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VOL: 34. NO. 358.
HOUSTON TEXAS FRIDAY MARCH 28. 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS:
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Bolsheviki Threaten to
Cruih Poland; Planning
Great Spring Campaign
Official of Moscow Govern-
ment Announces Thatg
Large Scale Offensive
Will Be Undertaken in
" the Near Future.
iviiicu ivimiaij vuitcu
Not Worried by Boasts
(These 'Doubt That Lenine
and Trotzky Will Be
Able to Raise and Equip
any Considerable Army.
Polish Chief Asks for
Munitions.
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Associated Press Report.
PARIS March 27. A great military
campaign against Poland is to be opened
by the Russian soviet government this
spring it was declared by M. Joffo the
former bolshevik ambassador at Berlin
at recent meeting in Vilna according to
word received by ' the British national
committee in Paris.
The central executive committee of the
soviet government the Polish committee
also has been informed has voted unani
. mously an appropriation of 27000000
rubles monthly for bolshevik propaganda
in Poland.
( TR0TZKY BOASTS DISCOUNTED.
Allied Military Officers Sot Worried
by Threat of Spring Offensive.
Associated Press Report.
LONDON March 27. The British
staff it is stated authoritatively con
sider it impossible for War Minister
Trotxky of the Russian soviet govern
ment to organise an army of 1 .000000
men for a spring offensive on tbe bol
shevik western front as it has been re
ported he proposed to do.
Military experts doubt if lie could even
lie able to assemble that many while it
'""Would be impossible to' equip and equally
impossible to maintain such a force.
The military authorities are of the
opinion that the report of the organiza
tion of such an army is purely bolshevik
propaganda to which the bolshevik have
recently turned their band extensively.
Reports of a serious situation with rc-.
. gard to the allied forces at Odessa also
are viewed in official British quarters as
largely bolsheviki propaganda. It is point-
ed out that the French general command-
ing in Odessa was. menaced by a threat
of an attack by a large bolshevik force
and that there was unrest within (he
city as the result of propaganda spread
by the bolsheviki.
British officials believe that the un-
rest has been alleviated to a great extent
while the bolshevik army is at least 40
miles from the city.
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ASKS FOR MUMTIONS.
General PilsndskI Wants an Army of
Half Million Men.
Associated Press Report.
WARSAW March 27. "We have men
and officers but no uniforms rifles ran-
x nitions or artillery" said General I'd-
eudski provisional brad of tbe Polish
state in an interview here with the
American press representative of the
American mission to Poland when asked
of tbe military needs of Poland.
"Poland'' continued thc general "is
i attacked on three Rides and can not pro-
. tect herself without technical war mate-
rial which she is not yet equipped for
manufacturing."
General Pilsudski said lie was grate-
ful to the allies especiull America from
. whom Poland had received something
definite food. Asked how many men he
would need to equip the general an-
swered: "That is difficult to say. Our nation
in some sections having not participated
directly as a combatant in the war we
bave many young men who were not
drafted in tbe German Austrian or Rus-
sian armies and therefore have not yet
equip 500000 men. Much material in
France that the allies have no more need
for might well be spared for us. Amer-
ica bas guns ammunition airplanes and
automobile trucks which she will not
transport back to Ameriog. These equip-
ments would be of infinite value to us."
See Victory With Arms.
Questioned as to whether the Polish
army equipped the various attacks on
Poland could be repelled so aa to produce
permanent peace General Pilsudski re-
plied: "I believe so. Our army would be su-
perior In morale. The German army
now is demoralised. tVhen men bave lost
faith jn the leadership of their generals
their spirit has been broken and they no
longer obey their officers properly.
"The Ukrainians again are superior to
ua now in equipment but they are organ-
ised by former officers of the Austrian
army.' They may be capable of certain
defensive lighting behind trenches but
they are incapable of offensive fighting.
Tbe Ukrainian army is superior to us in
equipment today because it bas the arms
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Many Games on
Friday Program
of Play Week
The following schedule has been
arranged for Friday' session of
Houston's play week.
Competitive indoor games 3:30
p. m.:
Fullerton and Eastwood at East-
wood. Sherman and Lamar at Sherman.
Jones and McGowen at McUowen.
Rusk and Taylor; Allen and Fan-
nin; fields to be selected.
Supervised games: '
Abbott school 3 to 5 p. m. with
Miss Schultz and Miss Sanders
girls.
3 to 3 p. m. with Miss Brown hoys.
' Eastwood school 3 p. m. little
.children's games.
Lubbock school 2 to 3 p. m.
games and exercise.
Hawthorne school 3:30 to 4 p. m.
games.
Elizabeth Baldwin park 3 to 5
p. m. games scheduled for Tuesday
will be played. Committee of five
teachers in charge.
Story Hours:
Hawthorne school 2 and 3 p. ru.
two groups Miss Katie Daffari.
Lubbock school 2 p. m. Mr. Judd
Mortimer Lewis and Mr. Blessing-
ton. Crockett school 2 p. m. Miss
Cora Wren.
Natatoriums:
North Side Junior High school
12 to 4 p. m boys with Mr. Wil-
liams: 4 to 8:30 p. m. boys with
Mr. Kattman and Mr. Tutwiler.
Gymnasiums:
North Side Junior High school
2 to . and 7 to 8:30 boys and men
with Mr. Carpenter.
Mass meetings:
Hawthorne school; 8 to 0 p. m
Mothers club. Kindergarten Mothers
club and Girls club will Join in mass
meeting. Miss Gehring and Miss
Gibbs in charge of program Miss
Wright principal. Miss Helen Guild
recreation director of the Girls
Community club will lead in games
and Theodore Meyer and Mr. Herzog
will give a number entitled "Musical
Appreciation."
Dow school 8 p. m. Mrs. E. M.
Brandt chairman: Judd Mortimer
Lewis speaker with Mr. Blessingtou
artist.
Travis school 8 p. m. Teachers
will entertain parents. H. Wirt
Steele of the Houston Foundation
speaker.
Community dance for young peo-
ple :
North Side Junior High school
auditorium by invitation 8 to 10:30
p. m. . J
PlaV" "' -."r-i.v err ..if' '..fttli
Fullerton school 3-p. ni. a play
by the Mothers club.
Play festival:
F.dmundson school. 3 to 5 p. m.
Tether tournament folk dancing etc.
Mass meeting of mothers John W.
Snook speaker.
Negro Schools.
Competitive games baseball:
Washington and Harper at Har-
per. (These two schools played at
Washington on Thursday.)
Supervised games:
Harper school 2 to 3 p. m. Games
for all children.
Douglas school. 2 to 3 p. in. Ring
games for little children.
3 p. m. basket ball for older girls.
3 p. m baseball for older boys.
Physical exercises for all by Wil-
liam C. Harris.
High school pupils high 2nd and low
3rd. 3 p. m. at Recreation Center;
mairie. games and stories.
Mass meetings:
LauRston school parents. (To be
held at Mt. Zion church.)
Harper school at 8 p. m.
Reception:
V. W. C. A. Recreation Center 8
p. m. Reception for returning sol-
diers and sailors.
Hikes:
Emancipation Park school. Har-
vester club will go on five-mile hike
at 3 p. m.
Teachers' day:
Gregory: Gaines and old fashioned
quadrille will be enjoyed at 3 o'clock
by teachers.
VOTES TO REVOKE
CHARTER OF PHONE
CO. IN OKLAHOMA
Upper House Passes Resolu-
tion Governor Says It
" Would Mean War
By a vote of 28 to 10 the upper house
of the Oklahoma legislature passed a res-
olution revoking the charter of the South-
western Telephone compauy in that State
it was announced Thursday in advices
from Oklahoma City. The house of
representatives approved the resolution.
According to advices. Governor Robert-
son will veto the resolution since he holds
its enforcement "would place tbe State
directly in opposition to the federal gov-
ernment in the execution of one of its
war measures" and "it would mean civil
war in Okloboma."
The findings of the Oklahoma State
public service commission which were
introduced in the recent telephone rate
controversy in Houston were not sus-
tained by the Oklahoma supreme court in
a decision just handed down. The com-
mission held that the official actions of
Postmaster General Burleson were re-
viewable in the courts when they over-
rode the rights of the States.
In thea opinion of Kenneth K rah I city
attorney the Oklahoma supreme court
decision will carry no material weight
with Judge George Whitfield Jack of
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CONDITIONS ARE
GROWING BETTER
IN MEXICO REPORT
American Business Men
Tour Republic at Their
Leisure Without Fear
of Molestation.
ARMED POWER OF
DIAZ RIDICULED
Trains Run Out of Vera
Cruz Natives Planting
Cotton and Tobacco
Export Oil
By Leased Wire -to The Houston Post.
( (Copyright 11.)
MEXICO CITY March 27. Condi
tions are improving in the State of Vera
Cruz. Paulino Fontes general manager
of the railways from Mexico City to
Guatemala City states that after in-
specting the railways he finds conditions
improving rapidly. In the past four
months the running time from Mexico
City to Guatemala City bas been three
days as good as before tbe revolution.
' Asked about tbe rebels under Diaz
Fontes says that during all his travels he
coupled his private car to freight trains
and rode over all the lines with an ordi-
nary passenger train escort without see-
ing any of the Diaa bands. 'He rode 70
miles on horseback through the moun-
tains with Governor Aguilar and an es-
cort of 15 men without sighting bandits.
He adds that the assertion of the Diaz
exploiters iu the United States that Diaz
has a force of 40000 men are absolutely
false and that reports of government
agents say that Diaz is hiding with less
than 30 men his personal followers.
The Mexican railway is now arranging
to sell oil to Guatemala for the use of all
railway systems as Guatemala can ex
port oil from Mexico more cheaply than
coal. Tbe plan is now awaiting the ap-
proval of President Cabrera of Guate-
mala for an "order to build a standard
gauge railway bridge to allow through
traffic.
Raising Tobacco and Sugar.
Senor Fontes says the state of Vera
Cms is raising large . crops of tobacco
and sugar.
With the resumption of steamer traffic
it is said that the Vera Cruz railways
ieanrin foky.gill ha traatfy ial
creased. Senor Fontes says travel Is
safe as the line is guarded by railway
troops.
"But" he says "you must remember
one may easily set a bomb. But we do
not allow fool travel within 100 meters
of the track. When found and arrested
a man must explain his presence and if
he is unable to do so he is sent to
prison as a trespasser."
The minister of the interior. Senor
Berlanger said Wednesday afternoon
that the government was pleased with
the number of American business men
touring the republic. They are allowed
to go anywhere. Thus be says when
these men return to the United States
it will be shown that the majority of
stories rfbout Mexico are false written
in the interests of those who wish some
thing for nothing.
Says South Americans
Would Welcome Passing
of Old Monroe Doctrine
Associated Press Report.
NEW YORK March 27. Because
they believed the league of nations would
free the South American republics from
"restraints of tbe Monroe Doctrine" and
end their "seeming subservience to thej
United States" the people of South
America were strongly in favor of the
j proposed covenant. Bishop William F.
Oldham declared Wednesday night upon
his return from Buenos Aires as Metho- j
dist Episcopal administrator for the
Southern half of the hemisphere.
Under the league the bishop said the
South Americans anticipated the "advent
of pan-Americanism in its truest sense
not one nation raring for 20 but 21
caring for each other." ' ' !
Popular opinion iu South America he
asserted held that the Mouroe Doctrine
had made the Latiu-Ainerican nations ap-
pear befort! the rest of the world as sub-
servient t(J this country.
The Southern republicans he added
were demanding "the opportunity to
stand beside their sister nations on the
basis of their unshadowed independence."
Citixens of Argentina and Chile which
are not represented at the peace con-
ference. Bishop Oldham said were "sick
with dissatisfaction" that the govern-
ments did not take their places in tbe
war.
German Officers Rebuked
for Ludendorf f Reception
Associated Press Report.
BERLIN March 20. The government
has protested to army officers against
the demonstration they gave for Gen-
eral Ludeudorff last Sunday on tbe
ground that it bas given opponents an
opportunity to assert that everything is
the same in Germany as under the for-
mer emperor. If Ludendorff asked for
a tribunal to hear his case tne govern-
ment. It is announced would grant his
request and would see that it was com-
posed of impartial persons.
SERBIA GUILTLESS
OF ASSASSINATIONS
PRECIPITATING WAR
Murder of Archduke Francis
Ferdinand at Sarajevo
Result of German-
Magyar Conspiracy
CREEL SECURES
SECRET PAPERS
Sensational Revelations Re-
garding Pre-War Plot's
Contained in Czernin's
Private Letter File
Associated Press Report.
NEW YORK March 27. George Creel
former chairman of the committee on
public information made' public here
Thursday night a summary of tbe secret
correspondence of Count Czernin late
foreign minister of Austria-Hungary
which was turned over to Edgar Sisson
at Prague by the custodian official of
the Bohemian government on January 24
last. One of the most sensational of the
disclosures was that there was a German-Magyar
conspiracy against the Arch-
duke Francis Ferdinand heir apparent
to the throne of Austria who was as
sassinated at Sarajevo on June 28 1914
because he was considered a rival of the
then Emperor William.
TvTr. Creel said Mr. Sisson accepted the
privilege of using tbe correspondence ' in
behalf of the United States government.
Translators and a photographer in the
service of the committee' on public infor-
mation were set at work to translate the
documents for general publication in this
country as the final public contribution
of the committee according to Creel.
ne declared one copy was to De rurneu
over to Secretary of State Lansing for
use of tbe peace conference commission
investigating responsibility for the out-
break of the war while another was to be
sent to the committee at Washington for
release to the press. He added that Mr.
Lansing's copy undoubtedly was in bis
hands and that the copy for the press
probably was on1 its way to this country.
What the Letters Disclosed.
In a report to Mr. Sisson on the scope
of the letters Captain Immanuel Voska
U. S. A. head of tbe Prague bureau of
the committee on public information
aj
"From the documents and letters it
will be shown that Francis Ferdinand
was working on building up a strong Aus
tria which would eventually emancipate
itself from the influence of Berlin. This
was blocking Berlin's plan for expansion
toward 'the east and the Berlin govern
ment came to an understanding with the
Budapest government to offset the plans
of Francis Ferdinand.
"From one of the letters it is evi-
dent that the German emperor's son
Eitel Frederick was selected to study
the Magyar language and to make friends
of the Magyar nobility.
"Although no positive proof was found
from the documents on hand as to the
conspiracy to kill Archduke Francis
Ferdinand it is sufficiently evident that
there tvns no conspiracy in Serbia for
that. The archduke was rather a friend
of Serbia in hatred of the Magyars as
he. knew of the conspiracy between the
Berlin and the Budapest governments.
Beginning the Plot.
"It is shown from the letters that
when Aehrenthal ( Austro-IIungarian for-
eign minister) annexed Bosnia in l'.HK)
and Serbia protested through Russia and
was supported by England Count Czer-
nin bad an audience with Francis Ferd-
inand. The latter was against war with
Serbia as the powers would say "hult"
after Serbia was overridden and nothing
would be gained in such a war. But
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PRAISE POST
F. W. A. Vesper of St. Iouis
president of the National Automo-:
bile Dealers' association: "1 want
to congratulate The Post on the
splendid news story of the first
day's session of the convention.
The reporting of the speeches at
the banquet wasv handled in ship-
shape manner and above all the
wording was accurate and con-
veyed the meaning intended by the
speaker a rare occurrence for
newspaper work nowadays unless
tbe address is given verbatim or
taken down by shorthand. As far
as I was able to judge the remain-
der of the day's doing was pre-
sented just as accurately: in at-
tractive concise form. It was
regular big league stuff!"
A. V. Comings editorial repre-
sentative of the Chilton Publish-
ing company. Philadelphia: "1 was
very much impressed with The
Posts's convention article. Noth-
ing of importance was missing and
it was covered in strictly metropol-
itan style; omitting the flashy
voluminous word - meaningless
method that usually characterizes
reports of events of this nature.
It's the style that pays in the long
run."
C. P. Dodge 'sales manager of
the Texas company: "I like The
Post's policy of handling only that
class of news which can be veri-
fied which can be presented to its
readers with a 100 per rent guar-
antee of its reliability. This meth-
od of serving the people is gaining
for The Post a brand of confidence
that will not easily be shaken. It
bas my confidence to just that degree."
Fighting Stopped Too Soon
Is Growing Belief at Paris
GERMAN FRONTIER
AND REPARATIONS
FIXED BY COUNCIL
Details of the. Agreement
Reached at Paris How-
ever Will Be With-
held for Present
ROAR EXPECTED
FROM BERLIN
Amount Decided on as War
Damages Will It Is In-
timated Provoke
Storm
Associated Press Report
PARIS March 27. The super-
council of the president and pre-
niiers now known as the council of
four divided its labors Thursday be-
tween the "white house" and Clem-
enceau's private office adjoining the
war office.
The Franco-German frontier was
the chief topic of discussion this
following upon an agreement
reached Wednesday night on rep-
aration for war damages. It is un-
derstood that the agreement includes
the vital point of the total amount
of indemnity which will not be an-
nounced at present as likely to
cause discussion and arouse hostil-
ity in enemy quarters.
it is noted as a coincidence that a
German financial commission is
being chosen to come to Versailles
where th settlement of this branch
may include all interests.
The'frontier questions tuns on the
disposition of the Saar valley coal re-
gions and the west bank of tbe
Rhine. The territorial experts bave
said their last word and frankly de-
clare that it is a question now of po-
litical expediency on which the
super-council alone can pass.
"""MifSTlal Foch andtleneral Tasker
H. Bliss were called into the council
during tbe afternoon indicating that
military questions including the se-
rious situation in Hungary and Rus-
sia were receiving attention.
Associated Press Report.
PARIS March 27. President Wilson
and Premiers Clemenceau Lloyd George
and Orlando resumed their conference at
the Paris "White House" at 11 o'clock
Thursday morning when it was under-
stood the questions of boundaries -was
then up the Rhine valley being the first
subject under discussion. The conferees
disposed of the question of indemnities
Wednesday.
Premier Orlando of Italy Baron Ma-
kino of Japan Genrial Smuts of Great
Rritain and Colonel House of the United
States compose a peace conference com-
mission named to consider the question
of a permauent seat for the league of
nations.
A proposal which seeks in settle the
conditions required for admission to the
i league of nations has been presented to
Frightful Pogroms
in Ukrainia; Hundreds
of Jews Massacred
Associated Press Report.
LONDON March 27. The Zionist or-
ganization reports having received from
an eyewitness news of a series of po-
groms in the Ukraine organized by llai-
. dainake with a "death regiment" at their
head. The pogroms are reported to have
i taken place at lterdicheff Zhiiimor
' Tscherao-Vyl. Uvrutsch Itclajazcrkoff
Ltticheff Elisabetgrad Vasilkov and
I other plnces.
Hundreds of Jews and Jewesses were
i killed or wounded according to the re-
' ports. Jewish nobilities were drowned
' or shot Jew ish women were subjected to
shameful treatment. Tbe "death regi-
ment" is declared not to have spared a
single Jewish township between Kiev
and Itackmatsch.
Today's Calendar
:
I FORECASTS OF THE WEATHER
Associated Press Report.
WASHINGTON. Mirch 21. East and West
I Texas Friday lair warmer ; Saturday fair
I warmer except in northwest portion.
Louisiana Friday and Saturday fair slowly
ristui temperature
! Kurerut for Hmmion turi vlclnltv: Falrweatli-
! er. Temperature extreme and precipitation at
I Houatoo radlnc March 27. WW. A p. in.: Mai-
I Iraum tU. minlmnm M. precipitation 0.00 lncne.
Attnoftpberir prewar at ilouatun at 2 p. m.
i 30.:W tea level reariios. 8urla Villi a. m..
! invl 0:38 . Ml.
('nimarmilT record at Homina tor Mart-li !!7.
loin . in . .iis . mi7
! a m t
! a. HI .VI 70 M
I N.mn "f 7l M
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TODAY'S EVENTS.
'". M. B. L. lunch. University club 12:15
' l. m. . - .
! Salesmanship club lunch. Bender hotel
12:15 p. m.
Woman's Labor circle meets at Labor
Temple 3 p. u.
League Debate
Not Delaying
Peace Wilson
Associated Press Report.
PARIS March 27. President
Wilson today issued the following
statement:
"In view of the very surprising
impression which seems to exist in
some quarters that it is the dicus-
sious of the commissiou on the
league of nations that are delaying
tbe final formulation of peace I am
very glad to take the opportunity
of reporting that the conclusions of
this commission were the first to be
laid before tbe plenary conference.
"They were reported on February
14 and the world has bad a full
month in which to discuss every fea-
ture of the draft covenant then sub-
mitted. "During the last few days tbe
commission bas been engaged in an
effort to take advantage of tbe criti-
cisms which the publication of the
covenant has drawn out. A com-
mittee of tbe commission has also
bad tbe advantage of a conference
with representative of the neutral
states who are evidencing a very
deep interest and a practically .
unanimous desire to align themselves
with the league.
'The revised coveuant is no prac-
tically finished. It is in the hands
of a committee for the final process
of drafting and will almost imme-
diately be presented a second time
to tbe public.
'The conferences of tbe commis-
sion have invariably been held at
times when they could not interfere
with the consultation of those who
have undertaken to formulate the
general conclusions of the conference
with regard to the many other com-
plicated problems of peace. So that
the members of the commission con-
gratulate themselves on tbe fact
that no part of their conferences has
ever interposed any form of delay."
HAS JUGO-SLAVIA
DECLARED WAR ON
ITALY? PARIS ASKS
Belgrade Has Prohibited
Any Commercial Inter-
course With Country
Associated Press Report.
PARIS March 27. "Has Jugo-
slavia declared war on Italy?" was
a question asked by a member of the
Italian delegation to the peace con-
ference on learning Thursday night
that the council of ministers at Bel-
grade had prohibited any commerce
with enemy countries any importa-
tions from Italy to Jugo-Slavia and
the transportation of Italian goods
to aiay country across Jugo-Slav ter-
ritory. WASHINGTON. Ma 27. The
Czecho-Jloak mission here received
Thursday an official denial of the re-
port of President Masaryk's resigna-
tion which was sent from Berlin by
way of Copenhagen early this week.
Two Men Hold Up Train;
Take $6000 in Currency
And Make Their Escape
Associated Press Report.
MARION Ark. March 27. Two
masked bandits Thursday night held up
Frisco passenger train No. 801 about
two miles west of Bridge Junction and
escaped with two packagts containing
about $W()0 in currency taken from the
express tar. When the engineer warned
the robbers he was due to pass Frisco
truin No. 100 at the junction according
to bis story they told him they had sent
a man ahead to flag that train to pre-
vent a wreck.
The bandits the engine crew asserted
climbed over the tender ai.d forced the
engineer to give t'i his throttle. Bringing
the train to a stop it is related they
uncoupled the train behind the mail and
express cars and ran them ahead about
half a mile. Again stopping the engine
they confronted the express messenger
demanding that- he surrender the money.
He told them there was none in the car.
but they informed they knew he had
taken on packages of currency at Blythe-
ville and Wilson and forced him to give
tbeni up. The robbers then left the
train and the crew brought it back to
Marion.
No trace of the bandits had been found
at a late hour according to report
received here.
BELGIAN SOLDIERS TO T1SIT U. S.
Associated Press Report.
BRUSSELS Wednesday. March 20.
A special corps of Belgian soldiers at
the invitation of tbe United States gov-
ernment will visit tbe United States to
take part in parades in the principal
cities. Tbe corps will be composed of
a platoon of grenadiers one of chas-
seurs and one of infantrymen and will
be under tbe command of Major Dirix'.
MILLING ABOUT
AT PEACE TABLE
STRENGTHENS HUH
i
Differences of Opinion Re-
garding Terms Apparently
as Wide or Wider
Than Ever 1
FOUR BIG ISSUES y
STILL WIDE OPEN
In the Meantime Italy and
France Becoming More
Hostile Toward As- ;
pirations of Others
BY CHARLES A. SELDEN.
Special Cable. By Leased Wire to The
Houston Post.
(Copyright 1M9.)
PARIS March 27. On the fringe of
the conference at least there seems less
agreement on how to make peace tbaa
there was 135 days ago when the fighting
ceased on the old fronts and before it had
begun on the numerous fronts in Eastern
Europe.
That the fighting stopped on the old .
fronts of the main war too soon is tbe
opinion of many adherents even in that
day of jubilant excitement when the ar-
mistice was signed on November - 11..
There are as many today&wbo think that
the world would have been better off if
the fighting bad continued when the ene-
my was collapsing if Germany bad been
invaded and a quick peace had been die-
tated in Berlin before bolshevism 'had
become a factor and before the Germans
had plucked up courage to say what sort
of peace they would or would not sign.
French Wanted to Go On.
As everybody knows it was the French
desire to go on fighting last November.
They still think that they were right
and attribute the present very dangerous
situation for the world first to the fact '.
that tbe enemy was not crushed when it
was possible and second to tbe delay in
taking full advantage of the victory that
was won. But now according to the del-
egates from other nations the French
themselves are doing more than anybody
else to increase the delay by holding out
for such terms in tbe boundary and
reparation settlements as the other pow-
ers will not sanction.
France in demanding that tbe territory
on the west bank of the Rhine be made a
buffer state frankly admits it is because
she is afraid of another military attack
from Germany in years to come.
But the Italians say:
"We have got to take a chance oil Ger-
many. France consented to take such a
chance when she consented to end hos
tilities instead of going on to Berlin with
the victorious armies. Now France
must join the rest of us in willingness .
to take a further chance on Germany i;i
the future instead of delaying peace by-
insisting on impossible conditions for the
purpose of annihilating Germany."
Victors at Odds.
That Italian theory is us good au il-
lustration as auy of whut one gets by
taking lunch with one nutiou and dining
with another and the necessity of cat ins
breakfast alone. These two chief Latiu
nations are at odds on practically every
issue. Italy being remote from the Rhine
and having been many years an ally of
Germany has little sympathy for tbe
fears of the French across the river from
their enemy. On the other hand France
is 'opposed to giving Fiumc to Italy and
backs the Juco-SIavs in practically their
whole Adriatic claim.
France is moving heaven uud earth to
prevent the unnexution of German-Austria
to Germany. Italy is doing every-
thing possible to bring ubout that an-
nexation These four questions the Rhine (he
German eastern boundaries Gorman-
Austria and the Adriatic are the biggest
single problems of the conference but
none of them is near settlement. For
future results they involve more than all
the other territorial mutters put togeth-
er. In fact all of them except the Rhine
involve the question of the boundaries
and future welfare of the new states now
struggling to get themselves up.
But as yet there is no suggestion of
unanimity iu the "big four" which bas
just supplunled the "big ten" concerning
any of these puzzles. But President
Wilson's 14 points are given as tbe au-
thority for every divergent claim or
opiuion and everybody asserts that he
can not yield on a matter of principle.
Monroe Doctrine Causes
Another Hitch in League
of Nations Discussions
Associated Press Report.
PARIS. March 27. It developed
Thursday night that unexpected obstacles
had arisen concerning the Monroe 'doc-
triuc amendment to the league of nations '
covenant making it doubtful whether
the amendment ran be incorporated in
the revised document. ; ';: t-'
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