Washington Post, The (Newspaper) - February 8, 1919, Washington, District Of Columbia Member of the Pnm entitled to for tion of credited to It or not credited fa paper and the The Washington is a member at The receiving tba complete of tbe cloudy tomorrow ed temperature gentle Temperature 44; 36. NO. AS P. O. FEBRUARY 8, BT WASHINGTON POST co. TWO CENTS ENEMY THREA TS DRA W HARDER LEAGUE DRAFT HALF FINISHED May Go to General ence Next HUNS DOME ARMISTICE Supreme Council Continues Work on New Conditions WILSON'S MEDIATION WINS Italy and Jugoslavs Reported on Verge of and Italians Oppose Forbidding Con- While Method of Com- piling Obedience to League Fails of Decision Threats of ance in Some Quarters If In- are the Associated Feb. allied pre- who met this afternoon as i the supreme interallied war probably will fix new terms to be imposed upon whose tactics of obstruction and nation are said to have reached a climax in a threat made at Weimar by Chancellor Ebert that Germany would break off negotiations the Huns Forget The feeling in peace conference cles is that the Germans are more and more forgetting their and it is expected that the war council will take measures to bi ing them to a sense of the ties Foch will gro to Treves on 17 to fix the conditions for a third renewal of the It is understood that the council will fix j. brief time within which the must carry out the tions tney have only fulfilled in part No Ships Handed In this respect it is noted none Communiques Issued By Peace Delegates Feb. supreme council official bulletin issued this supreme council today discussed the terms of the ex- tension of the armistice The discussion will continue labor legislation sion discussed the representation which will be given to ments and organizations of ers and working people in the proposed permanent International It was decided that women should be equally eligible as men as delegates to the con- The official statement regarding the fourth meeting of the commission last night read fourth meeting of the com- mission of the league of nations met at o'clock last evening at the Hotel de Messrs. Dmowski and the Slovak Poland and took up their ties as members of the commission provisionally approved a number of additional articles to the The proval of these articles marks an accord on certain questions of the greatest importance ing the positive functions of the Substantially one-half of the draft new has been consisting of M. Lord Eustace Percy and Mr. Shepardson has been appointed for the ing of the next meeting will be held at 8.30 o'clock this evening at the Hotel de N PUN AT TEST Success or Failure to Be Known by Events of Next URGES HASTE ON CONFERENCE Wants Constitution Adopted Before Sailing lor President Compulsory Principle Opposition to Position Em- Diplomats That U. 8. Share Burdens of by Stirs Angry Criticism In Words Cause People To Regard Wilson With Suspicion Secretary of Navy Viewed as Threatening England Extremists President Wants to Save Germany From Defeat Deprive Allies of Fruits of Quoted in Berlin as Revealing can joined Premier Orlando In strongly opposing the abolition of He declared that owing to her geographical needs a standing army and could never consent to strip herself of her defenses The paragraph was then cancelled and it decided to leave to each country freedom to select a of the German merchant which later to have been sent to Another article caused alhed ports has yet been handed discussion was that concerning er Kronen ihe method of applying military to the countries refusing to opinion considers that the comply with the decision of the occupation of Essen Is of first ciety of nations or breaking its sity if the allies are to control to very conflicting views the commissions decided to postpone a definite decision until an- other Italy Near an As the result of direct exchanges Premier of Italy berg and prepare a campaign and Premier of which can only be supplied i it was stated today that the through principal war lic in France also is asking if the supreme war council is to allow Field Marshal von burg to establish himself in ences between the two countries re- i garding the boundaries of their The supreme war council also will j respective which have fix the size oC the contingents of an been acute problem probably Will Great the United be soon amicably adjusted Representatives of States and the allied nations in the Premier Orlando for Italy M armies of both in Europe the Jugoslav foreign and Asia Half of Draft Substantially one half of the draft of the constitution for the society of nations has been covered by the chief conference commission dealing this question it was officially an- today Tn approving a ber of additional articles of the draft the commission reached an tt is on certain questions of the importance concerning the positive functions of the The acceptance of these additional articles was provisional The commission has appointed a general consisting of M. Lord Eustace of the British foreign and Mr herdson Premier of Pre- mier of M of and M. Dia- of sat as members of the league of nations commission representing their respective End Believed in W hile important details of the j ciety s constitution will remain to be agreed upon and are likely to take up Ino time of several additional sions of the the fact that more than half of the draft had been passed over and unanimously ed including an agreement upon the general has raised ex- that the draft will be for submission to the general peace conference early next Should this prove to be the case it might be possible to secure action upon it before President Wilson's de- parture for the United States Italy Defends Dleven articles of the project for the society of nations were discussed and approved with small modifications by the peace conference commission on that subject at its meeting last President Wilson presided at the meeting The only article not approved was the paragraph concerning abolition of compulsory military service unless re- quired by reasons of national defense under extraordinary 1'iemier of opposed the remarking that if con- scription once was abolished an at- tempt to revive it might lead to ous even i Leon one of the were in conference with ident Wilson yesterday it was stated that an effort was being made by the President to mediate the two nations for the purpose of aiding them to reach an agreement for the settlement of their ing claims regarding Istria and Arranging Future Premier George was in con- ference with President Wilson for a half-hour this morning at the Paris White It is understood that they discussed arrangements for the business of the conference after the departure of the British premier from Paris in the near President Wilson is expected to remain here longer than Mr Lloyd George and so will be in a position to watch the progress made in carrying out the The number of territorial conflicts now making their appearance in peace conference It ia in some is attributable to the prospects of an early realization of society of nations plan which will volve the examination of all such claims by a legal tribunal of the ciety for adjudication with due re- gard to wishes and welfare of the inhabitants It is thought that of the districts in some of the powers whose titles to territories in conflict rest on ancient historical ties prefer to commit the peace conference to their support in ad- vance of the adoption of a society of nations If they could do this they would avoid a conference be- tween their claims and the ples which may be laid down in the society of Threats of The community of interests of some nations In certain led to hints of cooperation among those nations to make up a majority in the Gossip in the corridors even mentions threats of resistance to any decisions adverse to those The special commission ing on the society of nations plan is not moved by these and is going about its work quietly but At the same time the supreme council in short daily sessions con- Its policy at hearing patiently all claims and generally referring them to special or standing tees for thorough though this it is under- is not entirely agreeable to all the powers Secret treaties made under the stress of war and which may be con- out of with the principles on which a society of tions is being organized have a great deal of The American at have said that such agreements insofar as they are in the principles of a society of nations must give By ALBERT W. 1919, Bjr Washington Port Within the next week it will be sible to judge whether President son has or failed in one of his chief undertakings upon which he has concentrated all his recent The President now Is making every effort to have the constitution of the league of formally adopted by the committee framing it and to have It approved by the plenary session of the peace ence before he leaves for the United States about the end of next If the President leaves Paris with a league plan approved by the ence he will have at least in translating his ideal into tangible form and this in Itself would be a de- diplomatic Hoped Flan Would Be If he is obliged to leave Paris with the league plan still in the stage of discussion and not his sition here will be embarrassing in more ways than one and no one re- alizes this better than the It now develops that the President for some weeks has been absolutely counting on having a completed league plan ready to submit to the tion of the American people before returning to the United He first believed this could be done by January 15, but postponed his de- parture from Paris until the last possible when It became dent that obstructions and difficulties were bound to impede By his the President managed to have the specjal of which he is chairman de- vote extra hours day and night to wrestling with the league problems at and there now appears a Chance that the be done time to suit the President's Working to Smooth Incidentally the President 16 ing his time well into each to the work before and is trying by every to smooth over the rifts and bring compromise and agreement respecting the In many respects the President is admittedly difficulties which would discourage any one not entirely wrapped up in this particular For even the enthusiasm the American delegation has injected into the work is not shared by the other nor are the hopes for speedy agreement by the American shared by the The President is in the position of trying to expedite agreements while at the same time finding that many of the disagreements his inability to accept ideas advanced sometimes by the combined forces which he is Important Points Several of the points upon which the President's heart was set have been sacrificed in the interest of such as compulsory abolition of conscription and of a sort of to enforce the de- The British and French delegates combined to snuff out the compulsory arbitration idea and supplant it with the same idea of arbitration which now exists in The Hague France and Italy combined to defeat abolition of conscription as dangerous to their national Reject Supersovereignty idea has been rejected by Great Britain and The so far as known never has had a definite idea of just how this phase of the problem could be worked but he has liked the principle and hoped for practical suggestions from some of the Euro- pean These have not been It has been necessary therefore to shelve these which are not now in practical and to attempt to draw up a constitution for the league without But there are some very Important controversial features ently must he settled before the con- can be drawn and among these ie the question of the league through issuance of the conquered German colonies and other Demand U. S. Share The President wants the league to be made a reality at by having it entrusted the management of these In this connection an entirely unexpected obstacle has cropped up by the European nations demanding that the United States sume Its share of the burden if this plan of mandate is put into The President ff the United States assume the guardianship of Constantinople and Armenia under the This means American troops to to and Public 1919, by the Public Ledger Feb. that Daniels has achieved the proud fame of being copiously quoted by George Bernhard in the Zeitung as demonstrating the hostility between England and America at the peace conference perhaps the Secretary of the Navy will begin to realize the mischief he has that is not I have before me three pungent which the vast majority of Englishmen and English women ly and I do not think it too much to say that none of these cles would been written had it not been the unfriendly of this ber of Mr. These are the first by I. Maxse of the National in the current issue of his magazine Much the ond by Horatio M. In his Mr. Tragedy of the third a leading editorial in the Morning of But let it be- remembered that none of these writers officially represents his Germany Erom The third is the easiest to It is significantly enough almost the sole written comment worth noticing on which is discussed The Post holds President Wilson up as a past master in the art of balancing art he is Wilson is toying with infinite skill and address to save Germany froni the consequences of defeat and de- prive the allies of the consequences of is a to be because a considerable many will keep France and the Brit- ish empire fully Such extreme stuff is going such articles were bound to be written sooner or Not hut many have I been about the American navy which lg going to be built with Interest on America lent us and France behalf of The origin this wistful question is found in dispatches printed here which said he was coming to fight for the of the The version published in the Times Threat Becoming a. Washington correspondent of the TJew World of the President's Secretary of the Navy go further than the President intends to go if Great Britain actually re- fuses to cooperate with him In his purpose to make impossible another world Those advisors say if the British government insists that Brit- ain rule the waves the United States will lay two keels to every one Britain or five to if using the interest on the lent Great Britain and the Interest on the French debt for the This threat has become a When it arrived the general election was in progress and the ple were 2But it is still traveling If it is untrue it cannot be Repudiated too before me a number of in the same quite so for it would be sible to repeat such a gem of genius in that Maxse writes of the speeches of President son's Secretary of the as among contretemps we have all com- to but his article does not assist the process of liike German Oas All these remarks 10 Mr. Daniels now are forever as a come ingredient of German poison gas He seemed unable to ask Congress for a without ultimatums to so recent This kind of thing seeme again to have become the Simple fashions always fancy prices We had AMmiral Mayo urging the EBERT WARNS ALLIES CHINESE CLEWS FAIl Higher Commissions on Men in Ground AMERICANS DEFENDED PARIS Casualties Attributed to Def Planes Bought From IT. S. Accepted Aircraft on Inspection by French Spies at Aviation Bases Against Gothas Chapters in American But the first cannot be greatest navy so They present i about case in Europe America with all according to the tastes of their re- and have but in they f had definitions by another only arp of freedom of tie peal to two Important bodies of the first to the of 3-shilling serious the second to the masses of working Call Wilson a Whatever else may be of Mr. j which suggest a greater surrender of British sea power than the recent render In the North have had Mr. Padgett's embarrassed re- on the subject of a be- hind the President's crusade in By GEORGE 1019, by Washington Post Airplanes for the Yankee fighter at the both of American mak and those purchased abroad of the French and were delivered by the which was a distinct and one in which many of our best filers rendered splendid and continuous with out gaining The headquarters of this was just outside of and a con number of these men took part in the defense of the French capital when It was being subjected on every clear to attacks from the German Their exploits the grot has constitute a rate chapter Ihe brilliant history of American aviation In The chief of the was and presumably still Capt. B. R of one of the most experienced of the many ex- pert American fliers in who generally have received no adequate recognition of their magnificent Minor Bank for Real It is an illuminating commentary upon the organization of the aviation service that men Osborne and Eddie and many more like who day after day took their lives in their found selves at the close of the war holding the rank of mere while West Pointers who did most of their work on the ground far outranked them as majors and Expert many of them the finest types of I had the seeing who Went to France early 1n the never re- the promotion to which they were abundantly qt far i Britons Losing who recently was if the plain people here ed to parliament by an almost ing is it to be are wondered mous it cannot be dented he has I What are they to think of diatribes an enormous following and has done against England by senators a powerful work in behalf of half-century strongholds of allies with the British workman and high tariff because at a single the British soldier during the I ing period of almost Inconceivable He is idolized by them as a man difficulty they have declared a afraid to speak out and speak embargo after half a century In a both of these of free trade and open The with various disputations and vast majority of the British public protest against what they are deeply interested in seeing the scribe as Mr. Wilson's league of nations born alive if assumed dictatorship In j ported by any direct mandate of his I There are also thousands sceptical and against any further on both sides of the Their effort to enforce on European allies a honest opinions are read and re- series of humiliations and sacrifices j They may or may not be which his own country not I Time alone can decide whether the slightest sign of to late in any degree Such is the point of view It is fortified in the Review by the first article In the same the league of nations if not can be reared to vigorous But the British public resent the use of poison gas as an anaesthetic at be being business in by J a both for patients and ator which Is the senator's from wc speech in the Senate December 21, re- London or vised by Lodge tomley suggests that the is scheduled to begin April 1. in Sincerity There can be no shadow of doubt that Secretary constant stream of and has shaken the faith of a large body of British and colonial opinion in the sincerity of the ent Washington administration as a necessarily In Mr. son's of an administration which preaches but in That a No British Fear of Great Britain is perfectly well aware cannot be asserted too that she cannot pre- vent the United States from building battleships and cruisers if the American people so Nor has Great Britain any fear of any American however powerful it may because the British ple cannot by stretch of nation visualize the United States as nate the world to force of arms even sacrifice and reduction ot in noble brandishes i six-shooter in Whether It does so or not in I do not But it is certainly here as doing and the consequent im- pression of distrust is at last finding vigorous As things to be for the world's own That would be a return to the trine of Islam and is Great Britain is exceedingly minding her own shattered demobilizing both army and navy as much and as fast as possible and turning to the perfectly honorable task of salving her world She is not discussing any naval because probably for one son she suspects that until the sons of the war have been digested any ships she might build Would be scrap iron before they were Germany The is not actually many is than ever stirring trouble If she continues to succeed in her peace offensive as successfully as she is now Germany may come to the peace con- ference and flatly refuse the terms of out to the European statesmen her con- In are then may prefer to join up with -Or dismissing not too readily such possibilities as ex- serve order the Institution of a tremendous American civil tration with unending As applied to the President does not like the idea and feels that Con- gress would never sanction it. tors here that not ten senators could be found who would vote tp ratify a treaty with such provisions in it. Events Determine Second But when the President points this us to try experiments and assume burdens you will not even con- sider assuming This has made matters complicated at critical juncture and has treme she may accept the terms and subscribe to the league of nations in the belief that the threatened the whole plan whereby j tual interests between England and so essential to its have been at a time when the world never needed anything so much as It now needs the friendly and hearty guardianship over European cooperation of the United States and these territories were to be governed by from the It may the President will have to recede from his stand on the question of America's assuming In order to save the main Idea of the league and make it a reality before he leaves for Officials here say they do not yet know whether the President will make a second trip to It all depends on the developments of the next Rabbi Simon will speak on Tenth Adv. the British England has already incurred nial reproaches In its support of Mr. Wilson In A brief sacrifice of talk Would be re- turn for a lasting and genuine of national A just as easily as a rogue could take a jimmy and some giant powder and destroy the Taj When you think of think of J in to act as in United States before creasing to in actual flight the later had the to see their former who had remained in America for after their arrive in France to be their superior Fairness Essential to system by no stretch of the imagination could be called a good thing for the aviation and in the United States were believed to count more than hard work and actual experience gained against the After having talked with American aviators all over there is no doubt jn my mind that gross injustice has been done to some of our most I believe that the first essential in the reorganization of aviation section Is the reparation of these good men wlH not remain in The men have done work of flying should be given the rank to which they are and if officers of the army clique are found to be ing positions to which others are rightfully they should be made to step Until aviation is put on a basis of fairness and justice it can never be 100 per cent Capt. Osborne's Case case of Capt. Osborne is ly to the Why should a man who for months was in charge of the important work of planes to the squadrons at the front be a while there are regular army colonels in aviation in the United States who never showed any interest in aviation until they saw in It a chance for higher rank and increased I want to say that Capt. Osborne never made any such complaint as this to me. cite his case as He was the and with heavy involving the lives of his comrades of the He accepted the 60ft airplanes obtained from the French at These were and and the time was from January to 1918t Defective Planes Given Some of these planes we obtained from the French were cording to information I at widely places from different none of whom 4cnew others had told me. Their stories and I think there is no question about it. Our used planes that French airmen would not fly and the teries at onr flying fields in France bear mute witness today to the ness of this in Of the bought from the a number proved Very As explained to me by our the vibration caused the line to break just over the which set the on fire and caused a good many I have seen two airplanes come down In I am glad to being at in and the other in the in Huns Will Refuse to Make Peace if Too COMPLAINS OF ARMISTICE Brands at Opening of bly Unheard-of and Chancellor Protects at Slave to Enemies for Deputies Stirred to Although Independents Heckle Speaker Drafting Constitution May Delay Police Lack Enough Evidence for Arrests in CANNOT FIND CHECK Believe Both It and ter Have Been tke Associated Feb. 7. cellor In his address to the national assembly at mar conditions of the armistice have been of unheard-of and were carried out without We warn our adversaries not to push us too v Gen. Winterfeldt re- signed from the armistice the whole German government also eventually be forced to renounce from collaborating in the peace and throw upon all the weight of for the new World German Assembly Feb. the Associated The of the national assembly this afternoon was impressive for fts earnestness and lor Ebert's opening the ery of which occupied a half was frequently The Court Theater was thronged long before the appointed It was a democratic looking though that shuffled its way through the slush and snow of Weimar's streets to the The stage had been changed by the addition of a on which the Tuture president will alt in an enormous high-backed with on which 'the German eagle is It is the old presidential and la almost only reminder of the for- mer since nearly 300 of the of the assembly are Pullman and Aids Hold Night Conference After Spending Examining Witnesses meat Made Later That No Be Made During Two Under After a week of investigation last night were with a lack of evidence necessary for a single arrest In the triple der of Dr. Theodore T. tor of the Chinese educational sign to thla and his two C. H. Hsie and Ben Sen Some of the importan which faith had been have been while promising at have failed to de- The check for which was presented at the National Bank by a who has 28 women of all tered about the Causes of thi and the only event at the opening tot Was a hesitancy followed by A excited of acquiescence as the first woman's name waa The second woman on the list had not expected to hear her name and howed evident embarrassment as it waa almost shouted Ebert only a brief on his He found so heckled by independent sts tbat he was forced In the middle f his speech to turn upon them with he declaration that their disorder little evil times had I CONTINUED ON PITCH how taught The chancellor's voice shook With motion as he touched upon points he leemeS then boomed high above the discordant shouts of the in- when they tried to upt and drown him He aroused when he began by done forever with princes and by the grace of He aid German people was now ng There was disapproval mixed with when he declared that the evolution would decline ty for the shortage of food and the In food In Hunger Preferable to chancellor de- Germany to her but e protested being a slave to Germany's enemies for forty w sixty enemies declare they are ng but militarism has een Herr Ebert thereupon an independent Interposed The speaker next took up the terms and branded them aa and The whole ouse was with him when he d against the expulsion of rora Alsace and the sequestration of roper The assembly broke shoots of indignation as the chancellor referred to the prisoners of war still held in All he showed anything but a spirit of our opponents not to drive us to the he Is preferable to and deep privation is be preferred Confidence fit The he laid down their arms with In dent and the present free of Germany believes it is only its right to enter the league of nations and work with real to all the of the world for We ask last Thursday a day after the bodies were and the supposedly forged letter have yet fallen the hands of the Papers of Great Detectives were not reticent In pressing their belief that both check and letter were destroyed by a That these two pieces of paper would be of valde as documentary evidence is admitted by the The entire day yesterday waa spent by the police in examining several Witnesses in regard to lately de- and in searching into the life of the youngest of the murdered At a late hour last night Maj. mond superintendent of Clifford inspector of de- and Detectives and Kelly were closeted in the In- At the of the conference Maj. Pullman announced that absolutely new that fea arrests would be made during the v Since ihe on the In the annals at the that our economic life The German be not people de- has fought for inner tt cannot be perfected from the Herr Ebert was cheered when he brought up the proposed union of Germany and Austria He said he hoped that the bonds sundered in 1866 would again be sealed and asked the house to the move heartily Following a appeal for German the chancellor declared that the provisional government had been the of a Assisted by Besides Detectives Maj. who Is ally conducting the been by six headquarters detectives who have devoted their entire to the Two recognised experts on also have been Undeterred In their belief that motive was the police still retain as volunteer Z. S. who had been a guest of the and his W T. who ts said to have been in Washington at the time of Both men have been kept under Wan has been under the cars of a physician It was stated last night that the police are In sion of evidence purporting to show that Wan and Van were at the Harris Hotel at 1 o'clock on the morning following the triple night clerk at the hotel and the vator both understood that Van was Wan's The elevator Robert told the that every time he went in Wants room Wan was either bed or where out of WILSON CANCELS BRUSSELS VISIT of ife Forces Him to Wilson has been forced to bandon his posed visit to It ts under- stood that in event he returns to he will accept the Belgian The pressure of the President's ties in Paris will be so great in few days remaining before de- parture for the United States that ha has ben compelled to torero his trip to Brua parts of els and other DIES Df 13-STOBY B. Jumps From New from a window of the thirteenth floor of the Woolworth here ard 44, a was according to the caused him to jump Liquor Car Upset in 1 to The Va Feb and Chief of Police S. B. in Stafford county last chase to an which U suspected contained liquor a sharp the pursued rar turned and the who the nams of E Baxter waa un- der the amf A cargo of quarts of 3, with the con- i a and given 30 In
