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VOL. LXI—NO. 179 ALK OF CONS Many Representatives of Othe ing Session of National Convention of the Labor the United States at Chicago—Name Suggested Fi posed New Party is “Farmer-Labor” Among the Fourteen States in Which State Organiza- tion$ of the Labor Party Have Been Formed—To Strive For Election of Farmers and Mechanics as Members of Congress. icago, Jul 11.—Amalgamation of} the minority political movements under the banner of a third pariy drew a step nearer today when the labor party of the Tnited States opened its second national convention, with representatives of many other organizations present. The committee of 48 and the single tax conventions were in recess over Sund: but attended the labdr convention force. 3 John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chi- cago Federation of Labor. a keynote speaker, brought the convention to the highest enthusiasm with a plea “that the day_would come when the working peo- ple of the United States would get to- gether and do a job such as the workers of Russia have done. The biggest demonstration was accorded this reference. stamped and whistled and called for “Three cheers for sia” they were given. Fitzpatrick declared ing to prevent workers _taking the hands of not jonal financial the ticket. In opening the convention, Max H chairman of the labor committee declared that group assembled in thi substance to platform W bor party had formulated ber.” This statement brou longed appiause in which ing badzes of the single eighters othet ele convention joined The November labor platform dec for nationalization of all fes, abolition of the ate and of injunction oW in of the day| Delegates when one Soviet Rus- i was noth- | and brain at out of but inter-| nd advised ! Novem- | attending the red r of ju Plumb labor d ed for th plan, hizh 3 dwide dis- armament. 1d limi- tation of “the U supreme couri’s power to veto n The convention respo to the sug-i{ gestions of F trick Haye naming a comm ve to confer with a smaller > commit- tee of 48 in an to develop a com- men ground on 1 could meet. This confere ed to iron out details that had proved stumbling blocks 10 amalgamation Throughout the discussio ing ~he strength of the minorit there a trend of among that by on of eombin- vgroup. 2 solid front >. 3. Francis e, who the forty-eighters’ invitation groun to join new As a name for new *Far- mer-Labor” was suggested consid- eration, however, was DOStDO thunder grammes, making no difference the democratic or repub! in power. and have come 3 on! tho: and shattered 'So now Wwe 2 rough. We have gotten our own peop! 10; her. We have tried to ave meaning tha this program broad enouch f who does useful ¥ i [ to stand upon, though big perverted our statement in an attempt &hew it is wholly a proposition for or- ganized lzbor. There er groups e in Chicago now, and I can tell you we are all agreed; ve all got the! same programme. st anythin sufficient to prevent hand and brain | workers of the Un s from tak-| ing the governmen of the hands nf: —not Americans, international fi-| nancial pirates—and it now. Fitzpatrick halted the tumnlt There he but do for subside as he made the point. to “The republican party met here last month,” he resumed. They drew up their vlatform and nominated their stan- dard bearers. Where can you find a free man or a free woman in this country who can stand for those candidates or that vlatfoyn? It is a denial of every right that free men have stood for.” Again his audience broke up the speech. “Then you go to San Fran " he continued, “and you see the democratic party. Where is there a free man or! woman who will stand for, accept the proimse sof the democratic pa way its representatives have our people during the last four years? “They nominated a standard bearer with an attractive personality, who ‘can appeal to people, and by that the demo- cratic party hopes to stay on the job of serving the financial pirates who have alwyas dominated the republican party.” Fitzpatrick here criticized ~ Governor Cox’s handling of events in the stéel strike last fall “What's our duty, as the representa- tives of men and women and children, against the representatives of the greed of gold?” he continued. “Our duty is to proceed immediately, unitedly, to take over the reins of the government of the TUnited States. “They want us to look abroad. They tell us about Russia. There was a mon- archy over there under which the Rus- sians lived for 700 years, and one day they shot it into the garbage can. Do they want the United States to tell ’em how to govern? We'd be poor instruc- tors. They might go to Ireland for “Russia has created a new government, taking care of the rights of people in the way Russians want it done. Oh, that the day would come when the working people of the United States would get together and do a job such as the work- ers of Russia have done!” Sixty trades union groups and other organizations are represented in the la- convention. Miners and railway men in the union section. Other ~whose credentials were approved the TFarmers F-ucational and jment of the railroads and the banking can go ahead and do things that should | passing, r Organizations Cooperative Alliance, National People's League Nurses' Association of Chicago, iumb Plan League, Chicago University Liberal Club, Women's: Trade Union League, Loval Star League, Women’ Union Labor League, Kansas City Yard- men's Association, Friends of Freedom for India, Younz Democrascy, Non-Par- tisan League, Welfare Association of Washington, ~ Farmers' Organization, World War Veterans and American Union Against, Militarism. Calling of the roll was interrupted by prolonged cheering when the name of Al- exander Howat, leader of the Kansas Miners, who was sent to jail in connec- tion with violation of the Kansas Indus- trial Court Law, was reached. James Duncan of -Seattle, gne of the leaders of the shipyards strike there a year @go, also was greeted Wwith cheers. Duncan, who is aiso sitting in the.com- mittee of 48 convention as chairman of the Washington delegation, was nomi- nated for a place on the labor's party conference commitiee. - NATIONAL LABOE PARTY IS IN CONVENTION IN CHICAGO * Chicago, July 11.—"“We -must in the future send farmers, railroad men, min- ers, machinists, molders, etc.,, to con- gress,” said Frank J. Ksper, national secretary of the labor party of the Unit- ed States, in his report to the labor par- ty convention opening here this mora- ing. “Then and only then will we have a government of the people, for the people and by th pwple.” Secretary lsper characterized the Na- zation to ussemble those who work with tional Labor party as a “political organi- brain and hand who have been scattered as helpless hinorities in t@e old parties under the leadership of the confidence mn in big business.* 5 He reported it was “necessary for the workers to continue the building of this great political organization 80 as to wrest the industrial power from the Wall Street pirates and return the political and industrial government to its rightful own- ers—the American people. “Why- stiould the farmer pay five pric- es for goods made by the city workers? he said. “Why should the city workers pay $36 for bread—the farmers receiv-| ing oniy §9 for the flour it <ontains struggle, therefore we ask the support “We. realize the immensity of -this of the farmers of the mation. We know their fight is our fight ,nad our fiight is their fight. With this common under- standing, we can united at the ballot box and sweep from office those Who have usurped the political powers of the pro- Public ownershi and public manage- ducerfs and consumers of our country.” business were advocated by Secretary Esper as fundamental needs of the So- cial structure. “When we get that,” he said, “then we be done in the way of radically revolu- tionizing both the system of transporta- tion charges and the system of banking loans and costs. For these reasons the labor party has consistently fought for the public ownership of the raiiroads un- der the Piumb plan and the national ownership of banking ° business.” States grganizations of the labor party have been formed in fourteen states, Sec- retary Esper reported. He enumerated Iliinois, Indiana, lowa, Ohio, Pennsyl- vania, New York, Connecticut, Michigan, Okiahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada. TO RECOMMEND THE AMALGAMATION. OF PARTIES Chicago, July 1l.—Amalgamation of the committee of forty-eight and labor party of the United States with a com- mon platform_and common presidential ticket will be recoromended to the two conventions tomorrow, it was decided to- nir** hv their conference committees. After several hours’ discussion the con- feios wuopled three resolutions recom- mending combining of the two groups and then took up discussion of a name for the new party. CAUSE OF ATTACK ON POLICE AT LONDONDERRY Londonderry, Ireland, July 11.—The at- tack on the party of police in Which Ser-1 ties at geant Mooney was wounded while return- ing from the postoffice to the barracks at Dungioe is attributed to an unpleasant experience of three American ciftzens— ! Michael, Eugene. and Niel O'Donnell of New_ York—brothers, who are now visit- ing Donegal. The O'Donnells attended a fair at Dungloe a few days ago; and while returning to the residence of friends the same evening met a party of police on he road some miles from Dungloe. In a policeman coughed, andMi- chael O’Donnell, in a jocular mond, also coughed. The polica resented this and one of them, alleged to have been Ser- geant Mooney, struck Michael O'Donnell with a rifle, knocking him. down fracturing his jaw. Michael was carried unconscious by his brothers to‘a neigh- Doring house, where it is declared he now lies in a critical condition. The news of the assault created indig- nation at Dungloe, according to the re- port, and the following day Mooney was shot by a person stationed in an unoccu- pied house in Dungloe. Whether Mooney | will recover from his wounds is consid- ered doubtful. . BRANDEGEE SUBJECT OF i |t and | “ NORWICH, CONN.. to Meet in New Ha-| lay — Bridgeport May Suspend Y. Conn., July 11.—The trol- on in Connecticut is scheduled | ‘a lively subject of discussion! wing to the threatened sus- pension of service by the Connecticut C 4 in. Bridgeport on Thursday un- less ji “bus competition is controlied. | Officials of the trolley company expect | Mayor Clifftord B. Wilson of Bridgeport to be here tomorrow for a final confer-! enca Before the meeting of the Bridge-| port board of aldermen §omorrow night. The mayor and City Attorney W. H. Comley are to submit a report to the al- on the troliey question. ; A meeting .of a committee of the Con- necticut Mayors' Association will be held here on Tuesday to talk over trolley and | jitney bus conditions in the oities of the state. ~This commitige Wwas appointed by Former Mayor e3.C. Ray of Bris-| tol, president of Magors' Associ tion, and consists Mayor Morgan of New London, chalmufi Mayor Brainard ! of . Hartford, Mayor Diutton of Bristol and Mayor Sandland of \Waterbury. FORMEE EMPRESS EUGENIE OF FRANCE DIES IN MADRID { . o s A Madrid, July 11.—The | former Em- press Eugenie of France died here this. morning. Death occurred shortly before eight o'clock from acute ineestinal in- flammation. She passed awhy quietly”in the presence only of her lacy-in-wafting. Hep. nephew, the Duke of Alba, at whose residence she died, was in France, and the other members of the family were absence. Empress Eugenie had long suffered from opthalmia and had been operated on for cataract. Full imperial honors will be accorded at her funeral. Sketch of the Ex-Empress. The ex-Empress Eugenie was almost| impatient for the end of her long lease| of life. 1t ran $8 years. Forty-four were sparkling in the successive roles of the Spanish countess, Eugenie Marie de Mon- tijo, traveling through Eurdpe, a visitor to the French court, wife of Napoleon 111 and an occasional regent of the French empire. Then in 2 day the whole struc- ture of imperial eminence collapsed. The other half of her life was mournful, so| much so that Eugenie had said: “I wish' I had passed when the shadowy fabric of my dream fell apart.” That day of disaster was the 4th of September, 1870, when she and all Paris had heard of the defeat and capture of Napoleon at Sedan. The empress was popularly accused of bringing on that d astrous war~ with Prussia. Historians have since declared that there is little to support such charges, but ‘the riotous mobs %t Paris, shouting for the new re: public which. the deputies proclaimed, | stormed the palace of the Tuileries and | howled imprecations upon Bugenie's head until the empress became convinced that her. life was in. peril. Flight was decided uptn, but one-plan after another failed until an_exit was, found by way of the Louvre. The empress, in disguise, accom- panied only by one of her ladies in wait- ing, was whirled away in a cab to the residence of the American dentist, Dr. Thomas J. Evans. Lost to all Paris, the ladies spent the night in the protection of | this chivalrous American and the next| day they were driven off in his carriage | for flight across France to the channel and the secret boarding of a yacht for England. | But exile was not enough. Misfortune | came in threes. The fall of the empire! was followed by the death of the exiled | Emperor Napoleon III in England three | vears later, and the killing of his only son, the prince imperial, while in battle with the English ggainst the Zulus. “Sometimes,” wrote “the empress in a let-| ter which has recently come to light bear- | ing date of 1873, “sometimes, on seeing ! certain chiléren tearing. the wings off | butterflies and tormenting poor things that cannot show signs of suffering, I have made the comnarison that people sometimes pluck out the heart and hurt it without knowing the evil that they do with an eternal smile on their lips.” This ‘was written the day before her husband died. The empress, in the two score years that followed, found intimate friends in England and interest in travel. inclu visits to her former haunts in Paris. Dressed in black, she passed almost un- noticed where once she was the leader of one of the most brilliant courts of the nineteenth century. In her occasional in- | terviews she revealed the strain of mournfulness in her life. “I am the past, the horizon,” she said ““There is nothing for me but-to wait; my | winter is nearly over.” i She prepared her last resting place! somé vears ago by ordering an addition | to the mausoleum in the Benedictine ab- bey which she built at Farnsworth and where she buried the exiled emperor and the prince imperial. . One instance of Eugenie's former bril- | liancy recalls the opening of the Suez| anal. She was the center of the festivi-| Cairo, upon which the khedive is said to have spent all of the $11,000,000 | in his treasury. The gown she wore at served to pay a debt when she fled from | Paris. It has since been reported as brought to America for sale. It has been estimated that the fortune the ex-empress amounts fo $30,000,00. A report was published in Paris several | years ago that she had heen induced to leave her entire estate to the church, but this has ot been confirmed. AUTO STRUCK BY EXPRESS TRAIN NEAR TORRINGT Torrington, Conn., July 11.—An auto-| mobile driven by Louis Coons of West | Torrington was struck by an express train_near here late today. The machine ‘was tossed .in a stream alongside the highway, with Coons still at the wheel, Passengers on the train helved to pull Coons from the water and he was brought to a hospital here, where it was said no bones are broken and his injuries are not serious. DISCUSSION BY C. F. OF L.| New Haven, Conn., July 11.—The Con: | necticut Federation of Labor held a meet- | ing here this afternoon which was at- tended by delegates from more than sixty local unions in the state. It was decided to form a state central committee of nineteen members. from various labor un- | ion organizations, which will formulate | plans fora campaign against political candidates who the federation believes | are opposed to organized labor. It was said that United States Senator Frank B. Brandegee was the subject of a farge art of the discussion at today's meeting. A polite person is one who doesn't let other people know what he thinks ' of tham IRISH MALCONTENTS CONTINUE THEIR OUTRAGES AROUND CORK Belfast, July 11.—Numerous outrages occurred in and around Cork today. Ser- geant Seerey is dying in the Cork mili- tary’ hospital from seyeral bullet.wounds received in an attack upon him while he ‘was carrying the police mail to the Gre- rah postoffice near Cork. His assailant| seized the mail and decamped. OBITUARY. Senator William Dennis, .Boston, July 1lL.—Senator William Dennis; owner of the Halifax Herald, died ! a ta private hospital heer today, as a re- sult of an operation for an illness that / | Paui's London. j the khedival ball cost $25,000 and later it | I A. Tachereau, Attorney General of Quebee. Further exporations: of wheat .from cording to a decree signed by President Irigoven. e Compilation of the 1920 census returns covering greater Boston show a popula- ! tion of 1,500,000. e Bar gold was unchanged 1045 1d New York and Galveston will be sus~| an ounce in London. : According to statements printed in German papers, ‘the Polish governnsent will move from Warsaw. For the past six weeks 100,000 poor and underfed chiliren of Europe, were cared for by Swiss families. A petition signed by 600 Koreans wa received by the Japanese government ask: ing for representation in the diet. The Mallory steamship. service between { pended until further notice after the Sailing of the San Marcos from Boston. The American dollar was quoted in Paris at 11 francs 78 centimes compared with 12 francs 18 centimes at last close. Bar silver.dropped 1 3-4d to 52 1-2d an ounce in London. The New York do- mestic price remained unchanged at 933 Rents. T:;ffl'tplrtment of Agriculture, basing ts gflimates on July 1 conditions, placed (g.mzo wheat crop at 809,000,000 bu-; spels. [ Ibrahim Massourd, 19, who on June 12, attempted to assassinate Premier Nessim Pasha of Egypt, was hanged in Cairo. <, Assistant United States Attorney Cohen anhounced that a large amount of coun- terfeit money is being circulated in'Con- necticut. . A careful watch is being kept at all summer resorts along | the Connecticut shore to detect violations of the federal prohibition act. announced « ca- Luithuania are ‘without any Commercial Cable Co. blegrams for places in accepted at senders’ Fisk censorship restrictions. Repudiation of D’Annunzio as com- mander if Fiume was voiced by a group of influential Fiuminans who sent a pro- test to the national council Jamai- s bumper sugar crop of 38,000 tions last yezF will, it is estimated, bé ex- Argentina are limited to 500,000 tons, ae- ceeded by 12,000 tons this year. Dr. H. A. Thompson, vice presidential nomineé on the first prohibition party ticket which entered the campaign of 1880, died at Dayton, Ohio, aged.S$2. ht workmen employed n the State Tndustrial Canal, New ‘Orleans, were killed when lightning struck a pile driv- er under which they had taken refuge. According to advices ‘received at the State Department, civil war has broken out in Chipa. The American Legation cabled the Anfu party ois leading the re- volt. | Judee' Chatfield, in the Brooklyn Fed- eral district court. decided to prohibit tne sale of interallied aircraft planes in this country to protect American manufact- urer. H The Cunard liner Tnkula, which safled for England from Boston. carried four 400-nound blocks of granite. hewn near the Ianding place of the Pilgrims at Ply- mouth. Charles Edward Dndley. director of the Anglo-American Oil Co.. and apast com- marder of the American Legion died sud- dey in London. His home was form- erly in Erie, Pa. Frankiyn Smith, 68, treasurer of the Lounsbu & Bissell Fur company of Norwalk.. pad one of Norwalk’s most vrominent business men, died at his hmie there Friday morning. William M. Johnson, California. de- feated Andre Gobert. of France, in the first singles match between the Frerch and American Davis Cup teams. The score was 6-3, 8-6, 6 Vienna newspooers are publishing adver- tisements for 2,000 Austrian women to o0 tn Chicazo as oo Admission to the United-States. it is said, will be per- mitted by Washington. A special meeting of the state board of charities has been called for next Wednesday to take action on the board’s budget for two years to be submitted to | the state board of finance. Sid Thomas Lipton has set aside in his will a large sum of money to help bring | the America’s Cup to England if hej covering ‘greater Boston Show a pop- ! should not succeed in his lifetime. The funeral service to late Major Gem- | eral Willlam C. Gorgas was held in St. American _and British | flags were at half mast and a battery of | guns fired the 13-gun salute of a major- | zeneral. i President de la Huerta. of Mexico, | granted an interview to forcign corre- spondents in which he declared he would | annul - confiscatory lezisiation of the Carranza government concernif - il properties. New York harbor police are searching for the body, of James R. Blake, banker and member of the firm of Abbot, Hops kins & Co., 120 Brfoadway. who disap- peared last Friday and is believed to have been drowned. i The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court exonerated Harper & Bros.. and its vresident. Cliton T. Brainard. from the charge of publishing an improper book for which they were convicted In the Court of Special Sessions. A number of churches in Guadalakara, taken over by the Mexican government in 1915, and withheld from the. Catholie clergy since that time, under provisions of the constitutions. were returned to the ! eongregations by President de la Huerta. Because there is not justification for the low market for raw wool in the opinion of its officials and members, the New York State Federation of County Sheep Growers adopted a resolutio nre- commending the pooling of the 1920 wool clip and holding it for a more foavorable | market. The statue of Christopher Columbus by Arnaldo Zocchi is being shipped to Bue- nos Aires, where it wilt be set up in Pa- seo Colon. The statue is carved from Quebec was sworn /in as ‘Premier of | |after the payment Sale Part of Tonnage Ex- acted For Scapa Flow Sink- ings. Berlin, July 11.—The Zoerzin's Courier Hamburg correspondent claims to have Suthority 1 corfici e repuLf that Belt- ish ship owwers have offered to sell to German ship owners or the Qgrman gov- ernment a large part of the tonnage sur- rendered as compensation for the Scapa Flow sinkings. Immediately after the conclusion of the sHipping deal British overtures, according to . the correspond- ent, were made through Count Luco- vitch of the’German legation at London, with the ‘approval of the British govern- ment, including an offer to place the ships immediately at he disposal of the erman buyers on five years credit. The Germans declined to accede to the British flag, whereupon the, prospective British demand that the ships sellers propose a neutral flag. involves no strictions. The deal working agreement or re- HOW GERMANY WOULD Spa, Belgium, July 11—(By The A. P.) ‘After some hesitation, due to the coal question, the German delegates today produced their plan showing how Ger- many would deal with reparations, but they specified that the decision reached regarding coal would modify their propo- sals. The allied experts had declared—they did not consider that even the figures submitted by the Germans would jus- tify modification of the protocol signed July § but admitted the justice of the German experts’ pleas on two points first, relieving Germany of the obligation of reporting to the reparations commis- sion regarding the distribution of coal within Germany, and, second, approving the' proposal to increase the output by improving the food and welfare of the miners and suggesting that the German and allied governments discuss means to this end. = The plenary session of the conference began at 5.30 this evening, with Lord Curzon repreenting Great Britain in- stead of Premier Lloyd George, who was confined to his room all day with a cold. The conference immediately took up the coal questien, the experts having failed to come to an agreement Chancellor Fehrenbach, Dr. Simons, Herr Stinnes and others of the German delegation, had previously conferred lengthily on the subject. Dr. Simons, at the outset of the ses- sion, remarked that coal was the central point of the whole economic life of G\ many. “The solution given to the coal question by the experts,” he said, “will react upon the different plans of repara- tions prepared by the German delega- tion, which had understood that an agreement which would take into ac- count the economic conditions judged es- sential to Germany would be arrived at. The plans cannot be handed over this ev- ening, as was expected.” v . Premier Millerand expressed surprise that the communication of the German plan as announced yesterday, should be brought into question and subordinated to the experts’ solution of the coal ques- tion. Dr. Simons rejoined that the German delegation had prepared plans that must be studied as a whole to be understood. The German deldgation retired to re- consider the matter and on the resump- tion of the session the foreign secretary declared that since the final decision re- garding coal could not be taken until to- morrow the German delegation had de- cided to hand over the plans as prepared, but he added that the Spa conference had for its objeet the substitution of an open discussion by the allied and German delegates for one-sided decisions on va- rious questions. “The question of coal is a question of life or death to the Germans,” said Dr. Simons, “and remains the basis for all other plans.” Premier Millerand replied that there could be no question of modifying the' treaty of Versailles on that subject, and that it must be executed. Dr. Simons th:revpoa handed the rep- arations plan to the general secretary of the conference. SEE TN PROVISIONS CONTAINED IN GEEMAN REPARATIONS PLAN Spa, Belgium, July 11.—(By the A. P.) —The German reparations plan is in three parts. Itrwas submitted to the conference with the understanding that it must be accepted s a’ whole. The plan follows: Part 1.—Section 1: The German gov- ernment considers that the purpose of thy present negotiations is to make a fina settlement of their entire obligations ofr reparations. Section 2 The German government, knowing that it is obliged under the treaty to pay on May 1, 1921, 20,000,000,~ 100 gold marks, considers that it has al- ready paid not only that sum, but .a much higher one, according to its ac- counts. Section 3: Sets forth that in providing for the future the German - government “would be unable to fulfill its obligations unless the German budget can be balanc- of Germany’s' ability to pay, owing to ed. Section 4: Provides that the measure her weakened economfc structure, re- quires that she should have necessary food, fodder, fertilizers and other raw materials. Section 5 names the principles upon | which the German government considers its payments should be refulated—(a) by annuities; (b) annuities to be limited to a certain sam should be agreed upon, 30 years. < Various other sub-sections affirm thaj of which Germany should be completely free; that the pay- ment of this sum should be arranged in various amounts; that a schedule should be worked qut, and that it should not be absolutely regular in character, because it is impossible at the present time ac- curately to estimate the economic posi- tion of Germany for the next thirty years. DOMESTIC TROUBLE LEADS TO SUICIDE IN BRISTOL Bristol, Conn., July 11.—Salvatore Tri- oli, 32; of this city, committed sujcide by shooting tonight, sending four bullets into his body with a .32 calibré revolver. Tri- oli returned from Waterbury this evening with two of his children. He is said to have gone to Waterbury with the children on Friday following an argument with his wife. Mrs. Trioli and their other two children were visiting at a neighbor's house when Trioli came home and appar- with him'no longer. the largest single block of marble used vears. had extended over & period of levefai‘ for many centuries. Tt is 21 feet high and weighs forty-five toms, - | Some people - never change their British Ship Owners Offer Forl fly the | AL WITH REPARATION } Allies Have Sent a Proposal to the'R;_ahian'Spv‘iet Gowrmgfi! For an Armistice With Poland Conditional Upon Retire- ment of Poles—If Bolsheviki Attack the Poles Withih the Frontiers of Poland the'Allies Will Come to. of Poland. Spa, Belgium, July 11.—(By the A. P.) —If the Poles consent to retire within the natural frontiers of Poland, the al- lies will give them all péssible assistance in the event of their being attacked by the bolsheviki. This announcement was made here today. The allies have sent a proposdl to the Russian soviet government for an armis- tice with Poland on condition that the Poles retire within their natural Polish frontier. It is set forth that the armis- tice will be followed by a conference of representatives of all the countries on the Russian border.and that if the bol- sheviki attack the Poles within these frontiers the allies will come to the aid of Poland. EXPLANATORY STATEMENT . BY THE POLISH PREMIER Spa, Belgium, July 11 (By the A. B.).— “This is a decisive moment for Poland,” said Ladislas Grabski, the Polish premier, to fifty correspondents of all countries who called upon him today by invitation. “Our army is engaging the mobilized forces of Russia, with a population six {imes our own, an army equipped with all the most perfected instruments of war supplied by the allies to. the armies of Denikine, Kolchak and Yudenitch—arm- ored automobiles, tanks, machine guns and heavy artillery. “The bolshevik army has much more to fight with than the Polish army, and of superior quality, besides masses of cav- alry. The bohevik offensive has created for us aserious situation, but not a des- perate one.” ; The premier had the ' offictal % munique of July 9, indicating that® Polish troops were retiring slowly.sapd counter-attacking on their prmem}'?g between Molodechno and Borisev. '~ At- tempts of the Red army to force. the Beresina near Bobruisk ™ have been re- Delled. = The prémier had the official .om- parties and classes in Potand, to the. umi- versal volunteering for the new armies-in- formation and. o the conenos -eksibe people in being able to hold out. Ha de- clared that the harvests were good. & , “But,” he added, “besides" confide: ourselves, we call and rely on the ai-of our allies, military, where possibleZ:and the moral and diplomatic support of=all." Premier Grabski‘answered all que S freely. The substanece of the Polishenote to the allied go nts, he saidZlex- pressed the desire for peace upon' a Masis of self-determination. - “Have you asked the allies for trodps?" “No,” he replied. = “For munitions?” “Yes,” he said. = “Have you asked for demobilized=ofi- cers. z “No, but we would be glad .to Have them. A few foreign officers are SeFving with the Poles, but each is an exceptional case.” X The premier said -that the agreement with Czecho-Slovakia was -as as completed on all points. = The suggestion that the powers =sup- port Poland's peace proposals - is * being discussed by. the allied ministers, nofably the representatives of France and the governments recognizing the Russian soviet government. - COX WOULD MAKE FARMER SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE Dayton, 0., July 11.—A real dirt farmer will be the next secretary of agficulture if the democratic party is successful at the November eléction, according to a’state- ment made today by Governor Cox. His promise was made 4o a delegation of the governor's neighbor farmers who called at his home at Trail's End. He said that if he were elected he would select as secretary of agriculture “a man who has tilled the soil himself and made a successful business of farm- ing, in the doing of which he has demon strated his efficiency as a business man.” Former Congressman T. T. Ansberry of Washington arrived this morning from San Francisco and.gave the presidential nominee first hand details of the conven- tion activities. Mr. Ansberry’ told the governor that the credit for his victory goes to E. H. Moore of Youngstown, his pre-convention manager. Mr. Ansberry told newspaper repre- sentatives that the contest at San Fran- cisco was between McAdoo, Palmer and Cox and not between the administration and Cox. No announcement as to discus- sion of campaign plans was made. In the afternoon the governor and Mrs. Cox, Mr. and_Mrs. Ansberry motored to the nominee’s Doyhood home at Jackson- burg. The governor will go to Columbus to- morrow to resume work at the executive ‘office. A recention is planned for him at the capitol. In the afternoon Franklin D. Roosevelt, his running mate, will stop over for a few hours on his return from San Francisco for a conference: BELFAST TO CELEBRATE BATTLE OF BOYNE ANNIVERSARY Belfast, July 11.—(By The A. P.) On the eve of Ulster’s greatest holiday, the twelfth of July, anniversary of the Bat- tle of the Boyne, its municipal buildings for the first time in recent history are occupied by troops, while contingents of soldiers on the various roads into the city prevents anyone from entering or leaving without a search for arms. This display of force, however seems to weigh lightly with the thousands in Belfast's streets tonight, bent on starting the holiday early, and keen observers say that the precautions taken to forestall a nationalist outbreak far surpass the danger. : Some of the Ulster leaders, fearing that the Sinn Feiners might seize the oc- casion of the Orange holiday to open hos- tilities, sent a delegation io the cabinet requesting augmentation to the 350 troops stationed here. - More than 3,000 men were sent. A few military pickets have been stationed in the city, and the others are along the roads outside. Coming from south Ire- land today it would be impossible to mis- take the crossing of the boundary into Ulster. As always, every household displayed its Union Jack, some from seemingly in- | acoessible tops of the highest trees in the yard and from the steeple of nearly ev- ery church floated the same emblem. Bel- fast itself is not decorated, except along the line of march where at least 20,000 Ulstermen will parade four miles to Fi- naghy to hear speeches and ‘make merry. Seventeen speakers are on the pro- gramme, with the interest centering on Sir Edward Carson. He has not yet in- timated the exact nature of his address. VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN JAPANESE GOVERNMENT Tokio, July 11.—(By The A. P.) The government received a vote of confidence by a large majority in the house of rep- Tesentatives toddy. The house defeated a resolution of want of confidence in the ministry by 145 votes for the resolution and 283 against it. During the debate in the diet and the the developments outside today the ten- dencies toward freedom of speech and action along liberal lines that have been noticeabls recently continued to manifest themselves. ~Thfee big meetings in pro- motion of the agitation for universal suf- frage were held here attended by adher- ents 100 or more universal suffrage asso- ciations in the provinces, in addition to the masses of the Tokio supporters of the movement. Speeches of a violent char- acter were made at these gatherings, and paraders carrying banners subsequently clashed with the police, a number of ar- rests being made. KILLED IN ATTEMPT TO GO OVER _ HORSESHOE FALLS IN A BARREL Niagara Falls, N. Y., July 11.—Charles ently he thought she had decided to live | G. Stephen of England was Kkilled here this afternoon when he attempted fo go over the Horseshoe falls in a barrel. The ‘wooden barrel in which Stephen attemprt- minds because they are like the man|ed the feat was dashed to pieces on the with only ene shirt. rocks at the bottom of the falls. RECAPTURE OF 700 RUSSIAN = PRISONERS OF WAR AT ANTWERP » . Antwerp, July 11.—A force of 700 Rus- sian prisoners of war who had, beerf in- terned near Turnhout, 25 miles northeast of this city, escaped from' the internment camp last night -and marched ‘upon:Ant- werp. A regiment of cavalry sent inpur- suit of the Russians surrounded them:and interned them anew in one of the “Ant- werp forts. : The prisoners. were a part of 'a comtin- gent of 1,100 Russians who were to be.re- leased on Saturday for return home. They were informed late in the day, howeyer, that owing ta a failure by Great Britzin and the soviet government to reach a.defi- nite agreement o far with regard to ex- change of nationais they 3 ve to endur¢ further - détention. ' Incemséd at this, 700 of the prisoners.rushed the barbed wire barriers, overpowered the sentries and proceeded in‘marching order toward Antwerp.. The men offered slight resistance, however, when the cavalrymen appeared and rounded them up. No, re- port had been made up to this morning as to the casualties during the incideft. MALTREATMENT OF PRINCE e " HENRY OF PRUSSIA Berlin, July.11.—An almost incredible story of the ill-treatment of the former German emperor’s brother, Prine Henry of Prussia, by a riotous gang of field laborers, iS told by the-Ost Pruessische Zeitung, which asserts that it had the information direct from Prince Henry's family circle. 2 According to the informant, some ‘ttme ago a gang of sixty men led by a.private in a Hussar's uniform and wearing a big red rosette, invaded the Hemmelmark estate, Prince Henry's Schleswig-Holstein country seat, on the pretext of searching for hidden arms. The invaders turned-tha place inside out, but found no arms. Ther the leader said to the prince:. “Come, Henry,” whereupon Prince Henry was made to run the gauntlet, suffering.in- numerable kicks and blows. Afterwards he was locked in .a jail at Berckensferde, where he was tortured nightly. He was awakened every ten minutes with “Get up, Henry; turn on the light. Lie down. Henry,” amid jeers and insulis from hig captors. E = Many other Schleswig-Holstein lands. owners have been the victims of assauit- and ill-treatment by armed gangs. - = A dollar on hand is worth two e@:c margin. = Breckinridge Long. of St Louis *hird Assistant Secretary of Stat who is a candidate for the ‘Demé- cratic nomination for United States Sinator from Missouri. Announe: ment by Gov. Frederick C. Gardner-" that he will not enter the race for the Democratic nomination for thiw™: office leaves Mr. Long with virtually = a clear field,