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Papal Nuncio at Vienna Tells
Critical for the Teutonic Military combine Evidence
of Bitter Opposition to Junker Plans Seeps Across Swiss
Border Traffic at Budapest Stepped by Strikes 31
Strike Meetings Held There Austria Hates Von Bulow
. By John H. Hearle?,
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
Rome, Jan. 21. Greatly stirred by President Wilson's
democratic outline of war aims, Austria-Hungary is
smouldering with a blaze of opposition to militarist Ger
many, according to reports to the Vatican, received from
the papa nuncio at Vienna.
It was understood he described the situation in the
dual monarchy as "most critical for the Teutonic military
combine."
President Wilson's speech to congress, it was asserted,
has given a remarkable impulse to democratic peace
ideas in the whole nation. Industrial chaos of more than
a mere local nature is reported. Grievous differences
have developed between Emperor Karl and the Pan-German
leaders.
The kaiser, it was declared, is trying to smooth out
these disagreements by supporting Foreign Minister Von
Kuehlmann against Von Bulow, who is hated in Austria.
The Corriere DTtalia, the Vatican organ, declared
positively today:
"We are facing a true Austrian pronouncement against
Ludenorff, Hoffmann and German imperialism."
Evidence of Austria-Hungary 's bit
ter opposition to the junker annexa
tionist plans is accumulating in scores
of reports seeping across the Austrian
Swiss border and being received here.
The Austrian newspapers do not hesi
tate violently to attack General Hoff
mann or Prince Von Bulow himself
for imperialistic jdans and for their
acquiescence 5u the schemes of the
i o,:i ...... i;.,,-.
UUllimU UIC Bj'HTHUUli j
throughout the dual monarchy ewe
not only to demand for food, but to
the people's opposition to continuance
of the war purely to satisfy militarist
and junker cliques.
. Austrian Strikes Spread
Zurich, Jan. 21. All Austria-Hungary
is crying cut for peace.
Reports today show general strikes,
declared Fiiday, spreading throughout
the nation. Leaders of the movement
ue preventing violence everywhere
They have issued a manifesto demand
ing assurances that the peace negoti
ations be'not frustrated through "ter
ritorial demands of the pan-Germans.'
Dispatches today indicated that at
Budapest tho entire railway, trnmway
)nnd lumleirgrolind services had stop
ped. Thirty one separate strikers'
meetings were held.
At Cracow, great demonstrations
were reported. The shops have been'
ordered -closed and the public forbid
den to congregate on the streets alter
C o'clock at night. "
At Vienna the strike movement was
reported spreading throughout upper
nnd lower Austria into Bohemia and
Moldavia.
Emperor Karl, according to one re
port here, sumonod the mayor of
Grntz to Vienna, but the mayor tele
phoned to the palace that the situa
?jc Sjc j( fi 3(C fi JC
Abe Martin
mi
Th' question at Washington ain't'with the coat of tar and feathers. He, shooting test failed to hit the target
so much shall MeAdon run the rail-!r.E3 !:ft tied hand and foot- Deputy I once out of 10 shots fired. Which fact
roads, as it is who will run McAdoo. sheriff found him later in the morn- entitles the innoeent bystanders to an-Scc-ins
like the less eoal the more cold, ing and took him to a hospital- other shudder.
, V"
Vatican editions Are "Most
tion in Gratz was "too seous for him
to leave. "
Germans Mass Troops
Pari3, Jan. 21. Several hundred
thousand German troops have been
brought into Belgium during the past
few weeks. The little kingdom has lit
erally been crowded with men and mu
nitions, according to word received
here today. Dispatches from Amster
dam report tho
Limburg filling
Belgian province of
up with Austrian
troops.
All the concentration is apparently
in preparation for the long advertised
west front drive-
To Hearten tier People
London, Jan. 2t Turkey's situation
in the war has become so serious that
she took the desperate chance of send
ing out the old Goebcn and the Bres
lau to fight British patrol vessels on
the faint hope of returning
after sinking a couple of good
sized ships and thus bucking up a de
clining Turkish morale.
This was tho interpretation placed
today on the Dardanelles engagement.
The Goebcn, re-named the Miduliu,
was sunk by the alert British patrol
beats anl the Breslau, renamed the
Yawns. Sulim, was beached. Two small
(monitors were all the losses incurred
by the British.
A Quiet Night Says Haig
London, .Jan. 21. A quiet night,
with only a few patrol encounters in
which some prisoners were taken, was
reported by Field Marshal Haig today.
Negotiations not Ended
Copenhagen, Jan. 21- Prior to leav
ing Brest-Litovsk at last week's ter
mination of the Rnsso-Gernian peace
negotiations, Russian Foreign Vis-
;ter Trctsky told German Foreign sec-
jretnry Kushlmann that he must not
lconider the negotiations discontinued.
laefoiding to word received today-. The
Kusuin leader declared the meetings
would be resumed within a week.
Russians Send Protest
Petroprnd, .Ian- 21. Formal protest
was sent to Tokio by the people's com
missaries today against landing of any
Japanese troops at Vladivostok.
Dispatches
liitini that
from Tbkio,
warships had
while
been
ad-des-
paiciea mere 10 .u , re per p.uieo-
tion
a me.il ('itLzenn and allied Droit-1 .
erty, insisted
lauded.
that no troops had been
TARRED AND FEATHERED
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 21. Don Le-
Iv, a German, 29 vears old. working j
as 'a chauffeur for "a prominent Seat-
tie physician, was tarred and feath-
owl i:,n,t midnicht Vridav night hv a
i.artv of five men. Th men drove np
to the garage nere ler,oy was em
ploye., seized tim, muffled his head
blanket and dashed down ftie roaa
iway-
Several miles out of the city his ab-
jduftors. choosiue a secluded spot, cut
leff Lf-Pf's clothes and painte-l him
WHOLESALE PLOI TO
BURN SHIPS, DOCKS
Heavy Guards Placed At AD
Yards Schooner Burned
Last Night
San Francisco. Jan. 21. Additional
precautions to guard the San Francisco
and Oakland waterfronts were taken
today following the breaking out of a
sudden mysterious fire on the steam
schooner Wahkeena, whose superstruo
turo burned to the water's edge as she
lay iu her slip this morning.
The fire was regarded as significant,
coming as it did immediately on tho
heels of information received in federal
circles of a widespread plot by eneniv
agents to wage a campaign of terror on
Pacific coast waterfronta. Nearly 200
blue jackets from the San Pedro naval
training station arrived at Goat Island
today ' to assist in the work of patrol
ling the front. Six men and a petty of
ficer were placed during the night on
every large vessel in tho harbor.
The strictest measures to keep plot
ters off the vessels have been put into
effect. Nobody will be permitted to
board any ship unless he bears a pass
or is able to establish his identity be
yond question. Customs officers and na
val men are co-operating in this work.
All wharves are under close guard.
According to reports which cannot
be officially conf irmtd, federal offi
cials have conclusive evidonco that I.
W. W. agents are in a gigantic plot
to burn ships and docks at many points
on the Pacific coast. Tho exact time
when the plot was to culminate has
not been stated but it is supposed to
have been the latter part of January.
In addition to the activity of naval
and customs men, the big shipbuilding
companies on San Francisco bay havi
also taken extraordinary precautions.
Doublo guards have lieen placed at all (
ot tnese ana ponce ana lire reserves iu
Oakland and San Francisco are in con
stant readiness to meet any emergency
that may arise.
New York Takes Precautions
New York, Jan. 21. New York's
shore lines were under a reinforcing ,
guard today, following rumors tnat
plans were being made by Germans
and anti-British elements to begin .i
reign of terror by fire tomorrow nighr.
Ship plans, piers and warehouses were
watched carefully. So many ships have
been held through lack of fuel that an
attack on them would cause enormoi'9
destruction.
ERICAN SOLDIER
urnrc roFMPU p or
LUU 1 HLIlUil UlillJ
Now He Is Studying and She
is Trying to Master tne
English Tongue
By J. W. Pegler
(United r'ress Staff Correspondent)
Vith the American Army in France,
Jan. 22. tihe is studying Kugliah; he
is spending all his spare time learning
to parle Francais especially iu the
evenings in the barracks when tho
others have crawled into their bunks
and blown out their candles.
Vou sec, he and she were. married a
week ago in the ancient village church.
It was a whirlwind courtship. He won
her heart over a handsome young poilu,
native of the same village. The groom
he is a first class American righting
man met her in a muddy village street
one night and helped her. drive in a
dozen fractious cows. The next nigJit
he called at her home, donned au apron
and helped wipe the supper (dishes.
Just a week ago the Sammy skipped
away from his regiment with a couple
of friends and fonnd her waiting with
her father at the village cliurcli. Tho
village priest soon tied the international
knot. Keturning dutifully to camp, the
bridegroom was arrested for leaving
then quaranteened for a" few cases of
the mumps. The happy groom drew six
ty days labor with a wood chopping
company. It was a hard comedown from
his soft berth with a headquarters com
pany but the vision of his brunette
bride, with her flashing black eyes wait
ing in the little farm village relieves
. Hammv. ,.. ,... of j.a(,k.break
ing labor,
. . ' -
The United Press staff correspondent
saw him tonight in barracks. I found
I him lying on a bunk with a sputtering
! candle burning above his pillow labor-
y parsing I rench verbs in the
!'ering, dicing light,
"A nde like her is worth sixty
vears of woodchopping " sa.d he. " Her
name n Louise, one n aim ine nauu
ter of the village harness maker. I m
; twenty and I live at Cedar Grove, Iowa.
I'm just a rearing to go to the trenches.
After the war I'm going to take my
jwife back to Cedar Grove, where dad
owns a big farm."
tignteen 1'ortiana policemen ai pisioi
M'ADOO NOT IN PAVOR OF
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHI P
OF RAILROADS AFTER WAR
Washiuffton, Jan. 21. Before thirty
days application of the Garfield, Mon
day holiday - order ' may be discontin
ued, Director General McAdoo declar
ed today before the interstate com
merce committee.
Summoned before the committee to
explain further the proposed operation
of the railroads under federal control,
McAdoo declared the "holiday" prob
ably will not be necessary beyond the
middle of February.
" At the Bame time, he startled mem
bers of tho committee with the dec
laration that between $1,000,000,000
and $1,500,000,000 must be put into
the railroads by the federal treasury
to make them effaetivo in the trans
portation crisis. I
McAdoo said hi survey of the rail
situation has convinced him govern
ment funds must go into the roads to
help them expand.
He rorocast tho continuation or gov
ernment control for some time when
ho said congress should net limit gov
ernment control to any detinue period
If government control is limited to the
duration of tho war or for p fixed
time afterwards, McAdoo warned the
committee, financial ichiaoat is iiKeiy
when the roods are turned back.
Hasty and ill-considered legislation
now. ho said, would be ruinous to
holders of railroad securities when the
government relinquishes control of tho
lines.
'For this reason, McAdoo urged that
His Head Blown Off
by His Brother-in-Law
Donvor, Colo., Jan. 21. As the cli
max to a long standing quarrel with
his wife, W. H. Miller, alias W. H.
Harriman, thirty, formerly of Nampa,
Idaho, and said by local authorities to
have a criminal record thore, had the
ton of his 'head literallv blown off by
his brother-in-law, Ealph York, age 20,
at Miller 's farm at Semper Station, near
Denver, Sunday afternoon.
Miller, according to the stories of
Witnesses, came horn and began abus
ing his wife. She' Socked herself in
her room and her husband attempted
to break, down the door. Tho woman's
brother, who had barricaded himself
with her, fired through the door with
a shotgun, the full charge catching Mil
ler in the head. Ho died at the county
hospital in Denver without regaining
consciousness.
AMERICAN CASUALTIES.
Ottawa, Ont., Jan. 21. The following
Americans are mentioned in todaifJe
Canadian casualty list, issued by the
records office here:
Killed in action: A. F. Palmer, Ba
kersfield, Calif oinia.
Wounded and missing: C. D. Fitz
gerald, La Grande, Oregon.
Wounded: P. Jefferson, Seattlo,
Wash.-
!"''" 1
I yOzvy J&TV'Xe, I i i
RECEIVING THE TABLETS -The New Emancipation Proclamation
the committee report the pending rail
road bill as written, with the provis
ion that goyernment control shall con
tinue until congress shall otherwise or
der. 1
The Government Ownership
McAdoo 's statement that he does
not believe in government ownership
was in answer to- a question by Sena
tor Watson, Indiana, an outspoken
foe of government ownership.
' ' Mr. Secretary, do you believe in
government ownership f" asked Wat
son. "I do not," replied McAdoo. "But
I believe it will" be impossible to re
turn to competitive conditions as 'they
were before tho government stepped
in. There wil have to be a greater
measure of government control and
regulation henceforth than we have
had in the past.
"And if you now limit the period
of government control, you may make
impossible new legislation to meet sit
uations that may arise.
"Wo- must uso our best foresight.
To throw tho roods back to private
control with competition destroyed
and with one line carrying business
at the expense of another wrild Jo a
grave mistake. '
"Do you think the power to fix
rates should be taken from the inter-
state commorce commission and he
various state commissions f" asked
Senator Kellogg!
"When tho president ib operating
the railroads, I think it extremely uu-j
wise to namper mm in rave iiiing
matters to meet any emergency," de
clared McAdoo.
Must Be a Head
McAdoo cited his recent action in
New York in ordering coal trains mov
ed through the Pennsylvania tunnel
as an iustanco where it wag necossary
(Continued on page six.)
Lkiicnant Bellinger Dies .
at Fort Riley, Kansas
A telegram was received by relatives
in the city yesterday stating that the
remains of Lioutenant Ivan E. Bollin
ger would arrive in Balem today for
burial. This was tho first news that
any one in the city had heard of Lieu
tenant Bellinger's death and it came as
a great surprise, as the last word re
ceived about a week ago was to the
effect that his condition was greatly
improved. His wife and small son and
brother Allan Bellinger left for For
Riloy two weeks ago. Pneumonia was
the causo of Mr. Bellinger's doath.
Paul and Lloyd Hauser left for Port
land this morning to meet the train
bearing the remains together with tho
widow and son and brother. The body
will be taken to Bigdon's parlors upon
arrival. Funeral arrangements have not
been made at this time and will be an
nounced later.
WAR. MAY--BE
T OF CLASH
ii
Bloodshed Narrowly Averted
In Closing Constitutional
Assembly
IT PROCLAIMED RUSSIA
A DE1DCRATIC REPUBLIC
National Convention To Be
Formed by Forthcoming
Social Congress
By Joseph Shaplen
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Petrograd, Jan. 21. Tlio crisis be
tween the Bolshevik! and the conser
vative liberals was at hand today.
Dissolution of the constituent essoin
bly, effected by the Trotsky-Lenine
government has brought to a climax the
violent opposition ot the social revolu
tionary party. The Bolsheviki leaders
today freely predicted that their en
emies are now preparing a campaign of
terror. They named former Minister Sa
vinkoff with 150 men as leading this
counter-revolutionary movement.
Bloodshed was narrowly averted in
the closing of the constituent assembly.
The last few minutes of the meeting
wore dramatic in their intensity. Armod
sailors poured into the hall and were
arraved in groups in the aisles. Their
commanded demanded that Chernoff,
then presiding, quit the platform and
that the members of the right parties
leave the hall. Chernoff flatly refused
and a heated argument ensued. Witnes
ses today insisted it was only interven
tion of tho Bolsheviki delegates them
selves that saved their political oppon
ents from violence at the hands of tho
uolsueviKi troops. ,
Assembly's Last Act.
The final act of the assembly was the
formal proclamation of Russia as a dem
ocratic, republic. The speech of Former
Minister Tserotelli was dramatic. He
was constantly interrupted and often
with violent abuse. His concluding pr
oration was a pathetic appeal to all
that the revolution be pormitted to bear
fruit in tho formation of a government
which would show a solid front of all
classes oLthe revolutionary democracy.
Tho Bolsheviki and social revolution
aries of the loft, together with others
who favor a pan-Kussian workmen, sol
diers and peasants' congress to take the
plnco of the constituent assembly, were
working hard today to achieve this sort
of a law-giving body. The Soviets com-
(Continued on page six)
CiViL
SOVIETS
COWL
SE1T0R STOIIE
SAYS ROOSEVELT
IS KAISER S AGHJT
Asks Why He Is Permitted to
Make Statements That
Are Disloyal
IS MOST RESPONSIBLE
FOR WHAT HE DENOUNCES
Speech Likely to Open Gates
For Floods of Senatorial
Oratory
Washington, -Jan. 21. Sknator
Stone, Misscluri, today denounced
Theodore Roosevelt, on tho floor of the
senate as "the most potent agent of
the Kaiser and the most seditious man
of consequence in America."
In a speech bristling with scathing
denunciation of those who are "mak
ing politics out of the war," Stono
demanded that the same rule be ap
plied to Roosevelt's writings and ut
terances as were applied in the easo
of a private citizen Stone named,
who, "repeated in a minor degree''
what Roosevelt had written. This man
was arrested.
Quoting liberally from Roosevelt's
published criticisms of tho Wilson ad
ministration's conduct of the war,
Stone said:
The heart of this man is , aflame
with ambition and he runs amuck. On
my responsibility as a senator, I
churgo that since our entrance into
tho war Roosevelt has been a menace
ana an obstruction to tho sucessful
prosecution of the. war. His chief
thought has not been to help the gov
ernment tsMvej the (mighty problems
they have to solve, but always his
chief thought has been of Roosevelt-
"I inquire why Rocsovclt may-s7
things with Impunity which a citizen
of less consequence dare not even ro
peat without danger of indictment for
dislovalty!"
Repeated Roosevelt Statement
Stone then told how a traveling
salesman was taken from a train en
tering St. Louis last December, and
put in jail, because he said:
'Wilson kept us out of war Liko
hell he did. It's a shame the way cur
soldiers aro being treated in the con
centration camps. They are not prop
erly clothed, anil tho sanitary arrange
ments are poor. Hoover's sugar plan
is a big joke too."
This, Stono said, was only repealing
what Roosevelt had written editorial
ly in the Kansas City Star. Stone
quoted an editorial from the Toledo
(Continued on page six.)
WAR CABINET BILL TO
WARM UP DISCUSSION
ROOSEVELT IS THERE
President Opposed To It-
Fuel AdiTiimsiration lo
Grilled
52
By I C. Martin
HTnited Press stuff correspondent)
nr. i in 91. Snirited
fights on the proposed f,war cabinet
iill and threatened discussion v
itor Stono of "war anil politics" dis
pelled any likelihood of heatlcss ses
sions in congress this week.
The battle destined to swiri m
th
war cabinet of three, was to open
oday with introduction of t-cnaior
h:uiiberlain' bill ftT creation of the
bodv.
Senator Stone's delayed speecn aim
i - iii.lavinv nolitirs" and Ctloncl
Roosevelt's 'pn'po'd visit here proniis-
,1 to add fuel to ine rauinn i.ii-,
nnil.inir about a centralized war
munitions purchase plan, there was
oulit of congressiouui mmuj iu r
he idea across. -
Somn democrats are hopeful that
'resident Wilson mav be induced to
linage his views and t agree to more
f a non-partisan control of govern
lent and more centralization on mn
litions. The whole quest ion, however,
.ruiears to turn upc u the wish of the
nau in the white house.
Will Attack Wilson
Colonel Roosevelt's proposed rres
;,. fha .itr nt this time is regard
ed as particularly si.niitieanfc His ope
ttack against me uiiimnir"
ticallv certain that he will
exercise the infliuncr of his persoM-
itv
ln tne lormcoinmg
mi.
Senator Stone's speech will serve as
.hnllHntre to the republicans who
have waited their chance to air their
feelings about the conduct of the war
Thev plan to discuss Secretary of War
linker, tuel Administrator u'"'""
(Continued oa j-aga three)