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CONCILIATORY POLICY ADOPT
ED TOWARD BOLSHETIKI.
SEVEX OF THE KIXE CABINET
REBELLIOUS CITIES LIKELY TO
MEMBERS ARE SELECTED.
FALL LXTO LINE.
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MENAGE
HUnGARIAPJ
WITH HUNS SOUGHT
SULTAN IS BROKEN
Pact Hostile to Entente Is
Undertaken.
DELEGATES SENT TO BERLIN
New Government at Budapes
Anxious for Treaty. .
ARMY TO BE REORGANIZED
German Officers, Formerly Belong
in j to Mackenscn Contingent,
Ready for SerTlce.
BUDAPEST. Tla Genera. March SI.
(Br the Associated Press.) The Hun
(arian government has sent a delega
tion to Berlin to conclude a treaty of
alliance against the entente allies.
German officers formerly belonging
to Field Marshal Mackensen's army
hare arrived In Budapest to reorganize
the Hungarian army along German
lines. The army now numbers 100.000
men.
BUDAPEST, March 31. (Via Vienna.
by the Associated Press.) The plunge
of Budapest into anti-capitalism con
tinuea with feverlsn efforts to show
that the reign of law and order Is tin
disturbed. The city Is outwardly quiet
ince the first few days. In which there
was much looting, especially cf Jewelry
hops. As a result of the looting. It is
reported. ISO persons were executed by
the new regime, their communistic
- Ideas apparently being too violent.
The new freedom exists for those
who are willing to live as the govern
ment dictates. Two Important news
papers, the Pester Lloyd and the Ax
Est, print only what the censor per
mlta. Foreign correspondents may
transmit by telegraph If they write
what Is desired by the government.
Csech troops who have been fighting
the communists in southern Slovakia
have captured the city of Kasrhau. 140
miles northeast of Budapest, and other
points. The German colonists In west
ern Hungary and Transylvania are hos
tile to the communists snd are at
tempting to establish their independ
ence. Soathera Hangar? Frrmeatlag.
The French' troops at Szegedin. south
ern Hungary, and elsewhere, it is said,
re permitting the communists to
establish themselves in control aa they
wish, despite the fact that there were
riots In small industrial centers here
the communists held organized parades
after the fashion set in Budapest.
Those entering the country mar
leava only by the personal permission
of Bela Kun. foreign minister. The
minister has acknowledged in an In
terview that Hungary's commune does
not desire to make war on the entente
at present, but asserts that Hungary
wishes to live peacefully with all. He
aid:
"Our only object Is to protect the
common people, till the soil and pro
mote industries, which are the property
of the proletariat."
Bela Kun makes no secret of the fact
that he has merely used the last argu'
ment possible against the entente, say
ing: Arttol HeMtatrly Takra.
"While other countries of the former
empire have been threatening the
entente with bolshevism If their wishes
were not consulted, we merely had the
courage to take this final step.
The Hungarians declare that their
action ia guaranteed by President Wll
son's 14 points and that their Ideas of
personal national liberty are embodied
In the American declaration of Inde
pendence; Women are Joining the red
army. Bela Kun has Installed his of
flees In the royal castle. House rents
have been reduced JO per cent. The
homes of the wealthy are being
searched and palntinus and works of
art are being requisitioned for the pur
pose of establishing national galleries,
after the style at Moscow.
i
BERLIN. March 31. (By the Asso
ciated Press) The diplomatic agent of
the German government at Budapest
bas advised Germane to leave Hungary.
PARIS. March 31. The French. Brlt-
h and Serbian missions which were
Kudapest when the Hungarian rev
ision Drone vui mvr a i ( i , . . i itri-
f tele. They were Imprisoned in their
I ing quarters, but not sent to JalL
ttASEL, Switx, March 31 (Havas.)
'The Hungarian government Is re-
Irted In Vienna dispatches to have
Int an ultimatum to the Czecho-Slovak
ivernment. This action, it is said, was
ken because of the concentration of
f secho-Slovak troops and a rumor that
ere would be a general mobilization
Bohemia In the near future.
PARIS, March 31. (By the Associated
. ) A small force of French troops
stationed In the neutral zone betweea
Hungary and Roumania has been at-
L lacked by Hungarian troops, lie of the
1 French being taken prisoner, according
1 to an official report received here.
On demand of the French general.
v. - .. wo ueou
I promised by the Hungarians.
. Greatly disturbed conditions are rt-
orted to exist in Hungary.
Seml-Offlclal Article In Xe Temps
Says Food and Financial Aid
Should Be Given Beds.
BY JAMES M. TrOHT.
(Copyright by the New York World. Pub
lished by Arrangement.)
PARIS, March SL (Special cable.)
Following Foreign Minister Pichon's
notable declaration In the chamber of
deputies that France sot only is not
sending more troops to Russia, but that
she does not propose to replace those
withdrawn from there, Le Temps to
day publishes an editorial on the RuS'
slan policy indicating a significant
change In the French attitude toward
the bolshevik government.
It foreshadows an attempt to lay
the foundations of better relations be
tween the entente and Russia by send
ing her food and clothing and giving
her financial assistance. This help
Le Temps suggests might be offered
through neutral states where control
would be "competent snd independent.
The question of payment Is one to
be decided by the financiers. In return
for this help. Russia might be ex
pected to conform to the principles
for which the allies have fought.
"We wish that the Russians should
be put In a position to dispose of them
selves, and govern themselves like all
other nations. Our aim should be that
Russia should recover her libertle
liberty of the individual, liberty of
ownership which would comprise, for
the peasants, the right to own the
soil: liberty of association, liberty of
the press and. most sacred of all, liberty
to elect a constituent assembly which
would freely decide the regime ap
pllcable to territories Inhabited by
Russians."
Le Temps never puts forward
policy in such a way without insplra
tion, and this editorial clearly Indicates
that the French government has been
convinced that a new method of ap
proach to the bolshevik government
a essential, although it expressly dis
claims the idea that. In succoring Rus
sia, the entente would be dealing with
the bolshevik authorities.
GERMANY READY TO YIELD
Collapse of Coalition Is Declared to
Be Inevitable.
BT GEORGE YOUNG.
(Copyright by the New York World. Pub-
usiita dv Arrucemenij
BERLIN. March 31. (Special Cable.)
Daily developments show that all the
energies of the German government
are being abborbed in maintaining the
appearance of a strong front against
restore from Paris snd Petrograd.
The revival of nationalist sentiment
nsultlr.K from the reported proposals
to annex the German populations in
he Saar valley. West Prussia. Silesia,
German Bohemia and the Tyrol and to
prevent a union with German Austria
carries the present colorless and char
acterless coalition steadily further from
U progressive forces and brings closer
Its Inevitable collapse.
Paris Is preparing the way for Petro
grad. Thus the new Prussian ministry
will be a coalition with the centrists,
involving a complete renunciation of
the principlea of the revolution.
RED CR0SSTO QUIT ITALY
War Work of Organization Now Is
Practically Ended.
BT BEATRICE BASKERVILLE.
(Copyright hy the New York World. Pub-
it, nea oy Arrangement. ;
ROME. March Si. The American Red
Cross will end Its activities in Italy
ext June. I was informed at Red Cross
..ilnnirl.M A n. rl w nf I i i n n n rl V
women workers of varrous departments
f the organization, escorted by Lieu
enant Judy of the United States army
ransport aervice. left Rome for Genoa
recently to embark on the steamship
Dante Alighteri. scheduled to sail be
fore April i.
Other parties of workers will sail in
May and June, the largest leaving In
May. The Italians watch the winding
up of the Red Cross regretfully, be
cause It became an Integral part of the
national life during the war, doing
more good than is generally known In
America.
HOOD HEN FASTS 18 DAYS
Biddy, Made Prisoner In Stolen
Nest, Finally Liberated.
HOOD RIVER. Or, March 31. (Spe
cial.) How long can a hen live with
out food or drink? Robert Rand, octo
genarian of Wu Guin Guin, says that a
pet fowl at his place fasted for IS
days. The hen made a nest under a
bu.lding on the place. While she was
laying her way of escape was ob
structed. When Mr. Rand discovered
the hen Saturday she was so weak she
couldn't walk. She weighed one and
three-fourths pounds. Mr. Rand esti-
matted that she weighed six when lost.
Biddy, however, has been taking
nourishment regularly since her dis
covery and Is rapidly regaining the lost
weight.
CELL BEST; HI COST CAUSE
Paroled Prisoner Pleads for Admis
sion to Penitentiary.
OMAHA, Neb, March 31. F. M.
Brown, a former Inmate of the Ne
braska penitentiary, found the high
cobt of living too much for him. He
mas recently paroled.
Yesterday he arrived at the prison
from St. Louis and pleaded with the
warden to take him back" and allow
him to serve the remainder of his sen
tence. He is 8 years old and was sen
tenced from Omaha to serve three
years for writing a check in excess
of his funds in the bask.
No More Concessions,
Says Hun Pr'7
. s
SITUATION IS Hr CRITICAL
Germans, W.- Air of Uncon-
quered People, Cry Defiance.
SCHISM IN ALLIES NOTED
U. S. and England Believed Siding
Against Frances Bogey of Bolshe'
Tlsm Flaunted by Teutons.
BT CTRIL BROWN.
(Copyright by the New York World. Pub
lished by Arrangement.)
BERLIN. March 30. (Special cable
via Copenhagen March 31.) "The sit
uation ia critical," "No further conces
sions by Germany."
Such are the headlines of an official
propaganda communique published In
the Berlin National Gazette tonight:
It states that "the situation is extreme
ly grave. Negotiations may be broken
off by which steps the armistice ques
tion would enter a critical stage."
Germany's unequivocal non possumus
and the editorial tone of the whole
German press on the Danzig question
is. paradoxically, out of keeping with
her character as a conquered country.
Huns Are Arrogant.
The World correspondent, fresh from
the army of occupation, gained the
strange first-day Impression that un
occupied Germany, far from consider
ing herself crushed and at the victors'
mercy, is filled with amazing self-confidence
and is pressing for an Imme
diate showdown.
Germany's attitude Is due partly to
the widespread popular belief, which
has been skilfully fostered by home
propaganda, that her enemies are di
vided on Danz'ig, as well as on other
armistict and other peace questions.
and more particularly that America
and England are siding against France.
But the principal cause of this new
self-assurance and ascertiveness is
the blind belief that Germany holds the
winning trump In the bogey of bolshe
vism and considers this the most favor
able moment for playing It, after recent
events In Hungary have, supposedly,
alarmed the allies and created nervous
ness among them, rather than to wait
nd balk only when final, concrete
peace terms are presented.
Germany is not bluffing. Her firm
stand on Danzig is an attempt to make
mmediate capital out of the Budapest
revolution and the specter of bolshe-
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Commissioners on Law Enforcement
and Immigration and Labor
Still to Be Named.
BOISE, Idaho, March 31. (Special.)
Idaho went under a new system of
state government today, the cabinet or
commission form. One member of the
cabinet, John ' Kirby White, qualified
by taking the oath of office and filing
his bond and immediately entered upon
his duties. He took over the manage
ment of the state sanitarium at Nampa.
Seven of the nine cabinet members
have been selected. The commissioners
of law enforcement and Immigration,
labor and statistics are still to be ap
pointed. Governor Davis stated today
that he had two men in view and was
endeavoring to get a definite under
standing with them.
Miles Cannon, commissioner of agri
culture: Jay Gibson, commissioner of
commerce and industry; C. A. Elmer,
commissioner of investments: W. Or.
Swendsen. commissioner of reclamation
entered upon their duties today. Com
missioner Gibson takes over the in
surance and banking departments;
Commissioner Elmer the supervision of
Investments; Commissioner Cannon the
farm market, state veterinarian, state
horticultural and other departments
and Commissioner Swendsen the state
engineers' department and other allied
offices.
Commissioner William J. Hall, of
Wallace, will be In the city this week
to assume his duties as head of the de
partment of public works. The land
board also held its last meeting under
the old government today.
Governor Davis announced . the ap
pointment of D. S. Wallace of Lewis-
ton, a prominent rancher of the Pan
handle, as deputy state farm market
director for northern Idaho, with head
quarters at Lewiston.
The public utilities commission an
nounces the appointment of Willard L.
Gorton of Richfield as engineer for the
commission. He is to take office May 10.
BRITISH TO AID ROUMANIA
Money to Be Loaned and Army of
150,000 Fully Equipped.
LONDON, March 31. The British
government has concluded arrange
ments for the opening of credits to
Roumania for the purchase of imme
diate ' necessities, especially railway
material. Complete equipment for an
army of 150,000 men also will be sent.
The O&nadian government Is grant
ing a loan of 325 000,000 to Roumania
for the purchase of agricultural netcs
sities.
ARGENTINE PLANS FLIGHT
Permission
to Attempt Air
Trip
Over Atlantic Asked.
BTJENOS AIRES, March 31. Captain
Zuloaga, who crossed the -tfndes in a
balloon in 1916, has asked permission
of. the Argentine war minister to at
tempt a flight across the Atlantic in
an airplane. The captain is the Ar
gentine military attache in Paris.
War Against Young Turks
to Be Continued.
DATE OF EXECUTION IS NEAR
Determination to Crush
Influences Voiced.
Evil
PRESIDENT IS PRAISED
'Help of God and Tour President
Awaited," Mohammed Vahid
Eddlt Tells Visitor.
BT WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
(Copyright. 1010. by the New York Herald
company. All Klgnis Keservea-j
CONSTANTINOPLE, March 31. (Spe
cial Cable.) Mohammed Vahid Eddit,
who under the title of Mohammed Sixth
was crowned sultan of Turkey last July,
today broke his steadfast rule of si
lence and granted an interview. While
in the sultan's palace I learned that
the drastic action begun by him against
the Young Turks last December was
rapidly heading. A cabinet minister,
who acted as interpreter for me, said
that within the next ten days certain
members of the one-time Young Turk
cabinet will be hanged. .
In his talk with me the sultan made
it plain that he proposed to continue
the war against the Young Turks and
to keep the fight in their camp. He
lamented the fact that as a rule of the
democratic, dictatorial methods of the
Young Turks many lovers of safety and
tolerance had been imprisoned, and
even he himself, as a champion 01
safety, tolerance and Justice, had been
cruelly misrepresented by them. The
sultan indicated that he was determined
to crush the evil influences of the men
responsible for the actions of the union
and previous party government, and
that all such men will be arrested and
severely punished.
. Mr. Wllaon Highly Regarded.
The sultan expressed high regard for
President Wilson, whose help on behalf
of Turkey he invoked.
The mltan received me in the Yildez
Kiosk overlooking the Bosphorus with
palaces and noble gardens on either
side. For an hour and a half he talked,
speaking earnestly. Now looking mc
squarely In the eye, now gazing fixedly
beyond to the blue water of the nar
row strait that connects Europe with
Asia the golden west with the mystic
east.
"We await the help of God and of
Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.)
Refusal of Illinois and Arizona
Councils to Advance Clocks
Interesting But Hopeless.
QCIKCY, m., March 31. The cham
ber of commerce of Mendon, 111., nea
here met yesterday and voted that th
war being over, clocks of the village
should remain as they were before
Sunday. The only clocks to be changed
were those In the railroad station and
the postoffice.
PHOENIX, Ariz.. March 31. Th
city of Phoenix and Maricopa county
are losing their fight against time. Th
county supervisors and the city com
mission both decided last week to re
tain standard time when other clocks
advanced an hour.
When the Associated Press advance
its -clock the newspapers followed sui
and it is expected that within a few
days the city hall and county office
clocks will be alone in their opposition
to the sudden flight of time.'
REDS SHELL ANGLO-YANKS
Intensive Bombardment on Dvlna
Declared Repulsed.
ARCHANGEL, March 30. (By the
Associated Press.) The bolshevikl car
ried out an intensive bombardment of
the American and British positions on
both banks of the Dvina, in the Tulgas
district, and at Kurgoman yesterday
afternoon. At midnight a large num
ber of the enemy infantry attempted to
attack Kurgoman. but were repulsed
by the allied artillery.
Numerous direct hits were reported
during the allied shelling of the vil
lage of Bolshoia Ozera yesterday. An
enemy plane which flew over the allied
positions along the railway dropped
propaganda, but no bombs.
LIGHTS T0 ACT AS CURFEW
Everett's "Knell of Parting Day" to
Be Blink Instead or Ring.
EVERETT, Wash., March 31. Cur
few will blink instead of ring after
tomorrow in Everett. Tonight curfew
bells were heard here for the last time.
In their place, beginning tomorrow
night, street lights will be blinked
when it is time to notify boys and girls
under 16 that the hour has come for
them to be at home.
The lights will blink at 9 P. 31 dnr
Ing the summer and 8 P. M. in winter.
VETERANS ENTER SCHOOL
Returned From France, Men Start
to Complete Education.
SEATTLE. Wash., March. 31. Khaki
overseas caps and suits were in evi
dence when the University of Wash
ington opened for its third quarter
here today.
University officials said they expect
ed the third quarter would eee possibly
3000 students attending, the largest
registration since the United States
entered the war.
NEWFOUNDLAND ICEBOUND
fVt&id Cut Off From Steamer Com
munication With Canada. .
ST. JOHNS, N". F., March 31. The
whole of New Foundland has been cut
off from communication by steamer
with Canada for more than a week
by the great ice blockade surrounding
the island.
The steamers Kyle and Sagona have
been unable to penetrate the ice fields.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature, 66
degrees; minimum, 42 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; heavy to killing frost;
gentle northwesterly winds.
War.
Official casualty list Page 13.
Foreign.
Long silence of Sultan broken. Page 1.
France to withdraw troops from Russia.
Page 1.
Hungary seeks line-up with Germany againat
entente. Page 1.
Allies to invade Germany if foe rejects terms.
Page 1.
Huns eager to tear armistice to bits. Page 1.
National.
Uncle Sam has no use for private espionage.
Page l'.
Disagreement with Mr. Root's views on
league predicted. Page 4.
War finance bonds on sale tomorrow. Page 7.
Domestic.
Japanese real menace in California, says
Senator Phelan. rage 1.
Ship scaffold at Delaware river launching
collapses. Aiany Killed or drowned.
Page 16.
Two cities fight against time resolute but
hopeless. Page 1.
Debs threatens to call general strike If not
given rehearing. Page
Several officers expected on Aqultanla fall
to arrive. Page 6.
Lowden looming large on republican party
horizon, rage o.
Part of wild west division arrives in U. S.
Page 6.
Pacific Northwest.
Idaho now under new government system. :
Page 1.
Sports.
New material needed to strengthen San
Francisco lineup. Page 14.
Walters, Coen and Swart z released from
Beavers' squad. Page 14.
Gorman and Harper signed for 12-round
fight in Vancouver April 9. Page 15.
Pitcher Cooper to be taken from Portland
by Buffalo. Page 15.
Commercial and Marine.
Heavy export buying stimulates all butter
markets. Page 23.
Squeeze of shorts causes flurry in corn at
Chicago. Page '23.
Stock market unsettled by reported dead
lock at Paris. Page 23.
West Celina added to Portland's oriental
fleet. Page 2.2.
Portland and Vicinity.
W. H. Crawford rearrested on wife's charges.
Page S.
Eastern Oregon marshals forces for victory
loan campaign. Page 12.
Inventory filed of H. L- Plttock estate.
Page 11.
Weather report, data and forecast. Paje 22,
REAL, SAYS PHELAfJ
Grave Peril Portrayed by
California Senator.
LAND LAW IS CIRCUMVENTED
Yellow Immigrants Become
Virtual Owners.
COOLIES ARE SMUGGLED IN
Foreign Element Is Declared to
Crowding White Farmers of .
State From Their Lands.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jlarch SI.
Measures to prevent orientals leasing
land In California and to abolish the
picture bride" practice, by which Jap.
anese women enter the United States
were advocated tonight by United
States Senator James D. Phelan In an
address before a joint session of th
California senate and assembly. H
urged amendment of the . state antl.
alien law along these lines.
'Notwithstanding the land laws th
Japanese are acquiring lands; notwith
standing the immigration laws and
agreements Japanese women are com
ing into the state and Japanese coolie
are being smuggled over the border,",
said Senator Phelan. "Their presence
prevents the legitimate use of land bjr
people coming from other states or
countries, whose presence would, polit
ically, patriotically, socially and indus
trially create American communities.
which are the units of national great
ness.
Land Law Circumvented.
It is important that a protest b
made that free immigration and equal
rights cannot be accorded to oriental.
peoples without imperiling our own na
tional existence and destroying west.
ern civilization.
It has been held that the anti-alien
land law of 1915 is constitutional, but
order to accomplish its purpose It
requires amendment. Its object wa
to prevent ownership of the soil of th
state by aliens ineligible to citizen
ship. It has been overcome by such
aliens forming corporations of which
there are 200 in the state, with an ag
gregate authorized capital stock of
more than J3, 000,000, by transferring
and to the names of minor children.
born upon the soil and therefore citi
zens, and by an indefinite extension of
the three-year lease authorized by law.
'The legislature should find a remedy
for these evasions of the true intent
and purpose of the statute.
Japanese Menace Conceded-
The Japanese menace seems to bm
onceded by all who desire to preserve
the soil of California for the wnita
race. The Japanese are non-asslmil-
ble and, therefore, they remain a per.
manently foreign element and do not
contribute as citizens to the well-be-
ng of the state. They are capable, how
ever, or crowding on me ianu liio
white farmer wno refuses to come down
to their standard of living and hours
work.
The territory of Hawaii Is under
the American flag, but It is a Japanese
plantation. There are probably one
tenth the number of Americans that
there are Japanese there. California is
xposed to the same danger.
When men seeking farms and em
ployment find themselves confronted
by a problem of this kind, with the
est lands of the state In the hands ot
aliens, whose 'competition is deadly to
American standards, despair will bs
followed by resentment and these con-
tions will breed I. W. W.'ism, bolshe-
ism and all the modern evils of &
eranged economic system.
Problem Confronts Powers.
The matter of Oriental immlgra.
tion has been brought before the con
ference in Paris, where the constitu
tion of the league of nations Is being
drafted. The Japanese, against th
protests of the United States and Aus
tralia, ask for racial equality. ,
"I do not believe that the confer
ence will attempt to so far trespass
upon the sovereignty of constituent na
tions as to dictate in matters affecting
immigration, naturalization, land own
ership, education, intermarriages and
the elective frinchise. but it must be
borne in mind that Japan Is one of ths
five powers, sitting in the conference,
and it must be made clear that the
United States regards this as a question
of self-preservation and cannot com
promise It. Unless a protest Is made,
however, the doctrine of acquiescence
will be invoked.
League Purpose Landed
"It Is vain to discuss the constitution
of the league of nations before it Is
finally submitted, but the principle of
a league of nations and the purpose
for which it shall be organized must
appeal to all men as a thing to be de
sired. It is hard to conceive any action
of a league, actuated by honorable
purposes, that Is not better than the
frightful waste, suffering and destruc
tion wrought by war. War la so costly
an enterprise, waged with modern
weapons, that only five of the nations
of the world can afford to engage In it,
and if they get together the danger
shall have passed.
"The economic discipline which they
can exercise on other nations should
be sufficient to prevent serious out
breaks anywhere. Under the aegis of
such a league. It is expected that the
free people of the world shall be al
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