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Pershing Reviews 25,000
Men, Finds All "Game."
PARADE IS MIGHTY SPECTACLE
Document la Declared to Be 'Com
plete Answer to Defense of '
Present Army System.
Acres of Bristling Bayonets
Massed on Historic Ground.
MARINES OF ONE OPINION
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COBLEXZ. March IS. (Special
cable.) The American army of occupa
tion has created another Rhine legend
to be narrated to future generations of
personally conducted tourists. The
famous second division including: the
marines. 13.000 fighting men ready for
battle and in full combat regalia, was
niassed Friday on the historic parade
cround on a plateau near Vollmar,
dominating the Rhine. There Field
Marshal Von Mottlte. chief of the grand
general staff, more than once reviewed
th. Rirmui eisrhth army corps. There
on Friday General Pershing reviewed
the second division.
It was the first of an Important ser
ies of reviews obvlorsly intended as a
tribute to the army of occupation for
its fine performance up to date and to
confirm the fact that the army of oc
cupation is not only in fine fighting
fettle, but is most heartily willing to
continue doing Its duty by staying
hero Indefinitely at America's bidding.
Pershlag Galvanises Army.
General Pershing's arrival had gal
vanized the American area into war
like activities. Across the Rhine the
troops were on the march all night in
tho second division's sector of the
bridgehead. Columns of Infantry and
artillery and their trains were all mov
ing away from Berlin and back to the
Rhine. But it was not a retreat, just an
inevitable rearward concentration on
the only field wtthln the sector large
enough to enable an entire division to
line up on parade.
The second division, leaving only two
battalions of marines on outpost duty
to keep watch on the neutfal zone,
had completed thj elaborate concentra
tion maneuver by 10 o'clock in the
morning and was in position.
3 Arm of nmjumrtm Srrm.
Tne correspondent's eye could sweep
a patriotic panorama that could not he
duplicatea anywhere. Twenty-five
ncrcs of American bayonets bristling
high above the winding Khine. Ameri
can aeroplanes chasing overhead, an
American captive balloon hanging
over the fortress of Khrer hreitstein in
the background and across the river
American artillery swarming up with
practice firing.
This was the unique Rhine view that
preetco" Gcnvral Pershing as he saluted
America's guard division on parade.
then proceeded to review and inspect
minutely each unit and outfit, not fur
setting the gallant Missouri mules to
which he administered "well done"'
pats in raa.iing.
The second divirior. was massed on a
front one kilometer (about five-eighths
of a mile) lng and averaging half a
kilometer in depth.
laakee Melodies flayed.
At the extreme left five consolidated
bands, three hundred pieces strong;
charmed the captive Rhine with all the
American melodies ir stead of the Prus
sian parade march to which a late
Prussian corps formerly goose-stepped
over the same rlattau. From left to
rttrbt the lineup saw the world's great
est shock troops, the ninth nnd S:d
regular infantry, and the iith and th
-narlnes. then th- machine gun bat
talions, next l'ght artillery, then the
motorized heavy artillery, then the
motorized divisional machine gun unit
and lastly the enrmeers.
But the parade was more than a
mere pageant. It proved that the sec
ond division was game to guard the
Rhine and hold It as long as Amrr'-ca
might call on It to perform this duty.
I was privileged to accompany General
Pershing on this round of inspection
between the well disciplined ranks of
the marines. Again and again General
Pershing stopped, selected a man at
random and sprang the searching ques
tion at him. In most cases a brief
dramatic silence followed as the ma
rine looked the commander-in-chief
squarely In the eye. To many of the
men Pershing put the proposition in
the following variations:
Mra YVIlllaa; To Stay.
"Suppose you were asked to stay here
t months? A year? Two years?"
Among the marines I heard a strik
ing unanimity of replies.
I'd like to go home, sir, but I will
stay on of course," or. "I want to go
home when my regiment goes," or, "I
will sure stay as long as I am wanted
here."
Such were typical answers which
General Pershing received from ma
rines and this held good for the divis
ion as a whole. In general, they wanted
to go home but were m illing to stay as
long as necessary. This authoritative
statement of the spirit of the army of
occupation from the lips of the men
themselves was perhaps the most im
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WASHINGTON. March 16. Request
that the reply of Lieutenant-Colonel
An sell, former acting Judge advocate
general, to the recent letter of Major'
General Crowder. judre advocate-gen
eral, in the courtmartial system con'
troversy be given to the public Im
mediately was made today by Senator
Chamberlain of Oregon in a telegram
to Secretary Baker, in which he said
he had been furnished with a copy of
Colonel Ansell's statement for the con
fidential use of the senate military
affairs committee and after reading it
he considered the statement "a com
plete answer to the published defense
of the present courtmartial system.
General Crowder, at the request of
Secretary Baker, outlined in a letter
to the secretary a week ago the differ
ences which he had with Colonel An
sell In matters regarding the court
martial system. Later Colonel An
sell submitted a reply which the wax
department announced would not be
made public until after Secretary Baker
returns from 'a trip through the west
ern states.
The reply of Colonel Ansellu Senator
Chamberlain telegraphed Secretary
Baker, "shows affirmatively and con-1
vincingly the necessity of court-martial
reform, a subject In which the public
and congress now are vitally in
terested."
FavoraMction at Paris
Conference Asked.
INDEPENDENCE PEOPLE'S AIM
Guidance by Mandatory Held
Immediate Need.
JAPANESE MISRULE GALLS
America and Britain Urged to See
That Coreans Recently Arrested
Are Not Cruelly Treated.
SLEEPING ILLNESS PUZZLE
New York Reports Second Death
Antony Forty Cases.
NEW TORK, March 1. Belief that
at least half of New York's 40 cases
of "sleeping sickness" are sequels of
Spanish influenza was expressed last
night by Dr. Royal S. Copeland. city
health commissioner. Investigation by
the health department. Dr. Copeland
said, indicated that there were two
forms of "sleeping sickness" in the city
ne a sequel of influenza and the
other the disease known as encephalitis
lethargcla. or epidemic coma.
The second death in the city from
sleeping sickness," that of a baby of
10 months, was reported yesterday. The
child had not suffered from Influenza,
Dr. Copeland said, but both Its parents
had.
COSSACK FORCE DISPERSED
Interned Soldiers in Siberia Return
Gradually to Their Homes.
VLADIVOSTOK. March 1. (By the
Associated Press.) The controversy
between Major-General Graves, Amer
ican commander in Siberia, and the
Japanese staff over the disposition of
the 1500 Cossacks of General Kalmi-
koffs forces who were interned by the
Americans at Khabarovsk at their own
request, virtually has been adjusted by
the gradual dispersal of the Cossack
forces. The Cossacks have been re
turning to their homes.
General Graves has not notified the
Japanese staff that upon the ldentlfica-
ion of the arms and equipment of the
Cossacks as their property it will be de
livered to them.
WASHINGTON, March IS. President
Wilson has been asked by the Corean
national association to initiate action
at the peaca conference looking to the
independence of Corea. with the coun
try to be guided by a mandatory until
such time as the league of nations shall
decide that It is fit for full self-gov
ernment. The copy of the letter to the
president was made .public here today
by Syngman -Rhee, who, with Henry
Chung, are the authorized delegates
of the association in the United States.
At the same time there was also given
out a letter addressed to the peace
conference asking that Corea be freed
from the domination of Japan and
given . full freedom eventually. This
letter was sent to the state depart
ment for transmission to Paris.
Treaty Violation Charged.
Both letters assert that Japan estab
lished a protectorate over Corea In
direct violation of her treaty obliga
tions to Corea, and that since that
time the country has been misruled,
its natural resources exploited for the
benefit only of the Japanese, Its liter
ature suppressed and its religious wor
ship supervised.
Mr. Rhee also announced today that
on behalf of the Corean association,
representing all Coreans living abroad.
he had sent communications to the
American and British governments ask
ing that they use their good offices
ith the Japanese government to see
that the Coreans arrested in the inde
pendence demonstrations this month be
not cruelly treated.
The message to the American state
department said:
Thonnaad Coreans Arrested.
"According to private cablegram re
ceived from Corean headquarters.
Shanghai, China, some 3.000,000 Core
ans, including tne memoers or 3uuu
Christian churches in Corea, declared
the independence of Corea, March 1, at
Seoul, Ping Tang and other centers. As
consequence. Japanese authorities in
Corea have arrested more than 1000 men
connected with the movement and is in
flicting upon them inhuman punish-
SEARCH FOR SLAYER FAILS
Butte Mine Guard Killed by Un
identified Persons.
BLTTE. March It. Several hours of
searching has failed to reveal to the
Butte police any clue which would
lead to the identity of the persons who
late Sunday night shot to death David
W. Thomas, a mine guard, returning
from work at the Tramway mine.
Thomas was found lying on the side
walk face down with his revolver
clutched, in his hand. All the bullets
in bis revolver had been discharged
and residents of the neighborhood
state 10 or 15 shots In ail were fired.
Two men were seen running from
the vicinity immediately after the
fusillade.
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Hurricane Winds -and Floods Re
ported Elsewhere; Railroad
Traffic Is Demoralized.
OKLAHOMA CITT. March 16. Three
persons are reported killed and several
others injured in a tornado in King
fisher county last night. Wires are
down and the extent of the damage is
not known.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.. March 16.
Winds almost of hurricane intensity,
thunderstorms, driving hail storms and
rainstorms that are carrying small
streams out of their banks were re
ported last night rrom various pans vl
Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma end Ar
kansas.
At Topeka, Kansas, boats were being
used late last night in removing rest
dents from the flooded district In the
southeastern section of the city. Rain
fall totalled 5.13 inches.
Chief damage seems to have been-
done at Porter. Okla.. where at least
four persons are believed to have boen
killed and 25 Injured.
WINONA. Minn., March 16. Railroad
traffic was demoralized today, thous
ands of dollars damage has been done
and every creek and river in this ter
ritory is climbing out of its banks, fol
lowing a heavy rain yesterday arid last
night. Numerous washouts are reported
on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railroad. The Northwestern road also
reports water . over its tracks. Trains
on both these roads are being held
here.
It is feared that the dam at Minr.e-
sota City will go out, as water already
is running over the top. If it breaks
the village would be wiped out. Resi
dents are fleeing to higher ground.
Americans and Orientals
.. Clash in Theater:
TREATIES ARE PUBLISHED
China and Japan Make Military
Convention Public.
PEKIN, March 16. (By the Associ
ated Press.) The military convention
made between China and Japan in 1918
with a hitherto undisclosed extension
signed last month providing for the
termination of the agreement on the
signing of the peace treaty, was made
public simultaneously Friday in Pekin
and Tokio. More than 12 treaties are to
be published in the Chinese and Japan
ese capitals. '". ... .,.
These include two agreements be
tween the Chinese government and the
British Marconi company and two with
the Siems-Carey company of the -United
States regarding railways and canals.
There are no French agreements to be
made public.
EDITOR'S SLAYER GIVES UP
Frenchman, Long Sought for Pris
oner's Death, Is Jailed.
PARIS, March 16. A man named Ber
nard, for whom the police have been
looking in connection with the death of
Miguel Almereyda, editor of the Bon
net Rogue, who died mysteriously in a
Paris prison in the summer of 1917,
while a prisoner charged with sedition,
surrendered himself yesterday.
He was sent to the Senate jail.
SITUATION DECLARED TENSE
United States Consul Stoned
While Leaving Station.
POLICE DISPERSE RIOTERS
Report to State Department Indi
cates Regulars Were Confused
With Yankee Marines.
PEKIN, March 16. (By the Associ
ated Press.) While early reports from
Tien Tsin suggested that American
marines were to blame for the recent
disorders there, later reports would
seem to show that the Japanese were
also at fault.
It is claimed that Japanese military
guards entered the French concession
and there seized two Americans, and
when American officials inquired of
the Japanese police authorities if any
Americans were being detained they
were given a negative answer, accord
ing to a report. Later the American
officials found two Americans in a po-
ice station, one of them lying almost
naked in the yard calling for water.
American Consul Stoned.
The Japanese were -induced to send
the injured man to a hospital and an
American consul refused to leave the
station until the other man, a corporal,
had been released. This demand was
finally granted. The American consul
was stoned by Japanese as he drove
away from the station, it is said. When
the -mariners entered the Japanese con
sulate they are reported to have at
tacked a visitor.
On Thursday evening American ma
rines who were entering a moving-plc
ture theater in the French concession
were attacked by a crowd of Japanese
armed with sticks. They managed to
enter the theater, the proprietor of
which telephoned for the French police,
who dispersed the Japanese.
Situation Declared Tense.
The situation at Tien Tsin is said to
be tense. The matter has been referred
to the French legation here.
WASHINGON, March 16. Colonel
Theodore P. Kane, commanding the
American legation marine guard at
Pekin, reported today that marines
were riot involved in the disturbance at
Tien Tsin which the American minister
investigating. He said the trouble
was between soiaiers ana Japanese,
which accords with the assumption in
official quarters here that members of
the 15th regular infantry stationed at
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LITHUANIANS FIGHT TO END
EiglHeen Battle 100 Bolshevik! and
Kill 30 He fore They, Too, Fall.
STOCKHOLM. March 16. A Lithua
nian scout detachment of IS men sur
rounded at Jerge by 100 bolsheviki. re
fused to surrender and fought to the
last, the Lithuanian press bureau an
nounced. Fifty of the bolshevik! were
killed.
The enemy, according to the bureau,
threw the Lithuanians, many of them
still alive, into one big grave. The
bodies were dug out by their country
men next day.
BOLIVIA MINISTER RESIGNS
Act. It Is Said. Not Connected With
International 'Situation.
LA PAZ, Bolivia, March IS. Alberto
Guiterrez. minister of foreign affairs
of Bolivia since Last December, has
resigned.
It is said that his resignation has
no connection with the international
situation.
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GERMAN-AUSTRIA ANNEXED
Law Passed Making District a Part
of German Republic.
BASELLE. March 1. A Vienna dis
patch sas a law has been enacted de
claring German-Austria to be part of
the German republic.
Realisation of the union, the dispatch
adds, remains subject to negotiation,
and. in the last instance, to a plebiscite.
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Districts Reporting Quotas Raise
$32,505 for Proposed Develop
ment Programme.
Morning of the first day of the Ore
gon State Chamber of Commerce mem
bership drive, in outer-state districts,
finds 21 counties already in excess of
their quotas, with assurance that the
remaining 15 will soon be heard from,
according to John L. Etheridge. state
chairman of the membership cam
paign, . which opens today and con
tinues throughout the week.
The 21 counties which have antici
pated and furnished their quotas of
membership, totaling 6301, with '$32,605
in cash for the state chamber's de
velopment programme, are Lincoln,
Clackamas. Deschutes, Lake, Sherman,
Gilliam, Wheeler, Wasco, Clatsop, Co
lumbia, Union, Morrow, Curry, Coos,
Washington, Tamhill, Polk, Klamath,
Crook, Malheur and Linn.
The membership quota for the outer
state counties, which1 they must raise
by Saturday night, is 50,000. All of
the counties which have reported com
pleted quotas attained the goal in ad
vance by underwriting the member
ships. Prominent men in each county
took this action when the recent coun
ty conferences were held.
The field directors who spoke at the
county conferences and who assisted in
organization work are given credit to
a large degree by Mr. Etheridge for
the successful results. They are James
R. Stapleton, W. I. Harrison, George
Caldwell, Leslie Crouch, A. G. Clark,
John H. Stevenson, William F. Stilz.
James Stewart, Frank McCrillis. D. E.
Yoran, C. C. Chapman and L. P. Hewitt.
Charles Hall of Marshfield, president
of the state chamber, is credited with
having , "put over" the membership
drive in Coos and Curry counties.
Portland will be asked to supply an
additional 50,000 members. The local
campaign will follow the fifth liberty
loan drive Mr. Etheridge is confident
that every outer-state county will re
port this week with a complete quota.
President's Firm Stand i
-Surprise to British.
REACTIONARY AIMS OVERCOME
Fears Expressed That Delays
Will Obligate Peace.
HUN TONNAGE DISTRIBUTED
Present Overseas Food Supplies Heltl
Sufficient to Start Feeding
People of Germany.
FRENCH INTEREST WANING
Paris Dispatch Compares Receptions
Given President AVIIson.
BUENOS AIRES, March 16. Presi
dent Wilson's return to Paris is con
trasted 'with his reception in Decem
ber in a dispatch from Paris to La
Prensa as follows:
"The people of France no longer are
disposed to make noisy demonstrations
after watching months pass with noth
mg substantial done. France takes
little interest in the league of nations,
which is not a popular subject. France
sees In It only a monra or less proble
matical guarantee of Tuture peace. The
people of France are more interested
In the present than in the futuVe and
demand peace at once, after which they
are willing to consider measures for
the future." . .
Copyright by Chicago Tribune. Published by arrangement.
NO BEER STRIKE DECRIED
Walkout Would Be Ridiculous, Say
Newark Labor Leaders.
NEWARK, N. J., March 16. The "no
beer no work"" strike proposed for July
was condemned by 400 delegates of
the New Jersey State Federation of
'Labor and State Buildings Trades'
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j I The delegates, however, adopted reaolu-
tions urging congress to repeal both
war time and permanent prohibition
( and calling on President Wilson for aid.
I "A general strike for beer bv labor-
ins men on July 1 would make us look
ridiculous," declared Henry F. Hilfers,
secretary of the labor federation, one
of the speakers. "A general strike al
ways means disruption of organized
labor. We must express' our protests
by other means."
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather. '
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 51
degrees; minimum, 40 degrees.
TODAY'S Rain; moderate : southwesterly
winds.
Foreign.
Yanks on Rhine willing to stay as long as
needed. Page 1.
Japanese blamed in Tien Tsin disorder.
Page 1.
Bolshevik attack repulsed by allies. Page 4.
Zapata stronghold now in Mexican govern
ment control. Page 2.
No law discovered to punish ex-kaiser.
Page 2.
League inclusion- in treaty demand. Page 1.
Italy's claim pushed to front at Paris con
ference. Page 4. .
German protest at Brussels conference un
availing. Page 3.
National.
Senator Chamberlain urges publicity in court-
martial controversy. Page 1.
President Wilson is asked to intercede for
Coreans. Page 1.
Member of congress says pacifist support
hurts league plan. Page 0.
German control of metal markets broken.
page 0
Domestic.
Storms work havoc in middle western states.
Page 1.
Sports.
Beavers show mid-season form. Page 10.
Minneapolis offer tempting Johnny McCarthy.
Page 10.
Junior tennis meet' may go to Spokane.
Page 11. ,
Paeifie Northwest.
Errors discovered in Washington legislation.
Page 7.
Portland and Vicinity.
Twenty-one counties over in state chamber
. drive.. Page 1.
Y. W. C. A. girls' clubs report relief work
drive. Page 9.
0th anniversary of founding of St. Patrick's
church observed. Page 12.
Membership drive for Chamber of Commerce
planned. Page It.
Livestock drive will open this morning.
Page 16..
Jewish relief workers will open campaign
today. Page 12.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 12.
BY JAMES M. TUOIIT.
(Copyright by tho New- York World. Pub
lished by Arrangement.)
PARIS, March 16. (Special Cable.)
The determination with which the
president put. his foot down for the
inclusion of the league of nations in
any peace treaty, preliminary or final,
rather took the British delegation by
surprise, for Andre Tardieu's unquali
fied statement Thursday that " the
league of nations covenant would not
be included had not apparently been
objected to by the American delega
tion. In fact the whole tendency of the
discussions recently, both in the con
ference and in the press, had been im
pliedly in the direction of leaving the
league for future settlement, on the
ground of the urgency of getting Ger
many back to work by the acceptance
of the preliminary terms.
Reactionary Alma Overcome.
The interpretation of the president's
attitude is that if he agreed to the pre
liminary terms without the inclusion
of the league of nations, thereby pro
ducing more or less normal conditions,
the impetus which has enabled him to
carry his project to the present stage
might be gone; giving the opponents to
his ideas an undue advantage.-
In fact, It is only the high pressure
of existing war conditions with their
powerful influence on the peace con
ference which furnished the common
ground, which made possible the over
coming of the materialist and reaction
ary aims of some of the powers repre
sented here.
Preliminary Terms Changed.
In the British quarters the presi
dent's stand is understood, but appre-
hension is expressed lest the delay
should give an opening to the bolshe
vist agencies of Germany so as to make
all peace arrangements impossible.
It is undeniable that the preliminary
terms have entirely changed in their
character since the president left Paris.
To begin with they were merely mili
tary, but, when after discussion it had
been understood, if not agreed, that t
they should not include financial or
economic terms, these terms were in
cluded on a much mow extensive scale
than even when originally suggested.
and the president now finds them em
bodied in the preliminary terms.
BritiHh Delegates Anxious.
There is no doubt but that the Brit
ish are so anxious to get the prelimi
nary terms signed that they are pre
pared to take the risk on the league,
which the president is resolved to pre
vent at all costs.
There appears also some anxiety in
British quarters lest French hostility
to some of the military terms, notably
the abolition of conscription in Ger
many, may lead the French to recon
sider their position, thereby raising
a question, which, in view of Premier
Lloyd George's uncompromising atti
tude, might seriously embarrass the
whole peace situation.
But at the same time it is perfectly
understood that the president takes
a stand inexorably on the question of
principle, and it is felt that he will
carry his point despite any apparent
difficulties and apprehensions that may
be expressed in the first envisagement
of the new situation. i
' Pood Supplies Assembled. .
In the meantime the scheme for re
victualing Germany and utilizing the
German ships is completed and Herbert
Hoover's organization has already suf
ficient food available on this side of the
Atlantic to make a substantial start
toward feeding Germany. The German
ships will be delivered at various ports,
those in neutral harbors being handed
over there without formality.
The ships are to be manned almost
entirely by British and American and
French crews, those to be used as trans
ports exclusively so. The total tonnago
is estimated at ,500,000 which, for
management purposes, is to be divided
among the allies, but as Italy already
has the Austrian shipping, her share .
will be very small.
France will receive 75,000 to 100,000
tons of ocean-going steamers, the re
mainder being divided equally between
America and Great Britain.
The allied economic commission at
Hamburg will, deal with the freights
and cognate subjects, the freights be
ing mainly in accordance with the
British blue book rates.
COVENANT MAY BE AMENDED
Aim
Is to Make Document Accept
able to All Concerned.
PARIS, March 16. (By the Associ
ated Press.) Efforts are being directed
today to shaping the league of nations'
1.
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