wounding two privates. African Explorer Dies. Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 20. Rich ard L. Garner, African explorer nnd author, who some years ago announced that ho had found several sounds ap proximating a monkey language, died at a hospital here. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION NOTES Lincoln. Only two proposals have been definitely acted upon by the state constitutional convention since It as sembled December 1, 1011), nnd dele gates nre beginning to speculate about n tlate of adjournment. Up to the end of last week the convention had been In session 28 days. President A. J. Weaver Is hopeful of getting through by about March 1, while most of the members think the session will last well Into the month of March. The two measures settled by the constitution frnmcrs are of statewide Importance. Provision has been made for the legis lature to authorize verdicts In civil stilts by live-sixths of the Jurors. It has also been decided that a majori ty voting on the question of township organization shall be sufficient to carry It. One of the hottest lights thnt will be staged on the floor of the conven tion will center on the proposition to remove tho limit on the state debt, sny leading members. Tho commltteu on public Indebtedness Is expected to bring In n very conservative report, nnd progressives In tho convention are determined totry to force through a more liberal proposal. Progressives now are Inclined to unite behind tho Sughrouo proposal, which provides o limit of 2 per cent of assessed valua tions for tho state debt, when con tracted for nonrevenuo producing em terprlses, but to remove tho limitation entirely If tno debt Is contracted for revenue producing enterprises. In all eases the proposal provides for a vote of the people. Among the proposals reported bj standing committees for Indellnlto postponement during the past week are: No. HO, which would strike out of tho constitution provision against ulavcry or Involuntary servitude; No ns, which proposed to amend Section 7 to prevent Issuance of search war runt except where there Is probablo cntise for felony; 138, requiring Jury trial for constructive contempt and verdict by nine Jurors In civil cases. (This amendment was submitted by Blgelow of Douglas, labor delegate) and No. 8, which would strike out ot the constitution state's retention of salt springs, , Suggestions of Governor McKelvIt that the only executive elective olllcers of the state government should bo tho governor, the lieutenant governor nnd comptroller, taking the plueo of thu stnte auditor and the state treasurer, have been embodied In a statement of eight clauses submitted In wlrtlng to the convention. Governor McKelvlo ulso gave out an eight-page printed pamphlet where research commissions and public olllclnls from 10 states have endorsed thu centralization of au thority. r An amendment which does nway with the statutory requirement for a full copy of a referred law to be at tached to every petition when It Is circulated fur signatures has been adopted by the committee bundling proposals bearing upon the section of the constitution, In addition to llxlng n scale of reduced percentages for Initiative and referendum petitions. This provision of the Initiative and referendum law Is now under attack In the supreme court of Nebraska, In the case involving the code referendum. Upon recommendation of the educa tional committee the convention by big majorities killed Proposal No. 20 by Bryant, which provided compulsory education of all children In public school and Proposal No. 40 by Flans burg requiring the state board of as sessment to levy a state tax for reim bursing the permuuent school fund for losses Incurred In the old Bnrtley de falcation and any future losses. a subcommittee consisting of Dele gates TePoel, Ferneau, Nerval, Peter son and Pltzer has been named to re draft sections one to eight, article six, of the present Nebraska constitution, which provides for (lie organization and Jurisdiction of courts. When ready It will be laid before the full Judicial department committee for approval, and tin1 new article as dually agreed upon, will then go to tho ('(invention. Present Indications are that sala ries of most state officers, If not all of them, will he left by the convention for thu legislature to tlx. The educational committee has given Messrs. Soiled; nnd Pugsley time to redraft Proposal No. WK1, known ns the "schoolmasters code bill." Tho committee found It unacceptable In the present form. The convention In committee of the whole, rejected a resolution that would practically have Instructed Its com mittee to provide for election of stnto and county otucinls In years other than those In which a presidential election Is held. The convention refused to put any stumbling block In the way of booze-hounds by requiring search war rants accurately describing tho person or thing sought before premises could be searched. During the course of debate on the Anderson proposal last wek, K. M. Pollard of Cuss, presiding over the con vention In committee of the whole, de clared that unless more progress wus marie the convention would not adjourn In tlmo to make room for the meeting of the next leiflnluture. DADDYJfVMNG FAMMO BOMR THE OCELOTS. "Let's go hunting," said O. Ocelot. "All right." said O. O. Ocelot. So they started off, their yellowish bodies and their black spots, their long tails and the stripes around their necks and backs making them look much like their distant cousins, tho leopards. "We have another mime," said 0.4 Ocelot. "Have we?" said O. O. Ocelot. "It doesn't make much difference to me, for we can't eat another name." "Not unless "we should eat our selves," said O. Ocelot, "and that would not do." "No, that would not be pleasant," grinned O. O. Ocelot. "What Is our other name, by the way?" "We are also called the tiger cats," said O. Ocelot. "And If we should ent tiger cats we would be eating oce lots nnd that would be very foolish." "Very," agreed O. O. Ocelot. "Of course," snld O. Ocelot, "we are sometimes like tigers, and we nro some times like cats, and wo nre decidedly of the enormous cat family." "Why do you say the enormous cat family?" asked O. O. Ocelot. "Cats aren't all enormous by uny manner of means, and even then, the biggest members of the cat family aren't enor mous, such ns I've heard giraffes and elephants and camels were." "That's so," said O. Ocelot, "but I wasn't speaking about the size of tho different members of tho family. I meant that there were a great many "I Love the Nlnh't." " different cats and a great many of each special family, like the ordinary domestic cats, and the tiger family, and so forth. "There aren't so ninny of us ns thero are of some of the others, because wo only live In a few places, and they can Unri us all out sooner or later, probably." "Don't they like us?" asked O. O. Ocelot. "Well," said O. Ocelot, "they aren't so very fond of us. You see, we go after the poultry farms, and that makes them mad. "We hunt at night, and so It Is hard to get us, and that makes them mad. We will go great distances, ton." "Ah, yes, the night tlmo Is tho time for hunting," said O. O. Ocelot. "And I will go any distance for a good meal and" a good, satisfactory night, killing lots of creatures. "How I do llko birds, and rabbits, and mice, and rats of tho wooded places. "Then, too, I like snakes, I really love snakes." "So do I," said O. Ocelot. "A good snake, a delicious, big one, Is very lino for dinner, nnd then one can have It again for brenkfast and for lunch and again for dinner." "Haven't some of our relatives gone to zoos?" asked O. O. Ocelot. "Yes, they have been caught and taken to the zoos, where they could be looked upon by- boys and girls and' men nnd women," said O. Ocelot. "How have they taken to zoo life?" "They've liked It, for, you know, we are rather bored If we are cnugm. We don't get as angry as folks might think." "But let us be off," said O. O. Oce lot, "for 1 feel an empty place In my lummy which could bo tilled nicely by a piece of snake or a chicken or two. I would feel better after a meal." "Yes," said O. Ocelot, "so would I. I must get my meals at night when all Is dark, for I love the night time, and when It Is bright and folks can see one, I like to hide away In the thick, dark woods, where I can't be seen, and where I can eat unri sleep." "We must be ofT," said O. O. Oce lot. "Off for a night hunt," said O. Oce lot, "and may we meet only chickens and snakes and mice and rats, and no people! Wo don't mind If thq chick ens and snakes and mice and rats are found to bo asleep, and we dont care If they don't speak to us when wo speak to them. No, we're not go ing hunting for conversation or talk ing or chatting, no, no, Indeed," Father's Revolt. The college-bred daughter reproved her father for dropping his "g's." "Have I been droppln' them?" h asked Innocently. "There you go ngnln, father 'drop pin'.' And you suy 'comln',' and gola and 'eatln'.' It's humiliating." "Daughter," said the old man, after a thoughtful pause, "may I drop tho final 'g' In 'egg'?" 3