The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 4, 1919, Page 11

| CHINESE IN RAGE AT PEACE DECISI = 8 8 RR | FRANK WALSH DESCRIBES SIEGE OF DAWSON STREET? ' Japanese Award 40,000 Irish Jeer British Soldiers Chairman of American Delegation Tells of British Interference With Reception for De Valera at Mansion House in Dublin BY FRANK P. “WALSH ” Chairman American Commission on Irish Independence (Written Exclusively for the Newspaper Enterprise Assn.) On Friday morning, May 9, 1919, a special meeting of the Dail Eireann (Irish parliament) was convoked for the purpose of extending an official welcome to the American delegates. Edward F. Dunne, Michael J. Ryan and myself, ap- pointed to the American Commission on Irish Independence by authority of the Irish Race convention held in Phila-| delphia February 3, had gone to Ireland May 2 for} the purpose of conferring with President De Valera and) other officials of the Irish republican government and to| make a first-hand study of actual conditions in that country. We traveled under passports issued by the American and} English embassies in Paris. President De Valera delivered his message in person to Parliament, cab: inet ministers submitted their reports and the American delegates made short speeches following a welcoming address by Speaker O'Kelly. The session continued till about 4 o'clock. The Irish parliament met in the famous Round Room of the Mansion House in Dublin. The whole session was touched with a dignity and sol emnity even greater than the proceedings in the United States senata, MACHINE GUNS AND BOMBING | PLANES MENACE PARLIAMENT Perhaps it was because, as the assembly entered the hall, a great Handley-Page bombing machine was flying over Dublin, and within a | stone’s throw of the entrance to the Mansion House stood an ominons | row of machine guns at the door of the police barracks. The lord mayor of Dublin and President De Valera, as hosts, had ent Out 2,000 invitations for a reception at the Mansion House to begin at o'clock that evening. The guests included municipal officers from all pe ied of Ireland, clergymen of all denominations, members of the Irish parlia ment and the high sheriffs of the various counties in Ireland. About an hour after the motorcycle came_to Mrs. McGarry’s reside during their taining soldiers and machine guns and from both directions. ‘Was to be stopped by the English government. ce, where the party were housed armored cars were being moved in SEATTLE, W. ASH., se * BF FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1919. ep e HB i QvAans £ SWING EP.WALSH> |his financial education in « large Later word came to the house that the reception |in his thirties, is undoubtedly a fiscs Dr. Kelly is a physician of high standing in the city of Dublin, and also|amounting to $120 }can forces in Ireland, ran for parliament and was elected by 5,000 majority adjournment of parliament a courier on a/ ever all the other candidates. Michael Collins is a member of the Irish parliament, visit, stating that Dawson street was filled with lorries con-} treasury in the Irish cabinet. secretary of the He is @ native-born Irishman, who received banking house in London, and while yet, expert of remarkable ability ‘The messenger, a devoted republican, was naturally somewhat excited,|a prominent officer of the Irish republican army. An amusing feature of the pursult of Mr. Collins was that he was sought on a charge of sedition for making a speech in Dublin, the of- fending language being a literal quotation from the speech of President Wilson to congress on the day war was declared with the imperial Ger- man government. The English detectives who heard the speech, of. . pecretar believed that it was the original utterance of Collins, and not a quotation. THREE FUGITIVES UNDISTURBED AS ENTIRE ARMY SEEKS THEM but not De Valera. I watched him as he received the message. His coun-| tenance did not change in the slightest degree. He gravely bowed his head | and said “Thank you” to the messenger. Nothing else was said by Presi dent De Valera or any of the party with reference to the situation In| Dawson street. | Shortly before 7:30 the official party left Mrs. McGarry’s in three lim-) ousines. The first contained President De Valera, Countess Markievicz, the | only woman member of the Irish parliament, and easily the most popular | ‘woman in Ireland; Hon. William Cosgrave, a member of the Irish parlia- ment; Mrs. McGarry and myself. As we got to the head of Dawson street, turning from beautiful Stephen's Green, there were at least 20,000 people in the street, with Loiaremgual as many more at the other end, two or three hundred yards POLICE CHIEF BARS THE WAY OF DELEGATES AND PRESIDENT The chief of police, in full uniform, stepped in front of the automobile and held up his hands, saying “You will not be allowed to enter Dawson | crowd drowned his voice. I stepped out of the automobile, working thru the crowd to the police | chief, and asked him if he was in supreme charge. He referred me to al young English captain, of whom I made the inquiry. He said that Colonel | Johnston was in charge. I inquired of the captain why we were not per-/ mitted to enter, and he said very politely that he was acting under orders, | and we might as well return to our residence, as no one was allowed to, enter Dawson street. ‘The other delegates had by this time joined our party, and we asked to| gee the colonel. At this point we showed the captain our passports, told him that our visit was sanctioned by the prime minister of England, who| had asked us to make a careful investigation of conditions in Ireland, and | that unless we were permitted to pass unmolested we should feel aggrieved The captain left us, returning in about five minutes, when he notified us that the American delegates would be allowed to go thru the military | lines. But when he saw Mr. De Valera in the machine he stated that he ‘would not be permitted to enter. We informed the captain, in the presence of the lord mayor, In as| polite language as we knew, that Mr. De Valera was in our party, and that ‘we could not think of going to the Mansion House without him. We then) asked to see the colonel. The captain retired again and came back and conducted us to the colonel. | BRITISH COLONEL PALE AND NERVOUS BEFORE IRISH WRATH House, dressed in civilian clothes. He was a large, handsome mgn, strong: | featured and athletic in build. He was standing in the shadow of a door- ‘way with a policeman on each side of him. He had his coat collar turned up. altho the evening was not cool. He was obviously nervous and very pale The crowds at both ends of Dawson street were singing ‘The Soldiers’ Song,” the Irish national anthem, with all the strength of 30,000 or 40,000 Irish voices. When we got close enough to the colonel we asked him the cause of the confusion at the end of the street. He stated that he regretted the| delay very much; that a man had threatened the life of a policeman that | morning, and that the soldiers were searching the Mansion House to find the miscreant. That there were also two other persons for whom the police had warrants, suspected of being hidden in the same building. He assured us that the troops would be withdrawn in five minutes. We returned to the automobiles at the end of the street, some 100 yards south of the alley in which the colonel was shot. Meanwhile a shot had been fired by one of the soldiers over the heads of the crowd, and the situation had become somewhat menacing in appearance. The police chief elbowed his way thru the crowd with us and asked President De Valera if he would not quiet the crowd. The president arose in the automobile, motioned for silence with his hands, and when the people stopped singing and cheering, urged them to conduct them- selves in an orderly manner, and to do nothing that might provoke a breach of the peace. | His voice rang out over the crowd with singular With the exception of crowds of boys and girls in the crowd, who con tinued singing “The Soldiers’ Song,” the crowd became comparatively quiet. TROOPS WITHDRAWN UNDER JEERS OF IMMENSE CROWD The troops were withdrawn thru the other end of the street wait of about 15 minutes, amid the jeers and cries of the crowd diers appeared good-natured and laughingly waved good-bye along in their lorries It transpired that searched ton Is one large after a} The sol- | the as sped the three men for whom the i Collins and I t landholders in Wicklow Cc in the British army during the war. After the Valera, following the week's battle between the Barton was the officer in ct President De Valera a public-now in Paris, B Mansion House bert T urton ae Kell i and was r @ captain f President De d English armies, nty ptu Irish Se T. O'Ceallaigh, Ne Who ie a native After the reception opened, and within less than half an hour after the | were | troops were withdrawn from Dawson street, Messrs. Barton and Kelly ap-|key a few yards away from the | ¥ ay | peared in the receiving line in evening dress, while Secretary Collins ap-| machine, peared in the dress uniform of the Irish volunteers, of which he is adjutant general They remained thruout the reception, and the fact that the Royal|the key in |Irish Constabulary, plus the English army in Ireland, were engaged in dislodged when his clothing caught | |Search for them did not seem to mar thelr pleasure in the least. The event is now recorded in Ireland as “The Siege of Dawson stree The British officers in Ireland are still making explanations regarding |from the machine, their serio-comic performance. k to him, but the cheering of the| 480 policeman on a house-searching expedition does the work of 300 mem- President De Valera tried to spea mA tg s |bers of the Wiltshire Regiment and 400 @¢ the Royal Irish Constabulary Governor Dunne still asserts that “one Chi-| BURGLARS PUT IN BUSY NIGHT Apartments “Robbed; Bonds} Walkout and Cash Taken Burglars, wie }houses the scene ma of t were active Thursday ing to the police reports. A ments, c Mrs. W. lost $15 Jewelry, w apartments address, and some same watches Killed in Mexico} WASHINGTON, Wisw | heaviest loser. in cash hen of Livingston, Mexican rebels at Tepeate, ‘Tampico oil district, of Mexico, Tues- the state department was Moye was an oil day night, advised ye well dril Oll Co,, 28 Acting Secretary of § Phillips cabled the Ame vty tions” for 4 ment of the murder tion of Americans in the Tam- ut Mex representa steadiness and clarity. | government prot sterdi er for Doty Mrs. ell, A 1628 Bellevue ave., Prowlers entered his |apartments by means of a passkey and stole $50 in Wa | $50 in bonds, $18 in cash and insur- We found him in the middle of an alley almost opposite the Mansion |ance paperm and burglars entered her Manning, of the | s was r |American Citizen Tex. the years old. pico district. THUG SLAMMED HIM to to 1615 Kighth ave., insurance papers. | July 4.—(United Press.)—Leroy Moye, an American ‘BURLESON SAYS NO WIRE STRIKE Not Under U. S. Control de apartment | “ m : WASHINGTON, June 4.—Post:| heir activities, | master General has issued a state- night, accord: | ment regarding his attitude with re spect to labor in the recent strike of telegraphers. The statement fol lows: “The truth is there has been no strike, It failed from the moment it was called, because the operators, re- specting the broad policy of the wire control board Jand recognizing that strikes were not permissible during the period of government control, refused to re. spond to the order to strike.’ “This attempt at a strike | justifies the postmaster general in |his attitude, assumed at the begin ning of government control, that all | employes were to be treated with ab- solute jiistice and fairness, regard | \ess ‘of ‘whether they did or did not belong to labor organizations, and that no discrimination was to. be practiced against those who be- was killed by|!0n8ed to such organizations, and in the| that they would be tully protected in their rights so to do.” nsonia apart: | was the javings Stamp: a quantity of | ‘obbed of two No Class Lines in U. S., Says Speaker| Mexican Gulf ate Edward “There isn't such a thin an embas-| in this country,” § 3 make “urgent| portland, in an address on “Amer. the Mexican | jcanism" before the Young Men's t and punish-| Republican Club Thursday noon. and for the | there isn't a condition in life to h the humblest citizen may not aspire. Most of the biggest and braintest men in America have climbed from the lowest rounds.” AND TOOK LAST $10) saLEM PHONE GIRLS With half of hi $10 gone, and his Iasi ivated b cider, FY brought t cording t out of a ran, the ank » police alley on Cherry st arge of the Trish prisoners, among whom were| Third and Fourth aves, ls teet MeGir tory the envoy of the Irish re/ the jaw, went thru his pockets and| walked out. headquarter h knocked out ightly exhil qualities of GO OUT ON STRIKE SALEM, Ore., July 4.—After was ference lwstir from midnight until Ac 7 a. m. yesterda with legates stepped!from the Portland local of telephone between | operators’ union, practically the en Hit him on| tire force of telephone operators here A limited “business” service is- being - a con. 1 man Permissible | relative to employes, | thoroly | | Chinese Appeal to Powers “To PRESIDENT WILSON, i MIER LLOYD GRORGE, PREMIER CLEMENCEAU, Paris | convened in public meeting | "The united Chinese press of the capital | yesterday, unanimously passed a resolution that it was imperative for America, Britain and France not to mistake the irreducible demand of the | nation that Kiaochow and all former German concessions be restored to | China. “If thislis not done no future statesmanship can prevent an irredentist agitation of the most violent character developing far and wide and poison: | ing the life of the nation. | “Shangtung has now become a ery which rallies even women and! | schoolboys, for there is not one who does not know what the present dom ination spells | Everyone had confidently believed that the design of the League of | | Nations and the public denouncing by Western statesmen of all the bad treaties made since 1914 meant the end of power politics, the termination | of secret trafficking among the strong at the cost of the weak “For the nation to be told now that expediency requires China to be | sacrificed is to do it mortal hurt which no blandishment can disguise. “The united press of the capital confidently appeals to the conscience | |of the world and to its brother journalists far and wide, not to tolerate this |great wrong, but to give justice to the Chinese people as well as to |in Europe who have suffered martyrdom from militarism. “If no other means can be found then let Shantung be ransomed as the | Liaotung was ransomed 25 years ago, for there is no citizen, rich or poor, | | who will not contribute all that he can to win back the soil of his fathers. (Signed) THE METROPOLITAN PRESS OF CHINA.” | MURDERER OF RYAN } (= The Seattle Star ===) & & Cause o Students in Rebellion Race Thru Streets and Wreck Buildings— and Carried Along BY ELIZABETH (N. E. A. Staff Correspondent in Peking, China) (Minn Allen, special correspo: | dent in the Orte: eo Ne y in the following stery:) PEKING, China, July 4.—The dragon has awakened and is lashing his tail in anger againet the decree of the Paris peace conference that awards the province of Shantung to Japan. | Perhaps nothing could have | done more to unite a divided | country within the bonds of | national feeling. China feels | outraged, cheated, insulted. She | The finding of a will, hastily murderer were visible in the ground | rac psig pected ee 4 |seribbled, in a safety deposit box|in the vicinity. In one spot, near| _Espectally does Young China feel| |'Thursday, shows, declare the police,|a small creek, was an impression | Offended. that Thomas Ryan, rent car driver,/ where he had obviously sat and| The first organized protest has who was murdered last Sunday | rested. jbeen made by the young men, the| night and his body thrown into| A nearby farmer told the detec-|students from Peking. But from all the Duwamish river, feared vio-|tives that he had seen the car|over the huge nation come rumors of | jlence at the time of taking out his burning and a man nearby, but/other protests that may well mark a last passenger. |was frightened and did not investi- | beginning of stirring events “Miss Mary Givens, 314 Cleero|gate at the time. When he did| ‘The riot of May, which I had the| lave. S., Chicago. What money is|investigate, a few hours later, the| good fortune to witness, bore a| |here is for my sister."' This was|man was gone. strange resemblance to the outbursts |the message, unsigned, but in| Man Boarded Stage |}by Russian students that forecasted Ryan's hand, that was found in/ i |the revolution. It was a riot for a {a safe deposit box at the Day &| eens ee ce re ripen in in? | principle. «It began peaceably, devel- Sight Safe Deposit & Storage Co.'s| VOCUS: Becording = to detectives. | oped into fighting, and ended in al Boe shows that the man was evidently | Eiineud vaults at 507 Third ave. Thursday | tori se that he did not get an student victory. Its effect has been | |by Detective Lieutenant William} : to cement and quicken the protest Kent, Deputy Prosecutor John D. money from the bedy of Ryan, and all over China ice Hebi z hat he planned to return to the Carmody and Deputy Coroner How-| ties cart them away and selif_ The foreign observer is inclined to, ard McDonald. The box contained | jon. think that Japan, and the peace con- | $2,000 in cash and a roll of bila! "Dassengers on the stage | to|ference-as:well, may: have reckoned there by Ryan Sunday. night,-.a|°P* that a man answering the de- pe State meosece a, Wee wores |short. time before beginning hia|*cTption of the murderer hailed the | America’s observing. |death Brit stage a short distance from where| Peking today is a city of the The will was written | iO? Jat the same time, they believe. Find Key in Brush vurned car was found and rode to Olympia with them. Several theories have been ad- The key to the box was found|vanced as to the present where- in the brush near the spot where/abouts of the murderer. Police land deputies of; Olympia believe t the man is on foot in the woods near there. Others believe that he may have ‘‘jumped’’ a freight train and made his way back to Seattle, in the belief that) he would not be apprehended here. The coroner's office Thursday wired Miss Mary Givens, of Chi- Ryan's automobile burned, near McCleary. Detectives EK. Yoris and C. C, Fortner, who sent to the spot, found the! was found lying in the grass, It lis believed that the murderer put | his pocket and it was | fon some of the brush. Buried deep|cago, the details of the death of in the woods, about 100 yards|Ryan and informed her that she were the four|/had been left the money in the |automobile tires, Footprints of the! deposit vault. PROMOTE SEVEN FIVE JUDGES TO TRY EX-KAISER GUARD OFFICERS cA Militiamen Go to Annual|Powers to Hear Case Against | Camp Sunday | Former Emperor LONDON, July 4.—The former German kaiser will be charged with violation of neutrality of Belgium and Luxemburg, it de | veloped today, following Premier Lloyd George's announcement that the ex-emperor would be | brought to trial. Five judges from the United ates, Great Britain, France, Italy | and Japan will try his case. Seven promotions of officers in the Third Washington infantry have {been announced by Brig. Gen, Har- vey J. Moss, adjutant general, on | the eve of the departure of the regi- ment for its annual encampment. | ‘Three resignations of officers have been accepted. | The Seattle units of the regt | | ment will entrain Sunday morning | gy for Murray, where Camp (jeorge W Farwell will be established, and will remain until July 30, Governor's|. All the allies wilt join in a request 3, |to Holland to deliver Wilhelm to an Day has been set for Sunday, July 133 Ee hen Governor Louis 1°. Hart | lied committee which will be form- | will review tho regiment jed to frame the procedure of the trial. There is no precedent by which Resignations of officers were: | the trial can be conducted. Capt. Wayne Murray, commander of the machine gun company, Hllens | burg: Capt B. Mallory, First| PARIS, July 4.—The announce- | Lieut. Wilder R. Jonea and First|ment by Premier Lloyd George that Lieut, Donald McFadden were the | the former kaiser will be brought to/ | trial was a complete surprise to the peace delegates here, it developed to-| day. Altho Secretary Lansing is chair: man of the committee on responsibil- | ity for the war, he had no knowledge of plans for Wilhelm's trial until he resigning officers. Promotions ordered were: Sergt. Howard Wright, company F, to be first Meutenant; Sergt. S. Prichard Miller, company F, to be second lieutenant; Fred J. Downie, former sergeant U. S. A., to be first | stepped out to speak. It has over 10,000 student: Peking Normal College—are filled with livewire boys — boys College harboring the finest minds and the most earnest patriots among the young intellect- uals of China today; within the city, | the Peking Union (mission) Uni-| versity, the Union Medical College of the Rockefeller Foundation, and the School of Commerce, and other middle schools, Cloudburst of Anger ‘The air had been tense in student circles for some days. The men had been spending their time in military drill, an unaccustomed sport for the rather lazy and certainly pacific school boy of China. On Sunday, May 4, the storm broke. Forming near Central park, in the stronghold of new and old Peking, a procession of 3,000 students carrying banners marked “Return | Tsingtau to Us," “Down With All Traitors” and other mottoes, marched | up to the west gate of the legation } quarter and demanded entrance. Characteristically it was to their for- | eign friends that the Chinese first | appealed for support. ‘The officer on guard at the Amer- ican legation barracks when the| crowd of students approached told | i me about it. He said: “The sentry at the barracks gate reported to me | |that a crowd of men carrying ban-| the teachers shook hands with the ners, but without arms, were seeking | entrance to the legation quarter, and wanted to present some sort of reso- lution to the American minister. “I went down to the gate and) saw them standing there—a great! crowd of young men with their faces all turned toward me. One in front, a very serious little man, ‘What's it all about? I asked him. ‘We are pro- testing,’ he answered in good Eng: jlish, ‘against the giving up of Chi- | nese territory in Shantung to a for- eign power.’ March Into Fracas “I found that they intended merely to march thru the legation quarter— | read of them in the newspapers, It was not known today whether | Lloyd George was playing politics or | announcing @ serious decision of the Big Four. lieutenant of company E, Belling- ham. |LAUNCH WRECKED ON ROCKS; MAN DROWNED ILLE 4.—After Driver Is Arrested coul July |clinging f four hours to his} wrecked launch when it broke in After Hitting Man(: two on the rocks off the west shore| with several broken ribs, severe of Whidby island Thursday, J. W. Hewitt lost’ his grip and was |SCalp lacerations and concussion of drowned. Abe Green, his compan. | the brain, William Musho was taken ion, was saved when his calls for help were heard on the beach. Hew- itt’s body was recovered by Sheriff Fred Armstrong last night. He is survived by a wife, who lives at De catur The two men were returning from ‘Tow 30-foot launch n they lost their in the and a heavy gale their leraft upon the rocks to the city hospital late Thursday. He was struck on Jackson st., near Fourth ave. S., by an automobile piloted by Roy Anderson McLean, of | |Portage. McLean declares that vietim started across Jackson st. in the middle of the block, and came out from behind another automobile parked at the curb. | McLean was booked at police headquarters, but released on his per sonal recognizance. Musho lives in a houseboat, near the Spokane st. bridge, his Port nsend in a wh course drove |, Honesty buys and sells things; dis- honesty steals and keeps them not to create any trouble, which they did quite quietly and solemnly, until I had calied Dr. C. D, Tenney, civil chief of legation police. Meanwhile | the Chinese chief of police had come up and was arguing with the 1 refusing his permission to their onstration, as he n- had refused before. “When Dr, ‘Tenney came up and talked with them, and found that they were unarmed and merely giv-| ing a peaceful demonstration, he said| he would not forbid them to march thru. On account of the refusal of the Chinese chief, however, the lead- ers finally agreed to change their course, and marched out of the quar- ter by a different street, which led them by the drill ground and out of| jthe quarter onto the main avenue lonce more—the Down the great cross avenue they marched, into the maze of streets to the east of Peking—the residence quarter, and thence to the house of the arch enemy of young China, Tsao Ju Lin, I saw the house next day—with broken windows, court: piled-with Glacis.” ‘wreckage, amd doors after the. S. ALLEN | |thru the legation area. Tag | turned Soldiers’ club resolved to meet |goods and of Japanese specie bank | notes—these tell the story of more |Surplus Army Food LL &* &£ *% f Rioting Police Swept Aside With Angered Youth flung open before the blackcoated gendarmes who guarded it. Fight the Police I have from an eye witness the story of how the crowd finished the record of a significant, perhaps his- toric, day. A_ hastily collected group of Peking’s best foreign trained police, |the black-and white gendarmes, |tercepted the students in thelr vanee. The crowd had become # mob, , ling ‘toward the north gate of the |large compound. The police, |50, were swept out of the ae the students’ onslaught and <— with them. Howling the rioters fell walls of the house. As automobiles carrying armed riders, and guards. The minister ¢ | communications charged down GALLEY TWO—PAGE ONE center of the main streets and limit, and riding with armed arraigned at the foreign police tion, but eventually released. Students in Jail Meanwhile the students’ stration was brought to a close. By evening 33 students, beaten, wounded lot, were shut up in two stifling small rooms in the station. ma on threat of forcing | May 7 is National Disgrace in China—the anniversary of the dal in 1915 when the Twenty-one mands were made by Japan on Cl sanctioned by the now repudial minister, Chang, and the unp Tsao Ju Lin, On that day notice 4 given that a popular demon would be held undgp the psy the People’s Foreign Relation Young Men Win 5 The students threatened to hold mass meeting on the same day, & even the dignified and quiet and draw up resolutions of an incen= diary nature. The Chamber of Com- merce and the heads of the guilds in | Peking were interviewed by sti leaders, and promised to close up industry in Peking unless the prison- lers were released May 7. : Early in the morning of the ap- ~ pointed day the authorities threw their hands. The 38 prisoners released on condition that the sti dents should go back to school, and ~ everyone resume business as usual, Back to school went the victor ~ ious students. Their “martyr” com jtades were brought in with great rejoicing, mass meetings were held, prodigals and wept with them. In the first chapter of China's reawakening the young are vietor- ous. The resolutions sent by the Returned Stadents, and by the Chamber of Commerce to the for- eign legations and up to the peace | conference, the boycott of Japanese trouble to come, and of a more ser ious nature. But the schoolboys lit the first spark. to Be Sold Cities — WASHINGTON, July 4.—Surplus army foodstuffs—canned meat and vegetables—will be sold to cities in | carload lots at 80 per cent of their cost to the government, Secretary f War Baker announced yesterday. Based on present market prices, it was estimated buyers would save at this price about 25 per cent on canned vegetables and from 40 to 44 per cent on canned meats, Longmire Springs Control Obtained Longmire Springs, and the mire hotel, have been obtained by the Rainier National Park Compaey under a lease which runs until 1986. This announcement by David White comb, president of the park coms pany, fulfills the desire of St ‘T. Mather, director of national p that all park facilities be under control. Most of the serious slips occur — (cup. bus Doon to sbedings