WORLD HAPPENINGS
Of CURRENT WEEK
TREATIES DENOUNCED
Supreme Allied War C'ouncil Flay* Ger­
man Policy of Plunder in Rusaia
- Entente Will Not Falter.
(I. S. MAY HAVE TO
EAT LESS WHEAT
ADVANCE CONTINUES
Teutons Take Nikolayev, Near Odessa,
Where Rich Wheat Storage is
Sewed No Itesistanre Met.
ALLIES WILL TAKE
London The Germans have occupied
Iondon — The supreme war council
Nikolayev, in addition to Odessa, ac­
f the allies issued a statem ent Mon­
Brief Resume Most Important ty night condemnning German polit­ Food Authorities Contemplate cording to a Reuter dispatch from Million Tonnage Available in
Petrograd.
ical crimes against the Russian and
All Parts of the World.
Daily News Items.
Further Restrictions.
Both Odessa and Nikolayev were
the Roumanian peoples, and refusing
taken without lighting. The fleet at
i to acknowledge Germany’s peace trea­
Odessa had fled to Sebasto|sd.
ties with them, and also declaring:
The Germans immediately suppressed
“ We are fighting, and mean to con­
the soviets in Istth cities and seized HOLLAND TO BE PAID
COMPILED FOR YOU tinue fighting, in order to finish at SUPPLIES ARE SHORT the
naval yards at Nikolayev.
once for all with this policy of plun-
The German advance continues in
; der, and establish in its place the
the direction of Kherson.
reign of organized justice. ”
Event* of Noted People. Government* peaceful
The council’s statem ent, which is Allies Have Been Promised 90.#00.0U0 The first trains direct from Berlin Besides Compensation U. N. Will Per­
arrived in Odessa Sunday.
issued through the Foreign office says : Bushel* Between January 1 and
mit Export of Breedstnffs Which
and Pacific Northwest and Other
“ The Prime m inisters and Foreign
Nikolayev, about 40 miles north­
Holland Sorely Needs.
Thing* W orth Knowing.
Julv 1. and Will Receive It.
m inisters of the entente assembled in
west of Kherson, on the Bug
’ London feel it to be their bounden duty
River, has occupied an im|>ortant place
to take note of the political crimes
in the naval defenses of Russia. It
which,
under
the
name
of
a
German
All Abiline, Tex., churches will be­ peace, have been committed against Washington, D. C. — While the food has a great navy yard and is the seat Washington, I). C. — A million tons
a m ilitary governor who is com­ of Dutch ships, now held in porta the
gin a series of prayer meetings to the
people. Russia is un­ adm inistration was making plans to of
mander
of the Black Sea fleet. The world over, through Holland's fear of
pray for rain, and continue until the armed. Russian
Forgetting
that
for
four
years
meet the critical wheat shortage by a approaches
city are strongly Germany’s threat to sink them if they
extended drouth is broken.
j Germany had been fighting against the further reduction in consumption, the fortified. to Its the population
i* about venture out, will be brought into the
independence
of
nations
and
the
rights
Teenie Johnson, mother of Jack
service of the United States and Great
senate
again
took
up
and
debated
100,
000.
Johnson, ex champion pugilist, died in of mankind, the Russian government,
Britain on March 18.
Nikolayev
lies
about
70
miles
north­
legislation
to
increase
production
by
in
a
mood
of
singular
credulity,
ex­
Chicago Tuesday night. Jack is sup­
Unless the Netherland government
east
of
Odessa,
and
is
reported
to
be
pected to obtain by persuasion that raising the price on the 1918 crop.
posed to be in Barcelona, Spain.
Russia’s great wheat-storing center. braves the menace of Germany’a pres­
‘democratic
peace’
which
it
had
failed
The
food
administration
was
stirred
H aw aii’s second tied Cross drive
An American grain cx|>ort, who re­ sure and voluntarily acrepta an agree­
by war.
to action by reports from the depart­ turned
will be held in May. The date has to “ obtain
recently from that area, saiil ment under whirh the ahi|Mi would be
The
results
were
that
the
interm
e­
ment
of
Agriculture
showing
that
the
been as May 6 to 13, and the amount diate armistice had not expired before supply of wheat on farms and in coun­ that the storehouses of Nikolayev con­ put in trade, the United Stales and
to be raised has been set at $250,000. the German command, though pledged try elevators is far less than it was a tained 6,000,000 bushels of wheat.
Great Britain will take them over un­
der
international law, availing them ­
W’ithin
recent
years
the
ini|>erial
The Delaware senate has ratified the not to alter the disposition of its year ago.
constituted Nikolayev the selves of a sovereign right which Ger­
Federal prohibition constitutional troops, transferred them en masse to The senate considered a bill by Sen­ government
base for the Black Sea many herself has hitherto exercised
amendment by a vote of 13 to 3. It the western front, and so weak did ator Gore, of Oklahoma, to fix the shipbuilding
under the same authority.
passed the house last week. Delaware Russia find herself that she dared to price at $2.50, or 30 cents a bushel Ilf t.
The
naval
works
have
an
area
of
notice haa been presented to
raise
no
protest
against
this
violation
is the ninth state to ratify the amend­
more than set in a recent proclamation nearly 200 acres and equipment for the The Formal
Hague by the American and B rit­
of Germany’s plighted word.
ment.
by President Wilson. In the house employment
ish diplomatic representatives of the
of 10,000 men.
followed was of like charac­ Monday also a bill was introduced by
Free moving picture shows at which ter, “ What
allied government*’ intention. As a
when
‘the
German
peace’
was
Representative
Morgan,
of
Oklahoma,
patriotic speeches and the doctrine of translated into action. It was found to appropriate $300,000,000 to compen­
result, Saturday, the Netherlands min­
O R G A N I Z E G E R M A N C A P T I V E S ister, August PhillifM. acting under in­
buying war savings stam ps will be ex­ to
involve
the
invasion
of
Russian
ter­
sate
producers
for
the
losses
they
sus­
pounded is an idea worked out by the
the destruction or capture of all tained when the government establish­ German* Mobilize Prisoners Into Two struction* of his government, made a
Japanese war savings stamps sales ritory,
final |s-r*onal ap|s-al to President Wil­
Russia’s
means of defense and the or­ ed its 1917 prices at a figure lower
committee of Honolulu.
son at least to modify the decision.
Full Army Corps.
ganization of Russian lands for Ger­ than the then market price.
Plans of the Coreans' in Hawaii to many’s profit—a proceeding which did Senator Williams, of Mississippi, Tokio—It is reported that the Ger­ The Associated Press is able to say
organize into m ilitary bodies, train not differ from annexation, because Democrat, opposed price-fixing legis­ mans are trying to organized two army that the President saw no reason for
the decision, and that unless
secretly and on a certain date secure the word itself was carefully avoided. lation, declaring farmers should be al­ corps
German war prisoners in altering
the
shifts
turned over Monday a
passage to Corea and there begin wag­ “ Meanwhile those very Russians lowed a free market for their products. Russia. of One
corps, it is said, is being Presidential are proclamation
lie is­
ing a war against Japan were disclosed who had made m ilitary operations im­ The seriousness of the situation is secretly organized
Irkutsk, Siberia. sued taking over the shifts in will Ameri­
in the Honolulu Circuit Court in the possible found diplomacy impotent. shown by a frank admission at the Two cavalry corf» at also
are being can ports, of which there are alsiut 80.
Corean riot case.
Their representatives were compelled food administration that existing flour formed.
Many more, however, are in British or
proclaim that, while they refused to stocks are only 80 per cent of the nor­
Because of a government order pro­ to
other
port*.
read
the
treaty
presented
to
them,
quantity needed until July 1.
Tokio—Premier Terauchi and Fore­ From allied
hibiting the use of certain grades of they had no choice but to sign it; so mal Food
the
American official (stint of
administration
officials
thought
ign
Minister
Motono
told
parliament
leather in the m anufacture of army they signed it, not knowing whether the departm ent’s estimate of 180,000,-
view,
the
action
is one into which the
shoes, several plants at Brockton, in its true significance it meant peace 000 bushels of wheat in elevators and Monday nothing had been decided u|s>n allied governments
have been forced
with
reference
to
the
Siberian
situa­
Mass., were forced to suspend opera­ or war, nor m easuring the degree to on farm s March 1 was optimistic and
by
the
German
duress
of Holland,
tions in some departm ents until the which Russian national life was re­ said their best information was that tion.
whirh
may
now
see
her
ships
in trade
The
m
ilitary
situation
has
reached
a
m atter is adjusted.
again, and can point out to Germany
duced by it to a shadow.
125,000,000 bushels was the greatest state of perfected pareparedness.
that they were taken through no will
Men engaged in planting or culti­ “ For us of the entente governments amount that could be expected.
Sunday night the Seiyukai (constitu­ of
her own.
vating a crop are to be allowed by ex­ the judgment which the free peoples The allies have been promised 90,- tional)
party, the largest in the diet, Coming
emption boards to continue their work of the world will pass on these trans­ 000,000 bushels of grain between Jan­ held a conference
at a time when the dire
and
reaffirmed
its
until finished, although their draft actions would never be in doubt. Why uary 1 and July 1. There is no inten­ fiosition taken at a recent meeting in need of the allied cause is fur shifts,
numbers are reached, according to or- waste tim e over German pledges when tion of failing to carry out this pro­ opposition to immediate mobilization. this acquisition of a million tuna is of
ders received at Springfield, 111, from we see that at no period in her history gram which is regarded as the most The press is almost unanimous in urg­ tremendous importance.
the W ar departm ent.
of conquest—not when she overran Si- important duty now confronting the ing mobilization. The Ashai Shimhun Every arrangem ent has been made
and the Yorodzv Choho say they are for the compensation of the N ether­
Preparation of February pay allot- *e8' a nor w'hen she partitioned Poland American people.
she exhibited herself so cyni­ Owing to shortage of transportation, unable to understand A m erica's “ ex­ lands for the ships.
m ent and government allowance checks —has
of national inde­ the greater part of the export program cessive generosity” toward Russia, They will be insured ami armed, and
for dependents of soldiers has been cally as a destroyer
the implacable enemy of the remains to be carried out and the now giving supplies to Germany and if any be lost they will be replaced.
delayed by receipt of more than 60,000 pendence.
of man and the dignity of civil­ wheat must be obtained from the scant imperiling the stores in Vladivostok. Besides m aterial comfs-nsaion for their
letters of inquiry concerning the pay­ rights
ized
nations?
Poland, whose heroic supply in this country by curtailm ent Suspicions in regard to Japan weak­ use, the United States will perm it the
ments, and two weeks more may be spirit has survived
the most cruel of of individual consumption.
en the allies, they assert, adding that export of breadstuff* and rattle foods,
required to complete the work.
national tragedies, is threatened with Wheat holdings at country mills and it is Japan’s duty to work in the in­ which Holland needs sorely for her
Official notice appears in the O tta­ a fourth partition, and to aggravate
on March 1 were estimated terests of peace and humanity by as­ own people, and in addition will re­
wa, Canada, Gazette of an order in her wrongs, devices by which the last elevators
by
the
departm
ent of Agriculture at sisting to crush Germany. The Ko- store the interrupted trade of Holland
council prohibiting the export of news trace of her independence is to be 68,972,000 bushels.
That is about 2o,- kumin Shimbun issued a call to arms, with her colonies by guaranteeing
print paper and wood pulp from Can­ crushed are based on fraudulent prom- 000,000 bushels less than was held saying
for her ships in that trade.
that America is sincerely bunkers
ada except under license. Licenses ' ises of freedom.
By this arrangem ent, officials (joint
March
1
last
year,
and
86,000,000
friendly,
but
mistaken.
are to be issued by the m inister of cus­ “ W hat is true of Russia and Poland bushels less than in 1916.
further responsibility for final
The Ashahi Shimbun, of Osaka, out,
toms at the request of the W ar Trade is no less true of Roumania, over­
shoratga in The Nsthnrlanda, if there
voices
the
opinion
widely
held
among
board.
whelmed in a flood of merciless passion
the middle classes that extensive mo­ be one, will rest on Germany.
P E A C E T R E A T Y IS R A T I F I E D bilization would create acute distress
Mobilization of women workers for 1 for domination.”
industrially and in regard to the food C O N G R E S S TO SIT IN C O U N C IL
industry and for the farms will be The protest includes:
taken up at a conference of women’s “ Peace is loudly advertised, but un­ Final Action Taken by Bolsheviki to supplies.
organizations in Washington March 25, der the disguise of verbal professions
Make I’eace With Germany.
Iondon—The evacuation of Petro­ War Department Invites legislators to
called by the United States Employ­ lurk the brutal realities of war and the
Keep in Tosrh With Fighting.
Moscow- The all-Russian congress grad has been completed, according to
m ent service. The aim is to build up untempered rule of lawless force.
a reserve army to answer emergency “ Peace treaties such as these we do of soviets has ratified the peace agree­ a Reuter dispatch from that city, quot­ Washington, D. C.—The adm inistra­
not and cannot acknowledge.”
ment with Germany by a large m ajor­ ing an official communication.
calls.
tion formally embarked Saturday on a
“
As
incidents
of
this
long
war
un­
None
of
the
population
will
be
per­
ity.
[*>licy of taking congress completely
Wonderful results in the curing and roll themselves before our eyes, more A Bolshevik resolution approving mitted to leave the city hereafter and, into
its ronfidenre as to the progress
treatm ent of leprosy by the use of an and more clearly do we percieve that the acts of the government of the in order to make certain that the order of war
preparations and developments
oil extracted from an obscure East In­ the battles for freedom are every­ workmen’s and soldiers’ delegates and is obeyed, all passenger train service on the fighting
front in Europe.
dian plant, known as “ chaulmoogra, ” where inter-dependent; th at no sepa­ of the peace delegation, and calling has been suspended.
At
the
invitation
of Acting Secre­
have been secured by the French gov­ rate enumeration of them is needed and for organization of the defense of the The council of commissaries of “ the tary Crowell, members
of the senato
ernm ent in Tahiti and other Polynesian that
in
every
case
the
single,
but
all-
commune
of
Petrograd,”
which
will
be
country
by
the
creation
of
a
national
m
ilitary
committee
were
suasion at
possessions, according to Dr Felix sufficient, appeal is to justice and army of both sexes was passed after the official designation of Petrograd the War departm ent for in nearly
two
Gautier, chief, of the French govern­ right.
and
surrounding
district
in
the
future,
Lenine’s
restoration
of
peace
among
hours
with
the
full
memljership
of
the
m ent’s medical service in Polynesia.
“ Are justice and right going to win? the warring factions and his statem ent has authorized the reappearance of so- War Council, and beginning next week
Joseph A. Susskind and his brother, Insofar as the issue depends on battles that this action was the only way out, called bourgeoisc newspapers, which will meet with that laxly «very Satur­
Harry J. Susskind, collected $750,000 yet to come, the nations whose fate is intim ating that the treaty m ight be had been suppressed since the begin­ day morning.
Members of the house committee
gross in tips for checking hats and in the balance may surely put their broken under changed circumstances. ning of the German offensive.
will meet with the council and a sim i­
coats in New York restaurants and ho­ trust in the armies, which even under The opposition, notably the Social
British Bomb Teuton City.
tels in seven years, according to state­ conditions more difficult than the pres­ Revolutionaries of the left, made a
lar arrangem ent for weekly meetings
m ents made in the Supreme Court in ent have shown themselves more than valiant but futile effort to prevent the London — A British air squadron will be made with that committee.
Brooklyn, by Joseph, who asked for a equal to the great cause entrusted to acceptance of the treaty, which was bombed Zweibrucken Sunday, says the Probably a large risim will be obtained
characterized by the m inister of jus­ British official report on aviation. later so that the committees of both
dissolution of the hat checking part­ ; their valor.”
nership and the appointment of a re­ Meetings of the supreme war council tice as being “ anti-revolution and “ Fourteen heavy projectiles and ten houses may he received in joint ses-
and im portant political conferences un­ anti-socialistic.”
ceiver.
lighter bombs were dropped on bar- aion.
der the presidency of Prem ier David He said that the Social Revolution­ racks, munition factories and the
Thus the War departm ent meets the
It is confirmed th at the two Ameri- Lloyd-George were held in Downing ary party repudiated the responsibility way station at Zweibrucken,” the rail-
insistent
demand of congress for a
re-
can engineers captured by brigands in street Thursday, Friday and Saturday for the acceptance of the treaty, would port says. “ Explosions were seen all greater share
the conduct of the
Northern Honan and held prisoner for They were attended by the premiers of resign from the government and devote around the station. Our airplane war and removes in the
cause which
ransom are E. J. Pursell, of Philadel­ France and Italy and other ministers, all its power and influence to the or­ formation was attacked by hostile led the senate com m real
ittee’s
prolonged
phia or St. Paul, Minn., and G. A. with their m ilitary and expert ad­ ganization of armed resistance to Ger- scouts and anti-aircraft guna, but all investigation of the army with
its a t­
Kyle, of Portland, Or.
visers.
| man imperialism.
tendant bitter criticism.
our machines returned Hafely. ”
A further extension of commercial
Reutons Meet Resistance.
Maxim Ship to Be Tested.
Austrian Strikes Spread.
Ukraine Grain Divided.
relations between Argentina and Washington,
D.
C.
—
A
resolution
Washington,
D.
C.
—
Hudson
Max­
Amsterdam
— Strikes are again in Washington, I). C.—According to an
France is provided for in an arrange­ asking Secretary Daniels for all infor­
m ent concluded by the French m inister mation in his possession regarding im ’s device for a non-sinkable ship has progress in Austria and Hungary and official dispatch received from Copen­
for the purchase in Argentina of a published charges that the troopship been accepted for experim ental pur­ are spreading rapidly, according to re­ hagen Friday and quoting from the
poses by the Shipping Board, which ports appearing in German newspa­ National Tidende, Germany and Aus­
large amount of supplies.
Tuscania, torpedoed off the Scotch announces some start should be made pers. A Vienna dispatch to the Weser tria will divide equally until July 31
Attacking over an 11-mile front on coast with 2000 American soldiers toward producing vessels th at could Zeitung, of Bremen, dated Friday, the amount of grain available in Uk­
the coastal sector in Palestine, East aboard, was abandoned by her crew not be sunk by submarines.
says th at a strike in Budapest and Vi­
Anglian, South Anglian and Indian without effort to save the passengers Out of thousands of methods sug­ enna was suspended Thursday. A Vi­ raine.
During the earlier portion of this
troops have advanced to an average was introduced Tuesday by Represent­ gested, the ship protection committee, enna dispatch to the Ix>kal Anzeiger, period
Austria will have two-thirds
depth of three miles, according to an ative Steenerson, of Minnesota.
headed by John A. Donald, has se­ of Berlin, confirms the report of last and Germany one-third of all grain
official statem ent issuedjby the London One of the soldiers aboard the ship lected several for special tests, of week th at workmen In railway shops obtained. During the second half the
w ar office.
made such charges in a letter home.
have gone on strike.
which Mr. Maxim’s will be first.
proportions will be reversed.