THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL, PA.
for selfish Interests, but above all to!
safeguard the independence of peo
ples, of right and of aumanity.
| The Allles are fully aware of the
logses and suffering which the war
causes to neutrals as well as te the
belligerents, and they deplore them;
ut they do not hold themselves re
| by Sey for them, having in no way
| either willed or provoked this war
i and they strive to reduce these dam
ages in the measure compatible wit
| the inexorable exigencies of their de
- ——— | fens the violence and the
{ wiles of the enem)
BLOW GIVEN HOPE OF PEACE It is with satisfaction,
that they take note
that the American
in nowise associated in its origi
that of the Central Powers, rans
mitted on the 18h of December by the
United States
moreover, Le
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ENTENTE ALLIES
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hey 1 not doubt,
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THE RESULT OF PRESIDENT'S
INQUIRIES.
President Wilson has now heard
from all fourteen of the belliger-
ents. Here is the result
First—Both sides say they
associate themselves wilh Pre
dent Wilson, after this war end
in an effort to insure fulure peacs
Sacond-—Germany and her thres
allies proposed a method for
ing conditions of peace, na
through a conferend
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allies state the
by continuing the war
England and
objects tue)
THE ALLIES PEACE TERMS
Here are t! Entente term
peace
1. Restoration
Serbian and Mon
demnities.
2. Evacuation
France, Russia and R
reparation
3. The re
rope with
regime secured aga’
attack
4 Rest {1itie n
wrested from the
itheration of
Roumanians fron
(This may b
return of
IrRAnIZAlIon
guarantee
past,
and
domination
ed to mean the
Loraine.)
Enfranchisement
tions from
Turks.
6. The expulsion
from Europe.
7. The freedom o
8 Liberation of
Prusian militarism
termination of the Gerry ]
or their political 4 ppea
foreign
intend
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an early peace prac!
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recent
belligerent nations
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which
people
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that they pay tribute
of the sentiment
American note is Inspired and that
they associate themselves with all
their hopes with the project for the
ereation of ‘a league of nations to in
sure peace and justice throughout the
world. They recognize all the ad
vantages for the cause of humanity
and civilization which the institution
of international agreements destined
to avoid violent conflicts between
nations would prevent: agreéaments
which must imply the sanctions neces.
sary to insure their execution and thus
to prevent an apparent security from
only facilitating new aggressions. But
realization
gravity of the
sincere friendship
fo the American
both by the exact
they have of the
and by the
attaches them
wish to declare
to the elevation
with which the
deatined to insure an enduring peace
of the actual conflict;
as profound a desire as the Govern
and which inflicts such cruel suffer.
ing? upon humanity.
that it is imposeible at the present
moment to attain a peace which will
sesure them reparation, restitution and
such guarantees to which they are en.
titled by the aggression for whieh the
responsibility rests with the Central
Powers and of which the principle it
self tended to ruln the security of Eu.
rope; a peace which would on the
other hand permit the establishment
of the future of European nations on a
solid basis. The Allied nations are
conscious that they are not fighting
the invaded territ
Ruseia and of Rou:
reparation; the reo:
rope guaranteed by
and founded a
nationalitie
erty of economic
all nations, great or small,
territorial convention
national agreements
antee territorial and maritin
tiers unjustified attack
m of provinces or territorie
wrested in the past from the Allies by
force or against the will of thei
lations: the liberation of Italians, of
Slavs, of Roumanians and of
Slovaques from foreign domination
the enfranchisement of populations
subject to the bloody tyranny of the
Turks; the expulsion from Europe of
the Ottoman Empire decidedly (* * *)
to western civilization. The inten.
tions of His Majesty the Emperor of
Russia regarding Poland have been
clearly indicated in the proclamation
which he has just addressed to his
armies. It goes without saying that if
the Allles wish to liberate Europe
from the brutal covetousness of Pris
sian militarism, it never hae been their
design, as has been alleged to encom-
pass the extermination of the German
peoples and their political disappear.
ance. That which they desire above
| all is to Insure a peace upon the prin.
ciples of liberty and justice, upon the
inviolable fidelity to international
obligation with which the Government
of the United States has never ceased
to be Inspired.
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Latest Doings in Various Parts
of the State.
PREPAREDFORQUICKREADING
y Harrisburg
mpaign 1«
for i breclion of a Y
lege of Get
burg College Lea
pians were outlined {
Taise money
George Bretz, of PANALGOY
two years father of five chil
had bot!
LWeen cars
legs severed
on the Reading lin
half hour,
wae being rushed to the hospital
of the Young Men's Chr dren
Norristow? fell be
Death
followed
George Drete, fc
Shenandoah, a
After lying aver five on a cot
in the State Hospital at Fountain
Springs, Anthony Valentine, aged
fifty-four, is He had his back
broken at the lost Creek Mine
1812
eare, fell year
and was crushed to d
Mildred EI dead
years
when
herself
th Rud aged
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1 scalds
of Harrisburg, d
she spilled boiling water over nuary 1
Auto
skid
Ervin
Aftenipting to jump from an
truck thought would
over aseventy-foot embankment,
Yoder, thirty years old,
Springs, was « aught
and crushed to death. Seven children
are made orphans by his death
The Harrisburg Firemen's Union has which be
asked the
for two firehouses which will
to make itol
to reimburse the city
be raged
Extension
State
way for Ca}
Mre. Jane A. Kern, of Slatington,
dropped dead just after reaching home
from attending the funeral of a friend Harry Seipe, of Lehighton,
at Neffaville lected $88 for the firemen’s parade Jast
summer, and failed to turn it over,
was sentenced by Judge Barber to six
months’ imprisonment. The jail sen-
tence was later suspended to give him
an opportunity to pay the money back.
Mizpah. Lerch, aged twenty-two, of
Penbrook, was found guilty of malle
fous injury to railroads hy a Dauphin
{| county jury, after eighteen hours’ de-
| liberation,
who col
John Palermo was sentenced to pay
costs, $50 fine and fo undergo six!
months in jail for illegal liquor selling
in Ambler.
Two horses belonging to Joseph Tag
gart, of Norristown, were killed by a |
Btate veterinarian because suffering
with glandere. They came from § car
load of Western horses,
Alexander Comfort died in the Car. | the Harrisburg Railway Company dur.
lisle Hospital, following a short iliness | Ing the trolley strike at Harrisburg.
of pneumonia. He was one of the |
earliest members of the Empire Hook |
and Ladder Company.
Harrisburg retail milk dealers de-
cided to sell milk at eight cents a
quart despite the fact that the whole
salers are planning to increase the
price from 18 to 20 cents a gallo. The
retatloare hope for a 20.cent rale in
winter and 16-cent fate in cammer
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Lewis Oxley, of Pottsville, a veteran
| of the Civil War, who escaped death on
| many battlefields, died from the effect
of a fall down &* flight of stairs, in
| which he broke an arm and was sev.
erely brulsed. Oxley was a member of
the Pighty-first Regiment of Pennsyl-
vania: Volunteers, and was wounded
many mes, He lost his Jeft hand
| when nn exploding shell ripped it off
' hun
qua has been
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establish
lectrie light
voted at a
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ten thou-
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Roy Hixle aged
Holly Spr wae injured at
of the Valley Sand Company
operating a rolie to cr
tried to push some stohes
with A forked stick. His hand
caught in the fork of the stick and was
drawn into the machine, his arm being
mangled and torn off at the shoulder
the mach! be shut
twentyv-fi
fo erm
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before
down
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Timko, a member of the Clover
Hose Company, Mahanoy City, is dying
at the State Hospital at Fountain
Springs of injuries received, when a
test of 4 new lifesaving net was be
ing made Several members had
jumped from the second story of the
hose house into the net successfully.
Several firemen moved the net and
Timko, failing to notice this, made »
jeap, striking on his back on the pave
The historic old Presbyterian church
include the removal of the pews on
which the dots, bearing the wounded,
were plazzd for days after the fight of
July, 1863. It was in this church that
Abraham Lincoln atiended service
after the dedication of the Soldiers’
National Cemetery and the pew he oo
cupied is the only one being preserved
in the main auditorium.
An explosion of gas wrecked the
Ward apartment block at Altoona and
perhaps fatally burned Mrs. George
Sleemasn, aged twenty-six, who was the
innocent cause of the accident. She
had gone into a second floor room
which had not been piped Yor gas and
#truck a match. Instantly there was &
terrific explosion and the entire corner
of the building, three tiers of brick
Sleeman’s clothing was ignited, but
rescuers saved her from burning te
death,