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EDFORD
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REBUNE
Forty-Eighth Tear.
Dally Thirteenth Tw.
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1918
NO. 199
Y APPEAL
P
S TO WILSON FOR FOOD
E CONFERENCE ASKED
SQLF SEEKS
HELP FROM
PRESIDENT
German Secretary States That Fam
ine Impends and Reauests Inter
vention of President With Allies to
Relieve Armistice Conditions Also
Asks That Conference Be Called
tat Once. So as to Conclude a pre
liminary Peace.
LONDON. Nov. . (Dv The As
sociuted Press.) Germany has re
quested llio president of the United
Stales, according to a German wire
less message from Berlin, to arrange
immediately for the opening of pence
negotiations, there being a pressing
dancer of famine.
The message was sent by Foreign
Secretary Solf to Secretary of State
Lansing. It adds:
"The armistice beinir concluded,
the government requests the presi
dent of the United States to arrange
for the opening of peace negotiations.
"For the purpose of their accelera
tion, the .German irovernment pro
poses first of nil to take into view the
conclusion of a preliminary peace and
nsks for a communication as to what
place and at what time the negotia
tions might begin.
"As there is a pressing danger of
famine the German government is
particularly anxious for the negoti
ations to begin immediately."
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. The ap
peal of Dr. Solf, foreign secretary at
Iterlin for intervention bv President
Wilson for mitigation of the armistice
MYSTERY VEILS AMERICANS END
DESTINATION OF WAR BY TAKING
FORMER KAISER TOWN OF STENAY
Innlorious Entry Into Holland Bcl
qian Refuaees Shout Assassin at
William Hohenzollern Erstwhile
Martial Fiaure Humbled and Bent.
With Eves Starina Straight Ahead.
LONDON. Nov. 12. William Ho
henzollern. the former German emper
or, arrived Sunday at Count Rent
inek's chateau of Middnchten at Yelp,
near Ariihem, according to a dispatch
to the Daily Express daled Sunday at
felp.
An Amsterdam dispatch to the
Daily Express dated Sunday says
that the former German empress is
ill at Potsdam, near Iterlin, and that
the former crown princess is ut her
bedside.
Occupies Chateau
The dispatch from Yelp says that
an automobile contain:: two members
of tbe German court arrived first and
notified Count llentinck of the ap
proach of the former emperor. The
second ear brought baggage, while
the third, with its blinds down,
rived in the evening. From it the
former emperor and two equnrries,
all in vivilian clothes, alighted.
No one in the village of Vein, which
DEUTSCILLAND UBER HOHENZOLLERN!
Welcomed as Deliverers bv Popula
tionNews of Armistice Spread bv
Siqnal Corps German Ruthless
ness Still Rampant on Sunday
When Town Is Deluded With Gas.
WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES
OX THE MEUSH AND .MOSELLE,
Monday, Nov. 11. (By Associated
Press.) The last French town to
fall Into American hands before the
armistice went into effect was Stenay.
A quarter of an hour before 11
o'clock American troops rushed thru
the town and in a few minutes allied
flags were beginning to appear from
the windows. As the church bell sol
emnly tolled tie Hour of eleven,
troops from the 90th division were
pouring into the town.
Only a line of camp fires marks
the front tonight. Except for the
runiole of thousands of trucks and
other noises incident to the stirring
of enormous armies, there Is not a
sound to indicate that two great
forces are still facing each other.
The greater part of the 800 per
sons still remaining In Stenay were
In their cellars, fearfully awaiting
the .bombardment which they believ
ed would surely come, as the Amer
icans entered Stenay. Those few who
adorns the chateau, was . aware of hw gr6etell ,,, Americallg with tears In
urriva . i no luiiuer vm-uimui nm-i
IW GERMAN
GOVERNMENTTO
BE CIALIS
I
Ministry to Be All Red, With No Bour-
qeoise Parties Given Representa
tionRevolutionary ...Movement
Constantly Spreadina More Dis
tricts Comina Into Soviet Control.
YANKS KEPI IN
TRAIt
NAVY-10 POLICE
FOREIGN HERS
FOR THE ALLIES
HUN NAVY
1 RISK
SEA FIGH
I
occupies the ten wine oi inc cnaicun.
The dispatch adds that his wile will
probably be permitted to join him
there.
Mystery in .Movements
AMSTKUDAM, Monday. Sow 11.
A e.reut invsterv still is being made
f tbe destination in Midland ot W il-
terms to save Germany from starva- J liam llolieiiy.ollcrn. the former Gcr-
tion, was delivered to Secretary Lan
sing today bv .Minister Sulzcr of
Switzerland. It was sent immediate
ly to the president.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 The ap
peal of Dr. Solf. foreign secretary
at Berlin, for intervention bv Presi
dent Wilson to mitigate the "fearful
conditions" of the armistice, which
lie says threatens starvation and ruin
in Germany, had not reached Wash
ington todav, in official form. The
text of the .message as picked up last
night bv wireless, however, was he
fore the president and it may be given
immediate consideration.
Officials sitv Dr. Solf is needlessly
alarmed. While evcrv stipulation of
the armistice terms- must be kept in
force to prevent the possibility of
treachery, such rollinir slock and
ships as ninv he necessary to provide
food and other essentials will be put
into use in Germany and on the seas.
In view of the situation in Ger
many, where outside aid may be nec
essary to prevent anarchy, it is pos
sible that the president mnv sec fit
to take up with t ho allied govern
ments the question of giving some
kind of reassurance to the humane
purposes of the associated powers.
Anions other thiiiirs, it is under
stood, the plan is to put the German
merchant marine into service, us soon
as possible, niter the problem created
bv the naval revolt is cleared up, and
such vessels necessary will be em
ployed for sending supplies through
German ports.
Due precautions will be taken of
course, to see that their supplies arc
mail emperor. I nice qinercni coun
try scuts of the Pcntinek family now
arc mentioned as his temporary
abode.
The former German emperor made
an innlorious entry into Holland, ac
cording to reports from Kvsdcn. At
7::ill o'clock Sundav morning ten
travel-stained automobiles driven by
Prussian officers were seen coming
slowlv throi!jh the foe: along the
Yise-Mun.-lriclii high road. The last
Hcleian village. Moulaiid. was still
asleep. The noise of the motors
brought out n crowd of curious vil
lagers. In General s I inform
The former rulei- of Germany was
dressed in the uiiliorm of a general
with an officer's cap and curried n
sword. The erstwhile martial figure
was huddled and bent on a walking
stick, while his eves stared straight
ahead.
The Diilcb frontier guards stopped
the cortege. Alter some brief for
malities the automobiles were eon
ducted to the railway station at
Evsden. Dutch cavalry and military
cyclists formed a cordon about the
Motion. Crowds of Belgian refugees
swarmed around (lie station, crvimr:
"Alms (luillauinc! A assin!" An
imperial train arrived at the station
an hour later. It consisted of four
teen ears and William Ilohriizollcrn.
who had walked up ami down the
platform, entered the train and
changed to civilian clothes.
their eves. With trembling hands
they offered coffee and bread to
their deliverers.
The town Is not badly damaged by
shell fire but, according to the re
maining Inhabitants, has been plun
dered of nearly everything of value.
Ijist Hours of I tat tie
Signal corps wires, telephones nnd
runners were used in carrying the or
ders. Apparently the Germans also had
been eiiuallv diligent in "Ctting the or
ders to their front line.
The duv began with less firing nnd
doubtless the fighting would have
ended according to plan had there not
been a sharp resuniptftm on the part
of the German batteries. The Ameri
cans looked upon this as wantonly
useless. It was then that orders .vere
sent to the battery commanders for
increased fire.
German rulhlcssiicss was still ram
pant Sunday. Six hundred aged ineu
and women and children were in Mo
zav when the Germans attacked it
with lias. There was only a small
detachment of American troops there
and the town no longer was of strn
tegieol value. However, it was made
the direct target of shells filled with
phosgene. The enciiiv hurled them
into the town until every street reeked
with uus.-
(icrinnn Itllthlcssness
Not contented Willi this (ho Ger
mans again drenched the place with
gas lust nii:ht, even while thev were
eviictiatint' Stenay, a few miles to the
norlh. Prompt work bv the Atneri
can-, saved most of the eivihans from
PAIIIS, Nov. 12. The new Ger- WASHINGTON. Nov. 12 An im-
man government, It appears, consld-1 nortanl part in the proposed al'ter-
ered the armistice conditions at a
sitting lnte on Sunday at Herlln. Hav
ing decided to accept them, It tele
phoned instructions from Uerlln to
Spn, German hendquartors author
izing the delegates to affix their sig
natures to tbo agreement.
The courier who was waiting at
Rpa left Immediately for the lines
atnd crossed thorn without Incident
north of C'himay. He reached the
chateau do Francfort,at about 2
o'clock In the morning and found the
German plenipotentiaries waiting.
They ashed, after they had read their
instructions, to Hee Marshal Foch
who was In medal train on a
switch near the chateau.
Marshal Koch, with Admiral Sir
ftosslyn Weinyss, first lord of the
Hrltlsh navy received them. A dis
cussion which is described by the
Temps correspondent as being "rath
er long" look place upon certain
clauses, particularly that concerning
the maintenance of the blockade. The
German delegates signed the docu
ment at 5 o'clock.
Premier Clemenceau, receiving
correspondents today, said on the
question of the blockade:
"The German plenipotentiaries In
sisted, above all, upon the question
of food. We will malnluln, It Is
well understood, the blockade during
the term of tlio armistice. Neverthe.
less us tbe situation In Germany and
Austria Is desperate, wo will do
everything possible to feci! them that
we can In fairness to ourselves. It is
tho question of transport which dom
tbe-wiir international policing of the
seas is expected to fall lo the Ameri-
nn navy, l or that reason. II was
learned todav. there is no prospect of
any reduction in the present naval
strength, and Hie administration in
stead plans o press urgently for the
nnssage of the additional three-year
building program.
Because (he country has been less
hnrd hit by the war than Hie great
Kiiropcnn powers, it mnv assume n
liproportionate share of the sea po
lice work for a time at least.
Secretary Daniels said tmlnv it is
his desire to keep the building pro
gram moving forward so rapidly there
be no doubt of the ability of the
1'iiitcd States to furnish its full quo
in of naval power when the time
comes.
I nil German submarines nnd other
war cratt designated m the nnnistiec
terms have been surrendered nnd the
ivtiiiiindcr of the cnemv's naval forces
l.'surincd. Secretary Daniels said to-
Ijiv, the American navy will in no
wsiv relax its vigilance.
The navv department hud not been
nfficiulv notified early todav of the
sfiitialinn as to the German licet, said
lo be under control of revolutionary
omniiltccs.
Officer here can see no serious
threat of a renewal of hostilities be-
llllse thev believe thev crews of the
Gorman ships realize the utter hope
lessness of tiieir situation if thev at
tempt defiance.
Not Wanted by Dutch
Dispatches dater Monday in Am
tcrnidam reported that the former
devoted to the purposes for which ! German emperor is lo be interned and
thev nre intended. President Wilson also quoted the llandcNglml as suv-
hns nlreadv instructed Food Admin
istrator Hoover to proceed to Enroiw
nnd represent the United States in
dealing with the situation which will
include the enre of the German popu
lace ns well as the victims of Ihc war
in France nnd Helgiiim.
serious cull sco lie n ces.
Po.irlv elml ii ml showing plainly Inates all tlieso problems.1
evidences of malnutrition, the in
habitants irowded about the Ameri
cans, kissing their hands and hailing
them as deliverers. Thev virtually I
had bci n prisoners of war for four
yen rs.
The little children between G aid
1(1 years spoke German nltertuit.'iv
with l-rrii' h. It was the first tune
thev hud. seen Americans, and thev
showed plainly their nmazetiiclit.
By 2,000 MAJORITY
ST. PAl'L, Minn., Nor. 12. Offlc
lal and unofficial returns from every
county In Minnesota Indicate that
state-wide prohibition was adopted
at the recent election by a majority
of about 2000 votes.
ing he was nut wented in Holland.
Another di-patch said (hat officials j
ot t lie miteii government and tue iicr
man minister at Tbe Hague had gone
to 1'vsden to meet the German exiles.
AMSTKUDAM, Nov. 12. A sol
diers' council has been formed at the
front and will sulmilt Its demands to
Field Marshal von Illndenburg to
morrow, says a Wolff bureau dis
patch from German general headquarters.
M 75 PERCENT
NO MORECOFFICERS'
10 BE TRAINED
WASHINGTON', Nov. 12. Treas
ury advisers today recommended lo
Secretary McAdno that war risk In
surance rates on hulls, cargoes and
seamen's lives be reduced 75 per
cen t.
This means that rates on ships and
their cargoes thru tbo former war
zone will be reduced from two to
one-half of one percent, with other
rntes cut accordingly. Secretary Mc-
Adoo Is expected to upproto the sug
gestion Immediately.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. Orders
went out today to the heads or an
military departments to discontinue
at once Gin acceptance of applli utlons
for ndtnh-'sloii to the central officers'
training ramps. No derision has
been reached regarding tbe classes
now In progress at these rumps but
It was Intimated here that Hie stu
dents would bo permitted to complete
the course.
Cancellation nf oil draft calls yes
terday practically has nullified the
famous work or fight order promul
gated last summer. The work or
fight order falls by reason of the
fart that tbo only penally attached
was that of being placed In class one,
A BALE ON PEACE
XKW YOltK, Nov. 12. Cotton
dropped $10 a bale 111 the ninrket
here today. Traders seemed unuble
to Interpret tbe peace situation In Its
relation to tbe staple. The recession
of 200 points for the January option
was tile maximum movement permit
ted hy n rule adopted October K, by
the board ot malingers of tho Cotton
Lxchaimo designated to prevent ex
cersivo fluctuations during any one
(lay's trading.
AMSTERDAM. .Monday. Xov. 11.
German Socialists and Independent
Socialists have reached nn agreement
to form a joint cabinet from both par
ties the Wolff bureau reports. This
cabinet, it is said, consists of Pllilipp
Sehcidemnnn. vice president of the
reichstng. llerr Lnndsbiirg. member
of the reichstng. and llerr Geiterl. So
cialist, nnd Hugo llunse, Kieliard
Hiirth, editor of the orwnerts nnd
Wilhelm liittmiinn, member of the
reichstng, indeiitmdents.
Government AH ltml
COPENHAGEN. Monday. Nov. 11.
Germany's new provisional govern
ment will be nil red, that is to snv
the llourgeoise parlies will not be rep
resented in it. This will not be bci
cause of their unwillingness to par
ticipate, but becnuso the Socinlists
dofinilelv refused to permit the Pour.
geouise to enter the new government.
The plan is to give the independent
Socialists the vice chancellorship and
two other secretarial positions
There are indications, however that
independents will ilciiiaud more,
Support Kroin Press
AMSTKUDAM. Monday. Nov. 11.
An agreement lias been reached be
tween tho Socialists and independent
Socialist parties in Geriuiinv nnd the
new regime seems to have secured
ample support from I ho press. In
addition to the Wolff bureau tho So-
ialists are now represented by three
newspnpers. Hie Vorwaerts, the Uo
kal Anzoiger. formerly the emperor's
favorite newspaper, and now rcn-
cbristcued the "lied Flag " and the
former semi-official organ, the Ger
man Gazette, which has taken the new
title of "The International.
The revolutionary movement is con
tinually spreading. Uocnigsbcrg.
Frankfortt-on-Miiiii and Strassbiirg
are now controlled bv the Soviets. It
is officially reported that there nre
no disorders.
The statement issued bv Hie Herhn
soldiers nnd workers' council savs
all public services have been placed
under the control of the council and
that all the leading offices are being
tilled bv the comrades. The admin
istration it adds, is relaincd, "but its
leaders are inspired wilh the new
spirit of liberty."
The foundation of tbe new German
republic was proclaimed bv Pllilipp
Scheidemann from the steps of the
reichstng building.
PEACE CONFERENCE
LIKELY TO BE HELD
Mutinous Sailors in Control of Ger
man Navv Threaten Battle Rather
Than Submit to Terms of Armis
ticeWireless Calls Indicate Re
sistanceMomentum of Revolution
Increases France Had Been
of Invaders Before Armistice Siqned
INFLUENZA BAN LIFTED
Al VAMCOUVtK. WASH
VANCorVEII. Wash.. Nov. P-
llcullll mitlliirillcs here lilted the hun
toduv on publie gatherings of all
sorts, due to decrease ill eases ot'
Spanish ml biciin. The quarantine
of the Vancouver barracks was lifted
lust night mid several thousand sol
dices, alter having ebaleil all day at
their inability lo ioiu in the gcncriil
iolbl icatioii. look part in the evening
deijiiiiintiatiuii on the streets,
h s BY ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 12
Mutinous sailors who are In con
trol of most of the units ot Germany's
navy may, even at this late date, risk
battle against the allied fleets rather
than surrender their vessels linden
the terms of the armistice. Wlrelesa
messages to the vrrtous units have
been picked up, calling upon the
sailors "to defend tho country against
this unhenrd ot presumption." Tho
mossage directed that the units as
semble in Snssnltz harbor on the east
of the Island otRucgen, off the Prus,
slan coast.
Allied warships heve entered tho
Dardanelles nnd British naval forces
have occupied Alcxandrotta.
Itovnliitlon Increases
Field Marshal von Illndenburg',
who was reported to hnvo fled to Hol
land with his royal mastor, has Join
ed the revolutionary forces. He has
asked the soldiers and workmen's
council to send delegates at once to
main headquarters.
Everywhere In Gormnny the mo
mentum of the revolution which,
swont the old regime out of power
seems to be increasing.
There are evidences of friction be
tween the military authorities and
the Boldlers' and workmen's council
in ninny towns In northern Germany,
the authority of the hitter being
questioned. It is reported that civil
administrations have been provision
ally organized where there Is any
danger of a conflict between parties.
Allied I tal I te. Lino
When the last shot was fired the
allied battle line from the Dutch bor
der to Switzerland was approximately;
ns follows:
The frontier of Holland north ot
Solzaete to Ghent to east ot Audon
ardo to Grammont to east of Mons
to east of Mnuheuge and thence east
of tho Franco-Belgian border to
north of Itocrol. Thenco the line wns
along the Mouse from the Mezleres
to Sedan and across the river In tho
region of Stenay. Then southeast
ward of Pont-a-Mousson. The line
then paralleled tho Lorraine frontier
to west of Marklrch where It entered,
Alsace, whence it ran southward to
Switzerland on a line about twenty,
miles west ot tho llhlno.
France hnd been entirely clonred
of the Invudors except for the nnrrow
strip ot territory from the Meuse to.
Alsace.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. Indica
tions are that the United Slates gov
ernment will bo represented at the
forthcoming peaco conference by at
least half a dozen prlnclpuls, with a
numerous body of secretaries, coun
selors, translators anil clerks, and It
Is assumed that even the smallest ot
tho nations which will participate
will seek to make a show In point of
number of delegates.
This fact may Involve the transac
tion ot most of the business of the
conference by selected commltteos
which will represent In Ihelr compo
sition every element and whoso re
ports will come before the full con
ferenco for ratification.
While It has been urged that tho
conference gather in somo historic
spot in France, objection may lie
ugalnst that proposition based gen
erully on the accepted view that such
meetings Hhniild be held at n point
where they can be qulto free from the
charge of any local influence.
OF ALASKA RAILROAD
SEATTLE. Wash.. Sow 12. E. 0.
Mcl'orinick, San Francisco, vice pres
ident of the Southern Pneifie railway
company, nnd other members of n
federal commission, have returned
from Alaska, where thev were sent
bv Secretary of the Interior Frank
lin K. I.ane to studv tho resources
of the territory, especially alone tho
line of Hie Scwnrd-Fairbanks govern
ment railroad.
Mr. Mcl'orinick said he found rap
id construction progress mado on tho
mail, especially in the eon! regions.
A forinul report dealing with the coat
possibilities is to be made to the sou-'
returv.
CROWN PRINCE RUPPRECHT
OF BAVARIA IN FLIGHT
THE TIACU'K." Nov. 11. Crown
Prince Huppreclit of Havana, com
niutiilcr of tbe German northern nrniv
group, and his stuff biive fled from
l.iege, where Hie Garrison bus revolt
ed, according lo Hie IIcIkuui news
paper, l.es Nuuvelk'a, , , ,