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\ ) PONP AT OPENING OF THE PEACE CONFERENCE President Poincare in Opening Address Tells the Delegates That They Have the Future of the World in Their Hands! — French Press Forecasts That President Wilson is to Oc-| upy the Most Important Role—Premier Clemenceau Has| Been Chosen President of the Congreu—_—Deloigltes of the Five Great Powers Are to Meet Today to Discuss the the Situation it Russia—Conference Regulations Have Been Issued. Par The machinery of[Mr. and Mre. Wilson have “’““'e.“ the crence #et in motion | so many gifts in the course of their for anniversary of thelstay in Paris and visit to Iazland and called forth from the|ltaly that a large quantity of them papers desceipiive of thel probably will have to he taken to haraetes of the Prussian vi hington cn an army transport. the demoer rature di Gifts of all kinds #nd of &ll values y without formality or e pouring in the President A son arrived and they stili are com- to all outward ap-jing in in an ever-ending stream. They . s oday. Tomorrow { come from all classes of people. nipotentiar of the| Many of the president's are price- but the president values most those powers will meet to con n mal deliberations which i having a sqntimental appeal These on Frid. No date|have come principally from children, A for the pext plenarynot only in France, but fiom all over s in en- suffered Burope and also from fam [omcaire’s dictum “You|tente countries which ha nds the future of the|by the war. to captivate the President Wilson has directed that h printed in | evervone should be form:lly acknowl- President Wil- | edged. Sometimes in response to : )y the most im-|particularly touching messag: ac nt role panying the gifts, he writs lescip‘ions of the|acknowledgment, but the p Poincare's tribute to!his time is so great that Ls the United ites | so for all. Nevertheles en mush displ every gift 1| no matter how insignificant is care- fed ite artiele “To save|fullp preserved. Many of them un- doubtedly will find p aces in the tes of the five great | White Hous because the president ¢ » deleg po meet tomorrow 2t Stephen|does not feel they were given to him P ‘s off the forsign minister | wholly personally wi er the presidensy which he P has | rto exer s at these meet-| FOCH TO RELEASE SOME ings Exomiet, Glpnenceny.s | iThe GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR ing interrupted only by a luncheon, | Amsterdam, Jan. 19.—Replving to a en by the senate in honor of Pres- [letter from Mathias Erzberger, the s Witkon. head of the German armistice delega- subject at the disenssion at the|tion, urging the return of Ge ecting. will be #n examination of |Prisoners of war and the rel by e o of trade rest-icticns between occupied urgeois, formoriy French unocer #:1 Marshal nister of foreizn affairs, who has|Foch. in a ietter dated Jjamuary 16, thareed with ihe presentation |%aid he intended to recommand the re- the French thesis of the league of | turn of prisoners mo rving : mrranged. 1o hee TFresident | SYmpathy and was prepared to permit T ihis afternoon on the sub- |#n exchanza of fcod between occupied : and unoccupicd Germany to an extent s session at the foreign| Which would unemployment o altende! by the full |and consequent d tion Baron Nobuaki AR ino, ehief of the Jay » mission, | TWO POLICEMEN SHOT WHILE arrived in Paris yesterday ev- RAIDING A CRAP GAME enins with representatives of the Jap-| Now York, Jan. 19.—Bever that he apess army and navy, secrtarles and | o ST, 00 R FLBENEE TAAt g Minster Piabon R €N | wound two of eight policemen who s . descended early this rorning on a E = game in which he s narticipating, COSMOPOLITAN CHARACTER according to the story the police said OF PEACE COMMiSSIONERS |he told after his arrest on charges of tirday, Jan. 15— (By The |gambling felonious assaut and car Among the sc of atates- |ing concealed weapons.. The police- vho ‘S AL fbians Ble to.]men wore not injured sericusly only Blie-whe S ot na- teen other men, including Abe bility—Baroi. Bt kb Rallan for: |- former boxing chamnion,” were AR S Cmabtag, char. | MITeste The police smd they had the gatherine s no. less | Seized several thousand dollars in than its atmosphoie. of de- |States as eyidence. There were zathered at the| Rothstein, who is repu d to be a t oot \taharajahs | Miltior sail to have told the for re ves of China | POk that lost $28.060 to holdup | as o " {hem | men who crap game in Har- | Wb et Thot MUt Afbicy nd Aus- jlem 4wo 3 go. and tnat the e tralia_and every guacter cf the Old | Prience was repeated ‘two weeks ago, a New World, when he $11,000, Premier Lloyd George cf Grea! | ey s n demenstrated his cgmmand | ORDER OF SONS OF Z!ON n ¢ Frenc! anguage hie | enszion of tAe peace res. Tn Hartford, ('c Jan 1 econding P Wilson's | for a frec s W cech momirating Clemen- ) tenth ann night by speake 1 conve 15 president of the aq 1 George referred to the ench statesman as “the =rrnd youn man of France” In e echoe sat Lieute Mantous » has heen describe one of tl atest interpreters When French translniion of Mr. s address he construed hrase quoted to "ile erand old ' France” Th i tion of | Bons of Zion of | here. unuel Markewitz ant disirict zitorney of New clared that “the Jews independent siate pr states in a ieag natiors, rath a commonwealth urder ti dianship of Great Britain de- ‘:M‘ \',H-” ~;'~"V gainst e trans-fommended ihat an organization be | Tatton ], 1 @mod the | formed to a<sisi members of fhe order | 1 ter of the del { who “yish to s in estine. | —_— A ! approving President MR. AND MRS. WILSUN ARE Wilson's proposal for a league of na- ioptec RECEIVING MANY GIFTs! " n. 19.—Presiden: and Mrs PR e o Jr%. | YOUNGEST SON OF KING olleetion of trurks and per- | GEORGE 1S DEAD AT 14 g but they probably w Jan. 19, rince John, th It il Will Direct An Aerial Expe. |crunt i dition To North Pole R servantse is said that he brother of Princ to romp wits | bora at Sandrin: An offic ening sa was pos Ten at Windsor, who laved “Prince 12 suffered epilept had hecome mor \ o passed n an attack EBERT DECIDES NOT TO Amsterdam iger of B Ebert finally deci { assembly on today retary, had annourced e government had ¢ 1 10 convoke the national s ebru- ary 16. TWO FIREMEN KILLED WHEN BUILDING COLLAPSED New' York. Jan. 19—T S were killed .und three othe Hos injured early th orn fner: th roof of a burning automobile wars- house Jdiapsed. burying them in flaming debris. Officials of the De- {livery Auto Truck and Body Cho,, which occupied the building, ~stimat- vd the property damage at e OBITUARY. Captin Robert A. B: & chiarge of an Loyl sohn Franzen, ¢ition to photograph the Noria | Meriden, Conn 13--Johm Fran- Iole, Several airplanes wil Le |“en, 38 vears < A :ef\: n L:’la‘graph- taken. The trip wilj be from North. | T “TPI0 Associated Press fn this city for thirty-two years, died e America to Northern Asia—ape | tonight after a week's illness of influ- lr%. #. enza. . One daughter suryices, 2 'ToBe Only One Mo Big War Loan Drive The Amount Will Not. Exceed $6,000,000,000——Pr0'bably3 this month, liberty loan gn for the two more hond amount More bonds probably will he issued by the government even campaign, but it is planned to market these quietly through banks and other after the next result of Secretars nouncement loan campaign an- intensive tior throughout the country a big sellir pprehension issues aggri $12,000,000,0 gan last July and ends ne been oated in that period the terms of the fif will have to than those of the past, eithe ing the interest above ¢ 1 or by some other means PLANS FOR WILSON 70 VISIT AMERICAN BATTLEF[ELL‘S‘ The Ohio Pu visits to the peace conference s fairs in the n-ee it to Brussel tial party to erossing the NORTHERN PACIFIC T INTO NEW ~ HARBOR 522 NAMES IN THREE IN SESSION AT HARTFORD Otder of the|total 68 shoutd have an | ted hike m\nvl’ Died of Disea: i _ Justice Jacob S. Strahl ¢t Brook- | Heights: iish premier|yn grand master of the order, rec- | SUNDAY’S LIS Died of Wounds. George, died at | i been | tOD ie was the prime fay- | s and the idol of the | Boston favorite | son, Manchester was | Wounded Severe! ! Milton, Mass HOLD NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ! MARINE CORPS CASUALTYzb b b oo s o SATURDAY AFTERNOON’'S LIST. from -y of the Dt Died of Discase. | Private Arthur H. Dion, Willimantic.! T Wounded Severely EIGHT PAGES—56 COLS. PRICE TWO CENTS i Ex-Premier Lenine of Russia is re- 1uox-ted in Barcelona. Oregon will appropriate $250,000 to aid discharged soldiers and sajlors, | Ten Y. M. C. A, candy facto: !were transferred to A. E. contro? The Health Department reporte. E n on the wane. The Greek army will be demobilized Berlin hotels and restaurants ~have the Last Three Weeks in stirica an anti-tip campaien. August——More Bonds Ai‘e Chicago “movie” operators have to Be Marketed. Washington, more big war loan driv department, threatened to go on strike. | Ex-Emperor Charles of Austria is i reported i, vy one! The 1919 thrift campaign was is planned by Secretary { launched. Jorge Melendez has been elected the | President of Salvador. be floated| A death house for women has been probably the last three weeks in April. The amount. will not be more than $6,- 000,000,000 and may be $5.009,000,000 “I expect the Victory be the last intensive campa sale of government bonds, that there would ues this year aggre- Cuban railw#ly workers went on gating $12.000,000,000 are entirely with- | sty out foundation not only as t but ,also a: completed at Sing Sing. The American Navy convoyed 1,720,- 360 men overseas during the war. to| The Yale mobile hospital unit has led for home on the steamer Melita. Mr. | Ali Argentina strikers, save the ship be | ping strike have been called off. Formosa’s sugar cane area will be of ) acres, a decrease of 10 per cent leach line will purchase its own coal | Washington reports intimate next {war loan will open April 6. international General Electric Co., Inc., of New York City was chartered | The capital is 20,000,000 | Spanish Government published a de- * |cree suspending constitutional —guar- AT in the province of Barcelona. | The League of Nations Association | Conferenc | Massachusetts have been conv {into training ships rted | Y. AL €. A. finance committec ith bronchial pneumonia in Pa slative ing 1h-treasuries. ence in the employment Government employes will be discharged soldiers and sailors a bill vorab decidéd b the Hous lic Utilities Commis- ned C t ips Louisiana and New Hamp- ‘~hnw have been diverted from New- vis | $200,000 Mexico wi le of Lower Calif s, Governor I province stated. 1l income. rnia bian Cantu of | American expo: exp merchandise will be shown. nment were imposed hy PADEREWSKI FORMS A COALITION MINISTRY ki is composed as fol M. Wojciechow loncia, of fina heailth, M. »d, M. Minkitvicz, o Suinski; of public works, named were mem g-11 o e government of Premier i new government summon the Constit- FORMER KAISER'S HEALTH e REATLY IMPROVED 1. Jar 3 the even- i e cnjoy - concert in the & o, ano, harp and 1 distraction is v ! vist from the 1 premer and in Seei ROCHA OF FODD AND FUEL The French 1 will pu here to- ccord- ocham- POt ]‘vC(;ndensed Telegrams , Ie | Director of Railroads Hines says|Pated in practi | has protested the secrecy of the Peace ‘he| The battleships lowa, Indiana and| A number of revolvers and some! mmunition belonging to Sinn Feiners loan | Bave been seized in London. ! George W. Perkins, chairman of the| The House adopted a provision of | c ppropriation bill di-| the Secretary of Treasury lu‘ D |sion rejected the order of MecAdoo| chief and | express rates in Ohio ons of | Dr. Antonio de Bustamente, profes- ational law, has been delegate to the Peace | Oil wells sunk in the churchyard of Merriman Baptist Church in Fort Jorth, Tex., insure the church of a never consent to the to the United Christinia will hold a Norwegian-| ion from Sept. 10 to| — where all kinds of American Tuesday has been fixed by the Sinn ranging from one to ten the | beneral Pershing | Colonel Have Been Award- i ed Distinguished Service | Medals. | Washington, Jan. 19—Ten major { generals, thirteen brigadier generals land one colonel have been selected by | General Pershing for distinguished | service medals for their work in con- {nection with the creation of the Amer- lican army in France and its successful {assauit on the German lin The ci- | tations were made public today by the | war department. One of the Menoher, ! (Rainbow) | air service, | by * Secreta | Pershing’s jor generals, Charles nder of the 42nd now director of s decorated yester- v Baker. General itation of this officer showed that the division partici- all of the import- of the American ant engagements ny. e other major generals to be dec- jorated are Will M. Wright, s ively comman £ Thirty Seventh divisi Seventh Army Corps, 1e 89th di- Geor T John nental, I' ! command arles on and Fifth G. Haan, Thirty-Second di T. Aller Ninetieth div | Adelbert P. Cror ieth divis- |ion, and Frar Kernan, organizer ‘HI" the Ov as Service of Supply and | Member of Supreme War *Council. The T assista | charge of operatio | Moseley, j char, George V. H. chief of staff in Harold B. Fi 0 eneral sta command- Langres, ator in oc- son Ha- system in igade com- operation seneral com- | ar T upied | X Carrying troops from France, .the|n ief of staff, er chic of s The colonel named Palmer, who | and later cor Inf \s on 1anded the F try Brigade, north of EXTRADITION OF FORMER KAISER CANNOT BE DENIED! | Feiners the day the Irish Re-| P y e points in the { publ arliament is to meet in!report 1 I’remier Clemenceau|® | Dubtin referred when d he had con- | Sir Albert Stanley, president of Lon- 1 two the | don Board of Trade, promised a depu- 1al re former n of manufacturers that restrict- n . le public| 1 on the imports of gn manu- | today i rt Was AW it e Pai 1 C. De| 3 One hundred thirty-seven standard I or of of na- | British were purch ), e to in- SE ind Sir Owen P! igate frem 10 1 point | § : resell them withou 1 1 by| rt vernment and army in-| . ment of Commerce was ad- of thel ¢y ARMY CASUALTY LISTS hat the British Government has I e { . llion square feet i jumber of all grades v They argue € diction must e first repor to f a compa ation by | virtue ial law in which human 1 will does nter. : (German sov- i ereig: God and the! | swor i of pov ) escape responsibility for his ac- | tions; sponsibility for the war for which under n belonged 1S T | responsibility for violation of Belgian neutrality, which was willed by him; | responsibil of terrorism by his troops e willed and or- | dered | The report quotes a letter from the former emperor to the Emperor {Austria in the carly days of the war|p lin wh 1 emper n put throats of me en and the ee 1 and wom- be not a Ten Major-Generals, 13 Brig-| | adier-Generals and One London, Jan. 19.—Grave elecfionl riots are taking place today in Ger- a it many, where the people are voting to |it is reported. S S iy choose members of the national as- sembly. A general strike has been de- | APPE, clared at Leipsic, v | AL BORISTHIKE(IN and water, advices to the Exchange 1 Company. The deaths of Dr. Karl Liebknecht | Berlin fo and Rosa Luxemburg appear to have | made a deep impression in provincial | Knect towns and to h tions and street fighting, it is reported. | L4l At Leipsic a mob is s !, Fifth and} GRAVE ELECTION RIOTS TAKING PLACE N GERMANY People Are Voting to Choose Members of the National As- sembly—A General Strike Has Been Declared at Liepsic, Which is Without Gas and Water—An Appeal for a General Strike in Berlin Has Proved Unsuccessful— Four Spartacan Leaders Have Been Shot. and bombarding the city with pamph- lets issued by 24 o hich is without gas | vhic ) e BERLIN UNSUCCESSF! ording to Cor ag 1 uL o on A,“,‘,fia;fi“ Amsterdam, Jan. 12.—The appeal is- sued by the Independent Socialists of a4 general strike in conse- he deaths of Dr. Karl Lieb- and Rosa Luxemburg, the can leaders, proved unsuccess- n-xIm_r; ]m a despatch from the ital. ve led to demonstra- |~ Geri con- | ted the evening editions the | =7 Leipsic Tageblatt, Zeitung and Gen. | COUR SPARTACAN LEADERS eral to publish a decl “murde overnment fc demonstrations are reported in Ducs- | seldorf and other towns. Airmen were ying over Berlin today azette, compelling those papers | eclaration deploring the | in B&rlin” and them. HAVE BEEN EXECUTED rdam, Jan. 19.—Four Sparta- ders who were arrested during cent disorders in Spandau were d killed by escorting troops ey tried to escape on Friday New York, ships, their decks brim American fighting men, whom from cow and conv passed the bringing hor When bearing cchoing cheers shore and the str Home” from a hand sel currying Mayor tee of welcon abreast the 1 shout a to the rz inported by portholes of ere caught of the wonnded. Infantry | the W men and fou The troop. ost part wer of men from bhase hos nd cony ind their were from t con 34th anc crews. Membe lared woundad u court ! il ITALIAN CABINET IS where mo| R e e imate government su nouncing that the ministers he g 4 sts prove that|the resignatior 1¢ former German | j“‘ of ju: d as he is not|? T'radeletto, for the | instruction, will be chief. o allow the emperor | PAPAL UNDER SECRETARY > constitution, the| him. alows: hig| New cork, Jan. 19.—Archbishop Bon- |aventure Ceretti, Papal under secre- ry of state and the hi can offi ates, arrived he | transport Lapland jried refore of | North River, the archbishop celebrated r wrote:|crowded with officers and 1 asunder, but|men, > and | left! FOUR TROOP TRANSPORTS FRENCH AVIATOR WON ARRIVED AT NEW YORK Jan. 19.—iour PRIZE OF 25,000 FRANCS ris, Jan. 19.—Jules Vedrines, viator, today won a prize of 2 the first airmax f of a house during steam- 7 upon the ue of les Moulineaux at ternoon, notwith- with the purpose ding on the roof fayette, a large de- the St. Lazare is wide and nctions on it, has proposed for use in Paris. € over the boulevards slowed down as he passed over 4 buildi opposite Lis des- Here aviator shut off wer of his engines and skimmed urounding the room by 3 inches. The landing was spectacular one and although the | mach htly damaged Vi . When the ma- standstill Vedrines tk the v, she wa om the throngs ted in e other steamshi the Lap Idiers, the odts to a spectator on the Hieke . : « ng “There you are!” Badl be tha. € s 1| Th is fourteen metres in width 5 metres. The the airplane used by Ve- es is twelve metres. the flight and the successful ng Vedrines said he chtest doubt about his suecess. ded that he intended to fly the world. were m on the Lapland for the casual companies made in France gland =nd most of twhom were escent. The casual companic nations are: Num Camp Dix; 214 U 419, Meade: #17. Ge so carried 1! PLAN STANDARDIZATION OF RADIO COMMUNICATION Washngton, Jan. 19.—Standardiza- ion of radio communication will E re of many important ters to be provisional inter-allied onference, to begin at The American ive to the conference, who | left Ifor France, wili be six | raval officers, headed by Lear Admiral | W. H. G. Bullard, formerly director of n | com and his sue- the troops on the of T = radio st AUX, 1€ th structing Tour radio tow 200 men of inee. In a statement ¢ explaining the purposes of the conference, the navy 1 it was possible t would make recommen- nent internation: en by the Internation- aphic Conference, a of which called to be heid in in 191 s postponed | the me ered probable.” itement, “that the next ¢onference will recom- nent ownership of all high stations. Inasmuch as radio stations at rasent in under favorable conditions, d n every part of the globe, evidence that careful rezuiati the sixtes e kept on att ordered from an offie O BE RECONSTRUCTED their portfo jcomnt the premier os at the dispo: or a reconst o 2 ‘DECLARES THAT TURKEY IS NOT REFORMABLE Jan. 19.—Asserting that almost every country in tne world has “foolishly or selfishly helped to keep the Turk alive as a mnation” Henry tor Bmmanuel accepted ror Sacchi, min- Nitt, mnister - Miliani, minis- nor Villa, New York. the treasury, of agricultu er of port. H S0l - desiznated {ntors 2u. former ambussador to Facta, former minister of fin- | myricey, declared in address here QOG- e ol EICE, i today that the mistake of the past “in > be.m of the tr permitt to continue be- e of the balance of power” must be made at the peace conference. The Dardanelles must remain open 1 unfortified,” he sa: “They are waterways betweenr Asia and Africa and gre | the moutk of Turki: ohammedan tle over Christian people mustc ease These old nations now under Turkish mis- rule mu ave their rights restored. distrie: of the size of Turk can remain ungoverned in the mids g > of civilized nations. Government for this is one the tasks of the league minister to be min icco. forme General of pension: cr of posts - ster of a a, a member to be minister of has been cre; ‘mier durin Orlando. P! raconstruction for invaded | been ¢ mer mi ory is not reformable. Her hausted. She is not sick; ntegratea and passed skeleton may still make hest Vati- | some motions, but it is only the wind ; 1 ever to visit the United | that is moving the limbs. There is no | e today on the|heart left threugh which the red blood The Lapland car- | of humanity can flow.” 065 American sold and just the steamship headed up the | CHINA’S PROGRAM FOR THE PEACE CONFERENCE Marseilles, Jan, 19.—(French Wire- | Press)—The programme whick ARRIVES IN NEW YORK | ss in the readin: room mission fo th St conference is outlined in_an article published in the Echo De Chine. This amme is of great importance for the future of the Chinese republic. i h of terror, om the Vatcan.|The principal question relates to the | ! il so degenerate a peo- for Am the | re-possession of the territory of Kiso { 3 French, the war will 18 ed with President|Chow and Tsing-Tao, the lease of; | before two months, while if I use hu- {Wei Hai Wei, the Chinese Easternj I ma n methods it may prolong = — | Kailway, the revision of custum taxes | | for vears. Despite all my repugnance UNDESIRABLE GERMANS and tariffs, the opening of Mongolia | i |1 have had to cho tem.” letter “Modern ! “does not recognize irresponsible au- thorities, even at the summit of h archy. It bring: S its pedes the. rule of the ] “There car e i licized in the report. he no q of savir n who is a nmm either by application o law or of international law.” e the first sys-| Paris, Jan. 19.—The purification of Tetz from German S - L { tines under the be v,” the, report continues,! cordine to a Hay: The words ‘T’ and “my” in the|y ier-| voy sent out from M ite down from | professor Haenlei 1 and makes it submit H);h ion | many German soci ssors of Ge rnd Tibet to commerce, the restoration te China of the legal power formerly exercised by foreign consuls , and any other points concerning the in- i ty and sovereignty of China. con- | AlR MAIL BETWEEN PARIS 1tz included "ot the Royal Col- AND ALSACE-LORRAINE | e faculty. He has been a strong Paris, Jan. 1%—(French Wi:!l@l n-Germanist and was a director in | Service)—In order to remedy the | i All the pro- |slowness oi correspondence with jAl- ty who had i EXCLUDED FROM METZ nts con- tions, ac- ch from that c an ce-Lorraine, the French aeronamtic | Litherto remained X posts in | department has orzanizd an air ‘mafl the secondary schools have now beea | scrviee hetween, Paris an releved of their functions. towns of Alsace-Lorraine.