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AMERICANS IN RIOT
DN STRAND IN LONDON.
London, March 9. A riot on the
strand this afternoon in which
American soldiers and sailors and
some Australians engaged resulted
in three or four of the Americans
being injured in the police charge.
Seven of the Americans were ar
rested. An incorrect report that one of
the Americans injured had died in
:he Bow street police statjon caused
i demonstration in front of the sta
tion. This was browen up by an
other baton charge.
MOVE TO INTRODUCE
DIVORCE IN ITALY FAILS.
Rome, March 9. An amendmert
U) the measure defining the legal
'ights of woman providing for the
ntroduction of the divorce in Ital
tvas rejected by the chamber of dep
uties by a large majority.
RAINFALL IN 11 HOURS .
MEASURES SIX INCHES.
Montgomery, Ala., March 9.
Rainfall records of more than 20
years were broken in 11 hours end
ing at 7 o'clock last night during
which six inches of rain fell. All
streams were out of their banks
and flood warnings were issued.
OLD GERMAN ARMY
VIRTUALLY DISBANDED.
Coblenz, March 9. The German
military commission at Coblenz has
officially notified the headquarters of
the American third army that it has
received a message from the War
ministry at Berlin informing it of
the forthcoming of the class of 1899.
This class, with volunteers and
noncommissioned and commission
ed officers who were signed for a
life service' or for long terms, are
the only remaining men in the old
German army excepting a few un-
J fl. LU JIV Ml IIVlll. A itua lilt
discharge of the 1899 class men
means the virtual end of the old
German army and in the opinion
af American officers who have stud
ied the German demobilization it
ivill be followed either by a dissolu
tion of the staffs of all the old army
units or their incorporation into the
new volunteer arm'. -
MISSOURI "WETS"
SEEK REFERENDUM.
St.' Louis, March 9. An attempt
to have the recent action of the
"Missouri legislature in ratifying the
national prohibition amendment re
pudiated by a referendum vote was
begun today by the, St. Louis Retail
Liquormcn's association, represent
;.ng 2,000 saloon proprietors.
A referendum committee was ap
pointed and the liquor dealers will
co-operate with the 20 civic organi
sation that are working to have the
action of the legislature abrogated.
NURSING SCHOLARSHIP
FOUNDED BY RED CROSS.
Washington, March 9. Appropri
ation of $100,000 as a scholarship
fund to induce graduate nurses re
leased from the army and navy
nurse corps to train for public health
nursing: was announced today by the
American Red Cross. A maximum
scholarship of $600 will be granted
for an 8-months' course of training
md $300 for ft four-months' course.
Scholarships will be granted on
the recommendation of Red Cross
division directors of public health
:uirsing.
WILL ARM WOMEN
TO DEFEND BORDER.
Weimar, March 9. Frau Broen
ncr, authoress and publisher and a
delegate of the German democrat
ic party in the national assembly,
has left for her home in Koenigs
burg to organize the women of East
Prussia into a border militia against
he bolshcviki. ,
Frau Broenncr declares her ac
tion was prompted by reports that
a bolshevik force a million strong
was advancing toward the German
frontier and her fear tliat men alone
would be unab'e to withstand the
bolshcviki hordes.
PROTEST MADE AGAINST
SEASON OF GERMAN OPERA.
New York, March 9. Protest
against a season of German opera
it the Lexington Opera house be
ginning tomorrow night has been
made to Governor Smith by the
American Defense society, it was
iiinounced tonight.
"The United States is still at war
with Germany," the letter declared,
'and the worst abuse of the cause
Df Americanism is the systematic
propaganda that has been made in
this country for the glorification of
Germany and German ideals. There
5cems to be no doubt that it has
)een directly fostered by the Ger
nan government."
The War Camp Community Serv
ice continued today its efforts to
prevent soldiers and sailors from
making good their threat of wreck
ng the theater if German plays are
produced. A strong police guard
will be provided at the opera house,
t was announced.
KILLS FAMILY AS
RELIGIOUS SACRIFICE.
Caseville, Mich., March 9. Paul
Magee, aged 30, was arrested last
light after the rinding of the bodies
Df his aged mother and three chil
dren. Maggee told the poiice offi
cers, they said, he killed the four
is a "religious sacrifice" and asked
hem to return to his farm and kill
my live stock still alive.
NEARLY 200 ARRESTED'
N RAID AT WATERBURY;
Waterbury, Conn., March 9.
Tear!y 200 sympathizers of the In
lustrial Workers of the World, in
cluding Alexander Chornoff of Chi
cago, national organizer of the
novement. were arrested by the po
;ice tonight.
Two trunks of I. W. W. litera
ture, a great deal of which was what
the police declared to be seditious,
together with a large red flag bear
tiitf Russian letters and two char
ters authorizing the organization of
In I. W. W. local in Waterbury
lad New Haven, were also taken.
OFAUIS
Doors to Fourteenth Annual
Motor Car Show Open
at Two o'clock This
Afternoon.
The doors of the Auditorium open
at 2 o'clock this afternoon upon act
1, scene 1 of Omaha's Fourteenth
Annual Automobile show. Thou
sands of dollars' worth of beauty and
service hi motor cars are on exhibi
tion for the visitor. After today
the doors will be open at 9:30 o'clock
in the morning and closed at 10:30
o'clock at night. Olesen's orchestra
will furnish popular and classical
music for the show. Thousands of
out-of-town visitors are expected
to attend1. Contrary to a general
custom in past ' vears for opening
night no passes for admittance will
be given out.
Surprises Await Visitors.
Officials, of the Omaha Automo
bile Trade association have prepared
unusual surprises in the way of wel
come. Nothing has been spared to
place the exhibition of '81 different
makes of motor cars on a par with
the grandest events cf the east.
Sixty exhibitors are showing 211
cars, built for motorists wanting
everything in a car from "everlast
ing" service to royal comfort. The
prospective car buyer and mere vis
itor to the show will keep his inter
est on pin points, , inspecting the
minute details of the various cars
and learning the ww improvements
in motor construction and refine
ments in body designs,
Tonight Grand Opening.
Tonight has been designated as
grand opening night. Tuesday night
wilt be featured as farmer's, night.
A varied musical program will be
conducted on Thursday night by the
Trinity Cathedral choir of 30 voices,
under the direction of Ben Stanley.
Augmented orchestras in every part
of the Auditorium and annex will
also take part in the program. The
army and navy will be represented
in, large numbers on Friday night.
The final night of the show will
be marked with music and special
exercises.
The large number of cars to be
displayed has necessitated the tak
ing over of the second floor of the
McCaffrey building' across the way
to the south. A covered walk has
been construed between the two
buildings, and elaborate decorations
have been installed in the annex to
welcome the visitor.
The basement, where trucks and
heavy machines are on exhibition,
has a decoration of flags of, the al
lies. Booths are separated by ribbon
barriers.
Automobile dealers and salesmen
are at the command of the public all
: h i s week at the Audit'orium and
nearly every known make of car
from delivery trucks to the car ot
royal fashion is ready for inspection
by the visitor.
Koreans Declare Their
Independence of Japan
San Francisco, March 10. The
Korean National association of San
Francisco received cable advices to
day from Shanghai that "the Korean
National Independence union, com
posed of 3,000,000 people, including
3,000 Christian churches of Heaven
worshipers, all colleges, schools
and other bodies, declared the inde
pendence of Korea (at 1 p. m. March
1 at Seoul, Ping-Yang and other
cities."
It was announced here that rec
ognition of the independence of
Korea will be urged at the Paris
peace conference. .
,Says "Married
Be Millinery Salesman
Chicagoan Arrested on Charge
of Child Abandonment De
clares Wife Is Unreason
ably Jealous.
It is quite impossible for a man
to be a millinery salesman and get
along with his wife, if she happens
to be jealous, according to Edward
Banish of Chicago, held at the Cen
tral police station for wife . and
child abandonment.
"I had a big job in one of the
largest wholesale millinery stores in
Chicago," declared Mr. Banish. "Of
course I had to entertain women
buyers, take them to lunch and all
that sort of thing. My wife often
turned up at the cafe where I was
dining and the result was disastrous.
It didn't seem to matter whether the
lady buyer was young and pretty, or
old and gray haired. She was jeal
ous, anyway.,- v
"She even went to the customers
with her troubbs and this finally
caused me to lose my job. I agreed
Lane Made Head
of National Social
Unit Organization
New York, March 9. Franklin
K. Lane, secretary of the interior,
has accepted the chairmanship of
the national social unit organiza
tion, designed to further com
munity organization for the pur
pose of studying and realizing
community needs, it was an
nounced here tonight by Mrs.
Charles L. Tiffany, one of the
executives of the organization.
Under Mr. Lane's leadership,
Mrs. Tiffany said, the work of
the organization, as carried out
experimentally for the last two
years in a community of 15,000
persons in Cincinnati, will be
extended throughout the coun
try. The function of the national
social organization, as outlined in
its charter, is "to hasten the com
ing of a democracy, both genuine
and efficient, by building up on a
basis of population units an or
ganization through which the
people can study their own needs
and can Utilize the services of
technically skilled groups in for
mulating and carrying out pro
grams to meet these needs.
The Cincinnati organization, it
is asserted, has demonstrated
during the last year its ability to
convey within a few hours to
every person in the district, by
word of mouth, information of
value; to assemble complete and
continuously corrected data on
social and community needs, and
to render continually available for
the whole district the service of
the entire membership of the
skilled groups.''
REPLY SIDE BY
OEfi CHOWDER
TO CRITICISM
Administration of Military
Justice During War Being
, Investigated, Says
1 Judge Advocate. '
Washington, March 9. Differ
ences between Maj.-Gen. Enoch H.
Crowder, judge advocate general,
and Brig.-Gen. Samuel T. Ansell,
former acting judge advocate gen
eral, were explained and the order
ing of a thorough investigation by
the inspector general of the army
into the whole subject of the admin
istration of military justice during
the war was disclosed in a letter
from General Crowder to Secretary
Baker, made public today at the
War department.
Accompany!:!; General Crowder's
letter was one from Mr. Baker ask
ing the judge advocate general for
a complete statement as to the op
eration of military justice. The sec
retary wrote that his own acquaint
ance with the facts convinced him
that the conditions implied by re
cent complaints "do not exist, and
had not existed," but that it, was
"essential that the families oT all
those young men who had a place
in our magnifiicent army should be
reassured."
In reply, General Crowder made
a general defense against recent
criticisms in congress and elsewhere
concerning court-martial cases and
charged that General Ansell, with
out his knowledge and consent, had
submitted a brief to Secretary Baker
early in the war urging a revolution
in the military justice system.
Controversy Magnified.
General Crowder also said that at
about the same time that this brief
was submitted, General Ansell, with
out consulting the secretary of war,
obtained an order from the chief
of staff appointing Ansell acting
judge advocate general. This was
after General' Ansell had requested
General Crowder's aid in getting
such an order and had been told by
the latter to take the matter up with
Mr. Baker. The order was revoked
by Secretary Baker before it was
(Continued on Fage Two, Column Four.)
Man Cannot
in a Chicago court to pay her $100
a month, and, with the exception of
a few weeks when I was unem
ployed, I did this." . ,
Mrs. Banish niade a flying trip to
Omaha to see her husband yester
day but returned to Chicago last
night.
Banish was arrested Saturday
night but was released when the
owner of a local wholesale milli
nery establishment where he has
been employed for the past few
weeks went on his bond. He was
arrested again late Sunday and held
without bond- A detective from
Clricago is expected to arrive today
to take him back to answer charges
of wife and child desertion.
"My wife was very sarcastic when
she talked to me last night," de
clared Mr. Banish, ' but before she
left she said she was sorry. She is
only jealous, after all, and I cer
tainly love my three children."
Banish was placed in the matron's
department, which has heretofore
been reserved for women and chil
dren,
V1
Thinks it Will Be Possible to
Market This Year's Wheat
Crop Without Loss to
Government.
By Associated Press. .
Paris, March 9. That Herbert
Hoover, the American food admin
istrator and lately appointed di
rector general of the inter-allied re
lief organization, is to cease his re
lief ,work in the summer Was indi
cated in a statement issued today
by Mr. Hoover concerning the
wheat situation. He intimated that
a majority of his co-workers also
would return to private life.
Speaking of various problems
connected with the wheat situation,
Mr. Hoover said that they would
need to be solved by some one else,
"because neither myself nor most of
the men in the food administration
will be able to continue in the serv
ice of the government after next
July."
"We, also, must earn a living,"
Mr. Hoover said. 1
No Surplus Wheat.
Asked whetler the United States
government would lose the billion
dollars appropriated to support the
guarantee for this year's wheat crop,
Mr. Hoover said:
"The question of government loss,
if any, will revolve around several
difficult factors, first, whether we
or the world will have any surplus
from the 1918 crop to carry over
into next year; second, what the
supply and demand will be for the
1919 crop, and third, whether the
government should deliberately de
cide to take a loss in' order to low
er the price of bread,
"As to the supply and demand for
the 1918 crop changes in the world
demand during the last month,
shown by widespread investigation
of the food needs of Europe, indi
cate that there will be no surplus
to carry over into the 1919 crop.
The Indian famine has proved so
serious that a large part of the
Australian wheat must go there at
once. In addition, a considerable
proportion of the Australian supply
which has been piling up for years
has spoiled.
May Go to $3.50.
"The needs of Europe are larger
thon our previous estimates. Alto
gether the balance of the supply and
demand for ofir present wheat now
looks as though we might see
wheat at $3.50 a bushel as it was in
the spring of 1917, if there is a free
market in wheat and uncontrolled
prices. So much for the 1918 crop.
There can be no free market of 90
per cent of the world's exports.
Wheat is controlled by the wheat
executive in London.
"As to the 1919 crop, it is, of
course, too early to come to any
precise conclusion. Our crop looks
anything from 10 to 20 per cent
greater next year than last year. Be
fore the war Russia, India, Bulgaria,
Serbia and Roumania all exported
large amounts of wheat. The war
famine, loss of seed and lack of fer
tilizers, and anarchy have culminat
ed to turn these countries into im
porters of wheat for the whole of
next year. Central European seed
ing will be below normal. The Aus
tralian 1919 crop is small; the Ar
gentine crop is no larger than that
of Europe. Altogether it would ap
pear now that there would be no
bread to waste in any quarter of the
world for the next year.
World Price May Exceed $2.26.
"Therefore, to all present appear
ances, it should be possible to mar-
(Continufd on Pafce Two, Column Six.)
Baker and March Start
on Trip of Inspection
Washington, March 9. Secretary
Baker and General March, chief of
staff, left today on their trip of in
spection of various army camps,
which will take them to the Pacific
coast. They will arrive in Detroit
tomorrow and will go directly to
Camp Custer. From that camp they
will proceed to Chicago,
Mr. Baker and General March ex
pect to return to Washington near
the end of the month and the sec
retary will then prepare for his third
trip overseas.
Ultra-Tight Skirts
Lacking in Modesty,
Sags Kearney Club
Kearney, Neb., March 9.
(Special.) That the incoming
style of ultra-tight skirts is
"not only inconvenient but
also lacking in the modesty
which characterizes a womanly
woman" is the substance of a re
solution unanimously adopted by
the members of the Nineteenth
Century club of this city. The
club women here are uttering de
cided protests against being hob
bled by skirts which "measure 36
inches around the hem .
American Army Opens
in France the Largest
University in World
New York, March 9. The
American Army university, the
largest university in the English
speaking world, has been opened
in Beaune, southeast of Paris, it
was announced here tonight.
Fifteen thousand soldiers have
enrolled for a three months'
course. The faculty of 500 mem
bers, chiefly drawn from the
American expeditionary force, is
headed by Col. Ira I. Reeves,
formerly president of the Nor
wich university in Vermont.
. The building, now serving as
ctudy halls and dormitories, were
used during the war as an Ameri
used as quarters is now be
ing utilized by classes in en
gineering. The university has
opened a branch at Bcllevue,
near Versailles, for nearly 1,000
students of art and architecture.
The American Army university
is one of the four features of the
educational system introduced
for the benefit of the expedition
ary force. The other features
are: Post schools in all organiza
tions for elementary work, divis
ion educational headquarters in
all armies, corps, and divisions
for vocational training and gen
eral education of high school
grade, and the detail of officers
and soldiers as students, at the
French and British universities
for post-graduate college work.
UNIONS VOTE TO
TURN TO
III SIIIPY
Puget Sound Strike Called
Off; Joint Board of Con
ciliation Created on
Pacific Coast.
Seattle, Wash., , March 9. The
strike of 40,000 shipyard workers in
effect since January 21 in Seattle,
Tacoma and Aberdeen was formal
ly declared off tonight by strike
leaders, following a canvas of votes
cast in a referendum taken during
the last three days. The men are to
return to work Tuesday morning
under the working conditions and
wages prevailing, when the strike
was called, according to statements
issued tonight by strike leaders and
owners of shipyards.
Create Board of Conciliation.
Washington, March 9 Creation
of a joint board of conciliation on
the Pacific coast to act in contro
versies between the shipping board
and members of seamen's unions in
its employ was announced today by
Chairman Hurley of the shipping
board.
Composing the board will be one
representative each of the San
Francisco division of operations, the
waterfront employers' union at San
Francisco, the managers of shipping
board vessels, the sailors' union, the
marine firemen, oilers and water
tenders' union and the marine cooks'
and stewards' union of the Pacific
coast.
All complaints and controversies
which cannot be adjusted immediate
ly by the parties themselves will be
referred to the joint board, and in
case it fails to reach a majority de
cision the matter will be referred to
the shipping board officers here for
final settlement.
Hisses Mingled With
Cheers Greet Allusion
by Taft to Ireland
New York, March 10. Former
President William H. Taft was both
hissed and cheered here tonight
when, speaking at the weekly forum
of the Church of the Ascension, he
declared that the Irish question
should not be settled at the peace
conference.
Mr. Taft had just stated that one
problem facing the delegates was in
setting up several small nations,
when there came from the audience
cries of "How about Ireland?"
"No," said Mr. Taft, not loudly,
but in a tone which could be heard
all qver the church.
Then broke out the hissing and
cheering, but the speaker retained
control of the situation.
"I don't consider it helpful to the
president to introduce into the con
ference domestic or international
questions," he slid. "We must do
one thing at a time."
Paderewski Seeks Allied
Aid on Lemberg Front
Posen, March 9.. Premier Pader
ewski has arrived here to explain to
the interallied mission the cr'tical
position of the 'Poles on 'he Lem
berg front. He insisted that im
mediate aid by the entente in the
way of material and munitions wa3
necessary.
The fall of Lemberg, the Polish
premier declared, would produce the
most painful impression among the
Poles and strengthen the extreme
left of the opposition in the diet to
the Paderewski government.
Washington. March 9. Ignace
Jan Paderewski, premier of Poland,
has expressed in dispatches to the
official Polish bureau, his confidence
that the patriotism and spirit of
the Polish people will enable him
to est.abhsh a stable governmenU
KILLED OR
II BERLIN
Retirement of Troops Made
Condition by Workmen's
Council for Calling Off
General Strike.
London, March 9. One thousand
persons were killed or wounded in
the fighting in Berlin last week, ac
cording to an estimate of the casual
ties made by the Wolff bureau, the
leading news agency of Germany.
Council Dictates Terms.
Berlin, March 9. The conditions
under which the workmen's council
of greater Berlin declared itself will
ing to approve the action of the
Berlin federation of labor in adop
ting a resolution calling the strike
off were announced today. The
conditions included the retirement
of the volunteer regiments from
Berlin and the release of insurgents
arrested during the strike. The coun
cil is the body dominated by the
radicals which has been directing
the strike.
Leipsic Strike Settled.
Basel, Switzerland, March 9. The
Leipsic strike has been settled and
order has been restored, the Frank
fort Gazette announces. Minister
Schwarz, the newspaper adds, has
arrived in Leipsic and announced
that severe, measures will1 be taken
against pe.-3.stent idlers and that
order will , be maintained by all
means at the disposal of the govern
ment.' Councils to Be Legalized.
Weimar, March 9. By a law to
be passed immediately the powers
and duties ot the workmen s coun
cils which the government promised
to create as a means of putting a
stop to the strikes will be defined.
These councils will be the eco
nomic representatives of the work-
mgmen. Each industry will have its
industrial council, which shall be
consulted as to workiiijfconditions
in all cases, while workingmen s as
sociations will be created for the
control and regulation of production
and distribution in all branches of
industry and trade. The members
will be factory leaders, workers and
employes, co-operating with the em
ployers. District workmen s council cham
bers will be created for certain sec
tions of the country and a central
workmen's council for the empire.
The members will be workmen of
all sorts. Employers' councils will
assist in the process of socialization
and control of the socialized plants
and industries. All economic and
social legislation must be submitted
to them for approval and they will
have the right to propose such legis
lation to the government.
Scenic Railway Inventor
Dies on His 71st Birthday
ronmvn "NT V Yfarrh Q T. A.
Thompson, originator of the scenic
railway, died at his country home
here tonight on the seventy-first an
niversary of his birth. Mr. Thomp
son, whnsp inventivp. ahilitv reveal
ed itself in his youth, erected his
first switch back at Coney island
in 1884.
Resignation Kept Secret.
Washington, March 9. The Na
tional Women's Trade Union league
made public an open letter ad
dressed to Postmaster General Bur
leson asking the ca .se of the resig
nation of David J. Lewis from the
general wire control board, an
ncunced yesterday, and charging
that Mr. Lewis resigned "nearly two
months ago," and that his resigna
tion was kept secret by the post
master general.
Catastrophe Predicted
if League Plan Fails
Dangers Confronting Europe
Depicted by Member of
Late American Mis
sion to Russia.,
New Yoork, March 9.Failure of
the league of nations plan probably
would precipitate in Europe "the
greatest catastrophe in the history
of the world," Charles Edward Rus
sell, writer and member of the late
American mission to Russia, de
clared upon his arrivel from Faris
today on the steamer Nieuw Am
sterdam. Mr. Russell went to Europe last
January with William English Wal
ling as members of a mission of the
Social Democratic league to meet
"sane socialists" in an effort to ob
tain support for President Wilson's
14 points and prevent the spread of
bolshevisni.
J'The desire oa the part of the
j "t i im
Craft Now Sailing
Under U. S. Flag to
All Corners of Earth
Washington. March 9. For
the first time since the days of
the famous "clipper" ships, the
American merchant craft now
are plying the seven seas, carry
ing . products of the United
Slates to the far corners of the
earth and bringing home both
essentials and luxuries.
The shipping board announced
today -that the American merch
ant marine fiee,t, built up under
the spur of war's necessity, now
represented nearly one-fifth of
the entire sea-going tonnage of
the world and comprised 46 per
cent of all ships clearing from
United States ports, as compared
with 9.7 per cent before the war.
Trade routes, not traversed by
American craft for more than 50
years, once more are invaded,
with new routes to China, Aus
tralia, New Zealand, India, the
Dutch East Indies, the west
coast of Africa and points on the
Mediterranean. Ships flying the
Stars and Stripes also are run
ning regularly to South America,
Great Britain, and continental
Europe as well as to Canada and
Mexico. i
The fleet now engaged in over
seas commerce aggregates 1,961.
239 gross tons. Of this total,
315,925 tons are employed in
trans-Pacific trade.
When the army and navy re
turn to the shipping board the
353 ships which they are Opera
ting the commercial fleet under
the American flag will be in
creased by 1,873,251 gross tons
with many hundreds of thou
sands of tons building or under
contract
iRD TO BRING
PBD011TO
HeflHl LEVEL
Reduction in Cost of Living
Expected Automatically
to Create Lower
Wage Scales.
Washington, March 9. Comple
tion of the personnel of the indus
trial boari of the Department of
Commerce, together with the plans
of the boaqfi for hastening the re
turn of prices and wages to a nor
mal level, was announced today
through the council of national de
fense.' Associated with George N. Peek
of Moline, 111., a former member of
the War Industries board, as chair
man of the new organization, are
Samuel P. Bush of Columbus, O.;
Anthony Caminetti, commissioner
of immigration; Thomas K. Glenn
of Atlanta, Ga.; George R. James
of Memphis, Tenn.; T. C. Powell of
Cincinnati, and William M. Ritter
of West Virginia.
To Decide on Price Scales.
The chief purpose of the new
board, , it was announced, is to
bring about the operation of the
laws of supply and demand, in
terfered with by the process of war.
To this end conferences will be
held with representatives of the
chiefs of industries "to decide on
prices to be offered to the nation as
the governmentally approved judg
ment on a price scale low enough
to encourage buying and the re
sumption of normal activities."
"As soon as a stable and whole
some scale of prices is achieved,"
said the announcement, "the cost of
living will have so far been reduced
as to create automatically reduc-.
tions in the price of labor without
interfering with American standards
and ideals for the treatment and liv
ing conditions of labor and thus the
last inflating element will have been
withdrawn from prices. It is be
lieved that industries will agree that
the cost of living must be substan
tially reduced before labor should
he asked to accept lower wages and
thus industry should stand the first
shock of readjustment."
masses in Europe to have something
done that will avert wars in the fu
ture," said Mr. Russell, "amounts
to a passion. If the plan for a
league of nations should fail there
is no telling what would happen."
Two other daggers which Europe
faces, he added, are the bolshevik
menace and the possibility that
plans to relieve the economic dis
tress will fail. Realization of all
three, he said, might "overturn the
foundations of the world."
Mr. Russell characterized the at
titude of the 37 senators who signed
the Lodge resolution opposing the
present league of nations covenant,
as "most unfortunate," declaring
that it would "seriously affect Presi
dent Wilson's prestige" at the peace
conference.
He predicted bolshevisni would
be stamped out in Russia soon, pro
vided the country was left to ban
die the problem itself and "provided
that fcurope does not blow up in the
meantime,"
COIllTIi
Council Makes Concessions
Regarding Payment for
Food Supplies; Potash
Shipments Permitted.
Taris, March 9. The Ilavas
agency's report on Satuiday's meet
ing of the supreme war council
says:
"The greater part of the session
was devoted to the discussion of
the situation created by the inter
ruption of the Spa negotiations. It
was decided to notify Germany that
she must execute the conditions of
article 8 of the supplementary
armistice signed at Treves on Jan
uary la, which stipulated that in
order to insure the provisioning of
Germany and the remainder of Eu
rope, Germany must place her
merchant fleet under the control of
the allied and associated powers for
the period of the armistice, this
arrangement to have no effect upon
the final disposition of the ships."
Will Resume Negotiations.
Flan3 adopted by the supreme
war council last night under which
the negotiations with the German
authorities regarding the turning
over of the German merchant ships
will be resumed, after their recent "
interruption at Spa, provide for the
holding of the sessions of the ne
gotiators at Brussels. The allied
delegates will leave Paris next
Wednesday for Belgium and the
first session in the resumption of
the negotiations will probably be
held Thursday in one of the gov
ernment palaces there.
The plans determined upon by the
council, as already stated, provide
for taking over the German mer
chant ships in return for a food sup
ply for Germany until the next har
vest. The chief difficulty thus far
has been over the manner of pay
ment for the food supplies, but the
new proposals are expected to meet
the former objections.
Permit Potash Shiprrients.
It is understood that the pay
ments will come from three sources
first in the form of products such
as coal and potash; second, from
credits which Germany has in neu
tral countries which thus far have
been unavailable because of the fi
nancial blockade; and third, from
foreign securities held by Germany.
It is estimated that1 these three
sources will readily yield about
$500,000,000, which is the sum re
quired to pay for food relief to an
extent considered adequate to car
ry the Germans until the next
harvest.
One of the main influences in
bringing about the decision of the
supreme council was said to be a
letter read by Premier Lloyd
George from a British general- set
ting forth the extreme seriousness
of food conditions in Germany. It
was also stated that British sol
diers in German territory were pro
testing against seeing women and
children about them dying of star
vation. Marshal Foch, the allied commander-in-chief,
may not attend the
Brussels' session, but all the other
delegates of the allied and assoc
iated powers appointed to conduct
the negotiations will be present.
Pichon Explains Situation.
Stephen Pichon, French foreign
minister, in his talk with the corres
pondents today, discussed the bear
ing of the food situation in Germany
on the speedy conclusion of peace.
He said that the urgent need of sup
plying Germany was recognized by
all governments represented at
Paris. The hunger with which Ger
many was confronted, he added, was
a bad counsellor. No one coulds.be
deaf to the inhumanity of continu-
ing present conditions there, and the
supreme council had resolved to
send to Germany all the food that
country required.
On the other hand, however, this
could not be done if the Germans
ceased working and did nothing to
make certain that the expense
caused to the entente countries by
the destruction and damage of the
war should be- met.
The allies are willing, M. -richotl
werit on, not only to supply food,
but to accord credit to Germany, but
Germany must first declare bet will
ingness to live up to the conditions
of the January armistice.
The foreign minister defended the
peace conference against the charges
that its work had been slow.
As soon as the terms of German
peace ha-e been concluded, M.
Pichon said, the council would take
up the Austrian peace, which would
involve the future boundaries be
tween Italy and former Austria
Hungarian territory.
The council has adopted Premier
Lloyd George's plan for regulating
the future military strength of Ger
many, according to the minister,
who confirmed the fact that this in
volves the abandonment of con
scription in favor of a small
.fessional army, 4