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is THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 17, 1918. ERZBERGERTO : BE SPOKESMAN FOR GERMANY Armistice Delegation Chief Will Conduct Preliminary Peace Negotiations; Co- alition Cabinet Formed. Berlin, Nov. 16. (By Wireless to London.) Mathias Erzberger, chief ot the Oerman armistice delegation, will conduct the preliminaries of the peace negotiations in conjunction with the foreign office. In accordance with the decision of the council of national plenipo tentiaries the departments of state in the new government have been filled as follows: Foreign Office Dr. W. Solf. Treasury Dr. Schiffer. Economics Dr. August Mueller. Industrial Demobilization Dr. Kotb. ' War Food Emanuel Wurm. Labor Dr. Bauer. , Wai Major General Schuech. Admiralty Mann. ; Justice Dr. Krause. Postoffice Dr. Ruedlin. Announcement was made recently through Copenhagen of the forma tion of a German cabinet of six ?iembers, three majority socialists, t -would appear from the Berlin wireless dispatch that a coalition cabinet now has been formed, per haps subsidiary to Chanccllcr Ebert and his socialist colleagues. .Dr.. Solf has been German foreign secretary since the retirement of Secretary von Kuehlmann. Dr. Schiffer is a leader of the national liberal party and formerly was un-der-secretary of the imperial finance ministry. Dr. Mueller is a social democrat and formerly was under secretary of the war bureau. General Scheuch has been Prussian minister of war. , There have Veen no previous ad vices from l-riin mentioning a council of national plenipotenti ' aries. ELI .PRISON BACK TO LINE .. (Continued From Pa One.) curable. Stories crept through the plained because they had reason to barriers of the suffering of the civi lian population of Luxemburg and Germany, and these reports later were verified as they made their way through the enemy territory to ward their own lines. When taken prisoner most of the Americans were lightly clothed.' As the cold weather came on they be gan uffering because the Germans gave them no warmer apparel de spite the lack of food and clothing. -' Sleep in Open Field 'TJJie hardships of the march were terrific as the miM weather sharpen ed. They had to sleep in open fields, but Ifickily it did not rain. Some fellows walked thirty-five kilomet ers in one day, the shortest distance between Dun Sur and Meuse, where most of them first encountered their comrades, and the nearest point on lilt bUAVlUUUl U " ' kilometers, but the distance meant nothing to these fellows, hardships meant nothing for they were on their way back to their own regi ments. Furthermore all minimized their sufferings. " ' Welcome in Luxemburg Because of their pitiful condition the Luxemburg civilians' attitude , toward the Americans was remark able. Women did all possible to aid them on their way. Many older t women gave them kisses, blessing end of the war. In the district through which the boys passed, efforts were made in certain lowns io cause uiciu iu and participation simple feasting but all were anxious to get back. They dashed on as they neared the American lines. . Nebraskans Among Them Among them were members of he Eighty-ninth division, composed t r I J XT-I or jvansas, Missouri ana ineurssKa v boys, who were in St. Mihiel; the ' second composed mostly of Ma rines, who won fame at Chateau Thierry, and . the Seventy-ninth, comnosed of lads from New Jersey and Pennsylvania HUN NAVY OUT OF CONTROL OF i GOVERNMENT (Contlnaed From Fw Om.) Grosser Kurfurst, of the Konig ' dreadnaught class, completed in 1914 and 1915; and the Kaiser, Kai serin, Prinzeregent Luitpold, Konig Albert and Friedrich Der Grosse, dreadnaughts of the Kaiser class, completed in 1912 and 1913. Five battle cruisers, the Derfling er, Hindenburg, Seydlitz, Moltke and Yon Der Tann, are apparently all that Germany has. The armi- ctire trrmt stinulate for the sur render of six. Eight of the most recent light cruisers' are the Brummer, Bremen, 'Karlsruhe, Pillau, Frankfurt, Nuern berg, Koeln and Dresden. Into Allied Ports. It is only if neutral ports are nnt available that the German war ships are to be brought for sur render to allied ports. But there is reason to believe that since the armistice was signed the ileutral , povrs have made it clear tnat tneir for Irksome purpose and there is no doubt that the surrendered Ger man warships win De Drougni into allied ports. To Take All Sub. , - r p T. : u : L i . t . ounace warsniui wuiiu aic n in (Ummv will he mnrtntrited in one or more German ports. They will be paid. off and completely dis armed and will be under the tup German Troops in Clash in Brussels; 20 Soldiers Killed Paris, Nov. 16. Conditions in Brussels on Tuesday and Wednes day were as disturbed as on Sunday and Monday owing to many clashes between German troops, says the Bruges correspondent of LTnforma tion. In a fight in which machine guns were used, 20 soldiers were lulled. Officers were driven from the streets and those found hiding were killed. The governor and his suite, the correspondent adds, are believed to have escaped, but most of the offi cers attached to the staff of the local commander were assassinated. The Belgian population took no part in the disturbances. MAD ervision of a commission of surveil lance "appointed for the ourDOse by the associated powers. Kegardinfir the German submar ines which fled before the revolu tionaries and took refuge in Swed en waters there is no doubt they will have to be surrendered. Regarding the Black Sea arrange ments are now being made for sur render of all ships in German hands. It seems now to be practically cer tain they will be surrendered with out trouble. Warship Sunk. Berne, Nov. 16. The German warship Wiesbaden refused to sur render to the revolutionists and tried to escape to neutral waters. It was pursued and torpedoed by revolutionary battleships and the entire crew of 330 men, including many cadets, perished, according to the Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin. Ihe Weisbaden. which is men- tioned in the foregoing dispatch, was supposed to have been sunk during the Jutland battle, May 31- une 1, 1916. It was a light cruiser of 4,900 tons and built in 1914. Training Ship Safe. Copenhagen. Nov. 16. The semi official Wolff bureau of Berlin de nies that the German training ship Schleisien has been 'orpedoed. A dispatch from Amsterdam dated Tuesday quoted the Weser Zeitung as saying the Schlesien had been torpedoed by revolutionary warships. Previously it had been reported that the warship had fled from Kiel when the sailors' revolt broke out there. Kissing in Public is Not a Crime Says California Court Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. ' 16. When the city council of Long Beach, near here, attempted to make kissing in public a misdemeanor, it acted arbitrarily and in violation of tlie constitution, according to a de cision rendered here today by Su perior Judge Frank R. Willis. The decision was given In a case ap- Eealed from the police court of ong Beach by a man who was ar rested for an alleged violation of what was known there as the "anti kissing" ordinance. NEW FOOD PLEA FROM GERMANY E BY SOLF (Continued From Fare One.) states is understood to be to avoid raising any new issues that would aggravate these conditions. Has Sufficient Food It is known officially that there is sufficient food in Germany to meet immediate needs. The supreme war council is planning to supply food in the future and before the present stocks are exhausted, as suming the exercise of economy in food distribution. To correct what appears to be a general public misunderstanding on the subject, it may be authorita tively stated that none of this food to be sent from America to Ger many or Austria, will be given away. It must be paid for by the governments of those countries. Possibly that cannot be done in German cash, for it is believed that the store of gold in the reichbank has been practically exhausted through the heavy purchases which Germany has been obliged to make from neutral countries. Appeal to Pope Benedict. London, Nov. 16. German Catho lics are appealing to Pope Benedict against the heavy burdens of the armistic conditions, according to a wireless dispatch received here this afternoon from Berlin. Hoover to Visit Germany. Paris, Nov. 16. Arrangements are being made for Herbert C. Hoover, the American food administrator, to proceed to Germany and Austria in connection with the food situation. It is declared he will go to Germany and Austria soon after his arrival here. Skogmans Memory Taken Slip; "Dick? Have Merry Chase HIT. 11.1 T- it!. tl.. station? My car has been stolen! came an excited voice over the telephone Saturday night. "This is John Skogman, 812 North Thirty-fifth talking. They just got it Send out some detec tives Quick!" An hour later the 'phone rang again and the same voice was speaking. In the intervening time three detectives had been dis patched to the scene of the alleg ed theft "This is Mr. Skogman talking. My car wasn't stolen after all. You see I told a garage man to take it and overhaul it, then I for got about it. When I noticed it was gone I got a little excited, I guess." - To Relax Blockade. New York, Nov. 16. The problem of feeding Germany is not one of go ing to their relief, but of relaxing the blockade, "so that they may secure for themselves the bare ne cessities that will give stable govern ment," said Herbert C. .Hoover, food administrator, before sailing for Europe today to discuss food mea sures for the relief of starving populations. "There has been a great deal of unnecessary furor in this country about feeding the Germans," he said. "We are not worrying about the Germans. They can take care of themselves if given a chance, but the water-tight blockade has got to be abandoned. If there is an ad vance relaxation of, the blockade, Germany can get food, fish from Norway and Sweden, grain from Argentina, but the blockade will have to be lifted. What is desired most now is for Germany to get some sort of stable basis so she can pay the money she owes to France and Belgium." Mr. Hoover said that he expect ed to be in London only a day or two. He will then go to Paris to attend the allied conferences at Versailles. His work may take him into Belgium, but he does not ex pect to meet any of the German food administrators. ,He expeus to return to" America by Christmas to confer with the president before be ginning his actual administration abroad in co-operation with the allies. Few Weeks Will Test German Government, Says New Chancellor Berne Switzerland, Nov. 16. If the new German government can carry on its work for six or eight weeks, the future of new Germany is assured, declared Fredrich Ebert, the chancellor, in a speech in Berlin on Thursday. Chancellor Eberisaid: "If we can carry on our work for six or eight weeks, new Germany's future is assured and we also can hope to obtain conditions of peace relatively favorable, but if our ad versaries can establish that anarchy reigns' among us, tney will dictate conditions that will annihilate Ger many's political life." Two lowans Named in List of Prisoners in Germany Washington, Nov. IS. A list. of officers and enlisted men in German prison camps announced today by the War department includes: Camp Karlsruhe. Lieutenant John Fitzpatrick, Lansing, la. Camp (Unknown), John H. Frank lin, Leon, Iowa. rfeloV fare Taxi Telephone Douglas 90. Will call for you anywhere in the city within ten minutes. 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