New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1918, Page 1

Refuses to Coincide Point of Impudence, on Count Czernin, Foreign Minister cf Austria,‘ HERALD BEST OF ALL | LOCAL NEWSPAPERS BRITAIN HER PRICE THREE CENTS. 7I;IEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25 1918. —SIXTEEN PAG] LING SCORN: PRESIDEN More Conciliatory in Expressions Concern- ing Statements of President Wilson and Lioyd George---Insists, However, on Stand- ing by Germany. The door to peace with Austria-Hungary remains ajar, but not open. Count Czernin, foreign minister of Austria, declares that “an exchange of views between America and-Austria-Hungary might form the starting point for a conciliatory discussion among all the §tatcs which have not yet entered into peace negetiations.” Austria-Hungary is in agreement with America re- garding the principles for new arrangements after the war, Count Czernin said. The interests of both belli- gerents are more compatible than they seemed, he de- clared, and described President Wilson’s war aims, as ex- plained in his 14 points to congress, as an important ad- vance toward the Austro-Hungarian viewpoint. The foreign minister professed to see a softening of the spirit against the Central Powers. He insisted, how- ever, that the Dual Monarchy would remain true to its pact with Germany. London, Jan. —Austria has de- sided to continue peace negotiations with Russia on the basis of no annex- ations and no indemnities, according to a Vienna dispatch to the Exchange DISGONTENT MENAGE Telegraph Co., quoting from Count Czernin's address before the Reichs- rath. “I demand from Russia not a meter of territory, not a centime of indem- in T0 GERMANY’S NAVY Deserter Describes Ubprising nity,” the foreign minister is quoted of Mine Sweepcr Crew as having said, “and peace can be ob- lained if Russia maintains the same at Hamburg. standpont, as she evidently intends to do. “Tt is obvious to me sald Count| London, Jan. 25.—A German naval engineer with the ank of licutenant Cacrnin, “that an exchange of views | *TTAF W8 B =5 . 5 W has deserte o according between America and Austria-Hun- o 588 LI o 8T A = : - to an Amsterdam dispatch to the Daily gary might form the starting point | O e . el s e o = au | BXPress, states that dissatisfaction L o Y cL s O Bone & | amonx thelmen Of the Germaniiicet is the states which have not yet entered | much more serious than in the army. into peace negotiations.” He asserts there have been revolutions Commenting on the 14 points in Wilson’s speech Count said, according to an E: ange Telegraph dispatch from Cop- generally among the sweepers. sweeping trawlers entered crews of mine Three weeks ago a squadron of mine Hamburg snhagen, that Austria-Hungary and | after an gxpedition in which three men America were virtually in agrcement | were lo# in an encounter with the regarding the real principles for new | British and one of the trawlers was arrangements after the war. Hungary and America, the were two belligerents s were less incompatible | than they seemed. He characterized the speech of President Wilson regard- ing war aims as an important advance toward the Austro-Hungarian view- point, which contained some proposals in which Austria-Hungary would glad- damaged. Before the men were report back for duty within an hour. They asked time for rest. 150 men declined to obey the order. An hour later a licutenant named to return to their boats. They refused, per- mitted to go ashore, according to this account, they were notified they must The Ham- burg commandant refused, whereupon 1 ‘Wagner arrived and ordered the men ot The lieutenant swore at the men and " The foreign minister sad the popu-|struck two of them, the dispatch con- lation of Poland would decide its own | tinues. He was thrown into the water fate. The Polish question must mot |and left to drown. delay peace ons @ay. If Poland, after | The commandant, who had watched he war, wishes to advance toward |the mutiny, despatched a motorboat Austria-Hungary, such an advance | CAITYing two machine guns, which were fired into omed. would b W 44 and wounding 73. Interpretation of the right of free |killing action of peoples had caused a differ- | others were arrested and sentenced to ence between Russia and Germany, terms of imprisonment v: fing from said Count Czernin, but a compromise | > to 20 years. must be reached. The differences of view were not great enough to justify \handonment of the peace negotia- tions. 5 fr | SEXtY Buildines Closed Since Christ- Regarding the difficulties attending . Hohaaye the peace negotiations at Brest- oston, Jan. 25 New England day received Litovsk, he said the publicatian of the ily proceedings had caused nervous- among the people behind the fuel from admini ator, front Alluding to President Wilson's ad- | eoal. dress, Count Czernin said: Sixty “I acknowledge his tone is now dif- | have been ferent from what it was when he at- tempted, by his reply to Pope Bene- dict, to sow dissensian between the German government and the German | and this has been of good ef- | school open of the city unabe to since d mid-winter is vas more than the doing of ;’TV“M' things that are being done in this no longer talk about the|city at present with the coal avail- autocrs uppression of the German | able.” people by the government and his for- - ] mer :s on the House of Hohen- MINES. zollern are not repeated.” . . A Pari dispatch quotes Count|Two German Destroyers Lot While Czernin leclaring that “I have no Running Through Own Ficid intention to demand from Russia single moter of territory or a single| Copenhagen, Jan _The mine | cld responsible for t sinking Sun de 7 ndemnity ount Czern state- of the German ment peeting ome ! and A 79 was of German origin. ac of P fent Wils by | cording to the seventeen men from \ that Austr ould | the crelv of the A 73 the only sur support Germany. ivor the two vessels. the crowd of sailors, The HUB SCHOOLS APPEAL I'OR COAlL —James J. Storrow, | to- the Boston school committee an urgent appeal for more | buildings | the Christmas holidays and the committee “The housing of 120,000 children in important great many other troyers A 753 ! iew for Evacuation of Alsace-l] Russian and Polish Questions--As Oor BAKER REPLIES T0 SEN. CHAMBERLAIN Asks Opportunity to Make Exten- sive Statement in Congress IN JUSTICE 70 HIS MEN Sends Letter to Oregon Critic, Saying He rould Make Complete Answer for Sake of Officers and Men of the Army. Washington, Jan. 25.—Secretary Baker today asked the senate military committee for a hearing at which to answer charges of Scnator Chamber- lain. Secretary Baker sent to Senator Chamberlain a letter, which read, in part: “The questions which have arisen regarding the conduct of the war rTe- quir n explicit statement from me for the information of your commit tee and generally for the information af congress and the public. “I feel it my duty I owe a statement to the splendid officers and men of the army who have forgotten themselves and labored with sel acrifice and, as I think, success in the building of a great army. of men of business and affairs who have accepted the invitation of the ‘War department to came to Washin ton and brought their business expe- rience, their talents, and their judg- | ment to the work in hand. And L think the people of the country are entitled to have large a summary of what has been done by Amefica | in the w The retary requested the com- mittee to arrange an opportunity for a time and place fixed so as to. enable all senators and _representatives to attend. Illinois Man Gives Life for Old Glory The following decaths abroad, not in action, also were reported: Sergeant Frederick D. Day, meningitis, 119 Huncock street, Auburndale, y Mechanic Iirnest Hilton, disease, No. 1, Wells Beach, Me. ican troops in France for the ending January 18 show only & change. The total of all men off { for injury or illness, whether their were scrious enough treatment or not, v thousand. It was 47.6 for the United States. pital 16 11 troops in CONFERENCE IN PARIS Premier 1 Lloyd George and Viscount | Milmer Leave ¥or French Capital j o Intrview Clemenceauw \ Premier Lloyd Milner, member incil, are com with remic o underli thesc Huntin lelibera- “It is due also to the sreat mumber ! him to make such a statement at such | —Two Others Dic of Natural Causes. Washington, Jan. 25.—General Per- shing today reported another Ameri- | can soldicr killed in action on Janu- ary 22, but no de b The man killed was Private Fred P Thom His brothe Ralph Thomps lives at Georgetown, Il- linois. Health conditions among the Amer- | or hos- | per | g s | NEW ENGLAND FAGCES CLOSING, FACTORIES IN FEW DAYS Fuel Administrator Sterrow Asserts Fa- vorable Weather Can Alone Prevent It. GOVERNOR RESTRICTS HOURS OF BUSINESS | Hartford, Jan 25.—The seri- ousness of the fuel situation caused Governor Holcomb to- day to issue a proclamation es- tablishing curtailed hours of business for the state from Jan- uary 29 to March 30 inclusive. | The proclamation provides that places of retail business shall not open before 7 a. m. and shall not remain open after 7 p. m. on week days, with the ex- ception of Saturdays, Wednes- days and days preceding holi- days. A special rule provides that saloons, hotels, bars, club bars, tobacco shops and phar- macies may remain open until 10:30 p. m. The hour of 10:30 p. m. is also established as a closing hours on all week days except Saturdays or days pre- ceding holid for all places of public entertainment and for pool and billiard rooms, bowl- ing alleys and barber shops. The proclamation, however, urges that theaters and other public entertainment places continue their voluntary efforts to conclude the evening per- | formances at 10 p. m., or as { | hear that hour as practicable. | | i Boston, Jan. 25.—New England is facing a very serious coal shortage which may shut down all¢business in the next few davs, according to James J. storrow, New England fuel admin- istrator. “Good weather is our only hope and T am praying the crisis will not come,” Mr. Storrow declarea today. Since his return here from New York yesterday, Mr. Storrow has re- ceived advices as to the coal move- ment from the mines to ITampton and from there to eastern points which indicated, he said, that government requirements soon would exhaust the supply at tidewater. The normal coal consumption in is 150,000 tons daily,” nd receipts today indicate | | i | | | | | i | ‘ Roads, | i | | | actual needs. Between 1,000 and 1,- )0 cars should arrive by hile we are receiving today only by which route ordinarily we with practically none arriving er, by ceive two-thirds of our supply “I have received a communication | from President Pearson of the New . | Haven road, saying the tanpgle at | Maybrook, Y. can be cleared in if the weather is good. Our centered there. 1 do not will happen if a storm should in now “The New Haven road has declared 1bsolute embarzo at the Mayhrook m | | shipments | | | | aateway and will not even accept coal until frightful tangle | there is unravell “The following es show the total of all coal received in New and by railroad in the past three days: January 1 cars; January | 876 cars: 25, 20 es g Mr. Storrow will zo to New Yorl late today for furthe sonferences vith A. 1. .Smith, assistant director | neral of railroad wding condi- ons in Hampton ¥ where many (Continued On Fifteenth P N WEATHER Harrtord n. recast for New Britzin aod vicinity— Probably 1 noew colder saturday e P e —— e~ ng about one-fiftth of our | ( I CHANCELLOR'S POSER BLASTS PEAGE HOPE Washington Regards Hertling’s Speech As Super-Militaristic SPEAKS AS IF VICTORIOUS Assumed Of- | tious Than When e fice—Czernin Vague on Point of Indemnities and Annexations. Washington, Jan. 2 Based on | the short cabled outlines of the speeches of the German and Aus- | trian premiers to their respective parliaments, the opinion is expressed | by officials here that no substantial advance towards the final peace sought by all , belligerents has re- | sulted from thesc declarations. Tt is true that <ions of Count Czern- | in, the Austrian premier pear to | be more conciliatory in ne than | previcus utterances from that quart- er but beyond vazuc statements that the possibilities of peace negotia- | tions are contained in the addresses | of President Wilson nd Premier Liovd G there is no suggestion of a surrender of any of the ex- | treme views from military r\wmrnw‘ in the Central State: The German premiers | indeed couched in the vietorions eneral and | that no where does he specifically | { abandon the claim for indemnity and | terr In fact from the cabled abstract it appears he has become | more uncompromising and militaris- | | tic in his position than he was when | hé assumed office and first addressed | | the Reichstag The renunciation by Count Czernin | € the Austrian premier, of any claim |a nst Ru 1 for indemnity or an- nexation, s scen. not does not ex- | | tend to other nations. Considering | | that Germany has undertaken to Cominate the Russian-Balkan prov- and the Central Powers have 1 the independence of the thus constituting a buffer state between Russia and Austria, in Jarge part it is easily perceived that { Austria is making no special sacri- | fice in this *nunciation As for Poland, the declaration that the pop- | ulation would decide its own fate is | read here in the light of the action | already taken by the Central Powers to set up o sham kingdom of Poland which in reality i nothing more | than a dependency of Austria and | Germa HAY RECOGNIZE BOLSHEVIKI Severa) Ambassadors at Petrograd Re- poried Conferring on Acknowledge- ment of Lenine's Government. London, Jan. 2 Some of the am- { sadors at are reported with I to be conferring reference to } formal acknowledgzement by their vernments of the Bolshevik govern- ment. Tt is not stated which am- hassad concerned he Russian national comn on- ers are reported to have received the | | repiy of Gre: n to their in-| { quiry regarding the arrival of a Brit- | ish at Vladivostok. \4[11uug:‘h} the wias not | ‘ wholly satis cgarded as i wcceptable and t that the re- ply was s commission- | SHIP GNS. | Washington i.—The resigna- | tion of Theodo IPerris, chief ship | designer ror the emergency fleet cor- poration, was accepted today by | Chairman Hurley of the shipping n d, ot - concrete, the peace progran uncidted by Wilson at a joint session of congress on Janmary 8. Four points in the president’s program are accep able, von Hertling declares, but all major issues are-turned down unequivocably. America is virtually told to mind her own busine concerning the disposal of occupied Russian territory ang also in reference to the establishment of a Polish state| The chancellor agrees fully on the demand for freedom o the seas but incorporates in that agreement the require ment that Great Britain be stripped of strongly fortified points such as Gibraltar, Aden, Hong, Kong and the Falk land Islands. - The significant statement is made that Germany neve wished the incorporation of Belgium “by violence.” One dim ray of hope is seen in the insistence of vo Hertling that the countries at war with the Central Powers set forth new proposals. CTMUCH Ja impe —Count Von Hertling, the 1 German chancellor, in his before the main committee of | Reichstag today, .said the questian the limitation of armaments 1w | that the financial position of all 1 j ropean countries after the war wou e { probably operate most effectively i D orhi g the solution of this problem Russian Foreign Minister ati‘.‘““ Hertling contended that A 3 . . 2 Lorraine was almost purely Germa Last Convinced Cards l hich had been v\orul from (‘:c many by violence. When Germ; Were Stacked. {in 1870 claimed the land “thus i it | inally wrung from her” it was m | the conquest of alien territory, trograd, Jan. 25.—A detailed ac- i chancellor declared, but what todd count of the Brest-Litovsk session fol- | is called dis-annexation. lowing General Hoffman's statement | There is a difference betweon Gel | of the aims of the Central Powers was many and President Wilson regar published by the Smolyni institute to- in the freedom of the seas, V¢ day. Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik Hertling said. IHe added that t minister, addressing the thorough freedom con- of navigation di ed that “the position of ing time of war, as well as in pead rmans is now absolutely Wwas one of Germauy's main demand Continuing, he said: it being eminently important for “Germany and Austria seek to cut | ture free navigation that Engl off more than 150,000 square versts | should be made to relinquish & from the former. Polish kingdom of | Strongly fortified points of suppo Lithus . also the area populated by | on international sailing. routes, suf the Ukrainains and White Russ as Gibraltar, Aden, Hong Kong a and further they want to cut into ter- | the IFalkland Islands. ritory of the Letts and separate the | Count Von Hertling said the ev: islands populated by the Esthonians | uation of Russian territory was from the sar peoples on the main- | Auestion which only concerns Rus land. Within this territory Germany | and the Central Powers. Commeq and Austria wish to retain their reign | ing on the 14 points in the prog of conquest not only after the conclu- | for world peace set forth in P sion of peace with Russia but after the | dent Wilson’s address to congre conclusion of a general peace. At the | the chancellor said an agreemef same time the Central Powers refuse | could be obtained without difficul not only to give an explanation re- | on the first four points. Regardd sarding the terms of evacuation, but | the fifth point mentioned by Pre » refuse to obligate themselves re- [ dent Wilson, the chancellor said s difficulties would be met with. G many never demanded the ined poration of Belgian territory by lence, the chancellor asserted. said the state of Poland would be d cided by Germany and Austria-He gary. When all other questions 1 been settled, he added, Germa would be ready to discuss the qud tion of a League of Peace. The chancellor demanded that leaders of the nations at war rding the evacuation. ‘“The internal life of these prov- ing frankly, stating that General Hoff- epoeh in the hands of these powers. Under such conditions any definite guarantee regarding the expression of the will of the Poles, Letts and. Lithu- anians is only of an illusory character. Practically it means that the govern- ments of Austria and Germany taks into their own hands the destiny of these nations.” wi Trotzky declared he was glad now | Germany set forth new propo: that the Central Powers were speak- | The terms outlined by President son and Premier Lloyd George o tained certain principles which ¢ be accepted by Germany, he said the concrete proposals were unsa ing frankly, stating that Geueral Hoff- man’s conditions proved that the real aims were builded on quite a different level to the principles recognized on December 25, and that real or lasting | factory. peace was possible only on the actual The chancellor declared Germa principle of self-definition. | did not wish annexations by v “It is clear,” he declared, “that the |lence, but the invasion of northd decision could have been reached |France could be discussed only long ago regarding peace aims if the | Irance and Germany Central Powers had not stated their | He asserted there could be no tg aims differently from those expressed ; 0f (he cession ol Alsace-Lorraine. by General Hoffmar i Count Von Hertling in his addr AR N S T {according to a Central News DENY LABOR SHORTAGE. | patch, said New Taven dan . 1| “We hope soon 10 concluag Mordecau, as president of the Connec- | a&reement with Ukrania which wo ticut Federation of Labor, and Ira M. | be mutually satisfactory, especial Ornburn, as president of the New Ha- |rom an economic point of view.” ven Trades council, today issued a When on Jan. 3, the chancel pubMc statement to the effect that |continued, the period expired for there is no labor shortage in the state | co-operation of the Entente natig and alleging that while appeals are |in the peace negotiations, Germa being made for women to enter muni- ! was no longer bound by its offer tion and other plants, hundreds ot i men are heing refused employment. 3 (Contnued on Fifteenth Page.)