VOL. LVIII XO.. 18,114.
PORTLAND. OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
U.S.-JAPAH PICT
BR II II
Both Nations Violate
Troops' Agreement.
AMERICAN PUNS DELAYED
Nippon Aids Czecho-SIovaks
When Yankees' Promised
Help Fails to Arrive.
BOCHE INFLUENCE IS FEARED
Unless Allies Save Russia, It
Is Contended That Huns
Will Obtain Control.
BY ARTHUR SEARS- RENM'a
(Correspondent of th rhlras-o Tribune. Pub
lished by Arrangement.)
WASHINGTON, Dec 12(Specia.l)
Coincidentally with an attack on
President Wilson's Russian policy by
Senator Johnson, of California, in the
Senate today it became known that
the agreement between Japan and the
United States covering intervention in
Siberia has been nullified so far as the
number of troops in the expedition is
concerned.
Japan has charged the United States
with violation of the agreement and
has served notice that Japanese forces
will be dispatched to Siberia without
regard to the limitation originally im
posed. The understanding here is that
Japan already has augmented her
army on Russian soil considerably be
yond the maximum agreed upon.
Japan Makes Protest.
The agreement between the two na
tions provided that the United States
should send an expeditionary force of
7500 men to guard allied supplies at
Vladivostok, restore order, reopen the
trans-Siberian railroad and aid the
Czecho-SIovaks who were fighting
their way out of European Russia. The
Japanese were also to dispatch a lim
ited expeditionary force.
Shortly after the American expedi
tion arrived in Siberia the Japanese
government presented to Washington
a protest stating that instead of 7500
the United States has 9500 men. An
inquiry ensued and the War Depart
ment eventually explained that the ex
cess of 2000 men was due to a mis
calculation of the number of men of
the units dispatched.
Japanese Reinforce Expedition.
Thereupon Japan took the position
that in view of the violation of the
agreement by the United States the
BOLSHEVIK OFFICERS
CONTINUE EXECUTIONS
PRIESTS AXD MOXKS ARE SEX
TEXCED OS MERE SUSPICION.
Petrocrad I Described as City of
Horrors "Beyond Human
Power to Grasp."
WASHINGTON, Dee. IS. Violent
methods at i 11 are being- adopted by the
commission charred with combating
the revolt against the Bolshevikl. according-
to advices reaching: Washing
ton through official channels. Execu
tions were said to be numerous, the
victims Including; many priests and
monks.
Reports from Petrograd. dated as
late as December 5, and said to em
anate from official sources, state that
the antl-revolutlonary commission con
tinues to sentence persona to death pn
the mere suspicion of having- expressed
counter revolutionary views. In one
small city, KaternltJ, In Vlatka, ten
people were recently executed and at
Spask the commission was said to have
canned 22 people to be shot.
Foreigners caching neutral coun
tries from Petrograd say that condi
tions In that city are "beyond human
power to grasp, one describing it as
a city of horrors. The Bolshevikl have
planned to uae even the legations of
neutral countries In Petrograd In the
event it becomes necessary ' to save
their own lives in case of allied oc
cupation of the city. It is stated in
these advices. The Swedish legation
was threatened by the Bolsheviki for
a time, but la now said to be safe.
U.S.
TO
M.
SI
HON
E IS URGED
General Board Plans for
Maximum by 1925.
Official Casualty Report.
W
ASHINGTON. Dec 12. Casualty
lists today contain 4887 names;
559 are killed in action, 274 died of
wounds. 314 of disease, 32 of accident,
1642 are wounded severely, 833 degree
undetermined, 686 slightly , and 647
missing in .action. Following is the
tabulated summary: -
Reported
Killed In action
NECESSITY IS HELD VITAL
Protection of Merchant Ma
rine Deemed Essential.
NAVAL GROWTH IS . TOLD
Kear-Admlral Badger Declares This
Country Is Well Able to Carry
Out Policy at Present. ,
BERLIN HUNGER-MENACED.
Rations Said
Is Needed.
Three to Five Weeks
to Exist and Help
BT ARNO DOSCH FLEUROT.
eConyrtsht by Th. Pmi publishing Com
pny. tn. N.w York World. Published by
arrangement).
BERLIN, via Copenhagen. Dec II.-
(Special.) The specter of hunger Is
visible to every eve. Inquiry In the
factory districts, which are most im
portant politically for the maintenance
of tranquillity, shows tbem to be able
to keep going on the old war rations
for three to five weeks longer.
On account of the destruction of the
oll system. If no food comes from the
outside Into Germany, by that- time
practically an insurmountable 'crisis is
Inevitable.
AVIATOR GROSSES ANDES
Chilean Army Officer Performs Feat
at 19,700 Feet.
BUENOS AIRES, Dec 12. Lleuteant
Dagoberto Godoy, of the Chilean army.
this morning crossed the Andes Moun
tains at their highest point in a
Bristol airplane.
The aviator left Santiago, Chile, and
crossed the Tupungato range at an
altitude of 19.700 feet, landing at Men-
don, Argentina.
Lieutenant Godoy Is the first Chilean
and the second man recorded as cross
ing the Andys by airplane. The first
flight across the mountains was made
last April by Lieutenant Cendelarla, of
the Argentine army, who crossed at
an altitude of nearly 11,000 feet.
DILL HURRIES TO EXPLAIN
Washington Representative to Mall
His Questionnaire to State Board.
OLTMPIA. Wash.. Dec 12. Certifi
cation of Representative C. C. Dill as a
draft delinquent by a Spokane draft
board reached the state selective serv-
WASHINGTON, Dec 12. Neither the
end of hostilities nor proposals for
League of Nations has altered the
policy of the general board of the
Navy In regard to making the Navy
second to none in the world.
Rear-Admiral Charles J. Badger,
chairman of the executive committee
of the board, today told the -House
naval affairs committee that the Navy
should be equal to that of any other
nation by 1923, and urged that suffl
cient appropriations to make this pos
sible be made by Congress.
"The general board believes that
under the present world conditions and
the conditions likely to obtain in the
future," Admiral Badger said, "the
United States Navy should steadily
continue to Increase. Ultimately It
should be Iqual to the most powerful
maintained by any other nation of the
world. Year by year development
should be made as consistent with
the facilities of the country, but the
limit above defined should be attained
not later than 1925.
Kavys Duties Pointed Oat.
'Navies must be the principal sup
port of a league of nations, and the
United States, from its wealth. Influ
ence and power, will be called upon to
contribute a large share of the Inter
national police force to render such a
league effective. - -.
The duty of the Navy, the Admiral
said, will be not only to guard the coun
try against Invasion, but to protect as
well the great merchant marine, now
being' built.
Completion of the three-year build
ing programme authorized 1 n 1916
and which was halted to build anti-sub
marine craft, was recommended by Ad
miral Badger. Work has not yet been
started on six battleships, six battle
cruisers, two scout cruisers, nine fleet
submarines, two destroyer tenders, and
one fleet submarine tender, he Bald.
Lack of ships of this type, he declared,
would have been fatal to the United
States it it had been fighting the war
alone.
Bis Warships Plaaned. .
Admiral Badger said that type for
will mall his questionnaire direct to
the state draft headquarters.
Mr. Dill, It has been announced, has
claimed that as a Congressman he was
not required to return his question
naire. Officials said today that the
Representative has ten days In which
to file his questionnaire and be removed
from the delinquent list.
M t fol nML ice department here today. Mr. Dill has
v.. .v.- r teleraphed from Washington that he
size of the expedition originally
agreed upon.
Japan proceeded to reinforce her ex
pedition to an extent not definitely
- known here, but sufficiently to enable
the Japanese to police large areas of
Siberia.
Moreover, it appears that the Jap
anese furnished a large part of the
equipment and other supplies to the
Czecho-SIovaks, which had been prom
ised by the United States, but was not
forthcoming.
U. S. Aid Is Delayed.
As a result of that miscarriage of
plans in the War Department, the
fiuartermaster supplies ordered sent to
the Czecho-SIovaks last August were
not shipped for two months or more,
and have only within the last few
weeks begun to reach Vladivostok.
In the meantime the Czecho-SIovaks,
unable to replenish their muni
tions, were compelled to fall back
from the Volga front and would have
retreated farther had it not been for
the timely arrival of Japanese as
sistance. Whether the United States will con
tinue' to maintain troops in Russia is
to be determined by the President
after conference with the allied Pre
miers on the Russian question in
Paris. The Bolshevik government has
been endeavoring for several weks to
obtain an armistice, but its appeals
Lave been ignored by the allies.
Redfield Plan Disappears.
The economic commission which the
President intended to dispatch to put
Russia on its feet is still "under ad
visement." Secretary of Commerce
Redfield was commissioned by the
President last Summer to evolve a
comprehensive plan of economic aid
to Russia. What happened to the
Redfield plan is shrouded in mystery,
ACofiduiiwl oa la, i, Ca-uinn
24.214
Lost at sea 39t
Died of wounds 9.246
Died of disc.. 13, 34
Pled of accident 1.918
Today. Total.
609 24.773
89
9.521
13,698
1.950
AMERICANBRAVERY
IN BUTTLE BELATED
Total deaths 49.18S
Wounded 63.477
Missing and prisoners 13.813
274
314
32
1.179
8,161
647
' 4.887 131,335
60.337
86,638
14.360
Total casualties ...126,448
' OREGON.
Knouff. A. R. CdI.). Walter P. LaRoche,
142 Koyal Court. Portland, Or.
Braden, J. G.. Rlckreall, Or.
Dixon, J. H Seaside. Or..
Miller. F. E Landex, Or.
Died of disease - -
Edwards, Earl Joseph. Corvalis, Or.
Zimmerman, Oscar, Mehama, Or.
Mallatt, Arthur T., Mrs. Clara Mallatt,
Trinity Placs Apt., Portland, Or.
Wounded severely
Kaiser, Clyde N.. Macleay. Or. '
Bieh. Roscoe W., Klamath Kalis, Or.
Bullls, Jar vie T., Corvallla. Or.
Hosklnson. Buell .. Mora, Or.
Boatman, Clyde E.. Eugene. Or.
Hnciv.r mn W.. PrMfli).- Or.
Johnson. Harlow M. (Mrs. Mary Johnson.
1170 East Davis street). Portland, Or.
Y ounded undetermined
Atnnocl. r.inrre W. Jr.. Buxton. Or.
Jackson. William D. (Lieut-). Beaverton. Or.
Wounded slightly
Buna. John. Oregon City, Or.
Bostwick, Irwin D.. Medford, Or.
Prather, Boy W.. McMinnvilie, Or.
Kobnett. Roy, Detroit, Or.
Missing in action
Walters, Norvln R.. Phoenix, Or.
Slure, Edward. Knappa, Or.
Delletiglie, Frank. Gaston. Or.
WASbOMilDN.
Killed In action
Hughes, H. D. (Capt), Seattle, Wain.
Former, J. H. (Cpl., Darrington, Wash.
niMl af .nnnri ,i
Alexander. Elbert (Cpl.), Fomeroy, wain.
McCadam. Josepn J., epoaane, muu.
Shannon. C. E.. Rice, Wash.
Died or disease
Grill, Wm. F. (Cpl.), Wenatche., Wasa,
Wounded severely
rwiW KHur.rfl R . Hlma. Wash. -
Churchill. Gerald B. (Lt.). Cashmere, Wash.
Quinn, Frank Jj. (SgL). Tacoma. Wash.
Hayner. N. S. (Sgt.), Walla Walla, Wash.
Baker. Henry S. (Sgt). spoKane wasn,
Fish. William A. (Cpl.). Tacoma. wasn.
Rull. Charles F Deep mver, wasn.
Blakeman. Forrest I.. Darrington. Wash. .
Bvans, Lee H., Bayvl.w, Wash.
Elllngsworth. Karl B.. Chelan, Wash.
Ferguson. William S.. T.nlno. Wash.
Fisher, Burley. Cle-Elum. Wash.
Dray. Albert O, Seattle, Wash.
Mackle. Louis R-, Walla Walla. Wash.
Myer, George H., Vancouver, Wash.
Salslmry, Roy ., Everett, wasn.
Donaldson, Charles, Spokane, wasn.
W oounded undetermined
Ponder, Harry. La Center. Wash.
Jenks. Bud B.. Seattle. Wash.
Kinasbury. Mllford Ji... Seattle, wasn.
Spink. Fred. Seattle. Wash.
Watson, Harry ie (Mecft.), Creston, Wash.
Abraham, John (Mech.), Wilkes n, Wash.
Wounded silently
Walker, William O.. Selah. Wash.
Spratlln. Allen, Seattle, Wash:
Walters. John H.. Bothell, Wash.
Stallard. TuUy K., Green Acres, Wash.
Grout, Perns L.. Tac"ia, Wash.
Bolleau, Emil L., Raymond, Wash.
Keelr, Charles B., Spokane, Wash. t
Morton, George M Napavlne. Wash.
Picket, Emil J.. Bellingham. Wash.
Norborn. Roy L.. Seattle, wash.
Ham, James A.. Kent, . Wash.
J U AJJO.
Med ef wounds
Hoo, Sam Soo. Pocateilo, Idaho.
Died of disease
Maddox. Harry W, Asbton, Idaho.
Wounded severely
Stephens. Benjamin F., Twin Falls. Idaho.,
Stltt, Sam C l&gl.-. American raua. xaano.
Lindsay. Ersel M. (Cpl.), Blackfoot. Idaho.
Coder, Elmer K. (Cpl.). Grang.vllle, Idaho.
Hartley, Elmer, Land ore, Idano.
Alger, James 1., Hum, idano.
Farnsworth. Charles N., Blackford, Idaho.
Thornock, David E.. Bloomington, Idaho.
Crone. Lloyd. Kuna, idano.
liratvoid. August, bmmett, Idaho.
Wnundeil unaesermineu
Miller. John. Burley, Idaho.
Hopkins, Estell H. (Corp.), Moscow, Idaho.
Wounded (.iigntiy
Leonard, Clyde E., Boles, Idaho.
Thorf. Abraham, Roxburg, Idaho.
MiMlna in action-
Martin. Thomas, Sand Point, Idaho.
Hochstrasser, Junius E., Tetonia, Idaho.
Chateau-Thierry Is Boys'
Play Beside Argonne.
STORIES OF WOUNDED HEARD
TSSJIIESEIifilES
in nmiLo ui iviuiuiv-ji
5 C1VEI
POLICEMEN AXD FIREMEN OX
- STRIKE FOR HIGHER WAGES.
B T ONS
Saloons Wide Open, Fire Stations
Wrecked, Citizens Robbed
and Stores Looted.
Multiplex Telephony Is De
clared Success.
Self -Reliant Yankee Goes
Ahead Whatever Happens.
GET THERE IDEA DOMINANT
Quick and Intensive Warfare Likelj
to Prove Least Costly In Lives
In Long Run.
FIFTEENTH LETTER.
BT EDGAR B. PIPER.
' PARIS. France, Nov. 18. (Editorial
Correspondence.) After Arras, the
American hospital at Paris was tran
quillity Itself. The reason was not that
one was British .and the other Amer
ican, but that the first was a clearing;
station near the front line, where the
wounded "blesses,' the French call
them, with rare felicity are received
in all degrees and conditions of injury,
and the second has. only that class of
disabled soldiers who are able to stand
a considerable journey.
The first impression the newcomet
has of such an institution Is of its
orderliness and efficiency; and the
second ia of the pervadins and con
tagious spirit of Cheerfulness among
the men in the beds. They talk and act
as if they were glad to be there.
Cdnfldence In Surgeons Felt.
Unquestionably they are. But the
reason is not that for the time they are
free from danger. They expect to go
back to the front, and want to go, all
of them. But it is that they have com
plete confidence in surgeons and nurses
and know that they are receiving
skilled treatment, and believe, all of
them, that they will get well, if the
nature of their injuries will at all per
mit, and if -1t will not.-that they will
get the next best ting, whatever that
is. They are not brought there to aie.
and they know it; tney are mere ror
restoration or cure, and they know
that, also. ,
The hospital is full full to over
flowing. There is no vacant bed in
any ward. Through the corridors are
placed cots, and they, too, are occu
pied. In the ample court, tents and
other temporary structures have been
put up; and they are being rapidly
filled. .
Fighting In Argonne Fierce.
At the time of which this letter is
written, the Argonne drive was In full
swing.' The Americans came over here
to win or rather, let us say, help win
the war. They were given all the
chance they could possibly have cov
eted in the Argonne. Chateau-Thierry,
St. Mihiel, all the others where the
"PHANTOM CIRCUIT" EXPANDS
tions Go Instead of Three.
NEW SERVICE TO EXPAND
Invention Is Announced in Letter to)
Postmaster-General Burlcsou
From Theodore X'. Vail.
MONTREAL, Dec 12. With every
policeman and virtually every fireman
in the city on strike for higher wages.
iuuiurcai ia ueipicas Luiiijgiik lit 1110
hands of rioters. Fft-e stations have
been wrecked, citizens robbed and!
stores looted. Saloons and a disorderly I
resorts are wide open. Law-abiding I
citizens re helpless to prevent the dep. Jgp SimUltaneOUS" COnVerSa
reuaiiuns oi. gangs ui nuuuiuius.
Mayor Martin has been in conference
all night with representatives of the
policemen and firemen in an effort to
reach a settlement. The men are said
to have agreed to accept J1200 to $1400
a year, according to length of service,
with double shifts.
The Trades and Labor Council Is said
to have offered to act as a mediating
body between the city administration
and the strikers.
More than 1500 men of the four or
ganized city services struck today for
higher wages. The official estimate by
E. R. Decary, chairman of the City
Commission, of the number out was:
Police, 844; firemen, 550; garbage in
cineratlon department, 150; engineers
and others employed at the low-level
pumping station of the waterworks, 16.
With no regularly constituted force
to prevent them, lawless elements did
much material damage In Various parts
oi the city tonight. One fire captain
was badly beaten.
A gang of youngsters wrecked the
fire station at Chaboillez Square, near
the Grand Trunk Station, broke up
salvage trucks and apparatus with
axes and threw out of windows bedding
and furniture, which they took home.
Damage here is estimated at close to
$20,000.
Another gang raided fire headquar-
ters, fought the private detectives on
duty and cleaned out the volunteer fire
men.
Pickpockets are active on streetcars.
A gang Invaded a moving picture the
ater in locnelaga and assumed so
threatening an attitude that the proprl
etor fled, leaving the theater to them.
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BONDS MAY BE GIVEN UP
Soldiers to Be Relieved of Payments,
.
if Desired.
WASHINGTON, Dec 12. Discharged
soldiers who do not wish to continue
payments on -liberty bond subscrip
tions made through -the Army organ
ization will have payments already
made returned and the subscription
canceled.
Army officers said today that, al
though this arrangement had been
made, they did not . expect, any great
number of subscriptions to be nulli
fied in this1 way. Tha bonds thus re
leased, however, will not be thrown
back on the market.
AMO'XG THOSE WHO MET THE PRESIDENT TODAY. WERE, ETC., ETC.
MILITARY FLYERS WARNED
Low Flying and Acrobatics "Forbid
den by Government.
WASHINGTON. Dec 12. Low. flying
and acrobatics by military aviators 1
during celebrations in the vicinity of
cities, towns and buildings are forbid
den under threatened penalties In an
order today by the War Department.
An announcement said increase in the
flying accidents on home training fields
since the armistice had made action
necessary.
BELGIUM GETS NEW CREDIT
Total of Loans Made by Tnited
States to Allies $8,223,540,702.
WASHINGTON. Dec 12. Belgium's
loans from the United States were In
creased today to 1211.320.000 by an
additional credit of 13,200.000. Credits
now authorized for all the allies
amount o. JS,:::,5 10,703, . 1 At
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MRS. C. N. McARTHUR IS ILL
Bronchitis Becomes Pneumonia and
' Condition Is Critical.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU". Wash
ington, Dec. 12. (Special.) Lucille S.
McArthur, wife of Representative C. N.
McArthur of Portland, is critically ill
with pneumonia at the McArthur home
in the Somerset apartments. She has
been 111 for several days with bron
chitis and has been under the care of
a physician, but her illness took a more
serious turn today. She is being at
tended by Drs. Charles S. White and
Thomas A. Clayton as 'well as a trained
nurse. Drt Clayton said tonight that
her condition is serious but that her
youth is in her favor.
Representative McArthur has been
given an Tndefnite leave of absence by
the House in order that he may be at
his wife's bedside.
OFFICERS GAIN FREEDOM
Washington Lieutenants Released
From German Prisons.
WASHINGTON,- Dec. 12. The names
of the following officers released from
a German prison camp at Villingen,
who passed through Switzerland No
vember 29 on their way to France were
made known here today b;- the War
Department.
Lieutenants tawara i-ayno jarraoee,
I Highland drive, ' Bellingham, Wash.
' F.erdinand Edstid (ho record), and
Thomas P. Evans, Snohomish, Wash
INDEX OF TODAY'S
The Weather.
YBSTERDArS Maximum temperature, 51
v degrees; minimum temperature, 44 de
grees. TODAY Rain; southerly winds.
War. '
Official casualty list. Page L
Foreign.
Bolshevik officers' continue executions.
Page L
American bravery in battle related. Page 1.
British hold Rhine bridges. Page 2.
Power .of German reds wanes. Page 2.
Lord Robert Cecil, British delegate to ton
ferer ce, lavoru league oi nations, age 3.
Montreal helpless in hands of rioters. Page 1.
Count Czernin tells how Germany dominated
Austria. Page 4.
President due to reach Brest at noon today.
Page 6.
National.
U. S.-Japan pact in Siberia broken. Page 1.
Railway heads oppose Government control.
Page 8.
Von Papen swindle object of plotters. Page 8.
U. S. Navy second to none urged. Page 1.
Shipping Board outlines position lt takes
regarding wooden ships. Page 19.
Simrt.
Britons win King's trophy. Page 18.
Farmer and Darcy stage hard battle.
Page 18.
Domestic
One wire set carries 5 conversations. Page L
Pacific Northwest,
Third Oregon National Guard recruiting to
continue. Page 7. .
Commercial and Marine.
Wool men favor Government plan of auc
tions. Page 23.
Chicago corn advances sharply as result of
crop report, rage -J.
Rail stocks weakened by director-general's
recommendations. Page 23.
Elimination of big drydock suggested.
Page IU.
Portland and Vicinity.
Indictments certain to result In police graft
Investigation. Page IS.
Request for use of Library Hall for Debs-
Stokes meeting stirs strife In board.
Page 13.
Judge Back denies Politta was ' drunk.
Page 16. ' ,
Much legislation urged by county officials.
Page v
Four-minute men to speak for Red Cross.
Page 20.
One head proposed for all health agencies.
Page 14,
'Own Your Home" slogan of housing cam
paign. Page. 17.
WeaUier report, data, and forecast. Pass 23.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 12. Postmas.
ter-General Burleson today made pub
lic a, letter from Theodore N. Vail,
president of the American Telephone &
Telegraph Company, announcing the
Invention and development by the tech
nical staff of the Bell system of "a
practical system of multiplex telephony
and telegraphy by the use of which lt
Is now possible to increase many fold
the message-carrying capacity of long
telephone and telegraph wires."
"With this new eystem," said Mr.
Vail's letter, "four telephone conversa
tions over one pair of wires are simul
taneously carried on, in addition to the
telephone conversation provided by the
ordinary methods. Thus, over a single
pair of wires a total of five telephone
conversations are simultaneously op
erated, each giving service as good as
that provided by the circuit working
in the ordinary way.
Good Kesulta Attained.
"A number of years ago we developed
the 'phantom circuit' arrangement, by
which three telephone circuits are ob
tained from two pairs of wires. Now,
by our multiplex methods, we are en
abled to obtain five telephone circuits
over one pair of wires; that is, ten
simultaneous telephone conversations
from the two pairs of wires which for
merly could be used for only three sim
ultaneous telephone conversations.
"In telegraphy, as well as in telephony.
sensational results have been attained
by the new system. By combining two
telegraph wires into a metallic circuit
of the type useI for telephone working
and by applying our new apparatus
and methods to this metallic circuit,
we have enormously increased the ca
pacity of the wires for telegraph mes
sages without in any way Impairing
the quality of telegraph working.
Long Lines Most Favorable.
The Nature of these developments
is such that if desired wires may be
used partly for telephone and partly
for telegraph. A pair of wires is avail-
ble either for five simultaneous tele
phone conservations or for 40 simulta
neous telegraph messages, or partly for
one and partly for the other.
From the nature of the apparatus
and the methods employed, the sys
tem is not practically advantageous on
short- lines, either telephone or tele
graph. On long lines its application
will be extended immediately but Its
Introduction must necessarly be grad
ual, on account of the nature of the
apparatus required and the rearrange
ment and adaptation of the lines them
selves and their associated apparatus
to the new methods of working.
Teat Held Satisfactory.
It Is not too much to characterize
this new system as marking an epoch
llfylin the development of long-distanco
Mr. Vail said that an installation of
the multiplex telephone system be
tween Baltimore and Pittsburg had
been In service for more than a month.
On Monday of this week," he said.
accompanied by a party of distin
guished Government and telephone and
telegraph officials, I made an Inspec
tion of the system of Baltimore and a
test of the service provided between
Baltimore and Pittsburg. All or the
party were delighted with the success
ful working of the new system and the
evident skill which had been shown lu
developing it."
FRANCE TO AID SOLDIERS
Bill Granting Indemnity to Fighting
Men Is Proposed.
PARIS, Dec 12. The Cabinet at its
meeting today authorized the introduc
tion In Parliament of a bill granting
an indemnity of 250 francs to every rruui
demobilized, with additional payments.
according to length of service, citations
and number of dependents. The pay
ment of the extra indemnity will in
volve the expenditure of 1,696.000,000
francs.
Allowances to the families of
mobilized soldiers, it was decided.
should continue for six months after
soldiers are discharged from active
service.
OMAHA STRIKE IS OVER
Order to Return to Work Issued by
Xational President.
OMAHA, Dec. 12. Striking carmen of
the Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Rail
way voted at Labor Temple this morn
ing to return to work. This ended the
strike which tegan nine days ago. Op
eration of cars will be, resumed at 4
o'clock this afternoon.
The vote of the strikers followed an
order by National President Mahon, of
their union, to re turn.