WILSON WARNS
CENTRAL POWERS
Answers Hertling and Czernin
By Declaring it War of
Emancipation.
ADDRESSES THE CONGRESS
Shows Willingness to Give and
Take Somewhat.
Washington.—There can be no peace
based upon the German position out-
lined by Count von Hertling, the Ger-
man chancellor, in his recent address
to the Reichstag committee,
Wilson today told a join
Congress.
The President
strongest language that
position makes for continuation olf
war. The Austro-Hungarian
is directly
many,
praised the
but
trol and
vented Aust:
must be.
The
Gentlemen of tl
On the 8th
honor of
jects of
ceived
Great ritain bad
tons of January
addresses
session
reiterated In
the German
the opposite of
the President declan
made 1
dom
President”
tad rosa
addressl
%} war a ~ OY
the War as our pri
Mir
spoken in
Prime
The
plied on th
for Austria,
ratifyin
promptiy
of view
be
world
“Cour V Hert 8
must say
ing It
end leads
tor
tion
That
he t
which
Ger
be retu
& ings
e. He will
tative
be ma«
3
of th
and
with 1
but the government of France th
ditions
¥,
¢ Pa provinces no
'
under which Frenchy terry
shall be evacuated, and only with An
tria what shall be done with Poland
In the determination of all questions
affecting the Balkan states he defers
an 1 understand h Austria
Turkey; end with regard to the agree
ments to be entered into concerning
the nonTurkish peoples of the pros
im, to
thorities themselves. After a settle
ment all around, effected in this
fashion, by individual barter and con.
session, he would have no objection, if
1 correctly interpret his statement, to
a league of nations which would under
take to hold the new balance of power
stondy against external disturbance.
“It must be evident to everyone who
understands what this war has
wrought in the opinion and temper of
the world that peace,
peace worth
no general no
infinite sacrifices of
these years of tragical suffering,
arrived at in any
method the German
is the method of
the
can
possibly be such
fashion. The
Chancellor proposes
the Congress of Vienna, We cannot
and will not return to that. What is
at stake now is the peace of the world
What we are striving for is a new in
ternational upon broad
and universal principles of right and
justice—no mere peace of shreds and
patches. 1s it possible that Count von
Hertling not see that; doesn’t
grasp MH, in fact, living in his
thought in a world dead and gone?
Has he utterly forgotten the Reichstag
resolutions of the 19th of July, or does
ignore them? They
spoke of the conditions of a general
not of national aggrandizement
gtate and
order based
does
is,
erately
f
The peace of the worl
the just settlement of
eral problems to which
roots in the disre
of emall nation: and
t which lacked the union
and the
to determine their own allegiances and
the own forms
Covenants
1
which will
of political life
must now be entered
render
for the future;
must
sible and those cove
be backed by the umited
force of all the nations that love jus.
tice and are willing to maintain it at
afty cost. If territorial
and the political relations
populations which have not the organ.
ized resist are to. be deter
mined by the contracts of the power
nants
of
power to
von Hertling proposes, why may
“It has come about In the altered
affect the whold field of international
trade, Count von Hertling wants the
essential basis of commercial and In.
dustrial life to be safeguarded by com.
mon agrecment and guarantee, but he
conceded him
be
Hre
{tems in the
to be
to
peace
way as
cannot expect thd
if the
by t!
led in
final
“He cannot
mon
ather matiers determined
eo articles of not hand
the same
accounting.
benofit of
one field
take
the
agreement in the
fn the other I
that he sees that
with re
com
with
out according
for granted
and seliish compacts
and the essential materials of
manufacture would afford no founda
tion Neither, he
issured, will separate and self
with regard to
peoples,
“Count
fundamental
and
geure them. He sees that an independ
ent Poland, made up of all the indie
putably Polish peoples who lie con
tiguous to one another, {8 a matter « !
trade
for peace, may re
pacts provinces
Czernin secms to geo
peace Ww
elements of
clear eyes does not seek to ob
European concern and mu
that Belgium
and re RO ™W
sions
be conceded must
be evacuated
what sacrifices and conce
may involve; and that na
tions must be satisfied, &
own empire, in the «
Europe i man
nd }
table
action and
tances consent
jaye. We are indom
er of independent can
circum to lve
and for
We
new
that
+1 wv 1
tional
believe our own desire for a
interna order under which
and the common in
the
ghtened men everywhera
new or
tice
degire of enl
ler the world will
will
existence
be without peace and human life
conditions of
development. Having
hand task of achieving It
shall not turn back
wet out
to the ws
“1 hope that it is not necessary for
said is Intended ns That in
1 have
spoken thus only that the whole world
a threat
that men everywhere may know that
our passion for justice and for self-gov
ernment Is no mere passion of words
but a passion which, once set in action
The power of the
United States is a menace to no nation
of people. It will never be used In ag
gression or for the aggrandizement of
any scifieh interest of our own. It
springs out of frecodm and is for the
service of freedom.”
CENTRE HALL, Pa.
GERMANY WILL
hoa
{-BOATS DEFIED
As Washington Officials Regard
Ukrainian Peace
IT HAS ITS DRAWBACKS, TOO
flelease Of Prisoners Will Not Give
Germany So Many More Men,
As Most Of The Prisoners
Are Austrians.
With
eampaign of 1618
Washington the
the great
western front
military
found
by the
tween
new Ukrane Repub
rnment
hevil Russian govel
opening of
On 1
apparently 'w ithin
ex:
Eitua
men here ined with
interest the
gigning of
the Central
tion cre
a peace pat
Power and
and the decision
of the Bol
10 si
demobliize he
Army
Their
1k
RUSSIAN MATERIALS
EIGHT INJURED ING
Three Others Missing When Part Of
Wheeling Plant Is Razed.
Wheeling, W. Va Eight
injured, two seriously, and
been in the
atl the time are missing, as the
of a terrific gale destroyed a
section of the Wheeling Sieel and Iron
Company plant here. All the injured
are residenta of Wheeling. The ac
cident occurred when five large stacks,
ripped from their gu) feel on
he shearing mill section of the plant
men
throes
were
oth
ers believed to have plant
result
which
wires,
TOBACCO OFF FOR FRONT.
Troops In France,
Durham, N. CoA train of 30 cars
the
American troops in France was given
a rousing send-off here as it started
on its way, Maver Newson made a
patriotic address to a large number
of peopld who gathered to gee the
jarge consignment of local preduct
start for the front,
Troopships Are Honeycombed
With Airtight Cells
ANNOUNCED BY NAVAL BOARD
Confidence Both In America And Eng-
land That The Submarine Will Be
Either Curbed Or
Wiped Out.
Entirely
y ,
New York—Means have been found
nlie troops transports unsinkable
by ubmarine
ment mod
according to a state
am IL. Baunders,
the Nava! Consult
ing Board address at a
of the
ainner
yivania
NEW MEMEBERS
Approximately 17.500
were as fol
Wi: Central, 3
2.300.000:
670,
Northwestern,
Pennsyl-
A
FAIRE ELL
lake,
tain, 276 w England
Northern $5 A ne .
Pacific T
1.600 O04)
00
Y Bl ag" Bi
693.000 227.000:
vania Potomac,
Southern, 270,000; Southwestern, 3,
250.000
fourteenth division com-
insular
United
added num
From the
prising all of the territorial
the
States the new members
Unprecedentedly unfavorable weath-
good. Final figures are not expect
to any considerable extent
USES PRISONERS AS SHIELD.
Germany Packs Stuttgart To Prevent
Allied Air Raids.
New York ~The German authorities
| the Germans on London and other
Not More Than That Number
Believed to Have Perished
VICTIMS REST IN SCOTLAND
' Funds For
Permanent Memorial--Villagers
Pay Tribute At Fu-
Countryside 's Raising
neral
CAIN 88 COUNTIES
*
Now Bar Liguor And 615
Still Wet
100 POUNDS PER MAN A DoY,
That Is What It Takes To Keep A
U. S8. Soldier In France.
To
Army in
maintain the
France ons
pounas tonnage a
be landed at French ports
man, according to
Zimmerman, executive officer of the
depot quartermasters’ department
here. “The American people have no
conception of the quaniity of supplies
needed for the men ‘over there,” ” said
Captain Zimmerman, “nor of the diffi.
ulty of getting it to then For exam:
ple, it takes 23,000,000 pounds of
frozen beef each month to feed A
million soldiers.”
{Chicago Ameri
hundred
day must
for each
n Earl J.
can
of gross
Ca
U-BOATS MAKE BIG HAUL.
Thirteerr British Ships Over 1.600
Tons And Six Smaller Sunk,
London. —— Nineteen Dritish men
chantmen were sunk by mine or sub
marine in the past week, according
to the Admiralty statement. Of these
13 were vessels of 1.600 tons or more
and #ix were under that tonnage.
Three fishing craft also were sunk.