Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 16, 1918, Page 1

o A Had ‘a Brief Conference With Premier Clemenceau and ¢ Another With Colonel House, Sunday—Attended Church Twice—All the Residents Turned Out in the Hope of Getting a Glimpse of the Members of the American Mission Will Hold a Number of Informal Conferences Parll.; Dee. 15.~Président : Wilson | gave him the latest information on spent his first Sunday in Paris by go- ing twice to church, laying a wreath wn the tomb of Lafayette and having -a brief conference with Premier Cle- | mnenceéau and another with Colonel E. M. House. he evening he rested ‘n préparation for the coming strenu- Jus week of. preliminary conferences. During the afternoon the president wmade a short call on President and Madame Poincare at the palace of the vuee. in the morning, the president, ac- companied by Mrs. Wilson tnd Ad- miral Grayson and by secret service men went to the American Presby terian church in the Rue de Berri. His wcming was khown ‘only to a, few of the American colony who had guessed tiat the president, being a consistent church-goer, would choose a church of his own denomination. The Rev. Chauncey W. Goodrich, the pastor. took his text from the ninth verse of the ninth chapter of Isaiah. He dwelt-on the necessity of impreg- nating political and' civil life with idealism and showed how the evolu- tion of humanity was reaching the last ¥ stage ii the constitution of a society of nations.. The edifice was filled, but there was mo special service. The president took part as he would as if ke were present at the Central Pres- byterian eburch in Washington. In the arlernoon President Wilson went to a church of Mrs. Wilson's de- rominatgn, as is the custom in Vogthington when he goes twica onj " The chyrch selected was the | Episcopal church of the} “nity, the bishop of South Car- L«ung. esiaent . visitsd the tomb of | /in the Picpus cemetery, in | [stern secuon of ' Par (TN nomie afier \be morn- o cauc iservice. Neoceremdmy nid od ‘at the cemetery™unu went accompan ed on.y diny General Marts a secret rperative and a French officer val to ham a a personal afu resident, removing his nat) e the tomb carrying u iarge toral As the president placed the wreath | on: the tomb, he Lowed his head and | stood sileni beforc the resting place of the famous I'renchman who helned | Amearjea in her fight for liberty. He| no speech whatsoever. He then ed 1o thé Murat residence. Meanwhile, all the residents of Paris apparently had.t of getting & % :{. It was rei - ut the - n ek was continuing, for the sun broke through the murky clouds for the first time in days and began to dry up the muddy streets, The sun lit u the city Im all its flultering banners, und flags, . To a torelgn observer. 1t appeared that everyone in Paris was on the boulevards. There was no space whatever on the sidewalks. A great crowd gathsred in the Pluce de la tencord lefore the headquarters of the American mussion. The crowd jammed. about the doors and took <een jnterest in every American pass- ns in and out, The most inconse- mwential attaghe. carrying a case of sffrinl papers, was surrounded and -« tuily inspected by admiring ILenin men and women. American army auiomobiles were unded and cheered whenever they wpped. All one needed, apparently be taken into the hearts of the t trowd was just to look like an Amer- ican. Every sort of conveyince was ‘ut on the boulevards or in the parks, vach carrying individual cheering sroups, Taxicabs carried crowds of American ®oldiers and even, the old ;u-hum chaise again was doing uty. Tht parading happy crowds smack- *d of Riverside Drie on a Sunday af- ferndon, while the wide spaces and the parks gave just a touch of Wash- gton. Henry White, former American am- bassador here and now a member of the American peace mission, who has own Paris through long residence here, said that seldom had king, em- peéror or foreign dignitary ever re- ceived such welcome as that extended Fresident Wilson. The special signi- ficance felt by the members of the American mission was that the P‘rgr.h people seemed to Le wholly i &)y thy with the president's pur- P poses. 1 # The members of the American mis- sion now are devoting their time to getting themselves settled and to or- ganizing, for their work. It is believed fortunate that the next i1wo weeks will .be taken up by informal confer- “nces, juse the way things are now it would be virtually, impossible to do any business, There are offices to be wranged, personal affairs straighten- ed out, meeting places fixed and the general arrangements attendant on an affair of this kind must be perfected. One of the mest important arrapge- ments to be. perfected is not yet un- der wa } neerns organized.means for maki lia the news of the preliminary arfangements as wei as of the meetings of the mission when they get under way. Colonel House and Creel, chairman of the oo Jpublic information, con- ferred “subject with the presi- a {: today. ent is home ‘@& small army of report- ers ere trying to get the news in the usual American way, ‘which ls strange i,r‘xcPariz to say the least. jom® American army . officials who are attached to.the mission seem ta have fred the foreign style of with newspaper correspond- ents Whieli in the United States is muuy described as “red tape”, Nev- heless, ~ the' correspondents are ing their efforts in organizing channels which will take tpyically American newspaper stories home to America in the American way. CLEMENCEAU RECEIVED BY PRESIDENT WILSON Paris, Dec. 15.—Premier Clemenceau arrived at the Murat residence at six o'slock W and was received immediat ident Wilson. The French I went by automobile to the 's_house a half hour af- E. M. House of the Amer- had called upon him. After g Premier Cle- menceau, President W1 “with 1son had a long Hoover, the THE TOM OF LAFAVETTE - POPULATION 29,919 President—It is Believed the During the Next Two Weeks. food conditions in Germany, Tomorrow, some time before the public reception at the city hall, the president will receive Thomas, Nelson Fage, the American ambassador to Ijly, who is expected to convey to m some kind of an informal invi- tation fré mthe pope to . visit the Vatican. PARIS WAS BRILLIANTLY ILLUM}NATED FOR WILSON Paris, Dec. 15.—The city probably was more brilliantly illuminated last devices erected in honor of President night than ever before. Hlectrical Wilson blazed in all parts of the cap- ital. The words “Vive Wilson” out- lined in electric lights, were display- ed at many vantage points while the quently was seen oulined in red, white coat of arms & the United States fre- and blue. The exterior of the chamber of dep- uties was- outlined in lights. The headquarters of the American dele- gation was lighted with a huge elec- tric sign bearing the motto “E Pluri- bus Unum.” The building occupied by the American Red Cross was ablaze with lights and a huge illuminated sign stretching across the Rue Royale peace mission, headquarters bore the from the French naval building to the| slogan “Vive Wilson.” The immense searchlight on the| Eiffel Tower heretofore jused -in searching the sky. for raiding air- | craft, rediated ovre the «city cafrying| a message of peace, All_public_buildings and were Lghted brilliantly. PRCGIIAM DRAWL UP CY SFPARTACUS GROLP: Amsterlam. De. 17— The Spartacus| monuments group, ding to a Berln telezram to the Las drawn up thel following of ‘mmediate tor| safeguardinz the revolution: i Disarma f ali police officers,! non-prolet: E rs and all. mem- bers of the ruling cla Confiscation by the «soldiers’ and workmen's councils of arms, munitions and armament work:. i Arming of all grown-up male prole- | tariats and the formation of a work- ers’ militia. The formation of a proletariat Rel guard. Abolition of the rank of officer§ and non-commissioned officers. “_Removal-of a'l'military officers from the soldiers’ and workmen's councils. Replacement of political organs and the authorities of the former regime by re; ntatives of the soldiers’ and workmen’s councils. . ‘Abolition of all parliaments and mu- nicipal and other councils. The elec- tion of a general council which will elect and ciotrol the executive coun- cil-of the soldiers and workmen. Cancellation of all state and other public debts, -including war® loans. down to a certain fixed limit of sub- scriptions. Expropriation «of all landed estab- lishments, banks, coa] mines and large industrial works. Cahcellaticn of all fortunes above a certain amount. AMENDMENTS TO THE GERMAN ARMISTICE Paris, Saturday, Dec. 14—The com- plete texts of the amendments to the German armistice which were signed this morning in Marshal Foch's . way train at Treves follow: . First: The duration of the treoty of armistice concluded on Nov. ¥l is prolonged one month until the 17th day of January, 1919, at 5 o'clcfx in the morning. This extension of a mth will be extended until the con- clusion of preliminaires to peace, sub- ject to the consent of the allied gov- ernments, Second: The execution of the con- ditions of the agreement of Nov. 11, such as are not completely fulfilled, will be followed and completed in the period- of the estension of the armis- tice after regulations fixed by the in- ternational armistice committee ac- cording to instructions of the allied high command. : Third: The following conditions will be added to the agreement of Nov. 11: ‘The allied high command reserves the right to begin meanwhile, if it thinks it wise, in order to assure new guar- antees to occupy the neutral zone on the right bank of the Rhine north of the bridgehead of Cologne up to tne Dutch frontier. This- occupation will be announced by the allied high com- mand by giving six days’ notice” FRENCH FORCES OF OCCUPATION AT MAYENCE Mayence, Dec. 15 (Havas).—The French forces of occupation have reached the extreme eastern limit of the bridgehead in this region. In its forward movement the Tenth army has found more of a spirit of curiosity among the population than of hostility. ‘The regular authorities have been rec- ognized by the French and no atten- tion has been paid to the workmen’s committees. Food supplies seem to be ample and the inhabitants appear to 1% in good health. Activity has been suspended in most of the industrial centers, otherwise life in this region cotinues normal. NEGRO SOLDIER CHARGED WITH KILLING CONDUCTOR Anniston, . Ala., Dec. 15.—Sergeant Ernest Cardwell, a negro ‘attached to the 157th depot brigade, charged with killing. a street car conductor and wounding the motorman here today, was captured tonight by an unarmed military, policeman after military guards and civil posses had searched for him for hours. He was taken to the stockade at Camp McClellan, where he will be held until the feel- ing here subsides. Cardwell was ejected from the sireet car by the conductor after he was said to have refused to remain in the section of the car reserved for negro passengers. He opened fire. killing the conductor with his second shot and later wounded the motorman l\:-’hen the latter sought to capture m. A man keeps his wife in hot water when she is forced to take in washing for him. Heavy Fogs Caus of Threg Accideg Two Elevated Trains on B. R. T. Collided — Vessels in ‘Collision. i\ . New - York, Dec. 15.—One of the heaviest fogs experienced here, which hung over the city for mpre than twelve hours, was responsible today for two marine accidents and a crash between two elevated trains on the B. R. T. lines in which one man was killed and six injured. The Norwegian steamship Nils, with cargo, which sailed this morning, struck a submerged wreck in the bhwer harbor and was forced to run on a beach to prevent sinking. The French liner Chicago. a vessel of 10,502 tons, which left here today with passengers and cargo for Bordeaux, ran aground near what is known as Craven Shoals, in the lower harbor. Tugs were sent to her assistance. She was floated at high tide and proceeded on her voy- age. The fog all but stopped the move- ment of harbor craft and ferries. Sev- eral ships which made Quarantine dur- ing the night, among them the Ward line steamer Monterey. with passen- gers from Mexico and Cuba, managed to reach their doc'ss under low speed. Among the ships held by the fog was the giant American transport Lev: than, with more than 8,000 memiwrs of erica’s overseas fighting forces aboatd, which arrived off Sandy Hook last night and came to an -anchor. Because of the vessel's size, her offi- cers (would take no chances in navi- gating the narrow channel leading to the harbor, and the men aboard were compelled to curb their patience for an additional twenty-four hours Blinded by the heavy fog, the motor- man of a Myrtle avenué elevated train drove it into the rear of another train which had stopped near the Seneca avenue station in Brooklyn. The mo- torman of the forward train had left his post and gone forward fo pick up man who Jay apparently' unconscious n the track. The impact of the col- lision drove the forward trucks of the first train over the prostrate man. WEALTHY INSURANCE MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER Muskegon, Mich., Dec. 15.—Milo H. Piper a wealthy insurance man, was Lrouzht back to Muskegon today to a charge of bhaving killed Frieda an, whom he is said to have two 2go although he hzad 4 and child. s arrested at Hamil- 1 aiready Piper, who w ten, Ont, Saturday, when questioned by the police today Lis«innocen ohn strongly declared and accused a mysteri- Sheldon” of having used to marry Miss Weichman, protest, aid that he urged Sheldon to use his name in getting mar- ried, but that Sheldon so threatened him’ with trouble if he said anything about it, that he decided™to remain silent. In 1915, it is charged, Piper met i a_Weichman at a~“€hicago She was married to him Ind.,, within a year and the tvs) started on ah automobile honeymoo Intil August, 1916, the girl's relatives received letters from her, the last being from Faribauit Minn. Early in September, 1916, section hkands working on the Grand Trunk Lailway in Eggleston township, Mi- chigan, came upon a freshly turned grave, mnear a railway crossing. A tew minutes digging brought to lizht the body of a woman, but it was in such condition that the coroner de- cided an autopsy would he useless. While vain efforts were being made to identify the body. Mrs. . W. Klinke of Hinsdale, a suburb of Chicago, who had been a friend of Miss Weichman, became’ alarmed at not hearing from | hker. After writing seéveral letters to Muskegon, she came here and went to the Piper home, where she found a woman with a baby, who said she was Mrs. Piper. She went to Piper's of fice, but he aenied ever having met Miss Weichman. M Klinke then appealed to the police. Chief of Police Morey produced the | clothing which had been found on the body buried beside the railway tracks. Mrs. Klinke immediately iden- | tified the garments as having belonz- ed to Miss Weichman. Detectives were sent to find Piper. but he had vanished. He was traced to Chicago, from there -to Detroit and finally was arrested at Hamilton, Ont. Piper is said to have been _ first married about four years ago and his wife and three vear old child now ré- side in Muskegon. en at Crown DPoint, 1 MACKAY CLAIMS BURLESON IS IMPLICATED IN “PLOT” New York, Dec. 15—Clarence H. Mackay, president of the Commercial Cable Company, charged in a state- ment issued here tonight, that Post master General Burleson was impli- cated in a *“plot” to bring about gov- ernment ownership of all wlre com- munications, “azd incidentally enable the Western Union and Bell Tele-!} rhoe companies to sell out to the gov ernment at a high price. Mr. Mackay Geclared Mr. Burleson's most recent action in removing hiry and other officials of the Commercial Cable Company from direction of the lines and appointing a committee to control all wire communication, placed the Western Union and Bell Tele- phone Company interests “in the sad- dle.” Asserting his companies were “marked for annihilation” because they had always opposed government ownership, Mr, Mackav said he was “in this fight to the finish.” SINN FEINERS SHOWED STRENGTH IN ELECTIONS Belfast, Dec. 15—T#e feature of Saturday's elections in nationalist Ire- land -was the strength shown by the Sinn Fein. It is reported here that Cardinal Logue and Archbishop Walsh both supported the Sinn Fein. The defeat of John Dilion, the Irish natiopalist leader, in East Mayo is anticipated when the final count is completed. The Sinn Feiners polled a heavy vote in the county and city of Dublin and in Cork. Tn northwest Ulster the Sinn‘Feiners will carry the city of Derry, jthree seats in Donegal and South Fermanagh and n.. ‘hwest Tyrohe. 2 # The unionists expect to retal> all their seats in the north. Joseph Bev- lin, nationalist for West Belfast, Las been re-elected by several thousand votes. » WOOL COMMISSION IS ‘RECALLED FROM ARGENTINE * Buenos Aires, Dec. 15.—Members of the wool commission sent to Argentine by the American war department left for home this morning. They urisvvu here Friday and no reason is known for their recall, CH, CONN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1918 PRICE TWO . CENTS ondensed T;agrams : arine insurance rates were easier. Major Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., was cited in an official French army order. | Finnish Landtag .elected General' Mannerheim premier. The former German empress suffer- ed another serious heart attack. Government's stocks of clothing and other equipment are valued at $611,- 024 000. Senate passed the House bill giving free transportation to their homes to Government war workers. A charter was granted at Dover, Del, to the du Pont Chemical Co. with a capital of $3600,000. . Greene Cananea output of for November was greatly in excess of duction. 2 Central Railroad = of New Jersey| asked the Railroad Admfhistration to cancel free return rule. ° Great Northwestern Shipping Cor- poration increased 1its capital from $750.000 to $1,000,000. 4 Canadian leather trade reported| that shipments of leather and hides | to_Europe will begin shortly. Total purthases of War Saving and ; Thrift Stamps in New Yeork to date amount to $35,208 923. H Schools of Springfield, Mass, were closed until New Year’s, owing to the| epidenfiic of influenza. An invitation was sent to President! Wilson* by Liege, Belgium, to visit the city. > Andrew Bonar Law announced .in! Glasgow that it as unlikely he would take the next budget before Parlia- ment. Odessa, Russian port, on the Black Sea, is peing evacuated by the Ger- mans. New York State bank superintend- ent approved the increase of capital of the bank of the United States, N. Y., from $200000 to $1,000000. Lynch Construction Co. . will . take | 5,000 men to France and Belgium as vanguard of army builders to con- struct model villages. Argentine weekly shipments . were: Wiheat 1,850,000 bushels, corn 8,800,- 000 bushels, oats 444,000 bushels and flax 1600,000 bushels. Meat and lard shipments for the week in Chicago amounted to 56.009 tons, 10,000 tons more than any prev- ious week. Department of Agriculture announc- ed it would make known new official standards .of the United States for length of staple of caton. Japan decided to withhold financial assistance from China because the as- sistance might complicate the internal status. Samuel Gompers will be called by the Senate Committee on Education and Labor when it begins its investi- gation of industrial welfare tnis week M. Victore, a French banker, was arrested at Paris while preparing to flee to Argentina. His liabilities are over 10000000 francs. State Department was advised that Mexican bandits blew up a passenger train running from Mexico City+ to Vera Cruz. $25,000 was copper ,100,000 pound: October pro: An_ appropriation of voted for the use of the House com- mittee investigating the National Se- curity League of New York. Members of the United States Chamber of Cemserce in-session _at ‘Washington behind closed doors failed | to reach a decision upon the question | of Government ownership of therail- roads. Democratic leaders in the Senate predict the revenue bill, without ma- terial change, will be in the hands of the President for his signature before | Feb. 10. , Secretary of Labor Wilson has sent Stanley Arnold to San Francisco to State in the Densmore probe. e suc- act with the Attorney Generul of the| ceeds William Denman, who refused to_serve. Two persons were killed, four seri- ously injured and 12 slightly injured when a street car ran down the 12th street viaduct. Kansas City, and| crashed into the Union Pacific depot. Surgeon General Ireland told the Senate Military Committee that more | than 2,000 American troops suffering from shell shock were cured b: the ews of {he signing of the armstice. Representative Dillon of North Dakota introduced a resolution calling on the Government to buy or take over blocks of land awned by corpor- ations to convert into small farms for soldiers and sailors. American mining interests in Mex- | ico joined the association of producers | of oil in Mexico in their fight against| confiscation of American property rights by the Mexican government, both. of mineral and mining. Nine fur coats valued at $2,000 were stolen from' the store of Jackson! & Company. furriers, on Tremont street, Boston. The present outbreak of infiuenzain Massachusetts is only one-seventh as severe as when it was epidemic in| Boston. 5 The resignation of Miss Helen| Knowlton as head of the department | of economics and dean of women at New Hampshire College, was an- nounced. Eleven lives have been lost in con- nection with the hunting season in Maine which ended Saturday. Walter A. Reed, general treasurer of Rhode Island since 1898, died sud- denly of heart failure on the street in Chepachet, R. L Charles N. ‘Haynes, 'general man- ager for the Selwyn & Company theatrical interests, died in New York, | aged 51 years, FORMER GERMAN EMPEROR NOW A NEAR-RECLUSE Amerongen, Holland, Dec. 15.—(By The A. P.) The former German em- peror continues to. lead the life of a near-recluse. He virtually is cut off from communication with the outside world. Reports that he was in con- stant communication with his former advisers are not true. g There is no truth in the rumers that the former empress is seriously ill She has been. troubled for years wit an affection of the heart and after her arrival here desired to have her mer ph: ian in. attendance. He ar- rived at the castle yesterday and saidl that her condition showed no change. ‘Whenever there is a break in- the incessant drizzle customary in Hol- land, Willilam Hohenzollern and hia wife walk in the rain-soaked grounds | with one or two attendants. Some- times they take a trip in a closed mo- tor car. i The correspondent inquired into the rumor that the former emperor in- tended to move his quarters and learned that Herr Hohenzollern -is not interested in other houses in Holland and is not likely to move anywhere until he knows more regarding his fu- ture. BRITISH COMPLETE THE OCCCUPATION OF COLOGNE London, Saturday, Dec. 14—DBrit- ish troops rapidly are completing the cecupation of the Cologne hridgehead and east of Cologne already reached the town of Olpe, according to an offi- cial statement issued tmight. i 'Lisbon reporting the assassination say jearly in 1916 when he returned | dency. | wheat, a large quantity of airplane tand providing a scientfic basis President Portugal - Shot and Killed Was Assassinated While in a ‘;R:ilwny Station at Lis- n. London, Dec. 15.—Dr. Sidonio Paes, bresident of Portugal, was shot and killed by an assassin shortly before midnight Saturday while he was in a! railway station at Lisbon, waiting for a train to Oporto. Advices from that he was struck by three bullets. The presilent's assailant, named Jeetne, was killed by the crowd President Paes died within 3 few minutes after he was shot. Dr. Sidonio Paes was formerly pro- claimed president of Portugal on last June 9. He headed a revolt in Por- tugal in December, 1917, and .was named president of the provincial government on December 9. Dr. Paes was a professor of math- ematics in. the University of Coinbra when he entered the Portuguese cabi- net in 1911 as minister of public works. At the outbreak of the war he was Portuguese minister to Ger- many and remained in Berlin until to Lisbon. i While provisional president Dr. Paes declared that Portugal would! continue in agreement with the allies against Germany. One of his first acts after being proclaimed president v o take active steps for greater ipation in the war by Portugal. On December 6, while walking in the streets of Lfsbon, Dr. Paes was fired at but the shot went wild. The president’s aggressor was arrested. ASSASSIN OF PRESIDENT OF PORTUGAL LYNCHED Paris, Dec. 15.—According to a Havas despatch from Lisbon, the as- sassin of President Paes was lynched by the crowd. . Tamagnini Barbosa, the minister of the interior, has assumed the presl- BRITISH STEAMER IS POUNDING TO PIECES St. John, N. B, Dec. 15.—The Brit- ish steamer Corinthian, which struck on Northwest Ledge, at the mouth of the Bay of I'undy, yesterday a few heurs after she left this port for Glasgow, with a valuable cargo, was reported today to be pounding .to pieces in a heavy sea. All her com- pany of 87, under command of Cap- tdin David Tannock, are safe. She carried no passengers. A few'of her crew are reported to have reached Westport, N. S. and Freeport, N. S, in ship's boats. ¢ The rest, including (aptain Tannock, Have been taken off by the patrol boat Festubert and the ‘anadian government steamer Aber- dcen, which left here yesterday in re- sponse to a wireless call for help. Gwing to the heavy weather they did not reach the scene of thle wreck until this morning. The Corinthian carried a valuable cargo under ~Eritish government or- ders.. It ancluded 120,000 bushels of timber, deals, apples, condensed milk, lard, nails and a_heavy consignment of boxed meats. “The vessel is owned by the Ganadian Pacific Ocean Ser- ice Limited, but was built in Bel- Ireland, in 1900 for the Ailan Line. She is 446 feet lonz and of 7,332 tens gross, For the past three yvears she has been under present owner- ship. During the winter season of 1509-10 she was aground for a time on Georges Island, Hal REDUCTION. IN LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE RATES Washington, Dec. 15.—Sweeping re- ductions in long distance and toll telephone rates by the adoption of a basic charge of 614 mills a mile air- line mileage and half the day rate for night service up to midnight and one- fourth the day rate after that hour were announced today by Postmaster | General Burleson. They become fective next Januavy 21, The new rates were recommended in the first report of the committee on rate standardization and Mr. Burleson's statement said their_effect is to equalize the toll and long dis- tance charges over the country, ‘“re- moving disparities and preferences for, future reductions contemplated as unification of telephone and telegraph wires proceeds.” A night service rate”” said the statement, “which is one-half the day | rate, is established between 8:30 and 12 p. m. Between midnight' and 4:30 a. m., the night rate is one-fourth the day rate. These are gerater re- ductions in night rates than have been made in any country, and doubt- less will be extensively used, es- pecially for social and family purpos- es. A person might talk from San Francisco to New York for about $4 | whereas the day rate is approxi- mately $16. “In many large sections of the country the smallest toll rate has been | not less than 15 cents. Under the; new scheme for short distances the rates are reduced to five cents and ten cents for the cheapest form of service and the person can talk five minutes as compared with three min- utes now, or in some cases only two minutes . or one minute. Free toll areas where the exchange rate was designed to cover the free service or a low charge therefor are not affect- ed by this order.” SAYS GERMAN REPUBLIC CANNOT BE TRUSTED Paris, Saturday, Dec, 14—(Havas). —The German republic is a mockery and cannot be trusted, declared For- er Premier Vivani in a speech to- night at a dinner given by graduates of Columbia University to mobilized graduates and students. He urged that “German kultur,” be suppressed | in-French and American universities. | The former premier praised Americén efforts in the war and said that thanks to the United States, democ- racy had defeated Autocracy. Colonel William Barclay Parsons presided at the dinner. Other speal ers were Henri Bergson, Barond'es- tournelles de Constant and Colonel Joseph- A. Blake. Marshal Joffre had heen invited to attend, but sent his regrets. ef-| TWO GERMAN SOCIALIS“:S RESIGN FROM COMMISSION Geneva, Dec. —(Havas).—Hugo Haase ‘and® Herr Barth, two of the three Independent Socialists members of. the commission of six which con- stitutes the German government, have resigned, aceording to_reports received here. The reports add that Georg Ledebour, a leading socialist, also has severed his connections with the goy- ernment. | the American approach, j rested are kFred ( NAVAL GUARD CLASHED Mexican Customs Guard Had Attacked American Gunner’s Mate Berry at Tampico and Opened Fire on an Un- armed Navy Guard That Went to His Rescue—Naval Guard Later Secured Arms and Killed One Mexican and Mortally Wounded Another—The Mexicans Then Fled. New: YorK, Dec. 15.—la a clash on November 28 between the armed navy guard .of the American steamship Monterey and Mexican customs guard. at Tampico, one Mexican. s:iG to have been a captain, was killed; a soldier mortally wounded and a chiet gun- ner’s mate, nemed Berry, in charze of the American guard, less riously hurt. This was learned toiay ‘with the steamer’s arvival here ‘rom Hayvana and Nassau, where she touch-d -fter leating Tampico. Members cf the armsd officers of th> ship refu: 10 dises the incident, but details w.cre learned from passengers on hoard at the time. According to them, the izt occurred shortly after 5 a. m. afier members of the navy guard went 16 the rescue of Berry, wh) had been aitacked. The gnar Americans at first responded to - the call without arnfs, but upon their Mexicans opening fire, they secured their weabon: and respunded in like manner. Later, officials of the port took the matter into hand, the vass2ngers as- serted, and a demand was mads upon the cuplain of the Moutary that the arm J1 guard be delivered up to them peading an investigation. This the captain declined to do,.his aection beinz supported, it was said, by officers of two American gunboats i th eharbor. Later the matter was disposed of by a decisicn to leave the entire subject to diplomatic sctile- n:ent. It was said that the gunuer's mate had gone asncre on an errand Jnst be- fore the Monterey saiied blocks from where the s a salcon and as turning to his ship passing in front of this saloon, he was called upon to “treat.” When he refused to do so, s eral Mexjcans started a i his ‘ship, a can guard shot was flred, and a Me: there seeing him coming. placed him detention. It also was asvertained that others started to beat him with ths butts of their rifles. The sailor fought back the best he couid, and as he drew near the ship, he 2ailed for hia men for asistance. They needed no second .nvitati one of the passengers sa‘d. and who were in sight or hearing joined in the fray. Seeing reinforcemnts com- ing, some of the Mexicans opened fire. No one was hit on the snip, aithough bullets sang past. The, naval guard then secured arms and as ‘the firing continued, they re- shots with the result that two Mexicans fell. Wit the show of { liner - Monterey and { day arms the Mesicans gave up and fled ieaving the gunner's mat2 fres to re- turn to his -uip with his mea. Sound of the firing: attracted a con- derable crowd, but no furiier dem- onktration wis made. Tlreats wers heard, however, and dut hours that the Monterev ¢ ]recaution w:.s taken t¢ guard agains a surpr The two gunboats we=s s them<coull Fave ren- istance to the Monterey had ben requircd. In addiwem to hand arms, the Monterey carcies a gun on her main deck, placed tacr during the war as a protection azainsi subma- rines. On arrival of the Montcrey here ta- the gunver's mate and his men went to the iavy yard to maka an offi- cial report 6f the matter. Officars of the ship also were question:a by na- val authori MEXICANS STARTED / THE D!STURBANCE ‘Washington. Dec. 15.—The clash be- tween the armed guard of the YWard Mexican solliers at Tampico has been left to diplomatic settlment and now is the subject of negotiations between. the Amwrican.2nd Mexican governments. This annqunce- ment was made today by the state department. i The depa:tment’'s anrcuncement said the Mexicans started the disturb- ance by .attacking and injuring the commander of the Monicrey’s armed guard, who nad gone ashore “The depa:tment of state’ said the announcement, “is investizating a clash that occurred beiwoen Mexi- £an soldiers nd a member of the arm- ed guard of the Americar steamer Monterey, which occured ar Tampico on Novembex 28. The Mexicans started the disturbance. i “Department of state advices are to the effect that the affair occurred early in the morning, that the .American in charge of the <ard, who had gonc ashore, was attacked by the Mexican soldiers, and that he was injured by the Mexicans. One of the Mexican soi- diers was Kkilled and another injured, during the disturbance. “The-Tampico_authorities sought to have the armed guard abcard the ship surrendered to theém. The whole sub- ject, however. was left to diplomatic settlement ind is being tuken up te- tween the state department and the Mexican government through the American embassy at Mexico City.” $50,000 FOR WOMAN'S LIBERTY COMMITTEE ‘Washington, Dec. 15—Mere than $30.000_was contributed to {the “Wo- man’s Liberty Committee” at a suf- fragist meeting held here today by the Nationa; Woman's Party. Money was subscribed after = Mr: Tosean Bennett, of Hartford, Conn., had ed the audience how much it weuld give “to get the Jast senator’s vote cut of the way of woman's liberty.” Mrs. O. H, P. Belmont of New York, oue of the speakers at the meeting, gave $1,000: the New York state branch of the party $25,000; the PennZ sylvania branch $15000, and the Dis- trict of Columbia branch $1,000. From the southern states came $500 and the new voters of Michigan sent $200. The meeting was preceded by a pro- céssion of women rapresenting all the countries of the world in which wo- men vote. Behind them came 26 wo- men who have served jail sentences here this. year as the result of dem- cnstrations in front of ‘the White House. After they had taken their Jnaces on the stage lhey were pre- sented with “prison pins” as an in- znia of their services for women's | freedom. It _was announced that tomorrow tne Woman's Party will stage a- dem- onstration im Lafayette Sauare, oppo- <jte the White House, at which copies of all of President Wilson® eeches including the two he has “delivered since his arrival in Paris, will be burned. TWO MEN CHARGED WITH THEFT OF AUTO Bridgeport, Cenn, Dec. 1i—Two young men are under arrest, charged with theft of an automobile,. and i@ third is seriously injured, as a res of a erash early today whe tomobile struck a trolley 2 According to the police the machine was speeding through a zone barred to motor traffic, near the Union Me- tallic Cartridge plant, whon a guard fired five_shots after the driver, did not heed the order to stop. A few seconds later the automobile was wrecked, There were five men in the automo- Lile, all from New Haven. Those ar Carrigan and John Murphy, while William I*. Quinn is in a hospital. The other two occnpants of the machine disappeared. Charges of operating an automobile without a license and while under the influence of liquor also will be lodged against Carrigan. The antomobile was owned by a New Haven firm. FORMER GERMAN CROWN PRINCE FLED FROM WOMEN Amsterdam, Dec. 15.—A ccrowd of women from Amsterdam recentiy went to the Island of Wieringen and made o hostile demonstration against the former German crown prince, who is interned there, according to a report published .by the ' Telegraaf. ."Frecer: ick William, it is alleged, saved him- self from the hands of the women by flight. . . The police force on the islard iater took action which resilted in a Ger- man baron who Was staying at a hotel there and the Amsterdam women leaving the island. STRIKE IN BERLIN OF SERIOUS PROPORTIONS ! London, - Dec. 15.—(British Wireless Sérvice). ,The strike in Berlin has reached serious proportions, according to a despatch received here from Am- sterdam. Only two newspapers are be- ing published and these as small leaf- lets. It is said that 350,000 workmen are out. DEMAND—REINSTATEMENT oF OLD BAVARIAN ASSEMBLY Munich, Saturday, Dec. 14 (By the A, P.).~Liberal and centrist political leaders in Bavaria have launched a campaign for the - dissolution of {hs Bavarian soMiers’ and workers' cofn- cil. They demand the temporary rem- statement of the old Bavarian assem- 1 AMERICIAN FORCES ARE SPREAD QUT LIKE FAN ‘With the American Army of Occu- pation,” Dec. 15 (By the A. P.)—The objectives of the American army of occupation were reached Sunday at various poiniS. Spreadirg out like N great fan, the advanced units of the Americans took up their positions along the boundary of a thirty kilo- metre semi-circle pivoting on Coblenz. The 324 division is occupying the bridgehead on the left, the - Second division comes next, while the First division is on the right of the Second division. Two I¥rench divisions are occupy§ng a part of the bridgehead, their pesition being on the extreme right of the Americans! As the various detachments reached the boundaries of the bridgehead the infantrymen marched into the towns behind bands playing spirited Ameri- can airs. In some instances the bands gave concerts for the benefit of the natives while the infantrymen were hustling about looking for quarters. The men of the bridgehead force as they reached the limits of the great arc during Sunday began settling down for a rest after their hike from the battle line ni France which began just four weeks ago. Different units all along the line are in the occupied villages. The officers are using public buildings as headquarters, but are be- ing Dbilleted in hotels and private homes. The main body of the men is encamped just west of the bridgehead. The troops spent Sunday in making themselves comfortable for an extfnd- ed stay on the bridgehead. The doughboys having reached their ob- jectives are now asking each other; “Where do we go from here?” VISITORS AT WILSON'S 3 TEMPORARY RESIDENCE Paris, Dec. 15.—Thousands of names already have been inscribed on the great visitors’ .book in the entrance of the Murat mansion, President Wil- son’s temporary residence. Not only have all the prominent men of - the official world called and signed the book but also the leaders of society. The name of scarcely any prince, duke or marquis is absent. Side by side with the names of eminennt men of science and art are the names of humbler persons. Among the names are those of Camdnal Amette, (the archbishop of Paris, and the Japanese ambassador. 1,328 NAMES IN THE ARMY CASUALTY LIST ‘Washington, Déc.- 15—The follow- ing casualties are reported by the Commanding General of the American Expediticaary Forces: Killed in action 155; wounded sev- erely 1.025; missing in action 153; to- tal 1,828, Wounded Sdverely. Sergeants—Floyd D. MecCutcheon. Worcester, Mass.; Eric S. Olsen, New Britain; Wililam J. Trevitt, Provi- dence, R. 1. Corporals—Edwin J. Stiquel, Britain;” Kamel Nejamincy, ter,” Ma: Privates—Daniel P. Moran, Holyoke, Mass.; Joseph Grohol, Ansonia: EQ- ward C. Robinson, Springfield,- Mass ; Frank F. Anderson, Bristol; Doohan, New R Jacobs, Fedor Mislen- ick, Bridgeport; William A." Schuler, Middletown; Pasquarell. Win Mass.; Paul H. Johnson, Collinsville, New Worces- Mass.;» Paul H. Jobnson, Collinsville; Frank P. Sariski, New Britai Will- am B. Vaughn. Springiield, Mass.; Julius Hawadsky, Hartford. - Micsing in Action. Privates—Albgrt Breault, Putnam; Barl R. Knight, Ctanston, R. L President to Stop at Geneva. Geneva, Dec. 15—It is reported here on what anpears to be good au- thority that President Wilson will bly as the only means of preventing|stop for a short time at Geneva op allied occupation of Munich, his way to Italv next month.