New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 11, 1918, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LMLOCAL NEWSPAPERS = PRICE THREE CLNTS. GER sserts Yon Hertling’s Remarks on Very Friendly Tone RUSSIA DECREES WAR’S END, DEMOBILIZATION ORDERED “Action Postponed on Signing of Treaty With | ANNOUNCES ALLIES | Central Powers But Conclusion of Conflict Is Recognized---Forces on All Fronts De- » c'ared Discharged From Military Service UKRAINE SIGNS PACT WITHfTEUTONS; NO INDEMNITIES AND NO ANNEXATIONS Amsterdam, Feb, Russia has end and has ordered demobilization of ng to a dispatch received here today, The dispatch follows: £ “The president of the Russian delegation at today's desisting of war had Bulgaria, simultan ian forces on all stated that while Russia treaty, it declared the state tria-Hungary, Turkey and plete demobilization of Rus Central Powers and Ukraine Pact. A dispatch from Brest-Litovsk via Berlin, giving the details of the con- Mferences at which the peace treaty between the Central Powers and the Ukraine republic was signed has been received her The dispatch con tinues: ‘It was possible to announce at the beginning of the last in th negotiations that the basis for conclu- 4¥on of peace between the Quadruple alliance and the Ukraine Peoples’ Re- public had been found. After the re- turn of the delegation to B Litovsk negotiations on this wera continued. rhanks to the energetic un- tiring work of all commiss and 19 the spirit of conciliation inspiring .«*1 parties, agreement on all points | was established so that the final draft- the treaties and signature could be carried out. Owing to the techni- cal difficulties connected with the five | treaty texts it was not possible to hold formal sitting and affix signatures in the early hours of Saturday. cech by Von Keuhlmann. on Kecuhlmann, German for- as president, opened | shortly before 2 o'clock in with the following was pause and ons ing of a until Dy the sitti the morning seech “Gentlemen: minister, None of you will be | able to close his eyes to the his- torical significance of this hour at which the representatives of the four allied powers are met the repre- gentatives of the Ukraine Peoples’ ‘fi'{rmuh!i\: to sign the first peace at- tained In this world war. This peac signed with your young state which has emerged from the storms of the great war, gives special satisfac- tion to the representatives of the allied powers and for the Ukranian | seoples’ Republic, for the future of which we all cherish the best wishes.” The president of the Ukranian dele- gation replied: ‘We with day hegins ruple here ible with from this the Quad- We came state joy that peace between alliance and Ukrania in the hope that we should be to achieve a general peace and make an end of this fracticidal war. The political position, however, is «ysuch that not all of the powers are met here to sign a general peace treaty. Inspired with the mostordent for our people and recognizing that this long war has exhausted the cultural national powers of our:, pco- ple we, must devote all of our trength to do our part to bring about lave dated Bre: i an | break of the pre; declared the state of war to be at an Russian forces on all fronts, accord- t-Litovsk on Sunday. (Sunday’s) sitting gning a formal peace ended with Germany, Aus- ously giving orders for com- fronts.” from been of peace between Germany, Austri Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey on one part and the Ukranian Pcoples’ Re- public on the other.” The preamble that the Uk- ranian people, having in the course of the present world war declared it-| clf to be independent and expressed | L wish to restare peace between it- 1f and the powers at war, Russia lesires “to take the first step toward a lasting world’s peace, honorable to all parties, which shall not only put end to the horrors of war, but aso lead to the restoratian of friendly relations of the peoples in political, legal, cconomic and intellectual realm.” The names of all the plenipoten-| tiaries engaged in the negotiations are | set forth and declared to have reached | an agreement on the following points: | Article 1—Germany, Austria-Hun- | gary, Bulzaria and Turkey on the ona| hand the the Ukranian Peoples’ Re- public on the other declare that the! state of war between them is at an | end. The contracting parties are Te- | solved henceforth to live in peace and | friendship with one anothe “Artirle 2—Between Austria-Hun- gary the one hand and the Uk- ranian Peoples’ Republic on the other hand, as far as these two powers border on another, those frontiers will | exist which extend before the out- ent war between the | Austro-Hungarian monarchy and Rus- sia. Further north the frontier of| the republic beginning at Tarnegrad | will in general follow the line of | Bilgerey to Sroezeberzsyn, Krasnestau, Pugaszce, Radzyn, Meshiretsched, Sarnaki, Selnik, Wysckemoksk, Kam- istslitousk Prushany, Wydozowskyesu. This will be fixed in detail by a fixed commission according to ethnographi- cal conditions and with a regard to the desires of the population. Should the Ukranian Peoples’ Republic yet have common frontiers with another of the powers of the Quadruple al- liance special agreements will be mada thereon. Evacuation of Occupied Territory. Article TII. territories states on The evacuation of oc- cupied will begin imme- the manner of carry- and diately after the The ratification of present treaty. the transfer of the evacuated territory will be de- of out evacuation ing termined by the plenipotentaries the interested partics. AINE | RECOGNIZE UK Trance and Great Britain Said to Have Sent Diplomats to New Republic. London, Feb. 11.—The remarkable statement that France and Great 3ritain have recognized the Ukraine | republic and sent diplomatic repre- | sentatives there is contained in an official statement sent out by Russian wireless news agency and issued here ! tan of Turkey, from inflammati The state- | the lungs is announced in a di rs in the course of a report | received here from Constantinople by through ment oc of the proceedngs at the Brest-Lit- ovsk conference of February 1 which M. Severuk, who apparently is ' the new chairman of the Ukranian | delegation, is reported as saying that ! by an act created by the rada on November 7 the republie declared that these matic representatives had been pointed. M. Severuk is reported have quoted from the act passed by the rada as follows “By this act its (Ukrania) interna- tional position is recognized by. . the Councl of Workmen’s and = Soldiers’ delegates as well as by the represen- tivs of the four allied states and also hy the French republic and the British government, which have ap- pointed and sent diplomatic sentatives to the government of Ukranian Peoples’ Republic.” a press bureau. Ukranian repre- | s the MIDWIFE ARRESTED ON SERIOUS CHARGE za Pongetti Accused of Abor- tion and Held in $2,590 Jonds. Mrs. Eliza Pongetti of Main street, a midwife who has practiced her ca]l—“ ing in this city for the past seven | ears, is being held by the local po- lice in bonds of $2,500 on an initial ; charge of abortion which, Prosecutor G. W. Klett says, will be changed to manslaughter should the alleged vic- tim die. Mrs. Pongetti waa arrested last night on information given Prosecutor Klett by, Coroner Eli Mix of New Ha ven. The Elm City coroner stated that Mrs. Julia Montero of Bristol, is in a critical condition in & New Haven criminal operation was Last ni ti's Jud today. which, by Mrs, ht the bonds in M were fixed at § T. Meskill reduc Attorney P. F. she claims, performed Ponget- 000, but >d the bail McDonough case e plea of not guilty Mrs. Pongetti, who is 36 years old, married and has four children, will be arraigned in court two wecks from to- day unless it becomes necessary to | prefer more serious charges as the re- sult of developments in the casc AGREE ON REPATRIATION. change Na Feb nals. ‘Amsterdam, 11.—A dispatch Article IV.—The diplomatic consular relations between the con- tracting parties will be entered upon and » new era and new birth. We are sfirmly persuaded that we conclude this peace for the democratic masses, and that peace will contribute to the gen- eral termination of the great war. We state here that the long ardu- performed at Bre ~Litovsk with success and that democratic peace parties. From to- Peoples” Republic and enters as an in- gladly »us labor has been crowed have attained honorable to both day the Ukranian born to life depent ends war we a new state on its front and it will see to it that all of the powers, which in | it lle, will rise to new life and flourish Dr. von Kuelilmann then invitea the itatives to sign the peace treaty. At one minute before 2 yelock, Dr. von Keuhlmann, the signatory, signed a copy the prepared for Germany all the si represe as of and atures first 0 o'clock of D seared » of enti Iossence led the circle of nations. It| by immediately after the ratification of the peace treaty, The widest pos- sible admittance of the respective parties to consuls is to be reserved for a special agreement. Article V.—The contracting parties mutually renounce the reimburse ment of their war costs—that is to say the state expenditure for carrying on the war, as well as indemnification for damages that is to say those damages suffered by them and their subjects in the war, as through mili- tary measures including requisi- tions made in the enemy Article VI—The respective ers of war v home as far as they may desire, with the approval of the ate concerned remain in its territories or pro- ceed to another country. The regu- 1tion of the questions connected here- I owill follow ountries prison- 11 be permitted to return | from Vienna 1 | between Austro-Hungarian and in commissions at Petrograd re- says that negotiations >ongetti. | represented the accused and entered a | Rus- | - EXILE IN SALONIKI at | be held. Ukranian | tan of the Ottoman Empire, sprawl- diplo- | Europe, Asia and Africa, and at the | ap- | same time was commander of the| to | faithful | lion subjects. ia hospital as the result of an alleged |imperial Austria-Flungary and Russia to Bx- |, window ledge and call | ment to the effect that the Austro- Hungarian civilians detained in Rus- and Russian civilians detained \-Hungary are of specified shall far as they de- e be repatriated as speedily as pos- sible The women l:umq on January 31 in an agree« | | sia I Aust | categories, as specified and and cla es under rl o wdes 16, the s inc over 45 les hetween | | | m: tary servic and are doctors clergymen regardies tho of : also included in l i in | of 16 and 45 who are unfit for mili- |, | Caliph | a seat, onl | toeracy ABDUL HAMID DIES, | Former Sultan of Ottoman Erapire Lived in Fear of Poison Previous to Exile Never Siept Twice in Succession in Same Room For Fear of Assassins—Held Subjects Under Tron Sway. Amsterdam, Feb. 11.—The death vesterday of Abdul Hamid, former Sul- vay of Vienna. A state funeral will Sultan For 33 Years, Abdul Hamid was for 33 years Sul- ing upon the three continents of| army of Moslems. He was | paid homage by nearly a hundred mil- | Shorn of power, he died prisoner, pitied, if not despised. He lived in constant dread of death. | He had often escaped it only by good , luck or unusual precautions against plots. Yet in his later years he had | sought death by his own hands, o melancholy had his existence become. He gained ascendency under cir- cumstances nearly as tragic as those | which ended his career. Born Sep- tember 22, 1848, the seond son of Sul- tan Abdul Medjid, he became saver- cign when his elder brother, Murad V. was deposed because of mental in- capacity in 1876. It was a time when Turkey was in a state of extreme de pression, almost succumbing to the tremendous blows of Russia. Out of | this slough the new Sultan ved the remnants of Turkish prest Many | critics give him credit for a successful regime. Others denounce it as in- famous. Whatever the true estimate, it is a fact that the Turkish empire increased its power. Schaols were re- formed, the army built up, commerco extended and Pan-Islamism created under Abdul Hamid. Stubbornly though he had outside forces to prevent disintegra- tion of his empire, his fall came within the empire itself by the rising of the Young Turks, a party bent upon constitutional government. Ab- dul Hamid granted a constitution but failed to carry out the libgeral ideas of the new generation. In the revo- lution of 1909 he was driven from the palace on the shores of the Bosphorus made a prisoner, and con- fined in the Villa Latini, a former res- | idence of a Greek merchant in Salon- iki, the city where the Young Turk movement had its birth Autocrat of Autocrats. During his autocratic regime, Abdul Hamid was before all else Sultan and | In audience before him Turk- ish subjects, even at command to take ventured to tilt themselves on the edge of a chair and bow hom- repeating the formula, “Master, word is law”. One of the numer- Abdul Hami a parrot. to perch it | i | | | | | ve fought age, thy ous anecdotes of which 1If upon “Djafer! One of the eunuchs answer. ed to obey the thinking as his masier who called. This so enraged thc tan, it that he wrung ¢ parrot’s neck, and a exclaimed g palace there b voice cothmand.” bdul Hamid once sypsy who This prphe for his constant although it in fact life were extraordin safet concerns chanced one day Diafer!’ to that summons, i name, hurr it v =ui is related, rily this must to fortunc vio- zely of also plots 1early ssful. | precaution had his predicted y was 1 told by 4 lent death responsible the founded h toolk fear assassin was everal He Li ry for mal nice ched no et 11 Britain and clowdy tonizht raie. Slow- Hartrord ‘ore- cast for New cipity: Partiy Tuesday aencrally Iy vising te vi- | woula | there I erea i l BRITISH CASUAUTTES 1 FOR PAST WEEK | | 7,0 Tondon, Fch casualties reported week Wi Killed or died ofticers, 73 Wounded or missing—off~ cers, 155; men, 5,489, S.—Briti the las as fol- in are 7,077, divided of wounds— men, 1,360. REJECTIONS REDUGED T0 LOWEST MINIHUM Changed Standards Pass Ma- jority—No New Call in Second. has first 584 ar the examined istered class ber only 40 permanently servi out at tho exemption nmen who are reg- [-A, of which num- have been definitely and rejected for military hoard in office today. On Saturday 340 men were examined and 244 were examined yesterday. It does not fol- low however, that of the 534 men examined, 514 have been passed for active service for, it explained, a large number have ecither appealed from the findings of the local board or have heen referred to the medicat advisory hoard for further consulta- tion. Following registra the examination vesterday morning wdvisory board met at the Dr. G, H. in charge vice chairman, other doctor board giving gener theiv are Drs. and Whipple of Southington and Bris- tol respectively, Dr. George W. Dunn, Dr. Joseph Potts, Dr. M. L. Marsh, Dr. . F. Moore and Dr. Swain. Owing to the large number of men from both dstricts who were sum- noned bef the advisors board impossible to examine all terday and the others cturn Grammar school at 10 m. tomorrow when the board will meet again complete ali examina- tions. Dr. visory tion t of district nis the dical 1 0% Bodley as and Dr. ¢ was also on this ously’ m lock 1fternoon. hairm M present in i was Cooley, The who are of services afternoon will to the to D. W. O'Connell, member of the medical second exemp- stated ! this morning that has decided not to «call all re- jected in his district back for a re-examination under the amended bhysical rules. Tnstead the board will over the physical examinations of all the rejects and in such cases as it evident that the standard make a chan man wiil that his on the ad- yoard, he d men 0 is new tho i o be In the notitied jec is such medical ot an cases adv be ¢ can hoard. in a examinations. ases in this man- seems to have scheme for it will save and doctor: considerable that in his have to reconsid- nd he thinks that ahout 125 will he the new appeal to Doubt- sim- man isory wred for lar way or vrivate Iy caring for these ner Dy O’'Connell truck upon the avoid much the reg likewisn ¢ Dr. O’Connell wre about 90 fHat will his bhoard number best ynfusion for strants wmd wi o expense states rejections district he hy this found under accoptable ings, SOUND STEAMER DAMAGED. Put Passe 11.—The steam- Fall River line way through a of Bartlett’s reef K this broke on obliged t Plymouth Forced London With Into New ors. to London Plymouth vhile fighting mass of about 4 the wheel New Feh £ e her ice wost o'cloc morninz tarhoard put in wera iron buckets her and wheic rorwarded she hey b wa 186 to here N passenger train New Y CO-ORDINATION NECESSARY. Feb. 11 becoming ind more that war be consid plans be de- yoint,” said just been ite to the General vith the departure, zerents must he Paris, It is udispensable red ded General ¢ placed of th and entral ] problems as whole upc no has preme Giardino crview of his Matin o hion of void. | rul- | Speech Was Vague and Leac | | i | the , according to the figures given | | same ¢ Miller | ! ciently ves- | | practical | ternational action and of i vocal? Peace O “Banter am Washington, Feb. session at 12:30 o’clock Chancellor von Hertling/ and th Chancellor von Hértlin's stater and confusing and ferent fram Count Czernin, who the president tone. leads to practically no conclusion Z tn fotnt] Hés By German| ter, Count Czernin, ent saild, was very vague, It was very dif- a very friendly t, the presid said had The president reiterated that the United States had no desire to in- terfere in European affairs and would wekness or disorder to impel her will on another people. ternal disdain fo take advantage of any in- All the way through the presiddent drew a parallel between the pro- nouncements of Chancellor von Herting and Foreign Minister Czernin and his hearers drew the conclugion that the president decidedly considered Czernin’s utterances as being more favorable than Hertling’s. Czernin scems to see the funda- mental clement of peace with clear eyes and does not seek to obscure them, said the president. “Count Czernin,” said the president, “probably would have gone much further had it not been for the em- barrassment of Austria’s alliance and of her dependence on German) Again the president reiterated that United States was “in the war and would put forth its whole strength in this war of emancipation.’ President Wilson spoke as follows “Gentlemen of the Congress: “On the eighth of January, I had the honor of addressing you on the objects of the war as our people con- ceive them. The prime minister of I Britain had spoken in similar terms on the fifth of January. “T'o these addresses the chancellor replied on the Count (zernin for Austria on the It gratifying to havc so promptly realized that of view on t great be made in the hear- world. German 14th and Ly desire exchanges matter should ing of all the “Count Czernin’s reply, which i dirceted chiefly to my own address, uttercd in a very friendly tone. “He finds in my statement a sufli- encouraging approach to views of his own government to justi- fy him in believing it rurnishes a Dhasis for a more detailed discussion of purposes by the two governments. He represented to have intimated that /s he was expressing had been icated to me heforehand and of them at the time them: but in this, L misunderstood. T had received no intimation of what he in- tended to s There was, of course, 1o reason why he should communicate privately with me. T am quite con- tent to be one of his public audience “Count von Hertling's reply I must say, very vague and very confus- ing. 1t is full of equivocal phrase and leads, it is not clear, where. But it is certainly on a very different tone from that of Count Czernin and ap- parently of an opposite purp; It confirms, 1 am sorry to say, rather than removes, the unfortunate im- pression made by what we had lear ¢d of the conference at Brest-Litovsl His discussion and acceptance of our general principles lead him to no conclusions. He refuses to to the substantive items constitute the body of any He is jealous of in- nternational council. He accepts, he says, the principle of public diplomacy but he our all the is the vie commu that T was aware he uttering surmise, he wa was Ly s apply them which must final settlement | appears to insist that it be confined, at any rate in this case to generalities and that the several particular questions of territorities and sovereignty, the several questions upon whose settle- ment must depend the acceptance of peace by the twenty-three states now engaged in the war, must be discussed and settled, not in general council, but severally by the nations most imme- diately concerned by interest or | neighborhood. “He agrees that the seas should be free, but looks askance at any limi- tation to that freedom by international action in the interest of the common order. He would without reserve be glad to see economic barriers removed between nation and nation, for that j could in no way impede the ambitior of the military party seems constrained to Neither does he raise limitation ol armaments ter will be settled of itself by the economic conditi g must follow the war. But the Ger- man colonies, he demands, must be returned without debate. He Will dis- cuss with no one but the representa- tives of Russia what - on s S . peoples and the lands GE b man with no one R France the S ter- with whom he keep on terms objection to @ That mat he thinks, of ns which Aispo: provinces, nment of vhich I"renci ritory shall be emancipated, and onl | with Austria what shall be done wit | Poland. In the determination of a | questions affecting the Balkan state] | he refers, as I understand him, | | Austria and Turkey, and with regar {to the agreements to be entered int concerning the non-Turkish peoples ¢ the present Ottoman:empire to th| Turkish authorities themselves. Afte settlement all around effected i this fashion by individual barter an concession, he would have no obje tion, if I correctly interpret his stat ment to a league of nations whic would undertake to hold the new ba ance of power steady against extern disturbance “It must who und wrought of the evident what the ovinion world that ¢ worth vears possibly be fashion. The the proposes is the method congress of iVenna. We cann and will not return to that. What at stake now the peace of t world. What are striving fof a new international based upo ind universal principles of rig Justice ce of shre patches. It is possible that Cou not that, do: he forgotten t Reichstag resolution of the 19 of Ju or does he deliberately ignore them They spoke af the conditions of general peace, mot of national ag| zrandizement or of arrangements b | tween state and state. The peace the world depends upon the just se tlement of each of the several prol lems to which i referred in my reoe: address to the congres 1, of cours did not mean that the peace of t world depends upon the acceptance- any particular set of suggestions as the way in which these problems ai to be.dealt with. I mean only th: those problems, each and all, affe the whole world, that unless they ai dealt with in a spirit of unselfish a unbiased justice, with a view to U wishes, the natural connections, a racial aspirations, the security peace of mind of the peoples volved, no permanent peace Wi have been attained. Th cannot discussed separately or corne! None of them constitutes private or separate interest fro which the opinion of the world mu be shut out. Whatever affects ¢t peace affects mankind, ‘and nothi settled by military force, if settld wrang, settled at all. It present| will have to be re-opened. “Ts Count von Hertling not awa he is speaking in the court of ma kind, that all the awakened natio of the word now sit in judgment 9 what every public man, of whate nation, may say in issues of a co flict which has spread to every T gion of the world? The Reu:h‘(( resolutions of July themselves fran ly accepted the decisions of thg court. There shall be no annexation no contribution, no punitive damage Peoples are not to be handed abo from one sovereignty to another an international conference or an u etween rivals and an rations mu may now t governed only by the determination’ 1t action to this and be rstand everyo h temi in ne ge pea the infinite of these tragical at in of arrived method utf an rin can chancellor the is is order broad and and no more pe 1 Hertling does grasp it not has be derstandin National asp tagonists ho respected, peoples dominated and own consent not a mere phras Se is an of which hencetorth ignore have general th o impera principle state: the pea merc ay conferenc ¢ pieced together out < traditional understandings betweg] powerful states. All the partieg this war must join in the settlemer ot every 1e anywhere involved i because what we are seeking is it peace that we can unite to guarante i vowil at peril. We cannot for the asking, rangements of Tt cannot ! me or by e iss (Continted On Fifth