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BRITISH FLEET ARRIVED
OFF CONSTANTIN0PE
French Officials Replace
Enemy Administrations in
Occupied. Towns.
Loudon, Nor. 14. (1:44 n. m.) The
'Americans have begun theii march to
Steta and Strassburg, according to ad
rices rcceivaa today. , :
President Poiacre, Premier Clemen
coau and Marshal Foch -will personally
accompany the Americans In their oc
cupation of AJsace-Ijorraine, , It
plated.
was
, Paris, Not. 14. (2:55 p. m A
touncil of ministers has been appointed
'for the administration of arms in At
flicc-Lorraiue during the period of the
mist ice.
State Councillor Maringer will be
lUgh commissary of Alsace-Lorraine and
tfjgional commissary of Strassburg.. M.
Tirmsui will be commissary of Metz and
K. Poulet of Co'niar.
London, Not- 14-(Brltish adnriral
W wireless)-Tlie British fleet arrived
off Constantinople at 8 o'clock the
morning of November 13, the adniirr
A'.ty announced today.
Tha allied fleet passed through the
Dardanelles November 12, in fine
weather. British and Indian troops oc
cupied the forts and were paraded as
ttae ships passed. ;
Paris, Nov. 14 (1:40 V- m.) The
Americans have occupied Briey.
Briey is the center of the famous iron
l.isiu of that name, it is 28 miles north
Mst of Verdun, 1L' miles northwest ot
teU and only three miles from the
orman frontier.
ALLIES MOVE FORWARD
By John De Oandt
Pa-is, Nov, 14. (10:30 u. m,) Tha
lied armies on the west front, fol
lowing the evaluation of the Germans,
re reported to have start-d forward
his morning.
$tra?sburg, Mctz, Colinar and vari
ous tuwns in Alsace-Lorraine, nre ex-fict-ted
to be occupied Sunday
Ths Americans a e said to be march
ing toward Met, and Strassburg.
ilnrshal Foch, on behalf of the allies,
will take possession of those two cities
i tha presence of President Puimnre,
I'mnior Clcmener-au and other French
fiiiiistcrs. ,
; A Inrij-e part of the great Br:ey iron
(Continue.:! on page eight)
ABE MARTIN
O" eour.ie tl'
that talks th
lfiiget about s"ttlin' with th' Kaiser I
owes ever uuuiy. Ug purer nar,i t
t.-ll which is th' easiest f lose-
-a pedi-
&Tt.. hvfi ' W rf a
feller
sr.
IN EVACUATION AND
RTED FORWARD TODAY
American Casualties For
October Begin To Come la
Washington, Nov. 14 Near
ly 75,000 American casualties
have, been reported to the war
department np to today.
War department officials said
there is absolutely no way .now
of making an accurate esti
mate of what the final total
will be.
Casualties for October are
coming in. Some of the most
costly fighting of the war oc
curred in that month. Returning
officers have said that the
casualties, including the slight
ly wounded, whose cases wore
almost insignificant, would run
past 200,000. However, war de
partment officials give no au
thority for such a claim, and
the . conservative estimates go
as low as 100,000.
IN ARMI
IS PROVING PUZZLE
Indignation Aroused In Fear
That Atrocities May Es
. cape Punishment.
Washington, Nov. 14. Germans re
sponsible for the unspeakable atrocities
in Belgium and elsewhere may go scot
free, under amended section six of the
armisHcfl- t - i
Without having definite information
of the purpose of this article some statu
department authorities so interpreted
the sentence therein, reading;
"No person shall be prosecuted faf
offenses in participation in war nieas
urea prior t0 the signing of the armis
tices. " '
This was held by some to mean tllat
if any Germans were left behind in
France or Belgium, the governments, or
peoples should not take retribution on
them for crimes they committod boyend
the pale of war laws. On the otlui
hand, some interpreted tho clnuce to
mean the peoples of evacuated territo
ries should not be punished in any way
for participation in tho war, either ac
tively or in sympathy with cither side.
The clause has aroused indignation
iu some quarters on the theory that it
means those who ravished 'Belgium will
escape anv punishment.
The clause was the result of Ameri
can-allied deliberation evidently, and,
if the interpretation givon here is coi
reel, it means that, the Versailk-j con
fereneo htis struck a new note in it
idoa of a stern, just peace.
FEAR OF BOLSHEVISM
H EUROPE -.GROWING
Troops To Be Maintained In
Worst Places For Guard
To Property.
Washington, Nov. 14. Fe ir of a bol
shevik wave in Europe is growing i-i
diplomatic eircles here today. For some
time diplomats have foreseen such a
possibility and have been urging that
troopg Die maintained ' to poliOt, he
worst centers. '
England and the United States ave
least to fear from such a movement, al
though warnings are leing sounded in
both countries.
Switxerland is having c hard tussle
with Bolshevism. General strikes an
on in German Switzerland cities and
are beginning in some French sections.
No violence is reported lit tne.e in
stances. - .
Trcop have apparently been mobil
ized in anticipation of outbreaks ami
the president of the Swiss confedera
tion, addressing the chamber of depu
ties, told them in detail of the situation
He told them that the government
would not yield to malcontents. Penal
ties are likely to be seveie against
strikers, the cables say.
,
HE HAD
Doctor "Four throat is in
a had state. Have you ever
tried gargling with salt wa
ter!" .
Skipper "Yes, I've been
torpfdoed six times."
WOW DIVISION
PROBABLY BACK FOR
CHRISTMAS DINNER
New England Division Also
One Of First To Land In
France Expected Soon.
Washington, Nov. 14. The Rainbow
and New England divisions are believ
ed likely to be back in the states by
Christmas. With the exception of the
First regular division, they wore the
first troops to land in Fiance. Whilo
priority of return will not entirely
follow .priority of original shipment,
thes two divisions are likely to get
back first.
The war department, however, has
made no announcement yet as to the
probable time for any nmt and its plans !bor witn carg0 0f flyestuffs. Aftci
are unsettled. 'about four weeks she went out with a
The war plans section of the gener- a of Rnd when, she made hel
al staff is giving serious attention to 9CCOnd tri shc docked st Kcw London,
the matter of a standing army after de-- Cimn 0 B8r outward voyage theu
mobilization and also to the problem collision in which a tug was sunk,
of universal training. These subjects what happenea to hor si8ter ship, the
have 'been before the section for a long B e ig'atm a my8tot.y 0, far as the
time and probably will be presented to , eoncenled: Thc British admir
Secretary Baker soc. probably knows, ah .Ire may be
According to Baker's interpre tation , - " Amfll.an nav'ai official, lu 0
or tue present muirary status ail en-
listments will close with the end of the
war emergency, unless congress acts be- j
fore that time. Hence, it is believed
that the war plans section's decisions
will be embodied in legislation for con
gress soon.
Congress will determine, in the last
analysis,, how great a standing army
the. United States should .:ve- and
whether nuiversai military training
should 'be followed, now that the war
is ended. The regular army establish-'
ment prior . to the war amounted to
about 200,000 officers and men.
. War department officials believe uni
versal military training should be in
stituted, but they are doubtful about
tho tone of public opinion and inclin
ed to the belief that the public will
prefer to settle back to the pre-war
status.
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STUDENTS TO RETURN.
Washington, Nov.' 14. Tho
navy department estimated to-'
day" that 50,000 men could be
apaicd from the navy within
the next month. As ofie means
of releasing men, students of
schools and colleges can apply
for release to their command
ing officers and the depart
ment policy will be t0 grant it.
lie
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SAN DIEGO WAS SUNK
BY DEUTSCIllAKD SAY
OFFICIALS TODAY
At First Was Cargo Submar-
ne Cruiser, Later Fled
With Torpedo Tubes.
By Carl D. Groat.
(United PresB Staff Correspondents.)
Washington, Nov. 14. The wchubs
submarine Deutsehlandiis charged With
responsibility for sinking the United
States cruiser San Diego a short dis
tance out of New York a few month!
ago.
The information is the best available
that the navy department could give at
to the cause, it was stated by au offi
cial today."
The Deutschland, originally a cargs
submarine cruiser, wasconveited to lay
niinog and also wa9 fittnu with torpedi
tubes. Sho was known to have opci
atcd for a while off the Azores, it was
stated. . "i .
"As far as tho navy department hai
been able to ascertain, she was the ves
sel that crept into American waters and
discharged mines which later --recited
the old cruiser San Digo. It was in
dicated that tho navy's proof so far ii
not positivo, but its. evidence is re
garded as rather conclusive.
The Deutschland, . under uiptan
Koe;B. fi,.t came into Baltimore liar
One thing in certain-she
,, f M i j an nvev
"a Hj i." ! f ; a,.n1
PVni. ,t ' al
fiiirLt;iH niu Hint duo ,ino - - -
interned bv the British. Germany ii
understood to have built seven or eight
of these vessels of the Deutschland
type, which she later converted into
submarine cruisers. .
Serious News Prkt Paper
' Conditions Still, Exist
Chicago,' Xoy. 14. That news prini
paper conditions arc sfiU serious and
that there is still little likelihood of an
immediate reduction of prices, was tho
oninion Bxmessed here today by Thom
as E. Donnelly, chairman" of the iuper
committee of the war industries board.
"Book papers have a better tone
now," said Mr. Donnelly, "but some
manufacturers claim that their prices
as fixed by the board are too low en
news" print. We do not-expect to make
any decision on lifting the ban on the
establishment of new newspapers until
news print conditions are better.
All paper prices arc about as low as
they can get at this time. I am of the
opinion that for the present news print
prices will remain stationary
i Donnelly left today for Washington
ito attend a moctiiw of the papor sec-
,tion, which will consider book paper
I prices and conditions.
it here Better phone the
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(MIY HI!
EFFORTTOSlCURl
UMIC!L
Trying To Create Impression
That She Has Lenient
Friend In America.
IS UNDOUBTED DANGER
TO AMERICAN PRESTIGE
Beaten Nation Must Beg From
Whole World Rather Than
Washington $one.
By J. W. T. Mase
(United Press War Export.)
New York, Nov. 14. Germany i3 con
tinuing with subtle persistence her ef
fort to secure the support of tho United
States as special counsel at the peace
table.
By trying to create the impression
that in tho .United States, Germany
has lenient friend at court, the gov
ernment at Berlin is seeking to start
controversies at the peace conference
between America and the other demo
cratic nntions. There is undoubted
danger of America's world prestige in
this effort of the Germans to isolate
America from the allies. Hithorto,
world prestige lias had little interest for
Americans j but now that the Unitod
States may bo destined to play the
prominent part in the forthcoming
league of nations, the equalities of in
ternational leadership havo a new value
for this country.
Co-operation Must Exist.
Leadership among nntions is a matter
of character, strength and intuitive
ability to do the right thing at the
righfr-time. , '
Gormany is trying to dovelop thc no
tion that American leadership s"ar
America must be addressed as a fa
vored nation apart from other nations
and as the world's tommanders in
chief. In this idea lies ths gorm of
destruction of full co-operative cffoit
between America and the allies at the
peace conference.
Jealousy Easily Aroused.
America cannot" allow Gormaay U
single out this country from among the
world's democracies for the puiposo of
addressing her notes and petitions ex
clusively to Washington. International
suspicions and jealousies are aB eusily
aroused as personal suspicion and jeal
ousies. Germany -had traded on this
fact for yours. It is wholly to her ad
vantage to continue to do so. What
Gcrmanr must beg should be asked
from the world. What Gormany has to
nlcad in imugauoii oi ui
her terrible crimes against humanity
(Continued on pago eight)
solicitors where to hnd you
Main Peace Problem
Agreed to By Wilson
Am
d EnglishPremier
Lloyd-George In Address la London Declared Himself la
Favor Of League Of Nations And Against
Peace Of Vengeance.
By Robert J. Bender
(United Press staff correspondent)
Washington, Nov. 14. Presiucnt
Wilson and Lloyd-George stand square
ly together on the main problem of
peace justice, without ... revenge . or
greed.
AX the same time, the two nations
are working out, separately, but in
many respects with thc same ideas at
the fore, the problems of reconstruc
tion. As revealed by Premier Lloyd
George ' latest utterances and
known from President Wilson ' speech
es, the league of nations idea will be
nut forth vigorously in tho peace con
ference.. Llovd-Goorge stands with the
president on his fourteen peace princi
ples. Particular stress i ueing jam
both by the British premier and tho Am
erican president that the great peace
must avoid "base, Boritid, solnl uieas
of yengcanc and avarice." Eoth Lloyd
George and the president are now busy
ing themselves with reconstruction mat
ters. Lloyd-George has declared for big
housin? schemes, for creation of the
minimum wage, for reduction of hours
and for increased production from the
land.
Has Not Declared Himself
President Wilson has not yet declar
ed himself on the program of thc fu
ture. But he has under consideration
the creation of a reconstruction com
mission, which should bo a group of ex
perts acting as a clearing houso for the
financial, labor, and construction prob
lems. These moves by Great Biitain
and tho United States" aro part of the
big fight now under way to omb Bol
shevism in the world.
"Big business" is anxious for a pro
nouncement of policy, Labor wants tp
know whnt its future shall bt. '
Lloyd-George says- that ; boMievisin
is not feared if the problems bto handl
ed aright. This nation, too, is striving
ttt avert the curso of bolshevism and
hence it proposes to have a sound re
construction policy at thc earliest pos
sible time.
Means World Settlement .
London, Nov, 14. Premier Lloyd
Georgo in an address hero November
11 declared in favor of a league of na
tions and against a peace of vengeance
"One of the principal issues at the
forthcoming general election will he
the nature of the peace settlement,
declared the .premier, "It will mean
the settlement of the world. What arc
tho principles on which that Settlement
is to be effected Are we to lapse back
into tho old national rivalries ami ani
mosities and competitive armaments,
or aro we to initiate the reign on earth
of the prince of pence? Whnt are con
IIHinniTV FMMD
' HJUft H11M I
RT
OF EX-HUN RULER
Allies Have Hard Job Before
Them To Arrest Famine
In Germany.
By William Philip SUnms
(United Press staff correspondent)
Paris, Nov. 14 Will Wilhelm lose
his head, be banished, or n Mowed to
disappear!
Publio opinion here is divided. High
officials apparently are almost utiaiii-
nlrillt.'.! V Wikonian in their attitude.
The majority of the masses seemingly,
rebel at tho escape of tho former kais
er, who was regarded ss the principal
arterv of war and the murderer of 20,
000,000. These arc in favor of an inter
national high court to pa1 judgment
on his case. They oppose banishment
as tending to Napoleonic him into a
hero to which he is not worthy. Others
declaro the kaiser and crown prince
were marionettes in the bauds or tne
militarists and kings of commerce, who
are the ones responsible for the war.
They contend that, if possible, theso
ring leaders also should be haled be
fore an international court so that
something like justice might l:c achiev
ed. The opinion is unanimous that the al
lies have hard jobs in fixing Germany
so that no one man or clique can make
war again and at the same time ar
resting a famine so far as circumstanc
es permit by holding out a helping
hand to a thoroughly beaten foe.
Jan Van Hamcl, professor of juris
prudence in Amsterdam, now in Paris,
was interviewed concerning tne pos'
justice ...u.a rc.,.re
ditions of peace. They must lead to
settlement which will be fundamental
ly just. No settlement that contravenes
principles of eternal justice will Da
a permanent one.
jLeague is necessary ,
. "We must not allow any sense of re
venge, any spirit of greed or any grasp
ing desire to override the fundamental
principles of rightoousness."
Llovd-George said that the league oD
nations was more necessary now than
ever and pointed out conditions that ,
prevailed in the Balkans be-fore the
war, now affecting - practically two
thirds of Europe. A large number of
small nations have been ro-born in Eu
rope and these will requiro league of
nations to protect them against "eov- '
ctousness of ambitions, grasping neigh
bors," he declared.
"In my judgment a league of na
tions is absolutely essential to perma
nent peace. We shall go to the. peace
conference to guarantee that league jf
nations as a reality. I am one of those
who believe that without peace we can
not have pvogress." '
NEW GOVERNf iEFIT HAS
TAKEN OVER PROPERTY
OF PRUSSIAN CROWN
Newspapers Denounce Terms
Declaring They Are
Inhuman.
London, Nov. 14. The new Prussian
government has confiscated the en
tailed property of tho Prussian crown, a
Berlin wireless dispatch announced to
dav. London, Nov. 14 Tho revolutionists
aro coining more firmly into power in
Germany, it Is indicaiad by ' reports
from various sources. ' s-
A Wolff bureau dUpatch by way of
Copenhagen declares I he German east
ern high commnnd has acknowledged
the authority of the workmen and sol
diers. Councils of soldiers have been
organized ut Landsberg, Warthe, GIo
guu and Sensburg.
A new Prussian cabinet has been
formed, by the workmen and soldiors,
according to a Copenhagen report. Eu
gene Ernst is minister ot finance; Otto
Uniiin and Adolph Huffman nro joint
ministers of ngiit ultiiie, and the other
portfolios arc held by Count Hirsch and
llcinrich Stroebel.
The independent socialists will de
mand the trial of Grand Admiral Vou
Tirpitz and other junkots held to ha
rcspunsiolo for the declaration and con
tinuance of the war, an Amsterdam
dispatch stated. They will also book
to ubulish tho stock exchange, c.tncol
wur loans and divide the land.
Gt-nuan newspapers continue tneir
bitter denunciation of the terms of tho
armistice. "
"Thc aiinistice terms ure inudelui up
on those which lfomo exacted lum
Carthage," says the Dcutsches Tags
Zcitung. "The German people muxt
ask that the government take - meas
ures to meet the catastrophe."
"There is no alternative but to nc
crpt them (the terms)," says tho Vor
waerts. r'The entente diabolical plan to Keep
the blockade will result in famine and
perpetuation of the revolution; it u
monstrous," the Tagclischo Kuiidschi-.u
'It. is unprecedented inhumanity,'
according to the Tageblatt. . ,
Wm Of Late Mrs. Sage
Made Public In New York
New York, Nov. 1.1. The will of the
late Mrs. Kussell Sage, made puono
here today, leaves l,81o,OOtj spee.incai
ly to public institutions throughout, the
count rv. Large amounts were, nlss
iven to relatives. The value of the es
tate was not mentioned. The will gives
a legacy of 8,(H0,100 to Joseph Jer
main Wiocum, a brother. Tt-oro were
$180,100 iu personal bequests, includ
ing :i,000 left to Miss Mary Jones
Buardman, St. Puul.
Mrs. Bage left to each servant who
had bewi in !r employ ton years ot
more the sum of $5,000 and to thoso
who bad been employed five years
i .-.on . . . -
Specific legacies to public instill
tions included 200,0OO to tho Idaho Li-dust-ial
Institute and $25,000 to ihj
Board of Home Missions of the Pie wj,
Uriati Church of America, . ,
greed pup Or a caaieo pin.