Bridgeport Standard Telegram (Newspaper) - February 3, 1919, Bridgeport, Connecticut STANDARD TELEGRAM 49 CANNON STREET Open All Day and for News and TEL. 6tOO WEATHER RAIN OR SNOW detailed report and almanac see 9.) VOL. NO. 104. as class matter at the post at under act of 1879 FEBRUARY OF ALL NATIONS ARE NOW BEFORE RESTORES MANUEL EXPECTED i of Clynes for trial Congress Representing Interests Meeting j Jar OFFERS SOLUTION Trade Unions Take Factory and Operate on Co-operative Charge Food Is Germany Army System Stays as in 1914 Artillery and Cavalry Regiment in Machine That Started on Way to Paris Retained by Regiments Not Be Used Against Feb. 2. the Associated the Americans is to the that every artillery and cavalry regiment which was part the German standing in 1914, continues in except some Alsace Lorraine regiment which were These the reports are now mere skeleton probably only a few more than a thousand men Reserve whose Feb. ial unrest has superseded the conference as the chief topic interest in Great Many the leaders in the camps of and labor are bringing out for a general lie proposal of John R. former food f-r an congress representing seems to be the most It has a revival in society called the JLance of Employers and Em- which representative men 1 both sides are point on which everyone is is that some general particularly applying to and hours must be 1. Local settlements of disputes the different trades and factories ily create unrest and Suggests Co-operative Sir Geddes has made a no- il some trade un- TI take over a large national and run it as an experiment show what can be done by such politics is becoming in the Some orkers and free traders iat the government is keeping jck stocks of which might 3 released in order to keep in the interest of the and also that the board of ade has an understanding with i manufacturers to maintain an against in the of English Newspapers The newspapers ure existed prior to the war though they were not then in tive apparently continue to A few of these reserves are reported to have been but many are being identified from day to day in their normal The new formations of reserves and the higher numbered ments created subsequent to July 1914, are being and the 99 class men have been transferred to active The regiments of the low numbered series are still in It is reported that Von burg is planning to use some or al of the class against the Bol sheviki in the East. The 1918 class have had expectations ot being re leased conditionally this month Many of these who are on the left bank ot the Rhine with their have recently been notified that their class would be Republican Forces National Government Is Con- With Conceiro as Premier and War in service until further and Workmen's cils to Meet in Berlin National Assembly Convenes Upset Ebert's PRICE ON HEAD Alleged Leader of Bolshevik Movement in Germany Thought to Be Hiding in He Aided AMERICAN REACH CAPITALS OF BOTH TEUTON NATIONS Feb. A detachment ot 100 American soldiers arrived here today with the first shipment of American food for relief The American shipment will enable the serving of a full bread tion to the population next week for the first dime in many into two parties aiming that the unrest due to the desire of the workers better conditions of living and tore leisure and the other that the are engineered by socialists nd who want to conditions of industry and for the working The Morning Post asserts that ie chief instigators in the ow and Belfast strikes are Em- anuel Shinwell and Simon both whom it calls e of Glasgow and Some of the papers com- the government's policy in eeping hands off. Strike Movement While debate movement threatens beyond the ranks of the 31 the Associated unofficial mission to investigate social and many for the American peace delegation arrived -In Berlin It is headed by Captain Walter R. former American naval attache at Members ot the sion will visit various German OPORTO EXPECTS MANUEL Monarchists Declare Northern Troops Have Given Their Adhesion to Their Feb. archist victories confirmed a tional government has been con- in Portugal with as premier and minister of according to a Dispatch re- from The message declares the monarchists control a large part of Portugal and are waiting the arival of former King Personnel of New Feb. dispatch re today from Portugal by was of Madrid says a national govern ment has been constituted in For tugal as Minister ot War an of Minister BALTIC STATES WILL ACCEPT CONFERENCE Feb. tives here of the Baltic provinces of Russia display great ness to into any sort of federation in Russia that the peace conference may Lithuanians and apparently all are willing to participate in the proposed conference on the Princes lands and are eager to take any will put to Bolshevik aggression and restore The It is even will federate with Finland under a government wholly separate from Russia should the peace conference so but this ar- rangement is not in great All Parties Ready for Task of ating Many of Which JAP CLAIMS NOW SIMPLE Americans and Scotch Repulse Attack Near Seeks to Cut Forces of Dvina and Former German Colonies North of Equator in Pacific cipal to Pool Feb. 2. the the time for the convening of the German tional assembly only six days the political situation has ly taken on an aspect which must j be considered menacing to the The and their independent socialist using as their tools the diers and workmen's councils In different parts of the are conducting a campaign which at best can seriously embarrass and handicap all forces working for an democratic government and at worst make the attempt at BRIDGEPORT MAN TO T. R. MEMORIAL John T. King Named on G. 0. P. Committee to Receive the The Association Railway Clerks is discussing Be- rn because the government won't cognize the station masters and rents as a The postal employes are a meeting to put forward a heme for a seven day with half holiday There were no striking in the labor troubles ther on the Clyde or in prevailed in both -n Belfast many of the churches obliged to abandon the ng owing to lack of t is hoped that a number of the workers may be induced o resume work the course f the Troops in More troops have arrived in IE where it is now said there 10.000. The military display provoking resentment mong the strikers The Strike the offices if which were raided yesterday by today issued a strong at- against th government which L accuses of acting illegally in em- troops and seeking a p to employ arms against the to I this Ideal impossible at least for the next few weeks or While it is unlikely that any attempt will be made to disperse the constituent assembly at there will probably be AT GLASGOW CONDEMNS EXTREMISTS NEW Feb. ot the Roosevelt permanent memorial national creation of which was authorized by the Republican com- at Chicago last was announced tonight by Will The which is non- will receive contributions and suggestions for a suitable memorial to Colonel Roosevelt and eventually will erect the On the committee is ed by William Boyce of the New York Federal Reserve are members to a rival sentative of the many activities 1n in session simultaneously in American life which were touched Minister of and Viscount of Commerce and Count Minister of Foreign Louis Minister of Public Works and Senhor mos. Government Awaits The dispatch acids that the which was named by the has been welcomed by the people with It says also that the government which is exercising its authority is the arrival of former King Conflicting reports were received from Portugal Dispatches from Lisbon state that a Royalist column was put to flight north of and tho commander Coimbra is re- Royalist prisoners at Veiro and Vizeu have been placed m prison at The the reports has asked the civil nors to lemain at their A strike of the railway nen of southern Portugal has been Dispatches from by waj of Madrid sav that King Manuel's arrival Is awaited there An official statement issued by the loyalist eminent at Oporto troops are Feb. 1 the Associated they succeeded in capturing the and the Bolsheviki are still unable to make any impression on the American and allied lines on tne ina For the second attack by the enemy there was re- mised by the Americans and the i latest attack occurred early The Bolsheviki stormed upper met with vere resistance from the can patrol who giving their artillery a clean sweep of the The Americans ed 20 of the Bolsheviki and wounded 20 and also took seven The allied patrols on the sector moved ward 12 miles without ing the The indications are that the Bolsheviki are not the Americans on their line of retreat but are moving in the tion of the in an effort to cut off the Dvina and Vaga forces ot north of the tion point of the two i eads tho faithful to n 01 them Feb. 2. The delegates o the flve great powers are now in a position to compare clearly thei own aspirations and those of al their allied friends and to see differences that must be reconciled The of often has been told freely and it remains for the peace eon ference to adjust them into a co ordinated The desires o tlie several countries as present ed may be compressed Fiance first A unconditionally an right discuss and fix the French frontiers in thei relation to the which ma require the creation of buffe One of these would be th and another Rhenis France also t annex the basin of the Which might be called a reannex Fiance will insist that so far a the left bank of the Rhine furth to the north is the con ference militai works of any forts and in that The feeling is th the people inhabiting that zoi should be free to decide for then selves whether they to join foim an independent state or return to Indemnity The French for is not yet but it has been announced in the Chamber of Deputies that il will be about WHAT GREAT POWERS SEEK AT CONFERENCE Great A society of nations by present Readiness to take mandatory power over German Islands south equator tor German Southwest Africa for South and German East and parts of Will pool Right to fix frontiers on Zone on left bank of ern part of Rhine clear of all military Sixty-six billion francs in- far as Brenner with all Southern larger part of matian Avlona and Albanian possession of islands in Aegean taken from Turkey in Tripolitan province of Adalia in and extension of Pacific Islands north of equator taken from United A league of Conference's 3 Meet With Hotel de Crillon This noon to Further WILSON BUSY IN Claimants Likely to to Wait for Hearing on Oi Mining and Problems at DISCUSSES RUSSIAN FIGHTING The French government does not ask lor a in Syria in the ordinary sense because it considers that the there is too advanced to make a torate necessary but France on LOOKS LIKE LEAGUE CASE This Eventuality Would Effect Upon American ship of Western Feb. ment m news despatches from New York that representatives of Brit- count of her traditional interests and American mining and Declares Conference Hasn't Considered Steps to Be en if Troops The Feb. A large called bv the Clyde opposed to the present held in the Goran dis- or Wardley a known labor Theie weie a lumber of and inter- during the ly the following but resolution was trades unionists and cns of condemn the undemocratic methods which us to take part in the Ye pledge ourselves to support the cs of the trades un- ions in thia country and to use our influence to maintain law and The Berlin meeting will be a national congress of all diers on the tive of the local councils lin ostensibly to consider the tion of retaining the power of military command in the Price on The society for the suppression of recently organized in offers a reward of 000 marks for the capture of Karl the head of Bolshevik propaganda in or for In- formation disclosing his abouts in Radek Is still believed to be hiding here and to be Identified in- directly with the Spartacan rections m and tho fugitive former police chief of it is also should be He apparently is under safe the convening of the tional assembly to which he was elected as the head of the pend socialist is said to be depending urii im munity as a member of the sembly to his arrest when the assembly Vear in The troops of the are marching on Bremen to liberate that city from the domination of the terroristic Spartacan minority is not ed to enter the city before The government troops are moving slowly along both banks of tre The are reported to be preparing a strong Their adherent among the ers ut tho shipyards are building machine gun nests end the defense at the Tho are also posting strong by Colonel during his Taft A William Colonel successor in the White House and Charles E. Hughes are chairman of the Vice are Senator Lodge of Senator Johnson ot John Mitchell of New A. T. Hert of and John T. King of Conn. Among other members In groups representing Colonel Roosevelt's Interests Former Cabinet ander C. Clifford Dr. A. Col- onel George New Big Game Hunters Rough W. W. R. Livingston Rhode Coleman Delaware and Earl S. republican troops at Alberga and have fled before the forces ot Telegraph and telephone communication with Lisbon has been The de- fense organized rby the republican government fails and more Because several garrisons are oring the AWAKES TO FIND HE'S DEAD LIEBKNECHT'S SON BERLIN PUPILS TO STRIKE Declare They Will Not Remain in Any Class of Which He Fcb 2 said his do ed what I and T have positive proof ot continued the showing him a telegram from the War setting forth that Private Lawrence of Company B. 347th 87th had died in a base tal in France October 17. insisted It was not He said he had been wounded but Several days ago he returned to his home in West He was in bed when his sister Informed him that he was Feb. 1 the Associated pupils of the senior class1 ot the Berlin High school which was attended by Helmuth an teen year old son of the late Dr. Karl who was killed recently in struck Friday because young at- tempted to resume his in his The strikers declared that they would not remain members any class to which the fired with machine guns on our and brothers and otherwise participated in active hostilities against the bo- Young Liebknecht was a member of the Spartacan forces which and held the chine eun forces alons the SINN SENTENCED fi Months for in a Feb. 2 kiinn found guilty jeste of Illegal dulling in a publi hall horo and were to six imprisonment an signed they denied the ily of British laws and one of while In the a republican the Associated Feb. up the practice he initiated last day of meeting personally the for- eign newspaper M. Pichon the French foreign today frankly discussed some are absorbing the attention of the conference itself and He was obliged to state with regard to several these matters that he was unable to give the desired information be- cause the Supreme Council had not yet been ablo to function upon or was without With reference to the ed effort to bring together the of the various sian political sections and the peace commissioners at a meeting at he said that so there had been only one cial reply to the invitation which tho council had sent out by less and that had come in tho shape of a document sent by a Russian gentleman who had been a member of the Duma and is now head of the government of Crimea Ho expressed a willingness to go to the Princes Islands but feared that ho would be alone so far as the other Russian factions were The Russian in Paris hart a letter to Pre- mier saying they would not go to Princes Islands but their own government had not responded to the invitation Pichon said lie had noticed the reply of the Bolshevik ment as m the but that it had never been re- M. of a Pails who received the had been denied of the French wireless to make replies to tho M Pichon ho had been ed In a note that there uas no for the use of less for other than Appears 4s to the Omsk Ad- miral its had not said that he would refuse to attend Uic Pi Island but on k in that country feels that she j should be called upon to exercise some of guardianship or ance until Syria should be fully able to govern GREAT Great Britain's delegation be- that a society of nations is desirable and obtainable and that it must be established by the ent peace She ad- vances no continental purposes other than those of a permanent and just peace under the principles of self-determination and that there shall be international dom of transit by railroads and which is Great general definition of dom of in times of Great Britain will take tory power over the German lands of the for Australia and over Gennan west All lea for the Union ot South She will also have the mandate over German Bast Africa and some of and she has particular claims in this re- spect over Groat Britain will a pool with the other allies in the matter of in- especially reparation for air raid damages and shipping OH F BOYS OUT TODAY City to Invite Veterans to ory Wednesday When er of 26th Will Kitty members ot Battery 3Cth will be today or at Kon according jp Fiench belongs to the far as can be the boj 3 will not conic to Bridgeport in a but wil not como to Bridgeport in a body straggle home singly or in Plans for a reception in honor o' the heroes aie now un dor An invitation it is will be them to attend the State In a Wednesday night to hea Major General C. E. the famous officer who led tho division over the toll of hi experiences It is probable that a 1 speaker will appointed to dally the boys j cattle interests in Mexico were coming to Pans to lay claims before the peace is much attention m American government circles and is causing speculation as to ow Mexican affairs may be if at Slay Await As Mexico has not been d with the the 011 in official circles is that ness interests of foreign powers suffered confiscation i Mexico probably can not get a earing in Pans until the society f nations is organized fully and he main issues connected with the var passed Under the Doctrine the United States naturally would be before any steps were aken to bring about an ment ot the friction between and foreign As a re- the Mexican difficulties are Labors in Seclusion But Rests zealous League One Obstacle Feb. ion will officially assemble at the hotel de he members of the peace ence commission on a In some quarters it that a report to the c ence on this subject is President Wilson spent yesterday morning at work in hii Instead of of the services i he applied himself to the taken as an indication that he preparing some paper the most thoughtful Americans to Rush As it is known to be the pi of the American delegation rush forward plans for the cr tion of a society ot nations it the member of the charged with that gaged in the preparation of statement Supporting proposition or general The American delegates to the belief that the most serious obstacle will be found in by overzealous advocates treme methods to ful settlement of understood the American will give their support plans of General Smuts and Cecil with the addition ot few the ideas advanced by Leon French protagonist a. league President Wilson on this day had his first really complete restful day since he landed French Reard Admiral his medical was his way in this ing in mind the exceedingly liar work which marked every day week and the departure's fiom the which preserved the health strength of the up to The President was even The President was even refrain from his almost Triable custom of in order to regain had been The progress made last week IB work of the peace the daily sessions ol of the five great as encouraged the hope that the main of will be toward realization thl will be possible to get it e peace conference in in time to by the middle ol which will enable resident to carry out his dea of leaving for bout the date previously The plan which has beer d with most favor looking to of a league of watched eagerly because of he possibility that they may m- licate how the society of nations vill affect historic American ASKS FOR REVISION OF ANTITRUST LAWS S. Chamber of Commerce Makes Proposal Meet Post War Feb. sals legislation in eluding both the Sherman am be bv Con gross to meet post war anil that of. general ness conduct be established by tin government and administered by r supervisory body have been sub the States el-am her of commerce to its over the for a The b the trade com and made public That Congress should at one consider the situation of all sta tutes constituting legis That there should be formulate standards of general business con duet to by a su That nn enlarged federal commission should bo made th supervisory body with its ship increased five council i composite embodying jest ideas of many of the J Pact Awaits The agreement proved by Hie supreme the district of Tesc only the signatures of Polish and gates to make it It ir the the not to go beyond a and to return Polish The Czechs must not out any construction mist supply coal to tj cot ding to conditions upon Tht supreme council wilt tomorrow it is a sion of two experts from each the great powers to examine the Roumanian NO TRAIN CUT HERE Remain for Tiain affecting Bridgeport will continue ed the officials at tha despatches in Xew stated last Some locals out of Xew have been it was Bridgeport will not be affected RK the 7 5 1 GROUNDHOG GOES Bridgeport people with a itv for folk lore noted yesterdays Candlemas that the came saw his shadow returned for six weeks more t I
